Colorado Experience: The Great Pueblo Flood

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  • Опубліковано 2 чер 2021
  • In early June of 1921, Pueblo experienced a devastating flood that destroyed much of the downtown area. The very river that formerly brought life and sustenance to the region now left death and destruction in its wake. A century later the river has been tamed by a dam and a levee, and the Historical Arkansas River Project is the centerpiece of a development effort that is changing the face of a city.
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  • @7777777justme
    @7777777justme Рік тому +8

    At the 34:44 mark, I believe the "carpet factory fire" mentioned was my grandfather's business, Trani Designer Rugs. It's a very interesting story that lead him to move the business to his home on Overton Road where my parents live now.

  • @rosaiselarios6146
    @rosaiselarios6146 3 роки тому +13

    I lived in pueblo for 6 months but in those short 6 months I fell in love with the town such a beautiful town with beautiful vintage buildings! If you are vintage freak like me you’ll agree! A piece of my heart is still in pueblo❤️❤️ I enjoyed seeing all the old photos of the town😍 a lot of the buildings still stand to this day

  • @SM16
    @SM16 2 роки тому +6

    My vast love of Pueblo and it's people now has more of a historical understanding. I am more amazed and proud of the Pueblo Communities. I 💗P.town USA more than ever. Now I also know about Lucky the spotted horse on the tree. Thank You 💖 Much Love

  • @karolbrown4109
    @karolbrown4109 3 роки тому +10

    So moving!! This is my home town!! Proud to be a Pueblo Colorado native!!

    • @annohalloran6020
      @annohalloran6020 2 роки тому +1

      I grew up along the Arkansas in KS. I do remember floods as a fun time lol. Now the poor river is so dried out.

  • @indy_go_blue6048
    @indy_go_blue6048 3 роки тому +12

    I love learning new bits of history so this was really interesting to me. My mother would have been a month old when this happened.

  • @jogger1987
    @jogger1987 3 роки тому +21

    Wonderful documentary ! Thank you for the time and effort that was put into this.

  • @mariavaldez7081
    @mariavaldez7081 2 роки тому +6

    Thank you for the history lesson. I am born and raised Puebloan .. you even showed our houses.. in the old photos.

  • @msj.randel1496
    @msj.randel1496 2 роки тому +6

    Colorado Pueblo green chili!! Best!!

  • @AmazingGraceFellowship
    @AmazingGraceFellowship 3 роки тому +12

    Excellent video! Thank you for making it to document the centennial anniversary of this local tragedy. Exciting to see such a renaissance happening in Pueblo right now!

  • @itsjourdon
    @itsjourdon 2 роки тому +5

    100 years later and pueblo still has not bounced back from this event.

  • @shawnsanborn2057
    @shawnsanborn2057 2 роки тому +6

    Imagine doing all of this with no government hand outs.

  • @MrsLockenload
    @MrsLockenload 2 роки тому +7

    in his time, my great grandfather was among 8 folks that were granted free citizenship and remained farmers here in Pueblo. I have history here as well as La Junta CO.

  • @GoodmanEntertainment
    @GoodmanEntertainment Рік тому +5

    Any information on Walt Drummond who wrote the piece used in the opening of this program? Thank you.

  • @kenvadnal9729
    @kenvadnal9729 3 роки тому +8

    Thought I knew all about it until I saw this! Simply terrible what those poor people had to go through.

  • @sarahcortez2524
    @sarahcortez2524 3 роки тому +11

    Born and raised here pueblo co. Its interesting to learn about my home town history.

    • @TheDavidlloydjones
      @TheDavidlloydjones 3 роки тому +1

      How do you feel about how they've started calling it poo-e-blow, not pyeblow?

    • @VegasLady81
      @VegasLady81 2 роки тому +1

      I feel sorry for you. That sucks that you were born here. So sad. And you're sadly proud to be from this dump. Wow. You don't get out much, do you?

  • @julescolorado
    @julescolorado 3 роки тому +5

    Excellent presentation! Thank you!

  • @Brian_yeah_that_brian_Strang
    @Brian_yeah_that_brian_Strang 2 роки тому +5

    Very well done. Whoop whoop Pueblo

  • @michaelscroggin7567
    @michaelscroggin7567 3 роки тому +15

    My two uncles had been in Colorado visiting relatives and were on the train. They both died in the flood.

  • @randalljames1
    @randalljames1 2 роки тому +4

    funny, I spent most of my HS years in Pueblo living in one of the older homes off Greenwood and never heard this story... The house was built around this time and is at least 15' above street level..

  • @sandratessem9980
    @sandratessem9980 3 роки тому +8

    Great documentary. I did not know this and I lived in Pueblo.

  • @cynthialopez4651
    @cynthialopez4651 3 роки тому +4

    NICE TOO SEE RAISE BORE HERE IN PUBLO ❤️

  • @jasonarchuleta5053
    @jasonarchuleta5053 3 роки тому +8

    What about flood that hit pueblo in sixties i was there and saw it in person i was standing on top of fourth street and joplin water never reached top of joplin fourth street to high it was a experience hard to forget

    • @alandavis9644
      @alandavis9644 2 місяці тому

      I remember that flood, down river in Crowley County.

  • @kaoticwatching
    @kaoticwatching 3 роки тому +4

    I searched library up and down for any and all Pueblo archives never came across any of this footage?

    • @berserk1437
      @berserk1437 3 роки тому +3

      Might be up in Denver

    • @natasharose3264
      @natasharose3264 3 роки тому +3

      My old friend Hank who owned a printing shop on Union before he passed had a TON of this info and images! I used to sit in his shop and look through them. If I can find out what happened to them I may be able to text you the info on FB!

    • @DutchMastaa
      @DutchMastaa 2 роки тому

      @@natasharose3264 did you end up finding anything? my grandpa had a shop on union as well, would really enjoy sharing some images

  • @manny6685
    @manny6685 3 роки тому +4

    Wow.

  • @katalyze7831
    @katalyze7831 3 роки тому +4

    Celedonia Rebelloso, my great great grandmother and other family members made it over the Rio Grande and through the flood of Pueblo, but family pictures did not.

  • @vel230
    @vel230 Місяць тому

    Stayed in a hotel in Pubelo a few years back, and had everything I'd left in my car stolen....desk clerk said it was a common occurrence.

  • @uhadme
    @uhadme 3 роки тому +3

    flipped and twisted as they show a train barely leaning over. - priceless
    Then he said piles of lumber were washed downstream, and they showed dry lumber neatly stacked and untouched by a flood. Mkay

    • @gtfotattoo
      @gtfotattoo 2 роки тому

      This is dumb

    • @D45VR
      @D45VR Рік тому +1

      you seem very dense

  • @geraldmorain3166
    @geraldmorain3166 2 роки тому +1

    History repeats

  • @michaelschulze6545
    @michaelschulze6545 2 роки тому +1

    Didn't know

  • @justinreid2703
    @justinreid2703 2 роки тому +2

    Home of Heroes!

  • @hd4100
    @hd4100 3 роки тому +2

    If a location is at high risk for flood damage it’s illogical to think that businesses would want to stay there or expand.

  • @chrissanders8230
    @chrissanders8230 3 роки тому +1

    719 always on my mind

  • @geraldmorain3166
    @geraldmorain3166 2 роки тому +2

    Build back better

  • @bestamerica
    @bestamerica 3 роки тому +1

    '
    beautifully city / history in america...
    dont need a state

  • @JohnDoe-zz3hj
    @JohnDoe-zz3hj 3 роки тому +2

    Nobody can tell me who occupied the massive civilization 10 miles NE of pueblo,
    the ranchers dont even know whats on their property. Fly drones and you'll see the massive city pre1900. In 1976 we rebuilt Fort Bent. The metropolis by Pueblo looks much older. The foundations didnt have square corners. Each building was massive for that era, showing the drone pics some say maybe it was field clearing for crops with rock formation still at the edge (desert). IDK, but that doesn't explain the massive mounds that have smaller narrow mound of dirt and rock connected to the foundation more noticeable from bout 600 ft. to bout 1000 ft. the mounds look very similar to the burial mounds for the giant ppl found @ 6 to 12 ft tall, someone thought the mounds could be a wells,

    • @lonniedobbins1195
      @lonniedobbins1195 3 роки тому

      Archeology has been prohibited in the Americas Since European Arrivals.
      *They hope to suppress the facts of black people living upon the lands for millennia!*
      Europe didn't come out of the dark ages until after the encounters with black populations.

    • @oscarb9139
      @oscarb9139 2 роки тому

      @@lonniedobbins1195 Evidence to support your position?

    • @oscarb9139
      @oscarb9139 2 роки тому

      @typo pit ?

    • @oscarb9139
      @oscarb9139 2 роки тому

      The Giant People? Who are you referring to? Bones to back up your assertion? Anything?

    • @JohnDoe-zz3hj
      @JohnDoe-zz3hj 2 роки тому

      @@oscarb9139 NO, Im not even sure what Im looking at. NE of Pueblo if you take a drone up and fly east of the rivers in prarie you'll see the an old civilation left in the dirt with trails, large foundations and mounds in the dirt that you dont notice if youre on the ground,,, never dug any of it, just see with my drone and nobody has explained yet.

  • @Deckers2006
    @Deckers2006 2 місяці тому

    The rain comes from "the Mountains". How ambiguous does that comment seem to everyone? And to add this statement from an accredited and licensed Engineer is criminal action. Go right ahead and mention that the Decker Dam wouldn't have stopped this from occurring. Because it just wouldn't have.😊

  • @andrewevans5750
    @andrewevans5750 2 роки тому +1

    ahhh...Pueblo, Jonesboro AR of the West yet always comparing itself to Pittsburgh

  • @markrtaylor
    @markrtaylor 3 роки тому +9

    Hilarious watching SNOBS describe people that work for a living!!!!

    • @petterzachrisson6500
      @petterzachrisson6500 3 роки тому

      This video caught your attention.. and that’s something getting paid for.

    • @berserk1437
      @berserk1437 3 роки тому +2

      Those are the people what spend every weekend out of Pueblo 😂

    • @davek9378
      @davek9378 3 роки тому +3

      How does PBS do it? If you gave me a month I couldn’t find a guy with a blue dish towel wrapped around his neck...

  • @toddshepard3592
    @toddshepard3592 3 роки тому +6

    Funny how diversity, the new buzzword, has anything to do with a flood. Had to stop watching this.

    • @pooderism
      @pooderism 3 роки тому +4

      Your listening skills must be lacking. Try listening again, not everything is sinister.

    • @leedavison7215
      @leedavison7215 3 роки тому +1

      @@pooderism Pueblo sucks.

    • @TheBandit7613
      @TheBandit7613 2 роки тому +1

      @@leedavison7215 Why? I'm serious. I'm from Evergreen and never gave Pueblo any thought.

  • @markhaneklau5021
    @markhaneklau5021 3 роки тому +6

    I’m here for the flood. I have to plow through 14 minutes of ads and how diverse everybody and everything is first? No wonder nobody watches PBS anymore. TheHistoryGuy Covers it in less than 15 minutes...

    • @berserk1437
      @berserk1437 3 роки тому +1

      Found that guy who didn't have an Osage grandma 😂

    • @mapena84
      @mapena84 3 роки тому +1

      Buy Premium, cheapskate..

    • @markhaneklau5021
      @markhaneklau5021 3 роки тому +3

      @@mapena84 still won’t get me past the ‘woke’ liberal bias of PBS. Thanks for missing my point.

    • @mapena84
      @mapena84 3 роки тому

      @@markhaneklau5021 You're dead from preexisting conditions within a decade... TOPS.. We really don't care..

    • @markhaneklau5021
      @markhaneklau5021 3 роки тому +2

      @@mapena84 ...and there you have it ladies and gentleman, we found the idiot in the room....

  • @clvrswine
    @clvrswine 3 роки тому +7

    @33:16 calm down, Mr. Feminist. Women take their husbands name in the real world. Stop acting like it's a crime. It's just tradition, not an affront. 100 years after this event, it continues, you "journalist."

    • @stevenalvarado-doc7334
      @stevenalvarado-doc7334 3 роки тому

      my wife has 2 masters degrees and makes more than twice as much as I do. When we married she insisted on taking my name even after I asked her if she wanted to keep her name. Then again she never claims to be a feminist.

    • @berserk1437
      @berserk1437 3 роки тому +3

      It implies that women were seen as property at the time (which they were.) Women would have just won the right to vote the year before. Not all women chose to marry and take their husband's name. Even now domestic violence is still a problem or is that just "tradition" to you?

    • @mapena84
      @mapena84 3 роки тому

      Ok, snowflake

    • @wheredidthetimego8087
      @wheredidthetimego8087 Рік тому

      @@berserk1437 one thing I never felt when I took my husbands name was property 🤣