Spirit Lake Lodge & Harry R. Truman

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  • Опубликовано: 28 дек 2024

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  • @sueryland792
    @sueryland792 11 лет назад +169

    I grew up in Longview, spent many winter weekends up at the mountain at the turn-around tubing and going to the lodge in the afternoon for Harry's hot chocolate, he could also cook a mean hamburger. A living legend if you grew up tubing on
    Mt. St. Helens a visiting with Mr. Truman, RIP

    • @truckinforjesus
      @truckinforjesus 4 года назад +8

      I've heard that his grumpy disposition was a show for the cameras. What are your memories of Harry as a person?

    • @mattcastro8340
      @mattcastro8340 3 года назад +1

      Remember what toppings Harry would put on his burger, if any?

  • @juliusceasar6002
    @juliusceasar6002 7 лет назад +302

    he probably gave the mountain the finger as it was erupting.

    • @jason127x99
      @jason127x99 6 лет назад +5

      julius ceasar LOL! Right!

    • @sweetjrewing5435
      @sweetjrewing5435 4 года назад +1

      julius ceasar 🖕🏼

    • @tamaraloca-t9092
      @tamaraloca-t9092 4 года назад +9

      @ i agree with you. I met Harry Truman he was a great guy and that. Jerk didn't have any idea who he was talking about. Thanks for being kind.Harry deserved it

    • @josephastier7421
      @josephastier7421 4 года назад +6

      probably yelling "YOU HEARD IT FIRST FROM HARRY!!!!!!"

    • @ceaflacca1590
      @ceaflacca1590 4 года назад

      Lmao

  • @johnsmith-tc2qn
    @johnsmith-tc2qn 9 лет назад +171

    A man like a Harry wouldn't be happy in his remaining days had he left the mountain and saw his home of 53 years destroyed and
    buried. He knew the danger of remaining on the mountain but the alternative was not appealing , ending up in some old age home
    with no cats , his late wife's remains buried under a hundred feet of rock and ash. He was in his 80's and had a lot of good years behind him when the wife was alive and all the folks who stayed at his resort and the beautiful place it was. Harry said to himself this is were I want to be and to die.

    • @moonjimunji7916
      @moonjimunji7916 7 лет назад +1

      he could've just rebuilt

    • @brandonwood8971
      @brandonwood8971 6 лет назад +2

      I have a feeling this could the most epic hidden story. what if his lodge was a lab. what if he had a non satanic secret society run there. what if he had a deep underground base built from the lodge to the mountain. what if they drilled a hydrogen bomb and lowered in it Armageddon style to take out this man that maybe was about to bring out a technology like a Advanced electromagnetic vehicle spacecraft and they buried him and his bunker. and everyone was like meh it was the mountain. even though it looks just like nuclear bomb tests that were done in mountain sides lol. im telling u guys im prolly right. XD. just a thought

    • @marcoborrillo8097
      @marcoborrillo8097 5 лет назад +8

      I'd like to believe that Old Harry is now reunited with his Wife and in God's Presence. They just don't make 'em like that anymore. He wouldn't want to be on this earth with all the Liberals. He's lucky he had a great life and literally ended with a bang.

    • @FairfaxJack
      @FairfaxJack 4 года назад +13

      He literally said that he'd rather die than see the mountain destroy his lake and cabins. "I'm like the old captain that's going to go down with the ship"

    • @pomerlain8924
      @pomerlain8924 4 года назад +7

      I can understand Harry willing to go with the mountain, but the very least he could have done was let his cats go. They could have brought joy to other people's lives just as they did for Harry. Instead, they suffered the same fate.

  • @DP-hy4vh
    @DP-hy4vh 5 лет назад +184

    Harry was the first man in history to take it all with him when he died (his lodge, cabins, car, boats, whiskey, cats, Spirit Lake and his mountain.)

    • @pomerlain8924
      @pomerlain8924 4 года назад +34

      Well, he said the mountain was a part of him. Now he literally is a part of the mountain.

    • @Srekwah
      @Srekwah 2 года назад +11

      What a legend, he'll be remembered for generations probably.

    • @lindamerchant123
      @lindamerchant123 2 года назад +2

      Unless he was pliney the elder

    • @brt-jn7kg
      @brt-jn7kg Год назад +3

      You know I don't think there has ever been a finer words spoken about this man than what you wrote!!

    • @coreym162
      @coreym162 9 месяцев назад

      @@Srekwah I really hope so with the way our society is falling off. He'd really be drunk if he was around in our times.

  • @lethrbear32
    @lethrbear32 9 лет назад +106

    My grandfather knew Harry and would often launch is boat near the lodge. If you were lucky, you got treated to a home cooked fried chicken dinner at the end of the day fishing. From what grandpa told me it was the best he'd ever had. I remember going up to the mountain with my mom and dad. The old Spirit Lake Highway hugged the Toutle river all the way to the lake and on clear days, St. Helens would peek out between the towering trees as you'd come around a curve offering a periodic glimpse of her splendor. It was breathtaking, even as a kid. The we'd head up to go innnertubing down the slope of the north face at the timberline turnaround. I REALLY miss the way it used to be up there.

    • @alicesacco9329
      @alicesacco9329 7 лет назад +11

      You saw the MT St Helens before the 1980 eruption? So cool!

    • @DVFDrinkOrDie
      @DVFDrinkOrDie 6 лет назад +9

      I've been up there more times before than after the eruptions; the trout in that lake were spectacular

    • @benjaminbritt7862
      @benjaminbritt7862 2 года назад +1

      Did you ever see any of the smaller lakes like venus or panhandle they had big cutthroat and rainbows

    • @jonathanbrumfiel9909
      @jonathanbrumfiel9909 10 месяцев назад

      @@DVFDrinkOrDie they still are. you can still hike out there on a nice day and fish in solitude among the rebirth of the mountain

  • @SexySM2
    @SexySM2 12 лет назад +39

    From the interview, I'm guessing he probably said something like "Ah hell, now the whole damn mountain's coming down. Well guys (cats) it's time for us to go be with (his wife) now."
    Nice story, was glad to have found this. Thanks for posting it!

  • @silvereagle2061
    @silvereagle2061 10 лет назад +52

    RIP Harry and David. You lived and died doing what you loved to do.

  • @windymoore4009
    @windymoore4009 11 лет назад +32

    This is totally awesome. Would of loved to have been able to go to Spirit Lake and stayed with Harry. Looks and sounds like he was one hell of an interesting man. At his age he was a walking history book. Wish there had been more interviews with him. Thank you so very much for sharing this.

    • @bsg1292
      @bsg1292 3 года назад

      Aint no doubt about that Windy !

  • @SmashtheCmachine
    @SmashtheCmachine 9 лет назад +87

    "He hates drinking, but people drive him to it." God damn, never knew much about Truman, but VERY quickly decided that I LOVE the man! R.I.P., fellow misanthrope!

    • @ericbible9086
      @ericbible9086 8 лет назад

      Shit

    • @ericbible9086
      @ericbible9086 8 лет назад

      God dawn,

    • @lemorab1
      @lemorab1 3 года назад +3

      I love this guy! He loved his lodge and his life and he went out on his own terms! Good for him!

    • @coreym162
      @coreym162 9 месяцев назад

      Took me finding the truth about him and I love him now after years of judging him when, I got to know he's a man after my own heart.

  • @Vector_Ze
    @Vector_Ze 2 года назад +8

    The eruption was anticipated. Mr. Truman was told he would die if he stayed. He chose to stay. It was his love for a half-century. He was ready, and the end was quick.
    When the mountain blew, I was on the road traveling from Florida to Colorado and heard about it on the car radio.
    Thanks for sharing.

  • @sampalmer5116
    @sampalmer5116 10 лет назад +86

    Just went to Mt. St. Helens a couple of weeks ago... visibility was poor, but still a beautiful area. Got to thinking about Mr. Truman, and how he seems to have gone out somewhat on his own terms. Some say if he had survived and seen what happened to the mountain, "his" lake, and lodge, it would have killed him. RIP, Harry, as well as the 56 others.

    • @bsg1292
      @bsg1292 3 года назад +4

      1st to reply to you in 7 years !

    • @invisibilianone6288
      @invisibilianone6288 2 года назад +2

      R.I.P. Harry R. Truman😎☕

    • @TGP109
      @TGP109 Год назад +1

      Yes, after having put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into his property, I don't blame him for wanting to go out with it.

  • @StellarBlue1
    @StellarBlue1 9 лет назад +124

    A lot of people are missing the point about Harry and his desire to stay put in his lodge. I believe the issue is about age and his quality of life. IF he had been a much younger man, it certainly would have behooved him to make a hasty exit. However, at age 84, he had both the wisdom of a long life and the knowledge of his own self, to make the decision to flee or stay. The idea of having leaving his comfort zone, his "Heaven on Earth", so to speak, would have devastated him. He had become the mountain and the mountain was him. When you kids get older, you will see that there is more to life than "longevity" alone.

    • @redheadchick2534
      @redheadchick2534 8 лет назад +4

      +StellarBlue1 You are so right.

    • @krazyoldkatlady192
      @krazyoldkatlady192 8 лет назад +5

      StellarBlue1 totally agree! At 84 what difference does it make?

    • @ADazzledDazzle
      @ADazzledDazzle 6 лет назад

      well said!!!

    • @davidv2700
      @davidv2700 4 года назад +11

      I wonder if someone like him would've lasted much longer had he chose to evacuate. You take people like Harry out of their routine, the life they've lived for so long, people like that seem to deteriorate soon after, sadly.

    • @DucksFan541
      @DucksFan541 4 года назад +7

      @@davidv2700 I believe if he had come back after evacuating and seen the top of the mountain blown to smithereens and his beloved lake and lodge buried under hundreds of feet of ash and debris his heart would have given out and he would have passed anyways ... so it was for the best he went the way he did quick and painlessly how he wanted staying steadfast there on the mountain until the end.

  • @jayj6951
    @jayj6951 4 года назад +17

    I’m 19, I remember my grandma talking about mt St. Helens years ago and it was only recently i got reading about it and the story of Mr Truman! He seems such an awesome guy to have met and I see comments here about him, type of person I get on with! Wish I could have seen that lake! Hope he’s resting peacefully in his paradise!

    • @tamaraloca-t9092
      @tamaraloca-t9092 4 года назад +5

      Yes i met him. And you are a sweet kid that I'm sure he would of loved to meet. Me also

  • @droopydawg3113
    @droopydawg3113 7 лет назад +65

    What an awesome man. He truly was a legend in his own right. May he, his cats, and the other 56 victims rest in peace.

  • @TexasMan77
    @TexasMan77 6 лет назад +41

    I heard a geologist say that Harry had 22 seconds from the time of the eruption to when it hit the lodge. He will forever be part of his mountain.

    • @RW4X4X3006
      @RW4X4X3006 6 лет назад +9

      With the tremendous seismic activity of the mountain collapsing, I doubt any structure, the lodge, would be standing within 5 seconds. Then comes the blast at 22 seconds- with the force of a nuclear detonation at ground zero. Would have loved to see them cats jump, though.

    • @1193bobmcc
      @1193bobmcc 6 лет назад

      Awesome comment!@@RW4X4X3006

    • @lewiske
      @lewiske 5 лет назад +6

      Yep, another one. Wish you could've seen them cats jump, huh? I wish you could've been there to see it too! Asshole.

    • @chiasanzes9770
      @chiasanzes9770 5 лет назад +3

      @@RW4X4X3006 Demon. Animal abuser.

    • @willoughby1888
      @willoughby1888 Год назад

      Yeah, watch a single cat jump through all nine lives all at once right before your eyes before the mountain eats you up.@@RW4X4X3006

  • @ajholderby5834
    @ajholderby5834 2 года назад +9

    Harry Truman was a super badass dude, I would love to have met him, some of my family and friends say I have a very similar attitude! RIP Harry Truman gone but not forgotten!

  • @michellepalmateer9955
    @michellepalmateer9955 4 года назад +10

    I remember Harry. I remember renting a boat from him. I remember his Pink Cadillac identical to the one Elvis owned. I used to hike to Harmony Falls to drink a quart of beer.

  • @raincoast2396
    @raincoast2396 7 лет назад +40

    Old Harry went the same way his mountain did - doing their thing.

  • @jamesschneider4437
    @jamesschneider4437 6 лет назад +7

    this is why I fell in love with Mt St Helens, not for the past, but what her power has demonstrated. I can understand Harry's point of view, he lived many years, his wife was there. nature itself is its own reward, he loved living next to such beauty. he knew the risks, dont think he didnt know. he lived his way, he chose his demise. I sure hope it was quick, and sadly all but 1 cat died in the eruption, that poor cat probably had a lot of issues after that day. it lost the only home it ever knew, and lost its family. RIP Mr Truman, and RIP to volcanologist David Johnston

  • @Belly4720
    @Belly4720 11 лет назад +88

    I bet, 150 under all that mud and ash, harry's sign is still standing

    • @dwizzleusa4202
      @dwizzleusa4202 4 года назад +8

      Cursing at it the mountain for trying..

    • @eldermillennial8330
      @eldermillennial8330 4 года назад +12

      Preserved like Pompeii.

    • @mr.anonymous7898
      @mr.anonymous7898 3 года назад +3

      It’s probably preserved like in Pompeii

    • @walterlv01
      @walterlv01 3 года назад +3

      @@mr.anonymous7898 Yup I've always thought that - a few hundred years from now, someone, for whatever reason will excavate that site and find Mr. Truman's lodge and everything else that was buried within the Earth that day.

    • @srosenow98
      @srosenow98 3 года назад +4

      They found fragments of his lodge in hummock deposits three miles north of where his lodge was, in the Bear Cove area that summer. Read Richard Waitt's book "In the Path of Destruction."

  • @kevinpowers9024
    @kevinpowers9024 5 лет назад +16

    I read somewhere that it took the lateral blast and land slide about 20 seconds to reach Harry at his lodge. It took about 50 seconds for it to reach David Johnston and he was between 5 and 6 miles away. Harry may have not seen it coming but he knew something was very wrong. David Johnston had plenty of time to watch it coming right at him. Must have been an awesome and terrifying sight.

    • @srosenow98
      @srosenow98 3 года назад +3

      It took the blast cloud a full three minutes to reach Gerry Martin, and he was on a ridge two miles north of Johnston. It took twenty five seconds for the cloud to overtake Johnston and Martin.

  • @Alanadawn711
    @Alanadawn711 3 года назад +4

    This is wonderful! Thank you for sharing this with us!!

  • @ogs1mpson609
    @ogs1mpson609 5 лет назад +31

    Harry: “I’d like to see the man who tries to take that sign off that post.”
    Mount St. Helens: “Hold my whiskey and coke.”

  • @crispinroy9839
    @crispinroy9839 5 лет назад +9

    This man is one of my heroes. His memory lives on forever.

  • @wildlyunrulyadventures3942
    @wildlyunrulyadventures3942 2 года назад +7

    Washington Legend in life and after. She's still your Mountain Mr. Truman and always will be.

  • @segaprophet
    @segaprophet 9 лет назад +18

    The site of the old lodge is now 150 feet below the bottom of the new lake....

  • @nicksss1843
    @nicksss1843 4 года назад +11

    40th anniversary I’m reading the National Geographic coverage from their January ‘81 edition. A whole piece on Harry, he really did courageously choose the best way to end his life... not half vegetable half old dude some 7 or 8 years later. That wouldn’t have been his style. What a hero. RIP Harry

  • @clarenceredwards
    @clarenceredwards 4 года назад +6

    Harry once said the he was a part of the mountain and Spirit Lake and they a part of him. I think it is beautiful that is now true. God Bless you Harry And RIP.

  • @NicoliRavioli117
    @NicoliRavioli117 4 года назад +9

    I would’ve loved to have met him. Seemed like a funny old guy. What a beautiful place that lake used to be. Wish I cdv seen it before the eruption. I don’t think he would’ve wanted to have survived without his lodge & beautiful lake. I think he knew that, which is why he decided to stay, when so many told him to go. He’d been there so long, that no other place could possibly be home. RIP to Harry & his little cats 😢🕊🐾❤️

  • @Kreemerz
    @Kreemerz 6 лет назад +8

    I remember this story very well. I had no idea he was as interesting as the video showed. I wished we had more video of him. He was quite entertaining. And I think he kinda enjoyed some of the attention later on.

  • @mozartbabe
    @mozartbabe 3 года назад +12

    I bet his spirit comes back for a visit on occasion. 🕊️🌺🕊️

    • @jhanturandall2519
      @jhanturandall2519 2 года назад +1

      Where?
      There’s literally nothing left

    • @lm6817
      @lm6817 Год назад +2

      I was born in 1983. Three years after the eruption. I like to tell people that I am Harry R Truman reincarnated! I’m just as stubborn as he. Not nearly as badass but I have another 40 years to work on it 😃

  • @iamchrisbrewer
    @iamchrisbrewer 11 лет назад +5

    This is absolutely incredible. Thank you for sharing.

  • @collinsje5
    @collinsje5 7 лет назад +41

    As I approach age 70, I figure being just like ole Harry is a worthy life goal. Now, get off my lawn!

    • @misterdog7
      @misterdog7 3 года назад +1

      Damn hippies!

    • @willoughby1888
      @willoughby1888 Год назад

      "Sorry, Mr. @c..5, we were just getting our ball.., again! ha ha ha."

    • @willoughby1888
      @willoughby1888 Год назад

      "We meant Frisbee, not ball.., ha ha ha again!"

    • @willoughby1888
      @willoughby1888 Год назад

      "IWe meant we're just looking for our lost dogs and cats, and Billy's stupid little sister who loves to stomp on grass lawns.., ha ha ha!"

  • @KOsfc
    @KOsfc 11 лет назад +11

    Great video, Harry was a funny man. Loved his surroundings so much. At least no man took that sign down.

    • @arladicey
      @arladicey 6 лет назад +4

      KOsfc Nope, no man did... it was Mother Nature that did the job.

  • @BlitztheDragon
    @BlitztheDragon 11 лет назад +8

    The important thing was that no person took it down. He went just how he wanted. He really had a poetic end, when you think about it, to die with the lake and resort he loved.

  • @jjgoldiesgtgt512
    @jjgoldiesgtgt512 2 года назад +6

    I can't even imagine the vision of frightening Harry Truman had when he saw the mountain coming toward the lake. A pure nightmare

    • @jeepo4059
      @jeepo4059 Год назад

      He didn’t have TIME to be frightened, much less for it to even register...❤️

    • @OzzyOscy
      @OzzyOscy 11 месяцев назад +2

      He was frightened in the final few days.
      The tough talk was a mask for his fear of losing everything, whether he stayed or went.

    • @letsgobrandon7297
      @letsgobrandon7297 10 месяцев назад +1

      @jeepo4059: You would definitely see it. It’s not like he would seen the land slide than all the sudden lights out. He would seen the tree’s from farther away being crushed by black and coming towards him. He wouldn’t seen the lake lift up as it was like a shockwave at that point. Probably seen flocks and flocks of different kinds of birds flying away across his lake soon as side the mountain gave.

  • @josephastier7421
    @josephastier7421 4 года назад +18

    Someone asked Harry Truman what he would do "if he saw the lava coming for him", and he said "I'd run". He didn't want to die, he just wasn't going to leave. Most people didn't quite understand HOW this volcano was going to erupt. Spirit Lake Lodge was overrun by the landslide as it hit the lake, and in a painless instant the mountain forever claimed him as her own.

    • @Srekwah
      @Srekwah 2 года назад +3

      How old was he when he was asked that? If he was over 80 he was pulling their leg.

    • @pcbassoon3892
      @pcbassoon3892 Год назад

      Or in several minutes of being burned and suffocated. Either way.

  • @joeundercoffer2567
    @joeundercoffer2567 6 лет назад +7

    Wish I could have met you Harry!

  • @wayneus2828
    @wayneus2828 12 лет назад +1

    iam shure happy you filmed this on spirit lake lodge and harry. best ive seen wish i had some pictures of the lake and lodge

  • @RadPuppies
    @RadPuppies 8 лет назад +28

    Harry owned Mt. St. Helen's Lodge, NOT Spirit Lake Lodge! Spirit Lake Lodge was a neighboring lodge owned by Dave and Miriam Smith.

    • @Kreemerz
      @Kreemerz 6 лет назад +7

      Dianne Bishop thanks so much for clarifying this. There aren't many maps showing the precise locations of the two lodges.

    • @mkayc30
      @mkayc30 4 года назад +3

      Kreemerz I was looking for a map of the location and well, ended up side tracked. Haha I never found that map, though.

  • @thestouders6028
    @thestouders6028 7 лет назад +9

    He was a great man. Old school man. He was going broke & still fought

    • @michellepalmateer9955
      @michellepalmateer9955 4 года назад +2

      You don't believe Harry was going broke do you? Harry was doing just fine year after year. He was a decent man

  • @bobrocco4218
    @bobrocco4218 11 лет назад +38

    I stayed in one of the small cabins there while on vacation back in 1960. What a gorgeous place!
    Harry devoted his life there, and I don't blame him for staying. It's all he lived for.
    Stitch, if that's your picture, look in the mirror! Who's the dumbass?

    • @tamaraloca-t9092
      @tamaraloca-t9092 4 года назад +2

      Yes he was a great guy

    • @punker4Real
      @punker4Real 4 года назад +2

      so you think forcing those animals to stay when it erupted was good

    • @michellepalmateer9955
      @michellepalmateer9955 4 года назад +2

      @@tamaraloca-t9092 Harry was an interesting person in an interesting part of the world.

    • @tamaraloca-t9092
      @tamaraloca-t9092 4 года назад +2

      @@michellepalmateer9955 Yes he was. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest also 😸

    • @davidv2700
      @davidv2700 4 года назад +1

      I feel like a little kid reading these stories.

  • @MrLuckytrucker21
    @MrLuckytrucker21 2 года назад +4

    Hard to believe that spot his cabin is on is blown to bits and buried in 100ft of ash and mountain dirt!

  • @nomad4k
    @nomad4k 2 года назад +8

    He was quite a character. Stubborn, funny sometimes, and I guess he felt lonely after his wife died. He was not the person to move and go live in some place like Longview. That mountain and that lake were all he knew and that lodge was his only home. Lived there 50 years. When the mountain went off, he went with it.

  • @CalvinHodgson
    @CalvinHodgson 6 лет назад +9

    No man ever managed to take his sign down! The mountain did.

  • @SillyLittleMunky
    @SillyLittleMunky 6 лет назад +13

    Harry and the kitties now living in the big lodge in the sky. :-(

    • @charlieinfinite9434
      @charlieinfinite9434 4 года назад +1

      You just HAD to bring the kitties into this... 😿

    • @ELEcomments
      @ELEcomments 3 года назад +1

      😿😿😿😿

    • @cybercat29
      @cybercat29 Год назад

      Aww 😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😿💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

  • @typhoontim125
    @typhoontim125 5 лет назад +4

    R.I.P. Old Harry and his lovely Cats! Hope it was quick!

  • @jacktrainer8340
    @jacktrainer8340 11 лет назад +10

    Nothing would remain of this under 150 feet, it was all blown away. It's not like theres signed and cabins and his mummified self in his living room 150 feet down. It was all knocked to bits

  • @2326038
    @2326038 6 лет назад

    Thank you for uploading this video.

  • @seandeyoung01
    @seandeyoung01 11 лет назад +7

    He had 13 cats. By his own statement people weren't good company they only drove him to drink. Harry did it his way and he knew who he was I seriously doubt he was at all lonely.

  • @duchessstudioband7896
    @duchessstudioband7896 Год назад +4

    I give Harry credit. He lived and died as he wanted. He let no one tell him what to do. Part of me wished he would have decided to get out, so we would still have him. Buit then, how much have Harry had left of himself.

  • @cliftonmanning8442
    @cliftonmanning8442 7 лет назад +8

    I'd love to listen to him ramble on for hours if I had the chance to bad our life lines didn't match up

  • @grizzlycountry1030
    @grizzlycountry1030 9 лет назад +5

    Just watched a documentary about the eruption and it includes him. Apparently he moved his mattress to the basement because of the earthquakes. He obviously refused to leave. The scientists said where his place was is now buried 600 feet below ash, rock, mud, etc from the eruption.

  • @CaliforniaBushman
    @CaliforniaBushman 4 года назад +7

    After the erupting volcano woke him and he saw the vast wall of trees, ash and pumice barreling at him at 300+ mph you have to wonder if he thought 'Why did I have to be so stubborn?!' But no doubt it was lights out in a split second. RIP Harry.

    • @davidlafleche1142
      @davidlafleche1142 2 года назад +3

      Harry R. Truman essentially committed suicide and he was fully aware of that. Truman knew that, even if Mount St. Helens had never erupted, bankruptcy and/or eminent domain would have taken his lodge away from him. He was stubborn only in that he didn't want to leave his beloved land.

  • @magneto44
    @magneto44 6 лет назад +1

    great little piece of history here

  • @marlisvontoggenburg2613
    @marlisvontoggenburg2613 3 года назад +2

    I missing good old Harry RIP old old friend⚓️

  • @spudlee1749
    @spudlee1749 2 года назад +3

    "You don't like my apples don't shake my tree"😂

  • @dwizzleusa4202
    @dwizzleusa4202 4 года назад +5

    Lol ol Harry would have been cool man to hang out with listening to old stories

  • @webfatigue
    @webfatigue 9 лет назад +6

    I don't think anyone could have foreseen the magnitude of utter destruction that was to occur.

    • @RW4X4X3006
      @RW4X4X3006 6 лет назад +1

      Or what can still occur.

  • @josephjucutan2554
    @josephjucutan2554 7 лет назад +3

    I WISH I GREW UP NEAR THERE...HELLO FROM SAN FRANSOCO CALIFORNIA YA'LL !!!

  • @evilsciencelab3854
    @evilsciencelab3854 4 года назад +7

    Harry: "By God, I would like to see the man that gonna take that sign off that post!"
    God: *hold my beer*

    • @bsg1292
      @bsg1292 3 года назад +1

      well said !

  • @Savitor
    @Savitor 2 года назад +2

    Why is the video called "Spirit Lake Lodge" when his sign clearly said "Mt. St. Helens Lodge"?

  • @RFKFANTS67
    @RFKFANTS67 8 лет назад +1

    I see why he live there. Very beautiful place and lodge ..I always liked old Harry.

  • @jonathanbrumfiel9909
    @jonathanbrumfiel9909 10 месяцев назад

    My sole goal in life is to be just like this man.

  • @matthewwelsh294
    @matthewwelsh294 3 года назад +1

    Wish I had the chance to see Spirit Lake before May 1980. But I was born in 1994

  • @toplaycool21
    @toplaycool21 Год назад

    It's kind of bittersweet watching this. This man just wanted a quiet life and yet he died in a pretty big way by the landslide destroying his whole land. Everything is buried deep, never to be seen again. I was born 9ish years after this, sorry I never knew him but I hope he's happy now up in heaven.

  • @historyboy08
    @historyboy08 11 лет назад +3

    You "like to see the man who takes down that post"? I don't know about that sir, but I believe a mountain, Mount St. Helen's, took right off including the entire lodge. It is however sad that all of this is gone and I was born 9 years after the eruption of Mount St Helen's and never got to witness the beauty of this area. Harry, if you were still alive, we could both rip one and drink up!

  • @josephjucutan2554
    @josephjucutan2554 7 лет назад +2

    I WAS IN THE 8TH GRADE WHEN MT ST HELENS BLEW UP ...THIS WAS AMAZING TO US HERE IN CALIFORNIA

    • @davidv2700
      @davidv2700 4 года назад

      A classmate of mine was born on the day Mt St Helens erupted. I was around 2 months old.

    • @NicoliRavioli117
      @NicoliRavioli117 4 года назад

      I was born a month after it blew. Sucks that we’ll never get to see this place the way it was back then.

  • @brandihilton8485
    @brandihilton8485 2 года назад +2

    Harry Truman was a cranky old man. He refused to abandon his home. He practically did give the mountain the finger before the eruption. It's awful that he was killed from the avalanche & never heard from again.

  • @Derek032789
    @Derek032789 5 лет назад +6

    I bet that sign is still standing under all that ash.

  • @marcjennings6267
    @marcjennings6267 10 лет назад +14

    As for his cats not having a choice. Neither did the other 200,000 plus animals... no difference they lived at his land he just feed them...

    • @Agui007
      @Agui007 8 лет назад +3

      I think animals normally use their higher senses and can detect volcanic eruptions and natural disasters.

    • @lindaeasley5606
      @lindaeasley5606 4 года назад +1

      The difference was those cats had a human with the ability to aid them to safety .A thing called evacuation

  • @HuskyGamersUNITE
    @HuskyGamersUNITE Год назад +1

    Has anyone ever been able to find the site where the lodge was?

    • @GH-oi2jf
      @GH-oi2jf 10 дней назад

      It is known where the lodge was, but it is buried deep under the avalanche.

  • @paulthomas2337
    @paulthomas2337 2 года назад +2

    How did Harry Truman get the money to build his lodge and then rebuild it later after a fire??

  • @waynestewart6492
    @waynestewart6492 3 месяца назад +1

    Harry lived life on his terms, and die that way as well . I respect that.

  • @lauriefaithprescott
    @lauriefaithprescott Год назад

    To this day he isnt forgotten rest on peace harry

  • @klimber10001
    @klimber10001 12 лет назад +8

    The old fart.. May he Rest In Peace.on the mountain he loved so much:o)

  • @DavidHuber63
    @DavidHuber63 2 года назад +1

    Hope you got to see the Man who took the sign down Brother👍❤️🙏

  • @charleshall206
    @charleshall206 4 года назад +3

    First of ALL ITS was the Mount Saint Helens LODGE. Spirit lake lodge was owned by the Smith family and was a mile from Spirit lake. But still a good story.

  • @islandbirdw
    @islandbirdw 6 лет назад +3

    I read some first hand accounts of the few logger staff that witnessed the event and lived to tell about it. One guy said they ran into a herd of elk stunned and burnt one one side but still standing/running how sad,
    Just goes to show that we humans and “our stuff” are just infinitesimal
    Compared to the functions of the earth and surrounding cosmos.
    I myself went snowshoeing on Mother’s Day at MSH once so my husband could take a wide format picture at the crater rim over the south side at dawn. It’s a tradition for men to dress up in dresses tutus and hats to snowshoe MSH. It is the last day of spring you can go there without winning the lotto system of permitting back packers in the remains of MT Saint Helen’s national wilderness. This is how they limit human impact in the park

    • @2326038
      @2326038 6 лет назад +1

      Simone Schultz Thanks for sharing Simone.

  • @LeftyStratPlayer
    @LeftyStratPlayer 2 года назад +1

    Harry Truman: "By God, I'd like to see the man that's going to take the sign off of that post."
    Mt. St. Helens: "I am no man!"
    Rest in peace, you cantankerous old coot! With respect.

  • @witchywoman165
    @witchywoman165 8 месяцев назад

    Every time I think of this I think of Harrys wreckless decision to not let people at least rescue his cats. He had like a dozen and people offered to take them out but he refused. I can understand his decision to stay but not the decision for the cats to share the same fate. I was 8 years old when the mountain blew. That all said, he clearly was a man of much wisdom and despite his sour attitude at times you can clearly see he was a good man with a unique sense of humor. He has been immortalized and will outlive us all in memory.

  • @Dbodell8000
    @Dbodell8000 2 года назад +1

    Can’t imagine the size of the tsunami wave that swept over the lodge and poor old Harry.

  • @davidcoty5168
    @davidcoty5168 11 лет назад +53

    I wish I could of drank with him

  • @dalton1462
    @dalton1462 2 года назад +2

    I wish I could of had a drink with Harry!!!

  • @jeremybrown8455
    @jeremybrown8455 3 года назад +2

    God bless him I would be the same way

  • @FAMEROB
    @FAMEROB Год назад +1

    what he was hoping for is that the volcano had a minor eruption and everyone came back to town and he would say "I told you there was nothing to worry about"
    and then he would write a book called "The Day I Stood Up to the Mountain and Won"

  • @SumDumGy
    @SumDumGy 3 года назад +1

    R.I.P. you cranky old bastard...said with love.

  • @bratton79
    @bratton79 7 лет назад +9

    Did he not have insurance for his lodge? The state of Washington might have paid him millions of dollars in insurance money. He could have rebuilt the lodge right on top of the old one. He would have had his cats, and he had plenty of time to evacuate all his belongings too. I understand though. He was old, and he owned the lodge for many decades. He's still a huge part of Mount St. Helens lore and he's earned a permanent place in history. Harry Truman, may you and your cats rest in peace.

    • @collinsje5
      @collinsje5 7 лет назад +9

      83 was a lot older in 1980 than it is today. He looks pretty robust in this video, and he never had to go into a nursing home. For a man like that, going out fast and dramatic was probably just his style.

    • @georgelough7215
      @georgelough7215 7 лет назад

      Kevin Arco n,

    • @theesotericcunt5029
      @theesotericcunt5029 6 лет назад

      83 is still older than the average life expectancy. Lol.

    • @HarryFlashmanVC
      @HarryFlashmanVC 6 лет назад +3

      Insurance companies rarely cover 'acts of God'

    • @jason127x99
      @jason127x99 6 лет назад

      Kevin Eagle I agree! Well said! 👍👍👍 RIP

  • @jaredbalmer3592
    @jaredbalmer3592 3 года назад +2

    Mother nature did it for him, they need to make that spot again as a moment to him, call it Truman's last stand.

  • @andreiadeandrade9608
    @andreiadeandrade9608 3 года назад +3

    3:49 🐺😭😭😭😭😭

  • @jamesdavis5096
    @jamesdavis5096 2 года назад +2

    So wtf's the backstory here? THey were trying to take his land? Who? The logging companies? THe county?

  • @cliftonmanning8442
    @cliftonmanning8442 7 лет назад +9

    If you don't like my apples, then don't shake my tree. I want it on a shirt.

    • @Raellives
      @Raellives 4 года назад +2

      Its perfect, aint it?

  • @dwizzleusa4202
    @dwizzleusa4202 5 лет назад +3

    It's pink Harry!...well that's the color of the passion pit!!! With a smile after, man that's great old man funny too...lol.

  • @TGP109
    @TGP109 Год назад

    God Bless you Harry, RIP and thank you for your service to us and our country. He was born in a time when a person could be themselves instead of being brain washed by the media and other sundry outlets.

  • @foto21
    @foto21 6 лет назад +2

    He smoked the biggest cigarette nature has to offer for his last smoke!
    My school took me on a field trip to the lava tubes before St Helens exploded, but we never went to Spirit Lake. Too bad. I wish I had seen it.

  • @crocodile1313
    @crocodile1313 5 месяцев назад +2

    We need more people like Harry today. I'd rather be around someone like him than most of the fake people I'm around today.

    • @GH-oi2jf
      @GH-oi2jf 10 дней назад

      He was a poor judge of risk, though.

  • @Mr_Stitch
    @Mr_Stitch 11 лет назад +3

    "WELL AM NOT LEAVIN! I WAS BORN IN THIS HOLE I WILL DIE IN THIS HOLE!"

  • @lisadeav73
    @lisadeav73 2 года назад +1

    If you don't like my apples don't shake my tree.

  • @stephenrafter1022
    @stephenrafter1022 3 года назад +3

    I hope he had his last whiskey with his 🐈 cats as they watched the mountain blow up.

  • @RodsAndAxes
    @RodsAndAxes 4 года назад +4

    At 8:32:11am on 18 May, 1980, Mount St. Helens exploded after an earthquake caused the largest recorded landslide in human history on the north flank of the volcano and a lateral blast that struck Spirit Lake two seconds later. It caused an 850ft. (260m) megatsunami as 430 million cubic metres (350k acres) of debris impacted the water, draining the water from the lake. On top of the landslide was an 800F (400C) pyroclastic flow of poisonous gas that instantly vaporized everything it came into contact with. The force of the blast and the heat of the pyroclastic would have caused his organs to boil and explode: his brain would have literally exploded in his skull, and he would have been vaporized into dust along with everything else filmed in this video. There is no sign left. Harry Truman and his Lodge were pulverized with the force of 27,000 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs at 8:32:13am.

    • @TGP109
      @TGP109 Год назад

      I imagine Harry died long before those things happened. He was probably struck by so much debris that he was unconscious.