Old World Galveston, Storm of the Century, 1900 Hurricane, Republic of Texas Capital, Photographs
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2021
- Welcome back! Today we will continue our deep dive into the most famous cities of The Old World.
It is no stretch to admit that the history of Texas is long and proud. From the first shots of the Mexican Revolution, Texas played an integral role. The “New” Capital of the Republic of Texas in 1836, after declaring independence from Spain, was the island of Galveston.
Today we will take a brief look at the history of Galveston, including its impact in The Civil War, as well as focusing on the oldest known photographs of Galveston that still survive today.
Galveston flourished after the Civil War, jumping from 7,200 residents in 1860, to roughly 37,000 residents by 1899. Galveston had many advancements that surpassed any other city in Texas. Galveston was elaborate, and built for entertainment, however a great storm would hit Galveston on September 8th, 1900, and change the history forever.
This storm, quoted as being “once in a lifetime” crashed twenty-foot-tall waves over the coastline of Galveston, accompanied by 130 mile per hour winds, which ravaged the island town.
Galveston was decimated during the storm, and many of the old world buildings (over 7,000 buildings) and antiquitech were destroyed.
Today I’ve tried to recoup some of the Old World, Pre-1900 photographs of Galveston into this compilation for you. I’ve also included rare photographs of Galveston after the storm. We will briefly discuss the current narrative, but mainly we will take a long look at these unique and earliest images of Galveston, Texas.
I thank you so much for being here. Please leave your thoughts and comments down below!
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I lived in St Marys orphanage four blocks from the seawall in 1961. The original was wiped out in the 1900 storm. Hurricane Carla was 165 mph direct hit in 61, lasted 3 days. The great Pleasure pier disappeared. Only the Balinese survived. We children told stories as the winds howled. Now its the Bryan museum. I love Galveston.
Hurricane ike wiped out the Balinese room. Also a pleasure pier kinda like the one back in the day, has been built
@@williamcharles8628 yes, the Balinese ballroom pier was a gambling house. Zz top sang "down at the Balinese" The Jack Tar hotel and Gaidos restaurant were across the street.
You were in an orphanage. May I ask why. Not trying to be nosy, just trying to figure out why so many orphans since around 1840. TY
My Great Grandfather arrived in Galveston from Sweden a few weeks after the Great Storm. Looking for a great life for his family in America. He left my Great Grandmother back in Sweden and send for her and my Grandfather(he was 2 when my Great Grandfather left for America) in a couple years. When he arrived. He spoke very little english. One of his first jobs upon arriving. Was helping picking up dead bodies and cleaning up Galveston. He also help with the building of seawall. And many buildings around Galveston. He is now buried at the big old cemetery off Broadway street. Along with many other of my past family members. Still have family members that still lives in Galveston,Houston and Pasadena. GOD Bless Texas!
Thank you for spotlighting our fascinating Island. I am a fourth generation "born on the island" with 1900 storm survivors in my lineage. I love loving here with the architecture and history's ghosts surrounding me. The gritty sand runs in my vain and the surf pounds with my heart. We are a unique sort of people who live on a sandbar.
Love your comment! I too am
BOI!
Texas Native who just got home from a weekend in Galveston. What a treasure chest of rich history! I had no idea it was fraught with such influence and culture. Next time I will plan to stay a full week. Yours is the best and most thorough lesson available! Great job!
I currently live in Galveston County, Texas. You did splendid work in covering the history of Galveston Island and the City of Galveston! Well done, Sir!
Me too, I currently live in Galveston
Really enjoyed this, I live in a house that survived the 1900 storm.
Oh wow, that is so interesting. Was the home owned by your relatives? If only your house could talk! I had the pleasure of shopping at a thrift shop that was in a building that survived the storm. It was such an eerie feeling to know.
@@PEGGYHART It wasn't a family home, we moved here from out of state. We have had a few former residents that stopped by and wanted to see the old house. A woman who grew up here in the 50s-60s, a ND a woman who visited their great aunt in the 30s-40s when she was a child. They both had stories especially the woman that grew up here.
@@leslielegrand728 oh I see, well so glad you came to Texas! I hope you guys have been blessed by the house and it's rich history. I have always been so interested in Galveston, the storm and all the great stories. I also love that great thrift store located in one of the surviving homes. We loved shopping there on our last vacation😊
Earth was built out as a giant circuit board,the buildings were the components.After watching "When the buildings cried" more pieces of the puzzle got in their slots for me,and I recommend it to everyone.Michelle Gibson also did research on Galveston a while back,and her most resent one is "Circuit board Earth". Highly recommend 🎯
Agreed
Yes Michelle Gibson is very thorough and terrific
Have you seen Stolen History? New channel put together by the creators of an amazing website.
Highly recommend it! 👍💗
It’s easy to think the world is a simulation the illusion is that we were never mortal at all #westworld
If you look Drone view down over a large city you will see a giant motherboard. But Gaia does not like it at all. Om
These building just AMAZE me EVERYTIME!!I mean look at this town??just who TF was here before us??these sky scrapers we build are trash compared to these undescribable structures of BEAUTY and the difference between them and what we do today is easy,those old buildings were a thing of creative beauty,the LIGHT and what we see today,the sears tower,etc..not much creativity at all,the DARK,EVIL and sure enough our world today lines up with what u see today!!
I Grew Up In Clear Lake Just 20 Min From
Galveston. Spent Lot's Of Time Their.
Lot's Of Memories.
Thanks For Sharing..
God Bless..
After watching the destruction of Hurricane Ian, and reading about the 1800’s Galveston, TX. Both of these catastrophes were so destructive and the painful loss of life is astronomical especially for Galveston, TX because they were without warnings and reporting the weather warnings on there way, except for two little boys who noticed the sky and wind changes. It is so devastating and heartbreaking to gravitate to the pain and sorrow of these events. My family has vacationed in Florida for many years and all I thought about was the beauty of the ocean ,fun and-surroundings of the beach. Now that has changed for me after watching and seeing how powerful and destructive nature can be. Still have a love of the ocean, white sand and palm trees but at the same time cannot help thinking of the terrible loss for the people and the sorrow I have for all of them. Stay safe and evacuate to a safe place and God be with all of you.
Much love.
Galveston Texas has some ancient history and when I was there for a week back in the 80s I met a man in his 90s that had never left Galveston island his entire life and told me that neither had any of his older family members!
I live here and know many people that have never left cause there really is no reason to unless to sight see
Being a "BOI"...Born On the Island...is a big deal there. I grew up in La Marque and my husband had a printing and engraving business and did a lot of business there. A lot of the people had BOI on their business cards. It doesn't surprise me to hear this.
@@barbarawainscott6136 yes I’m from Houston but the BOIs are very proud of being from Galveston
Can you share more of the ancient History??
Once you get the sand between your toes it's hard to get out 😎
The castles (forever buildings) still stand and are gorgeous. One in particular I noticed from the pre storm pictures is now The Galvez Hotel, my favorite place to stay. It’s right on the coast It looks exactly the same!
Don't forget the Bishops Palace and Ashton Villa
The Galvez has been recently remodeled and from the pictures it is gorgeous. I can't wait to go stay there! I love Galveston
Fellow Texan/born Houstonian here yes can confirm! Its also claimed that the galvez hotel is apparently haunted but never stayed in it myself.
Actually the Galvez was built after the storm and opened in 1911
I grew up riding horses on the beach of Galveston Island its a beautiful special place. The Jewel of the Gulf we just survived Hurricane Ike and then Harvey and finally lost the Balinese room, awaiting a rebuild. The historical Pleasure Pier is back and Galveston is more popular than ever 💖
Was there a pleasure pier before the flagship hotel? Because that's what was there before the present day pleasure pier
@@johncrawford6125 Yes thats right there was a pleasure pier before the Flagship Hotel where I had my honeymoon
Seems like we only find megalithic structures in tact in the following places
1. places were naval cannons can't reach
I should add, I've been to Galveston, there are more mansions in the Galveston area, than anywhere I've ever visited and I've been to atleast 25 states. We're talking about hundreds, many of which are owned by a historical society that handles the upkeep. All of them are "Victorian" style... Oh I should add.. check out the cemetaries in the area; hundreds of obelisk graves so, the occult activity in this area was very strong.
Can you direct me to some literature where I can read more about this?
@@kanesmith8271 you know what's funny is I spent a good 30 minutes searching for resources about this, I found a few historical preservation societies but none that match the description I remember; the oddest part is that I can very vivdly remember these things being real, this was maybe 16 years ago.
Obelisks on graves signify occult activity, can you expand on this?
I live outside of Galveston. The only thing that's keeps it up is the tourism on the seawall. I should say most of the cities on the mainland (Texas city, League city..) are about the same. Even the "mansions" could be taken care of better. Occult? Um okay, I think it's just a dump. Btw people shouldn't be swimming in that fecal matter invested water (true story).
The most significant thing to come out of Galveston is Juneteenth.
@@lovestacy04ify There are many great things about Galveston that dont involve the seawall, fecal matter is in all water, and absolutely nobody cares about Juneteenth what a joke is that the best you can do? Must be hard going thru life with that big chip on your shoulder. Ill pray for you
This story of Galveston is hugely interesting to say the least and I am extremely glad to have watched it - so many virtually unsolvable riddles!
Hard to believe anything we were taught after this continual dose of truth! Thank you, keep it up!
Such sad devastation with so much gone from my beautiful home town. I live in Houston now, but will be buried beside my husband there when my time comes!
Long live historic Galveston!
Looks like a lot more than a hurricane happened. Im not saying I'm just saying.
I agree with you. Just saying.
Agreed, sounds like at the very least a tsunami occurred too
You clearly haven't lived through a hurricane.
Have you ever heard of a tidal surge with a hurricane? I grew up in a county on the Texas coast. We lived 22 miles from the Gulf of Mexico in Angleton. I was only one year old when Carla hit, but I remember my mother telling the tidal surge came all the way in and was three feet deep at our home. Thankfully, we were built up on cement blocks and did not flood. Shortly after Carla, the city of Freeport(Velasco) and the Corp of Engineers built levees around Freeport to protect the chemical plants and the port. Tidal surge is what wiped out Galveston and then the control the Moody family gained after the hurricane doomed Galveston for a long time.
@@davidgandy3120 thanks for sharing. 💖
I’ve met many generationally wealthy people in Houston where I used to work who’s family’s go back several generations in Galveston. I think after the great hurricane, the big money moved to Houston to reestablish. The devastation was so massive, it took 10 years to clean up Galveston island and build the seawall.
Actually, the seawall construction was started in 1902 and the first section was done in 1904
@@johncrawford6125 I did not know that! Thank you for sharing
@@annmhtown9226 what took so long was raising the city by the seawall, and they added on to it over the years. I think the first section was 3 miles long. It's over 10 miles long today. The seawall and raising the city was pretty impressive considering they didn't have modern heavy machinery.
I was there when you posted this. The place is a wonder of Victorian engineering.
Great presentation! Only thing is, native indians arent what people think they were. Nor are americans the first inheritors.
Thank you! And I tend to agree with you on that one. ☝️
"Nor are Americans the first inheritors" - by "Americans" are you referring to Europeans? "Native Indians aren't what people think they were" - what a peculiar thing to say and offer nothing in the way of clarification. Is it a secret? Also, is this "past tense", meaning, Native Indians used to be something - or are Native Indians still this "thing" that people didn't think they were? I also don't know why you said "what" instead of "who" - are Native Indians people or things? I read comments and tend to have questions when I am intrigued and curious to know more - hence, all of my questions. I hope you don't mind and thank you.
@@Dani92670 the 'Indians' I believe are the real creator's people from long ago. They got it right and they know about Jesus this through another name. That's a different conversation altogether. Anyway they say they stayed away from the big places and just kinda observed you know y'all living on same dirt. But the were like nomads and had their own way, the true way....we don't need and its breaking every one up and seperation, the tech, its destroyed so much.....
Thank you Jarid!!! This was perfect again! Galveston... the Galls that settled in the West? Talking city names :) "Galvanizing is the process of immersing iron or steel in a bath of molten zinc to produce a corrosion resistant, multi-layered coating of zinc-iron alloy and zinc metal. While the steel is immersed in the zinc, a metallurgical reaction occurs between the iron in the steel and the molten zinc" Wikipedia
Two words catched my eye in the above cote: CoRrosion and ocCuRs. These derive from CR/KR/GR/SR and are related to the CiRcle or CiRcuit and much more. Ex: CoRe, CiRca, CaRousel, valCeR, CoRsett, CeRemony (goes around a specific protocol), CRown, CouRt (that surrounds the house/YaRd/GaRden), CouRteous (the one that looks around/po-lite), CaRe, CaRetaker (looks around again!), CouRting a girl, CouRtizan, proCuRess, CouRse, GaRnish, GuaRdian, GaRment, GaRdener, CoRinthian, KaRma and so on
We are mislead sometimes by the inCoRrect spelling, someone eRuPted the CoRe (values, the cycle of normal life) and we have it in front of our eyes but do not realise it: CoR-RuPt. I am so glad that our ancestors named everything on its name! Even Galveston :)
See also pagan! In many languages it is spelled po-gan; Ex: po-t, po-nd, po-ur, po-rt, po-lar, po-table, dis-po-mania, po-wer, hy-po, hi-po-po-tamus, po-tential
It is strange but po-pul-ation and many-pul-ation is interesting too! (Gány(ol) and Mány(ol) in hungarian means dealing with something in a negativ way). If the languages would get back to their roots we would understand everything with ease.
This is absolutely mind blowing. Thank you!!
I been in the same small town on Galveston bay for 66yrs. John Lafitte hart throb live in la Port Texas he send a lot of time their. Also after 1900 Storm. La Port became the hot spot. Howard Hughes, Glenn Miller, and all the big bands till Galveston was back. Two books Isaac storm and The pirates of Galveston Bay. Morgan's Point est 1776. The side facing the bay was was all big money. At one time the Texas Governor live there in a scale down Whitehouse that still there on Galveston Bay Bay. With storms and industries are taking it all away.
This is an excerpt from a contemporary account:
Every able-bodied man was pressed into service. Volunteer gangs continued their work of hurried burial of the corpses, but many groups were forced into labor at bayonet point, and watched carefully by gun-bearing marshals and soldiers. Whisky by the bucketful was carried to these men, and they were drenched with it. The stimulant was kept at hand and applied continuously. Only in this way was it possible for the stoutest-hearted to work in such surroundings.
I greatly appreciated and loved every minute of this video. The buildings spectacular. They're so symmetrically magnificent structures it's hard for the mind to comprehend their beauty. They're all so remarkable it defies logic. Thank you for posting this one.
Random, but I love your voice. It always makes me feel good when I hear you start speaking. It has so much weight and presence.... Awesome videos. Thank you so much for sharing this mind expanding information with us.
Thank you for saying that! I’ve been receiving a lot of criticism lately. Not sure if it’s all just opposed opposition, but a few commenters have told me they hate my voice. I think it’s the same few people who dislike every video I make almost instantly after I put it out online. It’s discouraging, but positive comments like yours from people who truly appreciate and see what I’m trying to share with you, make me keep doing this work. Thank you again 🙏
@@FRESHboosters You're welcome! I just telling you the truth. Your voice is magnificent. It is perfect for what you do. DO NOT STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING. As annoying as it is, its a sign of success when the haters show up to cry. So make 'em cry! lol
@@FRESHboosters ¡a mí también me encanta tu voz y tus vídeos! gran aporte! gracias por compartirnos tanto!
Grew up in Galveston and saw the old world island first hand in old photographs as well as the historical buildings that still stand.
This is amazing to see and I’m loving your work. Stay golden.
I've always thought Galveston before the hurricane was just a vacation type town with wooden buildings. How'd they get all that stone and cement out there over one causeway? Barges?
I've never seen such a collection of fantastical gigantic wooden buildings, and I'm surprised by the stone buildings and that Galveston wasn't a provincial seaside shanty town! Thanks for the research. There's definitely been Human devolution in the last 150 years. I just saw a photo of the Tampa Bay Hotel from 1910. Wow.
A lot of his photos “before the storm” were wrong. They were after the storm. Notice many had cars and clothing from the 20’s.
Galveston was known as the "Wall Street of the South". It was a major trading port only ranking behind New York and New Orleans. This was before the Port of Houston which was developed as a result of the 1900 Strom. It was also the port of entry for almost all immigrants coming to Texas. Until the 1900 Storm it was also the largest city in Texas. After the storm many business and people relocated to the mainland, primarily in Houston.
don't you know that the natives shit bricks ha ha ha ha ha !
A vacation type of town? It was the biggest port on the Gulf before the Port of Houston was built. Lots of wealthy families lived here.
Makes you wonder if they used weather manipulation to wipe out a city with too much old world evidence. Maybe too much of the old world was there or they had old world tech so they had to do a reset. Great content as always. 👍
Checkout my playlist mudflood or 19 there doing it now
Texas wanted to secede...maybe that and also last year that gnarly freeze
Texas was fighting against the Spanish Sephardic Jews. The Knights of the Golden Circle gathered there to enforce their ring of slave trade. "We the People" fought a War of Rebellion against that in Baltimore, but the Knights of the Golden Circle jumped the soldiers on Pratt Street and caused the Civil War. Grant's 1862 General Order No. 11 refers to the ones that they were attempting to remove from the South.
Have you lost your mind? Weather manipulation? This is an excellent video of truth.
Why don’t you come on down to Galveston and see for
Yourself
My dude absolutely! Through gematria we are decoding everything from the mainstream! The world militaries + govs have officially admitted to weather manipulation at least since 1952, but I suspect the "dark team evil" have been doing weather rituals for much longer than that. There's a reason they are flooding NOLA again on the exact 16yr anniversary of Katrina and this past weekend.
You have a wonder family legacy! Thank you for sharing it!
God bless you!
very good video. I"ve been researching the storm and pre storm Galveston. You have very good old pictures of before the storm that I had not seen before. Thanks
The Galvez Hotel was built AFTER the 1900 storm in 1911.
As a boy, I was told by my grandmother, whose sister was on the island in the storm; that what caused many of these stone and brick buildings to collapse was that the mortar between the bricks or rocks became so saturated with water, and the force of the waves was so strong, that the mortar literally dissolved at the base of the buildings and when this happened the buildings collapsed.
Interesting fact.What it means I don't know but if I am not mistaken the first black heavyweight champion of the world Jack Johnson was from
Thank you so much for an amazing compilation. I found your 1st's information amazing and a tribute to the city of Galveston.
WoW!! Those beautiful buildings sure were Fancy Smancy for a Island population. What an AMAZING video!
Thanks for sharing your most excellent finds. 👍👍👍
Let me recommend the book, "Isaac's Storm," about the hurricane of 1900.
My favorite is "A Weekend In September". I love the way it's written and have read and reread it at least eight times. Isaac's Storm is also good.
I’ve read isaacs storm and watched a video of it too. It definitely tells how the storm of 1900 was underestimated and it is a heartbreaking true story. Thank you 🥹
My favorite book!! Every time I re-read it - I enjoy it more 😎
Well done! I used to live in Galveston back in 86. Two blocks from the strand.
Very interesting...wish Galveston was still that pretty
Cool photos!! Thanks for the video, I love American history in the 1800's and early 20th century 👍👍
my hometown born and raised been here 30 years
Extremely cool video! Thanks for this!
I see you posted this two years ago and I haven't watched through the end so even if I'm redundant, there's a contemporary spin at the end.
I'm a fifth generation Texan of a certain age whose family ensured my appreciation of Galveston comes written on the five (5) senses. I have one observation that The Galveston (hereinafter referred to as GLS) Historic/al? Society would cane me lest I point out that "Some people call him 'Michael,' but it's not; it's 'Michelle.' He was French." Consider yourself caveat-ed.
I have seen so much - close to all - of the bay side of commerce and government stations demolished abandoned and, worse still, forgotten. Almost every two weeks my father would take my sister and me to the bay, fishing or beachcombing. He eventually bought a charming house on the West End, one drive off the only road.
He liked to keep us up to date in the Bay Area; from refineries on the ship channel to the bridge, at which point one either crosses it or parks under it. I say this, not having been down there for years and that doesn't make me happy.
My step-dad's family were notable citizens of the day and had one of those ginormous houses, not mansions, in the upper city.
You appear to have an enjoyable channel, if videos can be judged by thumbnails, so I'm glad your channel popped up. I always have a renewed awe on June 1 that forces me to relive hurricanes past and those searches brought your channel.
Let's go on and watch, but here's a more realistic version of Biden's Uncle Bosie: He was an Irish slave who escaped his pirate captors, was washed upon a mosquito-infested (that was always a consideration) island that became known as GLS, and was eaten by Karankawa Indians, the tribe who held sway and who named him Bosie because in their native tongue it translated to an act. They were bad dudes, Jack! It's that same Irish blood that made CornPop think twice about messing around with him in the deep end.
And that is how The Great Storm could have had a silent place in today's conversations. Biden played the tough guy card with a world at war instead of a tough guy kidnapped and shipwrecked. He could even have brought in the Texas factor, what with his oil cancer. My version is approved in every poll, while PauPau cried no more and foul because they don't eat people. Well, maybe a few generations ago. So, when you hear Bosie, think liberated slave, not fighter pilot. Think Karankawa, not run-of-the mill cannibal. Think Texas, not New Guinea.
🎉(At this point, I see John Redcorn telling Bobby he doesn't eat people. Well, maybe a few generations ago.)
Live in Houston, and Galveston fascinates me. Those jetties out there, made of pink granite, have a very schetchy origin. Also there are a few buildings in Houston that I think might be old world.
Which ones?
@@isawamoose most of the original buildings at Rice university, I think it’s called the Cullen building. Also the old part of the museum of fine arts. The old portion of the building, the part that faces the mecolm fountain. Even hire ZSA ZSA has been there a LONG time it’s just been refinished a lot. Also in downtown there is that “cistern” underground by buffalo bayou, that looks like a temple. I think there are a few other, but I can’t think of them right now. But mostly that area by Rice and Herman park and a few downtown.
FYI, Most of East, Texas was a low-level marshland. Because of the Port, West Texas could be reached and settled. Houston at the time was a lake full of gators and reservation for Natives.
First video of Galveston where someone used a photo of the old City Hall . Amazing building
Great video! Thank you!
You are welcome!
i personally like the colors on the houses .. and the beach homes .
100 years before a penny of income tax was collected in the country they expect us to believe believe that these academies and post offices and government buildings were built in southern Texas? how many stamps have to sell in 1836 just to buy the material and antiquitech for that post office? These buildings wer gigantic functional and beautiful. The Narrative of changing capitals for the state is a common one, they would move them to a less populous area to hide things for more people even the capital of Iowa was changed effortlessly it seems 7 types of wood travertine marble before a rail line even. New York City to Albany Philadelphia 2 Washington from San Francisco to Sacramento etc etc
you think that's crazy? you should see Brockton Massachusetts.
1630 impossible to have paper for stamps but, there is the post office, ridiculous narratives.
The anomalies on the East Coast are the most fascinating I've ever encountered because,
there is just no way to make sense of the time frames.
Galveston was the richest and most modern city in America before the 1900 storm. It was also the most corrupt city in America, and was the first city to have gas and then electric lights.
@Jarid Boosters, fun fact, my grandfather's, fathers, father was bakery #2 on the island
why?
because the stone Mason was busy building the oven for bakery #1 ...
- I think I went far enough background for 1800's maybe one more grandpa back, but I dont have the paperwork in front of me right now.
there wasn't a sea wall back then - they built it strong, and over the years it has served to save many businesses facing the open bay -it still exists today...
Nice video.
There is No Way that those residents built those Magnificent Beautiful Buildings!
Huge buildings. So beautiful. All over the world. Ancient kingdoms.
At the end, as you waxed on the new structures, the mechanical things and a castle, the focus blurs and I thought of Crystal Palace. You have a video on that I'll be sure to watch. 🍀
Galveston had more residences as prostitutes than any other residence at one time. Many Presidents stayed at the Galvez, and The Galvez held Miss America pageants. The history is amazing. I wish I could share more! I need to organize my info and get it out there with side by side pictures of today’s photos with past photos. It looks like time was very kind to many of the old world structures and unbelievable statues despite the storms
I’m so excited to see this! I live close and visit Galveston often. I can feel the old world here, it’s everywhere. I need to get some pictures out to some truthers
Great work. Fascinating and beautiful. Definitely, not built by these people.
I am have a few questions when I look at these structures in Galveston. Where is all this stone and brick coming from to build these structures. Why are there windows below ground level? I am from Louisiana but have lived in Texas several times. Texas like Louisiana does not build basements under any structures because they flood. You hit water pretty quick not to mention that Galveston is actually an island! So how in the world did they build a hospital or post office with floors below street level?? Now you can build floors under ground like the New State Capital building here in Louisiana but you have to do a lot of expensive and extensive work pumping out water and basically creating a concrete tunnel under the earth. I don’t really see them doing that for these structures. 🤔🤷♀️
Cheers
Just visited the island and there is information everywhere about how the islands grade was raised multiple times. Some people could afford to move the house up but some could not. There are many examples like half buried wrought iron fences, ground level windows and half mausoleums.
The Surf in Galveston beach reminds me so much of the old Brighton pier near London 9:46
I live here in Galveston. Thanks for this video.
basic good report . liked it
the humans in roman times built hotels and resorts. they would really enjoy the race horses. everyone became obsessed with horse races because u could literally become rich from roman lottery. keep an eye out i have been seeing patterns with the baseball fields. and horse tracks. keep up great work. love your vids!
Very interesting. I’m in Houston and had no idea
SALUDOS .. great Work!
Amazing
How did he discover Galveston on his way to Florida if they traveled from east to west ?
That part about the Union soilders marching into Galveston on June 19th 1865 is celebrated today as Juneteenth
Dude's name was "head of the cow?" and he named it Campeche, which was already a town in SW Mexico. Or was did Mexico exist as a much larger version of its current size and it was yet to be Texas. Texas is the uppermost deck of a steam ship on an inland waterway.
Mexico used to be the entire current southwest
Good one.
Thank u for what u do...bring forth Truth
How beautiful was the city! Hurricanes, earthquakes, fires , all were happening at the same time all over the country and resulted in destruction of the old world ….
Definitely rich history in the Corpus Christi/Costal Bend area
The reason it was called The Island Of Doom was because the native Americans that inhabited the island were cannibals and ate anyone who landed on the island.
Also, later after being established as a city, it was referred to as The Wall Street of the South due to the cotton trade.
You also missed that St. Mary's Basilica was the first church in all of Texas. As well as Galveston be being the first location of Texas phone company.
Not even true
They were the Karankuewa indians
First newspaper,gas lights, telephone and telephone book, library, first president of the republic of Texas, electric lights and on and the first time the emancipation proclamation was read to the public, worst natural disaster in American history and on and on. I wouldn't live anywhere else. The island is very special and historic.
So they wrote. 😮
Galveston's port business was taken over by Houston when they were down because of the 1900 Hurricane!
The water was blue before all the oil platforms were built, and along that came all the oil spills that dirty-up the galveston beaches! My grandmother always said the Galveston ocean water was blue when she was a girl, growing up in Houston.
The Fujita (wind mph) scale denotes F4 and F5 winds capable of what we see in these photos...over 200mph!
Perhaps there was water damage as well, I get it. But how did anyone accurately guess wind speed at 120mph or waves as high as 20'?
Why did they rebuild so many places out into the water and how in the hell did they build a sea wall?!
I have the same question!
A sea wall 3 feet smaller than some of the tallest waves purportedly haha
I live in galveston; our ocean is so shallow far out its almost a tabletop. So surge ruined the island; most of it was almost completely under water...
Exactly, they decided to build the first African American hospital on the water !!?? AFTER the "hurricane" doesn't seem to make any sense really . In today's age Its understandable but it doesn't seem to add up
@@lorp.9177 Perhaps it was the "first" hospital after the hurricane : )
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I need to research my house and my grandmother's home, both built before 1900. I assume Rosenberg has information concerning their history. My grandmother's home was owned by someone else who could not afford to have the home raised. My home was raised and not is three stories. There are not many three story homes in our neighborhood. I am hoping to find some info on cisterns. Mine is one of three or four on the island. I enjoyed your pictures. I recognized. a few buildings.
YOUR PIC OF ALL THE COTTON, THE MOODYS OWNED ALL THAT
Many of the karankawa that were left lived on the west end of the island, there was a fight at Three Trees(?), I can’t recall the name. This was about where Sportsman Rd and and 8 mile rd are today.
What about the 6000 estimated killed. And that they took the bodies out to sea. The bodies washed back to the island and they burned the bodies in funeral pyers on the beach
11:40 - 12:08 wasn't hard to look at. Old timey cuteness.
i was basically raised in ol galvy, the place has an eerie vibe to it, i mean they call it cut throat city for a reason! there so many strange stories i can tell you about it! also the sea water there is horrid, and smelly!
It's getting trashed by tourists and a lot of homeless people I was out the other day and one got hit by a car it was fishy. Seawall gets sketchy some nights people literally peeing all over the floor in the pavilion same where tourist have picnics and stuff really dark if you spend enough time as a local. And especially last year when there wasn't as many tourists to make it look shiny you could really see... Either way I truly hope the best for us all there are many beautiful aspects to the town but also many overlooked aspects reminds me of California in slow motion
@@lorp.9177 i had made such good memories there as a child, but as I grew older and more mature i realized how bad the place really was, I spent a few years there as an adult and ended up addicted to drugs and almost homeless myself, I hope one day it changes! i miss so much fishing all day at the end of the pier at the old flag ship hotel!
@@poop-ex1qf I understand my hometown some people don't call it the best but I enjoyed it as a child as well I moved here for a better life but I recently just stopped drinking or doing anything hoping to move soon I'm sorry about your hometown we all have rough parts hopefully the future will be brighter
If not for the 1900 storm Galveston would have rivalled or surpassed San Francisco as a premier port city.
Bldg is stone, with wooden planks as rubble...16:28. The doctor is definitely in.
yea you see this a lot, I think it has something to do with staging a (looks like a) disaster.
then they (programmers) can pretend they build the buildings and the towns, cities back up again.
Biggest hotel in Galveston The San Luis
Jean Lafitte the Pirate fought the Karankawa Indians on Galveston Island I believe in the early 1800s.
Must have been unimaginable. And then, the HEAT afterwards. They say up to 12,000 people may have died, and the stench must have been incredible! The trouble is, the seawall is no longer enough protection.
Galveston may have become the sin city of the south after the storm of 1900; but other than some bath houses that existed before the storm, I really don't think it that kind of reputation before the storm. Before the storm, it was known as the "Queen City of the Gulf" and the "Wall Street of the South." It was a place of business and a place people wanted to live in Texas, long before air conditioning, because with the sea breezes it was tolerable from the heat that made the rest of the state so unbearable. And the reason Galveston had gambling was because the gambling was on long piers built out into the Gulf. The Balinese had gambling at the very end of the pier on which the Balinese was built, so that when the police came in the front door, people at the front could warn the gamblers at the back and all the gambling tables were hidden before the police got to the back. The Balinese operated like that for years and years.
Love all of your videos! Everything from the old world has been fascinating to me.. now I know why. There is so much more truth to be revealed surrounding all of it. I'm in Baltimore and have been meaning to get down to see the buildings in the city. Mt Vernon especially. No question in my mind that history was rewritten by liars.
make a video of them!!
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@@mysteriesoftherealm Thank you kindly for the suggestion! Checking out now, it's awesome!
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Howdy, bro!
The battle of the three trees between natives and pirates you forgot about
Hi hi from Dallas!
At 11:40, just a guess, but the first largest brothel?
In this (at least 100 year old) photo, who built that massive sea wall? And how?
At 2:53 in the video. There is writing on the photo on the wall surface but the pixelation is bad and I can’t read it.
Galveston was known as the Wall Street of the South and was a pretty big deal in 1900. Cotton was king still and oil was months away from being discovered in Texas at Spindletop near Beaumont, once the hurricane hit it pretty much finished off galveston as a financial kingpin. In the book Isaacs storm about the 1900 hurricane they would pile 500 bodies on the piers at a time and burn them to prevent disease the horror of seeing that is beyond horrifying. About 8000 died.
Dang.
Do you think the native Americans built these old world citys?
Or some earlier people that were totally killed off to the point of extinction ?? An who could kill the people who had the ability to create such magnificence
Honestly, it’s hard to pin point, but I wouldn’t be surprised by anything. I believe the term “Native Americans” is so vague, and refers to such a large variety of people, that Yes, I do tend to believe that some group of “Natives” to this land developed the Infrastructure (at least) of these major cities. Whether that is just the street layout, pathways cut, and trees planted, or if it goes much deeper (I think it does) and entrenches the entire construction of these cities, I do believe the “Native American” of all these old world cities had to have played some sort of significant role. As far as what happened to these constructors... I honestly have so many different ideas, but nothing is concrete for me. I believe we willfully and purposefully integrated our buildings and our lifestyles in these major Old World Cities. Literally, like think “Thanksgiving” but on a much larger, more advanced scale. It was, at the time prosperous and seemed to benefit all groups by hiding the true nature of construction, discovery, and inheritance. Every group seemed to have leaders, inheritors, and a majority of the people had no idea what was really going on... It’s quite the spicy concept but I love thinking about it.
Moors my friend
@@corneliusjohnson5963 That's jewish propaganda, created to incite further divide and conflict. There is no definitive proof of this - and most pushing this theory are so combative and hateful it's alarming and scary. The things I've read knocked me for a loop and shocked me.
Native will tell you they stayed away from these people and were like nomads. Research them! They are Beautiful! Like us, they got pulled into all this too. But like us we are all from creator and family
@@FRESHboostersFascinating to think about. One thing for certain is we have certainly been programmed to think of the resent native Americans as savages. Thank John Wayne and television for that.In fact we can blame media for most programming. They always throw us a nugget of truth here and there. Perhaps civilization evolved to the point of a total collective. The Borg you might say. It does seem like the realm is a sort of circuit board. This idea of transhumanism puts us on the verge of making a collective as well. The demonization of these people lead me to a conclusion that they did in fact know something. They were hold outs, somehow. Understanding the implications of technology, and the consequences, they looked upon the magnificent structures and avoided them. These people chose, basically the garden of eden. Simple lives with plenty of resources and love. I'm not buying the savages story. In my mind, I relate it like that. Kind of like the story about the apple. It was from the tree of knowledge. How's that working out for us? Resistance is futile...
Galveston was supposed to be Las Vegas, had heavy Mob presents.
yup, the Maceo brothers. and the downtown area was referred to as “Wall Street of The Southwest”
drug world of 50s n 60s i was told . lots of underworld .. hmmmm well every city has a history . / still like to go . when its healthier n safer . its getting hot out . sit under the boardwalk area .
Yes. Much illegal gambling went on at the Balenese Room with lookouts in case they saw the Texas Rangers coming their way for a raid. The Rat Pack and other great entertainers of the day performed there
At 4:44
New bridge (causeway) on the left, and ancient bridge on the right?!
Jarid, I just wanted to mention that Jon Levi mentioned and suggested your channel and I have to say, I've really enjoyed this video! Especially given that I live in TX and although it's been years since I've been to Galveston it didn't look glorious at all.
I’m starting to think we are living in gods computer haha…