0:01 intro 4:05 lower north Philadelphia 7:33 upper north Philadelphia 10:59 Kensington 14:25 South Philadelphia 18:28 Southwest Philadelphia 22:02 west Philadelphia 25:36 Northwest Philadelphia 29:05 the people 31:38 northeast Philadelphia 32:07 rural northeast Philadelphia 35:45 small town northeast Philadelphia 40:15 urban northeast Philadelphia
Oxford Circle girl here, married a Kensington boy and bought a house in Juniata Park….saved long and hard to move our kids out of Philly and ended up in LancCo….miss the food but not the crime. It’s great to see how Philly used to be…but ya know, rose colored glasses.
From Norwood, the suburbs South Philly. We had family we would visit in Philly. Also moved up to the Lancaster area also (in 1999). I miss real hoagie, cheese steaks, bakeries, etc. Dunkin Donuts and Wawa finally made it up here. At least you can get Amorosa rolls at Wawa. When we first moved up here the whining over began over the rolls. So, family started giving us rolls for Christmas! The woodwork in those homes was beautiful, they do not make houses like they used to back then. Nostalgia is nice but the sense of community that once existed is long gone.
@ yes, the community is what I miss the most. Every kid knew you could go to a neighbor's house if you were locked out( like your mom locked the door?! please)..every mom knew she could get any kid to run to the corner store for cigarettes and bread..etc I swear the bread/ rolls/ pretzels are so good because of the water( or as we say ' wooder')!
Fantastic captivating video. My Mom’s family lived at 1218 South 53rd and Springfield during this time. I was hoping to see their house in your video. We don’t know where they lived prior to that. I will research that. My great great grandfather and mother lived in Philly and was a civil war veteran and a tailor between the end of the war and 1910. We have no records or photos of this Philly house. Like I say, your presentation was captivating, dirt roads and all. Who can imagine unpaved roads in Philly? I think some of the potholes and water mains go deep enough to show the original dirt roads. We need a MAJOR comeback in the Philly!
Our house was 1015 S 51st St just 2 blocks over from yours ! We moved in Aug 1964 to 5661 Springfield Av a beautiful home w L shaped wooden staircase and bay window in back room. That neighborhood has since been destroyed unfortunately.
When I was 10, we spent 3 years within 3 blocks of K&A. Incredible that the housing stock there all dates to this era. Many of these row houses are only 2 bedroom and my mom called them “doll houses” - they were tiny
It would be interesting and sad to see some comparison photos of what these streets and neighborhoods look like in 2023. Thanks for posting this fascinating look at Philly’s past.
10:30 I actually lived on that block of Beechwood St. with my inlaws for 5 months after I married in 1981. End house on the left side of this photo. This made me smile.
As a born and raised Irish Catholic from Kensington where I used to be forced by my hypocritical parents to attend mass on every Sunday but not once did either of them ever step foot in the Ascension of our Lord Church unless it was for a wedding, funeral, or one of us kids were making a sacrament. I remember being to scared to just go to the playground and watch the Sunday softball games because my mom would grill me about the mass , hinting that she may of been there . This went on until I turned 12 and I was still pretending to go to the service but I would go and either play the video games at the water ice and candy store on E and Westmoreland which was risky because my grand parents and uncle lived on opposite ends of Cornwall street. Finally when I made my confirmation that was it no more church for me or being forced to go.
When I look at old photos of Philadelphia and compare them to today, I feel like Charlston Heston when he sees the half-buried Statue of Liberty and cries how it was all destroyed.
Excellent presentation on the City of Brotherly Love. I really enjoyed watching this! I own one of Mr. Minardi's books - the one on the architecture of West Philadelphia. I think Mr. Minardi is a real treasure when it comes to Philly history.
I grew up in NE Philly and loved it. My grandparents’ house on Valley St. was between Bridge and Cheltenham Aves. Safe and happy neighborhood with a ton of kids to play with. Best years of my childhood.
Grew up a few blocks away at Cheltenham Ave & Walker St. Used to.play in Valley spark playground & Wissinoming Park. My two brothers still live there ..
I wonder who's responsible for the steady decline of the once nice area of Northeast Philadelphia? There's so many things wrong, I can't possibly list them all here.
@@garbo8962I'm not a fan of Northeast Phila anymore, I've been here since the 80s, lately its been going downhill fast, the whole city has. Maybe your brother and I could start a support group? Haha I can't imagine he likes here anymore either..
@@davidgradwell8830 No, it’s 48th and Springfield. I’ve been there many times. I know the owners, the Cernanskys, very well. They’ve been there since 1999.
I'm literally looking at the Castle at 48th Springfield Ave as we speak. This neighborhood as well as the Castle is still meticulously maintained. The home to the left of the castle (not pictured) is just as breathtaking.
This was awesome to see. I was born and raised in Northeast Philly. Crazy to see what so many streets in my general area used to look like. Many of which I still drive through all the time. It's also wild to see some of the neighborhoods that are essentially slums now like Kensington in their prime. Never thought I'd see that place so clean.
Same in Baltimore Maryland which was almost as great as Philly. Like free housing if you hang on to it and makes the rest of us want to jump off a cliff from the prices today.😄🌿
Oh man...When I was six growing up around 58th and Baltimore I remember in the 70’s going to Cookie’s store where I’d by bread, chopped pressed ham and cigarettes for my dad! Amazing to see that building’s first days with the balustrades and fancy eves all intact. The bank across the street is Colonial Revival as well I think, my mom used to have an account there. A little ways down there was an amazing old church where a KFC stands now. I kept our Colonial Revival house original and beautifully restored for a long time until lightning struck one day and the 100+ year old plaster columns and eves were pulverized.
The streets in North Philly were so narrow because people didn't have cars in mind possibly? This video presentation is incredible. I used to walk pass 6th and Olney daily as a teen
The street I grew up on was just wide enough for 2 cars - one parked and the other for moving traffic. It was not a through street so there really wasn't much traffic. We could play in the street with little fear.
Very enjoyable presentation. Lifelong Philly resident here and many of the photos from the Northeast chapter were taken near places I have lived or done business in. Thanks for posting!
I love this video and I love jazz...but that song started driving me crazy over and over again😖😂😂...nice history lesson. I finished watching with the volume down very low🤣💖
Great job Joe …I had my iPhone with me while watching this video ..then would use google earth to find the street address you used to juxtapose past and present …pretty cool
looking for this comment. yea it was nice at first but the loop is way too short and the little coda section made it painfully obvious every time it looped.
very good loved the full run down of all areas and even the architectures name! I have the hardest times finding those even in the free library archives! crazy to see how things have stayed the same but yet so much has advanced and improved. i will forever say spruce hill and west philly is one of the nicest areas of any city anywhere.
What a fantastic presentation! I live in a twin in West Philly and I've been looking for a good source of photos, where could someone access your collection or see similar collections?
33:40 you got the streets wrong. the Red Lion Inn stood in Andalusia and was called Bristol pike but in Philly is called Frankford Ave or was called Kings Highway back in the day. I grew up around the corner and so happens my neighbor Bobby Jones burned the Red Lion Inn down smoking crack in there. Was where weary travelers would stop before entering the city. Was not Bustleton and County Line. Andalusia borders the city and is part of Bensalem.
Had my 8th grade graduation dinner at the Red Lion Inn 2 years before it burnt down. We lived a few blocks down Frankford Ave accords from Holy Family College (University) back then.
What beautiful homes they were at one time. What a shame they all didn’t stay that way. My moms family lived in the Fairhill section for about one hundred years and, no one ever mentions that area with its history. How about mansion row on north Broad street. Jacqueline Beauvoir(? Spelling)Kennedy’s Grand father owned one of them.
I don't mind the piano..yes its repetitive but the narrator does a great job to take my kind off it..Very informative and Interesting 🤔..❤ Philly Architecture ❤.
That's exactly what i said. Amazing that all of that was "built" the same time all of the other places were "built" in all of the other cities just in the U.S. alone - let alone the rest of the world - and that is just the row homes; no mention of all of the grandiose buildings, "churches," and "forts" that were "built" around that very same time. I don't know how people don't see that there is something REALLY funky going on with "history."
@victornieves1794 I'm smoking the same thing you are if you want people to believe that all of philly was built out as time went by. Do you research on the centennial fair, city hall, St Peter's basilica, The main free library building, The art museum, the list goes on. It fact I work in city hall for years trust me it's older than they say and there's more underground as well. But we can disagree if you like it's ok. Have a nice day✌️
The city became what it is today, geographically, in 1854 when city and county became one. The video talks about the it If I'm remembering correctly, before that Baltimore was bigger.
those retractable awnings(?) must've been integral design-wise...or had it just been a matter of patiently waiting for the tree canopy to become lofty enough to fend off midday's scorching sun rays?
The most noticeable thing for me was the lack of cars on the streets. And the lack of men! The photographer probably came through in the middle of the day when they were all at work.
I like historical history, especially old Philadelphia scene I was born there,but I must admit I was disappointed with the photography,wanted to see clear pictures of our pass,but thanks for your efforts to show Philadelphia historical pass.
This was interesting. Could have done without the loud background piano though. When I was young we lived in a twin in Northeast Philly. And all my grandparents and cousins lived throughout Philly too. Our families are mostly moved out into the suburbs now.
Horrified, most likely. "Gadzooks! That fella is slumped over on the elevated train and yet somehow doesn't fall over! And what's with all these jerry-manderers dressed like ladies?!?!" And what in tarnation is a 'pronoun?!'"
This was so awesome. I grew up in Northeast Philly around Frankford Ave and Grant Ave. Was this area in any kind of development back then? Grew up by Eden Hall where there was a all girls Catholic school. If there is any additional information you have on this area I would love to here about it. Like I said earlier this was awesome!!!!!!
Ive lived in one. the bay gives you a nice bright upstairs front room if you dont make it the master bedroom. Before air conditioning the porch was a godsend.
So do I. Only took me 40 years to find out that the " Mayfair Diner " is in Holmesburg. North border of May fair is Cottman Avenue. . Up by Saint Dominics it was called something like Penny Pack Garden back in the 1960's.
No!!! These people had to deal with infectious diseases like TB or diptheria. Kids died of measles. Or even typhoid fever. Please don't romantisize the past.
Aren't these posed photos? Cleaned up for the photographer. 😂 As you can see there are few photos with horses. Horse excrement was all over the place though.
I have a lot of questions when it comes to the true history of this country! If you take a really good look at many of these photos you can see the flaws. How are the people transparent and out of place. How convenient that everyone arrives for pictures. How were so many buildings and houses built with horse and buggy. Paved sidewalks but not streets? My grandparents told me of stories how the cobblestone streets were torn up and the brick was used to build factories during the industrial revolution and that this city was established before people came in masses. There is some sort of detachment that took place.
they werent though? this video was just covering a specific time frame. my neighborhood was built in the 1920s and 30s. a few blocks away wasnt developed until the 1950s-60s. And of course there were houses around before the time covered in this video, but houses dont stand forever, especially when they get neglected as philly houses so often have in the last 60 years.
Amazing how clean and orderly everything was, particularly, in North Philadelphia before the population began to “change” in the 1960’s. The 2200 block of Lehigh avenue shown in this video is a far cry from what it has devolved into today. Similar for most of the rest of the city as well.
I appreciate your efforts, showing the historical pass of Philadelphia,but was disappointed because there are actual videos not photos that should be explore
0:01 intro
4:05 lower north Philadelphia
7:33 upper north Philadelphia
10:59 Kensington
14:25 South Philadelphia
18:28 Southwest Philadelphia
22:02 west Philadelphia
25:36 Northwest Philadelphia
29:05 the people
31:38 northeast Philadelphia
32:07 rural northeast Philadelphia
35:45 small town northeast Philadelphia
40:15 urban northeast Philadelphia
Best comment right here☝️💯
@@shuyinglin8413 Upper North Philly: Strawberry Mansion
Thank you for time-stamping this 👍🏻🥳
Oxford Circle girl here, married a Kensington boy and bought a house in Juniata Park….saved long and hard to move our kids out of Philly and ended up in LancCo….miss the food but not the crime. It’s great to see how Philly used to be…but ya know, rose colored glasses.
From Norwood, the suburbs South Philly. We had family we would visit in Philly. Also moved up to the Lancaster area also (in 1999). I miss real hoagie, cheese steaks, bakeries, etc. Dunkin Donuts and Wawa finally made it up here. At least you can get Amorosa rolls at Wawa. When we first moved up here the whining over began over the rolls. So, family started giving us rolls for Christmas!
The woodwork in those homes was beautiful, they do not make houses like they used to back then. Nostalgia is nice but the sense of community that once existed is long gone.
@ yes, the community is what I miss the most. Every kid knew you could go to a neighbor's house if you were locked out( like your mom locked the door?! please)..every mom knew she could get any kid to run to the corner store for cigarettes and bread..etc I swear the bread/ rolls/ pretzels are so good because of the water( or as we say ' wooder')!
Love the history and architecture of the neighborhoods and housing of Philadelphia!
Fantastic captivating video. My Mom’s family lived at 1218 South 53rd and Springfield during this time. I was hoping to see their house in your video. We don’t know where they lived prior to that. I will research that. My great great grandfather and mother lived in Philly and was a civil war veteran and a tailor between the end of the war and 1910. We have no records or photos of this Philly house. Like I say, your presentation was captivating, dirt roads and all. Who can imagine unpaved roads in Philly? I think some of the potholes and water mains go deep enough to show the original dirt roads. We need a MAJOR comeback in the Philly!
Our house was 1015 S 51st St just 2 blocks over from yours ! We moved in Aug 1964 to 5661 Springfield Av a beautiful home w L shaped wooden staircase and bay window in back room. That neighborhood has since been destroyed unfortunately.
It's coming back.@@edlesage5912
When I was 10, we spent 3 years within 3 blocks of K&A. Incredible that the housing stock there all dates to this era. Many of these row houses are only 2 bedroom and my mom called them “doll houses” - they were tiny
It would be interesting and sad to see some comparison photos of what these streets and neighborhoods look like in 2023. Thanks for posting this fascinating look at Philly’s past.
Yep, very sad to see what they've become.
Right gentrified
I paused the video and looked on Google maps at what these houses have now become, it’s a sad sight...
The old pix are when the area and homes were new. Now many of the homes in these areas are old and worn out. Nothing lasts forever
@@mrjsanchez1 Google Maps
10:30 I actually lived on that block of Beechwood St. with my inlaws for 5 months after I married in 1981. End house on the left side of this photo. This made me smile.
Knew a family on Beechwood
As a born and raised Irish Catholic from Kensington where I used to be forced by my hypocritical parents to attend mass on every Sunday but not once did either of them ever step foot in the Ascension of our Lord Church unless it was for a wedding, funeral, or one of us kids were making a sacrament. I remember being to scared to just go to the playground and watch the Sunday softball games because my mom would grill me about the mass , hinting that she may of been there . This went on until I turned 12 and I was still pretending to go to the service but I would go and either play the video games at the water ice and candy store on E and Westmoreland which was risky because my grand parents and uncle lived on opposite ends of Cornwall street. Finally when I made my confirmation that was it no more church for me or being forced to go.
Good for you 👍🙂
When i see people in these old photos; i can't help but to think they've long gone off into Eternity.
When I look at old photos of Philadelphia and compare them to today, I feel like Charlston Heston when he sees the half-buried Statue of Liberty and cries how it was all destroyed.
Excellent presentation on the City of Brotherly Love. I really enjoyed watching this! I own one of Mr. Minardi's books - the one on the architecture of West Philadelphia. I think Mr. Minardi is a real treasure when it comes to Philly history.
I grew up in NE Philly and loved it. My grandparents’ house on Valley St. was between Bridge and Cheltenham Aves. Safe and happy neighborhood with a ton of kids to play with. Best years of my childhood.
Grew up a few blocks away at Cheltenham Ave & Walker St. Used to.play in Valley spark playground & Wissinoming Park. My two brothers still live there ..
Grew up a few blocks from there in the 1960's. Used to.play in Valley Park playground & Wissinoming Park. My brother still lives there.
I wonder who's responsible for the steady decline of the once nice area of Northeast Philadelphia? There's so many things wrong, I can't possibly list them all here.
@@garbo8962I'm not a fan of Northeast Phila anymore, I've been here since the 80s, lately its been going downhill fast, the whole city has. Maybe your brother and I could start a support group? Haha I can't imagine he likes here anymore either..
Absolutely phenomenal!!! REALLY impressive knowledge of architects AND builders!
The Castle is located at 48th Street and Warrington Avenue. I know; I lived five doors away from it from 1982-2018.
@@davidgradwell8830 No, it’s 48th and Springfield. I’ve been there many times. I know the owners, the Cernanskys, very well. They’ve been there since 1999.
@@Swinefeld Thank you! :)
I'm literally looking at the Castle at 48th Springfield Ave as we speak. This neighborhood as well as the Castle is still meticulously maintained. The home to the left of the castle (not pictured) is just as breathtaking.
This was awesome to see. I was born and raised in Northeast Philly. Crazy to see what so many streets in my general area used to look like. Many of which I still drive through all the time. It's also wild to see some of the neighborhoods that are essentially slums now like Kensington in their prime. Never thought I'd see that place so clean.
Born in Philadelphia. Wow imagine getting a house now for four thousand dollars and most of the houses are still the same built. cool video.
Shit my pop in the mid 80s bought 3 houses in Kenzo for 8 thousand a pop. And we lived in overlook section of west
Same in Baltimore Maryland which was almost as great as Philly. Like free housing if you hang on to it and makes the rest of us want to jump off a cliff from the prices today.😄🌿
@@greggsiano5920 8grand …can’t be mad at that either 👍🏽…What a time it was right? We pay for the things that are essential to our nature..
@@MegaLivingIt my father grew up in a very big house in Maryland
@@greggsiano5920smart man
Love this! Thank you for creating!
Being a native of North Philadelphia. I like this video of the history of the city I never about. I found the video very interesting and informative.
Fascinating! Grew up in East Falls.
Oh man...When I was six growing up around 58th and Baltimore I remember in the 70’s going to Cookie’s store where I’d by bread, chopped pressed ham and cigarettes for my dad! Amazing to see that building’s first days with the balustrades and fancy eves all intact. The bank across the street is Colonial Revival as well I think, my mom used to have an account there. A little ways down there was an amazing old church where a KFC stands now. I kept our Colonial Revival house original and beautifully restored for a long time until lightning struck one day and the 100+ year old plaster columns and eves were pulverized.
My grandmom was born in West Philly on 56th and Catherine in 1915,she lived until 2007
Amazing history!!! Thank you
The streets in North Philly were so narrow because people didn't have cars in mind possibly? This video presentation is incredible. I used to walk pass 6th and Olney daily as a teen
The street I grew up on was just wide enough for 2 cars - one parked and the other for moving traffic. It was not a through street so there really wasn't much traffic. We could play in the street with little fear.
Very enjoyable presentation. Lifelong Philly resident here and many of the photos from the Northeast chapter were taken near places I have lived or done business in. Thanks for posting!
Yep my family came from there. I always admire the architect of those homes.
Enjoyed this video, and looked up the addresses. Several are still there, including the castle house at 48th and Springfield.
Yep! One of my most favorite houses in Philly.
Love this, Joe! Nice job!!
I love this video and I love jazz...but that song started driving me crazy over and over again😖😂😂...nice history lesson. I finished watching with the volume down very low🤣💖
that picture of paxton street showed my duplex at the end of the street. i grew up in the two story dwelling.. WOW!
I love the photos and history, but the music on repeat about did me in.
Great job Joe …I had my iPhone with me while watching this video ..then would use google earth to find the street address you used to juxtapose past and present …pretty cool
Nice presentation. Could have done without that music however
I don't mind it
looking for this comment. yea it was nice at first but the loop is way too short and the little coda section made it painfully obvious every time it looped.
Really! Or at least change tunes. I was starting to go stir crazy. Cool video though.
Amazing video. I truly appreciate this.
@@athay14 I’m glad you enjoyed the video.
It’s crazy I would love to see Kensington now and then
Fishtown is thriving. Kensington is not.
Would you?
Great Video Joe! Proud of you, my fellow St Monica’s friend!
very good loved the full run down of all areas and even the architectures name! I have the hardest times finding those even in the free library archives! crazy to see how things have stayed the same but yet so much has advanced and improved. i will forever say spruce hill and west philly is one of the nicest areas of any city anywhere.
Great video grew up in NE Philly love that piano 😅😅😅
Great research and details. Thanks for your effort.
As a Philly Native, I found this interesting. Didn't think I would finish the whole video but I did. Boy if you could see us now 😏
Beautiful Architecture in Philly the town i grew up in and my Grandparents were early teens at tbis time Originally from Jefferson st Brewrytown
I hearing that song in my sleep now! Anyway, great video.
This was excellent Joseph!
What a fantastic presentation! I live in a twin in West Philly and I've been looking for a good source of photos, where could someone access your collection or see similar collections?
33:40 you got the streets wrong. the Red Lion Inn stood in Andalusia and was called Bristol pike but in Philly is called Frankford Ave or was called Kings Highway back in the day. I grew up around the corner and so happens my neighbor Bobby Jones burned the Red Lion Inn down smoking crack in there. Was where weary travelers would stop before entering the city. Was not Bustleton and County Line. Andalusia borders the city and is part of Bensalem.
Bob Jones urban renewal yikes!
Had my 8th grade graduation dinner at the Red Lion Inn 2 years before it burnt down. We lived a few blocks down Frankford Ave accords from Holy Family College (University) back then.
@@frankcasey7423 I am a Morrell Park guy. My parents bought the house for $9,900 with a $99 depsit.
I'm going tomorrow and check All this places in person and compair
Wow really cool! Much nicer back then - sad to see how today it is destroyed
Thank you!!
i love front porch's and bay windows
Awesome video makes me wish I can go back into that era
19:33 my great grandfather owned a cornerstore bar at 58th and Market in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s
I've always found it interesting that there was a "corner" store on almost every street.
What beautiful homes they were at one time. What a shame they all didn’t stay that way.
My moms family lived in the Fairhill section for about one hundred years and, no one ever mentions that area with its history.
How about mansion row on north Broad street. Jacqueline Beauvoir(? Spelling)Kennedy’s Grand father owned one of them.
I don't mind the piano..yes its repetitive but the narrator does a great job to take my kind off it..Very informative and Interesting 🤔..❤ Philly Architecture ❤.
So between the years 1890 & 1910 the population grew. Who was here in Philadelphia to build out the entire city before all the people arrived?
Mr. Star Fort? and Bob Jones.
That's exactly what i said. Amazing that all of that was "built" the same time all of the other places were "built" in all of the other cities just in the U.S. alone - let alone the rest of the world - and that is just the row homes; no mention of all of the grandiose buildings, "churches," and "forts" that were "built" around that very same time. I don't know how people don't see that there is something REALLY funky going on with "history."
@victornieves1794 I'm smoking the same thing you are if you want people to believe that all of philly was built out as time went by. Do you research on the centennial fair, city hall, St Peter's basilica, The main free library building, The art museum, the list goes on. It fact I work in city hall for years trust me it's older than they say and there's more underground as well. But we can disagree if you like it's ok. Have a nice day✌️
The city became what it is today, geographically, in 1854 when city and county became one. The video talks about the it
If I'm remembering correctly, before that Baltimore was bigger.
@victornieves1794I'm smoking the same thing you are you think your weak explanation makes it so I think not. Doesn't add up to me sorry try again....
130,000 not 130 house built during that period you mentioned
1901 was Open Boarders T.R. time, adios McKinley!
Born in the old Broad Street Receiving Hospital. Lived at 60th and Lansdowne and 47th and Sansom😊.
Nice
These houses are still up to this day.
those retractable awnings(?) must've been integral design-wise...or had it just been a matter of patiently waiting for the tree canopy to become lofty enough to fend off midday's scorching sun rays?
The music is too loud. Audio is just as important as video.
THANK you. For this video I very much enjoyed and you can put me on your list of fans. Thank you again.......... ROBBIE PHILADELPHIA PA FISHTOWN
There are LOTS of still photos of PHL. But no one was making films like was happening in other cities? That's what I want to see.
Super cool
Those houses are still there, but no one took care of them and they’re falling down
@@justred5164 certainly not all of them. Many houses are in fine condition today.
And no one dares go into those neighborhoods anymore.
The most noticeable thing for me was the lack of cars on the streets. And the lack of men! The photographer probably came through in the middle of the day when they were all at work.
Yeah, ok !! They took from the people the put out of those homes. And they messed them up.
Could go by 8th and Somerset?
I like historical history, especially old Philadelphia scene I was born there,but I must admit I was disappointed with the photography,wanted to see clear pictures of our pass,but thanks for your efforts to show Philadelphia historical pass.
I live up the street from “the castle” on Springfield Avenue… thank you for this video! This is amazing!
job well done.
This was interesting. Could have done without the loud background piano though. When I was young we lived in a twin in Northeast Philly. And all my grandparents and cousins lived throughout Philly too. Our families are mostly moved out into the suburbs now.
What would the people of then think about Philly now?! 🤔
They’re dead. Doesn’t matter
A shit hole now
They would probably look around at all the low life's that destroyed their beautiful city and figure it out pretty fast!
Horrified, most likely. "Gadzooks! That fella is slumped over on the elevated train and yet somehow doesn't fall over! And what's with all these jerry-manderers dressed like ladies?!?!" And what in tarnation is a 'pronoun?!'"
They would quickly recognize the 40/99 problem that plagues Philly, but we are not allowed to notice.
This was so awesome. I grew up in Northeast Philly around Frankford Ave and Grant Ave. Was this area in any kind of development back then? Grew up by Eden Hall where there was a all girls Catholic school. If there is any additional information you have on this area I would love to here about it. Like I said earlier this was awesome!!!!!!
I wouldn't fancy bay porches for darkening the front room like they must
Ive lived in one. the bay gives you a nice bright upstairs front room if you dont make it the master bedroom. Before air conditioning the porch was a godsend.
People back then would be in disbelief of what is going on in the city now, this is from a Philly girl.
Do you mean north Roosevelt Blvd? Not north of...?
hank you Joseph
The long homes been around way longer than that but continue.
I live in Holmesburg ❤
So do I. Only took me 40 years to find out that the " Mayfair Diner " is in Holmesburg. North border of May fair is Cottman Avenue. . Up by Saint Dominics it was called something like Penny Pack Garden back in the 1960's.
Sounds like Mr.Rogers neighborhood 😮
Piano just distorts the video and annoying!
I would love to go back in time to the Edwardian Age if only for a day. It would have been fun. 🤩
Yikes 😮
No!!! These people had to deal with infectious diseases like TB or diptheria. Kids died of measles. Or even typhoid fever.
Please don't romantisize the past.
wow, how clean the city was back then,...not like now
Well, they didn’t live in a throw away society like we do now.
Aren't these posed photos? Cleaned up for the photographer. 😂
As you can see there are few photos with horses. Horse excrement was all over the place though.
Paxon street. how beautiful neighborhood for 1905.
I agree. Change the music. It’s monotonous. Ruins it.
play: Death in June.
Very interesting but very slow transfer between scenes takes way too long speed it up
I have a lot of questions when it comes to the true history of this country! If you take a really good look at many of these photos you can see the flaws. How are the people transparent and out of place. How convenient that everyone arrives for pictures. How were so many buildings and houses built with horse and buggy. Paved sidewalks but not streets? My grandparents told me of stories how the cobblestone streets were torn up and the brick was used to build factories during the industrial revolution and that this city was established before people came in masses. There is some sort of detachment that took place.
Is that piano really needed?
MFL Bridge street to 69th street changed everything.
Area around Temple U making comeback
I quite agree. The information and pictures were magnificent, but the replaying of the music over and over and over again made it unwatchable,
I find it suspicios that all houses in Philadelphia were built at the same time frame.
they werent though? this video was just covering a specific time frame. my neighborhood was built in the 1920s and 30s. a few blocks away wasnt developed until the 1950s-60s. And of course there were houses around before the time covered in this video, but houses dont stand forever, especially when they get neglected as philly houses so often have in the last 60 years.
Amazing how clean and orderly everything was, particularly, in North Philadelphia before the population began to “change” in the 1960’s. The 2200 block of Lehigh avenue shown in this video is a far cry from what it has devolved into today. Similar for most of the rest of the city as well.
Well white flight happened. Black middle class flight happened. Poorer people were left.
😂😂It's not most of the city.
What a sane, livable city back then. Now neglected and rejected.
I put the subtitles in and cut the sound
Love the pictures and script. The music was repetitive and distracting--too loud.
I appreciate your efforts, showing the historical pass of Philadelphia,but was disappointed because there are actual videos not photos that should be explore
and less then a hundred years it all went to shit because of you know who! 😢
Anyone see any trash in any of these pictures?
No, they cared about where they lived.
It was beautiful until certain garbage moved in😢
Who's the garbage?
@@ladyc659Duh..... open your eyes and smell the coffee 😂
He music is too loud and hard to listen to!
Interesting, but you can lose the monotonous, distracting background music!
Such beautiful homes back then. Now rundown drug areas .