*BACK IN 1990, WHEN MY LATE HUSBAND AND I LIVED IN PORT ANGLES WASHINGTON, WE WOULD PACK UP THE CAR AND MAKE A DAY OF IT DRIVING TO PORT TOWNSEND, TO A USED BOOK STORE THERE, THAT THE MAJORITY OF IT WAS ON PILELONS OVER THE WATER.* *IT WAS SUCH A SOOTHING CALM PLACE TO WANDER AMONG THE BOOKS ALL THE WHILE HEARING THE SLOSHING OF THE WAVES UNDERNEATH THE STORE*
Quietest military base I ever worked at was there on Indian Island. Stayed at an old brewery or cannery there for a day in a circular room with clown dolls sitting above and around the bottom of the roof, pretty eerie. Wanted to check that place out more but ended up staying in Silverdale for the rest of the time I worked there. Heard the Rothschilds had a place there.
The whole tip of that peninsula his huge underground bunkers and tunnels as wide as a man to walk through all throughout. I was able to gain access to many underground areas up to 4 stories below 👇🏽. Many of the huge concrete bunkers and GIANT artillery turrets allegedly dated around 1898-1920!
I used to live in nearby Quilcene and Sequim back in the 90s. If I recall correctly, there were many brothels and bars in Port Townsend back in the day with the sailors coming into the port. I recall reading about original plan to become THE major port and city for the Pacific Northwest. Fort Worden Historical State Park - Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum is close by and was the filming location for "An Officer and A Gentleman". The fort was used to protect Puget Sound from naval invasion back in the day.
Wow! I was led to your channel from Mind Unveiled! I managed the paint store there for a decade and was able to walk ALL the OLD WORLD stuff pre-renovation. That fountain is INSANE. Port Townsend was supposed to be the large West Coast Port City, but then the railroad people decided to build inland from Tacoma and all of the decadent rich fled Port Townsend for Seattle leaving all of the buildings to decay and never to be renovated until today!
Port Townsend had some really loft ambitions, including as a major freight hub, connecting the port with a speculated railway for shipping and long distance travel. The post office was built to handle all customs business. The railway pulled out in 1893, and the town never really recovered.
Great video sharing the old world history of Port Townsend! As a special note, the picture shown at 10:19 is the Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, BC, across the water, built in 1890 by coal baron Robert Dunsmuir. Look forward to your future videos.
Port Townsend is indeed still a small town! It quite charming!! So charming, that the ornations of the building mirror that of old Europe and Old Australia, and Old Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Charleston. And you mean to tell me that a population of 4k, at most, built those buildings out there?!! Especially the court house and the post office?!! HA!! I think not!! Majority of these types of old photos also show muddy streets and no construction photos (and I mean progession photos).
a guy on Instagram posted a story about the town. He said the military where building fortifications and tunnels there He said Worker stumbled on a cave, and the workers that were working there ended up missing, and they were never found so they boarded up the cave some years later two man went there to investigate and told the story of what they found the guy on Instagram he sad he would put part two, but he never did, so. I wonder if the story is true
It’s one thing if all the big ones were built around the same time but once u search each individual structure and see each one built within the same four year span….. so…. Every single building is exactly the same age lol it’s nuts what they expect us to believe
Jon Levi got me on the pathe to old world research!
We live here in Port Townsend. It's a wonderful little town (as long as we can keep CA out of it!)
I grew up in Port Townsend. It hasn't changed much between when those old pictures where taken and now.
*BACK IN 1990, WHEN MY LATE HUSBAND AND I LIVED IN PORT ANGLES WASHINGTON, WE WOULD PACK UP THE CAR AND MAKE A DAY OF IT DRIVING TO PORT TOWNSEND, TO A USED BOOK STORE THERE, THAT THE MAJORITY OF IT WAS ON PILELONS OVER THE WATER.*
*IT WAS SUCH A SOOTHING CALM PLACE TO WANDER AMONG THE BOOKS ALL THE WHILE HEARING THE SLOSHING OF THE WAVES UNDERNEATH THE STORE*
Quietest military base I ever worked at was there on Indian Island. Stayed at an old brewery or cannery there for a day in a circular room with clown dolls sitting above and around the bottom of the roof, pretty eerie. Wanted to check that place out more but ended up staying in Silverdale for the rest of the time I worked there. Heard the Rothschilds had a place there.
The whole tip of that peninsula his huge underground bunkers and tunnels as wide as a man to walk through all throughout. I was able to gain access to many underground areas up to 4 stories below 👇🏽. Many of the huge concrete bunkers and GIANT artillery turrets allegedly dated around 1898-1920!
I used to live in nearby Quilcene and Sequim back in the 90s. If I recall correctly, there were many brothels and bars in Port Townsend back in the day with the sailors coming into the port. I recall reading about original plan to become THE major port and city for the Pacific Northwest.
Fort Worden Historical State Park - Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum is close by and was the filming location for "An Officer and A Gentleman". The fort was used to protect Puget Sound from naval invasion back in the day.
Wow! I was led to your channel from Mind Unveiled! I managed the paint store there for a decade and was able to walk ALL the OLD WORLD stuff pre-renovation. That fountain is INSANE. Port Townsend was supposed to be the large West Coast Port City, but then the railroad people decided to build inland from Tacoma and all of the decadent rich fled Port Townsend for Seattle leaving all of the buildings to decay and never to be renovated until today!
Thank you for the vid. Very interesting for a small town!
Port Townsend had some really loft ambitions, including as a major freight hub, connecting the port with a speculated railway for shipping and long distance travel. The post office was built to handle all customs business. The railway pulled out in 1893, and the town never really recovered.
Great video 🙏That courthouse is spectacular ❣️
Great video sharing the old world history of Port Townsend! As a special note, the picture shown at 10:19 is the Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, BC, across the water, built in 1890 by coal baron Robert Dunsmuir. Look forward to your future videos.
Thanks for catching that. Can't believe I missed it. I was in Victoria last year. Thanks for watching..
Port Townsend is indeed still a small town! It quite charming!! So charming, that the ornations of the building mirror that of old Europe and Old Australia, and Old Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Charleston. And you mean to tell me that a population of 4k, at most, built those buildings out there?!! Especially the court house and the post office?!! HA!! I think not!! Majority of these types of old photos also show muddy streets and no construction photos (and I mean progession photos).
Why would such a small town need such an enormous court house? That in and of itself is odd to me.
You should check out Marvelous Old World he's an architect did a 3 part series on PT really fascinating.
a guy on Instagram posted a story about the town. He said the military where building fortifications and tunnels there He said Worker stumbled on a cave, and the workers that were working there ended up missing, and they were never found so they boarded up the cave some years later two man went there to investigate and told the story of what they found the guy on Instagram he sad he would put part two, but he never did, so. I wonder if the story is true
It’s one thing if all the big ones were built around the same time but once u search each individual structure and see each one built within the same four year span….. so…. Every single building is exactly the same age lol it’s nuts what they expect us to believe
Hey man wen you zoomed in on the map on google for porttownsend in washington. I saw the camano island there I live on
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