Exploring an Abandoned 1980's Radio Station Inside Historic Mansion (Everything Left Behind)
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Last occupied over 20 years, this home still has so much left behind from its past. To start, it was built in the 1860s and showcases a spiral staircase standing 4 stories tall. The eventual new owner purchased the home to live inside of, as well work. Inside the mansion includes a radio station, a dentist office and all of the living quarters. It's suspected that the ma who owned these businesses and the house passed away and didn't leave the place for anyone. so now it rots with time. if you guys enjoy, leave a thumbs up and consider subscribing for more exploring abandoned videos :)
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I can absolutely smell those vintage electronics in my mind. They deserve to be in a museum.
I couldnt have said that any better and I agree and those amps especialy reminds me of a video on an old from 50s or earlier drive in theatre they showed the projection room and there was a cabinet in there with the high top vaccum tubes and amps probly for the theatre sound out to the cars and the place was torn down not long after the video I rember one comment saying shame those probly got trashed and lost
Or refurbished and reused.
I don’t believe that’s a radio station. I worked in radio for 16 years. There would have been a mixing board, cart machines (carts), and turntables. There would also be audio processing equipment such as compressors/limiters. I also do not see any sign of a transmitter. He probably collected music and made copies onto reel to reel and cassettes. On the shelf with the reel to reel tapes, the top shelf with the round green metal cans are probably 8mm home movies.
Agreed, if it was a station it would have all kinds of branded stuff and music posters all over the walls, also the mic appears to be old consumer grade - that said, it is still one cool setup. Those decks look like Teac A2340s (headstack covers taken off). Gentleman seemed to have time and resources to do what he liked, so more power to him! This was a great look at a once-beautiful property, that could/should be beautiful again.
I don't know. There's a rack of carts, but no sign of a cart machine. The library strikes me as a bit thin for a radio station. It's possible he just liked playing radio and ran a low power operation.
@@ChrisMezzolesta Probably made loadsamoney as a dentist & could afford to retire very early for a nice long retirement at the mixing desk
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Long time broadcaster and ham radio operator here and I also agree with Michael's assesment of the "radio" room. Not only does there not appear to be a mixing board and I see no evidence of RF transmitting equipment, feedlines, or antennas. My best guess is that the good Doctor might have been putting together some type of weekly program that he recorded on reel to reel tapes, and delivered to a radio station where you are located. Back in the day it was not uncommon for radio stations to air such speciality programs. The analog days quilivant of a "Podcast". Nice video!
Seen this one before. House has a strange set up, strange downstairs apartment. The dental equipment is older than 80’s because I worked as a dental assistant in the 80’s.
I was thinking that. Is that an old drill on the left or an old X-Ray machine?
@@harrycallahan3391 if you are talking about the box with the 2 meters that says Ritter, that's an dental x-ray machine-the top arm with the plastic cone on it is the X-ray head-the cone is what the dentist placed against your face, with the film pack placed inside your mouth.
Those machines are quite old-(50's/60's)-maybe even slightly older?
@@m.k.8158 - Yeah, that's the one. Thanks for the info pal.. 👍
the downstairs apartment was probably a waiting room now that I'm thinking about it
50s or 60s I think
Dental equipment is late 1950's gear. Radio room gear looks mid to late 60's with the tape deck likely late 70's ish. Tape is likely something a university museum may take in depending on the condition. Kitchens appliances look updated in the 70'swith the up stairs kitchen oven likely being purchased sometime in the 60's. Interesting house. I hate seeing old family photo's with no home.
That house looks like it would have been very fun to live in back in the day. There are lots of stuff to do there, also expensive equipment. A lot of that stuff is probably worth money, especially the reel to reel tape📼 player, dentist equipment ETC...... This was a fantastic find, excellent job and thank you.
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some good stuff i would load it up and take it home the vintage tv and radio equipment
I can't say enough about that winding staircase!! Absolutely stunning!! What a beautiful home and so much of it should be in a museum. Great explore, thanks guys :o)
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I agree thats an amazing feat of building and you wont find that in any type of housing today built to last like that either
I’ve always appreciated how you show respect to peoples property
Same here. It would be so tempting to take stuff out of there, instead of leaving it to decay. At least, that's what I'm sure I would tell myself.
Young Devin is like the dental equipment is from the 80's 90's lol @4:57 more like the 60's early 70's.
I was just going to say that!!!!!
Yep, I was thinking the same!
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Turns out it's from 1946 were thereabouts
Motorola, Magnavox, RCA, and, my grandfather's choice, Zenith, were all big-time TV manufacturers back in the 1960s on. TVs were pieces of furniture, even bigger if you bought an "entertainment center," which included a "tuner" (AM/FM stereo) and a turntable. Those were massive. You had some cash if you had one of those.
Actually, some people in and near big cities had TV sets in their home in the 1940.s. Really became popular in the 1950's,then color TV came in the 1960's.....
@@charliechristie2949 RCA started selling their CT100, with the CTC2 chassis in 1954. It had the 21" round CRT.
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The first TV that I can remember was a portable Zenith about 18 in wide and about 24 in deep and it took two grown men to move it. My dad use to use the tube tester down at drugstore. We moved into that house in 1958, but the TV could have been older.
@@michaelterrell I know. They played "catch up" with Zenith. Remember TV was first shown to the public at the 1939 Worlds Fair !
Just waking up, drinking coffee, and enjoying this new episode? Film? Idk what you call them, I'm old, but I absolutely love your channel! You are the best, imho!
So glad I found this channel , nice to see young people interested in the past 🙂
Good job! I was eyeing the brown and gold Corningware casserole dishes in the kitchen with the clean fridge. Many of us own Corningware handed down through the familyfrom our mothers and grandmothers. Vintage consignment shops have them too. Never saw it in that color before. I always enjoy your films. Keep up the good work!
i was too!! love vintage kitchenware…i enjoy collecting pyrex especially
The brown with the gold pattern is called Early American, as is the white with brown print according to the guide.
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I know I grew up with stuff like that My mother had some in her kitchen and so did alotr of our relatives wed go to visit and that refrigerator I loved those colors def 70s on that the yellow and also avacado were big then around 1972-75
@@richardvg7670 yes i absolutely love the old appliances. love the colors too. the yellows, greens, browns, oranges it was so nice
Third explore of this place I've seen. The place hadn't been ransacked and no spraypaint on the past two.
Love that lighthouse tower,
I could spend some time up there.
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Seems like it's structurally very sound. So many interesting design elements. This would be an amazing house to buy and restore
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Others have commented on the Motorola Quasar TV. Sylvania went out in the 70s. Popular Brand at one time. If this was a regular radio station I don't see a "console board" to regulate the sound. It's a must in a station. and it appears he was only playing cassettes and reel to reel tapes. Not even a turntable. One wonders what that setup was about. Very interesting find. He could very well have been doing shortwave broadcasts to overseas and his native country.
are you mad, you go in and be respectful, like a normal human.. You don't have to smash it up ..
these guys are just respectful.
and I apllude them
Nice human beings .. So respectful. Love you guys
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It looks like it was just a music room to listen to the tapes, but he could have done live remotes to a radio station, over a phone line without a console. I'm a retired Broadcast Engineer. The other methods are to record your show to tape and mail it. or back in the '70s when most of that equipment was built there were UHF STL systems built by Marti to feed programming to the station.
This is a speculation, but at the time this man fled Russia, it was then the Soviet Union in the ugly and dangerous cold war days, he may well have been making up tapes and putting some news from the outside world that he somehow got smuggled over there. Maybe the tapes he made were sent to family left behind. He had the earphones and microphone to put his voice overs on the reel to reel and later the cassette tapes, sitting there on the counter. At the very least, he was making audio letters to family or friends stuck back in the old USSR. If he sent them via the open postal system, you can be sure in that case, the KGB would intercept and listen to every word he said, trying to figure out if he was sending coded messages to the intended recipients.
24:49 Wow, I used to have a pair of those headphones. If I remember correctly, they came from Radio Shack. The knob on each earcup was a volume control.
you guys are so respectful, I admire you, so very much. from Canterbury U.K. ✌ total respect
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Been following you for a while brother, love the content and your excited and love for capturing the past so that it will not be forgotten. Wish I had the ability to do the same or join the journey. Enjoy your life man and everything you do, look forward to the content that you bring in the future. I’ve seen most of your videoed but go back through them quite often and am excited to finds ones I’ve never beeisend before such as this. Thanks again man, God bless and safe travels my friend!
The dental equipment was called a Ritter robot. Very popular back in the 60s.
The open reel broadcast equipment was vintage 70s. Good stuff!
Looks like the whole place was remodeled in the 70s. Gads all that brown paneling!!
05:18 The clock and calendar says "Sunday July 1". July 1 has fallen on a Sunday in some years that may be relevant to this find: 2007, 2001, 1990, 1979, 1962.
Awesome! Old electronics are my favorite thing to see in an abandon place! Excellent date stamp!
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i went to a dentist with a similar setup, it was in an old house from the 1800's and he lived on the second floor and had his dental business on the first floor
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From the one shot through the window, it appears that the house is in a neighborhood, which makes this particular abandonment even more tragic than one sitting in the middle of nowhere. Even if its too much house for one family, it could be made into a duplex and if that one area was a true apartment, that's 3 potential rentals on one site.
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That dental rig is probably from the 60s. I remember seeing that style as a kid in the 70s.
Fantastic house ! It still can be saved if someone really want to Restore it .
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Motorola, which also made Quasar was a major TV set manufacturer from the 1950s to the 1980s.
The Motorola name was around into the 1990s
Quasar was a high end brand that was actually made for serviceability. Most of the major parts were in a slide-out panel behind the controls.
That feature was known as "Works in a drawer"
if you watched TV at all in the late 1960s early 1970s you could not miss that commercial "Quasar. The works in a drawer, by Motorola"
The dental equipment is definitely of Fifties vintage...
It also looks like the Doctor was either a Denturist (someone who makes dentures) or a Prosthodontist, who's someone who specializes in more extreme dental cases.
The last separate apartment you saw, was definitely all 1950s... Except for the refrigerator, which was a late Sixties/early Seventies model.
The little room up at the top of the house is called a Widow's Watch.
Either way, whoever lived there were some very interesting and highly cultured people.
Motorola sold their consumer electronics division to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd in 1974, who owned Panasonic. That brand was marketed as National in other countries, but it was already in use in the United States so they chose Panasonic as 'An American sounding name'.
That first TV looks like a late '60s Motorola Quasar TV which was the first modular solid state TV on the market. I have one of the first that was shipped.
It was dubbed Quasar' by Motorola. When the division was sold, their name was changed to 'Quasar'.
Motorola's TV factory had become quite outdated, and the quality dropped to unacceptable levels. At the very end, they had over a 110% failure rate off the end of the production line, meaning that any TVs needed multiple repairs before they could be shipped.
Once it was sold, it was shut down and upgraded, while the workers were trained to use new test equipment.
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13:45 😻 Happy cats. They lived long, healthy, happy lives in a loving forever home.
The dental equipment dates to the early sixties. I love the old X-Ray machine. Reel to reel was popular in the 1960's as well. I got my first one in 1970. Then cassettes came on strong starting in the seventies, with CD's starting in the late eighties. Two of the ovens look to be 1960 vintage. We had one in our house in 1964 that was identical. I am surprised that anything older is not visible, outside of the walls, floors and staircase. Clearly the house had many upgrades. I've never seen an old house like this one with so many wall switches and outlets. Thanks for the video!
Hi , Fella . Greetings from Southern ,UK . Just discovered your channel . Have subscribed . I watch a lot of British urbex and thought it would be great to see some from across the pond . Looks like I am in for some interesting viewing . Kindest regards .
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Very original. Interesting to see what this property looks like being lived in and cared for.
Thank you for capturing this lovely house and all its contents. It really is a time capsule plus a bit creepy with that dental office. Reminds me of the dentist I hated when I was a kid in the 1950’s. Long, creepy stairway up to his second floor office and then the screaming began. 🤣 Crom the “radio” room I have the identical cassette player sitting in my living room, purchased in 1978 as a bank repo along with the speakers, equalizer, turntable, etc. Still works beautifully.
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The screaming didn't end when the sixties began, either :-😪
My Mom bought that Quasar tv in 1990 @11:13..pronounced (kway-zar)..that tv had amazing sound and bass from the two drivers at the bottom.
@Dustin Michael
No way that TV in the video is from 1990....maybe late 70s at latest! I'd say mid 70s.
@@watershed44 read my reply and click the @11:13 time stamp..
Great explore!! A nice walk back in time!! The dental equipment was 50s-60s. I could hear the drill in my mind cuz I remember it from when I was a kid. Still terrified of dentists!!
9:27 Hitachi D-850 15:53 Box for Hitachi D-850 :D
Loved this video!! So many things I wanted to see more of, I wish I could explore abandoned houses!
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I like the way you do your urbex videos, spending some time focusing on different elements. I was so curious about what might be stored in all the strange little doors in hallways and off the staircase. Probably nothing, but still would have been interesting if you gave us a peek just for the novelty. Anyway, enjoyed the video, thanks!
I wish I knew where this was only for the fact that next year I start my schooling for radio broadcasting and this intrigues me so much! Plus a lot of the older things like the Singer (I know there are so many older ones but I love it), I’d love to just be there and appreciate all of that History preserved in time
Great explore, the wife and I really enjoyed it. Also love your style of video.
I have been exploring abandoned properties with my friend Ron Heist since the mid 1980s. He and I were even on the show American Pickers together in 2010 where they dubbed him "The Mole Man". Sometimes we even got permission to salvage the contents of the properties. In the nearly 40 years that he and I have explored these properties appreciating the history together the one thing I NEVER understood is the vandalism. When you said you are afraid to even show the outside for fear that folks will vandalize it, it makes me sad. But, you are sadly correct- they would do just that. I cannot understand why!! What do people get out of doing that? What motivates someone to do such things? You would not believe the things I have seen and the beautiful things I've seen destroyed- and for what? I will never understand it.
That's not a radio station. I spent 39 years in radio, It looks more like a home recording studio. It's missing almost everything a radio station would need.
Such an interesting find, you must have been there all day. Definitely best feature the stairs 😀
OMD! (That's Oh My Dog) that dental equipment is the exact same as my dentist from my childhood in the '60's here in the States. The drill at 5:44 was motor-powered by long rubber bands around all those pulleys on the articulated arm! I'm having a panic attack as I type! Absolutely hated going to the dentist, used to have to be tranquilized. The Frankenstein equipment probably didn't help :(
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Yes, local anaeshesia was still in its infancy (when used !)
The beginning of this video. The bottom left of that DJ area. I have that exact stereo in my garage at home and it still works like it was brand new. Those things were built to last! The left knob controls the volume, the right controls the input (tape, am, fm, etc).
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wowwwww it’s so preserved😍 another banger as usual
What a unique find, great job guys, thank you!
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thats a cool find. I've been binge-watching your channel all day since my kids brought home the plague from school. I have added your channel to RnK, Dan Bell, Jose California, and many other urban explorers I'm subscribed to.
Dental eq. Looks like 1960s. Looks like a dentist chair I sat in in 1966. I never complied to the dentist. I was a bad patient 😀
Has to be a 1960s radio station. By the 80s they were using 8track cart players.
Thanks for sharing bro it was a great find I really loved the top floor It's a shame people came in and ransacked the place
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Terrific video guys!..Keep 'em coming
Very cool house. Props for opening the fridge.
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That old Motorola TV Console brings back memories: my late dad was in the TV sales and service business. He repaired and sold RCA, Magnavox, Zenith, and later Sony, I grew up with these entertainers of the living room...that set is from around the mid to late 60's. A second generation color set featuring a rectangular CTR., as opposed to the earlier sound "porthole" picture tube. These sets were all vacuum tube based. That vintage dental equipment looks so crude compared to today's. Our dentist of long ago used this equipment. The Ritter Company was one of the top manufactures of dental equipment and supplies. Gotta love that old X-Ray machine...looks like something out of a Vincent Price horror movie! I can still see Dr. Fischel positioning an identical Castle light unit as he prepared to explore my yawning mouth! I was in radio back in the 80's, and that equipment looks so familiar...so analog! Like that frog- shaped tray sitting on the sewing machine cabinet.
Fascinating job on this exploration!
Depending on location and whether in heart of Civil War theatre of operations, such a house would immediately be taken over by military due to the top room with 360 elevated view of the surrounding area. Perfect for a HQ location.
Loved it!! Too bad about the garbage. Great explore! 🥰🥰🥰
not sure how you got 260 years old when it was built in 1860(so 162 years old this year) other then that not too bad it looks like the place could be salvaged quite easily.....
I realize that the 80s is a long, long, time ago for you youngsters out there, but it wasn't that long ago. Please quit referring to the 80s like it was the middle ages.
I was thinking the same thing.
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I would leave 2022 in a blink to go back to the 80s
They make a number of serious mistakes dating gear, certainly. On the other hand, being in my mid to late forties, hence no youngster at all, I'm afraid we have to recognize the 80's went by quite a while ago.
@@BilisNegra I watched a young explorer that, even after finding the old RCA phonograph, find and go through a bunch of records that had the RCA Victor label, with the dog listening to the phonograph and the caption, "His Master's Voice", and this guy actually said, They were big fans of this guy Victor. Who ever he was." I wanted to scream.
Another great explore 🥳👏🏼👏🏼🤟🏼👍🏼
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The dentist office rooms were uber dope. Loved this explore.
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I think the dentist room is probably 70s or earlier. I used to go to the dentist in the 80s as a kid and then it looked a lot more modern than shown here.😮
Whooooooooa! Reel-to-reel recorders, tapes, vacuum tubes, amps, speakers... Real deal vintage things that would fetch tens of thousands on eBay. Absolutely lovely stuff for the audio and electronics nerds like me.
I think the owner had a private dentist practice and an audiophile or radio hobby, a nice combination. And some love for arts and cats too!
Pity the place is so ransacked.
That ol magnificent staircase eye twinkle just keeps getting brighter 😂👏🏻long long time viewer/ fan. Mad love from sa
This place is incredible!
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Such a cool place, with so much stuff and history left behind 😎 . To think this owner fit so many things into his life.... being a dentist and a radio host, wow!
Anyway, I really enjoyed this one! BIG THUMBS UP 👍🏻
80s or 90s....not in the 20th Century. The print-type on that dental equipment was from the 1950s to early 70s.
Dental equipment : try late 1950s. Radio room : Thats no on air studio - no turntables or console. More likely a facility for producing programs syndicated to other stations. Would be nice to give some of those tapes a spin and see whats on them.
Wow really great video. I'm subbed to you. But I can't remember when. This was amazing. I'm 50 years old so I can remember the dental chairs from very young. There so evil. I still don't like the dentist. They set the gas up for me before I walk in. I love the console TV's. I wish I had the ones with the record player, radio, TV and speakers attached. Back then it was more considered furniture. Thank you I really enjoyed this video.👍👍👍👍
Me too Jessica, 51 myself and still dread going to the dentist 🥺 And you're right, there's something sinister about old dental chairs and set ups, isn't there?! Gives you chills just looking at them.. 😨
This is what I believe the set-up was really for....it was not a radio station.....The audio equipment was for providing their own selection of background music for the dental office (Hence the classical selections). They could create their own playlists and have them play for the patients having work done and those in the waiting room. By making their own, those that worked there would not have to listen to the same exact tunes repeated day in and day out. The microphone was probably used to send people into different areas or make announcements in the waiting area. Kinda like a one-way intercom system. Possibly even recording their own advertisements for services offered for those waiting. That's my 2 cents!
Those wooden cupboards that slide over in the kitchen is ancient. Probably 1980's. I had an apartment from the 1980's that had cupboards like that a few years ago. Pretty good explore. House has a strange setup
Oh Amber your comment about the 1980's being "ancient" made me lol hard. I would call the 1880's ancient but not the 1980's. I already feel old enough as it is lol.
@@finaldraft151 lol. Me too
@@finaldraft151 no worries, someday they too will read comments from young turks referring to when bright memories of their salad days were yesterday as though it was somewhere between Pompeii and the American revolution!😂
Amazing place. The dentist office is 60's/70's era.
60’s
@@MillennialMountainMama yeah, it’s definitely 60s at the newest.
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Intriguing and fascinating, thanks for sharing.👌👍
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And I stand correct
The sound equipment seen in the footage is not intended for radio station service.
For example, the only thing that suggests a sound mixing stage to me is the passive equipment that is installed between the two reel-to-reel recorders, and I see no indication that there was at least one professional microphone in that location.
If this were an old radio station, it would also be noticeable that from that place there would be large cables that would take the signal produced to a transmitter center, somewhere. There are no signs of this and I don't see anything that indicates a form of radio frequency monitoring, mandatory if it were a self-operated studio.
260 years would mean the house was built in the 1740s. Not sure the house is really that old. But really cool nontheless. Love that light house structure.
The original building dates back that far. But many more extentions to the original plan have happened in all those years between then and now.
@@DarkExploration That makes sense, as such a building built in its entirety, would be older than the republic itself. I would think a building that old, in a nation so young, would be protected by all kinds of historic restoration regulations. Still, so cool. Thanks for uploading.
Therefore, I believe that it is only a matter of a Régie for personal use, which, although with some modifications, managed to pilot a radio broadcast. The footage only shows that it is a place of listening and music archive. And there are several DIY equipment, dedicated to audio.
From the location of the speakers (Left/Right) you can see that the purpose of that place would be just to listen and record music and you can see a Hi-Fi tube amplifier in the corner. It's not professional.
Just my opinion.
That bit behind the little door must've been a rented out apartment. When you looked down the stairs and said basement it looked like the door on the right was a front door 11:09. Also you didn't go up the opposite staircase.
I love that you do these videos but I wish you would maybe do a little homework after so you can maybe put in text overlays to correct where necessary. Quasar was pronounced KWAY-zar. That house was not almost 300 years old. I’m guessing the “radio station” most likely piped music throughout the building, especially if there were dental patients there.
This place is amazing!
This is a brilliant explore. The TV is so unique, carved! It should be in a museum. The dental surgery and green marble effect wall, I would say is circa 1950’s 1960’s I could be wrong, but it’s older than 80’s… it reminds me of the show American Horror story about the haunted house. I’ve only just discovered your Chanel, ‘Top explores’ real time capsules, this place is a gem 💎 the whole place should be a museum. 🇬🇧 This house does have a creepy vibe though.
I have one in my shed almost identical that you can have and save me a trip to the recycler. And old Zenith, Even comes with its original remote control - The Zenith "Space Command" remote control, a state of the art gadget for it's time lol. TV is so heavy it takes two grown men to wrestle it down the walkway. Your for free !! lol
Im thinking that reel to reel and cassette equipment was used for personal listening and then there was probably an amateur (ham) radio as well which explains the mic.
I believe that is a closed circuit station. Probably recorded background music for the dental office.
So Cool! Thanks for this post!
9:30 Lafayette Electronics was headquartered in Syosset, NY (about 15 minutes from where I live), defunct in 1981 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette_Radio_Electronics The story I heard is that when the FCC added 17 channels to CB Lafayette had a bunch of 23 channel radios that had to be sold in a month or so. Was a hard sell and a big loss for them.
I spotted the Lafayette logo too. I use to work at the local Lafayette Radio Electronics franchise store. During the CB radio craze, we couldn't keep up/w the demand.
5:11 *I did a little research and I've discovered that that light is manufactured by the Wilmot Castle company in 1946. They were a manufacturer of surgical lighting and the company was absorbed into another in 1959*
Awesome video. Thank you
Very cool place, but pretty sure it's not 260 years old....... Our country wasn't quite this far along 260 years ago.... That "radio room" was full of audio recording equipment. Reel to reel tape decks in the middle. Looks like he did some transferring of reel tapes to cassette when that became the popular medium.
your explore videos are pretty well the best guy xo. in my view.
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hell i want to go there to see if that old radio stuff still works.
Do you guys Not have parents or grandparents or access to history books with information on dental equipment? Seriously? Equipment from the 1990s or 1980s? I'm laughing here. Please educate yourselves. There is so much a available to you. You are doing amazing camera work and explorations through history. Give yourselves and your viewers more respect by understanding what you are seeing. Get to know people that lived in those times, find books, see what was happening in the world. I guarantee you will discover more mysteries and amazing stories from the places you are discovering than you ever dreamed possible!
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Awwww youth is wasted on the young; lukewarm reception to the duel Teac Reel to Reel units on the shelf in vintage, museum-like quality and probably worth a small fortune, not to mention the surplus vintage audio tubes stored on a shelf in cabinet. Hell, the mic itself is another valuable relic along with the other vintage audio gear. Flash forward to the garage tour when these guys discover the old case of Motts Apple Cranberry juice from the 1990's and they get all worked up and in awe of an old bottle of juice LMFAO - I'm sorry, you lost me in the radio room where I'd still be drooling over that find. Hard to believe that stuff was still intact and not gone or destroyed. I wish I could stumble across a find like this. Best I have done so far like this is a closet full of old Direct-TV cable boxes and remotes. Happy hunting!
P.S this is a beautiful house. I love the apartment, it looks like an apartment from a 1970’s movie. The tower at the top of the house is a wonderful design. Restored this house would be stunning.
i looked up the date shown on the clock shown at 5:18 . the last time July 1st landed on a sunday was in 2012, if that was the correct date that they found it as
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It does seem odd that the dental office was right off the living room. You said he was an immigrant. The radio studio may well have been a remote studio connected to the radio station by a telephone wire. He might have had a once a week program like "The Italian Hour or Slovak Hour" both still popular on a local radio station near me. He maybe spoke in his native tongue and played music from the old country. There is a local station here that has a Greek program for a large Greek population and another does a German show. I cant remember what the plastic cassette like tapes were called that are on an upper shelf, but it looks like commercial stuff.
Reels.
@@Herlongian The looped tape. Some times thats how advertisements came in.
@@Wa3ypx No, they were shipped on small reels of tape, then dubbed to Fidelipak style Broadcast Carts at the stations. The crats were reused, until the tape was worn out, then they were often shipped off in bulk to have new tape loaded into the housings.
A 3" reel of tape was about 35 cents, in bulk and could be mailed in a padded envelope. A cartridge was over 20 times that, and cost a lot more to ship.
@@michaelterrell Thats what I was thinking about. Yes
looks like that house is in pretty good shape. Someone could probably fix it up and make it livable. its sad that this house can be left to rot away. being that it's historical.
The mansion could be saved. Needs cleaning & updating. Love the vintage stuff & spiral stairs. ❤🏡🏚😊
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I agree, look like he had a hobby recording stuff, now the big question is what's on those real to reels it'd be nice to get a listen to them and find out what he was up to.
I noticed the "coffin corner' going up the ataircase to the 2nd floor. Pretty cool!!
Nice! I am guessing he produced and recorded a classical music show, and brought the tapes to a local station to broadcast it. Very cool! I kept thinking "Where's the transmitter?", duh. Dr. Pain by day, Dr. Beethoven by night! LOL! Belt drive dentist drill, painful...