Colorado Experience: The Great Pueblo Flood
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- In early June of 1921, Pueblo experienced a devastating flood that destroyed much of the downtown area. The very river that formerly brought life and sustenance to the region now left death and destruction in its wake. A century later the river has been tamed by a dam and a levee, and the Historical Arkansas River Project is the centerpiece of a development effort that is changing the face of a city.
My vast love of Pueblo and it's people now has more of a historical understanding. I am more amazed and proud of the Pueblo Communities. I 💗P.town USA more than ever. Now I also know about Lucky the spotted horse on the tree. Thank You 💖 Much Love
So moving!! This is my home town!! Proud to be a Pueblo Colorado native!!
I grew up along the Arkansas in KS. I do remember floods as a fun time lol. Now the poor river is so dried out.
I lived in pueblo for 6 months but in those short 6 months I fell in love with the town such a beautiful town with beautiful vintage buildings! If you are vintage freak like me you’ll agree! A piece of my heart is still in pueblo❤️❤️ I enjoyed seeing all the old photos of the town😍 a lot of the buildings still stand to this day
welcome!
I love learning new bits of history so this was really interesting to me. My mother would have been a month old when this happened.
Thank you for the history lesson. I am born and raised Puebloan .. you even showed our houses.. in the old photos.
At the 34:44 mark, I believe the "carpet factory fire" mentioned was my grandfather's business, Trani Designer Rugs. It's a very interesting story that lead him to move the business to his home on Overton Road where my parents live now.
Wonderful documentary ! Thank you for the time and effort that was put into this.
Colorado Pueblo green chili!! Best!!
Excellent video! Thank you for making it to document the centennial anniversary of this local tragedy. Exciting to see such a renaissance happening in Pueblo right now!
Born and raised here pueblo co. Its interesting to learn about my home town history.
How do you feel about how they've started calling it poo-e-blow, not pyeblow?
I feel sorry for you. That sucks that you were born here. So sad. And you're sadly proud to be from this dump. Wow. You don't get out much, do you?
Imagine doing all of this with no government hand outs.
Thought I knew all about it until I saw this! Simply terrible what those poor people had to go through.
Very well done. Whoop whoop Pueblo
Excellent presentation! Thank you!
Any information on Walt Drummond who wrote the piece used in the opening of this program? Thank you.
100 years later and pueblo still has not bounced back from this event.
in his time, my great grandfather was among 8 folks that were granted free citizenship and remained farmers here in Pueblo. I have history here as well as La Junta CO.
My two uncles had been in Colorado visiting relatives and were on the train. They both died in the flood.
That is sad, sorry your family suffered losses.
Bless them how tragic
Great documentary. I did not know this and I lived in Pueblo.
Same I had no clue
What about flood that hit pueblo in sixties i was there and saw it in person i was standing on top of fourth street and joplin water never reached top of joplin fourth street to high it was a experience hard to forget
I remember that flood, down river in Crowley County.
NICE TOO SEE RAISE BORE HERE IN PUBLO ❤️
I remember the flood in the 60’s. We watched from the Belmont area since it was higher ground
funny, I spent most of my HS years in Pueblo living in one of the older homes off Greenwood and never heard this story... The house was built around this time and is at least 15' above street level..
Wow.
I searched library up and down for any and all Pueblo archives never came across any of this footage?
Might be up in Denver
My old friend Hank who owned a printing shop on Union before he passed had a TON of this info and images! I used to sit in his shop and look through them. If I can find out what happened to them I may be able to text you the info on FB!
@@natasharose3264 did you end up finding anything? my grandpa had a shop on union as well, would really enjoy sharing some images
Celedonia Rebelloso, my great great grandmother and other family members made it over the Rio Grande and through the flood of Pueblo, but family pictures did not.
Stayed in a hotel in Pubelo a few years back, and had everything I'd left in my car stolen....desk clerk said it was a common occurrence.
Home of Heroes!
flipped and twisted as they show a train barely leaning over. - priceless
Then he said piles of lumber were washed downstream, and they showed dry lumber neatly stacked and untouched by a flood. Mkay
This is dumb
you seem very dense
History repeats
Didn't know
If a location is at high risk for flood damage it’s illogical to think that businesses would want to stay there or expand.
that's why dams and levees were built.
Build back better
719 always on my mind
Funny how diversity, the new buzzword, has anything to do with a flood. Had to stop watching this.
Your listening skills must be lacking. Try listening again, not everything is sinister.
@@pooderism Pueblo sucks.
@@leedavison7215 Why? I'm serious. I'm from Evergreen and never gave Pueblo any thought.
I’m here for the flood. I have to plow through 14 minutes of ads and how diverse everybody and everything is first? No wonder nobody watches PBS anymore. TheHistoryGuy Covers it in less than 15 minutes...
Found that guy who didn't have an Osage grandma 😂
Buy Premium, cheapskate..
@@mapena84 still won’t get me past the ‘woke’ liberal bias of PBS. Thanks for missing my point.
@@markhaneklau5021 You're dead from preexisting conditions within a decade... TOPS.. We really don't care..
@@mapena84 ...and there you have it ladies and gentleman, we found the idiot in the room....
Nobody can tell me who occupied the massive civilization 10 miles NE of pueblo,
the ranchers dont even know whats on their property. Fly drones and you'll see the massive city pre1900. In 1976 we rebuilt Fort Bent. The metropolis by Pueblo looks much older. The foundations didnt have square corners. Each building was massive for that era, showing the drone pics some say maybe it was field clearing for crops with rock formation still at the edge (desert). IDK, but that doesn't explain the massive mounds that have smaller narrow mound of dirt and rock connected to the foundation more noticeable from bout 600 ft. to bout 1000 ft. the mounds look very similar to the burial mounds for the giant ppl found @ 6 to 12 ft tall, someone thought the mounds could be a wells,
Archeology has been prohibited in the Americas Since European Arrivals.
*They hope to suppress the facts of black people living upon the lands for millennia!*
Europe didn't come out of the dark ages until after the encounters with black populations.
@@lonniedobbins1195 Evidence to support your position?
@typo pit ?
The Giant People? Who are you referring to? Bones to back up your assertion? Anything?
@@oscarb9139 NO, Im not even sure what Im looking at. NE of Pueblo if you take a drone up and fly east of the rivers in prarie you'll see the an old civilation left in the dirt with trails, large foundations and mounds in the dirt that you dont notice if youre on the ground,,, never dug any of it, just see with my drone and nobody has explained yet.
Hilarious watching SNOBS describe people that work for a living!!!!
This video caught your attention.. and that’s something getting paid for.
Those are the people what spend every weekend out of Pueblo 😂
How does PBS do it? If you gave me a month I couldn’t find a guy with a blue dish towel wrapped around his neck...
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beautifully city / history in america...
dont need a state
The rain comes from "the Mountains". How ambiguous does that comment seem to everyone? And to add this statement from an accredited and licensed Engineer is criminal action. Go right ahead and mention that the Decker Dam wouldn't have stopped this from occurring. Because it just wouldn't have.😊
ahhh...Pueblo, Jonesboro AR of the West yet always comparing itself to Pittsburgh
@33:16 calm down, Mr. Feminist. Women take their husbands name in the real world. Stop acting like it's a crime. It's just tradition, not an affront. 100 years after this event, it continues, you "journalist."
my wife has 2 masters degrees and makes more than twice as much as I do. When we married she insisted on taking my name even after I asked her if she wanted to keep her name. Then again she never claims to be a feminist.
It implies that women were seen as property at the time (which they were.) Women would have just won the right to vote the year before. Not all women chose to marry and take their husband's name. Even now domestic violence is still a problem or is that just "tradition" to you?
Ok, snowflake
@@berserk1437 one thing I never felt when I took my husbands name was property 🤣
AND THEY STILL HAVEN'T FOUND A LOCOMOTIVE LOST IN THE FLOOD?