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.

@shentsaceve5642

10 ай бұрын

Yep, very sad to see what they've become.

@stoplayin21

10 ай бұрын

Right gentrified

@user-me8pt8tv5z

8 ай бұрын

I paused the video and looked on Google maps at what these houses have now become, it’s a sad sight...

@ljgee1

Ай бұрын

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

@jameskelly6152

8 күн бұрын

@@mrjsanchez1 Google Maps

Love the history and architecture of the neighborhoods and housing of Philadelphia!

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 ❤.

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

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!

Absolutely phenomenal!!! REALLY impressive knowledge of architects AND builders!

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.

Those houses are still there, but no one took care of them and they’re falling down

@Swinefeld

6 күн бұрын

@@justred5164 certainly not all of them. Many houses are in fine condition today.

Fascinating! Grew up in East Falls.

When i see people in these old photos; i can't help but to think they've long gone off into Eternity.

Nice presentation. Could have done without that music however

@isaiahsullivann

Ай бұрын

I don't mind it

Thank you for making a beautiful informative video that needs more views from current Philadelphia residents.

Love this! Thank you for creating!

My grandmom was born in West Philly on 56th and Catherine in 1915,she lived until 2007

Amazing history!!! Thank you

Love this, Joe! Nice job!!

Amazing video. I truly appreciate this.

@Swinefeld

6 күн бұрын

@@athay14 I’m glad you enjoyed the video.

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

It’s crazy I would love to see Kensington now and then

@yvonneplant9434

11 күн бұрын

Fishtown is thriving. Kensington is not.

Enjoyed this video, and looked up the addresses. Several are still there, including the castle house at 48th and Springfield.

@shentsaceve5642

10 ай бұрын

Yep! One of my most favorite houses in Philly.

The Castle is located at 48th Street and Warrington Avenue. I know; I lived five doors away from it from 1982-2018.

@Swinefeld

6 күн бұрын

@@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.

@davidgradwell8830

6 күн бұрын

@@Swinefeld Thank you! :)

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.

that picture of paxton street showed my duplex at the end of the street. i grew up in the two story dwelling.. WOW!

19:33 my great grandfather owned a cornerstore bar at 58th and Market in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s

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?

@allenschmitz9644

Жыл бұрын

Mr. Star Fort? and Bob Jones.

@shentsaceve5642

10 ай бұрын

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

8 ай бұрын

What are you smoking? The people who lived and worked in Philly prior to 1890 built what they needed to survive and live comfortably. As population grows, so does the workforce which lead to new construction. It’s not complicated.

@victornieves1794

8 ай бұрын

@@shentsaceve5642It’s also amazing that everything being built right now is happening at the same time. Something very strange must be happening.

@jwick1215

8 ай бұрын

@@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✌️

130,000 not 130 house built during that period you mentioned

@allenschmitz9644

Жыл бұрын

1901 was Open Boarders T.R. time, adios McKinley!

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.

This was excellent Joseph!

Such beautiful homes back then. Now rundown drug areas .

What would the people of then think about Philly now?! 🤔

@maljalcol

Жыл бұрын

They’re dead. Doesn’t matter

@armandodimarzio1136

Жыл бұрын

A shit hole now

@GeneralAlex4

Жыл бұрын

They would probably look around at all the low life's that destroyed their beautiful city and figure it out pretty fast!

@shentsaceve5642

10 ай бұрын

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?!'"

@KayFabe87

3 ай бұрын

They would quickly recognize the 40/99 problem that plagues Philly, but we are not allowed to notice.

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.

@allenschmitz9644

Жыл бұрын

Bob Jones urban renewal yikes!

@frankcasey7423

Жыл бұрын

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.

@bryanpinto4051

2 ай бұрын

@@frankcasey7423 I am a Morrell Park guy. My parents bought the house for $9,900 with a $99 depsit.

I wouldn't fancy bay porches for darkening the front room like they must

Paxon street. how beautiful neighborhood for 1905.

I would love to go back in time to the Edwardian Age if only for a day. It would have been fun. 🤩

@shanekajohnson1320

Жыл бұрын

Yikes 😮

@yvonneplant9434

11 күн бұрын

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.

Super cool

MFL Bridge street to 69th street changed everything.

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!!!!!!

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.

@yvonneplant9434

11 күн бұрын

Well white flight happened. Black middle class flight happened. Poorer people were left.

@yvonneplant9434

11 күн бұрын

😂😂It's not most of the city.

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?

job well done.

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.

wow, how clean the city was back then,...not like now

@Swinefeld

10 ай бұрын

Well, they didn’t live in a throw away society like we do now.

@yvonneplant9434

11 күн бұрын

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.

Could go by 8th and Somerset?

I live up the street from “the castle” on Springfield Avenue… thank you for this video! This is amazing!

I'm sure it was a great video,but I had to turn it off because of that annoying piano.

@bburroughs

Жыл бұрын

The biggest problem is that it’s the same brief song over and over and over and….

@matthewatwood8641

8 ай бұрын

Too repetitive. Should've just let the whole piece play.

@DACNY

3 ай бұрын

Amazing how weak minds cannot control anything. Practice makes perfect. Such a shame how easy it is to take the time to state how weak you are but not enough to consider how truly lost so many

@Roadtripmik

2 ай бұрын

Too bad you missed out on this great video

@jameskelly6152

Ай бұрын

The piano is oppressive and annoying . Too bad there's much history to learn . Damn. People get too cute sometimes . 😵‍💫

Anyone see any trash in any of these pictures?

@GeneralAlex4

Жыл бұрын

No, they cared about where they lived.

I put the subtitles in and cut the sound

Do you mean north Roosevelt Blvd? Not north of...?

I agree. Change the music. It’s monotonous. Ruins it.

@allenschmitz9644

Жыл бұрын

play: Death in June.

Very interesting but very slow transfer between scenes takes way too long speed it up

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He music is too loud and hard to listen to!

Mandatory that the property owner MAINTAIN the hight of the CURBS.

So much parking in those days 😢

Certainly there would need to be a army of civil engineering..and massive plumbers..and roofing specialists to make it happen with..poor streets and without level streets...Yes new houses put in water and plenty of mud...use ride on bike on those dirt streets in 1950...wonder where are those historic builders who did this masonry work...look out..archives

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In west phila which is not in here was already getting crime ridden,and run down its south of Lancaster av.in the 40's,its all run down.

72nd Ave. not street....

1690's row houses, what! the native indians didn't like slums? and taylor made warfs.

Little did they know soon those places will be destoyed and trashed.

$1.00 a day wages. Top mechanic $1.50 per day?

Music is headache inducing.

Piano made it unwatchable

Racist comment below should be removed by channel.

@Swinefeld

Жыл бұрын

Done. This is no place for hate.

@GeneralAlex4

Жыл бұрын

You must be a fruitcake?

@bobski7032

Ай бұрын

He got no thumbs up

Nowadays Philly is a city of gaybarhoods

@bobski7032

Ай бұрын

Is that where you go?

Damn shame what happened to all those nice nieghborhoods,beautiful homes,what could have been.

No your ancestors didn't build anything here my ancestors built what you see

@johnny1963ify

10 ай бұрын

What ancestors are they might I ask? As if I don’t know.