My great grandfather was a mason foreman on the beautiful Piggot building ,a little proud.

"Prostitution and widespread drunkenness" - a tradition not lost to Barton St.

@MsBarbaraLee

4 жыл бұрын

lol..the buildings they tore down on King W to build Jackson Sq used to have hookers in just about every doorway. 'Good' women didn't go downtown after dinner and travel that part of the street on foot!

@AlexFlockhart

4 жыл бұрын

@@MsBarbaraLee Soo... no changes then?

@MsBarbaraLee

4 жыл бұрын

@@AlexFlockhart gee, can't remember the last time hookers flocked to the downtown core instead of hanging out around Emerald St N from King to Barton...lmao

@AlexFlockhart

4 жыл бұрын

@@MsBarbaraLee That's true, I was kidding but yeah the streetwalkers usually keep to barton/Burlington street.

@paulrobinson5833

3 жыл бұрын

No shit!

Downtown Hamilton is booming and going through a several billion dollar building blitz . The city always had amazing bones and was always underrated. Yes many treasures were lost unfortunately

Good show - even with the mispronunciations. Man, did we ever have a beautiful downtown at one point. So much Victorian, classical and Second Empire architecture but alas almost all gone in the name of so-called progress and urban renewal.

@ramblesintherustbelt

7 жыл бұрын

There's still a lot of good stuff left, but yes - half the cities in the region have destroyed much of their Victorian cores. We're very much paying for it now.

@brianchristmas1516

7 жыл бұрын

Even the mid-century modern buildings that were turned into parking lots.

@teegeemedia

5 жыл бұрын

It's tragic, really ... faceless condos and big box stores are eating up everything.

@scottkernaghan2600

4 жыл бұрын

Have you seen and heard my song and video tribute to Hamilton? It's called Rock the Hammer. I thought we needed our own song! Linked here. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hpdmrZh-g9W6l7Q.html

Sad that we lost so many historic beauties!

Oh Hamilton, so much to answer for. What have you done?

I lived in several places downtown in the 1980s, and to this day I love walking around and think of my younger years. I take my kids for drives all over the city and talk to them about so my historical places and ones dear to me. 2 years ago I took them to the donut stop on Parkdale north. They were laughing and giggling. Oh well.

looks very interesting. I lived there for many years (17) and always liked it a lot. I may move back.

Good video and thanks for putting it all together!

thank you

I'm currently doing an essay on Saint Patricks. Phenomenal building. Also, I had the pleasure of taking a class with Dr. Weaver.

There’s still a lot around. All four corners or James and main for example. A lot is gone but unlike most cities Hamilton repurposed a few and restored quite a few. Love our downtown

@pingpong3311

2 жыл бұрын

Don't blame Hamilton, blame the fuckers that voted for the demolitions for modern urbanism.

This was great! ❤

The Royal Connaught is pronounced .... "Cunnot" and not "Conneeot" and "Hughson" St. is pronounced "Hewson", not "Hugson" ... the Treble Hall is pronounded "Trebel' and not "Treeble" and the Piggot building was finished in early 1930, not 1927. Centenary is more well known as "Cen-Ten-Ary" and not "Centeneeree"

@ramblesintherustbelt

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the corrections. Pronunciations are always a bit of guesswork when I'm working with exclusively paper sources. I'm painfully aware I'm not always guessing correctly. There were a couple of ghastly errors in the Downtown Detroit videos.

@ramblesintherustbelt

7 жыл бұрын

And I'm looking at my source on the date for the Pigott Building, and in retrospect it appears to be either the date that the project was announced or the date that tenders were put out for construction - the source is a little vague. Either one would be some time before the building was completed, though.

@steeltownbrown52

4 жыл бұрын

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@enidaaron537

Жыл бұрын

Mispronounced names and cadence of the narrator are annoying. Otherwise a great look at Hamilton history.

@DCR1949

Жыл бұрын

@@ramblesintherustbelt A great job bringing history back to life. I quite often mispronounce words just to wind up the petty people.👏👏👏👏👏

After S.S. Kresge moved to where the twin CCIB is now located, the building was called Woolworths, up until about 1978.

Nice job!🏦🏢🏗️

I'm surprised the John Foote Armory wasn't in this, seeing as it's downtown and is a National Historic site. Great Vid.

Looked nice

So many lost treasures.

@mccoy786

6 жыл бұрын

agreed

These are really great! Do you know where the Court of Chancery was located? I understand it was on Hughson between King and Main. Do you have any information about it? Thanks!

@benjaminvazquez1243

Жыл бұрын

I don't know, no. I'm actually from London, Ontario, not Hamilton. I wanted to explore the history of my urban neighbour after I finished the London videos, and I learnt a heck of a lot, but I was never a local. May I recommend stopping into the local history room at the central public library? The librarians there were incredibly helpful to me.

🤣🖐…I always wondered where the narrator from Charlie Browns Christmas went…🤣

What a time it must have been when hiring and firing had moral consequences. PS - Narrator sounds like the guy from Zombieland.

when was the fontaine bleu on hunter street built

I can't believe how many beautiful building were demolished. Many other cities managed to save and restore their old building but Hamilton has to destroy many of our amazing gems. Downtown Hamilton use to be beautiful!!! Sad!

@pingpong3311

2 жыл бұрын

The ones burned by fires are understandable. But the ones purposely demolished, bummer.

As a lifelong Hamiltonian I will never forgive city council for destroying Gore Park. Cutting down all those big, beautiful trees should have led to criminal charges.

@pingpong3311

2 жыл бұрын

Environmental damage

Why are there no pictures of these buildings being originally planned and built?? Where is everyone in these pictures? Strange

@BillKing8888

5 жыл бұрын

Sometimes you do not see people because the photograph required a long exposure time and anything passing by was therefore not captured in the image.

I like the narration it enhances the pictures. it sound almost from another time as well

Beautiful old world antiquitech

Great show! My only criticism is that you should have done research on how to properly pronounce Hughson Street and the Connaught Hotel. Other than that, nice job!

wow Benjamin great video I must say it didn't even sound like you took a breath between site to site. I'm impressed because I know that I couldn't do that, but let me introduce myself I'm Peter papadimitriou, and I live downtown Hamilton east end at 24 Tisdale street south which my uncle Angelo owns which I'm very greatful because I'm now 49 years old and a stroke and cardiac arrest survivor and use a cane for balance when I'm outside walking around and was actually curious if you have any information my apartment building that I live in? I did some research back at the library at Jackson Square about 8-9 years ago and I understand that there was some kind of Mill here before the building was done at least 100 years ago and it had a waterwheel too? If you have anything on this property at 24 Tisdale street south that would be great thanks

@ramblesintherustbelt

2 жыл бұрын

The audio file is edited to remove the breaths. I didn't think people would want to listen to my heavy breathing. But at the same time that means that things are going altogether too fast, and I probably won't do it when the channel starts making videos again in the winter. As to the building, I couldn't tell you. I'm from London, Ontario, and Hamilton's not my area of expertise. But the central library is almost certainly the best place to start for research. They were incredibly helpful to me when I was doing the research for these videos.

@vassa1972

2 жыл бұрын

@@ramblesintherustbelt okay thanks for getting back to me sir. Take care and be safe

Love it!

If everyone understood Hughson vs Hewson or whatever, give the man a break.. Thank you for this video.

@paulrobinson5833

2 жыл бұрын

When a man's name is Hugh you don't call him Hug.

@DCR1949

Жыл бұрын

@@paulrobinson5833 Okay Saul !

Hug-son Street?

Hughson street is not Hug-son street.

Your walking tours are excellent, but you are pronouncing Hughson incorrectly. It's not "Hug-son" it's Hugh-son -- like the male name Hugh as in Hugh Beaumont.

Royal Conaught.

the historical groups should have put their foot down in the 50's 60's and 70's to save the buildings.. now we have expensive hideous parking lots were you can be mugged at nighttime :(

@pingpong3311

2 жыл бұрын

Downtowns in general are pretty dangerous.

just a note to the author.....Hughson is pronounced Hue son

Great video but you're killing me its pronounced Hueson not hugson! Sorry man good work though!!

Ah yes, "King and James". Where every dudes mom works the corner of. Classic.

This video needs to be re-narrated to get the pronunciations correct. As a Hamiltonian, it's almost embarrassing.

@brittgreenhillfy

3 жыл бұрын

I was like “where’s Hudson?” Then realized it was Hughson

SAVE THE CLOCKTOWER!

@pingpong3311

2 жыл бұрын

We have phones to tell time now. We don't need clock towers anymore.

Hughson is pronounced Hue son not hug son

Just started watching this as I grew up in Hamilton during the 60's and 70's. Unfortunately, I only got a minute in until I just couldn't take the narration anymore. Seriously, if you're going to take on a project like this, do your research and retain a narrator that isn't so bloody irritating. Thank you

Hug son lol it’s Hugh-son

Why destroy those beautiful victorian buildings!!

Hamilton destroyed so much! What a shame. Downtown use to be beautiful even in 60's and 70's and they ruined that era. What a shame!

Every sentence dies out, with no pronunciation of the last word.

There is literally NOTHING that is accurate with the narration. Just simply find mute, and enjoy the excellent pictoral history of the City Of Hamilton.

Research mudflood

What are those metal polls with the ball at the tip on each building? Why are there street lamps at a time when electricity wasn't invented yet? Something is wrong here. These buildings are old not new, even in these old pics the buildings appear old. This city looked way better back then vs now.

@pingpong3311

2 жыл бұрын

Oil lamps

@paulrobinson5833

2 жыл бұрын

Probably lightning rods.

I live downtown hamilton

You say “Hug-son.” The street and its namesake is “Hew-son.” Trust me.

Lmfao

How can anyone be in Hamilton downtown for more than 15 minutes and not know how to pronounce Hughson? (Hew-Son)!!! Jeeeeesus Christ!

I appreciate your video and narrative but your mispronunciation of place names is distracting. Hughson is pronounced Hewson. Royal Connaught is pronounced Connawt.

Are you serious with this ''narrator''? how in the world did he get hired? never mind.

Great pictures but the narrator is obviously NOT from Hamilton as he can’t pronounce a lot of the landmark names and streets properly

The voice is annoying..

The narration is terrible.

You need a good narrator.

@ramblesintherustbelt

7 жыл бұрын

I dunno. We're pretty happy with the narrator we've got.

@moniquedewyk6341

5 жыл бұрын

Rambles in the Rust Belt - the next time he works for you can you ask him to talk a little faster

You need to get a better narrator. The narration is terrible. The speaker runs out of voice at the end of every sentence, so you cannot make out the word. He also mispronounces too many names to be credible. It's very amateurish, and Hamilton deserves better.

Please seriously consider re-recording the narration, correcting all the atrocious pronunciation errors. You'll save yourself a lot of negative comments. It's difficult to enjoy your video of a time now gone, and buildings needlessly destroyed for nondescript "international style" boxes which have not stood the test of time, when the myriad mispronunciations become the focus.