Old World Pittsburgh

So much to offer...so many of my pics didn't make it into the video. Hope you enjoy..

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  • @vatiammatri2660
    @vatiammatri26608 ай бұрын

    As a Pittsburgh girl, I wept while watching this. Our heritage is great, and no doubt the craftmanship is largely attributed to the vast number of Eastern European, as well as German immigrants in the 1800s. Don't forget the Italians. The Cathedral of Learning houses the Nationality Rooms... classrooms with interiors designed as living rooms of houses from each immigrant group in Pittsburgh. The rooms were designed by people from each group, with imported woods, materials, artifacts and art from those countries. At Christmas the rooms are decorated in the Christmas style from each country, complete with a tree. Tours are $5. Lol. At a recent church tour of the Catholic Cathedral in Oakland they said immigrants from 19 countries worked on the building. Another stunner is Sacred Heart in Shadyside There is a book on the building of it, and the husband and wife team that did the stained glass in the 1930s. The P&E station is preserved as Station Square with the Grand Concourse restaurant inside. Have you visited Pittsburgh? You should! There are also many mid-mod residential enclaves, largely influenced by Carnegie Tech (CMU now) and Frank Lloyd Wright. Thanks for this great video. Loved your "because of course and why not" humor throughout. It was only the Great Depression, after all. Look up a picture of the North Park Boat House, done during the CCC era. A County park of 3500 acres done in the 30's. The North Park swimming pool was the 2nd largest man made body of water at the time, filled with 240 million gallons of water. You could do a whole video on Pittsburgh churches. Buffalo too. "there's no place like home".

  • @andrewfyakim525
    @andrewfyakim525 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for compiling and posting all of this. You've just now became my favorite KZread channel! I was born in Pittsburgh (East Street) and have been in many of these buildings. As a kid in the 1950-60's we would sneak into the Gulf Building and the Cathedral of Learning to ride the elevators for fun! Also in the late 1960's as a teen, I worked repairing the slate roofs on a number of the cathedral churches. This always included a 'tour' of the insides of the churches. (Thank you Clement C. Newcamp, C&R Roofing/Heating, for taking me under your wing; from you I learned a lot about construction... and life).... This video makes me want to go back to "the Burgh" to see some of these buildings. Oliver High School on Marshall Avenue is also noteworthy. It's where my father went to High School; he walked to school from 2441 Sorrel Street, right down the hill from Oliver..

  • @bobbyplummer4415

    @bobbyplummer4415

    8 ай бұрын

    I lived on Hazlett st when I was little 6at the time I was scared crossing the east street Bridge

  • @sidpheasant7585
    @sidpheasant75855 ай бұрын

    At 2:41, we have the Union Trust Building, which took the place of a Cathedral! The design is by architect Frederick J. Osterling, who died aged 69 in 1934. Needless to say there are almost no construction details except ... started 1915, completed 1916, opened 1917. That's half a millon square feet on 15 floors at a cost of 1.5 million. The money came from magnate Henry Clay Frick, who had actually been co-responsible for a genuine mudflood elswwhere in Pennyslvania - because the dam-lake Lake Comemaugh (going back to the 1830s-1850s) became overfilled by rain in 1889 resulting in the collapse of the dam. The lake had been a country retreat for a large number of industrialists, who decided to pay out for the destruction of Johnstown, which was total - in that way avoiding inquiries and lawsuits ... and indeed comment of any kind. The death toll was over 2200 and even in those days the level of damage was of $17M (that would be half a billion now). A third of Pittsburgh was destroyed in 1845 by - of course - the "Great Fire", and that was then a city of just 20,000 - despite it going back to the mid-18th century. Yet there were said to be 1000 factories there in 1857. Realistically, then, almost nothing we see can be older than 1850 or so, following that timeline...

  • @LJB103
    @LJB103 Жыл бұрын

    The Alleghany County Courthouse and Jail (connected by the copy of Venice's Bridge of Sighs) at 12:08 in the video is one of the great buildings built from Milford pink granite (my hometown in MA - other buildings constructed of it are the Boston Public Library, Glessner House in Chicago, and the old Penn Station). As to haziness: this was probably one of the filthiest cities in America due to the smoke belching from all the steel mills. There are old photos that look like it's midnight with street lights trying to cut through the dark - and they were taken at noon! The Carnegie Institute is the art museum of Pittsburgh; and yes, those arches are a display. You are spot on about the level of craftsmanship - and that it is sadly lacking today. I have to disagree about the organs. There are many companies/craftspeople who specialize in restoring pipe organs. Heinz Hall (Pittsburgh Symphony) was the old Lowes Penn Theater. The Heinz family funded the restoration. Edgar Kaufmann, Sr. owned the department store and built Falling Water (Frank Lloyd Wright architect). On my first trip to Pittsburgh Kaufmann's, Horne's, and a branch of Gimbels were still in operation. Remember, Pittsburgh had more Fortune 500 companies than any other city except New York. US Steel, Alcoa, PPG, Heinz, Gulf Oil......

  • @vincentborrelli3008
    @vincentborrelli30087 ай бұрын

    I'm currently working at the Carnegie music hall in Pittsburgh as a union painter, the theater is being restored. The whole Carnegie museum, library and music hall are unbelievably beautiful. There are 111 steps from the basement to the 3rd floor in the music hall part of the building, 77 steps from the 1st floor to the 3rd . The frescos on the walls in the hallways are incredibly done in a trump-l'oeil technique. Like you I have a difficult time believing it was built 124 years ago. The pipes on the stage in the music hall are part of a Orchestrion, like what's on a merry go round but Huge! It doesn't seem functional now. I appreciate your content. Take care.✨

  • @bonnierobbins4230
    @bonnierobbins42308 ай бұрын

    Hello.. I'm new to you channel. I was born in Pittsburgh. Please mention the amount of smog that was on all buildings. Our house was covered! Back in the sixtys before EPA.. Another thought much of the city streets were leveled to a easier grade on the slope. Some as many as 10ft lower. On Mt.Washington it took many years before streets where paved..many would wash away. The Botanical Garden in the park is still open! It's beautiful! My father was a Civil Engineer for the city. His major projects were water management for flood control. And survey highway projects out and around parkway. Rt 376 Rt 51. That extended to Cranberry Pa. Northwest to Ohio. Thanks 😊

  • @ramencurry6672

    @ramencurry6672

    8 күн бұрын

    Very interesting. Smog problem is definitely a concern that should not be ignored

  • @rogerb5615
    @rogerb56158 ай бұрын

    Pittsburgh natives and recent arrivals can thank the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) for the survival and maintenance of many of these old buildings - down to and including fine old row houses in Manchester and Oakland.

  • @newkeds
    @newkeds Жыл бұрын

    During its peak, (1830-1930) Pittsburgh had more millionaires than New York City.

  • @vatiammatri2660

    @vatiammatri2660

    8 ай бұрын

    "millionaires row" 😉

  • @waltkeast9777

    @waltkeast9777

    7 ай бұрын

    True!

  • @tyleroreilly8195

    @tyleroreilly8195

    5 ай бұрын

    Before Hollywood and all of Americas major cities there was Pennsylvania. The northeast (Scranton area) of the state was among the wealthiest areas of the world at the time as well

  • @ramencurry6672

    @ramencurry6672

    9 күн бұрын

    St. Louis was kind of similar and amazing but now it’s terrible. But at least Pittsburgh is still good or at least decent enough

  • @themeltedtruth9283
    @themeltedtruth9283 Жыл бұрын

    LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!! Old World structures feel so incredibly familiar to me..as though this entire journey into our photographic past is more a process of remembrance, than discovery..

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Жыл бұрын

    well said! and thank you..

  • @bobwilson7684

    @bobwilson7684

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oldworldex hi, interesting video, regarding the idea that many of these buildings were destroyed on purpose..well it can be, but happens that because of my job I can often go into these old buildings, at the city I live at, and what I am finding in fact, is all the contrary, how much the shenanigans do for keeping them as much as possible, and think about it, if we are to accept that all this is much older...many of those buildings realy must go down, and having worked in public infrastructures, we dont realize how extremely difficult it is updating a city, and the maintenance, cities are real living creatures...once the routes of hundreds of years are settled and the flows of the water underground, just the size of the streets...you cannot go around adding or quitting material and weight wherever you want... I can tell you, many of these buildings are realy falling apart, indeed it is a miracle that there are still so many. The arguments given about their destruction, I think, respond more to a manouver of hiding/confusing the real date of construction

  • @Kat.Evangeline
    @Kat.Evangeline Жыл бұрын

    You came up im my feed as I am.watching a lot of Old World research. Ty

  • @Snillocad143
    @Snillocad1435 ай бұрын

    This was thorough, so thank you.

  • @scottbaker-ScottyB
    @scottbaker-ScottyB Жыл бұрын

    When I worked at the GE Locomotive plant in 1977. The interior work bay floors which housed metal machinery , cranes , etc. The flooring was composed of wood bricks the same size as masonry stone bricks.

  • @NewWestReset
    @NewWestReset Жыл бұрын

    Great job. A lot of those 'older' US cities were so wonderful in the past. Detroit, St Louis, Chicago, Pittsburgh, etc. Ah yes, the Carnegie libraries... we have one up here that I filmed. Interesting subject.

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Жыл бұрын

    will check it out! Got your email...will be in touch.

  • @NewWestReset

    @NewWestReset

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oldworldex Got it... thanks.

  • @saaketh83
    @saaketh836 ай бұрын

    I went to college in Pittsburgh and the history and lore in the area is so rich. Definitely old world it’s hard to go unnoticed, Even on pitt campus - the cathedral of learning rules!!!

  • @ramencurry6672

    @ramencurry6672

    8 күн бұрын

    Pittsburgh was well designed with old buildings. I’m from Philadelphia so I have an appreciation for old buildings so I do like Pittsburgh. There’s also some old cool historical buildings in Brooklyn and New Jersey too but it seems a little more noticeable in Pittsburgh

  • @gixxer750r3
    @gixxer750r3Ай бұрын

    a great city with interesting and vibrant history. I moved after college because I could not handle the winters

  • @ramencurry6672

    @ramencurry6672

    8 күн бұрын

    On the opposite end, there was a commenter on some other video who said that he wants to move to western PA because he cannot handle the Texas summers

  • @LJ-jj5vn
    @LJ-jj5vn Жыл бұрын

    Whenever I consider how many buildings, bridges, etc. all across North America they tell us they put up in such a short time frame I always find myself asking where all those places got all of the brick, stone, glass, STAIN GLASS, wood, etc that everyone would have clearly needed all at the same time and how they got it all delivered in such a timely manner seeing as a lot of stuff would have been shipped from fairly far away.

  • @Dommommy

    @Dommommy

    Жыл бұрын

    They just worked a lot harder than us is all. We have all this tech and build structures that need constant repair yet they constructed ingenious structures that are still a marvel. All with hammers and horses they figured out the secrets to free energy yet we have rolling outages. They sure were dumb, huh?! Consult with history books for our answers;-)

  • @timothydillow3160

    @timothydillow3160

    Жыл бұрын

    Don't be a troublemaker😅😅

  • @timothydillow3160

    @timothydillow3160

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Dommommy one friend of mine told me, "they didn't have TV to watch ?!" The Paradigm of contagion, the so-called moon landings, and the shape of our Realm and our history, Evoke cognitive dissonance in people more than any other subjects.

  • @timothydillow3160
    @timothydillow3160 Жыл бұрын

    Cities like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Syracuse, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Indianapolis, that have been disparaged and the brunt of many jokes, are the cities with the most out of place and glorious architecture. The Three Stooges have a film called "Half shot shooters," (1937) in which Larry is asked by an army recruiter if he was born in this country. Larry replied, "No Milwaukee" the architecture must have seemed otherworldly to someone going into these cities for the first time.

  • @Boston_Shovinstuff
    @Boston_Shovinstuff4 ай бұрын

    As a roofer , I have one thing to add here . These old world houses and buildings (that aren't flat roofs) usually have SLATE and copper roofs , that level of manufacturing ALONE makes me scratch my head . Having ripped and replaced many slate roofs in Boston/Harvard ... it's crazy to think how they did that . Also , a lot of slate roofs that I've replaced have it ripped and replaced with asphalt shingles and it's a shame . Only a building with the proper support can handle the weight of all of the stone up there . Why take away from that beauty with shingles , yah know ? It's another dying art form ... love your content bud .

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    4 ай бұрын

    valuable insight here thanks for adding this.

  • @Boston_Shovinstuff

    @Boston_Shovinstuff

    4 ай бұрын

    @oldworldex The old flat roofs I've ripped up are a hot mixed tar pour , sulfur based (literal pitch) and paper , in layers . It burns like hell when it gets on your skin , especially in the summer months . It looks like 6" of liquid coal has been spread and solidified across the entire surface . Anywho , you're welcome bud ! Go Canucks , aye ?

  • @TS-cc5bw
    @TS-cc5bw7 ай бұрын

    Excellent presentation... thank you. The loss of some of these wonders is enough to bring a tear to the eye. Happy to have been born & raised here... but so wish more of this glorious architecture had survived. Great stuff. More someday... please.

  • @MoonMirage_
    @MoonMirage_ Жыл бұрын

    Exciting! New video! Thank uuuuuu!!! This channel is so wonderful!!!!!!

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you too!

  • @SkinJOB

    @SkinJOB

    Жыл бұрын

    I love this channel ..! In fact it's in my top three .

  • @ironman4122
    @ironman41224 ай бұрын

    Good video n’at. Always thought Central Catholic was odd🖤💛🤟✌️

  • @bluevireo425
    @bluevireo425 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you...I don't mind the length .... simply beautiful. So sad though.

  • @christianmiller1723
    @christianmiller1723Күн бұрын

    Pittsburgher here. I've always had the same questions about the true age of some of these structures. As well as the seemingly anachronistic feats of engineering when it comes to building these things on, within, through, and on the side of hills! I pass by that cathedral on Smithfield street almost every day, and can take some much better photos if you're interested.

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Күн бұрын

    It's great to hear this from a local. Send me anything you like.. oldworldexplorations@gmail.com

  • @justinamontgomery2618
    @justinamontgomery2618 Жыл бұрын

    Hi! This is one of my favorites by far!! I AM ALMOST SPEECHLESS :) There is texture everywhere!!! It really stood out to me ....the county courthouse does not look like a design for a courthouse.....the Cathedral learning center....insane! The bridges are like no others I have seen, and so so many....the Heinz chapple snd Heinz Hall are out of this world....interesting how they have recorded building during the grest depression....old timers still hord their money from living back than....if there are any left living who lived back than...yeah we are all starving while these buildings were being flown up??? No way!...also how much were they charging for staying one night in one of those hotels? How much was the salary of the builders who built these buildings? You would never make your money back! I would love to visit this city and walk around....I see clearly why it was a longer video! Overall one of my favorites and thank you!! Pipe organs galore...I have yo do more about the semitic windows and organs! Ok looking forward to the next one....

  • @surelyknott5835
    @surelyknott5835 Жыл бұрын

    New subscriber really enjoyed your video I was just on Shady Ave a few days ago I live in Pittsburgh What I noticed was architecturally the building's seems to just be the tops of the building... I noticed in your pictures that they whited out the background Lots of secret societies doing rituals underground here Thanks for sharing your time and energy with us Have a fabtabulous abundant Life

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Жыл бұрын

    Same to you...thanks for being here!

  • @surelyknott5835

    @surelyknott5835

    Жыл бұрын

    Feels more like Gotham City... lmao The building's prior to this timeline were even more exquisite Have a peaceful day

  • @burnout_2017

    @burnout_2017

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@surelyknott5835The Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises was filmed there, so technically it is Gotham City....😅😅😅😅😅

  • @SkinJOB
    @SkinJOB Жыл бұрын

    Do love your work you really dig deep ! I simply don't have time to watch all my channels I follow ,,, but when your notification hits up I'm on it 💯 👌

  • @bobesposito7235
    @bobesposito723510 ай бұрын

    Pittsburgh and Lake Erie RR Station. Bldg is still there

  • @joannmay-anthony1076
    @joannmay-anthony1076Ай бұрын

    The burgh was very dirty during the iron and steel age but it is not dirty now. and if you find some of these buildings questionable, a lot of them still stand and you can come and see for yourself. It is the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall.

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Ай бұрын

    Questionable as to the story of their origins..not whether or not they exist.

  • @joannmay-anthony1076

    @joannmay-anthony1076

    Ай бұрын

    @@oldworldex I thought you where referring to the architectural aspects.

  • @Dommommy
    @Dommommy Жыл бұрын

    I've never seen many of these images before and I've been to Pittsburgh quite a few times. From what I remember, many of the hilly neighborhoods still have a lot of the old homes but most have been restructured to become apartments. Very old neighborhoods. I should go back some time with the eyes I see with now.

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Жыл бұрын

    I was surprised to find this much in Pittsburgh...I'd love to go sometime..

  • @Dommommy

    @Dommommy

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oldworldex If you ever do go, word to the wise, everything looks the same in some parts! There are old train overpasses that you can drive under in the neighborhoods that all look the same! Gorgeous, but similar. I've been lost in Pittsburgh to the point where I started to get nervous 😂😂. I'm telling you because no-one warned me. Don't go during the winter, there's a reason why everyone who lives there has dings in their cars. Other than that, enjoy yourself!

  • @michele-33

    @michele-33

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Dommommy I'm about 90 minutes SW of Pittsburgh. Potholes are brutal especially in Winter ☺️ Haven't been in several years, want to spend a day seeing the 'sights' before cold sets in. The air is much cleaner but so much industry has been lost. Ps: Are you in Pa?

  • @Dommommy

    @Dommommy

    Жыл бұрын

    @@michele-33 I'm in Ohio, 15 minutes west of Sharon and about an hour or so northwest of Pittsburgh.

  • @cathychilders5109
    @cathychilders5109 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent video, thank you for sharing. My great great grandparents Hoffman immigrated from Germany in 1864 to Pennsylvania. My great grandfather then moved to Ashland, KY were he worked at Armco Steel. He was also a Masonic member.

  • @vatiammatri2660
    @vatiammatri26608 ай бұрын

    Many projects were done with the CCC projects after the Depression like North Park and the stone boathouse, and the stone rails on Blackburn Rd going to Sewickley

  • @missfeliss3628
    @missfeliss3628 Жыл бұрын

    love love love love

  • @scottbaker-ScottyB
    @scottbaker-ScottyB Жыл бұрын

    Are Star Forts made to fight off the Giants ?

  • @justinhoward5556
    @justinhoward5556 Жыл бұрын

    I had the privilege of doing time in that prison with the bridge of sighs replica

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Жыл бұрын

    interesting..

  • @justinhoward5556

    @justinhoward5556

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oldworldex just a couple days, got busted with some acid at the grateful dead show there

  • @jthepickle7
    @jthepickle7 Жыл бұрын

    "Not enough Romans" , historians complain of the validity of the Roman Empire. "Not enough time, craftsmen, money" is my complaint of how far along the US, in 1850, is - in the way of railroads, canals, paved streets bridges and glorious buildings.

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Жыл бұрын

    I love the buildings, definitely doesn't add up. My favourite at the moment is the perfect curb work/sidewalks/and streets. It's a dead giveaway to me that all of this has been around much longer than we're told. Then there's the excavations that would have been required, often on city streets in close quarters so as not to disturb the neighbouring building. European farmers with shovels? African slaves? Convicts without a care? come on people, that dog don't hunt!

  • @jthepickle7

    @jthepickle7

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oldworldex If you woke up to find your building was 6 feet deeper than yesterday you'd probably pour a new 'sidewalk' all the way around it - tight against the building and 6 -8 inches taller than the new grade. That's why I think the curb work is 'ours' while the building is 'theirs'.

  • @jthepickle7

    @jthepickle7

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oldworldex The "200 State prisoners conscripted" story, constructing a government building sounds like a recipe for retribution! Similar to the story we're told of Romans conscripting the sons of the newly conquered - whose parents they killed - in building their aqueducts (what a great opportunity to get back at the Romans by building sloppy) Yet, some of those aqueducts stand to this day.

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jthepickle7 Interesting..

  • @mickward5020
    @mickward5020 Жыл бұрын

    Nice one mate. Cheers. Mick.

  • @ramencurry6672

    @ramencurry6672

    8 күн бұрын

    I’ve been to London

  • @benhamaty21
    @benhamaty216 ай бұрын

    Tartarian architecture at its finest

  • @garystile4955
    @garystile49552 ай бұрын

    The polished collum picture 19.31 time stamp you can see a little black square thats how dirty it actually was back then in Pittsburgh from the smog they left it as a reminder

  • @georgeprokopenko3044
    @georgeprokopenko3044 Жыл бұрын

    great show

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks George!

  • @deepviolet7982
    @deepviolet79829 ай бұрын

    Very interesting theory: WWII = collective memory wipe!!!

  • @mikedrown2721
    @mikedrown2721 Жыл бұрын

    👍👏😊 Thanks

  • @denisewalker7235
    @denisewalker72357 ай бұрын

    Are your referencing Tartaria and the MudFlood.?

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    7 ай бұрын

    something along those lines...our hidden history.

  • @sweetpeach3649
    @sweetpeach3649 Жыл бұрын

    How was the Old World hijacked? Genuinely curious.

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Жыл бұрын

    me too....that's why I explore.

  • @sweetpeach3649

    @sweetpeach3649

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oldworldex fair enough

  • @carlwalker9635

    @carlwalker9635

    Жыл бұрын

    ​​@@sweetpeach3649Some have theorized a natural cataclysm which changed the environment, and affected the Morphogenic Field, in the 19 th century; thereby, affecting people's memory, and contributing to mass amnesia of the survivors.

  • @Corpsecrank
    @Corpsecrank8 ай бұрын

    We are in the middle of yet another change like the one that wiped all this out. What we were calling the old world is about to become antiquity.

  • @tribeoflightband8145
    @tribeoflightband814511 ай бұрын

    Awesome research I’m going up to Pennsylvania in about a month and do some boots on the ground work if I get good images or video I’ll send them to you

  • @adamcreveling
    @adamcreveling3 ай бұрын

    You talk a lot about questioning the timeline of construction of these buildings. I am interested in what alternative timeline you propose, and where I could find more information on this topic?

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    3 ай бұрын

    I've got almost 200 videos on the topic you could dive into. Also I have linked many of the other content creators in this area on my channel. There is much to unravel...enjoy!

  • @TontoBongRonto
    @TontoBongRonto3 ай бұрын

    The massive church in the middle of the city is insane. It is so massive and out of place haha Edit : I guess its the damn courthouse.

  • @Kat.Evangeline
    @Kat.Evangeline9 ай бұрын

    Well those structures are haunted and I get to hear the lies they wrote for the buildings history whilst watching some Paranormal channels. In the last one - a hospital on a hill was an obvious mudflooder which went over the heads of the Ghost hunter. Another one (Prison) had a Tour Guide claim; The inmates built this part of the Prison.😮 Sure they did in 1895 or whatever.

  • @AbRamskiller41
    @AbRamskiller41 Жыл бұрын

    Always gotta look for painted people in these photos. Even found painted buildings, carts ect

  • @artbitesgregory
    @artbitesgregory Жыл бұрын

    I enjoy your narration very much. However, the background music is far too loud. Very distracting.

  • @SkinJOB

    @SkinJOB

    Жыл бұрын

    Can't have it all ( marie ) ☮️👍🏼

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Жыл бұрын

    I appreciate that Marie. I've noticed it comes in a bit loud between narration. I'm no master when it comes to video making. I'll keep it in mind...after all..we wouldn't want to drown out my narration..

  • @supersoulty
    @supersoulty4 ай бұрын

    Uhh… did everyone else just totally miss when he takes a hard turn from architecture appreciation into denying the official narrative of history and expressing his “expert” opinions that these buildings are ancient and can’t have been build between 1870 and 1940 as “Hollywood claims”. Like, dudes a crackpot.

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    4 ай бұрын

    Apparently you're the one who missed what I was trying to convey. Thanks for stopping in though..

  • @derrickcobb5360
    @derrickcobb5360 Жыл бұрын

    The trees, died giveaway

  • @powers1776reset

    @powers1776reset

    Жыл бұрын

    Are you referring to how young our current tree line is, or?

  • @travelingman484
    @travelingman4844 ай бұрын

    We weren’t great once upon a time.

  • @vatiammatri2660
    @vatiammatri26608 ай бұрын

    Also there is a street in Shadyside paved with wooden bricks that's still there

  • @ytube942

    @ytube942

    6 ай бұрын

    which street?

  • @pyrexmaniac
    @pyrexmaniac6 ай бұрын

    What do you propose these buildings represent? The comments questioning the history of these structures leaves me baffled......what do you propose these photos represent if not the actual historical narrative that exists ? The comments presented are speculative and very misleading.

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    6 ай бұрын

    I propose we have been lied to. The ego blinds us from even considering the possibility.

  • @milla698
    @milla698 Жыл бұрын

    This is very interesting, I propose that the warmongers of the world had a lot to do with this and there still at work 😢😢

  • @PalmSpringsPatriot
    @PalmSpringsPatriot Жыл бұрын

    You obviously have no idea what these pictures actually are. If you want to do a video like this you should know what you are talking about and as someone born and raised in Pittsburgh you do not.

  • @lorihammer151
    @lorihammer151 Жыл бұрын

    Could very very old be coal soot?

  • @vatiammatri2660

    @vatiammatri2660

    8 ай бұрын

    It's from the steel mills. Many of the black soot on the buildings has been removed to reveal the original stone. You can find pics from the steel era when there was so much smoke people had to shower twice a day. And day looked like night.

  • @deborahw5107

    @deborahw5107

    7 ай бұрын

    I was thinking that too, but then again, many of those photos were taken at the time when there was supposed to be a lot of smog. I was amazed at how clear many of those photos were.

  • @richardtate8621
    @richardtate8621 Жыл бұрын

    Have you heard of the Atlanta underground and the viaducts?

  • @richardtate8621

    @richardtate8621

    Жыл бұрын

    Basically proves there was a mud burial or something along those lines

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Жыл бұрын

    I have not. I'll be diving into it thank you!

  • @richardtate8621

    @richardtate8621

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oldworldex I look forward to the video you create after doing your research!

  • @SkinJOB

    @SkinJOB

    Жыл бұрын

    I know you seen CAMPBELL 'S VID😉

  • @wesleyshelby8163

    @wesleyshelby8163

    Жыл бұрын

    Ive heard of those viaducts and seen old photos of them.

  • @robertrichardstevenson4372
    @robertrichardstevenson4372 Жыл бұрын

    I enjoyed this presentation but it was confusing. There’s such an air of skepticism throughout the narration (along with some wonderment) yet there is this repetitive music of triumph.

  • @TacoTot
    @TacoTot10 ай бұрын

    Not trying to troll or stir up controversy, but is that a swastika in the yard? 2:55

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    10 ай бұрын

    It is...

  • @joncolburn5768

    @joncolburn5768

    9 ай бұрын

    ​City County Building, Soldier's and Sailor's Memorial, Carnegie Mellon, and Smithfield United Church of Christ, all Henry Hornbostel buildings.

  • @Effin_the_Chat
    @Effin_the_Chat11 ай бұрын

    Everything the old world built was so beautiful it makes me mental just to look at it. How could the robber barons be so psychotic that they would destroy it all rather than revive it?

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    11 ай бұрын

    Maybe they're not human...or have embraced their non human side?

  • @Effin_the_Chat

    @Effin_the_Chat

    11 ай бұрын

    @@oldworldex I think someone saw one of them on a plane recently. Those mother f*ckers are not real!

  • @Kat.Evangeline

    @Kat.Evangeline

    9 ай бұрын

    Bc they cannot create it & they wanted to destroy some evidence but the whole Washington DC ! Now we understand the United States lied.

  • @burnout_2017

    @burnout_2017

    7 ай бұрын

    It wasn't the robber barons of the 19th or early 20th century that did the damage, It mostly happened post WWII. Mellon, Carnegie, Heinz, Frick, and others were the bankroll for those buildings and bridges. From mid 1800s to early 1900s Pittsburgh was the richest place in the world. If you ever get the chance do an architectural tour there, allow a week or so to really see it because there are some spectacular buildings in the area. Its hosts engineers and engineering students quite often just to study the bridges. It is one of the few, if not the only, place in the world that has examples of every type of bridge construction. There are 446 of them in total, the most of any city in the world.

  • @bobesposito7235
    @bobesposito723510 ай бұрын

    U of Pgh, Cathedral of Learning - inverted mine shaft of learning

  • @emsaiii
    @emsaiii6 ай бұрын

    not very well informed about the city ty

  • @darlenelake1657
    @darlenelake1657 Жыл бұрын

    why were the people of Europe coming here suddenly ? what triggered this big move? I can understand Ireland with famine but why Poland? Germany? Chech Republic??? etc.

  • @vatiammatri2660

    @vatiammatri2660

    8 ай бұрын

    Opportunity in the steel mills. Pittsburgh was the hub of steel and armaments production.

  • @musiccitymanpresents
    @musiccitymanpresents Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for doing the video, the pictures were nice, but really, why are you so surprised at all the various stone and brick buildings? It is nothing new, natural materials have been used in construction all over the world since before the golden age of the Egyptians. These Pittsburgh buildings are not very old, they are just old, the Notre-Dame de Paris is very old. The dome of the rock in Jerusalem is very old. The pyramids are very, very old.

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Жыл бұрын

    I think there's more to the story than what we've been given...much more. Thanks for watching..

  • @musiccitymanpresents

    @musiccitymanpresents

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oldworldex What could that "much more" be? It would be appropriate for you to share your speculation with your viewers.

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Жыл бұрын

    @@musiccitymanpresents That's what I'm doing with the channel. If you want answers, that's something I am seeking but don't claim to have. It's all speculation...and I know we have been lied to.

  • @musiccitymanpresents

    @musiccitymanpresents

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oldworldex OK that is somewhat more clarifying, I think you believe we the citizens of the US are being lied to about construction techniques? If so who is doing it, and why would they do it? Knowing that people only lie to gain some sort of advantage over others, what advantage could that possibly be?

  • @ramencurry6672

    @ramencurry6672

    8 күн бұрын

    If you’re interested in seeing something very very old, the Grand Canyon has rocks that’s literally a billion years old. There’s also land formations in Sedona Arizona where it used to be an ocean millions of years ago

  • @pineyforkpress
    @pineyforkpress5 ай бұрын

    Do your homework before posting, stop blabbing on w/o facts.

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    5 ай бұрын

    Homework?...will there be a test?

  • @dennisstone1207
    @dennisstone1207 Жыл бұрын

    Praise Jesus

  • @ramencurry6672

    @ramencurry6672

    9 күн бұрын

    Is there a reason why?

  • @lennyandcolluraaregay5545
    @lennyandcolluraaregay5545 Жыл бұрын

    if you get a chance, could you please do a video on Altoona PA? I would be curious what you could find in your research

  • @oldworldex

    @oldworldex

    Жыл бұрын

    I've started a file. It'll be my next video.