I worked at both Suburban Station and 30th station back in the late 70s. I knew many of the tunnels but it just looks so differently now. I could walk, underground, from the southern end of the Walnut Spruce concourse, all the way to the Greyhound station at about 19th and Market.

Philly native... been here 46 years.. been driving since 16. havent seen much of this underground Philly in years. thanks for this. so much has changed

15:09. That long tiled hallway down to City Hall station on the Broad Street line used to be super dark, lit by only a few dangling bulbs! I cannot tell you how many dozens or hundreds of times my mom or dad and I walked from the Subway to get to the John Wanamaker’s basement through that hall. A solid Philly memory for me in the seventies and eighties!

@nicholasambrosini7078

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I'm almost positive it was still that way a decade ago! Or at least... not this brightly lit. I remember it being dark and dingy still walking through these when I was in high school as well (though there definitely wasn't still Wanamaker's, haha)

That was a-mazing! Good work and thanks for posting!

That North portal of City Hall is my favorite. So pretty, all the colored marble columns. And a view down to the foundations of the building, which are like 20 feet thick, since it's an all masonry building, no steel girders in the construction ..

That Lit Brothers hat trimming, I think, referred more to ladies hats, which were very ornate, and had lace and ribbons, etc. The trimming referred to those hats, which took a lot more time to make them "finished" and presentable.

When I was little, my grandmother and grandfather lived in a father son, Holly Ghost House 3 stories at front and fitzwater St. At one time, it was a captains house in the early 1700s their are some many tunnels under the old city. My father took us there when we were small .the tunnels were from the 1700s . When we saw these tunnels, we were small and me and my brothers and I couldn't remember how to get there, but we entered from a basement in old city

I grew up near Frankford and Allegheny and went to middle school at Masterman (17th and Spring Garden). My friends and I spent a lot of time after school in those concourses. We'd walk down 17th street to Arch and go in through the Aetna building, then down towards City Hall, sometimes to the Gallery, before jumping on the El to K&A. Later on in high school, I remember that concourse goes into the basement of a hotel up near 19th Street, which hosted small comic book conventions a few times a year. It was like a hidden underground city to us back in the 80s. From City Hall, you used to be able to go north to around Cherry Street and south to around Locust, in a concourse that follows the Broad Street subway. Thanks for the tour, Captain!

Great video ! I was born and raised right across the river in South Jersey, I love Philly!!👍

The last time I came back from Chestnut Hill, I had a Starbucks coffee outside Sketchers store, I watched 2 women put 3 pairs of men,s shoes in a big shopping bag and walk out.

Well, in the 80's, I remember walking to Market Street entrance and there being an underground shopping mall thingy. It was dark and dirty but functional. Glad to see it has been improved. Same for center city Hall building. Don't go underground but I do drive around the Penn building (City Hall) still. Thanks for the video.

Fantastic four today...thankyou. What a beautiful city and seeing the underground areas is amazing. It's hard to know if you have a wide angle lens or if the corridors are as wide and as long as they appear online. The use of murals is a very clever idea rather than seeing lots of empty store fronts ...people have constant art gallery which adds to the beauty of the city. How do these areas keep homeless and drug addicted people out especially during winters cold? I'm surprised those tunnels have so few people using them. In Australia we don't have underground cities like you have shown today... It would be good to revisit Philly in winter. I am imagining you get snow which we don't have in our cities either. The are snowfields for skiing in Australia but rarely do we get snow in our cities. Thx again. 🦘🌻

Amazing architecture ! Phillies merchandise & Eagles must be selling well.

Thank you for the video😊. So many memories. I haven't been down a subway or walked around city hall since the eighties.

Yo Cuz, that hallway has smelled like piss since at least 1989.

I used the like the seating area in the basement of the Lit Bros. building. Lunch time they used to have someone playing the piano down there. Plus the halal cart at 8th& Market used to be one of the best in the city.

I don't.l know what they changed when they redid Dilworth Plaza, but you used to be able to get from 6th and Market street, up to 18th and JFK east and west and Cherry st to the Gayborhood north and south. There is also an East/West concourse, but that is LONG abandoned, and I was never able to get in there. Where that mosaic mural was in Suburban Station, I am pretty sure used to be the turf club. 8th Street is off/on pissy... But 11th street is where the bums congregate. The reason 13th looks decent isn't really because of the Wanamaker building so much as 1234 Market is Septa's HQ 😉

I wish you could take regional rail to Harrisburg and/or Pittsburg, but that's not the case. Also, why no mention of the Broad Street Line?

Thank you for the memories I used to pass through there

Doo a tour of valley green ❤❤❤ beauti park plz😊

Yo cuz all the way from Louisiana (the Boot) club. Thank you Captain I fell down the escalator in John Wanamaker’s when I was on a school field trip in 1st grade. All I remember seeing were those teeth at the bottom waiting to get me. I would still ride them after that but it would take me a long time to actually finally step onto it.

Cap I'd love a Philly tour from you

Ok there are people ! Sleeping in the street .

Yo Cuz...that's how l remember center city smelling......some 18 years ago....the last time l hoofed it in that area,.......get the feeling that will be the one thing that will never change....l got to the top of One Liberty Place right before it opened & got one hell of a view of the city.....you could see right down into the Vet & far beyond

That was a good tour. I’m a Jersey girl. (Shore). So this is so new to me. Keep ‘em coming. Toodles.

i always watch your videos all the way

Take everyone down into that homeless tunnel by the municipal building what was it called the last hope or something it’s really horrible down there

i always wanted to do this!!!!

18:32. The little hut which is now a Starbucks 😆used to be the location of the City Tourist Information Center, where you could buy Phillies tickets and tickets for the “Fairmont Park Trolley” to take you to the Zoo.

It’s a flash mob . Because of social media !!!

A downtown bball arena for the Sixers might be a good idea. From what I read the arena would be paid for with private money. More people would have to take public transport. But I can see that area booming with bars and restaurants. Chinatown may even benefit. I am sure that the nearby Convention Center would benefit as well as the Liberty Bell tourist area and even Old City. $1.3 billion sounds like a lot of money.

you mean underground *in* philadelphia, right? cuz a mile underground philly would be kinda hot

Can you do a video at 30th street station?

Do you ever visit churches . Ya know see the inside of them and tour them ? There are some really historic and beautiful churches in Philly Such as Old Swedes also a church in East Oak Lane , not far from 5th that used to be the East Oak Lane U.C.C church. It was gorgeous in there.

@ritabengermino317

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Thank you. It smells pretty bad down there. It brought me back when I kind of remember as a kid when the concourse was new and Penn Center had nice stores. 👍🏻🏙️🚃🚉

Good show, Cap! - David Washington, KDJW-5

Yo cuz! That spot smelt really bad!

Is this the old Gallery around the 7 minute mark?

i went to upper darby high school

Yo cuz...that smelled like shit! Going to the Gallery...that was always the bomb. It was always depressing going back to MacDade Mall after a visit there. We always went to the Gallery to spend our Christmas money. Iwas always fascinated with the bacon that was wrapped in white paper vs commercial 🥓 bacon at the market. Please do a follow up on the Hobbit door! Im thinking of putting one in...curious what is behind it, 😂 Keep bringing back the memories! TY x

Yo cuz, that spot smelled really bad, didn't it? I had no idea that the Gallery had changed so much. I didn't know where I was until you got to the Cinnabon, which the building above it used to be the Aramark building...don't know who's in it now.

Train tour would be nice plus airport

No place for people to sleep ! Down there ! Or people ! Down there ! There’s a lot of people that now know about it . Thank you .

I'd love to know where the thumbnail takes place lol. Could it be the abandoned Northeast Tower subway station at Roosevelt Blvd & Adams Ave?

Do you know about byberry hospital the underground tunnels that go under the Roosevelt blvd Wonder if still there since hospital been torn down and only building still standing is self help building. That would be neat to know.

Piss and looting flash mobs. I wonder why there are so many vacant stores. 😂

How about byberry/ eastern state?

used to be much nicer when we were kids...cant say it smelled any better

Hey Captain. I’m part of the all the way club!! 💯. I hope all is well ❤NewJersey ❤❤

Lincoln gave a speech in the lobby of a crap Woolworths knock-off (5 below)? I just gave the best clickbait title for free.

@ThePhillyCaptain

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That’s good. That’s not clickbait it’s all true

Check out palmer cemetery

No bs my car was down for couple months last year and i use to get dove deodorants 3 for 5, big dove for men soaps 2 for $5 and detergents for $5 packs of nike socks t shirts for like 1/3 the piece i got nice ass guess bubble coat for $30 had $200 tag on it and when i got off train found guy wit the magnets and got security tag off for $5. the El has the best deals in the city beside Kensington Ave when i use to work on corner u could get damn near anything for under $20 i seen a guy sell a 20k john deer tractor he drove from jersey to kensington at 2am and sold it for 900 bucks i got $1200 bicycle one night for $20 and sold online in another state for $750 took 2 months but was worth the investment i coukd literally go on all day about deals ive gotten or seen ppl get its not the straw purchasing thats causing gun problems in big cities its the drive trade ppl come down kenzo sell a $1000 gun for 2 bundles wich coat the ppl buyin em $55 each

Simpson playground in northeast philly

Yo cuz all the way club

Hi. Can you give a tour of Fishtown? That"s one of the areas I want to visit.

@ThePhillyCaptain

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Type Philly Captain Fishtown in the search. You will find hours of content

@deaconmichael4255

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@The Philly Captain Yes I see it and actually watching at this time.

yo cuz

they spent all that money redoing the mall and now the property owner filed for bankruptcy. id how they could go bankrupt when they have like a million tenants in 4 malls. I think putting the sixers stadium in the middle of the city is a bad idea. the roads are already clogged as it is.

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Do a tour of all the rub clubs in China Town 🤣🤣 I'm sure the guys would like that information 🤷🏻😂🤣 Edit: is the Greyhound station the happiest place because of what's next door?🤣🤣🤣

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Yo cuz

Yo Cuz that spot smelled really bad didn’t it

Yo cuz! That spot really smelt bad, didn't it?

Yo cuz, what's up Cap, dude I used to work right there in that brown building 18th & Market 28:22 for 16 years. I started there in 2006 and until 2020, got laid off because of damn Covid. Was this on a weekday when you filmed this video? Because if it was, it used to be a whole lot more people out pre-pandemic.

Lincoln is not buried in philly.

Looks like they cleaned up lil bit cause last year alot of people were living in them hallways down there and they stank like a mfr proly kicked em out wit all the crazy shit been happening on septa

11:28 RESPECT YOUR ELDERS

@ThePhillyCaptain

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Writing in all caps is never a good look

YO CUZ, THAT SPOT SMELLED REALLY BAD !...Great video PHILLY CAPTAIN along Market St above and underground to CITY HALL...Very exciting & TOODLES..

Yo cuz....That area really smelled that bad huh?

Yankers that really smelt bad 😂😂😂😂😂

Yooo cuz i was high and forget what u said after that😆

That stunk...lol...all the way!

Yo Cuz, the smell was real!

Yo Cuz, that spot really smelled bad, didn’t it? And I can still remember the smell of piss blasting out from the subway entrances 😂

Yo Cuz - I have to walk through that spot every day to get to work. It is disgusting! I am not a creep, just am a commuter. Can you video underground from 16th & Locust through the BSL station to 11th & Locust?

grandmas houses matter.....just sayin

That smelled really bad Cuz

Do Chinese Temple if you can get inside

Well that was dumb it looked like you were actually going to walk down an abandoned subway route not a stupid mall

Clickbait ugh

How can I post you some $ as thanked for your posts please?🦘