This was my first time ever filming a movie set. Was a very interesting location and experience.

@rj78productions88

4 жыл бұрын

I knew you would like it. :)

@ghostcityshelton9378

4 жыл бұрын

At-6:33- Wasn't that Shawn Connelly or 007 ? I went to Univeral Studeos in Ca. and we went inside the Bates house, & some other sets, one was a Western set, they had a guy hideing under the bar to 'shoot' stuff, also told us the glasses were made a suger & so were the 'glass windows' were made of suger so no one was cut with glass. We saw the air bags the stunt guys fell into when they were 'shot' while standing on buildings. Thank you for the mineing tour!!

@karenpacker8862

4 жыл бұрын

Love your footage and photo montage. Amazing place...you sure bring history alive!!!

@susanroethemeyer8730

4 жыл бұрын

JPVideos It was Sean Connery!

Pretty interesting place to visit. Have some nice houses that they should rehab before they fall in. Glad they made it a place for people to come and see how things used to be.

That was very cool video. There is some thing that you missed, the company stores would charge double ,triple the prices on the items in those stores. That's how they kept miners working for the mine. It's also how CO-OP's were put into effect for farmers, miners and small communities. Everybody in community would have a say to what was purchased and the pricing. Not just the owners of the store, or owner of the mine. Growing up in rural community the CO-OP store was where we bought groceries, fabric for clothing, fuel for tractors, cars and heating.

“🎶16ton what da ya get,another day older and deeper in debt,Saint Peter don’t ya call me cause I can’t goooo...I owe my soul to the company store!🎶 “that song popped into my head

@Sandy-is2kf

4 жыл бұрын

Me too Chubby, the very first thing was that song!!! 😁

@oldenweery7510

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sandy-is2kf If they took a gate count---you know, four verticals with a diagonal slash at five---It would eat up a lot of the comment section! That song by Tennessee Ernie Ford made people think, back in the day!

@Sandy-is2kf

4 жыл бұрын

@@oldenweery7510 Tennessee Ernie Ford, Thank you Oldenweery I was racking my brain trying to think of the performers name. I can see him clear as a bell.

@Sandy-is2kf

4 жыл бұрын

@@oldenweery7510 Yes I know that song spoke the truth. My Great Grandfather was a miner in West Va. I didn't know him but my Mom told stories about visiting him during summer and life in those coal towns. 😳

@oldenweery7510

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sandy-is2kf I just looked it up to find its origin and found it was written by Merle Travis. He was born and raised in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, so he _knew._ Although he recorded it himself in 1946, Ernie Ford popularized it in 1955---or, rather, the deejays did, by playing the B side of his recording of "You Don't Have to be a Baby to Cry." (That wasn't unusual, as the deejays sometimes _preferred_ the "flip side" to the A song.) The people of that region were "Good People," salt of the earth.

Great video and photos! Love old towns like that! Would love to go on a road trip and visit a few!

This was fascinating. The history surrounding the area is bitter- sweet - true for most any historical site...Thank you for capturing it all so beautifully!

Very cool lots of nice property around the houses enjoyed the video.

Eckley's mining village is a great place to check out. I did the tour about 12 years ago.

JP, this was put together very well. Very informative and entertaining! Thanks for sharing!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear you enjoyed it. Thanks

So nice of Cliff to pose for almost all your photo montage. Lol. Friends are forever JP...

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

He didnt have a choice lol

Oh is fantastic, wow I love all of it. Inside and out. Beautiful photos. Thank you Jay. AllieJo.

I get it , cuz I am enjoying this myself. My father was a coal miner when I was a wee girl. Later in life he built sea walls in Florida. Takes me back. Thanks a bunch

Fascinating history to a beautiful location. LOVE the comraderie and banter between yourself and Cliff!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

😁

Wow that’s a really cool place! Love the big creepy old metal building

Cool tour and thanks for adding the really cool history. Gave thumbs up as always

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah yeah i know... still not abandoned 😁

@pokemonhunter9409

4 жыл бұрын

@@JPVideos81 semi abandoned... Was interesting to watch from a historical view, no complaints here! 😂

Beautiful scenery, interesting story, well done video🖒 I really enjoyed it ☺

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks ruth

Oh it's kept so beautiful. I'd enjoy walking around there. 🌹❤🌹

Where's the pic of the cute little kitty....lol. Nice video, great history lesson even tho it is a sad one.

At-9:34-- See where the little washer with the ringer is? next to it is the metal tub, they'd fill it with water & underneath there's a small stove area where they'd have a fire to heat up the water where they'd put their clothes in to try & wash clothes. There was one like it along with the ringer washer in my grandfather's barn. My grandmother taught me how to make a small loom to make rugs like the one shown in the miners bed room. The round rugs were made buy wrapping cloth around & sewing them together like a rope, then you start wrapping them around & sewing that together till you had it as big as you wanted it and tie it off at the end. To clean them back in the day the rug would go over a clothes line and the rug got beaten with a paddle or broom. If taken care of they lasted a long time. Grandma would take their worn un-needed clothes and make beautiful bed spreads filled with feathers for warmth in the winter. They had 7 kids that lived and lost 4 others as very young children. Times were alot harder back then.

@Sandy-is2kf

4 жыл бұрын

Ghost City Shelton it sounds like you had a wonderful grandma me too and I was blessed enough to know my great-grandma for a short time I have her quilts that I'm trying to finish quilting by hand. Thank you for sharing that awesome information. I don't know about you but once my great grandma and my grandma had passed on to heaven I often wish I had asked so many more questions about how their life was in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Thanks again that was a great awesome share.

My husband and I were married in the church at 28:47 . It is beautiful inside. I used to be an Eckley Player (reenactor) when I was a kid/teen and plan to return to it this year now that I am back in the area. I used to babysit the historical directors kids when I was about 14. They lived in one of the houses and it amazing to see the difference between inside and outside of the residential homes. If I remember correctly, the current day company store or the breaker is not original. It was built specifically for the movie. I dont recall which. Eckley holds a special place in my heart. There is just something about it.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

You're correct. Breaker and store was built for the Molly Maguires movie. Thanks for sharing

Nice Video and I just became one of your Patreon's!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Thank You so much for posting these great videos with all the information. My grandfather was born in Scranton and my great grandmother in Justus, PA. I live in CA and have never been to this area of the country and you bring me a real perspective of where my family came from.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

Really great video, full of history, thanks!

This was fabulous. Loved the history you gave. I watched Cliffs as well you are both so different it’s exciting watching both. Thanks for taking me along

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

I wish I could get out and do stuff like that.......I really love taking nature photos!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

I love seeing and sharing all these great places.

Really enjoyed this tour . I love history and this was " right up my alley " ....Love the fact that the property has been saved and is maintained for future generations to enjoy. ... I always learn something new when I watch your videos.. . Thanks for taking us along. ...

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to see you at the Premiere.

Loved the whole mining town tour video

That place is really interesting and what those coal minors had to do. Really this is just awesome out of this world the history just blows out my brains. I am glad that the homes were not so close together, gave familys privacy. What a nice gift shop. This is super greate tour. I love it all. Many thanks.

I really enjoyed watching this video. The history is so interesting, what a beautiful area. The poor coal miners that actually worked so hard. What a rough life. As always, thank you for sharing. You do a great job!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much

Absolutely beautiful

Hey there Jay! I have to tell you that I love this video. I love the old houses and the beautiful Victorian mansions. The only thing with this vid is that a song kept playing in my head: SIXTEEN TONS. I'm sure you've heard it and how the guy owes his soul to the company store! Great vid Jay! Thanks!!!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

🙂

Thanks for the tour!

Very interesting and informative, great photos! Thanks for sharing.

I was a little tyke when they filmed the Molly Maguire's near here. Back then there were no hotels around Eckley, they used to fly Sean Connery by helicopter every day to the Host Motel in Wilkes Barre. Those who are familiar with the area, it was behind Denny's near the Wyoming Valley Mall. The helicopter would land on the 8 hole golf course behind the hotel. Us kids used to go every day to watch the helicopter land. Sean Connery used to talk to us, he was really nice to us kids.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Oh wow, thanks for sharing

@taralewis2606

4 жыл бұрын

@Karen Brennan ~ That’s awesome! He’s always been one of my favorite actors. Good looking too!! ❤️

@kaybee1286

4 жыл бұрын

@@taralewis2606 I just wish we we were old enough to appreciate that we were in the company of a LEGEND!!...but we totally were NOT...LOL. The appeal to us was the helicopter landing in the tiny golf course... NOT the people in it! 😉

@taralewis2606

4 жыл бұрын

@Karen Brennan ~ Oh, that’s too funny! 😂

I really enjoyed that. Very nice place. Love all the green. And the houses was beautiful. they ones that where falling apart I bet was nice in there day.

You told the history of this old mining town exceptionally well, I'm not good at listing but was captivated, so very sad , how big company's treat the little folk , still goes on to a certain degree, would like to watch H the movie now , thanks and yes enjoying heaps

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much

Such an awesome place to visit. I love the history about it. I lived in a coal mining town in Southeast Ohio, close to West Virginia. We also had the Gem of Egypt shovel which did the strip mining. My brother worked in both, under ground and strip mining. It was sometimes pretty scary.

@taralewis2606

4 жыл бұрын

Jackie Baggett ~ I live in South Central Ohio! Howdy neighbor! I know there were a lot of coal mines and coal towns in your area. You can still find some foundations in some of them.

@jackiebaggett6123

4 жыл бұрын

@@taralewis2606 That's awesome! I lived in Barnesville, about 30 miles west of Cambridge, Ohio. Out I-70. I love it when people understand the region.

@taralewis2606

4 жыл бұрын

@Jackie Baggett ~ I know where that is! I live in Circleville, about 20 miles south of Columbus. One thing our towns have in common are Pumpkins!! 🎃 You have the Pumpkin Festival and we have the Pumpkin Show, which is a festival too!! In fact, our water tower is painted like a pumpkin. It’s a small world!

@jackiebaggett6123

4 жыл бұрын

@@taralewis2606 That is so crazy! There aren't to many people who know about our pumpkin festival and where Barnesville is. I kind of know where Circleville is. My sister lived in Columbus and Westerville and we had other family in the southern area of Columbus. I can't remember where. It's so cool you have a pumpkin show as well. Do they do a contest for the King Pumpkin? I think last year it was around 1500lbs. I miss it terribly. I haven't been back since 2009. But some day I have to go see family.

@taralewis2606

4 жыл бұрын

@Jackie Baggett ~ It really is crazy and that we’re fellow urbexers meeting on KZread!! 😆 We have the Largest Pumpkin prize which was 1,607 lbs. last year! You’ll have to google it sometime. Circleville basically shuts down for Pumpkin Show. People take their vacation time off work, schools and businesses close...it’s pretty amazing! Yeah, you’ll have to get back to yours soon. Do you live far away from Barnesville now?

Awesome video! I love old places like this with history! Your video is very informative! Loved it!! 👍

Great history. Thank you.

Love this video! Great location! I also enjoyed you picking on Cliff! So cute! 😂😂😂 Photo montage was amazing! Thanks for letting us explore with you! Take care, my friend. Be safe, and see you in the next one!!! 🙋🏽‍♀️😁😃💙💙💙

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Hope your feet weren't too tired from walking with us haha

@topherloverjones8449

4 жыл бұрын

@@JPVideos81 I soaked them afterwards, so no worries!!! 😉😉😉😁😃💙💙💙

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

@@topherloverjones8449 😂

Thank you for this one! I loved seeing the houses, the scenery and all that was there! That is the kind of area/place I'd love to live... in one of those homes.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Very peaceful

There's a lot to see and do. Really nice museum ! awesome video and great pictures JP !

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Ty eric

Why thats Sean Connery ! Cooolll little scale model !! Cool little locomotive ! 😎 video really enjoyed it really neat little churches as well ! Realky enjoyed the 📷 at the end great work as always !!

Fun to watch your video and Wondering Woodsman. Interesting to see different perspectives

What a great way to spend an end of summer day. Thanks for bringing us along with you and Cliff.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

This was great. Well put together

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Good video, good info ...

that's an interesting place, hope to get there sometime

This was awesome. 😊

Great video, JP. Cool place.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Ty

The remaining town is beautiful - so peaceful. It belies the true social/economic conditions of the original town. The struggle between labor and money was long and brutal, throughout in coal country.

That was a great place. Thanks JP

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Another great video JP very cool

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Ty for checking it out

Liked your perspective on this explore as well as some great camera shots! Will be going there to see myself.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much

Great video Jay!!! Those were some nice houses, nothing fancy but still nice!!! I wonder why they haven't restored all of the houses? The mine owner's house did look like a mansion... Beautiful!!! Very nice lil town!!! I love the pictures which are gorgeous!!! Thank you Jay for sharing!!!

I didn't realize there was a fee merely to walk around this place. It's been probably 30+ years since I was there. I think I went there last with a school group in the 80's.

Very interesting video especially with all the information.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Really cool place - would be nice to sit and have a picnic, if it didn't rain! Pretty spot. It would be interesting to get to see inside some of the buildings. I loved the moss-covered steps! Thanks, JP!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure kelly

Another interesting piece of history. Liked the music choice at the end.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Ty bobbie

Thanks Jay for the wealth of information and the beautiful video and picture montage. I'm glad they decided to turn the town into a museum rather than letting it fall into disrepair . Thanks again!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

Really enjoyed this.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

🙂

AWESOME AWESOME VIDEO!! I loved it and can not wait to show it to Angel. Lots of amazing history. Thank you so much Jay!!! So so so amazing!!!! 🇺🇸☺😇🌟The slide show is Top of the line!! Great photography!! God Bless and Be Safe!!

Wow! What a great place to visit. I agree I would rather explore on my own but it would be interesting to see the inside of some buildings. The structure built for the movie was my favorite. Thanks for taking us along .

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

With the amount of abandoned buildings/houses I've been inside of, i was ok passing on seeing these ones.

Nice commentary. You have a soothing voice. I loved the nostalgic background music. Interesting place to visit.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Ty dawn

Very neat yet sad when you think of those poor coal miners stuck in poverty. Way different from the old copper mining Town that I call home. I love the history. Thank you so much.

Beautiful area interesting town

We've been there, found it very eerie😱 Great video and nice shots! Love your new t-shirt JP!!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much

thanks, i enjoyed it.

That looks like a great place to go visit 😊 JPVideos.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Its definitely unique with it being used as a movie set.

Nice story and very well told. They had a lot of these in the south , WVa, Va, Ky and Tn . Kinda sad in the end.

At-6:33- Is that 007 dude S. C.? Yay! A new super interesting JP video! 😁 Big 🖒s up as always!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Sean connery

fantastic video

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Cool video! I love mining stuff.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!

I have always wanted to go there! Thanks JP

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Now you have 🙂

Interesting to see

Hello Jp, from North Carolina , great video and I really enjoyed it !!! ♥️😀 and I also found it very interesting ...😃

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Ty

Awesome video.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Ty

really enjoyed the video it was mind blowing that the same people who rented them their homes owned the general store there was no way they could get ahead love the scene with the house with the building behind it

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Sad, but good look at times of the past.

Great video!!! Loved the information...I'm always learning something new...also just waiting one of these times when you or Cliff are looking in a Window someone or something is going to be looking back and I'm going to poop my pants..🤣🤣

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

Talk about a racket the company got free labor with only the cost of food. They took all the money back from the workers at the company store.

Great video. My friend and I actually renovated a bunch of those houses back in 2005ish. Neat little town. I believe the occupied houses are descendants of the miners. No new owners are allowed to move in. So, there’s only a few left. Not 100% sure, but that’s what I heard.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

That's correct. I was told that by the gift shop employee.

Great video😎🌞😎🌞👍👍

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

💙

hi jp videos i like to see what and how people, lived in years gone by. i have found that the further people go back , some times it can become more misterious, there for less is found out. this is another fine example of time gone by. nice one jp . stephen hall u k eckley mineing

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching

This video was interesting on a few levels for me. First off I am always interested in places to take a day trip, and being a history buff, this place is in my wheelhouse. Secondly I have watched many of your abandoned mine videos so to see this restored town is nice perspective.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. We often see ruins or remants of mining towns and operations. So its a nice change to see one that is still intact. I think you'll enjoy it if you go.

love it

Very cool video, I'm in Kutztown so it would be a great day trip adventure for me. I'd love to check it out!. Love to see more of your videos for berks county. I'm sure I just havnt seen them all. Lol

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

I plan on returning here to check out the old cemetery.

For some reason I hear the "get off my lawn" in Sean Connery's voice...

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

Loved the video!! Ironically I'm descended from a Molly McGuire nice to see where the movie was filmed

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Oh wow

Another interesting video. Thank you for taking me places i am unable to go on my own. I'm still catching up on your videos i missed during the hurricane. No flooding & i didn't end up in oz but we were without power so I'm behind. The deteriorating houses make me sad. Other countries have hundreds of years of historical architecture but we seem to rip ours down or just let them fall down. I'm glad that some were preserved. It was such a tough way of life. Not the streets paved with gold that some immigrants expected. Great video. I'll be waiting for the next one.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and stay safe

Jay remember you video where there was a structure kind of like what is in the picture to the left? Maybe the one you were in was used for like the what they used it for in the picture. Maybe there was a building on top of it in days gone by and maybe was used as a spring house or something. Wonderful pictures!

I went as a kid. I loved the one church there.

This is such a cool video and man that is such a big place it’s crazy how people actually live there if I lived there I would probably be snooping around lol 😆

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Haha

Just seen that the movie "The Molly Maguires" is on Amazon Prime. Of course I had to put it on my " watch list " .

Great examples of how wooden structures weather!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed

Cliff tends to wonder mostly in the woods

The boxes along the road hide the fire hydrants, I believe, while some of the outbuildings hide satellite dishes. It’s all in keeping with maintaining the period-correct look to the area.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Makes sense. Thanks

Have you ever been to Rodney, Mississippi? the place is a ghost town... there's so much there and its a safe place to explore. people still live down there, but not many

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Never been to Mississippi

@DeadlyKnot

4 жыл бұрын

@@JPVideos81 ok

Watch your video and the one from The wondering woodsman. Pretty cool to watch both perspectives. Thanks for sharting

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking them out

What great video! The history of the area of coal mining business. I would hope the articles that are for sale in the gift shop are made in America. Thanks again for the most informative video!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

little added on room near back of them is the added bathroom they never had.