Some like flights. Some like hotels. Some like history, and some like stories. Gremlins like it all. Well, they like flights best of all. And old buildings. And cats. Right. Travel, far and near (at present, the Gremlin Towers stands in Ontario, Canada, so this is where we start from). Cost included.
Rochester was full of Great Corporations such as Rochester Products also part of General Motors, AC Delco, which later became ITT, and was sold to a French company named Valeo, There was Xerox, Bauch & Lomb, Kodak, Cooper Vision, The University of Rochester Medical school, Wegmans supermarket Chain, BJs wholesale club. there were plenty of jobs, a great economy it the 60's, 70's and 80's and 90's. I was fortunate to start my life there with my brothers and cousins escaping Communist Cuba and leaving my families Businesses taken over by Communism. Such a great Nation America is. We came over legally and started our new life in Rochester. Many fond memories of the wonderful people in Rochester that we will be forever grateful. God Bless America and God Bless Rochester....
The city of Rochester is like so many other cities in NYS that are run by corrupt Democrats and are basically WELFARE SYSTEM CITIES .CRIME, CORRUPTION, DRUGS,HOMELESS. MORE TAXPAYERS HAVE AND STILL ARE MAKING AN EXODUS FROM ALL DEMOCRATIC PARTY RUN STATES .POLITICAL CORRUPT OVER TAXED NO ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE LARGEST deficits due to miss management and corruption. The facts speeks the truth slow death environment then rapidly.The city of Rochester now is a schit hole.
they need to create a space downtown like Kansas City did ( Kansas City Power & Light ) a mix use center of bars , restaurants , and open space for live music .. This gives people a reason to come into town from the suburbs . Cash in on the downtown river that way . Clean up all the debris that collects and do a music and light show on the falls ( See Providence RI 's "River Fire" walk
Downtown Rochester was once a bustling vibrante magnet. Rampant crime and the massive malls out in the suburbs killed it. Downtown has a few places for folks to live, but they're pricey. It's now beginning to build more affordable housing. But it's anybody's guess as to how long those new projects will last as peaceful. Rochesterians have a 50/50 attitude. Half good, half.. REALLY bad. The city is no longer the picture postcard perfect place it was in the 60s and 70s. We came from Brooklyn New York in 1969. Lived off of Mt. Hope Avenue when Mt. Hope was a railhead packed with warehouse from Alexander St., all the way to Highland Park. My dad would leave the front door wide open with just the screen door locked to let air circulate. Our bedroom windows were also wide open at night in the summer. No worries. Rochester is NO LONGER that type of haven😢
what accent is that? seemed English at first, very difficult to understand sounds like a mix of muffled English ,,Scottish Russian, Polish with a hint of pig latin possibly ? otherwise great video !
the BEST video I've seen of an icelandair flight!! I'm so nervous for my LGW - KEF - BWI trip with the short connection time but it you guys made it so hopefully I will <3
Why doesn't anyone ever ask how the f did they build those buildings with horse and buggy anyone anyone want to explain or how about all the buildings because all the buildings were buried and dug up I've lived there most of my life didn't realize until I got to Alberta it seems like it could be part of the tartarian theory there's no way our technology was able to build those buildings back then no chance now let's hear all the craziness I'm going to hear
Thanks for sharing this video! Rochester has many beautiful buildings and huge cultural events. We are renowned for various festivals all summer long. The Lilac Festival in the Spring, Corn Hill and Clothesline Arts Festivals, Jazz Festival, and many. The University of Rochester's main Rush Rhees campus is in the south portion of the city, along the Genesee River. There was once a women's campus at University Avenue & Goodman St. area; it is now the Memorial Art Gallery and Rochester's neighborhood of the arts. Within downtown is the glorious Eastman Theatre, the jewel of the Eastman School of Music, part of the University of Rochester. Many institutes of higher learning have moved or were founded in the suburban areas: we have the Rochester Institute of Technology with the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Nazareth University, St John Fisher University, Empire State College, Roberts Wesleyan University, Bryant and Stratton College, State University of New York College at Brockport and Monroe Community College, as well as Elim Bible Institute. Because of having three schools with large music programs (Eastman, Nazareth, Roberts) and dance (RIT and others), the city is home to many cultural events. There is rarely a night when you cannot see or hear a free concert or performance at one of the schools. Rochester was settled in 1812 and incorporated as the Village of Rochesterville in 1817. The completion of the Erie Canal in the 1820s had led to a boomtown atmosphere in the village, which would become incorporated as a full-fledged city of Rochester in 1834. I'm glad you spent some time at the Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County, which has an amazing local history collection. The water-feature on the North Terrace is shown in 0:13-0:17. Regarding the canal's further uses, it was a subway from 1927-1952. It closed as the route was needed for the increase in automobiles and the parts out of the downtown (center city) area became divided highways, or as we call them, expressways. In fact, the Rundel Memorial Building of the Central Library was actually constructed on top of the extant subway from 1934-1936. After the subway closed, it was never used as a pedestrian walkway. People were able to get in and out, but this was not an officially sanctioned walk. By the way, on of your favorites, LaSalle, did make a stop in this area. Just east of Rochester are the towns of Irondequoit and Webster. Separating them is a very large body of water, the Irondequoit Bay. At the bottom of this bay, LaSalle made landing in 1669. There is a LaSalle's Landing Park at the site now. The bay and Irondequoit Creek area was also visited by the Marquis de Denonville during his 1687 expedition. Because of its major optics industries like Bausch & Lomb, Xerox, and Kodak, Rochester has been known as the Imaging Capital of the World. Rochester is also known as the Lilac Capital of the world, with over 550 species in the Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Highland Park, with many new strains developed here. Other famous places here include one of the country's oldest municipal cemeteries, Mt. Hope, where orator Frederick Douglass and women's rights champion Susan B. Anthony are buried, both having lived in Rochester. George Eastman's home is the world's oldest photography museum. The Rochester Public Market is one of the oldest, operating since 1827. The Strong National Museum of Play is a world-class museum with interactive exhibits and is also home to the National Toy Hall of Fame, the International Center for the History of Electronic Games, the World Video Game Hall of Fame, and the Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play, and produces the American Journal of Play. Please come back for another visit, and treat yourself to a garbage plate as well!
The original Reynolds Arcade was torn down in 1932, the current building was built after that. The Paddock Arcade in Watertown, NY has been in continuous operation since 1850.
Just come right out and say it, Rochester is a dangerous place to live or be at!! Everyone has a pit dog or 2 in the yard with cameras watching every square inch of everywhere! Ever since Kodak went down the tubes, its been shot!! The jobs that once paid BIG $$$, are history and so what u see is whats left! The race and ethnic make up has changed alot too!! Its shot, there is no other kind way of putting it!!
I was born I was raised I still love my hometown Saint John and if anybody has anything bad to say about it has either got to be from there or get to know it more NS for poverty or junkies blame the older generation for teaching the younger generation don't blame the city on its history for it blame the generation for it
Canada did start in Saint John not in Quebec or Montreal I'm not sure what historian thought about that but it all started in New Brunswick in Saint John
Oh, finally, someone else likes history!! Out of what I read, Pierre de Mons's first settlement was the Ile de la Croix (currently some 10 metres south of the Canadian/N.B./U.S. border), but I agree, Saint John came only a couple of years later. I did make a separate video about Fort La Tour, but, apparently, it does not come up in people's feed much, so few saw it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rWcs4Wliyl8.html
Thank you very much! Sorry about the delay, I am not here much these days as life's still happening - but you definitely just made me really want to make another one. So many places with great stories, so little time...
Once Kodak moved out, that was the end of Rochester!! We knew it was going down years before, the whole country has been going down since the end of WWII. Companies like bausch & lomb, Ganett tv and newspaper, xerox, taylor instruments, poloroid, and more! Kodak means "hand-held"!! It was a wonderful place to live,work and play all in the same day!! Dont feel bad, buffalo, syracuse, Albany, utica, rome, binghamton, olean, is all shot to ****!! Taxes are sky high- income and property both! It snows and food and utilities are way too expense!! Pollution is another problem! 😢
Thank you, that is such a nice thing to say! I'm gearing up to finish the Lake Huron/Lake Superior coast road trip series, Sault-Ste Marie and Goderich did have some surprises 🙂
How was getting through to get the second flight . Im going Manchester to Iceland to New York and I’m wondering if I have to go through customs and everting after my first flight
Sorry, I was not much on the channel recently, so by now you've probably done the trip! We didn't have to do security twice, i.e. after Heathrow there was not a second one in Reykjavik, although they did check passports/permanent residency cards/ETAs at the gate (we were going to Canada, not to the U.S., so I'm not quite sure if it's the same - but I did not see any signs for second security, in any case). As shown in the video, all their transatlantic connections leave at about the same time (lunch time-ish), so it was an awful lot of people for quite a small terminal, I'd say the shorter your connection (within reason) the better, as there wasn't even anywhere to seat.
ROCHESTER CLOSED MIDTOWN AND THEN PUT BUSES IN THE TRANSIT CENTER AMD CLOSED ALL STORE'S DOWNTOWN AND NOW YOU BARELY SEE ANYONE AND PEOPLE ARE MOVING TO OTHER CITIES BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING HERE . THIS IS A SHAME.
Thank you! Yes, you are quite right, somebody corrected me on this/explained this here already. I lived in the mistaken belief that Quebec city and/or Montreal have been incorporated some time after New France came under the direct royal authority in 1660, but, alas, they have not, and so (drum roll) the title does indeed go to Saint John!
@@Kilo1911 no, thank you - that was my first stab at Saint John and there's only so much you can read in a couple of weeks, I really appreciate all the information people give here, and the comment. All the best!
Why, thank you, not many do! I am from Ontario (now 🙂), but my accent is from Poland/North Africa and Scandinavia, with a bit of English here and there. Most people guess South African (nope)...
At Kodak, you could borrow photo equipment at no cost! And if u were full time, you could go to Kodak School for 8 hours every week to learn how to use Kodak products!! I knew a man who's job it was to get customers to use 1 more sheet per year of Kodak paper!! That is what his job was for years! George Eastman was never married, he awoke everday to the sound of organ music that his male organist played to tell him it was time to get up!! What a life!! George Eastman committed suicide! He had a gay old time of it!! And so did his organist!
In the 1980's, Kodak employed 90% of working people in Monroe County,and 60% of the working people in the 3 ajoining counties !! Kodak never had a union, Why?? George Eastman tried his employees with class!! If you worked at Kodak, you were set for life!!
The worst airline. Lots of things were stolen from my lost baggage. We had old collected postage stamps they steel the oldest ones and put some paper stamps instead. My shoes and coat. Organic jam and green teas. They cut all my medicines and delivered me garbage but not my lost baggage. I hate that airline.
wow... Hope you reported the theft, at least. Personally, I've always had a good experience, but, living in North America now, I don't fly with them much.
In response to Michael Silver, whose comment appears in my notifications, but strangely not here, so I cannot respond in a more usual way: this video was meant as a joke and not to be taken seriously (I did really misplace a lot of footage which I have not found to this day, 18 months later), but you are right, I was disappointed with Bathurst and the beaches in that vicinity a little too much. This was because my baseline was too high (having just come back from a month in Iceland, Cornwall and Spain), and so, effectively, I was blaming Canada for being what it is, when I should have tried harder to find the bright sides (after all, I wanted to go to New Brunswick, including Bathurst, nobody forced me, or kept me there against my will). I hope I did manage to get across that I truly enjoyed Grande Anse, and that Acadian history is fascinating. Also, strangely enough, when I next made a video about Saint John, where I loved every minute of the time we spent there and made it very clear, I got a whole pile of comments telling me how terrible it is, and that I should get real as it is full of junkies and nothing there, and such other; and when I made one about Fort La Tour and that very interesting (to me, at least) part of the story of Acadia, few people bother to even look at it. So here we are: you pays your money, you makes your choices, and there's no pleasing everyone no matter what you do or say, so the only thing to do is to tell the story as you feel/felt it. It is good, though from time to time, to hear from someone who watched and cared enough to offer their substantiated views, so thank you very much for commenting.
Well, yes, I find it hard (if not impossible) to make a film about a place I have not been to. If you think I'm too much in the frame, I do agree, and have stopped that about 2 videos later on, during the same trip, and barely appear since .
I was born in 1964 and my family used to go to Sibley's at Christmas time. If I can recall, Sibley's had the clocks of the world. It was beautiful. My dad worked at Hallman Chevrolet for a while. Then I worked at a bank on the corner of Main and Exchange.
I love my hometown. It’s heartbreaking to see it in such despair! I have been waiting my entire life for the city to return to its former glory, yet things only seem to be getting worse. I would move back in a heartbeat if the crime and economic conditions improved. I hope I don’t die before that day arrives… I miss it everyday.
From what I have been able to find out, the downtown store closed in January 1990, and at the time new shops in malls outside of the downtown core were being opened under the "Kaufmann" brand. Not sure how reliable these accounts are.
@@gremlinontheroad It’s true. Don Alhart has a great video from 1990 on his RU-vid channel covering the Sibley’s closing. Incidentally, Rochester’s other homegrown department stores McCurdy’s and B. Foreman closed in 1994, also acquired by Kauffman’s. Wegmans left downtown that year too, leaving it without a grocery store and that was effectively the end of Midtown Plaza (although it held on until 2007 as a dead mall). The early 90s were not kind to downtown Rochester.
@@redcomic619 Thank you, that is very informative! And I do hope the downtown will come back, although from what people write in their comments here, it will have to come a long way.
