For 100 years people have been leaving things behind in an ancient brick apartment building, never to return for them… and for 100 years they were hidden away… until now! Exploring abandoned apartment building belongings.
Alec as I watch you go through the things you're finding in this building, there are things you aren't too sure of! These are things I name right off. They're tools my daddy had when I was little. I just turned 81 on June 27th, and sometimes I see things that really spark a memory! It's really funny when I watch the kids (?) that buy storage lockers. They find things they have no idea of what they're looking at! I just have to laugh. I enjoy your family and have "adopted" you as grandchildren. I'm housebound and don't get out much. So you tube is my entertainment. Have a good year. I visited Calgary for a week in 2001. Stayed with a family I met playing cribbage with on Hotmail. They took me camping at Banff. By the river there. I can't remember the name. I enjoyed Canada.
I made the rounds at an antique shop and one day she had gotten a heap of old black Ericson telephones and I made some remark ´hey these are in very good condition, like brand new´ and she said you know kids always point at that and ask ´what is that ? !´ One really only sees telephones like that in old movies but most kids do not watch those old great classic movies.
I can’t believe Alex passed up the vintage makeup compacts! I have been seeing people on social media buying and restoring them to use with there modern makeup. They are beautiful and worth restoring in my opinion❣️ time stamp 16:54
Yup, a friend of mine found a SOLID 18k GOLD compact at an antique store, even the owner didn't bother to look close at it because he never imagined it would be gold...just as scrap gold it was worth over $2000😂
As others have mentioned....you would have certainly done well to purchased the entire lot. it is likely that there has been many items that have been over-looked. The entire collection would have taken a long time to go through thoroughly but you probably would have found many more items that would have made your trip worthwhile.
Even after you closed your amazing store, you still go out picking and finding “curiosities!” And, you keep making fantastic videos! Alex, you are showing your generation how to live your dreams, while still supporting your family! Thank you!
The Singer item with a crank handle and gears is a pinking machine. You feed fabric through it and it cuts a pinked edge on the fabric so that it doesn’t fray. They are sought after by vintage sewing enthusiasts. I have one.😁
So nice to see your other son with you today. All your children are so good looking and polite. They truly seem to enjoy spending time with you which is great!
Sweet babies! Glad to see this beautiful rescue! Most people have little or no understanding of proper care of bunnies in general, you offer so much more!
I'm so grateful your teaching your son the ways to be. You definitely should be proud. The fact that he's interested in learning about it is a blessing in itself and helps hope stay alive, especially with our youth in today's world. Thank-you for doing what you do.
I talk about Alex and curiosity Inc waaaay too much in my real life. Many times a sentence has started "Alex, my antique dealer in Canada was saying the other day...." Thank you for making this channel, I now have something to say to strangers other then small talk. 🤗
It must be an ABSOLUTE PLEASURE to work through an area that is so neat. Often when I'm watching I feel like shouting "No, no Alec, you're going through the things to fast!!" But I'm sure you've developed an eye by now for valuable things.
I could have spent all day or all week going through all those things. How do you decide where to look or what to buy? Love this video! It's not everyday you get a chance to go through a basement storing all those treasures. Thanks Alex for taking us along on this find!
Wonderful journey! When I think of all the 'stuff' I threw out or ignored in the past decades.... good for you for preserving the footsteps of those who went before us.
Just noticed this is an hour long! Yay! As I am watching I am thinking about the person who sorted/kept all those things. I have a feeling they knew everything that was down there, and as they 'gathered' more items they put like-items together. What a lot of stories to tell.
The photo album with the guys dressed up and in comic poses, makes me wonder if the lack of women in those pages was indicative. I had never seen a long coat like that one.
It looks organized in a way as if someone had been around for a long time taking care of those rooms and remembering where everything was stored. I would probably have bought the whole lot if logistics weren't a problem.
The "prijswinnaar Biertap wedstrijden 1957" glass is originating from the Netherlands. Someone did win a beer serving contest in 1957 in the Netherlands and emigrated to Canada afterwards.
I loved the vintage lamp with the smoked colour glass with the black trims. The blue beaded " evening " bag is quite valuable if not 1800s it is early 1900s, a lot of them were made in France & brought back by people's travels. Great video, loved all of it.
You overlooked the vintage red kitchen chairs !!! They went to one of the old formica red table top kitchen tables !!! We had these exact chairs and the red table in our first apt !!! The old formica tables and chairs are making a come back !!! I would love to have the set !!!
Alex Loved this episode. New biz idea based on a store in the Twin Cities., Estate clean out that charges the estate a base rate ($1,000) to get rid of everything. ($ variable depending on the value of the contents) Legal contract needed. The house contents are taken to a warehouse/store. The retail is open only sat/sunday. I worked there for a couple days and can tell you it was overpacked with both stuff and customers. Very profitable with tons of treasures. I was shocked by the artwork/antiques. The owner priced low counting on volume on every day mundane stuff keep it out of the landfill. Lots of young buyers and long lines at opening. Because of volume, the store did sell off/donate clothing, books/misc to resellers and non profits. Basically this biz had workers pack up estates, +movers/truck driver and sorters/sellers at the store. It is a good mix of treasure hunt/retail and would be interesting online content. Anyways a new concept you can consider and customize. I found this store when they held a sale a house that was $5.00 a bag because there was toooo much stuff to move/price in the allowed time period. That day everybody went home super happy and they got tons of new customers.
That "Fryer" statue is Saint Anthony of Padua. It can go for some money. New ones sell for $300 plus. Vintage ones are the ones to look out for. That statue scared me as a little Catholic boy. It was placed in the corner of the church about a foot from the ceiling, the ceiling was about 20 feet. I always felt it was looking down at me with its eyes moving with my every movement. Love the video
Fryer... A friend was in the tube in London and came to Blackfriars stop. Overheard a kid ask his father why it was called 'Blackfriars.'The father explained it was to do with people frying food too long til it turned all burnt and black. The child accepted this with no question as to why anyone would so habitually burn food black as to be named for doing that. My friend was inwardly weeping over the total loss of culture and the idiotic ignorance being passed on in that conversation.
Thank you for the video! I live in New Mexico but went up to Canada for 11 years from 1968 tp 1980 as I married a draft dogger during the Vietnam Nam War. You passed up an antique tub faucet. Also a tin ceiling panel. I couldn’t tell if there were more beneath it. Those pressed tin ceiling panels are worth a lot !
Am enjoying your search through the basement storage area of the 100 year old apartment building. Thank you for taking us along!❤ The “dresses” looked more like negligé sets for the honeymoon night. 😉
Take it all man, the most favorite thing I made of an old garage sale was the Man Buckets, with all the little screws, nuts, bolts, litte tools, the men loved them. I got rid of about 150 lbs of random small hardware that way. Man Buckets.
OMG. I loved this. So much cool stuff in great shape. THIS WAS SO FUN. Thank you for taking us with you. Plus, this kind of junket,highlights your knowledge of so many things. It is good to see your son with you. I hope he realizes just how much you know. So much knowledge is being lost. And when you were looking at the dictionary you said we used to use more words. We don't use words anymore. So jealous of this fun trip!
SO many great old bakelite radio cases, you left a lot of the good ones behind. The drums you were calling bongos are actually Congas, Bongos fit in your lap :)
Wow, what a cool adventure! I love all the old photos that you showed at the end. Ephemera does sell. It’s always interesting to see the fashion, cars, people from prior decades. I think you found some awesome treasures!
Thank you Alex, that was fun!! Lots of great stuff. The old newspapers are used by people for crafts. They scan in the "copy" and let people download for crafts.
Historic clues: The poster with Rules for tenants has the proprietor listed as Mr. J.H. de Waal, an extremely Dutch name...it also appeared on the Fire dept. papers box. Then Jason finds the klompen...And...the Holland America line menus ....clearly this means that the buildings owner was dutch and sailed home to the old country, Holland once in a while.
Massachusetts “clamp” is actually a Pipe Vise, used by plumbers back when they cut and treaded metal pipe for water and gas line installation and repair. Pipes came in long lengths and were cut to size and threaded on site, as needed.
Because hand cutting threads put a lot of leverage on the pipe, these vises were bench mounted back at the shop, but for mobile jobs would be found mounted on a metal folding tripod or right on the tailgate or service truck bumper. The latch you saw on the side is the quick release, for loading the pipe quickly.
@@k.y.6148 Agreed. A good stable vise is also of use when putting fittings onto already threaded sections of pipe, now that pipe is sold pre-treaded and in standard lengths and the power threader has made the entire process much better.
Man, what flashbacks! My dad (b. 1913 d. 1991) had a couple garages/sheds (he had a large farm, tractors etc), and they were packed full of stuff! Lots of neat tools, including a very large anvil. Everything you'd need on a well-equipped farm ! I wish I had the sense back then to keep everything!
I enjoy your show it keep me anxious to see what antiques you'll find when ever I'm watching your show. Always keep it up. Wish one day I could be with you & your family in your show helping to look for precious antiques.. Blessing to U ir family and team.
Im literally DYING as you pass over everything i want to see up close. I'd buy that entire basement! What will they do with everything you leave behind?? Im dyin' i tell ya! I had to stop watching 21 minutes into it.
It was called a closet bowl because when indoor plumbing became available to everyone houses were not built with bathrooms. So they converted closets hence the term water closet and closet bowl.
Awesome splunking eh!😅 I love going through vintage treasures. Perfect for resell and decorating lole for Country Style. I used to live in a home built way back in the 1912 in Toronto and found some pretty cool stuff like old Sears, Hudson Bay catalogue. My kind of hunting. Makes you think how life was like 100 years ago. Absolutely enjoyed this vlog. Wishing more great finds. Watching all the way from the Philippines.❤
I enjoy watching this kind of video.. i am a sentimental person, i love to see how sentimental all the things are in there to people who has already left this world. So fascinating
There is so much stuff I would have choses. ALL the radios (the ones you did choose should be brought up on a Variac or variable transformer, very slowly. Most likely at least the power supply caps need to be changed out, the metal pullies, the pipe vise which you called some sort of clamp. You did bring back some nice things.
I hope they offer the public an opportunity to have a look to purchase. Also reusing the old boiler and furniture elsewhere instead of throwing it in a landfill. I would take the trunks, cabinets, furniture if I were up there.
I hope you get an opportunity to go through more of the things in that building. I saw quite a few things there that reminded me of things my parents and grand parents had in their homes. My mother's best friend married a fire fighter and he had one of those big copper extinguishers.
I love going thru all stuff or new stuff to look for old stuff. I'm awful I even look thru the big trash trucks at the dump. Brought home a dresser perfectly good today. To replace the broken plastic bin. Found pair of really old reading glasses and very old Kodak camera . Absolutely saved them and others from the dump One man's trash is another ones treasure. For sure.
(9:00 Minutes in) Those original, antique, mortised lock and latch assemblies are worth something. Especially if they have a latch and a bolt that requires a warded key. AKA, warded locks. Keys can be made for them and they can be resold for renovation projects involving antique doors. (11:57) That might be an original James Bond doll. Look at the hair style the doll has and then look at James Bonds hair styles in older films. (12:30) Look for inscribed, inked or carved makers marks under the ceramics. There must be a reason they were so carefully packed. (13:02) An empty jewellery box is sometimes valuble if it's from Tiffanys or another well known maker. (15:15) It's not what's in the suitcases, it IS the suitcases themselves that have value. (17:00) Those might be silver ladies compacts. (19.00) It's a crimping press. I hope you took it! (22:40) You should have taken ALL or ANYTHING related to photographic hardware! Brownies are classic cameras! (24:00) Take ALL costume jewellery! (25:15) ALWAYS take old maps! If they are originals! (27:42) I would have taken all those old manuals and books! People collect old books and manuals. (31.20) I sure hope you took that boxing scrap book! (41:40) Razors were a great find! Good on you for taking the stash! (44:15) Those furs! Classic should have been taken! (45:30) Take all those old newspapers! (45:58) Take ALL antique dresses! Always a market for those! (46:50) The road case on 4 wheels to the left of the Bose speakers! Road cases are valuable. (47:05) Teledyne speakers are highly desirable. Depending on the Bose models they may have some value as well. (49:40) It's a musical instrument, it's called a Timpani Drum. (53:32) The drum stand and those drums may be quite valuable. (54:12) Those Bongo drums and the hard cases to the left may have alot of value. Good god man you missed alot! I would have bought them out, the whole lot for $2500.00 Wish I could have been there with you.
Love what you do. Could you invest in a GO PRO to wear on your chest or head please. It would be great to see you using both hands digging through these goodies. Bet you could sell a lot by bundling some of these things up. You have done well and we love watching this fun!
Using a go pro will give you the benefit of using both your hands. You can close boxes correctly and put items back the way they were. AND be more productive overall.
I had to Like this video as soon as it came on. I grew up around my Granny and Aunt Thelma who kept all of their family member's things as they passed away. I knew some of the Great Aunts and Uncles but didn't know a quarter of their personal history. What a wondrous trove of family information and neat things.
"Closet" referrd to the old term "Water Closet". Which is what the bathroom used to be called. That salt&pepper shaker "woman" would be highly collectible to those people. Those old product containers are sought after. I like the ones with old store price tags on them.
I don't believe "He" is carved wood. They used to do a kind of sawdust/glue kind of stuff to make toys and statues with and THEN they are hand painted.
True stainless utensils are high in nickel and are NOT magnetic. Last I knew, true stainless steel sells for $1.10 or more a pound. So consider that if buying it. You will have that much value at least in the metal(s).
