The setting of my Upstate videos was the University and main theme, Erie Canal. The cities themselves were added stories. University of Rochester, UAlbany, University at Buffalo, SU, and Niagara University were the back drop since this took place around back to school in the fall. It was meant to give an homage to the great schools in Upstate, which are some of the best in the country but also have a history of their own, the historic connection via Erie Canal and the waters surrounding the area like Niagara Falls. Couple all that with brief history of major events/accomplishments. If you get a chance to look at other videos, I try to subtlety connect the areas while giving each place its own identity. Thank you for the feedback
That's the magic of video... He did a great job putting lipstick on a pig... I lived there and I will never go back... If family wants to see me,.they come to where I live where the sun shines bright, the sky is blue and and the people aren't overweight racists that sit on the couch all winter.
Got a great start in life after graduating from St. John Fisher College (1970) and University of Rochester and beginning my working career at Xerox (1974) before transferring to warmer climates west (Dallas, California, now, Las Vegas area). Michael Freel
I’m happy that someone is willing to show the beautiful Rochester. I know the news is not great. But God blessed me to relocate there💕🙏 can’t wait to do my spoken word 💕
Its a horrible place to live. I don't even go back for family... They visit me where the skies are blue, the sun shines and people have hospitality no matter your race... Can't say the same for Rochester, Buffalo or Syracuse one of the.most segregated cities in America... You don't even want to know what happens to black people at supermarkets in Buffalo. The whole region is dying but I'm sure there are worse places like Haiti
Very nicely done. My hometown where I spent most of the first 30 plus years of my life. I've been gone now for over 30 years and only get back to visit occasionally as I still have close family and friends there. It was a fabulous place to grow up, downtown has changed a lot and believe me when I was a kid it was like being in Manhattan. It was a wonderful midsize bustling city. I still love my hometown but I hate winter which is what I'm in South Florida lol. Again, very nicely done!
I hear ya. I was in Florida earlier this year researching homes. I live in Northeast Pennsylvania and get a tremendous amount of snow. All these areas are beautiful in the Spring-Fall and we love making our way to Rochester and Lake Ontario. But when Winter hits, the mountains turn black & white and the atmosphere becomes gloomy.
Pretty much the same story here. Left in 1994. It has changed a lot. I lived near the lower falls when I was 13. Climbed around all over the place in that gorge. Back then, there was no memorial or park extension down there. It was just a dirt road and a grove of trees by the falls. A lot of people used to 'party' and hang out in and around those falls, there were many tragedies. Probably why there is a memorial now, to warn people of the dangers of those cliffs and falls. I had a close call myself once, fell about 10-15 feet, had the wind knocked out of me. But I was 13, being dumb with my dumb friends. Lucky I survived that age.
@@JoseOnTour It was the winters that drive me away from Rochester. I had enough. But I went west to Oregon. I'm actually further north than Rochester now, but I deal with only a few inches a year now. But they don't have the equipment to deal with it in Oregon. And they are anti salt on the roads.
I think at this point in my life I’m looking to move past the snow. These north east areas are beautiful in the summer but winters are brutal. There was a buffalo bills game this winter where the crowd was buried in snow haha its on Rochesters instagram
Next time I come up to visit, i gotta go to that Play Museum, also along the beach (maybe go swimming even). Thanks for sharing! Cat (orig from that area) now living in WV.
Thank you for giving Rochester some good press. We are the third largest city in upstate New York and Rochester offers some truly beautiful gardens, interesting history and museums, local music and theater, geographic beauty, restaurants, breweries and top hotels for universities. Sometimes, when you live somewhere, you take things for granted. I really think it is so much prettier here than Buffalo and Syracuse's
Thank you, Rochester is one of my favorite cities. Every city has their good and bad and there are tons of Hood videos, I wanted to show the better side of many of these cities.
Great video. Excellent quality, I live here, and have all my life. There is so much about Rochester that is to be proud of. A few things that people should know that were not mentioned. The great Lilac Festival (flower city - not for Flour) Park Avenue, our rich sports (Rochester Amiericans Hockey 62 yr old) The Garbage Plate (look it up) - You missed a biggy. Susan B. Anthony home. Her and Frederick Douglas have their namestake all over. Even our BRIDGE "FreddySue Bridge"
Thank you, A lot of folks mentioned the garbage plate and I missed it on this trip. We go around spring time so on my next trip. These are great mentions and will have to save them for my next journey. I filmed Susan B. Anthony for a secondary series I am working in that focuses less on cities and more on the people that made an impact.
Jeff, sounds good, I would love it if you would join me bring restoration and healing to this beautiful place, I can not wait to discover Rochester, I have telling my family and friends this place is in the news for the bad things but I know in a few years people will want to come but its going to be too later.
Excellent work with all the details of Rochester. I have lived her all my life, and learned a few things through this video. There is one thing I would add as a must see while in Rochester. The Rochester public market. If you stop there, you must stop at Juan and Maria's empanada stop. Truly has become a part of Rochester.
Thank you Patricio. I make a couple of trips to Rochester throwout the year and always have the Public Market on my to do list but have never been. You’ve given me an even bigger reason to go. I’m crazy about empanadas
Great job, Jose!! One minor correction, the railroad that crosses the Genesee at the High Falls was the New York Central RR, not the Lehigh Valley RR. New York Central went east-west, the Lehigh Valley came into the city from the south, along the east side of the Genesee River - in fact, their station is still standing, and was (maybe still is?) the Dinosuar Bar & Grill!
Fantastic Jose you are a great public speaker a natural..enjoyed very much i have a friend who lives there ive never been.Thankyou i feel i have now! Take care x
@@JoseOnTourYou made a great video about dead end place. Kodak literally invented the digital camera and sat on it. Then when other companies sold digital cameras they fired most their workforce 🙄
Hey now, how come I didn't get to see you around town..😁..live in Rochester and it is a hidden gemstone with lots to see. Good to see it through the eyes of someone who isn't from the town as well as learning somethings I didn't even know about, well done!
Great job! I didn’t know about that Toy interactive museum. I used to live up there. House was on the lake. Take steps down from our back yard and there was the lake, House wood flooring quite cold in the winter months. On warmer school days, brother and I walked home and if we had enough money, would stop at Abbott’s. Think we stayed in the city for a couple years before moving to the suburb of Penfield. Music lessons in East Rochester and roller skating at Sharkey’s. One or two trips each years to the Strasenburgh Planetarium. Taking friends and family to Midtown Plaza. Tours/visits to radio station, WBBF.Spouse to House of Guitars when last we visited. It’s been many years but someday soon, we’ll have to make another visit.
Thank you for sharing. The toy museum is fantastic and every time we go we easily spend the day. We try to make a trip at least twice a year and always have so much fun in Rochester
Kodak employed 90%of the workforce in Monroe County, and 60%of the work force inthe 3 adjoining counties!!! The was more tech geeks within a 50 mile radius of Rochester than anywhere else in the world!! If u worked at Kodak, you were set of life!! Kodak was Non-Union and one of the best paying places to work in America!!
Could you talk about quality control car parts jobs or manufacturers jobs or jobs that produce dog food like the AFB international job in Missouri. I could use the info. I've been googling. We make $23 hourly here. Desperately need a fresh start somewhere else. I wanna live in Rochester New York
I lived there for about 4 yrs around the turn of the century and have nothing but nice memories of it. Even the ridiculous snowy winters were fun in a quirky kind of way. There are rarely snow days for kids in Rochester schools. The Spring to Fall is so nice there. Scenic. A mid-sized city with a lot of things to do in or around the city. Nice people. Pretty inexpensive (Except the taxes, which are insane) The canal he's on is technically not the canal built by Governor Clinton in the early 1800s.That version used to go right by where the abandoned subway is. The version he was at is the Barge Canal, now renamed the Erie Canal, which was the last gasp bigger version of the Erie Canal, as it tried to stay relevant with railroads, built in 1919. It took the routes out of the downtown of the big cities like Rochester & Syracuse, sort of like how interstate highway beltway routes did for cars later on.
Thank you for this background about the city. After I filmed Albany and Lockport it became really challenging to find remains of the original canal across Buffalo, Syracuse, and Rochester to film my series. I’m glad I was able to give it some history. Rochester is great in Spring through fall especially with the lake so close. The waters by the subway were almost dried and had seen better days when I filmed this. Hopefully on my next trip they’ve cleaned it up.
As someone who was a kid in the Rochester schools, I can attest to the lack of snow days. We just put on extra layers and it took longer to walk, while we grumbled about why wasn't it a snow day?!?
Love the video! Would just like to see a mention of RIT and other universities than U of R. Also URMC, and major companies beginning here, like Xerox, Bausch & Lomb, etc.
Well few in comparison to how many rivers the country has. Only 48 rivers flow south to north in America compared to the 250K+ found across the country. A very small sample size. In Canada I think the majority of rivers flow north because of gravity. Around the world its also a small statistic with the Nile being the most famous
Very great video presentation. My parents and my sister lives in Rochester and I'm excited to be reunited with them soon. Greetings from Philippines :)
💯 I won't even go back for funerals or weddings... When I left I made a promise never to return and I meant it. Rotchester is a dead end. The people don't even know what spring and summer is
The Erie Canal does NOT lead to Lake Ontario!! The canal goes from Buffalo to the Hudson River and it goes down to NYC! To go from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario you go through the wellen canal in Canada!, not the canal. And there are alot of rivers in the World that flow North! Rochester gets it drinking water from Hemlock Lake, a polluted resevoir for the city!!
Lake Ontario is the last of all the great lakes flowing east. each flows into the next, this is the last in line collecting pollution from all the others.
This is not about the city of Rochester, which has turned into a sanctuary city of violent crimes and day-to-day killings.The city is a welfare Democratic run depressed environment. If you value your life do not make plans to visit the city but pay attention to the fingerlakes area in the spring,summer and fall time of the year.This view of the city is extremely misrepresented in todays economy.
George Eastman was never married. He was gay and his lover with him on East Avenue and played the organ to wake George up every morning. Who he was I dont know or care! He commited suicide and his last words were " i have gone all that i wanted to in life, so why not end it and have it over with, and he did! Dont forget about the Eastman School of Music and theater in Rochester, it still is running to this day! For employing 90% of the people in Monroe County and 66% of the people in the 3 neighboring counties, and to make big money working there all of your life, was like winning the jackpot on powerball !! And it was non-union! He treated all of the em0loyees so well, why did they need a union?? They had all they ask for and more!! As a full time employee, kodak would allow 1 paid day a week to go to the company school to learn how to use kodak products and equipment, and if you wanted to borrow the equipment, you could at no charge either, as long as u brought it back, and everyone did!! For your entire lifetime!! 😊 image that?? i mean imagine that!!😊
I’m surprised how much more dangerous it is in those areas between SC, Memphis , etc. I have colleagues that moved down there and tell me so many horror stories. Stay safe
@@JoseOnTour well I’m at least able to defend myself here. Where as NY in general not so much. Lived in roc city my whole life. Foods great & some nice water falls surrounding areas but taxes, crime & the cold months were why I moved
Dont take this the wrong way, but this is a poor tour of the city. For example, no visit or mention is made of the Rochester Public Market, the oldest market in the US. What a shame.
@@JoseOnTourYou don't know Rochester if you don't know their winters and their summers are short AF.. And they are cloudy and humid... Lake Effect is not charming
their summers? you mean the two weeks they get once a years? @@JoseOnTour by the way you are on a campus. one that has been robbing the community for a century
There is nothing amazing about Rochester New York. I have been in this area since 1978. Nothing amazing about it. Buffalo and Syracuse even have more going on than Rochester. Be serious
I disagree. I lived in Rochester and Syracuse and while I REFUSE to back to either one even for funerals and weddings... Syracuse is way more uneducated, poor, fat, segregated and racist than Rochester. If I were black I wouldn't go to certain grocery stores in buffalo. The whole area is a dead end
