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The photo of the stone archway between 2 stone buildings is not a museum . It is the Allegheny County Jail. The Cathedral of Learning (opened in 1936) is a steel frame building with a stone facade. Allegheny Observatory (opened in 1912) is where the telescope you refer to is housed. The glass building with the dome is Phipps Conservatory located on the other side of the Cathedral of Learning, and they don't have a telescope. It's full name is Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. My Mom lived through the 1936 flood and she shared her experience with me. Buildings were not actually destroyed, but were damaged on the lower floors and basements. A lot of these buildings were department stores and other places that I visited. Many places had plaques indicating the water level during the flood.

Thanks for this, I'm a Pittsburgher, and there's soooooo much history here, and it has been an incredibly important city, lots of 'firsts' here, too.

I found a lot of errors in this video, but I'll focus on just one. At time point 20:25 you show photos of Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, opened in 1893. A museum of living plants. It never had telescopes. The photos of telescopes are of the Thaw Telescope, a 30" refractor, at Allegheny Observatory on Pittsburgh's North Side. It opened in 1912.

33 skeletons found eh...im sure there were more than that...but the story fits nearly perfect onto the little sign!

Well done. Pittsburgh at one point in history and possibly still today boasted more churches of all faiths per capita than any other city. More bridges than any other city Sadly your video taught me more about the city than I was ever taught in school. Through my own research as I got older it was evident that they chose not to teach us anything accept about Carnegie William Pitt (very little) Mckees rocks should be celebrated for the Indian mounds but it is a plaque in a park and not a mention even in the McKee rocks school system. I had to find it out on my own. Very sad. While I must state if you lived in Pittsburgh it was one of the most diverse cities early on similar to New York from the late 1800’s on. US steel was at one point the largest Corp in America for decades also a pivotal company that help changed the face of a nation rooted in the shadow of Andrew Carnegie.

John Brashear was from Pittsburgh he designed and produce telescope lenses some of the best in the world at that time. Over in the north side of Pgh. He was the first manager of the Allegheny Observatory which is still in use. John Brashear and his wife are buried in a crypt in the wall below the main telescope. Thanks Jarrid.

Love this! I moved to Pittsburgh in 1983. I was 20....and managed to do everything I wanted to with my life....and miles to go before I sleep, as the poet says.

This is my home. There's history on every street in this town. Great video.

I liked the video. Your mispronunciation of many Pittsburgh area words reminds me of when a local TV station gets a new reporter and they struggle with saying local town names.

Hi, I was born in 1962. You brought back memories of The Old Ormsby Bathhouse. It was a Clorine pool when I swam in the winter. It is still in Pgh I believe is now next to the Holiday Inn on 10th street that guests could use. Also, I lived on the slopes with a view of the J&L Steel mill, where my father and Granfather worked. I could tell you about so many memories of Pgh. Thanks for all the memories you brought back. I could practically smell the clorine and feel the humidity of the heated pool when I walked in. I saw the overlook down into the pool area that I saw in my minds eye as a child. Me and my friends would walk up and down the slopes to swim in the Ormsby Bath house. It coats under a dollar to enter. I went to the South High School on 10th and Carson and remember hanging out in the Court yard.Very cool history of Pgh, well done including Pittsburgh Past.

Yea!! 😁 My home towne 😁 ... and still here 👀🤗

Great job. Pittsburgh simply may be the most interesting modern city in our world. Good job sir.

As a pittsburgher born raised and lived here most of my life I must say that was a wonderful video and description of our beautiful city thank you so much

Given what we’ve learned about star forts I would say there was more here than just the woodlands that we’re told. Old world architecture and antiquitech is all over Allegheny County. I wonder what things looked like before the infamous “fire” swept through.

Born and raised in Pittsburgh 😁

I'm always impressed with the amount of images you present, plus the depth of your 'digs' ! Keep up the good work!

Growing up in the late 60's right through the the late 80's. Watching all the great steel mills die slowly, sheer sadness. And I don't even recognize that Pittsburgh. Just the bridges.

Conrad Weiser was my very first ancestor in America on my mother side of family 💕👍 I was amazed that you talked about him 😎

This is so awesome, I live in Pittsburgh and I crazy to see painting and photos of places I drive by every day and know how much part of history my city is, is very cool to look at. I one this I do love about this city is resilient and always growing, developing, and striving to be better.

Born and raised on the Allegheny Ave. Northside of Pittsburgh. Cathedral of learning, and the planetarium. Some great jazz musicians came out of the Burgh, also some hall of fame room quarter backs came out of Western PA. Paint in perfect

I live in Pittsburgh. Really cool to hear all the names u speak about. They are all names of towns or buildings. Awesome video

There was the flood of 1936. My dad lived thro that one. But there was also a flood of 1973 or so. McKees Rocks flooded again. water came up from the sewers in the basements

I’m in Pa it mind blowing the history out here 🤩 💯

@11:52 "The loftiest buildings melting before the ocean of flame" :O

At least 4 generations of my mom's family grew up in Pittsburgh. My mom and dad went to and met at Carnegie Mellon university. My grandmother worked her whole life at Westinghouse. Outstanding collections of photos.

I grew up in Pittsburgh. Was raised on Mt. Washington and rode the Monongahela Incline and walked the Smithfield Street Bridge many times. I recognized many of the buildings that survived through the 50's, 60's and beyond. I live in South Florida now, but Pittsburgh will always be my real home.

Grand Rising 🌎 WIDE WHEN TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION.......OUR REALM IS AWESOME...... WELLNESS BALANCE

Lots of griffins in the architecture, reminiscent of Tartaria

In the 1960's I rode the inclines in PGH. for fun. My dad rode them to work as a kid hauling coal.

Go to Pitt. Along the three rivers trail are old structures that I can’t even begin to think how old.

My grandmother said when she moved to Pittsburgh Carson Street had water troughs for the horses. My dad was born in 1916 & remembered the great flood. People were floating down Carson Street on doors he said.

Awesome stuff Jarid. Ive enjoyed many of your videos. Also been researching along the same lines for awhile. The biggest mystery to me is- mound builders, mounds with underground networks built upon by the inheritors. The natives- allegewi/tallegewi/ giants of the allegheny valley (nephilim in the ohio valley) the Allegheny was once called the ohio. The “4th river” flowing salt water underneath the Allegheny. Local knowledge. I remember reading about it as a kid but can find no reference now. Have you seen mention of this or other “indian caves” in the area? I know of one. Close to Natrona. Site of the first dam upriver from Pittsburgh approximately 20 miles. Famous for obe of the first salt mines in the US. Would love to see your research go that direction.

Wow, what a great job you did. I lived in Pittsburgh for about 20 years and still go there several times a year. Thank you for your work.

Ok so Pittsburg was once a Manufacturing Loviathin with Giant Furnaces Smeltering Iron for America! No less And the loane Mother "Boiling water" brought the city to it's Knee's , don't you just love they way they mock our Minds with Narratives

Thank you so much. This one is my roots!

Also..........LOOKS JUST LIKE OLD CHICAGO.... ALL THE BEST...... Oh ALL TESLA STYLE TECH

Excellent presentation myFriend..Adena, Copena, and Hopewell peoples, the forgotten ones..JustSayn

Western PA had lots of mounds, big ones in McKees Rocks and Monongahela. Urban legend is Smithsonian took away artifacts since the were at odds with official history.

Im from Pittsburgh. I plan on moving closer soon.

Appreciate your historic diligence. 19000 years is a long time for a people. Is that based on cultural memory or artifact? Takes a good reason to leave a home that provides everything, like us assh*les. Came across a quote from a French soldier in Algeria 200ish years ago. He said, everywhere we go, the people run away, and then the trees disappear.

Great video, born and raised since 1958. There is another interesting story north of Pittsburgh on an Allegheny river tributary called Oil creek. A book titled Petrolia is an easy read and a bizarre telling of the early days of the oil industry.

I loved this!! I learned a lot and kept correcting you pronouncement!

I think Carnegie had his 'hand' in many buildings all over the country. There's several in NC that he is accredited to building

Also, like everywhere else in country, we wanted the land the Indians had lived on for centuries, and took it. Still , it is a blessing to live here.

I grew up thirty miles east of Pittsburgh, Jeannette Pa. My father worked at the Edgar Tomphson Steel mill. He was a brick mason . His job was to line the coke ovens with new bricks when the old bricks wore out. I can still remember as a kid going with my mother and father on pay day to Braddock to pick up his pay check and go shopping. Those were the good old days.

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The Cathedral of Learning is very interesting!

Also, kind of skipped over the importance that Pittsburgh had in the glass industry. Long before they were known for steel, Pittsburgh was making some of the finest glass in the world, thanks to all the flint in the ground. The glass is very collectible and expensive.

I was raised in the Pittsburgh area and also raised in the Philadelphia area. Now live in the area near Erie. All native controlled in the beginning of its birth.

Edgar Thompson works. My dad was a steel hauler and hauled out of many of the steel mills.

Great content brother 💯

Those sneaky ma sons setting the narrative

The train station that is show at the end of the great fire is Union Train Station that was built in 1898-1904. If you look up at the inside of the rotunda, Pittsburgh is spelled with no H. This change was in 1891. The H was returned in July 19, 1911.

Thank you so much for compiling and sharing this history. I was just thinking about the atom smasher today as I was driving and decided to look for some recorde memory online. They tore it down a few years ago and no one knew why. It was one of our favorite things to show visitors to our neighborhood. I never saw a photo of luna park before and do not know where it was located. We native Pittsburghers are so proud of our city and its history. Thank you for the wonderful presentation.

Wow that's awesome info thanks

"I am not speaking of mere filth. One expects steel towns to be dirty. What I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness, the sheer revolting monstrousness, of every house in sight. From East Liberty to Greensburg, a distance of twenty-five miles, there was not one insight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the eye. Some were so bad...that they were downright startling; one blinked before them as one blinks before a man with his face shot away. A few linger in memory, horrible even there...They have taken as their model a brick set on end. This they have converted into a thing of dingy clapboards, with a narrow, low-pitched roof. And the whole they have set upon thin, preposterous brick piers. By the hundreds and thousands, these abominable houses cover the bare hillsides, like gravestones in some gigantic and decaying cemetery on their deep sides they are three, four and even five stories high; on their low sides, they bury themselves swinishly in the mud...Not a fifth of them are perpendicular. They lean this way and that, hanging on to their bases precariously. And one and all they are streaked in grime, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping through the streaks..they have the most loathsome towns and villages ever seen by mortal eye. I award this championship only after laborious research...I have seen, I believe, all of the most unlovely towns of the world; they are all to be found in the United States...But nowhere on this earth, at home or abroad, have I seen anything to compare to the villages that huddle along the line of the Pennsylvania from the Pittsburgh yards to Greensburg. They are incomparable in color, and they are incomparable in design. It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man, had devoted all the ingenuity of Hell to the making of them. They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect, become almost diabolical. One cannot imagine mere human beings concocting such dreadful things, and one can scarcely imagine human beings bearing life in them...It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror... Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable." - H.L Mencken, "The Libido for the Ugly" (1927)

People of the old world would be considered giants compared to us, thus the reason all their architecture is fitting for giant ,. Trust me is settlers coming into a new land would never go to such extravagance on their buildings and technology!!! Where would they find the time or material !! There supposedly were no technology, manufacturing or nothing back then , how would people shape and cut stone and haul it!! I mean there are SO many problems with this that I could not even list them all !! The the architecture does not match the visual population , people who build this extravagant DO NOT where cheap felt/burlap suits and hats and they sure as hell did not use those poor little horses as their means of moving materials!! Lol. Like I said there are sooo many factors that are totally wrong when it comes to these pictures and their storyline narrative!! These folks KNEW SOMETHING about life and the universe that we today cannot even begin to scratch the surface to as knowing this old world way of life ,. From what I read it really was like the golden years , utopia ,. Etc. I'm starting to get the feeling our history timeline is totally wrong and it's hard to say what actual year it really is??? Anyone know?? You can go back useing the bible as your timeline and

I'd LOVE 💕 to see a video of side by sides of the old world architecture and the pictures of what it looks like today. Thank you 💗.

Thank you for ur work on this video. Very well done and informative even for someone like me who is from the area. I see you didn’t include the drop in population in the 70’s when the steel went overseas. Very very sad to see those men lose their jobs. Currently you can still see the old soot still on the buildings from years ago. My grandfather would used to tell us about the street lights still needing to be on at 12 noon.

Old buildings have very much Parisian look and feel

excited for this one thanks (:

My family has lived in the Pittsburgh area since the whiskey rebellion. North side although once it's own city was just as prominent during the indust revo. For the record the french burnt down fort Duquesne them selves before retreating down the Ohio after executing there captives, cutting off there heads and posting them on poles for the British to discover. The french were sure to leave nothing to salvage while leaving few prisoners alive to share warning.

1:50, that rock shelter looks an awful lot like a melted building! 8:07, center mass, as the land begins, it looks like hidden art within the smoke of the drawing, depicting a soldier on the left and two galloping horses to the right! Zinc roofs (?)! Why would Carnage need to find out more about Pittsburgh history, I thought the settlers created its history! I feel that the reason Pittsburgh burnt was because it was a target of the world war that was raging at the time! Carnage built libraries, museums etc all over America! Listening to the official narrative, I have come to realize that fairy tales do not end when you become an adult!

You always see pictures of these beautiful, elaborate buildings. Why are there hardly ever any images of them being built??? You'd think that would be a big event or spectacle. The building and opening of the huge masterpieces......

Gov. Dim Witty? That's incredible. I'm perpetually amazed at all the hidden gems in the tri state alone. Thanks to your videos I'm inspired to research my area and it's beyond belief. What an awesome channel. And do you notice that star forts are at their heart pentagon's with points at the angles. Pittsburgh had more bridges in the 19th century than NYC has today. I already knew something was up but now Pittsburgh burned down too? What is going on? I always said carnival rides are the inner gears of old world machine's and now I can see where roller coasters come from. Pittsburgh is fascinating, Crystal palaces, even a Luna park! Thank God for people who love this stuff.

The old "great fire" trick.

26:14 evidence of mud flooding. These Pittsburg buildings were inherited just like the rest of the buildings in the USA. In not one of the 200 pictures were there people constructing/building any of these magnificent old world buildings. Also look at 26:22 check out the slant, half of the 1st floor is completely covered by the ground (mudflooding). No one would build a building with the 1st floor half covered by the earth. That’s another inherited building.

I used to live up the street from that Westinghouse facility. I believe it is an atom smasher.

Very well put together! Loved it

That tallest educational building looks similar to a building we have in Lagrange Kentucky that has been turned into a prison. a tower in the middle of a huge field

Your research and detail are superb. However, for future videos, I must point out that the town with the burial mound is called Mc"Kees" Rocks, not Mc "Gees Rocks. Keep up the informative videos. Thanks for giving me information on my hometown that wasn't even taught in school.

Some of these buildings in the old photos are only supposed to be 30 -40 years old but yet they are totally weathered and dilapidated, with many broken out windows

33.10 minutes in, the background behind the building is painted. Take it from a painter. They seemed to be using photographic glass plate superimposure from about 1840, at least. The equivalent of modern Photoshop, hence often crude masking of buildings.

I'll take Pittsburgh over Philthadelphia any day.

Pittsburgh pride!

Awesome video! Thanks Jared!

There’s always a fire story.

Nice photos of OW Pittsburgh! Just FYI - the audio level fluctuates widely between spliced segments, making it necessary to repeatedly adjust the volume level. The video composition software should have the capability of 'normalizing' audio (to help prevent that). Thanks for your work.

I find it interesting that this great flood happened exactly in the middle of emsworth loch/dam construction immediately downstream. 🤔

Yo.... shared with friend from there

So they lived there “continuously” for 19,000 years and they only built this rock shelter? 19,000 years is a really really long freakin time! If they were there for that long why the heck did they ever leave and shouldn’t they be the “real native” people? When you can find whole city streets with price signs still in the shop windows buried underground in places like Atlanta that everyone “forgot” was there and was supposedly buried only 100 year ago, how can they say they “know” these people lived there for 19,000 years? 🤔 Cheers

Thank you for this. Life long Yinzer and I learned more about my city's history during this video than my entire 39 years

Someone might have already corrected this but if not, the Telescope was in the Allegheny Observatory in Perry Hilltop, NOT in the Phipps conservatory.

The salt water spring feeding the bath-house is a part of the petrochemical phenomenon that exists thru Western PA: note Oil City, Slippery Rock, and "Pennzoil". It was typically called a "brine" by people who had gas and oil wells on their properties. You could pipe the humid natural gas into a home and feed your furnace. If it got too cold the water would freeze in the line and your furnace wouldn't work. The derricks in one of your photos is actually a scene of Washington, PA. That "brine" would be toxic if ingested. I'm not sure what bathing in it would do for you -- but a pregnant woman or new mother sure wouldn't want to be in that. Probably not their usual clientele, tho. My guess is some enterprising business man was collecting the black gold / crude oil and /or natural gas and using the brine as a "value added" feature.

Great video, very interesting

Keep in mind an ounce of gold was about $17 back then when you think about the value of iron and etc supposedly produced in pittsburgh back then...

Born & raised in PGH.- carpenter by trade- still here. Any & all structures built prior to 1970 & standing within a sixty mile radius of the Three Rivers have so much coal dust in their walls one would think a carpenter working on a remodel project was a coal miner upon the end of the work day! If yinz ain't Steelers fans ya ain't sh*t! ✌️

And of course a great fire and the story behind it. Goodness. How dumb do you think we are. I think that story is used in every city around that time.

Born n raised in Da'Burgh , ty fehr makin dis N'aht 💯👍

I grew up next to the atom smasher we called it the light bulb... I have dozens of pictures of it...

Did every major city have a Luna park?

I flew from Ca to Pa to see it

CARNEGIE WAS A LYING THIEF. TOOK CREDIT FOR BUILDINGS THAT WERE ALREADY THERE. NARRATIVE DOES NOT CONSIDER THE TECHNOLOGY OF THOSE TIMES.

Job well done. I would like to know more about the old castle jail off Grant street. When was it built and by whom.

Good vid buddy

Another great video! I Live in johnstown pa.

My birthstone is blue. My daughter's is yellow. My son's is red. The 3 stars on Steelers logo = family BLACK N YELLOW, BLACK N YELLOW

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I love this subject, but the narrator’s continuous question drives me crazy!

please move down the Ohio river a little bit and do one on Cincinnati Next!!! Its my home town and has many relics and mysteries. (start with the 1848 Cincinnati daguerreotype panorama) Hamilton Ohio could also be included in that. its just around the corner up the Miami River.