Dang delaware sucked back then to?! 😊🧐

This is like a balm for my worried soul. Wonderful!😢

That's a great video. I loved seeing the cars and gas station logos from my youth. Honestly, I didn't realize that Delaware had paved roads in the fifties.

@1:52, is that the old Indian River Bridge, over the inlet? I’ve lived through this one (or one that looks like what I remember) and the two that have followed. ❤

60 dollars for delaware is still too much

Brief history-greasy, frozen overpriced pizza.

My mother told me that , when a young girl in New Castle, said she and her sister used to hear footsteps coming up the back stairs at night. But every time they went to try to catch the owner of the footsteps, as soon as they looked the footsteps stopped and nothing was there to be seen. Another story she told me of old New Castle , a widow would on occasion be awakened to see the ghost of a young black woman standing at the foot of her bed, staring at her, and would vanish when she got out of bed. Some time later while gardening, she found several old bottles buried together with their bottoms up. She researched it and found it was an old superstition of slaves to bury bottles that way in a hearth to ward off unwelcome spirits. She realized she discovered old slave quarters and understood the young black girl. The next time the young ghost appeared, the woman told the ghost her master is long dead and gone and she has nothing to fear. The ghost of the young black girl slowly vanished and was never seen again.

More Assignment Wilmington episodes, please. These are great!

It's crazy how these photos still look great. Wow.

All of these videos are awesome!!! It would be cool to see a “drive down Route 40” if theres any footage available. I know in the one video the recording car starts to drive onto Route 40 from the 13/40 split but then cuts out…as the video was focused on Route 13.

I love You caesar Rodney ❤❤❤

No cell phone 😊

I find your archival film footage fascinating! So much to learn. Since I grew up in Washington State, I knew very little of the building of the DuPont Highway in the early part of the 20th Century. The highway certainly benefited the state. Thank you for posting this video. My heart is in Bethany.❤

Another great video by the dpa

This bus transportation is still in use in VALPARAISO,CHILE, ❤❤❤❤❤

l lived in Delaware, almost 30 years...love it....l miss BETHANY BEACH, REHOBOTH SO MUCH as Di Febo s restaurant too❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

It is used, even now, as a tourists attraction, in VALPARAISO, CHILE........ BEAUTIFUL ❤

Excellent documentary. Now I have a bit of context about what a “caisson” is. The army rolled those along to repair or build bridges.😮 Respect for engineers, for sure!

And all essentially designed, calculated, specified, and the blueprints created, without computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM)! Amazing what humans created with slide rules, electromechanical 'adding machines' and skilled 'draftsmen'! 🌉 🌁 🌉 🌁 🌉 🌁 🌉 🌁 🌉 🌁 🌉 🌁 🌉 🌁

I visited recently, hadnt been there since I was a kid and was suprised the Dolles sign isnt there anymore

I go there

Another great video by the d p a

If the link here in the comments don't work, check out the description to this short.

You can start exploring here: cdm16397.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15323coll6 or under "Research" at our website archives.delaware.gov

This is SO "cool". Thank you. Delaware : born here, live here, love it here❣️. Thank you God.

Please d p a making these videos Please

My grandfather had an apple tree, a fig tree and a fence full of concord grapes. Sweet memories of home.

My father had two peach trees. and one cherry tree. I'm peached out. but nothing better than a Peach pies from my mother.

My mom and dad had just about met at this time in Wilmington. I am imagining them walking these sidewalks. ❤❤❤

Very nice, thanks for posting

many years ago, I watched a Documentary about Flight 175, and in that Documentary, someone says he was a very good person, always makes people happy, everybody loves him. R.I.P!

I arrived for the very firs time in Bethany Beach in September 1993 and it 😅didn't look that old, l think it is long before that year

If you go to UD you're guaranteed to get an STD

Love this film! Favorite was at 8:00 showing main downtown beach street. My God, so undeveloped!

This is GOLD, Thank you so much

Love the dpa please keep posting Don rollison

Me and my brother worked in tre construction of Mangos restaurant at the boardwalk around 1997 +-.. Paul Musik was the construction manager at the time....he and his wife, PAT, the more nice ,sweet and kind people that we met a that time❤

I miss so much Bethany Beach, l lived at 604 4th street in a small cottage over there...now there's a big house on "woog"....also worked at Difebo 's restaurant and a few more places around....love it❤❤

I live in Chile now, but l worked in Rehoboth for years ,a very beautiful city and lot of tourists and attractions but it will never be able possible to receive 7.000.000 tourists in a year

When we were The GREATEST Country in the World. As the Old saying goes, “The Men in Overalls built this Country, The Men in suits are Destroying it”

Really surprised..... They claimed Biden.

Think I saw Biden in the first picture from 1920!

Thank you!

That photo of Mitchell Hall is amazing

I attended the I-95 dedication by President Kennedy at the Mason Dixon monument placed next to the highway. That's when I discovered he was wall-eyed.

I’m going to rehoboth beach on Sunday for a week! Can’t wait 😝

I peed and pooped in the sand and buried it under the life guard tower at 3am