Nicely done!

Thanks for the video. I didn't realize how things like executions were handled at the local level. Simpler times.

I've lived in Delco my whole life and know all these places. It's really cool to see these places how they were back in time and how much everything changed. I drive on the first road you showed everyday. This was a really good video 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🍻

I really wish I was alive for all the old photos. I would have loved traveling through delco on a horse. I probably would have died of tuberculosis by 25 but that’s okay

Blacks ravaged the area.

Philadelphia and the Boston have dome the best jobs of keeping as much of the original buildings intact. Thank you Craig for this nostalgic look back at our great beginnings.

In fact, Philadelphia has retained about 2000 of its original 6000 colonial structures, in addition to the original street & grid layouts, which is why entire neighbourhoods IN Old City, Society Hill, Queens Village, Centre City, etc. have retained their colonial character. Other large colonial cities like Boston, NYC, Baltimore, Wilmington, Montreal tend to have random buildings interspersed here & there but generally not by the mi². I think Quebec City comes closest to the sheer number of retained buildings & similarity to original streets layout

The SS laughed at the American soldiers when they were shooting them , Also after when they were calling for help and would shoot them. Mocking their cries out for help and god

Love it

Maybe adding music would improve the video!

Nice simulation yet more digital research must be done. And please stop your children from digitally editing these images.

thank ya, enjoyed this, and really thinkin bout moving to philly

Depressive shit hole then & now!

I watched Blow Out for the first time. I always check for filming locations for 70s and 80s films and stumbled on your fantastic video. You did a great job in lining up your photos with the original stills. Even though some Philadelphia locations have gone, I think there's better preservation than for some of the New York locations I've seen for other movies. Thanks for making this video.

The Betsy Ross House would have been part of an entire row of similar homes, all conjoined for the length of the block. Even the 1900 photo doesn't depict this. The taller buildings left and right are 19th century constructs.

They certainly do not build them like they used to. Philadelphia USA 🇺🇸

Thanks for the picture of Media with the buildings at Orange and Baker...they were torn down in the late 60's-early 1970's as I recall...they were vacant for a few years... there was a shoe store there which may have been the 2nd or 3rd building off Baltimore Pike where I purchased a pair of workman's boots as a kid...

It will always be Columbia Ave. Renaming streets is ridiculous

Speed it up

That Broad st station was an incredible piece of architecture taken down to build a glass box

Had no idea all these trolley lines traversed Delco...fond memories in the 60's of riding in the trolley car driver's seat (rear) from Media to 69th st or pulling the wooden seat out of its pocket that enabled you to sit in front of the rear door. Probably can't do either of these things now! Great video's Craig.

Wonderful photos - I worked a few blocks from Independence Mall for 30 years. I have to go back and walk the streets again. Thank you for photos.

My Great Aunt lived in Elfreth's Alley in the 1890's. I saw her expenses book she kept for her whole life. Rent was 12 cents a week, and her bread was a Hey Penny. (1/10th of a cent) A beef shoulder for a stew, was 3 cents!!! Wood for her stove, delivered, was 1 cent for a fascist.

A.M. Blanche was an independent car and boat insurance salesman. And my Grandfather.

All old city

Always love watching these types of videos, but then it gets ruined when I go to the comment section and see people say some extremely racist things

Born n Raised in South Philly went to 12yrs of Catholic school here. WIW👍👍👍

I be trying to get photos of 60th kingsessing an 20 hundred block of Salford st

Think about adding a soundscape please.. doesn't have to be all loud n showy either..still it's an excellent video ❤

This is an incredible place to visit and learn the history. Thank You!

Thankfully it was handled.Though a waste since There was a college looking and ready to buy

Can you show a picture of where the old St. Alphonsus was in Philadelphia? My Great-Great-Grandmother was baptized in the then new building in December 1855 or early January 1856. I know the St Alphonsus there now is a new place in a different location.

Absolutely superb. Very well done mate. I especially like that after the two then and now photos you do a side by side. Too, your ability to capture the spot from which the original photographer captured his shot to take yours is marvellous. Cheers!

The photo at 11 seconds shows a completed City Hall in circa 1885. Not possible. The accurate photo at 2:05 shows City Hall under construction. (It took thirty years to complete.)

Great Job, Thank you.

The part that’s still above water ….. do we know what part of the ship that is???

1:30 hey 7x Great Uncle Caleb, it’s your black great nephew.

Trajicly, many towns have lost some of their most important pieces of early architecture because of urban renewal. Philadelphia city planner, Bacon, did a real number on it, not for the better.

Philadelphia seemed to have back-to-back houses back then. And how different Dock Street would be today had the city decided to renovate the buildings and pedestrianize the street with trees.

A job well done sir. It was wonderful to see the photos side by side. It really added a lot to the presentation. Thank you very much for a very enjoyable afternoon.

Amerika has been & will continue to pay a very high price for bringing BLACK SLAVES to North Amerika they don't belong in North Amerika they must be given fair reparations and allowed to return to their African Motherland WE Russians never ever engaged in BLACK SLAVERY nor had AFRICAN COLONIES. MUCH BLESSINGS 🇷🇺🇷🇺✝️

YES SIR THOSE WIER THE DAYS. THANK YOU FOR A FINE VIDEO. ROBBIE PHILADELPHIA PA FISHTOWN

THANK YOU SIR FOR SHARING GREAT PICTURE OF PHILADELPHIA PA FISHTOWN ROBBIE

One of the escapees lived in my area. He killed his wife in 88 or 89 and disappeared. His body was found on the Appalachian Trail in 2004.

Watching Blowout Right now, thanks for making this comparison.

Need some music

it’s cool to know people got to see it before it became what it was today. i still have pictures from when i was a kid with it in the background

Being a home-grown boy from South Philly, I can only add to the accolades expressed by previous viewers. I am almost painfully nostalgic and I love these you tube videos that transport me back to a time long past compared to current days. In many scenes, there is nothing left compared to now and it's fascinating to view all the folks in the many scenes and wonder....what were their stories like and what became of them.......

0:26 to 0:55 what track that turned left lead to?

Wow! I never knew that this episode was Philly! Unfortunately, and at that time, I was only a 4-year-old girl living in Folcroft. (After all, I was raised in Folcroft.), plus I can't remember that far back either. The furthest back that I can remember was when I was in kindergarten at the Folcroft Union Church; which was back in 1962-63. Secondly, if Route 66 only ran from Chicago to Los Angeles, how did George Maharis and Martin Miller get to Philly? Did they drive to Chicago, and then take another route there to Philly?