Yep it was already there...and was found... founded. Tell me a construction company that can build a double of this today.
@tazquigley4589 күн бұрын
Do you know it was already there 🤔 all they did is renovation....and found it ... founded it..
@joshwise612712 күн бұрын
I miss living in downtown Detroit… I hate Tucson
@pakman377712 күн бұрын
Just jump on the elevator and the detail is just unreal
@daniellatimer187613 күн бұрын
My mother loved the Penobscot building!
@pacificdune14 күн бұрын
In the late 90’s I spent a summer internship working in an office on the 34th floor. It is truly a beautiful building from a different time. I will always cherish the days I spent there.
@alanshoebridge192714 күн бұрын
I remember when I was a kid in the sixties I could see the Penobscot Bld.from my front porch and I lived in the suburb of Melvindale. I was only a half a mile from the ford river rouge plant the worlds largest plant at the time , it employed 100.000 people at that single factory.
@zeldamorgan926015 күн бұрын
The president, Frank Blair has an interesting story on his own. Born on a farm in Clawson. His life is worth exploring.
@georgemallory79715 күн бұрын
It's like a shrunken down Empire State Building without its mooring mast, similar to the tall, art deco building in Cincinnati.
@michaelnewson539516 күн бұрын
lies lies lies....those buildings are older than that. yall believe this narrative?
@wyldezyde16 күн бұрын
Construction started 1927 Completed 1928... ONE YEAR!! while building other buldings?? michigan has winters.. just saying.. 1,258,900 sq ft OOOKAY.. and people claim we are advancing! HIS story is absurd. what a joke..
@markguerin70117 күн бұрын
In the 70s i used to go to the raido station " W.D.E.T. " On Saturday nites from midnight to 3 A.M. for the Blues after hours show with the famous coach man and BoBo Jenkins ... miss them days
@osbornvonpulaski164219 күн бұрын
I thought "Buhl" building was pronounced "Byool", not "Bull". At least that's how everyone that I knew pronounced it when I worked downtown. I'm sure that the name was pronounced differently in Europe, but not here. In all the years before that when I was just a kid growing up in Detroit, everybody pronounced it that way.
@The_General_Zubas19 күн бұрын
1:38 THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME!
@brianestoll20 күн бұрын
there's a whole set of conspiracy theorists that believe buildings like this are proof of an erased empire called "Tartaria"
@rob-toolsandtech252120 күн бұрын
Cool, thanks for the info.
@brianharper683820 күн бұрын
Try over 88 million in todays cost. Should i believe any of your "facts"?
@timbernie20 күн бұрын
We pronounce is Deetroit. South of 8M rd. Those up there it's DAuatroit.... Ya they got some issues. DA!
@timbernie20 күн бұрын
My Uncle met my Aunt in the Penobscot. Aunt ran the elevators. Uncle never talked about his job. Might have been CIA....
@fuckoff507820 күн бұрын
Detroit has some of the most amazing old buildings in the world. My favorite being the Penobscot building for some reason. I guess it kinda looks like a miniature Empire State Building
@got2getit20420 күн бұрын
I had to pay my tickets there!
@davidmarks831821 күн бұрын
I did makeup for the detroit news.in the early eighties we did a shoot in the top outside. Im.afraid of heights. Trust me it's tall.
@Cab00v21 күн бұрын
A few years ago, I was taking some French colleagues on a tour of downtown Detroit, and we walked up to the greater Penobscot to take a look inside. We made friends with the security guards and they gave us a once in a lifetime look at the city skyline from the very top. It was breathtaking, and a memory I won't soon forget. People aren't allowed up there because of radio and microwave transmitters, but it was cool to see the glowing red ball up close.
@justadbeer22 күн бұрын
Being a retired elevator technician, I've spent a lot of time in this building as well as others in downtown. It's Aztec inspired art deco design is amazing and one of my favorites. There are a lot of hidden corridors in buildings like this and the Guardian is no exception. There are hidden corridors in the lobby area high above where you can look down on the lobby through the brickwork. Keeping old buildings like this up and running takes a lot of time and money and will sadly be the downfall of many of these great structures some day.
@charlesdiggs529722 күн бұрын
I was born in 1963, and this building was our symbol until the Renaissance center went up in the 70s.
@senatorjosephmccarthy272022 күн бұрын
You're going to have to turn up the volume of your fool music. Some of us here can still make out a few words. 👎🤨👎
@seanpollock404322 күн бұрын
No interior shots? The three sections use alternate elevators and you can't get to the top without changing over. I worked in the building for a publisher from 1984 to about 1995, the elevators initially had human operators, so the stairs were quicker. I remember the stairs were visibly worn from all those years of foot traffic, wish I'd grabbed a few photos way back then.
@philipbrazill215523 күн бұрын
That is such a beautiful building. Great history lesson too
@steveloudon7491Ай бұрын
Almost perfect. But please go back and turn the music down. Got a tour of this building last winter. They have them every weekend. And remember, lower the music.
@zipperpillowАй бұрын
No shots of the interior? You cut down all of the public's forest, and this is what we have to show for it?
@DetroitWillАй бұрын
Overall True. There used to be an open-air deck up there that Allowed people to "see their house" Some of this is very well known known.
@charleshall6357Ай бұрын
Just went in there today to the bank.everytime i walk in this building im amazed by something i hadnt noticed before
@John-y1f4tАй бұрын
Super Video
@katfayegarrett38722 ай бұрын
Cool you got to see the original blueprints!❤
@liamcoolcool2 ай бұрын
Haven't found many videos like this. Great job! earned a sub :)
@josemoreno33343 ай бұрын
I downloaded a map of Nike sites all around the Los Angeles area. I Never knew that there was so many of them during the cold war. Today, Some of the sites are gone or there being used for storage by the county of Los Angeles. Great video.
@willowtree52673 ай бұрын
I work on JBER, Alaska, which has the best preserved Nike site, called Nike Site Summit.
@NW2553 ай бұрын
I’ve always considered this building to be my favorite in the skyline, mostly because the Empire State is my favorite New York skyscraper and the Penobscot reminds me of it
@lousanto10542 ай бұрын
The Empire State Building's 'H'-design and stepped archetecture was in part inspired by the Penobscot Building.
@NW2552 ай бұрын
@ really ?? I didn’t know that! That’s fascinating thank you for the info!
@jamhandy74704 ай бұрын
Love your videos. Keep it up! Hopefully, the Fisher Building is next!
@AnthonyTucker-sl4zj4 ай бұрын
I've been on the(open-air)ROOF of this art-deco masterpiece!! Constructed of THIRTY floors of mahogany granite,and 17 floors of Indiana limestone,it,at completoon was the tallest building in the world OUTside of Manhattan!! 😮
@JohnSmith-pc3gc4 ай бұрын
If a projectile is very small compared to a missile or warhead, it might cost a lot less. Certain arguments argue against ABM systems with the argument that the enemy can make more missiles to compensate for the defense. A BB travelling at ten kilometers per secind might put a hoke all the way through a nuclear warhead with inch thick steel plate armor. . A lot of tiny rockets in space travelling every which way might be able to destroy thousands of missiles at any point over the Earth. Another possibility is tiny solar planes powered by tiny solar ram jets that are always travelling every which wsy. If they don't need any fuel, they can be much lighter and always be in the sky. Traveling at 10 kilometers per second, they could reach any target on the dark side of the Earth in about ten minutes. Since they can change their durection without fuel which is required to maneuver in space where there is no air, they could be much smaller. Maybe as small as one centimeter long. Microelectronic detectors and guidance might cost $10. The microelectronics 8n one smart phone would have cost millions of dollars not many years ago. If the defense can deploy a million planes for the cost of one enemy ICBM, the expense argument is not much of an argument. If the solar plane is travelling about the same speed and direction as a missile or warhead, it can approach close to it and send precise location and trajectory data to the defense system which can dispatch planes in the area to the target. The system would also be a defense against conventional missiles and planes lower in the atmosphere. Even ground targets. A tiny plane could be fired out of an air gun on the ground and take out a nuclear warhead 50 miles up in the sky. If you have a long narrow swept wing plane with mirrored wings like a trough parabolic mirror focused on a cylinder with a slit in the side covered with glass to let cincentrated sunlight inside, the plane can be pointed towards the sun to accelerate and gain altitude. Once it is going faster than the sun sets, it can remain airborne indefinitely abive the clouds. A rwo gram plane teavelling at ten kilometers per second has about as much destructive energy as a half poind of TNT.
@richardpeterson13984 ай бұрын
10:21, The Penobscot Building, and Guardian Building, were built at the same time, with the Penobscot Building already topped out, while the Guardian Building shown here under construction, and not topped out yet. Photo taken in late 1928.
@AnthonyTucker-sl4zj4 ай бұрын
"The Cathedral Of Finance"had SO many red bricks imported for its' 495 foot construction,there was a new color designated as:"Guardian Red"!! 😮
@johndyson41095 ай бұрын
You better believe there are still ABM's in Washington D.C.! Right on the White House premises and around D.C....
@James-ik8yz5 ай бұрын
Dad used to take us up to his Art Studio at the top to watch the Fireworks on the detroit river . How ironic his brother passed on July 4th
@boydmonroe57005 ай бұрын
I was a launcher crewman 16b20 1968 to 1970. I was station 35 miles from Fairbanks Alaska at C battery. Also at Wheeler Indiana and Union Lake Michigan
@davidstorey3723 ай бұрын
In hobart high school class of 68. I knew 2 girls that dated Nike workers in wheeler
@jayzee69806 ай бұрын
You could see D-06 from the back yard of my wife's childhood home. Launch and IFC.
@RemyRAD6 ай бұрын
What a Wonderful Historical Video about the Penobscot Building in Detroit. I was born in Detroit in 1955. And my grandfather Stanley Altschuler. An immigrant from Russia. Opened up a small Advertising agency the Stanley Advertising Agency Incorporated. I think in 1948. By 1954. My parents had given up there Musical Careers. Mom would teach voice lessons at home. Dad would play in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. And at the Fisher Theater for all of the Broadway shows. And at Motown Studios frequently on the weekends. And at United Sound Systems Studios, on the weekends. Playing his violin for them. For both Motown and Stax Records. Dad would join my grandpa in the Advertising Agency. For his day job.. The orchestra and everything else at night. Dad was working 2 jobs. And the Advertising Agency as I recall. Was on the 8th floor of the Penobscot Building. I loved that building. I love going to my dad's office. As a little kid. I found the building, nostalgic to me as a little kid. It was magical. It seemed to me. Everything was still from the 1940s.. And also at the Train Station. Which was just as Magical.. Still decked out in its 1940s to core. I remember. In the 1960s. As a kid growing up. Dad moved into a nicer bigger, single floor, single building office. Off of West 8 Mile Road. That would inspire me. And to my Career of Audio and Broadcast Engineering. It's all dad's fault. He kept on taking me down to the TV & Radio Stations. And to the Recording Studios. Starting at 7 years of age. I thought that's what he wanted me to do? But no! My parents wanted me to follow in their footsteps and become a Professional Musician. I didn't want to do that. It was more fun playing with the equipment! And I didn't have to get up in front of an audience of people looking at me. Nobody would see me inside the Radio or TV Station. And that was fine by me. I did not have the same kind of Ego. Necessary. For people to be Live Performers on stage. I didn't need to do that. I could do it from behind the scenes. I didn't need to be Famous. Like they wanted to be. Today I'm just an, Oldster. With a 22-year-old New Old Motorhome. And loving it. I'm all alone now. But when I was around, 6 years old. Grandpa died.. And dad moved out of the Penobscot building. I miss it. RemyRAD
@jr94866 ай бұрын
Wow! The top of the building is in the shape of the Jewish Star of David!!! Awesome 🎉🎉🎉
@PancakeBoi5 ай бұрын
wrong star, star of David has 6 points ✡ the building top in in 8 points, an Octagram
@krisgreenwood51736 ай бұрын
I was a security MP at Site Summit Alaska in the middle 1970's. What is left of the site is still standing. Tours are available in the summer. Site Summit was closed in the summer of 1979.