" AMERICA'S BUSIEST RIVER " 1950s MARCH OF TIME TV EPISODE MONONGAHELA RIVER COAL BARGES 15035

[@kevinstone9638]

My family owned several towing vessels on the Ohio, and Kanawha Rivers I grew up on the river and our company has since been dissolved many years ago but I still have the river in my blood always. Thank you for sharing this.

[@unseenpaintings]

It really is a blessing to have these films and to be so attainable.

[@BernardBouchard-qq9kq]

I was born in Clairton in the 40s the sound's echoed thru the steep hill sides and you looked out the front window all you saw was mill and smelled burning coal it was great.

[@imKazahkstan]

1955 was the peak of manufacturing in Pittsburgh, when 42% of the working population of the city worked in manufacturing. 25 years later in 1980, that number dropped to a still impressive 25%.

[@kevinwayne7546]

cool

[@AlanVanWay]

The first sternwheeler in the film,WP Snyder, is moored at Marietta,OH as part of a museum.

[@CaptainJerry-]

I was a river boatman on the Columbia.

[@martysmith5460]

Beautiful Pittsburgh. Our house was on the Alleghany. Moved to Santa Barbara in 1970.

[@pbcanal1]

This is great film.

[@MichiganPeatMoss]

8:27 - Skipper opens his laptop. :)

[@zeusapollo8688]

Awesome film

[@michaelmorrison6540]

Back when men were men… and the United States was the industrial powerhouse of the world. It’s no wonder the US was once a country of great prosperity.

[@laserbeam002]

Yeah, but after the mid to late 60's the country started to slip and we are still slipping. We have made great strided in technology and medicine but as a society we have went into the toilet.

[@JTA1961]

Wonder if they put on a lighter load ifn it was a rainin

[@MoneySavingVideos]

Bring back beautiful coal

[@peterparker9286]

Born in Bethlehem in a Manger.

[@andrewsmactips]

And yet they couldn’t spell Coming.

[@bas1010]

Born in Pgh in 1953

[@oldschoolmotorsickle]

I was born in St Louis in the same year. Different river there, same industrial degradation. I grew up living adjacent to the country’s biggest lead smelter and a PPG plate glass plant, a huge float glass factory. Those companies used to treat the Mississippi like it was their personal sewer. Both plants are gone now, but the lead smelting operation was only shut down about ten years ago. It moved to China of course.

[@reaganburrell9541]

What about. WVU how bout dem eers

[@barbaraburbey7654]

An early record of our crimes against the rivers and the land. 😢

[@larkatmic]

Crimes of prosperity and privilege in allowing you to say such tripe.

[@Star0stinIg0r]

What a naive idiot

[@barbaraburbey7654]

​@@larkatmicseventy five years on we might be a bit more clear-eyed about environmental devastation than to call it "tripe" to point it out. Pitiful.

[@larkatmic]

@@barbaraburbey7654 It’s 2025. But I know many environmentalists need it to stay 1962 in order to stay relevant to their own delusions of doom and gloom. Pathetic. The spring is no longer silent dearest. Be well

[@peterparker9286]

Ya Bro they robbed rapped and piliged the land. Wake up Marvin.