Best of The History Guy: Gotham

[@167curly]

I am learning much about America's history inTHG. Thank you.

[@patricklilly2520]

Hands down, THE BEST Channel on KZbin...

[@MB5rider81]

History Guy rules !

[@ИЗРАЭЛЬСАЛАЗАР]

Hear hear!

[@gunargundarson1626]

I love the Gothic architecture of New York City. It reminds of the old timey comics of how a futuristic metropolis would look like.

[@275Vet-RLTW]

Thats because those old timey comics weren't that old and were based on nyc!

[@jetsons101]

For me the Brooklyn Bridge is one of the most beautiful bridges built considering how old it is.....

[@drshoe8744]

Whenever I am in NYC, I can't help but think about "How much Money it took to build everything?" It's not just the buildings, but all of the infrastructure, it's truly a staggering amount.

[@jamesfetherston1190]

And the infrastructure of NYC is incredibly widespread. The Eerie Canal was essentially proposed and built by NYC in order to beat New Orleans for access to all of the resources of the Midwest. The water and aqueduct system reaches to the northern Catskills.

[@Mr1fish2fish]

Your transitions are very colorful and interesting to watch.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

I use a program called Viddyoze,

[@shibolinemress8913]

The blackout of 1977 got a fun reference in the 1990 series "The Flash". In the ep "Ghost in the Machine", Officer Murphy brags about winning thousands in a poker game with the Corelli twins while they were all stuck in a lift. 😂

[@navret1707]

The cables for the bridge were produced by Robling Steel in Trenton, NJ. “Trenton makes, the World Takes”. Or Trenton Makes the World’s Jakes referring to Trenton Pottery.

[@edwinsalau150]

Now it should say, Trenton made,and,the world took!!!

[@Blade_Daddy]

Having lived in Cincinnati and now in Northern Kentucky for almost 60 years, I have been over the Roebling bridge here many times - by car, by bus, and on foot. Thanks for mentioning this fine structure in this episode. There was a delay in the completion of the bridge due to the Civil War. Ohio was a Union state and Kentucky was a "border state" but had lots of southern sympathizers and slave holders. When built, the city fathers in Cincinnati did not want the bridge to connect to the main roads on both sides of the river to impede Cincinnati folks from having quick access to Kentucky shops, etc. The connector roads are still the same way today - "curvy and twisted"!!!7😮

[@randyastle3301]

I moved to New York in 2002, and love our local history. But I’m still learning things! Thanks

[@v.e.7236]

Very interesting to see the metamorphosis of THG, from his early days adorned w/ a brush cut, when I first sub'd, to today's salt and pepper doo, but always w/ that stylish bowtie.

[@johnpaparella7345]

Should THG appear on video without the bowtie, you know the end is nigh.

[@joelbrown3479]

An AMAZING collection of some of your BEST WORK THANKS Bronx Love brother 😎

[@cpklapper]

I had a congenital heart murmur, for which the only medical restriction was that I was not supposed to be around tobacco smoke. My Mom was particularly zealous in refusing our patronage of restaurants which permitted smoking.

[@kingdaviYT049]

It's not "despair" that leads to crime; it's optimism! --The conviction that you can do anything at all you want and get away with it!

[@jamesfetherston1190]

Only for sociopaths.

[@rikfroschauer1743]

The black national motto

[@jamesfetherston1190]

Lolwut?@@rikfroschauer1743

[@ristube3319]

28:12 Center was over my city, New London, CT

[@cbroz7492]

...anyone interested in the Great Bridge MUST read the late David McCullough's "The Great Bridge"...

[@Manowar458]

Awesome

[@saabreplay7553]

Excellent

[@MarshOakDojoTimPruitt]

thanks

[@felicitybywater8012]

Excellent. As always.

[@bonniebennett709]

Thank you

[@theboyisnotright6312]

Blizzards like 1888, wow. Tho i live in Minnesota, in December 2010 we got pounded. If we hadnt had modern forcasts people would have died. Cars were still stuck on the roads tho. National guard Bradley's got thru. For around 18 hours it was total whiteout conditions. A storm like that is awful.

[@TM-ev2tc]

Victor Lustig you should check him out and maybe do a video about him.

[@TM-ev2tc]

Maybe you could even do a video on Stephen Duncan. I don't know much about him, but I would like to hear what you can come up with about him.

[@cbroz7492]

"Count" Victor Lustig...

[@Kyfordman1989]

Do you know as a personal lives in northern Kentucky and the same gentleman who designed the Brooklyn Bridge designed our suspension bridge? Ours was first he never seen the Brooklyn Bridge get finished, but the suspension bridge between Kentucky and Ohio was his first and that piece of history seems to be have forgotten.

[@TedSeeber]

Kentucky and Ohio are flyover country. To the snobs in the cities, they do not exist.

[@robertmoffett3486]

It wasn't forgotten here. He mentions and shows the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge @ 311

[@chiconian49]

You forgot to mention the spike in pregnancies and all the babies that were born 9 months after the 1977 blackout.

[@edwinsalau150]

Absolutely, correct! People couldn’t go to the movies and the TVs didn’t work.

[@osumbuckeyenut]

Giggity....

[@275Vet-RLTW]

Cause those Brooklyn girls are... ;)

[@cbroz7492]

...and after the November 9th, 1965 blackout...the night of my 15th birthday...

[@cbroz7492]

Correction..my 16th birthday!!!

[@danstotland6386]

Thank you very much for your wonderful and informative videos. Could you help some of us geriatric fans by speaking just a little bit slower? Please keep up the good work. Thanks.

[@felicitybywater8012]

I think either your phone or KZbin itself has an adjustment thingy in its settings to slow videos down.

[@kaylayoung272]

In youtube settings, you can change the speed of playback. Look for the icon that looks like a cog or gear. Press that icon and choose playback speed.

[@sylviajones4907]

Smoking: It might have really appealed to Little Tim to see a woman smoke, he just didn't know it. 😄

[@JohnBerry-q1h]

*Question...* How did the two-wheeled carts, called caissons, that carried artillery ammunition, end-up also being the name used to refer to the air-pressurized wooden structures that were used to dig-out the river bottom beneath the Brooklyn Bridge?

[@J.A.Smith2397]

Not fond of your "best of" videos but I hit thumbs up and a comment cause I like yrs that much! Lol

[@kevinvilmont6061]

Perhaps it’s common knowledge, but what’s the story with all the military covers? Is it symbolism i.e. “where’s many caps” no prob not. Looks interesting. Great channel, easy to spot a pro.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

No secret, I just enjoy collecting them.

[@kevinvilmont6061]

A free flow in narrative from the witness perspective actually sounds like a good idea. I’m sure they needed to tighten it up a little bit..

[@TheCosmicGuy0111]

Nice

[@jennaolbermann7663]

I wonder what Mr. Roebling would say if he could see that the bridge is still there.

[@jaminova_1969]

Hopefully, he would thank his wife Emily for getting it done!

[@robertmoffett3486]

I'm sure he expected it to stand for several hundred years, at least

[@zach123101]

29:21 "let me help you down, $5"

[@cpklapper]

Those of us served by NYSEG were immune from ConEd blackouts.

[@markloveless1001]

I'm surprised "doing a Brody" didn't make it in the Brooklyn Bridge segment.

[@DeconvertedMan]

Great History. No Batman.

[@DeconvertedMan]

@kymmee21 there is plenty of history of comics out there thou

[@wasyertakeawaythaturmadeofcorn]

I have been waiting to do this... I am cognizance. I am midday. I am.. The History Guy! Yaaay.

[@1is1]

🐓 Your videos are mint! 👍

[@clwool]

what is the name and model are your glasses?

[@jacksoncz8536]

Much worse was Timothy Sullivan's anti American sponsorship of the 'Sullivan Act' in 1911. Denying generations of New Yorkers their basic human right of self-defense.

[@JohnBerry-q1h]

_Enterprising New Yorkers brought out long ladders and charged a small fee to get people down from the elevated trains._ 😆🤣😅😂 [that's America. Folks pulling together during an emergency!]

[@marywalton8428]

Hey THG, I watch your videos all the time before bed and sometimes I wish there were trigger warnings beforehand, some of the background images you use can be upsetting to see unexpectedly 😔 here specifically I am talking about the heroin needle image in the video about the blackout of 77, but in earlier videos you also discussed various forms of suicide and murder also without a verbal sensitive content warning beforehand. As a person that suffers from PTSD and is in recovery, I really dislike a sudden graphic image! But I love to listen and learn, it is history that deserves to be remembered! I just hope you take a sensitive content warning into consideration, I'm not sure if you do it sometimes or not, thank you 🫶

[@kingpest13]

That slant that little Tim was trying to protect working class women from the influence of rich ladies was so odd to hear.

[@kevinvilmont6061]

Maybe he should’ve jumped into a net. In order to show the jump into nets was safe. But I’m not a safety expert.

[@hhuggman1]

1st comment!! We love you #Mr History Guy!!

[@clayhackney3514]

Hip hops roots in looting 😅

[@bloggerccc]

Was this video artificially "speeded-up"? This is the first time I've had difficulty understanding the narration, which seems to be coming in bursts.

[@rikfroschauer1743]

''Speeded up'' ? Third grade graduate? Have you ever proof read your posts?

[@MollyBrown-f9i]

@@rikfroschauer1743 👎

[@joetimbrel9280]

I've bought that bridge too😅

[@sarahcoleman3125]

That last story reminded me of the Marvel crossover storyline of Inferno in 1989. The story was literally Hell come to New York City and the notable precursor was that it was so hot. Marvel is a New York based company, so no doubt the event influenced the story.

[@MB5rider81]

If she smokes, she pokes..😉

[@drshoe8744]

Wrong "Guy" you're thinking of the "Family Guy" this is the "History Guy". 😁

[@theboyisnotright6312]

As my dad used to say: if she chews gum, she will smoke, if she smokes probably drinks, and we all know what girls that drink will do😂😂😂😂

[@lindakay9552]

31:49 hmm. I have Sullivan ancestors. In 20%Scottish.

[@MichianaFisherman]

Haha you should look up women drivers! A Putnam’s automobile hand book of 1918 has a chapter about his options. Would make a good episode. Funny stuff today!

[@JohnBerry-q1h]

_Stories of distracted men, crashing their carriages, soon followed._ Oh, yeah? Were the horses distracted, too?

[@michaelplunkett8059]

65 to 77 shoes how bad the city had gotten in 12 years.

[@-jeff-]

Gotham? Looks more like Bedlam to me.

[@MB5rider81]

Would Darth Vader actually kill the Joker..? I suggest that after a few swings of the lightsaber surprisingly difficult to read the intentions of one so devoid of intentions. With no forethought to act upon,. No predetermined goals,. Not even an emotion to play upon.. The perfect Sith.. How could Vader destroy something that, in his opinion,. Could be the first introduction of "fun" he has experienced since he was a child.

[@NoBSMusicReviews]

I grew up in New York City in the 1970s. It was indeed a very tough place. One thing that I don’t think is mentioned is that the violence may also have been linked to the increase of lead in the environment. Once unleaded, gas became prevalent, after a demographic delay, violence went down all over the country. There is quite a lot of evidence that lead in the environment had a role to play in the rise of violence in America during that time.

[@bigsarge2085]

✌️

[@LordMarcus]

I always thought "Gotham" referred to Chicago.

[@AshesAshes44]

I'm the only one who imagined a fairy hurting that guys foot, aren't I? 🙁

[@ashergoney]

That Other Local Lopez..

[@ashergoney]

Fink Calls The King A Fink Like Apples For Breakfast.. Accupressure Accupuntures In Totally Reverse Still @ 2023 July 2nd..

[@andrewyoung2796]

Now its worse than DETROIT

[@robertmoffett3486]

With the exception of a few neighborhoods, violent crimes are pretty low compared to the past

[@nomduclavier]

When does Batman show up

[@amalfi460]

1883 is 140 years ago……this video was made 2 years ago??

[@carywest9256]

And you texted just over a hour ago, so what's your point?

[@andyevans2336]

This is what is called ”a collection” of stories. So, are you surprised?

[@gc6096]

I’m the Batman

[@JohnBerry-q1h]

Liberalism, 1908: Women smoking in public places, or smoking at all Liberalism, 2024: Trans-men allowed to use womens' bathrooms and locker rooms

[@merlinwizard1000]

55th, 17 July 2023

[@JohnBerry-q1h]

_Enterprising New Yorkers brought out long ladders and charged a small fee to get people down from the elevated trains._ 😆🤣😅😂 [that's America. Folks pulling together during an emergency!]