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in this video or segment I thought we'd just look at some pictures this was shared by IRS

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media and the original content was provided by this user of flickr and he has a nice personal

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account and collection of beautiful photos of New York City back in the 70s and I was born in New

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Jersey on the bay and this scene reminds me of my youth when I was five my parents moved us to

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Arizona quite a different setting but my whole life I'd be haunted by these memories even at a

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young age without any understanding of history I was bewildered by everything I saw my mother told

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me recently that I was a strange child she once took me on a roller coaster and rather than enjoy

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the experience or the ride I was more interested in the workings of the roller coaster looking all

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around under and above in no way transfixed by the illusion but rather the actual workings of this

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space in which I found myself and it was the same thing with my surroundings in New Jersey everything

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a mess what initially appeared to be construction everywhere but now I realize was cleaning of past

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destruction demolishing half-standing buildings and I've made videos on the Bronx we see the exact same

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thing there again looking like the ruins of the Civil War Hiroshima or Nagasaki and San Francisco just to

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name a few and I really like this collection because again it is a personal account and let's dig in a

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little deeper welcome

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and here a look at the Pulaski Skyway Route 25 the world's longest high-level viaduct between Newark

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and Jersey City and this is a very old picture hardly built out and we see this amazing feat of engineering

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in this old time period and this was a supposed idea of Buckminster Fuller's to cover Manhattan with a dome

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and they say it was to be a geodesic dome which is what Buckminster Fuller is given credit for creating

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but this just looks like something else this reminds me of an old picture I saw in the city of Bologna

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we had a very similar dome bubble around the city of Bologna and in that case was the artist depicting

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something that was actually there and in this case I just don't know very interesting and here a great

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example it would seem like ruins abandoned 19th century factories again looking like Civil War ruins untouched and

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absolutely amazing and here this is titled more desolation in Jersey City they tell us in 1916 this site was the site of

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hundreds of hundreds of massive explosions of stored World War one munitions caused by German saboteurs

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so they are telling us this area was bombed but just giving us a stupid excuse telling us that World War one

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munitions were detonated by German saboteurs absolutely ridiculous and I think this was sitting in this condition

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upon inheritance and just getting to Jersey City much later in the game very interesting we can see

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buildings out here at the base of the Statue of Liberty and here a closer look at some of the remains of this

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sabotage explosion in 1916 and we're told today this is the site of a park and just look how high-tech this is

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in complete ruins in complete ruins by 1916 and by 1950 it would be a park and the building would be

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completely forgotten here this is titled ruins of the central railroad of New Jersey ruins and this is what

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our inheritance look like from coast to coast cities filled with brick buildings in ruins over

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grown by trees and brush oftentimes heavy roof damage and not the kind of ruins that would take place

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in a hundred years another hundred years and everything would be completely overgrown and our role

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as inheritors would simply be to clean up this place oftentimes for the worst and the further back you go

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in time such as this depiction of 1856 very simply the more advanced things were similar to images i've shown

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of san francisco in this same time period being 100 percent built out we have that going on here in new

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york city lower manhattan and we're to believe that they quarried all of this stone dragged it here

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via horse and buggy as we can see down here here we go a little look at our proud inhabitants and i just

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don't think so this is as ridiculous as san francisco building out a city laying it out in this fashion in

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such an early time period this is a city of excess this is the end of a civilization not the beginning

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absolutely high tech in every way and in many ways having the feel of an ordinary city but way too much

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in this early time period just look at this flagpole compared to these people and the trees that appear

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to be at least a hundred years old in the 1860s and this having a very similar feeling to any of the world's

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fair images that we look at just people strolling around bewildered at their new possession a ripe

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and empty city ready for the taking and inheriting absolutely mind-blowing here's new york in 1972

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and we can get a feel for the ruins and everything looking original in this time period all buildings of the

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old world with the exception of a couple here another look at everything original everything old world except

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for these cheap wooden bumpers and again i love to focus on the artificial coastlands just one little

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section a massive accomplishment an underrated feat again when we consider all of this is so old just

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imagine the conversation in this early time period oh let's build a building in the water something

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that poses a challenge a lot of resources time and money even today and here we go he describes this as

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navigating the old west on the side of the highway we're told there was zero maintenance since its

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construction in the 1920s really and this image is very telling first of all how are you pouring all of this

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concrete in the 1920s and next you're unable to maintain it for 50 years at least again ruins in plain sight

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with this stupid narrative and here's an old image now a park and this is all abandoned way back

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and here some more ruins from 1913 the central railroad in new jersey overgrown and forgotten about

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and here were to believe that the city was built by these people and would fall into complete disrepair as

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if a bomb went off and not be repaired until the 1970s does this make any sense and here look from the 1930s

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are we building anything here or are we just removing and preparing a new foundation

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this looks like it may have been a glorious building at one point and what to say of these artificial

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islands in this time of ruins with buildings on them one might think that this could possibly be natural

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but this with a palace with an absolutely beautiful palace and a small town a little dome on the corner

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here unbelievable is this ellis island here again in 1932 everything in ruins by 1930s to imagine that

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you're abandoning a building doesn't make any sense my town can barely keep a road pothole free with cheap

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asphalt and this old world was able to lay brick nice and level on the roads such an abundance of

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resources and by the time the 1930s roll around the people can't even maintain it resort to boarding up

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windows the truth is the old world was also very ordinary and looks like every town and city throughout

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this realm yes we discussed buildings built by giants but this was built for regular people who are gone

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and this is a colorized picture in 1911 and look at this tower again reminding me of the towers of

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bologna what is the purpose of this tower at least according to our narrative these windows

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and really half of the structure appears to have been devoted just to this top which would serve very

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little purpose pre-1900s according to our narrative this is a piece of tech in ruins down here we can see

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statues and just the weathering this color image is excellent really giving us a feel

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for this city already old in a very early time period and here we're told this is a rendering

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by an architect and of course you would imagine things like this if you just inherited a city that does

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indeed look like this only in a completely deteriorated state and in actuality this is what you end up with

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a big mess and only a glimpse of the wonders that came before welcome to america the sky is the limit

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make what you will of this mess and don't rock the boat new york city the brave new world a place of

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endless opportunity a place where you write the rules and the narrative and let me know what you think

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was this city just forgotten or was it simply found were we such a prosperous people in which we would

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allow ourselves to build and eventually abandon such accomplishments in a time where the population

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is so small hardly occupying the streets let alone the buildings and after all this time

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we still don't know who were these people and where did they go

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and this next part is an old bonus i've had laying around for weeks or months and i just didn't know

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what to do with it so this will be today's bonus here we are in a place called sandusky ohio and this

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was from a comment suggesting i look at this part of the country right off the get-go we see this

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amazing tower and here it is on the google earth and we can see a very complex layout of the city grid

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looking very much like a machine or a circuit board and strategically we can just follow these patterns

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and we see some nice buildings and gardens and a very intentional layout of the city streets and ports

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looks like a fascinating plethora of brick buildings to explore but today we're going to explore this

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peninsula and what is it today but an amusement park and how we have seen the destruction of the old

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world intermingled with amusement parks and world's fairs and no surprise but today i don't want to focus

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on the amusement park but rather the land itself seldom we talk about this artificial land we focus more

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on the buildings and just look at this place a first class repurposing but again i want to focus on

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the land mass itself look at this and recently i had three dump trucks full of gravel brought out

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which was very exciting for years i've been driving on pure mud and these three dump trucks worth of

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gravel immediately smushed into the mud giving me a nice base and i could easily use another three and i

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imagined hauling these out with a horse and buggy and just impossible even in my truck to replace

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my delivery by these huge dump trucks but here we're talking about land i mean i imagine dumping one

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dump truck maybe beginning with rock and just impossible really the formation of the land is more

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interesting than anything and the most mind-blowing and we're just little ants living and building on the

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surface completely unaware that there's something way bigger going on here and way more impossible

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by mere humans and especially humans in the 1870s the 1870s is when this sandusky ohio starts

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getting hot 1870 we have 13 000 people beginning in 1830 with 500 people and what do they tell us about

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this touristy little amusement park we were just looking at it's called cedar point and it was started in

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1870 by a local businessman and he opened a beer garden a bath house and a dance floor on the cedar

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point peninsula 1870 again the population 13 000 and today i just want to focus on the land which is the

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footprint of a series of star forts as was suggested in the comment and again i thank you for this and

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again this guy is just said to have opened a beer garden and then the whole park was built out around

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that i'm just wondering how he and the inhabitants all got out here it's to suggest that all of these

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roads were already there as well which i believe they were i believe all this was artificially constructed

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long before and these are just ruins and we can see massive blocks and today i want to just follow

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this peninsula here just imagining the impossibility of creating this in that time period and completely

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in ruins now but still much exists oh here's what i wanted to show you so here if we go to the

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parking lot of this amusement park first of all we see that this is a star fort corner perfect repurposing

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parking lot or a mine or a dump and here we go so anyone can park here and now begins the quest so i

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don't know if we'd have to sneak back here or if it's just open maybe they don't care and we follow this

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and these will be ruins all along here and on my phone we could see some sort of a tower on the tip

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and let's see if it comes in any better now so they are concealing this and i encourage anybody to go

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to this little tip parking at the parking lot and seeing what could be seen here showed up a lot better

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on my phone and you can see what i'm talking about looks like some sort of tower and a lot of ruins and

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in fact i think this whole park being a lesser known park will have a lot to reveal and i'm not sure why

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but on this evening it brings me particular sadness looking at this looking at all this research we have

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so many unanswered questions things like this are minute details that probably aren't important it's

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probably more important to focus on the bigger picture and what is the bigger picture for me

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it's simply sharing this obvious past civilization in plain sight everywhere but maybe these small

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details have a place maybe it's just something like this that makes somebody say aha or maybe it's a

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world's fair exhibit or expo or maybe some highly advanced grids out in the middle of the desert

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regardless all pointing to the same fact a highly advanced people and most of it a highly advanced

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people being wiped out and just a mere trace or imprint of their existence remaining and things like

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this most people don't give any thought to don't conceive of how difficult it would be to simply create

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how much material one would have to move out here similar to what we looked at recently in buffalo

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building in 20 plus foot deep waters and i have no doubt we could do such things today but such things

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are not even talked about in the historical narrative all of this just existing and this is probably only

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a small percentage of what actually was here and when it comes to ruins in north america things like

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this are not even on the table and what was this really and who built this could we at least figure

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out how old it is and we would be told that these blocks were quarried but could they be tested to

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determine whether they're concrete and as usual a nice little dump a mine a quarry this is what's left

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of the wonders that were once here and again the coastline is some of the last to remain well

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that's it for today i do hope you enjoyed and do have a blessed day please like comment and subscribe