Sailing with the "Hudson River Day Line" in 1904
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Let's take a journey back in time and up the Hudson River from Manhattan to Albany, sailing aboard the SS Albany with the Hudson River Day Line. With the help of several first hand materials including Day Line promotional and panorama books and early newsreels, we're able to recreate an autumn journey on one of these beautiful lost river boats.
The year is 1904 and we're visiting New York from England. The city is bustling and the river is lively along this historic route.
Special thanks to the Hudson River Maritime Museum: www.hrmm.org/
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Seeing Tom dressed as a gentleman from the 1900s.
I definitely need a time travelling machine, what a fabulous elegant era for some
If I were travelling on a river boat in the autumn of 1904, I’d be nervously thinking of the General Slocum fire that happened in NYC just that summer.
Please do more like this! This video and the 'Traveling on White Star Line's Oceanic Class' one are my favourites you've done so far. You're very good at bringing this sort of ground-level history to life and making it feel real. Like a time-traveller's guide!
The fact that over a hundred years later, we can still relive what New York locals experienced all the way back then is almost a miracle!
A lifelong New Yorker (though not living there now) I found the trip up the Hudson and the history of the area incredibly excellent, educational and fascinating. I’m so glad I found your channel.
Have you ever hiked the trails above the palisades and looked at all the ruins of the old mansions? That would be a great video for you. What a beautiful place!
All i can say is,
I've lived just north of Albany my whole life, and have taken that train ride many times. The next time I do, I will look out onto those waters, picture an elegant steamship bearing my home's name making it's way north, and think of this wonderful video. Thank you.
Watched this several times, absolutely love it and as you say, a reminder to perhaps be a little slower and more deliberate.
This is a welcome diversion from the various liners that have slipped beneath the waves.
I would love to go on a paddle steamer one day the closest I've got to was being on one at Disney land Paris but I would love to travel on one just like they did on the Hudson River many years ago.
This was very well done. Would like to see more back-in-the-day tours like this.
The talent of drawing scenery in the viewer's mind is impeccable. The mood in this, the day-by-day reviews of Titanic's voyage and indeed the Atlantic of the Oceanic class as mentioned is certainly unique and an impressive achievement.
FINALLY a vid on the HRDL; a legendary and great service for many years. Sad that something like it is not quite there anymore. Best way to travel. Often, these boats were in the background of many an ocean liner line-up but almost never pointed out or explained.
My wife told me she went from Manhattan to West Point for a football game on the Alexander Hamilton in about 1969. I said you got chance to do something really cool. I only ever saw the Day Line commercials on TV.
A great show of the beautiful and historic Hudson River!
This was weirdly calming. Gorgeous footage and editing too. What a treat!
Love every one of your videos, Tom. I grew up along the Hudson, and you captured so well the soul of this place.
hey Tom, i got a video suggestion it is about a packer boat in the great lakes called the SS America it was launched on the 2 of April 1898 America had a number of accidents; the first one barely two weeks after she arrived in Duluth, when the ship ran into an ice floe and stove in her bow.[3 In 1904, she ran too close to the steamer Edwin F. Holmes, destroying five staterooms, and in 1909 she ran aground.