Visit the Pagoda Reading PA and William Penn Tower
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- On this tour, we take a trip the high point of Reading and visit the Pagoda and the William Penn Fire Tower. We travel all over the city in search of its railroad history and pick up a snack at Unique Pretzel. I'll see you On Tour!
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[CHAPTERS]
00:00 - Antietam Lake Park
02:00 - The Reading Pagoda
02:09 - The Schuylkill River
06:25 - Unique Pretzels
06:50 - Readings Railroads
10:21 - William Penn Fire Tower
12:35 - Reading Pagoda Night Timelapse
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***Disclosures: The views and opinions discussed in this video are of my own. This video has no sponsorship or affiliation with any of the aforementioned links, people, places, or things. All footage, edits, and dialogue created by myself. Thank you
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Found this vid because Reading is my first stop on an extended weekend trip later this week… but now the professionalism alone has me about to dive into the rabbit hole of this channel
Thank you for the kind comment. I do all the work myself so it can me daunting at times. But comments like this fuel me to keep pumping out quality.
Reading was very nice 50 yrs.ago🇺🇸
Your show really reminds me of a PBS show from forever ago. It's relaxing
watching this video makes me miss my home town for the first time in ten years and makes me proud to say this is where I came from.
I've lived all over reading and will even be getting a job as a mechanic at eddies garage
I grew up near Reading …65 years ago.. and I must say you nailed it Jose. I also noticed that the river was a lot cleaner in your videos that when i was a kid. Very nice video, thank you
Thank you
my hometown 🏯⛩❤
Loving this series!
Thank you Nate
Excellent Bio..... Informative and Educational....thanks for sharing. Great Job. 👍🏽
You missed the opportunity to visit Stokesay's castle, it's in the forest surrounding the Pagoda. It's a neat restaurant, it's a castle too.
Just looked it up and that would’ve been a fantastic place to cover. I’m kind of bummed I just found out about this now. I had a couple of active threads on Reddit going over areas of Reading and am surprised no one mentioned this.
@@JoseOnTour yeah not even some of locals know it exists haha. I only heard about it only a few months ago. I been here 22 years (my life).
I was just in Reading two weeks ago taking my family to the Pagoda, will have to make a pit stop when I head down to my next area in Southern PA. Thanks for sharing
I really enjoy your videos, and you should have way more subscribers! The biggest compliment I can give you is that I grew up in PA and never had any desire to visit many of the places you've featured. After watching your videos, I definitely want to do some day trips!
Thank you Bob, this comment really makes my day. I took this hobby up to showcase our great areas. I watch alot of Travel videos and its always the same tired tropes of Cancun, Swiss Alps, Manhattan. Pennsylvania, along with the rest of America, is beautiful and full of so much local history that no one showcases.
@@JoseOnTour and to speak to the one on Reading, we used to live in Lancaster, which is only 30 minutes or so away. NEVER went to Reading because I only knew it as the murder capital of the US. They may have their problems, but there's lot of other cool stuff there as I saw from your video! And btw, I do hope Lancaster is on your do-list. Keep up the good work!
This video literally makes Reading ranked from worst city to second worst. good job.
Love your positive vibe and channel. Not many people explore this region the way you do on your channel. I can't wait to see more ❤.
Thank you
This was a great video! I go to Reading, PA frequently for work and you did a good job of hitting on the most important aspects of the city. I just subscribed :)
The Pagoda seems so cool. Very random!
First time subscriber here. Love the content hermano.
Thank you I really appreciate the support
@@JoseOnTour any time bro
Ahí si me gustó!
Gracias hermano 🙏
Thanks for sharing this video 👍 learned alot about Reading because of you thanks ! 💪
Now I know where to find more hugs 👍
I live in the hip and modern city of Chicago. Those of you who are bad-mouthing Reading, come to Chicago and ride the " Red Line L. I dare you. If you can make it from Howard St. To 95 th St. and back without incident, you would be extremely fortunate. I was born in St. Joe's and miss Reading every day.
Well done. If you could delve more into the railroad history of Reading Railroad passenger service to Philadelphia, that would be awesome. Cheers!
Thank you Matthew. I love the rail history of the area and have been doing more pocket stories around just the industrial portions. I think that would be a great idea to do more on Reading to Philadelphia
I rode that train back in the sixties when I was a kid.
Great vid 👍🏼
Wow!
I used to live right by the goggle works on 3rd st. If you ever visit it I definitely recommend the Bodega on the corner (it's painted teal) they make a lot of their ingredients in house and their food has never disappointed me
thank you for this recommendation. I live in NEPA and visit Reading pretty often. I will have to make a visit
@@JoseOnTour hopefully I see you around
Awesome video!
Thank you
Full reveal...I grew up in reading and recognize and have been to all the locations shown, with small exception for the parking lots of pretzel makers. Nice to highlight the rail history. There are tracks everywhere around reading. My grandpa was 49 year vet of reading company, so I grew up around trains even though we lived in reiffton. Two things also worth mentioning: the outlet boom of the 70s and 80s, and the phenomenon that is (now was) Al Boscov. Boscov's dept stores (remember those?) Are still thriving is this age of amazon and walmart. There are statues of him. This guy had some kind of gift for retail. Thanks for your story.
Thank you for the feedback. When I was filming this I was really excited to go to the outlets. I use to drive from NEPA to Reading because they had some of the best outlets and was so disappointed they were closed
Very professional sir When you will you do Main Line chester county, Pennsylvania?
Thank you, I've been planning a larger county/region series. I've been juggling between spring or fall because I feel there are so much great festivals and events closer to fall.
I wasn't aware that Reading was situated in the Delaware Valley.
When I filmed the Pennsylvania series I separated each town by Geographical locations and was surprised to discover similarities to other areas. Philly, Reading, aAtlantic City, Camden, and Wilmington all belong to the Delaware Valley.
@@JoseOnTour yes my friend and being from Pennsylvania I should very well know that. It's such a large state with it's 63 counties...many of them rural even. I'm interested in seeing more of the counties out west of the state ( Crawford, Armstrong, Greene, Washington, Mercer, Venango.......)
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If you ever come back to Reading you should explore the creepy abandon buildings the city has to offer
That would be a great trip. I’ve been planning an abandoned Pennsylvania episode
Artist Michael Bartman, originally from Reading, does staggeringly beautiful paintings of abandoned spaces. They are haunting and almost magical!
Not bad but implies certain attractions are in Reading when not even in same county, like Rickett's Glen and Steamtown.
Thank you for watching the video Kristin. While Steam town Historical Museum did come up in the video, it was more to show the Reading Lines beautiful Engine. The Reading Museum was closed when I visited and I really wanted to showcase a Reading Lines Train at its most pristine form. The Ricketts Glenn scene was more for humor purposes recalling previous videos to those who’ve followed the channel.
Ok
Reading is the city on a hill! I'm from Pottstown about 18 miles away and I have a bunch of family members that has moved to Reading, I personally prefer Philadelphia..... Go Eagles!!!
Back in the 70’s me and a friend walked from the 800 block of north 9th st to the 300 block of south 5th street at 2 am as two middle teen girls. Do not do this now.
"A cultural hub of food and art". To anyone visiting my hometown. Keep your head on a swivel and don't relax within city limits. This is a fluffed up video cherry picking areas. The outer burbs and West Reading are alright.
And wtf is up with Ricketts Glen in the video? That's like 2hours North.
The river is hella polluted, eveyone pisses in jt and throws there garbage lol
Yeah visit the Pagoda in Reading pa because, that's all you have left. The big corporations, gone. The reading fairs and carnivals, gone, The great reading airshow, gone. Remember the outlets? Gone. All the movie theaters that used to be lined up on penn street, gone. The famous reading railroad, gone. The bustling downtown shopping and restaurants, gone. The mills and big jobs, gone. Schlegel park and swimming pool is closed. The old reading culture has been replaced by Latino, cuban, Mexican, and Puerto Rican cultures which has little stores on every damn corner of the city. Drug use is on the rise, crime is up, yes, the pagoda is all you got left. Give it time and soon, the pagoda will be gone too. The mayor sucks. So im sorry to say but reading is one big ghetto now. A city slowly dieing away.
PA is dying and losing businesses and professionals because everything in PA is just too old. Young professionals aren't attracted to living in cities with old homes, old apartments, and old structures with little to nothing to offer for entertainment. Young people really don't care about "Historical" they want NEW. New modern cities, modern transportation, modern neighborhoods. It's not the Latinos because to say that implies that Mexico and Puerto Rico is all just junkies and dealers and that's not true those places are thriving more than PA is right now. Americans are moving to Mexico to retire and Vacationing and buying homes in Puerto Rico and Mexico. It's the fact that PA hasn't ever taken the time to modernize like FL, VA, GA, TX, NC etc. 90% of PA is very old and rural. Not attractive to young professionals. I'm from NYC, I didn't think places like PA still existed. I've never seen such old homes that don't even have the basics, like a water hose or finished basements. Young people do not want that. I can't wait to move to the south. PA has the beauty of a once historical charm. Unfortunately people would rather read about that not still live like that. Another problem that makes PA very undesirable is it's lack of diversity. PA doesn't welcome all people. The south has way more diversity now than a lot of northern areas do. PA has a reputation for being racist (Pennsyltucky), a rude state and a dirty state too (Rusted cars are norm). I can say all that is accurate unfortunately. Your comment is proof. The whole state is blaming Latinos for being an undesirable place to live but haven't spent any time or effort beautifying or on modernization. Make it make sense 🤷. Take page from Texas's 📓 they have a large Latino population and they are thriving. Colorado thriving large Latino community. NYC largest Puerto Rican community in the US and still thriving.
i can appreciate you refraining from slandering the city while giving huge praise to its history. with that said, Reading in 2023 is complete shxt.
lol. The guy who’s bright idea to build a pagoda didn’t take into account the upwards roads. It went out of business as a hotel because nobody could get up there. Reading is lame.
The icons are gone...drugs, crime....that's it.....stay out
Low income housing destroyed this city