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New Idria Quicksilver Mine part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2009
- Trip out to the New Idria Quicksilver mine in the San Benito Badlands out by Hollister.
Music is Eternity & Infinity Are In These Hands by Yasuo Uragami from Gundam Wing.
Research Indicates Hey I came across your videos of the New Idria Mines while doing some family research. My Grand Mother is going to be 100 in a few days, and grew up in Hollister. Her Great Grand Father was the Stage Proprietor between Hollister and New Idria in the 1860s & 1870s (could have even been earlier, I'm not certain). He later went on to be one of the first Sheriff's of San Benito County. In the 1880's her Grand Father was the Superintendent of the mines...he too became the Sheriff of San Benito County in 1898 to 1934.
Anyway, sorry to bother you with so much boring history. But I've heard of these stories of the New Idria Mines all my life, but have never been there.
Your videos were a lot of fun to watch, and I now have a much better idea of what it was like, so Thank You. Also, love your sense of humor, and the excellent editing! Scared me to death when I saw Mary walking on the board across the Acid Mine Drainage.
Thanks!
That's some great history, good to hang on to things like that. Thanks for the kind words!
My dad worked The New Idria Mine from 1966 to 1973,I I lived there till I was four,brought back memories for my pop.
Worked at new idria mine inn 1969. Was a busy place then
That man was Kemp Woods, of Whimsy mine. I took care of him until he passed in 2018 😭 Kemp was an amazing man
Thanks for taking care of him, he was kind to me the couple times I drove out to visit Idria
Man, this sure is the most awesome thing I have seen today. I had no idea something on TH-cam could put much work into a random thing. You are the greatest TH-camr ever
Wonderful. Amazing. I've watched this video several times over now, and I still love it.
I legitimately thought that guy was angry at you around 5:40...and, of course, lulz to 6:45. I still can't believe you were able to hear me. Dad still doesn't believe it could have worked at all, and for good reason I s'pose.
Absolutely right, we were being careful in the areas that showed rodents had been active. That dust was actually a sealed canvas bag from a case of soil samples in the vault to the left. Someone collected dozens of samples in the 80's and just left them behind.
This is professional.
Had me hooked from start to finish.
Wow, you look nothing like I imagined you would from your voice. That aside the production values of this; the graphics, music, editing, etc. are shockingly good. It's very seldom I see stuff this good on TH-cam.
I live in hollister I drive thru there often on my way out to San Luis Obispo. Paicenes is pronounced Pie-See-Nis not Pay-Seens hehe
You bet, I'm hoping to get one started by the end of summer after all my backpacking trips are done.
Great job! Nice to see the man behind the voice.
awesome video. we we're up there yesterday. the billiards table is now gone
Actually I have a canvas fedora like Indiana Jones' but I didn't wear it for this video. I should pull that out more often.
Your voice... I bet documentaries sit at home and watch your videos. Goddamn.
PACINES LOL HOLY SHIT DUDE YOU SAID EVERYTHING SO WRONG.. ITS SO FUNNY
Amazing work. Great tripod positioning for the talk with the old man. Informative and entertaining dialogue. Another quality vid by R.I. what do you expect?
PS: You need a hat, preferably Indiana Jones style to set off the whole package.
We pronounce it New Eye-dra
was there today. amazing history
Very interesting place!
2:15 - 'That sucks buddy'
dude your voice is so BOSS you should work for major league baseball
It's like somebody combined Norm Macdonald with the most soothing voice on the planet.
Is the hotel still standing? Looks to be gone on google maps
Hell yes.
Awesome job bro!
You should do more documentaries like this about hazardous sites
They are surprisingly hard to find in California! Except for all the superfund sites in Silicon Valley I suppose.
+Research Indicates What about Halaco Engineering?
When I did the Trespasser LP I found out that a lot of people have trouble loading Viddler videos because of a dynamic resizing thing they do. Figured TH-cam would be more compatible.
I don't understand, why did the old owners leave behind all that old furniture if some of it was worth something back when it was new?
@Influx27 check out his tresspasser lets play, I don't recall which episode exactly but he does indeed say "we'll leave the lights on for ya" and it does sound just as amazing!
Good quality, both content and video.
Hit me up when you trying to go back
Well it is TH-cam after all. Try the HD option in the corner.
As everyone has said before, if you are not already narrating, time to get out there and do some...super voice...some would say hot!. Anywho, about the public phone, as of 5/15/10 The public phone works!
Great videos (parts 1 & 2). Just a couple comments about the Hanta virus warnings their. When I went to New Idria I thought these warnings were BS. But apparently they have found mice with that disease in the area. What are your chances of catching it their? - probably extremely small. But you made me cringe when you started throwing dirt around in the building, that's how it is normally contracted (from disturbing dust containing dried rodent urine). Hanta is lethal so it is a real risk .
Mary is cute ^^
Gundam Wing music
A little while before watching your videos (1&2) I watched another video and thought something looked familiar about the rotary furnace you discussed...
Going back, it turns out the video I watched was actually a 1955 documentary on the exact mine you visited. It shows how the mercury is extracted and shows those furnaces in operation. Check the mine out in 1955:
th-cam.com/video/wPYysvKqwus/w-d-xo.html
The guy who got the deed to the land after the mine closed used the place as a garbage dump for years. It was all ruined in some way or another.
Can't please everybody.
Ah my bad
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