Oncology nurse here. Black mold can and does cause lung cancer and other cancers as well. Living in FL, I know of young people that were exposed to black mold after the hurricanes of 2004 and they have since died from cancer caused by mucking around with black mold and no respirator. PLEASE invest in a good quality respirator if you are going to do this.
I was thinking a boarding house. One thing, guys. I wish you would invest in respirators, or at least wear face masks in some of these places. You are risking some serious lung problems.
You two are pretty good about not disturbing things, but you might want to consider at least wearing a dust mask if not a respirator when you see black mold not to mention all the asbestos that are in those houses. They used to put asbestos in everything back then. It wasn’t just pipe insulation, it can be in the plaster, flooring ...
You guys should do some research on the places you visit at the local libraries or historical societies. Would be interesting to find out what happened to the people that owned the places and what the places were used for.
Here's my guess: the house was used as a business on the first floor and the upstairs bedrooms were rented out to boarders. One of my relatives many years ago had a Victorian house and rented out rooms.
Hi I’m from Australia and I have been in old settlers home steads some which date back to the late 18 hundreds. I’m like you guys, I hate when people ruin stuff, so sad 😞 I just want to say that I love you lots for showing the properties but not disclosing the locations and the care you take to preserve everything as is. Take care, be safe and I look forward to seeing more. From Lyn
I love Bekahs soft commentry, the mmmhs to Ricks comments you can tell sometimes she's not even listening to him. .Great camera work too Bekah. Keep up the great work guys.
Looks like a boarding house of some sort. You had your own bedroom but shared bathrooms and kitchen.. Or possibly they had prepared meals by the owner of the house... Very neat explore!! This is the Rick and Bekah I love!! Thanks!!!
Thank you Becca for the great filming. I watch a lot of these videos. And so far you are only one that doesn't swing the camera around so fast that it either makes me sick from the motion. Or I get a headache 😣. You film so slow and steady. That I get to enjoy every moment of exploring with you 😊.I totally love your calm voice.
I just realized that at 13:02 you flipped the sconce in the wrong direction. The glass shade is designed in half so that the lower part protects the eyes from the stark bulb while the open upper half allows for unobstructed illumination. I've made this mistake myself once before studying the design more closely. Usually the lower half of the 'shell', as I am wont to call it, is decorative shiny glass while the inner lining is matte and dull. I'm truly enjoying my revisit, thank you again for this interesting and detailed explore guys!
It was probably a boarding house..not quite like a B&B...I stayed at one years ago for a month or two. People that had really large old homes like that one ..it was common to use for a boarding house in the 60 and 70's.
Wow what a time capsule. Nice find. It's on old boarding house. Probably built in the early 1900s. Updated to about 1950, but not after that. The electrical and plumbing is all pre-1950s. I'd say it closed in about 1969 or 70, based on the magazines. It was pretty out dated. I doubt the electrical was up to code by that time. It looks like the first floor was only used for storage for sometime after that. The second floor was left pretty much untouched. The products are mostly all from the 1960s. The China dishware is from between 1935 - 1954.
How many times I have complained about his sickening noises. He says people like it, no, he likes it. He makes ignorant expressions & the tolite fetish, many people don't like the videos just because of his personality.
My Guess is perhaps the first floor the owner had a business and rented out the rooms on the second floor ..Most likely a Boarding house...Hence the numbers on each door.along with a bed and dresser in every room... Will check on that China you found in the attic....House was built around 1888 or 1890...the push button light switch is the exact same one I have in my Victorian House which was built in 1888. i'm assuming the owners had passed sometime in the mid 70's due to the date on the magazines.. and perhaps the next of kin were packing up items at some point... but for some reason unknown did not remove the boxes with the contents....Great video!
Laura Murphy : yes, it's an older home; I lived in a house in the 60's that hadthose push button light switches & the home was built in the late 1900's.0h & that branch bannister isn't original by any means-
More awesome work you two! Great find. Very good coverage of such randomly combined stuff. Am so glad you guys took the extra time on the magazines the way you did for strange people like me, lol. Not sure but very similar to a b&b with the organisation for lodging. Rick and his "turlet checks"😂 so funny. Wow looks like someone laid down a self combusted on that bed ! Leaves on the floor really cool shot. Thx guys-great work!!
The China you found in the attic titled Lenape Scammell's Trenton China made for restaurant use was manufactered in 1935. They are worth about $30.00 a plate.
I did the same search on the china and I agree it is the restaurant line and sells for a pretty penny these days a single item. Would have liked a closer look at the pattern but I believe it was just a coloured band around each item. Cool video and enjoyed watching it.
This house is sad and beautiful at the same time, i love when your wife show the details,like dishes or small pieces of paper and i also like how you do the commentary👍
Many boarding houses were designed like this place. Rooms with just a bed, chair, dresser, communal bathroom. There would be a dinning room shared. They were big in the depression. Many people converted their homes to make it though. Those dishes in the attic were cool, the little cup looking things were for soft-boiled eggs at one time soft-boiled eggs were a big breakfast thing.. Good work, you two, Blessings
Im never going to get over the fact that you didnt pull the string on the back of the doll which makes it talk,, i wanted to see if it still worked,, omg,, i'll never get over this, LOL
yes, those dolls have a plastic ring attached to a string on the back of the doll. you pull the string and the doll talks,, it doesnt need any batteries cuz the pulling of the string sets the talking motion on,, i think its a tiny tape with voice on it. I had one when i was small.. its like the pull string on some of the Fisher Price toys PS; i saw the ring when you set the doll down,,, i lost my mind!
This is one the best houses i think I seen in awhile and some one mention boarding house very well could have been. I'm glad the lousy so and so destroyers of the past had not got here and tore everything up,,, so good job Rick and Beth
The long fluorescent lights, alarms, numbered doors reminds me more institution type of place. It seems too far from town to be a boarding house. The old liquid formula could have been a maternity home of some sorts or woman's shelter. Love your videos. Come and explore in Canada sometime.
If you ever want to come up here to New Brunswick you are more than welcome to stay with our family. Vanceboro ME area which is ten minutes from us here in McAdam also has what looks like interesting places to discover. Vanceboro ME/St-Croix NB is the border crossing you are looking for should you decide to head up this way.
I thought that, too. Usually, decay from constant water is usually brown. I know mildew turns things black but it honestly does appear like someone fell asleep smoking in bed.
Metal stairs in rear of house was noticed in the beginning of your video .. Required for the home as it was a Boarding House at one time and the owners were required to put stairs on the outside due to building and fire codes.
A great video..was a beautiful old home at one time/ or maybe a boarding house ? We had metal bed frames like those when i was growing up (i'm old..lol) i like old furniture & items, i have a lot i have to sell / give away,since my husband died, 2 years ago today. I'm selling my place & moving to a smaller,less maintaince & can't take it all with me. I had a Chatty Cathy doll when i was little, it had a string to pull & it talked. That stair rail was sure different,never saw one like it. I liked that wicker chair. Nice find, i enjoyed it very much. Stay safe..
Shirley Harrison Its only when you get ready to move that you realize how much stuff you've accumulated. When my mom sold our old six bedroom house to move into a two bedroom place, she sold or gave away a whole bunch of things, but there was still so much to get rid of that the entire sidewalks on both sides of the house were lined with piles of stuff for the trash collector.
Ellen Gregory. I know, it's terrible. I'm STILL going through stuff, my time is almost up in this house. I bought a mobile home, 2 bedrooms. What stuff the kids & anyone else don't want I'm just walking away from it. The guy that bought my house said that was fine with him. He put a huge dumpster out here & we've been throwing away what we don't think is worth keeping & I've took loads & loads to a place that is a church based place that helps needy families, ect.. some stuff was just to good to throw away or leave. I'd rather someone have it that needs it. I know what your mom went through, it's tough & a big job. Hope she's doing well & is happy.
Boarding House?? Looks more like a brothel, that's why all the upstairs was left okay, but the downstairs could have been the 'business office' and where the men met the ladies.... I don't know, just wondering why so many numbered rooms and beds left behind.
IVe watched and appreciated your vids for many months now. I normally watch on my tv which doesn’t allow me to comment. I just want to say how much that I appreciate your fine work and efforts. You guys are totally great. I’m a 62 yr old man, and many of the things u find... I either still have or fondly remember. Please keep doing a great job..always look forward to my Rick and Bekah fix of the day. You’re totally awesome.
So a few years ago I found a bunch of bottles in the middle of the woods. I’ve tried to figure out what they were and you answered one of them! It’s an old Crisco bottle like the one about 3 minutes into the video. Thank you! Lol
You two are a great team. Rick, the scout, preparing the way for Bekah, the photographer, documenting the journey. I agree that probably it was not a bed'n'breakfast but a boarding or rooming house. The beds look like about 1930's, during the Great Depression when many men traveled to find jobs and needed such places to stay. My family ran one from about 1910 through the 1930's. It was torn down in 1962. Question: Was it by any chance near a railroad track? Oh, and I loved the old wooden ironing board!
good explore guys, i have to agree with the other comments,,looks like it was some type of boarding house,with one shared bathroom, and also all the fluorescent lights in the hallways and stuff,, love the old push button light switches also,, they go back into the 1940's, if not earlier,,good stuff
That’s an old Chatty Cathy doll. Should have a pull string (ring on the end) to make her ‘talk’. Cool old Bayer ASA bottle! There was a lantern under the bed, the first one with the mattress that looked decayed or burned. The place appeared to have been an old boarding house with the first floor used (later?) as a business. Love you both. Please consider mold/respirator masks and better personal protective equipment. Your health is so important. Also, you don’t want to track anything nasty into your vehicles or homes (transfer from shoes and clothing). Is there a reason you don’t wear protective gear? (just curious). ❤️
Hello. We aren’t concerned about mold after doing a lot of research on it. Also we aren’t allergic to it. I lived in a moldy basement and that wasn’t healthy. Being in a house for twenty minutes that has an open roof that breathes isnt unhealthy. So far so good. Appreciate your concern though !
thank u for answering that question :) the mom & grandma in me was quite worried. now,that is settled ....what about some sturdy boots, medical grade gloves for camera work & heavy work gloves for touching stuff &pants tucked in boots and long sleeves, oh & first aid kit and bottle or flask of water for instantly washing small wound, & remember tetanus shots every 5 years. oops, please don't be offended i think both of ya'll r very intelligent i absolutely love ur enthusiasm; but like i said it's the mom & grandma in me. btw i love when bekah says don't die to rick, makes me smile every time. keep safe u two, God bless :) :)
This place looks pretty old. Maybe it started out as a family home, then was converted into a boarding house, then later used as a business. The style in the rooms upstairs looks quite a bit older than the fluorescent lights and water softener thngs downstairs. Looks like there is a name written above the door frame as you are going into the house from the basement stairs.
Boarding house for a mill, or maybe a brothel. Looks like someone inherited it, and decided to use it for business storage, oxygen gas tanks? AT 1:17, that green box in the back is a forced hot air furnace, with rusty fuel tank. Propane fork lift tank at 6:35 looks in good condition, that holds about 8 gallons of propane when full, they're expensive, someone forgot about it. 23:45, the Bayer bottle with "33"... Interesting explore, thanks for sharing. Hope you washed with sanitizer after all that! The old locks are very cool. That place has a lot of interesting memories, but well beyond any repair despite a solid basement floor frame, really should be demolished with all that mold damage.. Cool explore!
Cool old wicker chair right around 50. I think that place was like a boarding house or B&B maybe? Lots of neat stuff. I’m with everyone else though, I think you should wear masks. And we keep telling you that because we’re concerned for your health. I’m watching this right now with an oxygen mask stuck on my face, so I know how quickly the lungs can go bad. Believe me, when your diagnosed with COPD you’ll wish you had listened. I’d like to see you around for a lot more years. Thanks for the cool videos! You guys are good at what you do. Love 💕 ya Rick and Bekah!
You guys are officially my favorite urban explore channel-and I have some well loved favorites! You do such a great job of focusing on the kinds of things that I am interested in! I have a list of gasps that I saw in this video but I'll spare you the details. That orange vinyl chair on the first floor-and the curtains upstairs, especially the plastic swan curtain....!! OK, so I had to name a few! Thank you! I'm awful for remembering to like videos but I'll get out of habit starting here.
Bekah called them *blankies* ! I love it because I do too-and I'm 45 with no qualms with using that word. I also noticed right away how polite you two are with one another. It's really refreshing to see a couple who practices continual respect even after the courting/pursuant stage has passed. It indicates a long, healthy future. Also, I think I know why Bekah enjoys extreme decay so much. It's because only time and natural causes can reach that aesthetic. It's Incredibly difficult to emulate and often comes across immediately as contrived when reproduced. It took a lot of natural energy to produce that incredibly detailed bedroom scenario and the details were absolutely intense!
Agree with others that this was a boarding house and a business.. The large white cylinder tanks look like water softener tanks.. Maybe an air and water treatment business?
I had that same wallpaper you see when they first walked in the in my bedroom in a house I bought in 1999. The house was built in 1958. It was the only room they left wallpapered. I think the suitcase/brief case in the beginning was a case for 33 record albums? Did anyone else think that?
Both rooms 2 & 4 appear to have had fire damage. It appears to have started in #2 but spread through the ceiling to #4. This would explain the hole in the roof in this room as being where firefighters broke through. I like the house, though. It's easy to imagine how it looked while it was still in operation.
Nice discovery, and those push button switches on the wall,my mom still has on her wall for the upstairs, theres a switch at the botton of the stairs and at the top of the stairs they still work,ty for sharing this 👍 😊...
Everything was so cool! Loved those old magazines! That doll would have talked back in they day. Kinda surprised you didn't pull her string to she what she said or if she still worked!!
Great find! That one room looked like someone had died of spontaneous combustion for pete's sake! The creepy doll you found was called "Baby Chatty Cathy" . My sister had one like the one there and I had the brunette. They had a string you pulled on the back of their neck to talk. Pretty cool back then. They were pretty creepy looking though even new.
Yeah, at 16:22, seeing the blonde guy The Theme from Austin Powers came to mind. Lol! Kinda funny how those magazine pics haven’t faded over the years..
Those dishes are restaurant wear, still used in diners or places like Denny's. I think you guys are right. This was a little Hotel restaurant type place. Another great explore. TY!
You guys are so cool. Love watching your videos. Sorry to laugh when ya guys come across 8 track tapes and Nintendo stuff and the other stuff from the 70's that me and my brother grew up on. Even tho he was born in 1970. You remind me of our kids. They were born in 93 and 98. But our son Tommy grew up with me so he knows alot of what I grew up with. Our daughter has got no clue about anything. Keep up the great videos. Love em as I said.
It's a rooming house that opened in the 40s for World War 2 Veterans and Vietnam Veterans reason I say that is because they're all over Glen Burnie Maryland up until the late 90s most are closed down now but I live in an old apartment building that is a rooming house as well efficiencies that is. After World War 2 & Vietnam alot of the Military were young with very little money and the rooms were cheap to rent for 5 or 10 dollars a week. I remember back in the 90s I could rent a room for 50 dollars a week even in the late 90s they were 75 dollars a week now they're 150 to 200 a week for a room.which aint bad as along as you have a bathroom and kitchen in your room as well and is really all you need if you're single with limited income plus with a cheap room rental it made it alot easier easier to put a vehicle on the road which opened up other job opportunities and really save alot of money to get your own home if you are young but on the other hand Rooming Houses helped alot of the elderly as well on a fixed income!
It almost looked like the beds were on fire. Oh my gosh that doll was crazy scary! My brother had a razor like that. Those windows in the attic were cool, loved that they had were from the early 1900s.
You bet they can. They have their pictures and names. It amazes me that some people have little regard for other peoples property. It might be interesting but ignorance is no excuse.
That bed at 18:20 is the scariest bed I have ever seen. It looks like someone rotted in it. BTW, I came from your new video to watch this one again. Ody
Great find! That was baby formula in that can you found. I'm pretty sure this place was once a boarding house then later used for a business or shop. At first I thought it looked like someone had died in that one bed...creepy. I would love to have that table in the attic, and that talky doll that you should have pulled the string on😉
At first I thought it might have been a plaice for elderly but then I guessed it was a bed and breakfast. Thanks for the close upon the dishes and door handles and other stuff like the hangers too
Very odd interesting place and layout . Seemed like a old rooming house rather than a bed and breakfast. With the down stairs community area maybe. That doll. Looked like a old chatty Cathy doll . That my neighbors kid had back in the early sixties. And yes there would have been a string to pull on the back of her neck to make her talk. Great find. Stay safe Be careful and Keep on rolling..
Oncology nurse here. Black mold can and does cause lung cancer and other cancers as well. Living in FL, I know of young people that were exposed to black mold after the hurricanes of 2004 and they have since died from cancer caused by mucking around with black mold and no respirator. PLEASE invest in a good quality respirator if you are going to do this.
dolycha I totally agree with you there! I was wondering why they were doing that!!! My dad died an early death 💀 due to Asbestos.
I was thinking a boarding house. One thing, guys. I wish you would invest in respirators, or at least wear face masks in some of these places. You are risking some serious lung problems.
I too thought the very same thing....some type of boarding house. They had enough rooms, that's for sure!!! Thanks Rick & Bekah💚☺️🌵
You two are pretty good about not disturbing things, but you might want to consider at least wearing a dust mask if not a respirator when you see black mold not to mention all the asbestos that are in those houses. They used to put asbestos in everything back then. It wasn’t just pipe insulation, it can be in the plaster, flooring ...
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Asbestos is only dangerous if it's disturbed and the fibers are released into the air.
Too messy to continue looking at!
You guys should do some research on the places you visit at the local libraries or historical societies. Would be interesting to find out what happened to the people that owned the places and what the places were used for.
Here's my guess: the house was used as a business on the first floor and the upstairs bedrooms were rented out to boarders. One of my relatives many years ago had a Victorian house and rented out rooms.
Hi I’m from Australia and I have been in old settlers home steads some which date back to the late 18 hundreds.
I’m like you guys, I hate when people ruin stuff, so sad 😞 I just want to say that I love you lots for showing the properties but not disclosing the locations and the care you take to preserve everything as is.
Take care, be safe and I look forward to seeing more. From Lyn
It amazes me the things you all find in these houses, I grew up with alot of these products, but sad to say I'm 58 now and I know them all......
I’ll tell you what’s creepy is the noises you two make.
I love Bekahs soft commentry, the mmmhs to Ricks comments you can tell sometimes she's not even listening to him. .Great camera work too Bekah. Keep up the great work guys.
Looks like a boarding house of some sort. You had your own bedroom but shared bathrooms and kitchen.. Or possibly they had prepared meals by the owner of the house... Very neat explore!! This is the Rick and Bekah I love!! Thanks!!!
Thank you Becca for the great filming. I watch a lot of these videos. And so far you are only one that doesn't swing the camera around so fast that it either makes me sick from the motion. Or I get a headache 😣. You film so slow and steady. That I get to enjoy every moment of exploring with you 😊.I totally love your calm voice.
I just realized that at 13:02 you flipped the sconce in the wrong direction. The glass shade is designed in half so that the lower part protects the eyes from the stark bulb while the open upper half allows for unobstructed illumination. I've made this mistake myself once before studying the design more closely. Usually the lower half of the 'shell', as I am wont to call it, is decorative shiny glass while the inner lining is matte and dull. I'm truly enjoying my revisit, thank you again for this interesting and detailed explore guys!
It was probably a boarding house..not quite like a B&B...I stayed at one years ago for a month or two. People that had really large old homes like that one ..it was common to use for a boarding house in the 60 and 70's.
Bekah, thanks for the close ups of locks and faucets and labels, it takes me back to my old house in the 50's
Wow what a time capsule. Nice find. It's on old boarding house. Probably built in the early 1900s. Updated to about 1950, but not after that. The electrical and plumbing is all pre-1950s. I'd say it closed in about 1969 or 70, based on the magazines. It was pretty out dated. I doubt the electrical was up to code by that time. It looks like the first floor was only used for storage for sometime after that. The second floor was left pretty much untouched. The products are mostly all from the 1960s. The China dishware is from between 1935 - 1954.
Max Zomboni interesting
Why does Rick make that noise?? I thought it was like a trapped dying cat the first 5 times.
Yes, I agree. So adolescent.
I find that noise annoying, also.
I hate that noise too. That’s the reason I watch very few of their videos. I can’t stand that noise.
How many times I have complained about his sickening noises. He says people like it, no, he likes it. He makes ignorant expressions & the tolite fetish, many people don't like the videos just because of his personality.
He’s kind of immature and very pleased with the way he turned out. A narcissist in the making!
They didn't have bed & breakfasts then.
It was called a rooming house where people rented rooms & lived there.
My Guess is perhaps the first floor the owner had a business and rented out the rooms on the second floor ..Most likely a Boarding house...Hence the numbers on each door.along with a bed and dresser in every room... Will check on that China you found in the attic....House was built around 1888 or 1890...the push button light switch is the exact same one I have in my Victorian House which was built in 1888. i'm assuming the owners had passed sometime in the mid 70's due to the date on the magazines.. and perhaps the next of kin were packing up items at some point... but for some reason unknown did not remove the boxes with the contents....Great video!
Laura Murphy : yes, it's an older home; I lived in a house in the 60's that hadthose push button light switches & the home was built in the late 1900's.0h & that branch bannister isn't original by any means-
More awesome work you two! Great find. Very good coverage of such randomly combined stuff. Am so glad you guys took the extra time on the magazines the way you did for strange people like me, lol. Not sure but very similar to a b&b with the organisation for lodging. Rick and his "turlet checks"😂 so funny. Wow looks like someone laid down a self combusted on that bed ! Leaves on the floor really cool shot. Thx guys-great work!!
Ha yes someone looked like they did combust on it.
That's what I was thinking
Exploring with Rick & Bekah 😂whatever the place is, great job!
The China you found in the attic titled Lenape Scammell's Trenton China made for restaurant use was manufactered in 1935. They are worth about $30.00 a plate.
I did the same search on the china and I agree it is the restaurant line and sells for a pretty penny these days a single item. Would have liked a closer look at the pattern but I believe it was just a coloured band around each item. Cool video and enjoyed watching it.
Laura Murphy one word ......Annabelle.
pretty cool info! thanks for sharing! I wish there were more people like you on youtube lol
Vann Berg HVAC THERE ARE !!!!
Someone should go get it..vandals will just go in and smash it...
This house is sad and beautiful at the same time, i love when your wife show the details,like dishes or small pieces of paper and i also like how you do the commentary👍
Lol Bekah is my wife. :) not my sister.
Nice to know! I thought she was your daughter!
Exploring with Rick & Bekah Oops excuse me😂
Becca has a future in cinematography. Most others move to fast. Her movements are practically imperceptible. Beautiful stills from Rick.
Many boarding houses were designed like this place. Rooms with just a bed, chair, dresser, communal bathroom. There would be a dinning room shared. They were big in the depression. Many people converted their homes to make it though. Those dishes in the attic were cool, the little cup looking things were for soft-boiled eggs at one time soft-boiled eggs were a big breakfast thing.. Good work, you two, Blessings
Love you guys videos but the squealing could be left out.
Too many times I have complained about his sickening sounds & ignorant expressions, not to mention his crap tolite fetish.
@@rosykatzCATS I laughed for 5 minutes from your comment. Thank you I needed that.
This is what us "old people" call a rooming house.
Im never going to get over the fact that you didnt pull the string on the back of the doll which makes it talk,, i wanted to see if it still worked,, omg,, i'll never get over this, LOL
What?? There was a sting ? Ahhh
Gotta go back Ricks!
yes, those dolls have a plastic ring attached to a string on the back of the doll. you pull the string and the doll talks,, it doesnt need any batteries cuz the pulling of the string sets the talking motion on,, i think its a tiny tape with voice on it. I had one when i was small.. its like the pull string on some of the Fisher Price toys PS; i saw the ring when you set the doll down,,, i lost my mind!
Yeah It's was killing me too after I saw that speaker. They gotta go back and pull the string!😂
I know, that would have been cool marie v
This is one the best houses i think I seen in awhile and some one mention boarding house very well could have been. I'm glad the lousy so and so destroyers of the past had not got here and tore everything up,,, so good job Rick and Beth
Great way to start my Saturday! Thanks for the video you guys! Enjoy your weekend! 🙂
Lol, same here Deb1963 :)
The long fluorescent lights, alarms, numbered doors reminds me more institution type of place. It seems too far from town to be a boarding house. The old liquid formula could have been a maternity home of some sorts or woman's shelter. Love your videos. Come and explore in Canada sometime.
We’d love to if we had a place to stay ! Can’t afford hotels.
If you ever want to come up here to New Brunswick you are more than welcome to stay with our family. Vanceboro ME area which is ten minutes from us here in McAdam also has what looks like interesting places to discover. Vanceboro ME/St-Croix NB is the border crossing you are looking for should you decide to head up this way.
We are wanting to get our passports and visit Canada someday.
That’s a shame it’s abandoned because it’s beautiful.. I would seriously live there. Another great video 👍
awesome job you two do. Bekah you do a wonderful job. you don't miss much. you must really love doing this. you two are great together.
Thank you :)
GREAT FIND! So cool how Things have became one with the Decay. Loving it!
America has changed so much since 1965
And not for the better....
At 26:47 right upper window pane has a bullet hole through it. Now that was cool, Rick. Surprised you didn't say anything. lol
I also thought that someone has been burned to death in that bed
I thought that, too. Usually, decay from constant water is usually brown. I know mildew turns things black but it honestly does appear like someone fell asleep smoking in bed.
I was thinking the same thing.
Metal stairs in rear of house was noticed in the beginning of your video .. Required for the home as it was a Boarding House at one time and the owners were required to put stairs on the outside due to building and fire codes.
Looks like an old rooming house, great video guys. Thanks!!
Why does he randomly make weird noises? Does he have tourettes?
Nope. But that’s pretty funny that you’d say that. 🤣
@@ExploringwithRickBekah glad you thought so! I didn't want to be mean but it's pretty funny, so I figured I'd ask.
A great video..was a beautiful old home at one time/ or maybe a boarding house ?
We had metal bed frames like those when i was growing up (i'm old..lol) i like old furniture & items, i have a lot i have to sell / give away,since my husband died, 2 years ago today. I'm selling my place & moving to a smaller,less maintaince & can't take it all with me. I had a Chatty Cathy doll when i was little, it had a string to pull & it talked.
That stair rail was sure different,never saw one like it. I liked that wicker chair.
Nice find, i enjoyed it very much.
Stay safe..
Sorry about your husbands passing. :(
Shirley Harrison
Its only when you get ready to move that you realize how much stuff you've accumulated. When my mom sold our old six bedroom house to move into a two bedroom place, she sold or gave away a whole bunch of things, but there was still so much to get rid of that the entire sidewalks on both sides of the house were lined with piles of stuff for the trash collector.
Exploring with Rick & Bekah thank you very much, so nice of you.
Ellen Gregory. I know, it's terrible. I'm STILL going through stuff, my time is almost up in this house. I bought a mobile home, 2 bedrooms. What stuff the kids & anyone else don't want I'm just walking away from it. The guy that bought my house said that was fine with him. He put a huge dumpster out here & we've been throwing away what we don't think is worth keeping & I've took loads & loads to a place that is a church based place that helps needy families, ect.. some stuff was just to good to throw away or leave. I'd rather someone have it that needs it.
I know what your mom went through, it's tough & a big job.
Hope she's doing well & is happy.
I still have a metal bed frame and I love it. Much better made than that junk they make now. I'm old too.
Boarding House?? Looks more like a brothel, that's why all the upstairs was left okay, but the downstairs could have been the 'business office' and where the men met the ladies.... I don't know, just wondering why so many numbered rooms and beds left behind.
Wow! This was a good discovery. So many interesting finds of the past! Glad, you two, explored it. 👍👍
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IVe watched and appreciated your vids for many months now. I normally watch on my tv which doesn’t allow me to comment. I just want to say how much that I appreciate your fine work and efforts. You guys are totally great. I’m a 62 yr old man, and many of the things u find... I either still have or fondly remember. Please keep doing a great job..always look forward to my Rick and Bekah fix of the day. You’re totally awesome.
Thanks for your support Steve ! We’re glad to have you along with us. :)
So a few years ago I found a bunch of bottles in the middle of the woods. I’ve tried to figure out what they were and you answered one of them! It’s an old Crisco bottle like the one about 3 minutes into the video. Thank you! Lol
You two are a great team. Rick, the scout, preparing the way for Bekah, the photographer, documenting the journey. I agree that probably it was not a bed'n'breakfast but a boarding or rooming house. The beds look like about 1930's, during the Great Depression when many men traveled to find jobs and needed such places to stay. My family ran one from about 1910 through the 1930's. It was torn down in 1962. Question: Was it by any chance near a railroad track?
Oh, and I loved the old wooden ironing board!
Thanks. Nope. Not near a railroad track. :)
Bekah,seeing the magazines made me smile. If I were with yall we could've split the magazines n give them good homes.🙂❤
My house has one push button light switch, and it still works. Things were made better back then.
good explore guys, i have to agree with the other comments,,looks like it was some type of boarding house,with one shared bathroom, and also all the fluorescent lights in the hallways and stuff,, love the old push button light switches also,, they go back into the 1940's, if not earlier,,good stuff
So cool to see what happens to a house that hasn't been lived in for 50 years. Love your channel
That’s an old Chatty Cathy doll. Should have a pull string (ring on the end) to make her ‘talk’. Cool old Bayer ASA bottle! There was a lantern under the bed, the first one with the mattress that looked decayed or burned. The place appeared to have been an old boarding house with the first floor used (later?) as a business. Love you both. Please consider mold/respirator masks and better personal protective equipment. Your health is so important. Also, you don’t want to track anything nasty into your vehicles or homes (transfer from shoes and clothing). Is there a reason you don’t wear protective gear? (just curious). ❤️
Hello. We aren’t concerned about mold after doing a lot of research on it. Also we aren’t allergic to it. I lived in a moldy basement and that wasn’t healthy. Being in a house for twenty minutes that has an open roof that breathes isnt unhealthy. So far so good. Appreciate your concern though !
thank u for answering that question :) the mom & grandma in me was quite worried. now,that is settled ....what about some sturdy boots, medical grade gloves for camera work & heavy work gloves for touching stuff &pants tucked in boots and long sleeves, oh & first aid kit and bottle or flask of water for instantly washing small wound, & remember tetanus shots every 5 years. oops, please don't be offended i think both of ya'll r very intelligent i absolutely love ur enthusiasm; but like i said it's the mom & grandma in me. btw i love when bekah says don't die to rick, makes me smile every time. keep safe u two, God bless :) :)
This place could have been a Boardinghouse.
That would have been awesome Robin
That just what I was thinking.
I’d say it was definitely a boarding house with shared baths. I don’t think a bed and breakfast would have been a thing in the 1960s.
That what I was thinking 🤔 bed and breakfast in the 50’s or 60’s? Not sure if that was custom yet
This place looks pretty old. Maybe it started out as a family home, then was converted into a boarding house, then later used as a business. The style in the rooms upstairs looks quite a bit older than the fluorescent lights and water softener thngs downstairs.
Looks like there is a name written above the door frame as you are going into the house from the basement stairs.
I will think that place was a work house. Maybe for miners or other company workers. really cool!
Boarding house for a mill, or maybe a brothel. Looks like someone inherited it, and decided to use it for business storage, oxygen gas tanks? AT 1:17, that green box in the back is a forced hot air furnace, with rusty fuel tank. Propane fork lift tank at 6:35 looks in good condition, that holds about 8 gallons of propane when full, they're expensive, someone forgot about it. 23:45, the Bayer bottle with "33"... Interesting explore, thanks for sharing. Hope you washed with sanitizer after all that! The old locks are very cool. That place has a lot of interesting memories, but well beyond any repair despite a solid basement floor frame, really should be demolished with all that mold damage.. Cool explore!
Time to rescue furniture- sanitize and give to the poor- God don't want us to waste but to help each other
Cool old wicker chair right around 50. I think that place was like a boarding house or B&B maybe? Lots of neat stuff. I’m with everyone else though, I think you should wear masks. And we keep telling you that because we’re concerned for your health. I’m watching this right now with an oxygen mask stuck on my face, so I know how quickly the lungs can go bad. Believe me, when your diagnosed with COPD you’ll wish you had listened. I’d like to see you around for a lot more years. Thanks for the cool videos! You guys are good at what you do. Love 💕 ya Rick and Bekah!
You guys are officially my favorite urban explore channel-and I have some well loved favorites! You do such a great job of focusing on the kinds of things that I am interested in! I have a list of gasps that I saw in this video but I'll spare you the details. That orange vinyl chair on the first floor-and the curtains upstairs, especially the plastic swan curtain....!! OK, so I had to name a few! Thank you! I'm awful for remembering to like videos but I'll get out of habit starting here.
That shot at 29:28 is Epic! Nice job.
Thanks Lynette! Glad to have you come along with us. We love sharing our explores. :)
Bekah called them *blankies* ! I love it because I do too-and I'm 45 with no qualms with using that word. I also noticed right away how polite you two are with one another. It's really refreshing to see a couple who practices continual respect even after the courting/pursuant stage has passed. It indicates a long, healthy future. Also, I think I know why Bekah enjoys extreme decay so much. It's because only time and natural causes can reach that aesthetic. It's Incredibly difficult to emulate and often comes across immediately as contrived when reproduced. It took a lot of natural energy to produce that incredibly detailed bedroom scenario and the details were absolutely intense!
Agree with others that this was a boarding house and a business.. The large white cylinder tanks look like water softener tanks.. Maybe an air and water treatment business?
Holy cannoli, that basement was a sight!! A Superfund sight, sheesh! Seriously though, glad you both made it out of there safe 🙂
Yes super dumpy.
those tank are for water softeners..The dishes up in the attic were like old resturant dishes the little ones were cream for coffee
I agree about the plates etc. Must have been some sort on an inn that served food.
Thank you for the video! I do always enjoy checking out the plates too...good call!
SO NOT WORTH IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT'S 30 MIN OF MY LIFE THAT I WILL NEVER GET BACK !!!!!!!!
The tanks look like they go to a water purification system or water softener great video🌺🌺🌺
The cigarette ad on back of magazine, all cool! I remember being in a house with working push button light switches! Thanks for sharing!
I saw why the water is poured and it should turn it off right away, it wastes the water.
That claw foot tub is about 3 to 600.00! People pay good money for those and vintage sinks
That bed! It looked like someone self combusted!🔥
I had that same wallpaper you see when they first walked in the in my bedroom in a house I bought in 1999. The house was built in 1958. It was the only room they left wallpapered.
I think the suitcase/brief case in the beginning was a case for 33 record albums? Did anyone else think that?
Still has the original K&T wiring intact in the cellar. Excellent video guys
Wow what an excellent video you guys did a really good job I love the creepy music at the end. Rick never went wee wee wee when he opened the toilet.😕
Sorry Italian girl ! Not sure why I didn’t that time.
That bed is gross. It looks like a smoker fell asleep with a lit cigarette and burned to death
I like this description. I think it was just water damage though.
Both rooms 2 & 4 appear to have had fire damage. It appears to have started in #2 but spread through the ceiling to #4. This would explain the hole in the roof in this room as being where firefighters broke through.
I like the house, though. It's easy to imagine how it looked while it was still in operation.
Wow, what an awesome looking house!! Great explore/video!
Nice discovery, and those push button switches on the wall,my mom still has on her wall for the upstairs, theres a switch at the botton of the stairs and at the top of the stairs they still work,ty for sharing this 👍 😊...
I have just one in my house in the dinning room, it still works too. Everyone thinks it is really cool.
Everything was so cool! Loved those old magazines! That doll would have talked back in they day. Kinda surprised you didn't pull her string to she what she said or if she still worked!!
I'm glad you were able to finally get in. Interesting second level. I wonder if you could find out more about its history.
Did you guys think that all those boxes of paper would have told you what this place was used as.
Maybe, I read a lot of it and it was tough to gather what was going on with this place. Wasn't clear...
Could have been lots of things over all the years this house has been around! So who know, but at least you tried. Thanks !!
The dishwasher is from the early seventies late sixties, because hotpoint was discontinued in the 80s
Great find! That one room looked like someone had died of spontaneous combustion for pete's sake! The creepy doll you found was called "Baby Chatty Cathy" . My sister had one like the one there and I had the brunette. They had a string you pulled on the back of their neck to talk. Pretty cool back then. They were pretty creepy looking though even new.
Judy Osborne Or someone fell asleep with a lit cigarette and the bed went up in flames.
I had one like that too.
Hi guys, wow that place really was trapped in time. I loved the old magazines. Great video, thank you. x
Thanks !
Yeah, at 16:22, seeing the blonde guy The Theme from Austin Powers came to mind. Lol! Kinda funny how those magazine pics haven’t faded over the years..
More than likely a boarding house and all the dishes in the boxes are restaurant ware (sturdy dishes that don't break easily).
Those dishes are restaurant wear, still used in diners or places like Denny's. I think you guys are right. This was a little Hotel restaurant type place. Another great explore. TY!
You guys are so cool. Love watching your videos. Sorry to laugh when ya guys come across 8 track tapes and Nintendo stuff and the other stuff from the 70's that me and my brother grew up on. Even tho he was born in 1970. You remind me of our kids. They were born in 93 and 98. But our son Tommy grew up with me so he knows alot of what I grew up with. Our daughter has got no clue about anything. Keep up the great videos. Love em as I said.
Thanks Kathy :)
It's a rooming house that opened in the 40s for World War 2 Veterans and Vietnam Veterans reason I say that is because they're all over Glen Burnie Maryland up until the late 90s most are closed down now but I live in an old apartment building that is a rooming house as well efficiencies that is. After World War 2 & Vietnam alot of the Military were young with very little money and the rooms were cheap to rent for 5 or 10 dollars a week. I remember back in the 90s I could rent a room for 50 dollars a week even in the late 90s they were 75 dollars a week now they're 150 to 200 a week for a room.which aint bad as along as you have a bathroom and kitchen in your room as well and is really all you need if you're single with limited income plus with a cheap room rental it made it alot easier easier to put a vehicle on the road which opened up other job opportunities and really save alot of money to get your own home if you are young but on the other hand Rooming Houses helped alot of the elderly as well on a fixed income!
Fluorescent lighting became popular in the 1930's. That era is often held with stainless steel embossed and bent decoratively at the edges.
Grew up with the old claw foot tub. The old push button switches are Old . We also used fluorescent lights back then.
Did someone die in that bed from smoking? Looked burned.
yes it does look like that! Good to hear from you Tammy.
@@ExploringwithRickBekah Did you call the police about someone die in that bed from smoking as possible???.
It almost looked like the beds were on fire. Oh my gosh that doll was crazy scary! My brother had a razor like that. Those windows in the attic were cool, loved that they had were from the early 1900s.
it looked like a body had been burned on the bed a long time ago, or had simply decayed away a long time ago.....the pottery is old diner ware.....
Thanks for doing what you both are good at.
hey guys just curious if the owners of this property happen to see this video can they prosecute for trespassing?
You bet they can. They have their pictures and names. It amazes me that some people have little regard for other peoples property. It might be interesting but ignorance is no excuse.
At first I thought the leaves on the floor was old fashioned carpet. Such a shame these places go to trash. I love how you go thru everything.😀
LOVED the somber music and haunting images at the end! Very cool.
That bed at 18:20 is the scariest bed I have ever seen. It looks like someone rotted in it.
BTW, I came from your new video to watch this one again. Ody
Ody Slim I agree it looked like their was still someone under the blankets at the foot of the bed.
I wonder if that was an old boarding house for pregnant teen's?
I would have loved to see if that Chatty Cathy doll still spoke!! I’m guessing that was probably a boarding house. Excellent video, guys!
Great find! That was baby formula in that can you found. I'm pretty sure this place was once a boarding house then later used for a business or shop. At first I thought it looked like someone had died in that one bed...creepy. I would love to have that table in the attic, and that talky doll that you should have pulled the string on😉
I didn’t see the string. :( def would have pulled it.
Exploring with Rick & Bekah , yeah what if you pulled it and it screeched like a pterodactyl!😂
And yeah, you guys are young, but, wear the resperators. Make sure your safe. Really appreciate. Awesome work, guys.
The curtains hanging in the room with all the magazines are from the 1960s. We had some just like them.
I really enjoy your videos. Please keep them coming!
At first I thought it might have been a plaice for elderly but then I guessed it was a bed and breakfast. Thanks for the close upon the dishes and door handles and other stuff like the hangers too
This was a magnificent find!
Very odd interesting place and layout . Seemed like a old rooming house rather than a bed and breakfast. With the down stairs community area maybe. That doll. Looked like a old chatty Cathy doll . That my neighbors kid had back in the early sixties. And yes there would have been a string to pull on the back of her neck to make her talk. Great find. Stay safe Be careful and Keep on rolling..