Thank you for sharing! I actually live in one of the old apartment buildings built in 1920 that you featured. I found your video while searching for its history :)
Great vids I think the original post office was on the other side of the building with columns NOT the vacant lot that you stated (look at the postcard). A lot of history of Hanover street over the years
I love your passion about these things, I lived on Brook St for 15 years and was aware of the history around me. But, I am quite glad to be out of that area. Manchester is a mess of commercial interests and no passion. $$$ grab and nothing more than that now. I don't see that changing really. Memories are there but there is no passion anymore no matter what the mayor or anyone else says. It is all about making the quick buck now. Apartments is what it is all about as that's what it was always about. So many workers needed by the factories. No factories anymore, just workers working on whatever they work on. Landlords want $$$ as always but the Landlords are generally conglomerates now. Sad, true. Goodnight Manchester.
The Strand was located where that open archway is now. The parking lot that archway leads to (in the back of the building) is where the inside of the actual theater was at. It closed in the 70s and then had a massive fire in the mid 80s, I remember watching it from the roof of that parking garage while it burned.🙁
I spent many Saturday afternoons at the Strand as a kid in the 1950s watching the latest movies. It was usually packed. As I read this now in Arizona it's hard to believe it's all gone and mostly forgotten.
Really great vid as always man! I have a question though. I feel like i remember back when i was a kid in the 90s going to a candlepin bowling alley with my grandfather around downtown Manchester that I can't remember where it was. Maybe concord st by where firefly is? I'm not sure, but does that ring a bell for you?
I grew up in manchester too and I believe your right. The bowling alley was where firefly is or close to it. I think there was a fire and the building was torn down where the parking lot is now next to firefly. Might of been the building where the bowling alley was in.
Yes I've been there myself a few times during the late 80's/ early 90's when I was playing youth Football for a bowlathon fundraiser . A few of the locations here: I may have to make a video if I can find some pictures . "Hub Bowling Lanes" located on Concord St. " Eagle Bowling Lanes " located on Manchester St " Queen City Bowling Lanes " on Bridge St . " Hanover St . Bowling lanes "
@@manchesterexplorer8519 I didn't realize there used to be so many. I love candlepin. Man, only king lanes in Pinnardeville and Lakeside remain, and King has had a for for lease sign for a year now in front of it.
@@ocarinabill9702 Not to be a scrooge but it all started with Cable TV , then video games and now the internet with endless streaming content as people don't leave their homes anymore for entertainment purposes .
The Strand was a massive theatre now parking lot. The Lyric Theatre stood where the parking garage is. The Crown Theatre is now the Crown Restaurant across from the Palace. The Rex Thestre was restored by the Palace and the city on Amherst St. It was stripped down completely because it had been dive bars/clubs for avout 30 years and it was DISGUSTING. I worked at the palace for 12 years. I got lots of Opera Block history. Manch has 21 theatres downtown at one point. Most died when Vaudeville died, some were then movie theaters for each major production company.
what town is that mountain range located in? im sorry, i couldnt understand your accent no disrspect, you said there is a visible mountain range in where? i believe you said golfstown or something like that
Great video! Thank you.
Thank you for sharing! I actually live in one of the old apartment buildings built in 1920 that you featured. I found your video while searching for its history :)
Very good video. I live on Lowell st in Manchester east of Elm St. just a couple blocks from Hanover St..
Thank you
I lived in Manchester on the corner of Brook and Beech St in the early 70's in one of those houses turned apartments.
Great vids I think the original post office was on the other side of the building with columns NOT the vacant lot that you stated (look at the postcard). A lot of history of Hanover street over the years
I love your passion about these things, I lived on Brook St for 15 years and was aware of the history around me. But, I am quite glad to be out of that area. Manchester is a mess of commercial interests and no passion. $$$ grab and nothing more than that now. I don't see that changing really. Memories are there but there is no passion anymore no matter what the mayor or anyone else says. It is all about making the quick buck now. Apartments is what it is all about as that's what it was always about. So many workers needed by the factories. No factories anymore, just workers working on whatever they work on. Landlords want $$$ as always but the Landlords are generally conglomerates now. Sad, true. Goodnight Manchester.
I don't enjoy speaking the truth; I really don't, but it is what it is. My upcoming video has a few old homes I'll be checking out on Brook Street.
The Strand was located where that open archway is now. The parking lot that archway leads to (in the back of the building) is where the inside of the actual theater was at. It closed in the 70s and then had a massive fire in the mid 80s, I remember watching it from the roof of that parking garage while it burned.🙁
I spent many Saturday afternoons at the Strand as a kid in the 1950s watching the latest movies. It was usually packed. As I read this now in Arizona it's hard to believe it's all gone and mostly forgotten.
Really great vid as always man! I have a question though. I feel like i remember back when i was a kid in the 90s going to a candlepin bowling alley with my grandfather around downtown Manchester that I can't remember where it was. Maybe concord st by where firefly is? I'm not sure, but does that ring a bell for you?
I grew up in manchester too and I believe your right. The bowling alley was where firefly is or close to it. I think there was a fire and the building was torn down where the parking lot is now next to firefly. Might of been the building where the bowling alley was in.
Yes I've been there myself a few times during the late 80's/ early 90's when I was playing youth Football for a bowlathon fundraiser .
A few of the locations here: I may have to make a video if I can find some pictures .
"Hub Bowling Lanes" located on Concord St.
" Eagle Bowling Lanes " located on Manchester St
" Queen City Bowling Lanes " on Bridge St .
" Hanover St . Bowling lanes "
@@manchesterexplorer8519 I didn't realize there used to be so many. I love candlepin. Man, only king lanes in Pinnardeville and Lakeside remain, and King has had a for for lease sign for a year now in front of it.
@@ocarinabill9702 Not to be a scrooge but it all started with Cable TV , then video games and now the internet with endless streaming content as people don't leave their homes anymore for entertainment purposes .
They used to roll the snow flat instead of plowing it too
The Strand was a massive theatre now parking lot. The Lyric Theatre stood where the parking garage is. The Crown Theatre is now the Crown Restaurant across from the Palace. The Rex Thestre was restored by the Palace and the city on Amherst St. It was stripped down completely because it had been dive bars/clubs for avout 30 years and it was DISGUSTING. I worked at the palace for 12 years. I got lots of Opera Block history. Manch has 21 theatres downtown at one point. Most died when Vaudeville died, some were then movie theaters for each major production company.
what town is that mountain range located in? im sorry, i couldnt understand your accent no disrspect, you said there is a visible mountain range in where? i believe you said golfstown or something like that
Sorry as I mumble at times😂was worse when I was a kid . But the town is Goffstown.