Old World Davenport Iowa

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  • @graceface8720
    @graceface8720 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    We call the Coliseum, The Cal Ballroom. It has been used for bingo, concerts, etc. Thanks for covering Davenport.

  • @Restitutor_Orbis_214
    @Restitutor_Orbis_214 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Those Mississippi Valley towns are something else!

  • @millopguy
    @millopguy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Fascinating video. I grew up in Davenport and still live in the area. These photos are bittersweet. So many of these buildings have been lost to time, neglect, progress. This video really brings back the memories.

  • @234769azxy0073
    @234769azxy0073 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Thanks for posting this I'm from Nebraska and I visited a friend living in Davenport about 6 years ago right by the river in the heart of the old town and she lived in the ghetto in this old Victorian Home.
    This was about 4 years before I got into Old World stuff, and I still think about all the structures I saw in my short visit there.
    It really made me stop and think: "If we could build all these magnificent structures in the past, then why are so many left to rot away now?"
    I've been extremely into this subject for awhile and there's so much stuff everywhere even here in SW Nebraska in the middle of nowhere.
    I was looking just last week for an Old World Davenport video and you sir are the real MVP. Thank you

    • @234769azxy0073
      @234769azxy0073 ปีที่แล้ว

      Here's my first Old World video attempt on Kearney, Nebraska (current pop: 33k)
      th-cam.com/video/JiFklIiohLI/w-d-xo.html

    • @234769azxy0073
      @234769azxy0073 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pt 2: Kearney, Nebraska's UNBELIEVABLE economic boom (1889-1893) th-cam.com/video/MIUfIvrZbc4/w-d-xo.html

    • @BillYoder
      @BillYoder 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm from Omaha. I traveled through Davenport years ago and was very Impressed. Our history is a lie.

  • @DOboyle73
    @DOboyle73 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Very good, thank you. Growing up and seeing these old buildings, always made me think there is something that I wasn’t being told about the past.

    • @oldworldex
      @oldworldex  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad you enjoyed it

  • @thomasmihailos2070
    @thomasmihailos2070 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    . . . my good sir at Old World Exploration, you are relentless in your quest and throughly exhausting in your investigations • i utterly appreciate your passion devotion and dedication • thank you • • • as a native New Yorker who’s father was an architect that immigrated from Greece, i remember walking the streets with my dad and his admiration of what i now know to be Old World structures and recall that at the same time his face also held that distinct quizzical look which denoted that there was a discord in his thought process. Upon retiring home later, when we would look over architecture books together on famous landmark NY structures he had the same look of puzzlement when going over the magnificence of those buildings.
    Do you know of any structures in Greece that would warrant further investigation outside of the well known monasteries of Meteora in the mountains? I am currently residing here with my boy and would love any input and your opinion on the subject. Thank you in advance and God Bless . . .
    P.S. - i really loved your episode “Old World Fort Wort”with your young Old World Explorers (your children) with their commentary, their questions and your gentle way of explaining such subtleties to them with kind patience . . .

    • @oldworldex
      @oldworldex  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wow thank you for this thoughtful comment..all of it! I haven't looked too hard at Greece...will be putting it on my list.

  • @jasonlamberth414
    @jasonlamberth414 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Another great video and commentary! The Birdseye views are so full of information. not only does it show the superior engineering, architecture, and drafting of that age but also their 4th dimensional perspective. You see the boat in motion (present,) with a couple hours behind it (past) and the goal around the bend, a few hours in the (future.) Amazing!

  • @graceface8720
    @graceface8720 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Davenport, Moline, East Moline, Rock Island. I worked on a riverboat casino that cruised in the QCA.Riverdrive, still beautiful ❤️

    • @peggyfranzen6159
      @peggyfranzen6159 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ottumwa, IA a great place to farm!

    • @peggyfranzen6159
      @peggyfranzen6159 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't forget the Burlington railroad...😮

    • @xpythagoras4044
      @xpythagoras4044 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      *Davenport, Bettendorf, Moline, Rock Island

  • @NewWestReset
    @NewWestReset ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nice job OWE. I always thought of Davenport as just a farming town in 1900. Much more going on, it seems. Cheers!

  • @breakthroughthemyth3263
    @breakthroughthemyth3263 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    really enjoyed yesterdays podcast with marvelous old world discussing the dubious construction photos of chicago worlds fair. your insight about the largest buildings being zeppelin hangers is brilliant! future ground-penetrating radar and excavation of the massive foundations of these buildings will reveal the truth. great work!

    • @oldworldex
      @oldworldex  ปีที่แล้ว

      Wasn't me with Matthew in that podcast...but I'll have to check it out now.

  • @scottriedesel7226
    @scottriedesel7226 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    At 24:32, the photo you see is the old Jumer's Castle Lodge, which I believe was built in the 70's. I also think that this is all wooden structure. I do not think that this is old world but who really knows, although since its recent, people may be able to remember it's actual construction. I stayed here on my honeymoon and it was nice but was falling apart and getting outdated (this was in 2003). As far as the Blackhawk Hotel, I stayed there and actually had my prom there. This is something I do believe is older than what the narrative states. The inside is where it counts especially with all of the other buildings that you're reviewing. Anyway, good stuff you're putting out here and you're definitely bringing some questions to light.

  • @toomdog
    @toomdog 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I used to work on the HVAC system in the Davenport Hotel. It collapsed last year with some people possibly still in it.

  • @RosieMcCann-e9t
    @RosieMcCann-e9t 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    @ min 4:12, the home at 510 W 6th St. you show is where I lived as a child from 1959-1963, ages 7-11. It was built around 1860-65. What you called a bell tower is actually a lookout tower where you could see the Mississippi River. This block sat up on a high bluff just above the downtown and riverfront. There is a high stone wall at the street level and then there are many terraces up to the house with about 90 wide palatial steps and stone landings. There are ornate carved marble fireplaces and beautiful carved wooden doors throughout. This picture is how the home looked when I lived there with the huge porch. My bedroom was the big bay window on the right main level. So fun to see this again, thank you !

  • @justinamontgomery2618
    @justinamontgomery2618 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Your channel is doing so well! Happy for you!

    • @oldworldex
      @oldworldex  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you so much!!

  • @19672701
    @19672701 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video of my town,My great great uncle was one of the stone artists that did some of the stonework on the main street fountains and the Davenport Bank. Still a great town.

  • @Utoob360
    @Utoob360 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Add Dubuque and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The old river towns are covered with architectural gems, lost history.

    • @02sparklestars02
      @02sparklestars02 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also Burlington, Iowa.

    • @THEMANWITHTHEYELLOWHAT.
      @THEMANWITHTHEYELLOWHAT. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@02sparklestars02or come down here to old woo 17:35 kane iowa

  • @nickwilkinsmusic
    @nickwilkinsmusic 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I’m from Davenport, recently we had a large old building in Downtown partially fall over due to a lack of maintenance from the landlord, and was then immediately demolished

    • @nickwilkinsmusic
      @nickwilkinsmusic 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      in fact the building that collapsed was briefly mentioned in tbis video at 3:25

    • @thebestgeekever
      @thebestgeekever 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Aye, I live in Muscatine area

    • @thatoneguy6515
      @thatoneguy6515 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I live in moline, when I was downtown in davenport I saw the rubble.

  • @keithferrante6915
    @keithferrante6915 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    These old world buildings are so beautiful living in that day around that would inspire me to be my absolute best in live with class

  • @papaechozulu3737
    @papaechozulu3737 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So awesome, love the Quad Cities, very cool to see the Confederate Cemetery on the Rock Island Arsenal. I remember paying respects to the Confederate soldiers as a Boy Scout so they didn't die alone up North so far from home.

  • @DOboyle73
    @DOboyle73 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Sweet my home town.

  • @scotskinner4350
    @scotskinner4350 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks for sharing this.
    I do some contemporary street photography in Davenport. I would have been nice to have had some addresses of the buildings you showed.

  • @dennisburt4614
    @dennisburt4614 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Beautiful bank prob added top steal part

  • @debpatriot9557
    @debpatriot9557 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Exceeded my expectations! OMG! Really?! Thanks again!

  • @jthepickle7
    @jthepickle7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Davenport, not a big town - home of Palmer College of Chiropractic - sporting no less than 6 bridges and two lock & dams spanning the Mighty Mississippi - 700 meters wide @ Davenport - 7 million cubic feet per second (200,000m3-per second)

  • @steveodonnell6533
    @steveodonnell6533 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nice mid week Tartar sauce 👍

    • @oldworldex
      @oldworldex  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Need a little extra for the fries..

  • @TacticsTechniquesandProcedures
    @TacticsTechniquesandProcedures 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I travelled to Davenport to the Putnam Museum last weekend. I didn’t get a chance to see all of these buildings. However, Rock Island Aresenal has some really cool looking stone buildings on base.

  • @ericallen2620
    @ericallen2620 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As ALWAYS NICE JOB!!! KEEP IT UP

    • @oldworldex
      @oldworldex  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you kindly...

  • @Xxballin17xX
    @Xxballin17xX 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I find it very hard to believe that 20k ppl built all that in 20 years

  • @dennisburt4614
    @dennisburt4614 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    25000 homes 20000 people founded a year earlier dam like beavers pop up a town in a weak

  • @VitalWellnessCenterElburn
    @VitalWellnessCenterElburn ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I LOVE Davenport! Lots of old world dirt there! I went to Palmer College of Chiropractic in the late 90’s. Chiropractic was born in 1895 by DD Palmer. He was exposing injected pharmaceutical fraud back then. He was the original gangsta. I started my deep dive of looking into late 1800’s history back in late 2019 due the passion I have for my profession. I started diving into old books written by DD and BJ Palmer. I’d love to share with you some of the details about the college and profession that I think you would find compelling in regards to other head scratching, narrative bending subjects of the time in Davenport, Iowa. The second Free Mason building you showed is now owned by Palmer Chiropractic. I graduated there…mind blower! The Palmer Mansion is quite spectacular as well. This area is a goldmine of not only old world structures but also the birthplace of the medical veil piercing profession of chiropractic. Thanks for all your hard work. I love your channel!

    • @oldworldex
      @oldworldex  ปีที่แล้ว

      drop me an email...let's get connected.

    • @jasonbourne3448
      @jasonbourne3448 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Canadian boy here. I graduated from Palmer in 2002. I miss Davenport! Nice to see some of the old spots. Too bad I didn't know this history back them. I feel that I didn't appreciate the surroundings enough. It is time to go back for a visit!

    • @VitalWellnessCenterElburn
      @VitalWellnessCenterElburn ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jasonbourne3448 Hello Jason! As cool as Davenport is with old world buildings, there are probably amazing old world structures in the town you live in now. Where do you live/practice?

  • @michaelscheel9533
    @michaelscheel9533 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    at 2:40 The Davenport Hotel collasped a year ago killing three people and displacing hundred or so. Now a green space while the lawsuits go through the courts.
    The house with what you call a belltower is a widow's walk. A lot of riverboat captains had houses with them so their wives could watch for their boats on the river.

  • @thebestgeekever
    @thebestgeekever 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ayeeee, I live about half an hour from Davenport

  • @daleholland6983
    @daleholland6983 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    At 24:32, the photo is of the Jumer's Castle Lodge in Bettendorf, IA. It was built in the 1970's in a Bavarian style. It was finally torn down in 2016 and replaced with a box. That is to say the building that replaced it on the site took its inspiration from a shoe box with none of the charm.

    • @EricSchryver-v8o
      @EricSchryver-v8o 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A guy I know who worked security at night and day there. He told me one night something happend in the basement. He looked around and these huge water pipes maybe 2-3 feet in diameter but didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Then one day when he was working he went down to the basement and the pipes were smaller. He asked if they had been replaces and was told no that's just how many roaches were in the place.

  • @imaneditor3385
    @imaneditor3385 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very cool video thanks for putting it together

  • @jvega419
    @jvega419 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm from Davenport. My grandfather is buried on the Arsenal

  • @thomm7477
    @thomm7477 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    yep that monument sits in front of cental hs on main st. would love to hear your theories about the great architecture and infrastructure. there could be more to it. with the military arsenal and masonic temples. also there is a very heavy german and catholic influence. cool to see the old coliseum and never knew possibly the first bank in america was in davenport. thank for the vid!

  • @roughriderreturns5039
    @roughriderreturns5039 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I enjoy this site very much. Thank you.

    • @oldworldex
      @oldworldex  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for being here, and saying so.

  • @darinthesecularspiritualist
    @darinthesecularspiritualist ปีที่แล้ว

    i really really really like your work. thanky

  • @gulfy09
    @gulfy09 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wonder if any libraries have any articles or books that describe any information

  • @Tamibornrex
    @Tamibornrex 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    From the area, many historical beauties here.

  • @mamat5097
    @mamat5097 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Many of these structures seem like they were decapitated early! Many are missing antiquitech ..

  • @scottbaker-ScottyB
    @scottbaker-ScottyB ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Same Building structures in countries like Serbia , Hungary , Romania.......

  • @ElvisPressCompany
    @ElvisPressCompany ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Birdseye view maps but no blueprints?

  • @hawaiiguykailua6928
    @hawaiiguykailua6928 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Davenport, also known as a sofa and a writing desk, no idea why? Is it the founded towns main industry?

    • @narcolepticafk3669
      @narcolepticafk3669 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Colonel George Davenport, born George William King, was a 19th-century English-American sailor, frontiersman, fur trader, merchant, postmaster, US Army soldier, Indian agent, and city planner. A prominent and well-known settler in the Iowa Territory, he was one of the earliest settlers in Rock Island. He spent much of his life involved in the early settlement of the Mississippi Valley and the "Quad Cities". The present-day city of Davenport, Iowa is named after hi

  • @michaelcraig4710
    @michaelcraig4710 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the builders of first presbysterian church built an almost identical church in galesburg,illinois called central congregational church.

  • @glennso47
    @glennso47 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Davenport is home now to about 100,000.

  • @scottpike9009
    @scottpike9009 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So many Grand Buildings, for so few people.

  • @MegaTriumph1
    @MegaTriumph1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wonder if the Paradise CA fire was anything like older CA 1906 SF city fire.

    • @MrBlueSky1978
      @MrBlueSky1978 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have doubts whether a lot of the city fires in the 19th century actually happened. Howdie Mickoski states in a number of interviews he's done that the reconstruction took remarkably little time to complete in almost all of them. They may simply be made up stories to date very old buildings as more modern and to put a date on them. The Paradise CA fire would appear to be a direct energy weapon as the trees next to those houses aren't touched in many cases. We've seen something very similar in Hawaii very recently 🤔😳

  • @qchemp420
    @qchemp420 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    24:30 Jumer's Castle Lodge Hotel, not old(1973), not there anymore.

  • @jannhebrank
    @jannhebrank 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    that monument is still there in the middle of Main street

  • @diegoezequiel7561
    @diegoezequiel7561 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There is a lot of mudflooded buildings there

  • @joejoebus8814
    @joejoebus8814 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And don't forget it is the home for the Palmer School of Chiropractic.

    • @oldworldex
      @oldworldex  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      how could I?!

  • @Delphius-
    @Delphius- ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm from that area.

  • @keding9159
    @keding9159 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So they built buildings with massively high ceilings in a state with brutal cold in winter. How did they heat these buildings? At what cost?

    • @Ronniejamesleo
      @Ronniejamesleo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Coal was cheap in those times

  • @howieone6141
    @howieone6141 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    To build buildings of that magnitude would take an entire class of workers with an immense skill level. It would take years of training for a single class of craftsman. there would be hundreds of these men in every town, yet there were none. I am 68, my father would tell me when I was young that if my grades didnt improve than I would be digging ditches when I grew up. That is because in the 40s, thats how we put in sewers in cities, with shovels. Teams of men with shovels. There were no men in that time frame that had this skill level. Also, if there were, why did all those men simply stop building buildings of this size and design? Why did that skill level die in one generation? Answer, we didnt build them....

  • @EP...
    @EP... ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Whomever rendered the bank construction photo, did an almost convincing detail. But failed to recognise the routine of masonry construction .
    I'd suggests using, After effcts and photoshop combined. To give the results you were hoping for.
    You're welcome.

  • @chuckdavis1323
    @chuckdavis1323 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Grandpa rutherford lived there near the railroad tracks in the early 1930s.

  • @larrystrick1862
    @larrystrick1862 ปีที่แล้ว

    It looks like different phases of building, the oldest at 27:42, Grace Church another phase.

  • @darinthesecularspiritualist
    @darinthesecularspiritualist ปีที่แล้ว

    in san antonio i honestly think that the true occupancy of the tall buildings in downtown could be no more than 30%.

  • @samd9830
    @samd9830 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is this a bit? If so we’ll done, it’s interesting and hilarious

  • @hughmungus2589
    @hughmungus2589 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    nice collection - its a shame you don't have any connection to the city to provide context to many of these landmarks that still exist today

  • @glennso47
    @glennso47 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There’s plenty of plain in new buildings though.

  • @cathychilders5109
    @cathychilders5109 ปีที่แล้ว

    That definitely doesn’t match the narrative. I plugged your channel the other day, so maybe you’ll be getting more viewers. Thanks OWN for a very interesting video.

  • @squarenailco1747
    @squarenailco1747 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    24:30 Jumers Castle Lodge

  • @glennso47
    @glennso47 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When did Palmer Chiropractor School start?

  • @bd8476
    @bd8476 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    These are tartarian structures built long before settlers came to America ever wonder why every city across America has the same style building…. Our current civilization didn’t build them. The construction pictures are clearly doctored . Thanks for covering this
    Oh and btw the those dome structures and pillar looking antennas were used to harness free energy

    • @joemccullough4246
      @joemccullough4246 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Just accept the fact that this nation used to be decentralized and didn’t spend the majority of its wealth on the military and foreign investments/manufacturing. So we actually had the money and resources and civic pride required to build nice things

  • @timothydillow3160
    @timothydillow3160 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "False Flags" everywhere in old photos. Davenport, Iowa, one of the first, if not the First Bank open ? I guess Boston and New York grew the corn back then.

    • @Ronniejamesleo
      @Ronniejamesleo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The correct answer is Philadelphia. Took 30 secs and Google.

  • @darrellgarlough7140
    @darrellgarlough7140 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just saw this come up on my suggestions, it is painfully obvious that you are not familiar with the city. I have lived here for most of my life,. Maybe when putting these videos together you could try to familiarize yourself with the city , because you sound like an AI reading a script. I do appreciate your taking the time to put it together though as I walked through my memories of our once great city.

  • @garyjohn1822
    @garyjohn1822 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please do some research on the Olmecs the mould builder's in south and north Amexem now called the Americas, later on the Olmecs are called the Moors are the Indegenious to these shore's
    renamed Saracens arabs muslims when in Europe, British architect Christopher wren said all the foundation for the architectural building designs in medieval Europe which they labelled as Gothic, is all Sarecenic/ Moorish Monarchs

  • @majcorbin
    @majcorbin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    recycled DAVENPORT IOWA DAD JOKE of the day
    [Q] Do trees, defecate, in the FOREST?
    [A] of course they do, From where else,would we get, number 2 PENCILS?

  • @EtTubeBruTube
    @EtTubeBruTube 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I would like to commend you for what you're attempting, would be very enjoyable and educational, and challenge you to up your game, specifically in terms of the low resolution of image scans you're displaying. Most of the pics in this video are obviously pixellated from simple low dots per inch scanning, and it gets exponentially worse when you zoom in to display terribly distorted details. Several times you speak of intricate brick work or structural details which we would like to see, while showing us nothing but square digital pixels. If you plan to produce a video in any kind of HD, then your source scans need to be at least that resolution, and much higher if you intend to zoom. Yes, you'll have larger file sizes, which is no excuse- you can tack on giant external usb hard drives for under 80 bucks these days. I offer this because you are clearly trying to put out a professional production to over 18,000 subscribers, and the image quality is not up to the sources and script. Thanks for reading.

    • @oldworldex
      @oldworldex  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I appreciate you commending me, although I'm not convinced you're sincere. Comments like this are rare on my channel, which makes me wonder if 99% of viewers fail to mention the poor visual quality of what I'm presenting because they enjoyed it anyway or they didn't enjoy it and just want to save me from my feelings. The truth is, I'm not trying to put out a professional production. In fact I'm trying to avoid that. I'm not monetized and have a wonderful day job so there is no intention here to polish my delivery hoping to draw in the HD crowd. I make what I want to the way I want to. If you like it, great. If not, browse on. I'm ok with constructive criticism, but this felt more deconstructive to me.

  • @John-k5o7z
    @John-k5o7z 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Slow talking from narrator ... boring

  • @timebong8366
    @timebong8366 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    His-story all the way.

  • @grantrodgers2470
    @grantrodgers2470 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Earth is a level and stationary created realm