Great Lakes, 1946
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2014
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What a wonderful time capsule! It's hard to remember the sheer number of industrial cities spanned the perimeter of the Great Lakes way back then.
My dad sailed the lakes in those days....during the 40's & early 50's. He was the chief steward on the Richard J Reiss & the Uhrig.
back when we still had heavy industry
Our politicians sold us out in policy and low tarrifs overseas
@@jonathanherbst6906dont forget NAFTA
Our once great nation. USA 1776-2021 RIP
Yeah, people said that in 1969. Adapt or get outta the way
The USA died when Biden won through a fraudulent election.
Regardless of who won or lost, elections should be more secure
@@williamrogers7974 Yeah, that's about when things really started going downhill, and now we are just about at the end of the cycle of stupidity and ready to collapse. You can 'adapt' all you want, but that does not change the fact that it is a s##t show going down the toilet.
Back when we did not have other countries scamming us .
An absolutely fantastic documentary oh The Great Lakes. Late to the game but thanks for posting!
thank you so much for posting this film of Americana, I love these old films. the only other way to go see them would be to travel all the way across the country to some old archive, which is what I guess you must have done. thank you so much for making this available online!
One thing I always loved about the old style lake boats is that high "clipper bow."
I worked on the Lakers in the 70's and 80's some of the ships I worked on were really old. Was a great job but also dangerous.
Ahhh but thankfully, you're older brother Jim, was along for the rides!!! :-)
I worked on 2 iron ore carriers the summer of 1969. One was built around 1917 with these towering open pistons that they oiled while the pistons were churning up and down, they had to time their movements so as not to injure themselves. My dad worked for USS at the time and got me the summer job, I was 17 at the time and it was a real eye opener. Those engineers were some tough guys but they also told us the "salts" the ones that work on ocean going ships we the real crazies- Mutiny on the Bounty stuff.I still work in the steel indiustry and these boats are still running. I live in Pittsburgh not to far from Wheeling WVA and the summer home of Olgebay whose company Olgebay Norton owned the.... you guessed it Edmund Fitzgerald.
Narrated by Dwight Weist.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Weist, he was born in Palo Alto, California, but was raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He attended Scranton's Central High School, where he participated in dramatics. He was a 1931[4] graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, where he participated in a debate and he acted in the Cleveland Play House theater company.
What an excellent old film ... with a very dramatic orchestral score! There's a fierce pride to be found here.
The history and the statistics alone are very interesting .. I wonder what they'd think of the thousand footers now? And self-unloaders?
This was so good. 🥲
You gotta wonder why we don't do informative short films like this anymore!
+warbound1000 i guess for the most part people today are just plain stupid and would rather watch stupid mindless garbage
Something caught me right at the beginning, "Produced with the cooperation of the United States Coast Guard." We don't do that anymore, cooperate. This appears to me to be a business venture in which the government cooperated. Both sides came out way ahead, IMHO. TH-cam is the perfect platform for this.
Because we don't go to the movies to get our news anymore. TV killed the Movietone News
Rimone Media the value of American exports today is larger than it was in 1946.
Automation is something we haven't truly grappled with. In 1946 it may have taken 10 men to produce 1 ton of steel, and today it takes 2. Apply that across industrial sectors, and multiply it by 5.
The internal contradictions in capitalism haven't been reconciled. Artificial intelligence is going to cause a revolution and social discord.
It's not all gone. I can attest to that. But the ships are bigger, mills cleaner, and rail is also a competitor. But Gary, Lorain and Cleveland are still making steel with ore brought in by HUGE lakers more than 1000 feet long.
Long time resident of the Lakes. Very pleasant, that is until the Witch of November raises the tides in storm.
Thank you!
Used to watch the big lakers steam by and clanking machinery of the engine room passing by...it sounded like progress
I'm doing a speech on Lak Huron so I'm watching videos on shipping
50 yrs on... Welcome to the rust belt!
Buy lake front property at basement bargain prices!
Actually, in 2016 IT'S 70 YEARS ON!! And now in 2019 it's 73 years.
Which makes this golden oldie even more precious!
Sad, isn't it.
8:36 for those who are wondering the mini lock is called The North West Company Lock
Interesting to see a portrayal of the US that is optimistic in tone. Sometimes I wonder if the continued commiseration we see now could be the source of many troubles.
I believe I saw the Columbia, (coal fired) Boblo boat from Detroit?? I used to go there in the 60s. The St. Clair was an oil burner. We used to picnic by the Detroit River and watch ships go by in the 60s. Perhaps some if these same ships??
Great video thank you ❤
Rest In peace crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
This is a decade before the Edmund Fitzgerald was built
Dog your hatches properly.
Mtfboi 265
Yeah, no shit.
Fitz wasn't even built yet
Nice newsreel. Dad worked at U.S. Steel, Pittsburgh from 1937 to 1979. Back when we were the world leader of heavy industry. Before dad passed in 1997, he told me that we would not win another big war with being dependent on foreign steel and industrial imports. Bad politics.
This was really good.
Where would films like these have been shown? Would they be shown in movie theaters as shorts before feature films?
Prosperity brought to you by Victory!
My grandfather was born in PortArthur know it's grown into thunder Bay and no longer exists
We really lost our identity with those 1000 footers. Our fleet was so large and beautiful, and now it is so small and many are ugly salty impersonators.
And the Hueletts are no longer around. I can still hear them in my head because they made a sound you'll never forget.
One of those thousand footers can carry as much as 4 or 5 of those vintage boats. Yes they are butt ugly, but it's all about efficiency. Just like everything else, the shipping world changes over time.
Cool short film, but "Huge puddles"?....up to 1300 ft. deep "puddles".....I've sailed em, pretty fierce in November
*The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy.*
My uncle sailed on the lakes for years.
Puddles indeed sir!
What about December’s. Did you ever go out on the boat in December?
@@F22donny yup, snowed while at anchor in Detour passage, big storm December of '68, had to shovel coupla foot of snow off the deck, and used fire hoses with hot water to get it off. There be a lotta tonnage in wet snow on a freighters deck
Rest in Peace 29 brave men of the Edmund Fitzgerald.✌Mike Pardue
Did you know someone who was lost on the EF?
I remember her anniversary every year even though I didn't know anyone personally. I've just been fascinated by the story ever since she sank.
@@j.whiteoak6408 No I didn't know anyone on board. I've been really fascinated with the Edmund Fitzgerald ever since I heard Gordon Lightfoots song. The band I played in did this song and I sang it. Very emotional song and story. I researched the ships on the Great Lakes, wrote poems and short stories about several shipwrecks. I wrote one for the Daniel J Morrell. Later on I actually located and contacted Dennis Hale, sole survivor of the Morrell. I gave him a copy of my short story, which he was surprised how accurate it was, and in return, he sent me a cd of himself telling the story. Very cool. A great guy. He said I wrote things he had forgotten about. Anyway, I appreciate your interest and fascination. Thank you. May you always have red skys at night. God bless you.✌Mike Pardue
@@rebeccapardue8438
HI Mike,
Yes, I think the Edmund Fitzgerald story was taught to most people around the world by Gordon Lightfoot : ) I'm a muso and I learned the song which became a solid part of my own repertoire .. and I always feel a sense of awe and great sadness every time I sing it. Gordo made the EF every bit as infamous as "that other ship" - I mean the one that's on the bottom of the Nth Atlantic.
"R.I.P. to the Captain and Crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald..Still sailing". - J.W.
Dog your hatches properly.
@@ShortArmOfGod That was a lie conjured up to get the fault of the blame off of the shipping company. Captain Cooper(Captain, of the Anderson) said it either bottomed out on 6 Fathom Shoal or the hull cracked causing her to set low causing her to be pushed under the surface by huge following waves.
I still remember seeing the giant ore cranes in Cleveland unloading the ships. I didn't know they were operating back in 1946
kab kab If you are referring to the Hullett Ore Unloaders, they where built in 1912.
Those Hulett unloaders were so cool. Talk about a time to be alive, guys in the 1970's earning the 2022 equivalent of $250k a year to sit inside them things and scoop ore out of a freighter, buy a house, pay it off and put their kids through college debt free. Must have been nice. Nowadays a Ph.D starts you out at a quarter of the earning potential with 10 times the starting debt. What happened to Mid Century America?
This is cool. What's really interesting is that this was made before most of the current Lakers were built. I could be wrong, but the only two that come to mind are the Alpena and the Lee A. Tregurtha, but it's still US Naval Ship USS CHIWAWA
Steel that won a war. Right on!
the alpena was a few. Years. Old
E.M. Ford
Pollution?! Nah!!! It's called progress!! Cough cough....
Fred Stonehouse speaks of the Smith as part of the "went missing" group.
The j.b. Ford was 42 years old
Jamie Smith **
It's crazy to think how much lake shipping has changed, but what really caught me off guard, is that it said it took about 2 hours to load a freighter fully, but now its takes up to 16 ours.
I think because in the film it said two hours to fill the hold that's only one so if you multiply that by about 8 holds then you would get 16 hours.
@@cadenstoddard6968
Nope. A watchman and I missed the boat in Two Harbors, MN 😂. They loaded us in 2:55. (river class 636' boat). That was 1981. Most of the boats back then were much smaller. Had a good time anyway. Caught back up with her three days later in Detroit via the mailboat J.W. Wescott.
When america was truly great. Strong and united. No woke bullshit.
REAL OLD SCHOOL MERCHANT MARINES
Nobody ever talks about the whales of the great lakes
Ohh, they're there. They're of the landlubber variety now. Obese critters, obsessed with ho-ho's, potato chips, high fat and sugar donuts and sodas. You see them every now and again on the beaches. Easily spotted where the masses of young men are attempting to roll them back into the waters....
Whaleback ore boats, like the SS Meteor?
A self unloader
I bet everything was made in America and we still cared, too
8:18
I wish they taught maritime history in schools. It's another sad omission. 🌹⚓
I didnt hate this.
Heu bugs bunny cartoon music like parade music.....