This is one of a series of auto-travel related films commissioned by Standard Oil (Esso/Exxon) to John Bransby Productions after World War II to promote sight-seeing through the US by car. The Pennsylvania film was first produced in 1948 but was slightly revised in 1957, in which this is the version you are seeing. A product of the time after WWII, these were all well produced documentary films made before the advent of web pages. I first saw the Pennsylvania film seen here about 50 years ago, and with my automobile, traveled to many of the spots shown, including the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and its abandoned two-lane tunnels, in which I eventually co-authored two books about it. from Mitch
Pennsylvania--a great place to be FROM. Try living in the anthracite coal regions with very little upward mobility, and salary stagnation just barely above the poverty level, and two ways out: college and the military. I left in 1981 to enter the US Navy and never looked back.
Two ways out - college, government owned and controlled education; or military - a "Sol-DIE-r" (soldier) for the government that's Owned by the Vatican. I just simply Left the state of Pennsylvania. My whole family lives there and both my brothers became Sol-DIE-rs as others in my family did. I've warned people since decades before the Internet even existed to no avail. You must Seek Truth because it's not offered in government owned and controlled Schools and Churches and Tel-LIE-vision!!!!!!! They don't call it PROGRAMMING for nothing 📺
@debraallen63 I am a US Navy veteran, as are my ancestors. I am forever grateful to my government for giving me a chance to get out of the anthracite coal fields, since graduation from The Pennsylvania State University with a degree in mechanical engineering didn't do the trick.
@@onemercilessming1342 My husband also has a degree from a Pennsylvania University and is an Army veteran. I'm just a veteran of the streets of Pennsylvania with several degrees in Survival. We don't "be-LIE-ve" the patriotic propaganda, we see Truth. Blessings 🙏
@debraallen63 I don't care what you see. King Coal is dead. The steel mills are shut down. The little coal towns like Mahanoy City, Shenandoah, Frackville, St. Clair are all but ghost towns. PA is a rust belt state and has little to offer anyone with brains, talent, and a desire for a much better life than subsisting on $7800 a year. I earned more in the US Navy.
@@debraallen63 Horsefeathers! The Quakers and Amish are churches of the Reformation, and have no loyalty to the Church of Rome. And Mr. Penn himself established that there would be NO religious test to immigrate or remain in Pennsylvania. The only qualification for public office is that the officer must believe in (a) God... so that they might be able to swear their Oath of Office.
1:30 "If Penn could look down today on his City of Brotherly Love."... he'd see Frank Rizzo, the MOVE bombing, police brutality, red lining of neighborhoods and say, "Well that was a flop!"
@@65gtotrips- A racist who rides roughshod over the rights of Americans? I think that Mayor Cherelle Parker is doing one hell of a job hitting the ground running.
Yes, this version was made in 1956. However, scenes from the original 1948 version were recycled into this film. The scene at the Apple Butter Folklore scene was from the 1948 film. By 1956, the Schuylkill Expressway was partially complete as well as the now Roure 80 Delaware River Bridge was opened in 1953 and seen in the film. The PRR Aeorotrain, seen in this film was used for only 6 months by the Pennsy. It was too rough riding on the tracks and sold to Rock Island.
‘…deed the Quaker a large tract of land, in Indian Country…’ Wait! Whose country?! Why was the King giving someone else’s Country away?! Where were the Indians going to go? WTF?!! And this kids, is why America is the greatest, most free country in the whole world
Study history. Mr. Penn subsequently *bought* the land, in several transactions, from the Iroquois Nations. Who knew exactly what was going on; they were not simple or ignorant savages!
Coal and steel went down the crapper so all the well paid jobs for unskilled labor went too. Anyone with brains and two nickels to rub together packed up and headed south. (and West) That’s why there’s a Steelers bar in every city outside the Rust Belt.
@@samaulicino4202 A lot of folks just don’t know History and/or understand basic economics. If it’s cheaper to import steel from China, well guess what happens to Pittsburgh? 👎🏼🚽
I just want to thank this channel in all it does to revive these old videos that are so intriguing! Keeping history alive, I love it
This is among one of my favorite travel film ever made! Its a classic production you will never see again!
This is one of a series of auto-travel related films commissioned by Standard Oil (Esso/Exxon) to John Bransby Productions after World War II to promote sight-seeing through the US by car. The Pennsylvania film was first produced in 1948 but was slightly revised in 1957, in which this is the version you are seeing. A product of the time after WWII, these were all well produced documentary films made before the advent of web pages. I first saw the Pennsylvania film seen here about 50 years ago, and with my automobile, traveled to many of the spots shown, including the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and its abandoned two-lane tunnels, in which I eventually co-authored two books about it. from Mitch
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That's the Pennsylvania I was born into in 1953. Jesus Christ how everything changed.
Watch it with the blasphemy, Yinzer.
It's a complete Psycho-Getto Shitshow now.😊
Is there anything that hasn't gone woke????
Yea, verily.
@@Sennmut Nope.
This looks like early/mid 1950's, the cars, clothes, hairstyles, buildings and the style of production.
Penn's statue atop City Hall remained the highest point in Philadelphia until 1987.
Back when the Illusion of Freedom was strong 💪
It's gone now.
Thank you, Bravo!🙂💯💥👍!
Aerial American put all these docs to shame. It’s still interesting to hear it this way.
Pennsylvania--a great place to be FROM. Try living in the anthracite coal regions with very little upward mobility, and salary stagnation just barely above the poverty level, and two ways out: college and the military. I left in 1981 to enter the US Navy and never looked back.
Two ways out - college, government owned and controlled education; or military - a "Sol-DIE-r" (soldier) for the government that's Owned by the Vatican.
I just simply Left the state of Pennsylvania. My whole family lives there and both my brothers became Sol-DIE-rs as others in my family did.
I've warned people since decades before the Internet even existed to no avail. You must Seek Truth because it's not offered in government owned and controlled Schools and Churches and Tel-LIE-vision!!!!!!!
They don't call it PROGRAMMING for nothing 📺
@debraallen63 I am a US Navy veteran, as are my ancestors. I am forever grateful to my government for giving me a chance to get out of the anthracite coal fields, since graduation from The Pennsylvania State University with a degree in mechanical engineering didn't do the trick.
@@onemercilessming1342 My husband also has a degree from a Pennsylvania University and is an Army veteran. I'm just a veteran of the streets of Pennsylvania with several degrees in Survival.
We don't "be-LIE-ve" the patriotic propaganda, we see Truth.
Blessings 🙏
@debraallen63 I don't care what you see. King Coal is dead. The steel mills are shut down. The little coal towns like Mahanoy City, Shenandoah, Frackville, St. Clair are all but ghost towns. PA is a rust belt state and has little to offer anyone with brains, talent, and a desire for a much better life than subsisting on $7800 a year. I earned more in the US Navy.
@@debraallen63 Horsefeathers! The Quakers and Amish are churches of the Reformation, and have no loyalty to the Church of Rome. And Mr. Penn himself established that there would be NO religious test to immigrate or remain in Pennsylvania. The only qualification for public office is that the officer must believe in (a) God... so that they might be able to swear their Oath of Office.
1:30 "If Penn could look down today on his City of Brotherly Love."... he'd see Frank Rizzo, the MOVE bombing, police brutality, red lining of neighborhoods and say, "Well that was a flop!"
We could surely use a Frank Rizzo type mayor today.
@@65gtotrips- A racist who rides roughshod over the rights of Americans? I think that Mayor Cherelle Parker is doing one hell of a job hitting the ground running.
It was an Amish Paradise!
Only part of PA is Amish. There are other groups: Menonite, Quaker, etc.
Judging by the automobiles and the airplanes, I would guess that this film was made in 1956, possibly 1957. This is not a 1960s film.
Those were still around in the early 60s and even into the early 70s.
True. The Pennsylvania Railroad stopped using stream locomotives in 1957.
Yes, this version was made in 1956. However, scenes from the original 1948 version were recycled into this film. The scene at the Apple Butter Folklore scene was from the 1948 film. By 1956, the Schuylkill Expressway was partially complete as well as the now Roure 80 Delaware River Bridge was opened in 1953 and seen in the film. The PRR Aeorotrain, seen in this film was used for only 6 months by the Pennsy. It was too rough riding on the tracks and sold to Rock Island.
Wish Penn could see Kensington n Allegheny !
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Where corruption is a way of life.
‘…deed the Quaker a large tract of land, in Indian Country…’ Wait! Whose country?! Why was the King giving someone else’s Country away?! Where were the Indians going to go? WTF?!!
And this kids, is why America is the greatest, most free country in the whole world
Study history. Mr. Penn subsequently *bought* the land, in several transactions, from the Iroquois Nations. Who knew exactly what was going on; they were not simple or ignorant savages!
wtf happened to PA
The Democrat party.
Republicans ruined it like they do everything else
@@DerrickOil Think a little deeper than that my friend if you want out. Supporting the lesser of 2 evils isn't going to change the world.
Coal and steel went down the crapper so all the well paid jobs for unskilled labor went too.
Anyone with brains and two nickels to rub together packed up and headed south. (and West)
That’s why there’s a Steelers bar in every city outside the Rust Belt.
@@samaulicino4202
A lot of folks just don’t know History and/or understand basic economics.
If it’s cheaper to import steel from China, well guess what happens to Pittsburgh?
👎🏼🚽
Diversity is our strength😢
Exactly, Heaven is very Diverse. People who don't like diversity better pray they never make it to Heaven
All of THOSE PEOPLE from Philly, RIGHT??????