Thank you all for contributing to this video's 5000+ views! A small but quite meaningful milestone for me.
@SwissOnZ
2 жыл бұрын
Namesake. Thanks so much for the history lesson. The east coast is just dripping in history and culture.
@TheCoverageProject
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the support! You are totally right, there is SO much to learn from visiting America's east coast.
@SwissOnZ
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheCoverageProject it’s the wars. There’s so much lost history in reference to my family and our origins in relation the the founding of the country. It’s such a drudge. I am a New Yorker from Manhattan. We’re Swiss-Dutch so naturally Manhattan. And of course up and down the east coast. The Maryland state flag is my family’s crest. So much has been lost with the constitution and it’s application. That’s my current research. Your video was über insightful. Merci vielmals.
@SwissOnZ
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheCoverageProject anyway on the west coast. Cute but the east coast is historically richer. Or at least east coasters are a bit more enchanted with history.
@travelingwithrick
2 жыл бұрын
The track is now used for a demolition derby. The farmers market actually extends under the grandstand seats. Right across there is Ag Hall. Lots of shows, farm produce exhibitions, gray rick con era back in the day( Rush!)
@travelingwithrick
2 жыл бұрын
Allentown was known a the truck capital of the world: Mack trucks! The transitor invented at Western Electric on union blvd. Should of mentioned Allentown's largest employer it one time. Mack trucks put Allentown in the map! They still have huge plant in Macungie.
@jamesalexander5623
11 ай бұрын
My Dad worked at Western and brought home some Transistors for us to see!
@erickaholman1371
Жыл бұрын
You never mentioned the great development that has taken place downtown, nice restaurants, boutiques, brand new buildings, new condos and much more.... A great place to visit and live.
@shymeeee
4 ай бұрын
Sorry I can't be more supportive.
@WALTERZOLNA
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome channel, im really feeling the energy! keep up the good work...
@TheCoverageProject
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot! I think it’s the pure passion towards this project that helps to deliver the energy you talk about haha
@lvtflooringstore7687
2 жыл бұрын
been at Allentown many times, never thought about its history
@TheCoverageProject
2 жыл бұрын
For sure, always more one can learn, even in the places we least expect!
@nirinphol8712
3 жыл бұрын
I’m going to Allentown tmr from CT. Can someone recommend where I should visit? 🙏🙏
@TheCoverageProject
3 жыл бұрын
If there was one thing that I’d recommend for others on a day trip around here, those Coplay Cement Kilns featured at the start of the video are right outside of the city and along a nice park area with great parking. They serve as a great relic of the area’s history as an industrial powerhouse. The Allentown farmers market I went to is also quite interesting but it’s only open on certain days, so best of luck if someone tries to visit there!
Yes the fairgrounds was a race track , my grand father raced with Mario Andretti thier.
@TheCoverageProject
2 жыл бұрын
That's really cool, there's always a fascinating historical legacy to these lesser known areas!
@MrCodysVideos
2 жыл бұрын
11:18 that's the church that kept the liberty bell in the basement
@shymeeee
2 жыл бұрын
They also have the Pip The Mouse Puppet Show, which now lacks the glitter of the old days when it's home was to the left of one of the main entrances of Hess Brothers ( you had to be there).
@user-David-Alan
3 жыл бұрын
I liked your video. Thanks for sharing. Coplay is pronounce Cop-lay no Co play. Stay well.
@TheCoverageProject
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info, stay well yourself!
@rufusromeo
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheCoverageProject cop-lee
@twoeightythreez
3 жыл бұрын
The fairgrounds are still home to the Great Allentown Fair every year, which fills the entire fairgrounds area with a carnival type event. The way you described it to people not from here would lead them to believe that it’s a thing of the past. It’s not. Please come back this September (Aug 31 to Sept 6) and show the fairgrounds when they are at their peak. The bell would have been melted down for cannonballs. I own a home on 4th st near Hamilton and can’t wait to see what the riverfront development does for downtown
@EagleLogic
2 жыл бұрын
I remember going to the fair and getting dissed by that one clown who makes fun of you while you try and throw a baseball at a target to get him to fall in a dunk tank. Good times!
@jamesalexander5623
11 ай бұрын
@@EagleLogic BoBo .... He would Mock the Hell out of Guys so they would buy Basket after Basket of Balls to Dunk him!
@EagleLogic
11 ай бұрын
@@jamesalexander5623 I haven’t been to the fair since early 2000’s. You know if he’s still there ?
@jamesalexander5623
11 ай бұрын
@@EagleLogic I believe the original BoBo Quit because he got Beat Up a few times. Guys he Mocked waited till the Fair was closing and Jumped him! I don't think they allow that anymore!
@mattkurtz8549
2 жыл бұрын
I grew up right outside Atown , in kuhnsville
@shymeeee
2 жыл бұрын
Kuhnsville was a great old town. I remember visiting family friends as a kid in an old one-story farm house, with a phone system like Green Acres (you could talk to the operator). Amazing times.
@shymeeee
4 ай бұрын
I remember Kuhnsville before the housing developments. We had some old Pennsylvania Dutch friends who lived in a small shack of a house like Ma and Pa Kettle. Had the phone like Green Acres with the operator you could talk to but no dial. Roosters, old cars, rocking chairs, ate apples off the tree, wash haning outside, old wood stove to cook and heat, out-house (no bathroom). Johnny Cash blaring in the background. Take me back.
@relaxandpanic8988
3 жыл бұрын
Those kilns are not located in Allentown
@MrStubob2
3 жыл бұрын
I was in Allentown last year in march and it is a nice place to visit. I like your video showing the bizarre parts of town.
@TheCoverageProject
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly what the Coverage Project is all about!
@toastyf.n9652
3 жыл бұрын
I live there
@MrStubob2
3 жыл бұрын
So does Mistress Warrior!!!! !!!!
@Impulse_Photography
3 жыл бұрын
That bench at 3:50, those side wheels make me think of the wheels on the carts sent in & out of the mines (back in the coal mining days). I might be wrong of course ...
@TheCoverageProject
3 жыл бұрын
You could be just as right as my guesses in the video. Sometimes it’s fun not to know for sure but rather make one’s own speculation haha
@travelingwithrick
2 жыл бұрын
They look like a trains steel wheels.
@AlfredoCruz15
2 жыл бұрын
I'm from Allentown, PA.
@atownish1488hh
3 жыл бұрын
I can show you another side of allentown dark side, some spots with legends
@spiritharris2528
3 жыл бұрын
I'm from Allentown I would love to know what legends 🥺
@nazad89
2 жыл бұрын
@@spiritharris2528 where people like u live.
@shymeeee
2 жыл бұрын
@@spiritharris2528 Hanover Acres housing project (recently town down) has legends in Depression Era poverty and crime in latter years.
@travelingwithrick
2 жыл бұрын
@@shymeeee my uncle lived their. Eleanor Roosevelt visited there.
@shymeeee
2 жыл бұрын
@@travelingwithrick Yes, Eleanor did... I lived there too in the early 70s and my family saw and faced unbelievable crime.
@shaneankrom784
3 жыл бұрын
The lehigh valley still produces cement the plants are all outside Allentown in other towns.
@travelingwithrick
2 жыл бұрын
Coplay is pronounced Cop-lee.
@jimfogz
3 жыл бұрын
What is the name of the park where you started the video?
@TheCoverageProject
3 жыл бұрын
Honestly I’m not too sure! How I ended up there was by driving to the “Coplay Cement Kilns” or at least that’s what I entered on my GPS! I wandered off a bit in order to locate the Lehigh River
@CraptasticJack
3 жыл бұрын
Saylor Park in Coplay
@TheCoverageProject
3 жыл бұрын
@@CraptasticJack That definitely sounds familiar, thanks for the info!
@just_saying_facts3856
3 жыл бұрын
It’s also called the Little Apple
@stevekehnel77
7 ай бұрын
Never heard this before
@shymeeee
4 ай бұрын
We were always the Queen City as far back as I can remember.
@randyleonard5911
2 жыл бұрын
Should have went to trout hall
@GeorgeRellas
3 жыл бұрын
Nice vid however towards the end, when you walk down the alley of Zion Reformed Church, THAT is where they hid the Liberty bell. It's like a 260 year old historic center, u should'e gone in for a couple of minutes. It would've added a lot of history to your vid.
@TheCoverageProject
3 жыл бұрын
I was honestly kinda looking for that as I did mention it haha. Is that church open to the public to just walk in and look around?
@heatherhalstead295
10 ай бұрын
Love your videos 🤩🤩🤩 your very handsome 😍
@TheCoverageProject
10 ай бұрын
Thank you for your support!
@chugs1232
3 жыл бұрын
Live right outside of easton and I hate it anymore to many ignorant people trashing the place all from ny,nj same with the Poconos
@shymeeee
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@travelingwithrick
2 жыл бұрын
Poconos now 90% new yorkers. Lived and taught school there.
@PhoenixReaper14
3 жыл бұрын
Never heard Allentown being called "the queen city" and ive lived here my whole life
@ikaleigh1568
3 жыл бұрын
Ikr
@HunterRex
3 жыл бұрын
That’s why the smaller airport is called Queen City Airport.
@jacobjones4766
2 жыл бұрын
@@HunterRex there's a section near the strip mall on lehigh st called queen city. Its a really old name. Most people today just call it a town. The A and many times I hear people refer to it collectively with Bethlehem and Easton as the A.B.E
@mattkurtz8549
2 жыл бұрын
Never heard of the queen city diner?
@MrCodysVideos
2 жыл бұрын
Bro right? Since when was it called the queen city I been a resident here my whole life
@shymeeee
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, Allentown, the Queen City , the gay community loving it !!!! Seriously, they destroyed Hamilton Street, but outsiders only see shiny new, high-rise office buildings with colored lights, and they think its cool. Actually I'm disgusted! They tore down so much history, and continue tearing it down. Allentown "was" a beautiful city and it only needed the right mayor/s/leadership with an eye on "preservation". If all those buildings were preserved, Allentown would be a masterpiece of of Pennsylvania and the USA! The shopping district with 3 big anchor stores -- Hess Brothers, H. Leh, and Zollinger's -- was fun and exciting. Anyone old enough to remember? Remember Speedy's Record's, The Nut Hut, Woolworth, Grants, and a variety of tiny shops that carried everything imaginable. They conveniently condemned and tore it all down in the name of "progress". Whose progress? RIP Allentown.
@travelingwithrick
2 жыл бұрын
Joe Daddona was a great mayor. Pawloski the corrupt jailbird the worst.
@jamesalexander5623
11 ай бұрын
Whe I was a Kid in the 50's going to Hess's was like going to Church! Our Mom would dress us up and we had to have a Bath too! It was Special!
@donaldcorrell2518
4 ай бұрын
Worked at both Hess’sand Zollingers in the display department in the 60s. Totally agree with you downtown has been destroyed in the name of progress.
@shymeeee
4 ай бұрын
@@travelingwithrick Daddona created the Hamilton Mall, but I'm not sure how great it was. Still think he was a good mayor. Loved his health food store in West Allentown.
@shymeeee
4 ай бұрын
@@jamesalexander5623 Movie stars and celebrities at the Patio...... Pip the Mouse in Hess's front window. Perfume in vestibules. Chandeliers. Big Saturday sales. Miss it all.
@shawnsabharwal2214
3 жыл бұрын
best part of Allentown: the Sam Adams Brewery. Followed by Dorney, and then that quaint vineyard near Sam's (forgot name)
@garywilliams5473
3 жыл бұрын
Weathered Vineyard..
@AnonyMous-yb7cp
3 жыл бұрын
Where is the people?
@EdotSentem
2 жыл бұрын
You shoulda gone to 2nd st😂
@TheCoverageProject
2 жыл бұрын
What’s happening at 2nd St?
@shymeeee
4 ай бұрын
We lived on 2nd street -- 6th Ward for a few years -- the Arabic part of Allentown. Great people, food and memories.
@charliedontsurf70
3 жыл бұрын
"Well we're living here in Allentown and thy're closing all the factories down"
@travelingwithrick
2 жыл бұрын
That song was about Bethlehem but Allentown rhymed better.
@jakeg3126
Жыл бұрын
@@travelingwithrick no it wasn’t, he said it was about Levittown in some interview. he wrote the music but couldn’t find words or a plot then remembered what happened in the valley years back and Allentown fit and wrote song about the Allentown Bethlehem area.
@felixgarcia9063
3 жыл бұрын
It was ordered that several of the more important bells in Philadelphia be removed from the city to prevent the British from melting them down to forge weaponry
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