Philadelphia - Underground tunnels and sights from City Hall

From a WHYY special. The cast-iron Victorian style basement of Philadelphia's City Hall. That tunnel probably leads to the Masonic Temple..... really cool stuff! Also includes some footage from the City Hall basement records room, with documents dating from the 1860's!

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• Philadelphia
• City
• Hall
• Underground
• Tunnel
• WHYY

[nathanwilefrazier]

4:02 The guy in charge of the physical structure of city hall has no idea where the tunnel under it goes (?!) This really captures the spirit and culture of building code and zoning ordinance types - they are probably still passing laws and applying for permits to take a walk down there.

[WhollyGhost]

@nathanwilefrazier Haha, yup!

[WhollyGhost]

Yeah, that always bothered me, too! They need to make a sequel..... "Part 2: WHAT'S IN THERE - REVEALED!"

[hootinouts]

Does anyone know when this was filmed?

[WhollyGhost]

Probably filmed in 2001, maybe 2000. The original broadcast date was to be Sept. 11, 2001, but it was postponed. I'm not sure exactly when it did air (my copy is from a VHS tape), but I guess it was a few months later.

[MEEKMEEK19139]

Living in Philadelphiam those old tunnels are not that great. Our homeless people made it smell like urine. THATS WHY NO FOR ME TAKING THE SUBWAY. YUCKY PEE SMELL.

[WhollyGhost]

I don't think many homeless people have access to the types of tunnels they're talking about in this video. These aren't tunnels currently in use that you would use to take the subway..... seems to me like you just showed up to say I DONT LIKE HOMELESS PEOPLE CAUSE THEY SMELL BAD, which..... well, not only is it obnoxious, this isn't really the right place to say it.

[bleekblock]

They should have locked John Street and Wilson Goode in the tower 20 years ago.

[bumpenhour]

Wow George! That's stupendous!

[solvssod]

scrap it

[RespectxProtect]

mmm look at that shaft.

[r5t6y12]

Damn,

I don't do much reading ( I get my knowledge from listening and watching ), but I could spend a couple of months cataloging all the information that is in the books that are in the room seen between 6:00 & 7:00.

[howardkevinm]

why is the audio messed up?

[fryking22]

The craftsmanship of the builders back then! Thats just the basement! there were no welders, not to many power tools, just some really hard working Artisans.

[killuminati63]

The word Masonic was one of the first that came to mind when it started

[youpaynow78]

wow holy shit i live in philadelphia pa there alot of tunnel