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IT’S HISTORY

IT’S HISTORY

De: Ryan Socash
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IT’S HISTORY is a ride through history – join us in discovering the world’s most important eras, the minds that changed everything, and the most important inventions of our time through weekly tales of Urban Decay. This podcast is distributed and operated by Video Brothers Music.Ryan Socash Mundo
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  • Why Abandoned Beer Caves Keep Causing Sinkholes in Iowa
    Aug 9 2025

    In the summer of 2014, a sinkhole in downtown Cedar Rapids cracked open a forgotten chapter of American history. Beneath the city, engineers discovered vast brick-lined chambers—19th-century beer caves once used to store thousands of barrels before refrigeration changed brewing forever.

    These underground vaults tell the story of immigrant brewers, the rise of Iowa’s beer industry, and how Prohibition sealed away a hidden world. In this episode, we uncover how these caves were built, why they vanished, and what remains today beneath the streets of Cedar Rapids.

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    13 minutos
  • America’s Lost Funeral Trains | The Forgotten Tradition
    Aug 7 2025

    What happens when the dead need to travel? In the 19th century, booming cities like London ran out of burial space—and the solution wasn’t underground. It was on the rails. In 1854, the London Necropolis Railway launched a one-way ticket to the afterlife, transporting coffins and mourners to a sprawling cemetery outside the city. But the real transformation began when Abraham Lincoln’s body was placed aboard a 1,600-mile funeral train that changed how the world said goodbye to its leaders.

    In this episode, we trace the powerful history of funeral trains—from Lincoln’s national procession and Churchill’s code-named “Operation Hope Not” to FDR’s armored railcar and the plexiglass windowed carriage of George H.W. Bush. Along the way, we’ll explore the symbolism, technology, and tragic moments that defined this forgotten tradition. These were more than trains. They were moving monuments to grief, power, and memory.

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    19 minutos
  • Why This Machine Crushed Coal—And People | The Huber Breaker
    Aug 2 2025

    The Huber Breaker wasn’t just another coal-processing plant—it was a steel giant capable of crushing 7,000 tons of anthracite coal every single day. Built in 1939 as the last great hope for Pennsylvania’s coal industry, it symbolized both the power of American industry and the human cost behind it. This machine didn’t just break coal; it broke the workers and communities who depended on it.

    In this episode, we uncover the haunting story of the Huber Breaker—its rise as a technological marvel, its decades of harsh labor and exploitation, and its slow collapse into an abandoned hazard. From breaker boys to Blue Coal branding, and from immigrant labor to urban explorers, discover how this towering relic of the coal age shaped—and scarred—Pennsylvania.

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    12 minutos
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