When did this happen?

Excellent footage! Great job💪

That’s a bummer

The singing is unnecessary

Yea thanks Samuel Slater … one of the founders of “slave wagery “ 😂🙄🤦‍♂️

My husband work at the Cumberland store. He use to put bikes together. I love to watch the carriages go,up and down. I’m 56 know , I remember going at Christmas.

She is beautiful!!!

I was a kid in West Warwick and have tons of Ann & Hope memories! The trifecta included Zayre and KMart.

Somebody once told me that the reason they don't build too many stone- and brick-shell buildings anymore is because they're just massive chimneys filled with combustible material. This is a good example.

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On my list to fly

When I was 18, my then boyfriend told me there used to be skiing, there tow rope and all! Happy that area has been taken care of ❤️👏🏻

With motion controller or remote, buddy?

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EXCELLENT - albeit brief - visit to Woonsocket. Sorry that you did not include the World War II Memorial with its one-of-a-kind in RI Eternal Flame. The Memorial adjoins the American Legion Fairmont Post 85 on River Street. A future visit and video there might be well worth your while. Thank you! I

good drone, nice controls

I need to check out that place.

Great documentary. My family shopped at the original Cumberland, RI store. A lot of memories. I still have some of the items that I purchased there. (Luggage, cameras, telephoto lenses). Every so often, I find something that belonged to my Mom that I hung onto after she passed - and the item has the Ann&Hope price tag on it!

My grandmother was born in 1883. As a teenager and young woman around the turn of the century, she worked in the textile factory there. As a teenager in the late 60s, I also worked there in various positions during the Ann & Hope retail “heyday”. A great documentary and I remember the stories of the flood, Sam Walton, and the ribbon selling.

Excellent documentary! I saw the link for this on Facebook. I subscribed and I'm glad I did. Thank you for documenting this wonderful state.

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Nice Flight. Maybe I will replace my DJI FPV

I’m about to be the bad guy here. But Ann & Hope took a major hit in the late 90s when they pared down EVERYTHING they did. They were on their last gasp by the time Covid happened Why no mention of the cart escalators?

Thank you!! Fascinating history!

I used to work in Ann & Hope's security department we're we wore these tacky brown uniforms for a couple of years in there North Dartmouth store before I started my career in law enforcement oh how I really miss that store and the beautiful memories 😢

So many memories as a kid of going to Ann & Hope with my family at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers. Very cool to hear the whole story of the company.

Great your content idea.

Love this!

Probably become tax exempt college property 😢

Not really a fan of this one. I get that you/your channel is focused on mills and such, but it felt like only 5 minutes of this was about their retail operations.

I loved going to Ann n hope I lived on oakwood and it was best! Sad that it’s closed down

My Mother was a Hostess at Ledgemont Country Club in Seekonk Mass......1961-1966....so I would have been 5-10 years old.....Mr Chase the owner of the Ann and Hope store was a member....and I knew him well....He got my mother fired in 1966. because he made her go sing with the band on New Years Eve......and she got fired for it ....because the club Manager I remember his name was Mr Jardine....was jealous of my Mom because the members liked her so much............Mr Chase was a super nice guy he even picked me up a few times and took me to the swimming pool at the club when the club had guest days...It was a strickly Jewish members only place...... .............All my Xmas presents came from Ann and Hope from about the age of 6 till I was in high school years later..........so from 1966 till 1974 even after he got my Mom fired she used to have employee privileges at the Store.....one of which was on Xmas Eve....His employees and special friends i guess like my Mom could shop for everything that was in the store that hadn't sold...for pennies on the dollar there was even big piles of stuff you could have for free...My Mom told me all this years later.......I always wondered why lots of my presents were missing pieces....and why Santa brought me so so many clothes... ..............I can remember when my Mom got remarried when I was about 8 and bought her first house. she told me Mr Chase furnished most of the house... all the mattresses and bedroom sets and odds and ends....all because he was always upset that he had got her fired...she later told me....that In about 1968 or so.. When. the suede jackets with the Fringe were all the hippie rock band fashion rage...and I wanted one.....and my Mom got me one for Xmas but the fringe was short...I wanted one with Long Fringe.....My mother always got a Xmas card from him every year reminding her of the Xmas eve sale every year and then she would always write him a thank you letter after Xmas ..Well that year just being funny she mentioned how thankful we all were but she wrote just to be funny that she made one mistake the Jacket she got for me had short fringe...about a week later a package came with a Jacket that had long fringe...from Mr Chase...... .............this was all because of her getting fired.........and it was because of the song by the Andrews Sisters...Drinking Rum and CocaCola.....because he ordered it once at the bar at the Country Club and my Mother sang the Order...then when ever he would come in the club she would sing his order to the bartender...So on that New tears eve in 1966 he made her get up with the band and sing the song and then Mr Jardine fired her the next day and she was a single Mom....Mr Chase never forgot and like I said for years and years after always wrote and checked up on her every Xmas...... and every time I here the song Rum and Coca Cola..I remember it all............ .......

Grew up in SE Mass and used to go there a couple of times a year with my mother…usually for back-to-school stuff. Always loved the store, but didn’t really know the history. Makes sense though, that area was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution. Got a great Elvis t-shirt there right after he died with his d.o.b and d.o.d on it.

These mills filled the Blackstone River with toxic waste that probably can never be cleaned. All the liquid waste from the textile factories went into the water. We have hardly ay fish. The homeless population next to my building now and then pulls out the contaminated fish out to eat.

Okay how many shots is this?? 🔥

Oh my gaaaaahd, if this is still in production, Im a rhode island resident born and raised…I would easily volunteer to help film this 🎬🎥😃

We used to shop there all the time in the 70s & 80s. Bought a lot of stuff there including our first home computer in 1981. We in particular enjoyed their "Scratch & Dent" sales in the 80s, and seeing the "roller coaster" shopping cart system to get to the 2nd level. Prices were reasonable, and my parents were bargain hunters. This was a place they could trust in getting great prices on stuff. Although there were some good video clips & pictures, I was disappointed this video spent so much time talking about the industrial revolution and the founder of Cumberland/Blackstone River. I just wanted to hear more about......the store Ann & Hope. I would have enjoyed this a lot more if it had just focused on the store, and not...... what led up to the store. It's well put together, but not the content I was hoping for with the title.

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Amazing video

That’s a lot of water.

I have video of the last one. I’ll have to find it

Wonderfully done. I was more familiar with Ann & Hope in Warwick but I really enjoyed learning about the history and the people who made that history. Thank you.

Awesome video I would love to fly inside that place.

It's kind of sad to see the beautiful red brick being plastered over. Love the video, can't wait to see more

Cool documentary, i aswell grew up in Cumberland and truley miss the old days. Mid 2000s i would get a Christmas tree and shop at building 19. You should do a documentary on the monastery next?

Nice video!

Well done!

Grew up in the 70s and 80s. Use to go to the A&H in Seekonk and Warwick all the time.