That's a big wrecking ball. I used to operate a crane with a 5 ton ball and that was considered big. That one is bigger. BTW the tire us in the cable to lessen the shock traveling up the cable into the crane boom, running a wrecking ball is hard on a crane

Wow, I probably could have almost retired just on the sale of the used brick. Not as souvenirs but as clean used brick. They are worth a fortune. I knew a guy from Philly that hauled away used brick for free with an old B model Mack 10 wheeler. That was his family business, they cleaned them and stacked them, and sold them for more than new bricks

Scranton stumbled but hasn't fallen yet

Excellent presentation…wonderful memories…but such a sad ending.

Fantastic documentary. My grandmother worked cleaning rooms at a hotel in downtown Scranton. I believe it was the Hotel Casey. One of my cousins says that it sounds familiar too. Unfortunately with the passing of my mom last year, we have probably lost anyone who would know for sure.

Looking back on this 23 years later, this is a rich document of a lost place but also such a wonderful depiction of the municipal inertia and indecision foreclosing on the future of the Hotel Casey. Rob Babcock recognized this was a significant moment in Scranton's history and left us with this great record of this building's civic life.

What a wonderful documentary of a piece of history -- of the Hotel Casey. I remember this hotel as a child growing up. Thank you.

No photos of it under construction?

Great documentary.

I remember in 1980 I had a girlfriend from Waterbury Connecticut and we came home from culinary school and we kind of snuck into Lackawanna train station to see how beautiful it was it was a basically abandoned at the time the architecture and the will of people this area was exceptional

My mother sang in Chicago a man from The metropolitan Opera want to train her but she came home and married my dad in Scranton but what an exceptional woman I can't believe how many people she has touched in a positive way and they will tell you about it

Doesn't that guy look and sound like Louie Anderson the comedian

I stumbled upon this wonderful documentary. Thank you so much for doing it. What a sad end to such a glorious building.

A beautiful job, finding all the old footage, etc. So sad.

What a beautiful story but a sad ending

My mom worked at this wonderful hotel in the 1970s and used to take a bus from Old Forge to Scranton every morning.

Growing up I heard stories of the famed Casey Hotel. My grandfather worked there in the cafeteria as a manager. He was related to the Caseys because his mother's sister married one of them. His own father left the family and moved to the oil fields on Coalinga Ca . He died there in 1932. One of the Casey brothers walked my grandfather's sister down the aisle when she married. Tragically, in 1940, my grandfather fell from the 5th floor of the Casey Hotel to his death. His cousin, a Dr. Casey happened to be walking on the sidewalk where he fell. The stories always were sad from that side of my family. Interestingly, I worked in the hotel industry for many years in sales .Life is so strange and intertwines.

I actually have cups and saycers from the hotel w the name and Crest on it. I remember being in there as a child. It was beautiful inside.

Who is the woman with the red scarf

I kept many pieces from the pizza hotel on Robinson Street

Wow looking at those old photos at the end kind of choke you up a little we do live in the greatest place on Earth

I'm so glad I found this I remember the ball on the crane I was a young boy but I do remember

Attending the University of Scranton in the early 1980s, the Casey Inn was always a curiosity. It was all boarded up at the street level, but I wondered what could be made of such a large important building. Learning now that the interior had already been stripped does not shock me, but odd that the City chose to abandon that building while it paid to heat the vacant Scranton Dry Goods store, a far less ornate building, a few blocks away.

I lived in The Jermyn Hotel in 2014 in Apt. 705. The roof was leaking and had been for years The Scranton Housing Authority knew about it. The building is a historical landmark. Management would not do anything but patch it and it still leaks. It's a terrible shame that the Casey could not be saved. It was much better than the Jermyn. It could have housed more people and helped with this cities economy!

This was excellent, thank you!

Where is the Chinese Mai king restraint at now

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SPOILER FROM THE FUTURE: The government is going to spend ~$1 billion over the next 30 years on Lackawanna Ave, and by 2021......... it will still basically be Boscov's and a hot dog stand.

The old entitled lady who is the granddaughter of the Caseys was annoying. The family lost their Hotel. The world still turns. Why didn't she do something? Typical useless poor rich people. Not so sad to me.

I was lucky to have attended the premier of this documentary when I was visiting in home while in college in Philadelphia. The demolition of the Hotel Casey seemed inevitable by the time I was in high school in Scranton in the late 1990's. The wealth of historic architecture in the city and how it seemed to be demolished at every opportunity (and to this day still is) sparked my passion for historic preservation. Also a former roommate of mine copied the recipe for Chicken à la King and made it a signature dish in the apartment. It may sound a little kitschy now but it's quite delicious.

Great show! When I was a student at the U., I was part of a team documentary on the rebirth of the train station hotel.

It broke my heart for seeing historical landmark goes down! Mid rise Hilton hotel so drab looking! In San Antonio has lot of historical hotels that have been successful restored for many years. 1859 Menger. 1909 St Anthony Intercontinental, Crockett, and Gunter hotel. At St Anthony Intercontinental Hotel In November 1934 when president Lyndon Johnson married Lady Bird from the church across the to hotel. Their wedding party at St Anthony’s roof top and still in business.

Marshall was caring person, he loved the Casey and could tell many stories about the guests!!!! 11:47

This is an excellent documentary and it brings back memories of. Scranton in the past. I worked in the Casey after it passed into the 1970's. Verto Cable TV was located on the mezzanine. in the early part of that decade. I walked up those marble stairs for that summer job.

Corruption and greed are what took the Casey and many other buildings down. Politics, at its finest. As for 'history'; it is being rewritten by the CEO's of book publishing companies. When was the last time anyone looked in a current school history book?

Thank you for this. My grandfather was a house detective at the Casey in the early 1900's. Loved seeing some of the historical pics.

I had many artifacts however Chris yarns of Clark's summit stole them from me

I was there that day filming too and my heart breaks over and over . I am so sorry for OUR Loss

Wonderful documentary. Thank you!