#435 Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Radical Walloons

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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All roads lead to Leiden where our adventure continues with a quest to find the Walloons, the French-speaking religious refugees who became the first settlers of New Netherland in 1624.

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0:00.0	Last week on the Barry Boys.
0:03.0	Is there a place where we can actually see what new Amsterdam look like?
0:07.0	Well, it's not an object from the 17th century, but there is a 21st century object that we can show you. Is it a theme restaurant?
0:16.0	It's a scale model.
0:18.0	Oh, those are even better.
0:20.0	It's not in a museum actually.
0:22.0	It's in Amsterdam North at the company that is currently building it
0:25.8	So you get to go to the workshop. Yeah, so is this a sneak peek? Can you take us into a workshop? Yes, I can take you there
0:33.0	Right, let's go.
0:40.0	Our Amsterdam adventure next took us to a quiet industrial block in the northern
0:45.5	borough of Amsterdam Nord, which is sometimes called the Brooklyn of Amsterdam
0:50.7	because of its repurposed industrial architecture and its vibrant
0:55.4	restaurant scene. The area was heavily transformed by industry in the 19th
1:00.5	century and in 1943 an aircraft factory here was destroyed in air raids
1:06.7	during World War II. So we were stunned when we walked into a mysterious workshop called Artitek, where we found a
1:16.5	battalion of military trucks, tanks, motorcycles, sea vessels, even bulldozers, but all in miniature.
1:27.0	This was a workshop for the design and production of scale models, but we were there to see one model in particular.
1:37.0	Hi, I'm Tom.
1:39.0	Herbert.
1:40.0	He had to meet you.
1:41.0	Greg. It's really nice to meet you.
1:42.0	It's really nice to meet you. It's exciting.
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