Video Gallery

2017 Danville Stadium Fly-Over
One of the preliminary events of the 2017 Balloons Over Vermilion was a flyover at Danville Stadium on July 8, 2017.  I had the opportunity to participate and ride along in one of the three balloons which took flight.  This is the video I produced of the flight.  I thank Betsy Kleiss the owner/pilot of her balloon "4EVER39." 

2017 Balloons Over Vermilion
Here is a short video of events during the Saturday night, July 15th of the 2017 Balloons Over Vermilion at the Vermilion Regional Airport.  It shows the fly-in and the balloon glow.

Taylorville Tour 2017

Another Taylorville drive around, with better video....and more of it. This one takes nearly an hour and includes all the major streets but this one also brings some history along with it. See Taylorville's landmarks along with a photo of what it used to look like. Thanks to the Facebook Group, Taylorville Now, Then and Forever, contributors have posted many historical photos which are included in the Tour. Each historical photo shows up near where it was taken. It may be from a different angle or direction but on screen, the photo will appear on the opposite side of the screen from where the original building once stood, or where it still is.

Taylorville Tour 1988 Part 1 and 2
The videos above were taken on November 5, 1988, as a drove and took video throughout my hometown of Taylorville, Illinois.  It traces a path starting along Illinois Route 48 taking the old Route 48 path into Taylorville, along Park Street, Main Street, North Webster and past Taylorville High School. It then jumps to North Cheney Street, Spresser Street and back to Webster, then downtown to the former Frisina Hotel and studios of WTIM Radio. Part 2 picks up from downtown to Main Cross to Shumway, Second Street to Manner's Park. , then North Main to the Public Library. Audio had to be removed due to a copyright challenge to the video. It was taken from my '86 Chrysler LeBaron convertible I had at the time.
 

Taylorville Tour 1987
Here is the first of the Taylorville Tours I recorded going back to October of 1987. Unfortunately, it was a rainy day and includes video taken through a wet windshield.  These Taylorville Tours were never taken for public viewing, as they were produced long before YouTube. It features many of the locations important to me growing up there, including my family's second home, where I worked in high school and early college.  

Taylorville Area Flood 1957
This is from an 8mm film taken by my Dad and his brother Lawrence Quick of flooding just southwest of Taylorville along Illinois Route 48. This is the floodplain of the South Fork of the Sangamon River. The highway was reworked and raised in the 1980s, the overhead span bridge was removed and replaced by a single deck bridge, but the railroad bridge remains for the Norfolk and Southern Railroad.

Memories of Hewitt School
This was the grade school I attended in a community just to the southwest of Taylorville, called Hewittville. It was a railroad and mining community and contained the railyard of the C&IM Railroad. My Uncle Lawrence Quick took this film as he was picking me up after school, and after I did my patrol boy shift.  Not only was there a street to cross but also 5 sets of railroad tracks to cross. I was in the 5th grade at the time.

Danville-Ford Tri-Motor Plane Ride-1989
In the Summer of 1989, I purchased a ride on a 1928 Ford Tri-Motor plain when it was barnstorming across the area. This is the video I took from the plane on the short flight over Danville, Lake Vermilion and Illinois Route 1-US 136. Enjoy the trip.