Jack Hitt
speaker
849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Jack Hitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It attaches just like a glass of iced tea out on a summer porch.
The moisture inside the balloon would stick to the balloon.
And then when it got a little closer to the earth or warmed up in some way, all of that would loosen and come showering down on Thaddeus Lowe's head.
So that gave him the idea that maybe you could make ice on land, you know?
And so he starts the Citizens Ice Company.
And I think it's the first public ice company.
Wow.
And of course, that makes a fortune.
Oh, my God.
He became so fabulously rich.
He started the Citizens Bank of Los Angeles.
Needless to say, he'd moved to the West Coast.
Yeah.
Where everybody goes once they make their money or want to make even more money.
What's really cool about the Mount Lowe Resort is getting to the top of a mountain was not something most people ever did.
Yeah, yeah.
I think Thaddeus wanted to share that balloon experience, right?
Being at the edge of the world, right?
The outer edge.
And so he created this large funicular train, you know, the kind that goes up the steep slope.
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