I grew up off Lyndale n Minn Ave SE. in the 80s/90s. Family was originally from the navy yard area and by Howard. Whenever they reminisce about the 50s-70s era, I always have to mind them all the younger Gen is SE.

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thats where i grew up i went to stanton school my first school as a lil snotty nose child and i lived at 2493 alabama ave and went to allen church right in front of my apartment building and my man frank use to live in the abandon house right there and all my friends had there funerals at allen church and youngs memorial church thats right on the corner yep thats my area

Who else misses the OLD DC!? 😢 💔

I was born here in 1982!!

I remember doing my Howard Dental School rotation there. I must admit, I was scared to death😨😨😨

Thanks for sharing and continue #blessing us with "OUR" history!!!!

Thank you for your research . I always wonder about things I see in the city, watching your excellent content calm my curiosity. My family arrived in dc in the late 50's. from South Carolina.

Yet another great and informative video! I love learning the history of our city and everything you tell us about reminds me of what my grandfather used to tell me when I was a kid. Thanks for keeping us educated on our history❤

Very informative, thanks.

I used to hustle back there

Thank you for the new video! You are by far the best and most thorough on not only black history in DC, you are also the most accurate. You should do public presentations in the community, I think the city of DC would enjoy it!

I hope the younger generation watch. I'm sure the school's not teaching this.

Would have never known about this and i pass by it all the time. ❤

I'm back for more S. E. history. Thank you for this. I was born and raised on Minnesota Ave and Ely Place. 74'

Thank you, Diki D. Surely before my time! Some of my white family members have mentioned growing up in SE in the 50s. It was all white then.

Yall remember Marty if yall from that part of SouthEast he’s a S.E legend. Not only at Anacostia station but all over MLK all the way to congress heights good ole Southeast days ❤.

We missed you Diki D….. keep up the great work…. Love your videos

Fun Fact: Before MLK Ave., it was called Nicholas Ave. What was its name before that? It was named Asylum Ave 😮 and Nicholas Ave was named after a Psychiatrist that worked there!

Thanks

Someone need to do one on crownsville hospital center

You have a powerful voice for teaching! Thanks again for a great video 🙌🏾

I love and appreciate your content very informative.

YOU DO KNOW THAT ST ELIZABETH'S IS STILL OPEN ON A SMALLER LEVEL.

My mom worked here for 25+ years... The stories she had... Thank you for covering this... Brings bk so many memories 🫶🏾

Wow! What a great history lesson! From someone who remembers going there in the late 70’s when there was still patients & whose wife’s mother did a nursing internship prior to WW2. Thanks Diki! Steve, DCFD retired.

well, easy to get groceries

I briefly stayed in DC and gotten sick. I went on Google for hospitals to get seen. Once I got on the grounds I just had the most erie feeling. It did not feel right being on that land at all. I went into the wrong building and was then lead on a wild goose chase from building to building. I gave up and went to the other hospital. Ironically, one of the first questions I was asked was why didn’t I got to Saint Elizabeth’s. As an outsider one thing I noticed is Saint Elizabeth’s had mostly Black & Brown people & run down and the other hospital was mostly white & very nice.

Great Job of sharing the history a lot that I had no idea of. When I was growing up in the city during the crack era, it was rumored/shared with me by some people close to Rayful Edmonds that he was buying a lot of the abandoned buildings in the SE/NE DC area. Don't know how true it was you know how people like to "talk" KEEP UP WHAT YOU ARE DOING!

Excellent information.

I don’t remember when my mother started working here but during the early seventies I would take her to work and pick her up sometimes when she would let me keep the car. She worked in the evening from 3 to 11 in the Geriatric department as an RN. I remember vividly going through the main gate to pick her up I can still she my mother walking down the hall in her nursing uniform, proud black women. I miss my mother…..🦋🦋🦋

My neighbor who long since passed on Worked there. He had his eye knocked out the socket by a resident there.

Over a year ago, I spent a brief stint in a homeless shelter that was on the old Saint Elizabeth campus. Wild times lol!

Thanks!

First the 🚤 NOW THE K2 had a aunt there

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Great story you can only imagine horrors that took place in that place that was the age of brain experimentation and the like. Older Black people during that time in Baltimore would say never be in the vicinity of John Hopkins the story was they were snatching people off the street for medical experiments or routing them in to asylums like the one you are documenting in this video. Very interesting Ms Diki thanks

Thank you for all of your information and videos allways enjoy them ❤❤❤❤

this is very informative thanks

i was in there in the late 80s i got on some pcp that my friends set me up to smoke they lied and said it was weed but it had the pcp liquid in it and messed me up so i had to go in there but i refused to be another junkie or vegetable and i fought to come back to earth and i did it but i learned a valuable lesson from it tho dont ever drink or smoke u dont know what u getting

Another fire video keep em comin🔥🔥🔥

Thanks for this informative video. As a kid, I never liked going to the Safeway, McDonald's, Holly Farms or High's because it was near the building surrounded by that brick wall. It gave me the creeps!

Hmmm, you don't think it could be the "kind" of people that infest this area eh?

Minnesota and Ely Place since 1974. ❤

Great Work!!!! Thank you. That area will be unrecognizable. I do lots of work in Wards 7 and 8 with senior citizens. I’m afraid many will be displaced due to the rising costs. I truly appreciate your work. I’m sharing this video with my colleagues.

Thats near the 24 hour tire spot on the florida ave side. The entire Trinidad has been getting a facelift since 2007. But it started on Florida ave near the brige. Heck they even just took up the wendys on the other side of the bridge. So theres more development coming.

Diki DC really changed!!