A drive through Bethlehem PA

[@jewelscastaneda302]

Lived in Fountain hill a borough in Bethlehem for 15 yrs!! Loved it! Moved to Florida in 2016...miss it...thanks for the drive was good to be back for a few minutes

[@michellesingleton8344]

Quiet in peaceful .I've been living here in Bethlehem for 7 years .My kids all graduated here,from high school in college.Born in raised in NYC, ain't going back to live.

[@modesto885]

Yea, New York City sucks. If your a billionaire it's ok, but for anyone else hell no. Lehigh Valley is so much better to live and raise a family.

[@kluangite68]

I studied at Lehigh back in 1987 for one year and rented apartment above Subway on east 4th Street...Gosh, the Subway 3:44 is still at the same place after all these years..

[@His_mom]

Good video. Thanks for sharing. Bethlehem was a steel making not mining town. :) This video covers a very small part of the City of Bethlehem and Fountain hill PA. Although I did enjoy it. Video starts on RT 309 Center Valley then RT 378 entering Bethlehem. proceeds down 4th st. on the South side of town. 4th st. runs parallel to Lehigh University 2 blocks to the right. Video then shows the very "East" end of 3rd St. at the casino which was built on Bethlehem steel property. The Casino now Wind Creek, Sign, is mounted the what was a crane used to load and unload train cars at the steel yard. the rest of 3rd st is mostly small business district. There are some bars and a few restaurants and the Social Still Distillary. Then the video proceeds to the far West end of 3rd st. and right into Fountain hill. The bigger older houses are 1 block from St. Luke's Hospital. and the rest of the video in is Fountainhill. 3rd St. has three separate bridges that all cross over to the North side of of town and the historic district which has many marked historic buildings and also the Famous Bethlehem hotel, which is on Main st. in the historic district. Main St. is filled with shops and food establishments as well as 2 breweries, a day could be spent there just strolling around. The North side of town is also home to Moravian College. The Moravian history is what makes up the historic district for the most part. Bethlehem steel came along later and Bethlehem grew to almost the size it is today because of the steel.

[@dincetrismadewiabanat5378]

I lived there two years ago, and I've been missing that town ever since. Thanks for the video, I love it.

[@nnie7819]

Dince Trisma Abanat I’m complete opposite!! I moved there April 17, 2017 and from donegan elementary fifth grade, I moved on to broughal middle school for 6 and first week of 7th and got bullied for being Asian !! I’m so glad I’m back in Chicago rn

[@Trentsmommy08]

Martin towers was imploded

[@Trentsmommy08]

ninixiaojie lol I got nitschman

[@ladytookums3835]

ninixiaojie lol I’m gonna take a wild guess here and guess that the people who bullied you were Puerto Rican. Just a hunch. Am I correct?

[@barbaraedgley2634]

Watched this video in 2020 during lockdown & enjoying it again. Thanks

[@PAHighlander24]

My great grandfather started working at the steel mill in 1901, followed by my grandfather, father, uncles and cousins. I also worked in steel mills, but not Bethlehem Steel, the 4th generation in our family. My grandfather worked in its iron foundry where the shell plates were cast for the Holland and Lincoln tunnels that carry thousands of cars and trucks into NYC every day.

[@stixnfeet7818]

On a road trip from North Carolina to the Northeast I spent a day and a half in Bethlehem and was genuinely struck by its unique feel a sense of history.

[@gustavoacosta215]

I love how different the houses are from philly I hope to move one day

[@madelinevegas8123]

I'm moving there next year from Arlington Texas I have a job relocation looks great

[@falbaq]

you will love Bethlehem

[@Don-nw4dr]

@Madeline Vegas I'm in Dallas have an offer there how do you like it?

[@victorgaeta6436]

Well did you like it ?

[@chazschilens6248]

@@victorgaeta6436 It's different. Grew up there but spent a lot of time for my job near Arlington (Fossil Creek/Ft. Worth). It certainly is different. You may hate the winters but you will love the summers.

[@yopajo]

nice shots of leaving Coopersburg into Center Valley at the very beginning

[@JeffreySmith7777]

I worked at the Bethlehem Steel, 14,000 workers. Now you have a casino, 300 workers. Great job Lehigh Valley!

[@Nix_Pardus]

The steel industry moving to China was an inevitable consequence of globalization

[@JeffreySmith7777]

@@Nix_Pardus, if you say so Comrade! Enjoy!

[@Nix_Pardus]

@@JeffreySmith7777 I'm not advocating for globalization, just the opposite. When the feudalistic corporate overlords make a decree all I can do is point it out.

[@JeffreySmith7777]

@@Nix_Pardus, doesn't bother me at all. I'm on disability for years. The only epidemic in America is stupidity. Some Americans actually think some automobiles are still manufactured in America. Not a one is. They are all assembled in America. As for retirement, good luck with Burger King and McDonald's. Enjoy!

[@PAHighlander24]

And most of the casino jobs are low pay with tips. The idea was that the casino would bring tourists to town, but nothing was ever built near it. There is some nice development at the downtown end of the mill by the blast furnaces, with a music arena and restaurants and hotels.

[@Superduper666]

I moved from Bethlehem over 25 years ago and still miss it. The McDonalds at “5 Points” looks different but “Ye Old Ale House” looks the same. I used to walk up that hill without a second thought. Sheesh, I’d be huffing and puffing it now! I miss the row homes. We don’t have them where I live now. That cemetery you drove by has some interesting graves. I don’t recall the names anymore but I believe some bigwigs from Bethlehem Steel are buried there. Thanks for the upload.

[@RadCenter]

My home town! I'm disappointed that you drove to Bethlehem and didn't show any of the Bethlehem Steel plant (aside from the ore bridge, which you didn't turn your camera properly to capture)! Next time drive past the blast furnaces-especially at night, when they are lit up with colored lights. And drive across the Hill-to-Hill Bridge (as your GPS was trying to get you to do) to capture the historic downtown on the north side, with its 18th century stone Moravian buildings. Much more picturesque over there.

[@stixnfeet7818]

Always a critic in the crowd.

[@RadCenter]

@@stixnfeet7818 If I filmed a ferry ride through New York Harbor and didn't show the Statue of Liberty, wouldn't you think that was odd? The blast furnaces are to Bethlehem what the Statue of Liberty is to New York City.

[@chazschilens6248]

"the houses are on top of each other"... I take it you ain't from there. I'm guessing somewhere up the main line or Bucks county? 1st, that was 1/2 the town. Should've crossed the center st. bridge, made a left on church st and a right on main and kept driving. Yea, Bethlehem was a steel town and all those houses were for the workers. Crappy town? Its paradise compared to Inwood or Brownsville or the Bronx. For folks watching this, its 1/2 assed. Don't judge the town just on this video.

[@ryleebowen1942]

You drove right past my house

[@marisaelenenadiejamusiccom3974]

Wonderous town🌹

[@watcher223]

Near the casino- the “big thing” was an iron ore crane.

[@valariesmith3765]

I remember watching it in action when I was a kid but I couldn’t remember the name of it. Thanks!

[@margaritaramos4368]

the white house at 5:27 that my grandpa house

[@superrobloxriley8913]

I live there but I don’t live anywhere where u were at

[@jjosephm7539]

You should have seen the place in the 60's when the plant was going. There were traffic jams on the South Side when the shift changed.

[@kennethobrien6537]

Should of went deep into north side. Lotta history.

[@eleemoussa29]

Love my hometown!

[@kimbugwemulo9254]

Am from ugand , but i have my friend from pennslyvania, he Timothy murphy, a teacher from st Anne

[@TheFequalsMA]

It is such a dump. Born and raised there. Split after I graduated from Lehigh. The southside is a ghetto.

[@madelinevegas8123]

Great video

[@JmasterV]

POV half the people who are watching this video live in Bethlehem PA

[@SRTKellz]

Camera person gotta do better but good vid and you stayed on one side of Bethlehem should’ve cross the bridge also

[@JeffreySmith7777]

Now just what locals call Little New York. Traffic jams, accidents stupid folks from Jersey and N.Y. Keep it.

[@nbuehster]

I don't know if anybody said this already. But it would be interesting if a couple named Mary and Joseph had a baby. They would have to name him Jesus Christ. The media would go nuts, and say we finally know when Jesus was born.

[@adventureornot7517]

Not a bridge it use to be a massive overhead crane used in the steel factory.

[@PAHighlander24]

That crane was called an ore bridge. It was a crane to handle ore and coke to supply the blast furnaces.

[@unlimitedperseverance1706]

I was born here

[@jeremiahroman842]

The McDonald’s was on fire before

[@jeremiahroman842]

Up in the south side I used to live there then I moved to the south side

[@yupitsme4613]

i live near there

[@kennethobrien6537]

Lol got my old house in there

[@yazantube4667]

I live in Bethlehem but jesus’s one in palestine 😂

[@chazschilens6248]

I would tell people I'm from Bethlehem... Pa? No, West Bank. Lol

[@joankamenas9810]

The reason I watched this was to catch a glimpse of mu beloved steel stacks. WTF Waste of time.

[@stanleygriffiths1260]

South Bethlehem is so depressing; everything is so dated and different it's hard to imagine a reason to feel good about the place.

[@jeremiahroman842]

I have lived here all my lige

[@nnie7819]

HyPe KillStreak what school u go to?

[@jeremiahroman842]

ninixiaojie lol I went to LVA now I’m at Nitshcmann

[@RYMAN1321]

2:50 Geez bud, why not just go to the crosswalk? Or at least walk a bit quicker! But cool video still.

[@chazschilens6248]

Older guy. You must be from Jersey.

[@RYMAN1321]

@@chazschilens6248 You are correct, I do live in NJ. What are you getting at?

[@chazschilens6248]

@@RYMAN1321 you're a typical impatient Jersian behind the wheel. Grew up in the LV, lived in Jersey for 15 years. I was really surprised at the impatient drivers in the New Providence/Summit area. Ah well, the LV is getting there. Hooray for society.

[@NickGiant127]

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[@edclauss337]

I grew up in Bethlehem, and this video disappointed me. You showed nothing of the north or west sides of the city. Shaky video with a lot of sky. Sorry. While your intentions might be good... thumbs down.

[@Superduper666]

I moved from Bethlehem over 25 years ago and still miss it. The McDonalds at “5 Points” looks different but “Ye Old Ale House” looks the same. I used to walk up that hill without a second thought. Sheesh, I’d be huffing and puffing it now! I miss the row homes. We don’t have them where I live now. That cemetery you drove by has some interesting graves. I don’t recall the names anymore but I believe some bigwigs from Bethlehem Steel are buried there. Thanks for the upload.

[@His_mom]

Good video. Thanks for sharing. Bethlehem was a steel making not mining town. :) This video covers a very small part of the City of Bethlehem and Fountain hill PA. Although I did enjoy it. Video starts on RT 309 Center Valley then RT 378 entering Bethlehem. proceeds down 4th st. on the South side of town. 4th st. runs parallel to Lehigh University 2 blocks to the right. Video then shows the very "East" end of 3rd St. at the casino which was built on Bethlehem steel property. The Casino now Wind Creek, Sign, is mounted the what was a crane used to load and unload train cars at the steel yard. the rest of 3rd st is mostly small business district. There are some bars and a few restaurants and the Social Still Distillary. Then the video proceeds to the far West end of 3rd st. and right into Fountain hill. The bigger older houses are 1 block from St. Luke's Hospital. and the rest of the video in is Fountainhill. 3rd St. has three separate bridges that all cross over to the North side of of town and the historic district which has many marked historic buildings and also the Famous Bethlehem hotel, which is on Main st. in the historic district. Main St. is filled with shops and food establishments as well as 2 breweries, a day could be spent there just strolling around. The North side of town is also home to Moravian College. The Moravian history is what makes up the historic district for the most part. Bethlehem steel came along later and Bethlehem grew to almost the size it is today because of the steel.

[@jewelscastaneda302]

Very good description of the ride...you still live there?

[@PAHighlander24]

The casino sign is on the ore bridge that unloaded barges and trains of iron ore and coke and stockpiled it and loaded it onto rail cars to supply the blast furnaces. There were originally two ore bridges on the runway. Now all that remains is one ore bridge. The runway and other one were demolished.

[@kennethobrien6537]

Lived in Dethlem as my home-based for almost 21 years. It's always great to see how prolific other folks have been with it.