A Walk In Downtown Tucson (2/16/15)

Drove to 4th Avenue and decided to shoot video of Congress Street, one of Downtown Tucson's busiest streets. I thought my friends who haven't been to Tucson in years would get a kick out of seeing how much our fair city has changed... or has it? (2/16/15)

[@ponyrang]

Wow... !!! My best friend, Great... We liked and enjoyed to the end. Awesome... Full watched. Thanks Have a happy day!

[@arizexas]

you shot the better part of tucson lol, but i still appreciate this video so much. it’s very therapeutic for me in a way. i’ve lived in tucson pretty much my whole life up until about 2 years ago when i moved to houston. these kinds of videos make me feel at home.

[@rtrain67]

Thanks for taking the time to make this video and for posting it here. It's really nice to experience this kind of perspective vs the phony tourist videos.

[@FrankRamos1961]

rtrain67 You're welcome! I'll be posting more soon so stay tuned. 😃

[@Cstank5]

Frank Ramos Now let's see some of the neighborhoods, even some of the more run down ones

[@anvilhead59]

My hometown. Home of my Alma Mater. Nice to see the trolley running down Congress; definitely improved since I left (in 2000). I miss it more since moving to Texas four years ago.

[@MrWillmotv]

Love this video. I bought a flute in downtown Tucson in 1974 at a music store around this area.

[@petrochico4203]

Chicago store

[@angel5000ish]

Thank you Frank for this wonderful tour, you have taken me back to two of my best years in my life in Tucson. Thank you again.

[@FrankRamos1961]

You're welcome, Reda! I'll be posting more Tucson videos very soon. I'm glad they bring back nice memories! :)

[@Junk65]

Nice video. I left Tucson in 1987 after completing 4 years in the Air Force there. I didn’t get to spend much time in the downtown area but it wasn’t as nice as it is now days. I have great memories of Tucson and have been back to visit many times. The people of Tucson are very nice.

[@hassanelagha941]

Thank you for this beautiful video ... I miss Tucson so much

[@FrankRamos1961]

+Hassan Elagha You're welcome, Hassan. I appreciate your nice comment. :)

[@jaytunes2709]

I'm from Florida but when I went out to Tucson back in 2013 it was beautiful, I miss it so much

[@pgo301]

You know this is a really innocent view of a very simple and pleasant small town. I like this city, very clean and friendly appearance. I hope it stays this way, I want to visit and possibly make my next home somewhere in the surrounding community. Thanks for making and posting this!!!

[@FrankRamos1961]

Thank you, Patrick. I appreciate your nice comment. I've lived in Tucson on and off for forty-five years and have seen the good, the bad and the ugly of this city but when all is said and done, it is my home and I love it. I hope you will visit someday and I hope you'll become a resident. Thanks again!

[@houseboat1101]

I mean Tucson isn't a massive city like LA or New York but it's no small town.

[@donebaltazar5069]

Tucson Az. Live it, love it, Enjoy it! 👍💯💪

[@staffankarlsson520]

Insane. I was in Tux on jan-feb 2015. I was recording at studio in the building that is zoomed in at the very beginning of this clip. Strange...

[@Burtraw13]

Wow, it looks so much different than I remember. Thank you for sharing Frank.

[@FrankRamos1961]

You're welcome, Tammy, but that was shot five years ago. I may have to do an updated version so you can see even more drastic changes that have occurred.

[@Burtraw13]

@@FrankRamos1961 I would love that Frank, please do. I'm actually really homesick 😔 I've been gone a long time and don't visit often enough. It's been years since the last time I was home, and when I do go it seems like it's for a funeral or something. I just don't seem to have the time to do what I want or see who I want. It always goes so fast. my kids are all grown and it's just me now I'm really contemplating moving back home in the next few years.

[@FrankRamos1961]

@@Burtraw13 I'll do what I can, Tammy. I'm glad the video keeps you connected to Tucson. When I have some spare time I'll shoot another video for you.

[@tobyblake851]

I live here and like it. But it gets so hot June-Sept you wouldn't believe it. The local news media reports the temperature in the shade. Many times I've put a thermometer in the shade, and it always reads the same as the local media, so I put the thermometer in the sun, but turned away from direct sunlight, and the temperature would go up into the 130s and 140s. That is how hot it really gets. I love to get on my e-bike and go for a hot-furnace ride; it's a rush. Tucson is nice, and full of thieves. beware!

[@m7j23s53]

All temperature readings are taken in the shade.

[@jameswatson6]

Very hot in summer. Seriously consider going in the summer. If you are not used to 100 consecutive days of over 100 degrees.

[@richardembry9301]

Downtown looks a lot better now

[@mockingbird4486]

Thank You, Frank. I'm from Tucson, but have been here in Albuquerque, for the last 14 mos. It was great to see, like I was almost there. i know I will watch it again.

[@FrankRamos1961]

Mockingbird Thank you! I'm glad you like the video but big changes are coming our way; not all of them positive. Gentrification is the word, in other words. I'll try to shoot a new updated video soon so you can see what I mean.

[@mockingbird4486]

@@FrankRamos1961 I was back there three times this year. I miss My Home, and laid back, Safe atmosphere. Might be back to stay.

[@FrankRamos1961]

@mockingbird Oh, then you saw what they did to The Flycatcher? 😥 I will always love Downtown Tucson and especially 4th Avenue but I hope and pray they don't turn it into Anytown, USA with a Starbucks on every street corner. Hope to see you when you return!

[@mockingbird4486]

@@FrankRamos1961 in September, I noticed quite a few places, had closed down. i was kind of shocked. Is Barrio Brewery still going strong?

[@mockingbird4486]

@@FrankRamos1961 i remember Julie-Anne Lewis , had quite a performance, in the previous bar, to The Flycatcher.

[@user-df2um3nl6f]

Greetings from Algeria.

[@FrankRamos1961]

Greetings to you, Algeria! Hope all is well where you're at.✌🙂

[@user-df2um3nl6f]

@@FrankRamos1961 Hi Frank,yes all is well and fine here,hope the same to you and your family wherever you are.Take care.

[@pamparker4047]

I'm so homesick

[@litlel.e.c.6149]

what a beautiful place I will live there very song

[@juliew1426]

I haven't been to Tucson since 2003, and miss it all the time.( Especially now, with Hurricane Irma on her way to Tampa Bay!!) It is the same in some ways, but it has changed a lot. For the better, for sure.

[@FrankRamos1961]

Julie W If you're interested, I post a lot more Tucson oriented "mini-videos" and photos on my Instagram page: frank.ramos1 I'll shoot more videos like this for my KZbin channel very soon.

[@FrancContreras_FrancMex]

Hey Franc. Thanks for these images of my hometown. What camera and gimbal did you use?

[@Demetriusdionne]

Nice easy living! 🐇

[@octaviobecerril3379]

Nice

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[@MrPabloingles]

The downtown has a real good old fashioned look with a touch of Cincinnati Ohio.

[@MrAaronaltman]

thank you so much for showing this. It reminds me how much of a turd town this is and the street nitwits that engulf it

[@desert-walker]

Well, five years ago, there’s a lot of bums there now

[@tomortale2333]

kinda looks like a place stuck in the 50's-60's//lots of bicycles downtown...thats good...for enviroment..town looked sort of bland

[@60nygal]

Not much happening ?

[@BulletSpoung]

As they say, an armed society is a polite society. Now make the same video in Chicago.

[@s.t.697]

0:03 Is she barefoot?

[@stevemarino5745]

Nope, you definitely don't want to walk barefoot on a Tucson sidewalk. It can get over 110 in the summer. She just has on some light flip flop deals.

[@peterj.andros3996]

Tucson, when it was known as the "Old Pueblo," was a lot better for ordinary people back in the fifties and sixties before the malignant "growth" crowd, the developers and bankers and a series of crooked, ignorant city councils, displaced an enormous barrio of Mexican-Americans to build the ugly Convention Center; promoted surrounding strip malls (even taking down the famed El Conquistador hotel); cheap housing, and provided the opportunity for the Steinfeld, Jacome, Rollings, and most especially, the Ronstadt families to clean up nicely in real estate deals that made them wealthier and hollowed out the "downtown" of shops and its unique southwest character. Not to mention that the remains of the surrounding desert and water supply were trashed and put at continuing risk by text book helter skelter urban sprawl. The only quality of life that remains in Tucson, an impoverished city these days fraught with domestic violence and organized crime, and run by an impressive supply of clueless politicians and greedy carpetbaggers with dubious interest in the public good, is the seasonal weather.

[@GlobalistJuice]

You hit M A N Y nails on the head with this post. I find it ridiculous for the comments here which give glowing reviews of Tucson, and downtown viewed as something of beauty and worthy of praise . . . I find it all wanting, and of no desirable virtue. I've only been in Tucson for 14years (coming from NEngland), and in these short years, have watched the E N T I R E city become one where you can't discern where the rough side of town ends, and the normal residential side begins. I was also here in 1978 for a few months, and left with a positive feel for the city, although a bit overcrowded, but it absolutely felt like a welcoming south western town. Here in 2018, the city is disjointed, no real economic prowess, and every single one of the thousands of run-down and decrepit stripmalls that line every single main road in Tucson, are a blight on the city. Tucson looks... well, it looks just plain trashy. Sure, head up to the wealthy foothills and things are magnificent and beautiful - but 6/8ths of the city where most folks live, work, and play are dilapidated and crumbling. The city has to spend funds to provide services to the overwhelming amount of illegals here, and over-taxes residents to come-up with barely enough funds to repave main thoroughfares and roadways. It's a complete mess, and I don't see it reversing the trend . . . AT ALL! Too bad, so sad. Your post is reality, but most would rather believe their fantastical nostalgic view than face what's right in front of them when watching this video.

[@alphonsozorro7952]

@@GlobalistJuice What is posted in the video at least doesn't look trashy at all, and not overcrowded either. If you don't like it there why not move out, instead of being stuck in a place you have been hating for 14 "short" years.

[@GlobalistJuice]

@@alphonsozorro7952 Although I, like most everyone else, cannot pack-up and runaway from home - Tucson is large enough to move far, far away from the blight creeping-in on the city. Of course, you'll pay higher rents for that nicer neighborhood and community, and more still if you live up in the Foothills area - heck, it's a wonderland paradise in the Foothills, and still falls within the Tucson border, but that specific area is night/day compared to a good chunk of the city. I invite you to come have a look, you may find my comment of "trashy", will ring true once you see it for yourself.

[@mullerm62]

Who is putting up these ugly boxy buildings in The Old Pueblo. That crap belongs in bland, mediocre, personality - less Phoenix.