Bridgeport CT - 100 Years In 10 Minutes

A Tour of Bridgeport, Connecticut, through the Century from vintage photographs and postcards.
Produced by: Gifts By The Green, 17 Huntington Plaza, Shelton, CT 06484

[@LozadaLourdes]

My parents met and got married in Bridgeport back in 1953. Best childhood memories ever. So nice to see how beautiful it once was.

[@michellefernandes9309]

I wish I could've seen my city in such a beautiful state...

[@Markham12thcentury]

It has been bad for a while. In 1982, I lived there because my mother commuted to White Plains, N.Y. for her job. I briefly attended a Catholic School on Madison Ave. (I lived on the third floor of 381 Madison Ave) After some time, I had to transfer to The Columbus School. It was terrible then and probably worse now. A lot of my older family were from there, due to its proximity to New York. My Grandfather had a condo on Grovers st. My Grandmother lived in The Regency House - twice. My Great, Great Grandfather was Charles Logan and he designed the golf course of The Brook Lawn Country Club. He was their founder and the first member. I still possess the brass cigarette box he commissioned made for himself.

[@michellefernandes9309]

@@Markham12thcentury it's very sad. I'm glad to hear that members of your family made an impact nonetheless. My grandmother, Mary Eady, made history here as well. Thank you for sharing your story of your family's legacy, despite where this city has ended up. ❤️🫂

[@Markham12thcentury]

@@michellefernandes9309 The Mary Eady Foundation of Housatonic College?

[@michellefernandes9309]

@@Markham12thcentury yes! 😊

[@faygo5008]

Bridgeport is amazing and trashy and fun at the same time

[@truthhurtshuh5443]

As a child growing up in Bridgeport Connecticut in 1962 I can say I have a lot of great memories yes it's not what it used to be times change but I still have great memories and I still live here and I love it.

[@redfox22]

I was born at Bridgeport Hospital and grew up in Fairfield; many good memories, including when my dad got mad at me for riding my bike on I-95. I had to tell him that it wasn't opened yet! Also, Pleasure Beach, Lowe's- Poli Theatre, Seaside Park, Merritt Canteen, McDonald's when burgers were 15 cents, and East Main Street where my grand parents lived, and I used to run into Charlie the Bum on numerous occasions.

[@donnasavage6703]

OMG. Charlie the Bum was famous. We also lived on east main street. My grandfather was the shoemaker right near the theatre. He told me if i ever made fun of Charlie the Bum he would be very upset. Charlie would go into his shoe shop to warm up in the winter. When it got really cold and snowed the cops use to bring him to the jail. He was always. By Metropolitan Truck. I think tjat was Kossuth St

[@oldmike7239]

Charlie the Bum was an absolute icon in Bridgeport in the ‘50s. I understood that the police would bring him in a couple of times a year to hose him down, then let him go. He used to come into Altieri’s bakery on Hamilton street and get stale bread. I lived right around the corner on East Main Street over the Trading Post dept store. All gone now. Sad. Hope Bridgeport makes a comeback.

[@jeri5645]

That was beautiful Bridgeport! ♥

[@boogerdinky]

I really enjoyed these old postcards, I spent the first thirteen years of my life in bridgeport (1964-1977) before we moved to nc. these pictures make me homesick Thanks for sharing , John horne

[@rlms56]

That was great! Lots of memories of downtown when I was a kid. I had forgotten about SS Kresge's!

[@skinard32]

Wow memories. I was born at this hospital which is no longer there called Park City hospital. At one point in my life growing up I can remember going to the park seaside park, and playing.. Just enjoying... But now I would never go back there to live, I been gone 14 year's now... Oh and Tomlinson once they got big they was never the same 😒

[@mariarodriguezperez5827]

I miss CT😭😭😔😔😭😭........who else misses CT????????

[@toiabruce1895]

Born and raised I miss bp sometimes. Roosevelt days. Going to Seaside park with my cousins and the parades.🥴🥴Those were really the good old days

[@destbabz123]

I live in BPT , wow it doesn't look like that anymore!! What a shame

[@Andrzapatasuarez001]

Great video.....good memories...I was raised in the b.p.t..in the 90 's...now in miami...I reminisce my childhood memories...

[@Jps3bs]

Nice collection of my hometown. I collect and have many of the same postcards. Love those days gone by.

[@jeremyrogers5812]

So sad to see how beautiful bpt was.

[@allenchristo8766]

I was waiting to see if they were going to show the Hot Dog stand, "The Greeks", with the official name of Tomlinson's. I loved that place when it was small. Now the rebuilt and went BIG. Now I never bother to go there. I went once right after the rebuild. I wasn't impressed. They should have kept it small. Everybody went there. The line was always out the door.

[@susannbasta2972]

I remember.

[@lennyp4782]

Many cities are reinhabited by other races , especially blacks and Hispanics , never to get in disrepair and abandonment states like the city of Bridgeport has. This has been years of bad administrators, high taxes and rampant corruption since those days. To point fingers at minorities when it's been the majority in power til this day is just lazy. They've corralled the city to limit its citizenry to its borders so as not to upset its richer neighbors. Today , after decades in the dark, the city seems to be changing for the better(yes , with it's minority citizens still there) but it's a slow climb as if hoping they'd get tired and just go away. But it just shows my initial point,that it's not the people who have stayed through bad enterprising ,paying the highest taxes in the state , poorer than most in the state and all, it's those who failed to recognize it all the while not caring enough.

[@SupaDupaaFlyy]

Bridgeport is slowly but surely coming back to life. There's been extensive reconstruction of old buildings in Downtown and it's surroundings. New businesses are opening. In order for Bridgeport to survive, it needs its biggest employers to strive. Once the core of Bridgeport revives (Downtown) everywhere else will follow. It will take time, I'm assuming 10-15 years to see a more pronounce difference. We will get there.

[@ShellymanStudios]

Captain Murica Yeah, I go to HCC and I see a lot of action going on in the downtown area. I’m seeing reconstructions here and there, and a lot small friendly businesses. The downtown is nowhere near compared to Stamford’s because that city is rapidly developing but it’s getting there. Like you said maybe another 10-15 years you’ll see a big difference.

[@nelsonmurillo6769]

bridge ports a dump only gonna get worse

[@ShellymanStudios]

nelson murillo Lol

[@kuromi5714]

nelson murillo do you even live here?

[@Evision5]

5 years later. Still a dump and full of illegals bringing rats with em.

[@Joesdifferent]

Always and forever ♾️❤️

[@jerrycarriera8648]

PT Barnum would be turning over in his grave if he knew what happened to this once great city.

[@lennyp4782]

He was part of the problem. We DO know to read ? Don't we?

[@scaryvalidation]

I was born and raised in the streets of Bridgeport for 13 years and eventually moved to the nicer area, but the hood was still not far from where I lived and I had to walk through the streets every single day.

[@Benjiman133]

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC BUILDING WAS TAKEN DOWN!!!! I'M SO UPSET!!

[@jeremyrogers5812]

Remington will be next

[@ozonespec]

I've been a Bridgeport native all my life. Most of my family is from Bridgeport. I get sad when I see how beautiful Bridgeport use to be. fortunately, Bridgeport is on the rise. The steelpoint project should help. Beefing up the police presence should help too. Trust me when I tell you, Bridgeport today is not as bad as the Bridgeport in the 80s and early 90s. Bridgeport is in resurgence mode. Law's need to be put into effect for residents that allow trash to accumulate in front of their property. Let's clean Bridgeport up!! Slap these kids in the back of the head that want to walk around with their pants down to their knees. Lower these friken property taxes too!!! the mil rate is friken ridiculous!! Houses sit on the market for well over a year with no offers because the place is not affordable. The streets look like crap!! Get the streets fixed! Fix the sidewalks! get rid of these old stinking brownstone buildings and factories!! I'm sick of it!! There is so much wasted space in Bridgeport, it's annoying!!I would like to reiterate that Bridgeport is getting better, much better. There use to be a time, when one would be scared to walk down the street late at night in fear of getting robbed or shot. People still think that Bridgeport is a crime filled wasteland, but it's not. Yes crime still happens but it's not as bad as everyone thinks. Most of it is young punks beefing over silly gang names and east vs west, south, north, WHATEVER!

[@ozonespec]

Matthew Martin Rodgers Good Idea, I agree.

[@JuanReyes-if6ky]

No matter what the city of bridgeport does to rebuild and clean up the city , the unemployment rate and poverty will rise to a level in the likes that you have never seen.

[@Joesdifferent]

Good hearing from you 👊👊❤️❤️

[@faygo5008]

I was born in bridgeport to

[@1982RRusso]

This can't be it. This can't be Santa's workshop. This looks like Bridgeport, Connecticut.Stewie Griffin

[@sandrastroomer8699]

loved it

[@JustDiane71]

Bridgeport was a beautiful industrial city but sadly it no longer is.

[@barbarabrancato9635]

I moved to in 1952 Bridgeport when I was nine years old from hillbilly country of western Pennsylvania.It was very nice.I hated the city being a hillbilly.I couldn't wait to leave and moved west in my late teens.I worked at Junior's Drive In on the West side,attended Bridgeport Hairdressing school on Main Street and worked for a short time at The House of Robert beauty salon.It's sad to see the city as a giant ghetto.I never regretted moving west and I haven't been back since my father passed away in the mid-1980's.

[@josephginnetti9166]

Ginnetti’s clam box grand st Bridgeport ct

[@ArmandoBonillaOlivieri-jc4ow]

Forever student of Warren harding high school in bridgeport connecticut. Working to work in pepboys automotive technicion in bridgeport connecticut. Moving soon 56 maiden lane 06608 coming soon and forever and forever

[@mikeandginaaltieri1859]

It may not be so great now, but I have plenty of good memories to enjoy.

[@squalusmarine]

I am curious about why you selected this piece of music for Bridgeport?

[@mikemcneil7368]

Didn't they have cameras with real pics back then..

[@walkergillette3918]

NOW BRIDGEPORT IS A TOILET

[@theoriginaldex]

Raised in Bridgeport I can say what a beautiful town gone to waist just because of minority’s and I don’t blame them. United States needs to stop trading with China and bring production back to the towns. This video brought tears to eyes 😢

[@uptalk144]

Big factories shut down, jobs left, crack epidemic started, crime followed. Same has happened in many major cities. Bridgeport is getting better, it's nothing like it used to be in the 80s and 90s.

[@susannbasta2972]

IT was and is the corrupt Politicians & people in power!! Manufacturing left. Sorry, but minorities don't have that kind of power.

[@juvenilsassi1781]

gostaria de saber que musica é esta que esta como fundo?

[@marceloemeio]

+Juvenil Sassi "Himno a la Alegría" por Miguel Ríos

[@GiftsByTheGreen]

"A Song of Joy" ("Himno de la alegría") by the Spanish singer Miguel Ríos.

[@juvenilsassi1781]

linda musica mas não sei o nome?

[@JFT803]

Now it’s a cesspool

[@ShellymanStudios]

Yup, currupt politicians like Mr. big forehead Gamnim. Crime, lack of jobs, high taxes, illegal immigrants. The city has lot its charm.

[@chadbailey8152]

Soon all of CT will be same!! Almost there

[@melloangelwolf8611]

Before the nightmare

[@VitaminC440]

WAS.....

[@RichR65Ct]

Apparently Bridgeport has been in decline sense the end of WW2.After the war the trend of people wanting more space to roam , build homes , family and distant themselves from work but industries followed then causing urban decay,however its not an excuse to let crime get out of hand though.

[@chadbailey8152]

I can say it in 6 seconds, brideport 100 years ago happening, today dead shit hole!!

[@illmerica322]

Bridgeport was beautiful until a certain type of people took it over!

[@ShellymanStudios]

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