Drive through Birmingham AL, May 1987

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@Queen_Peacful Жыл бұрын

That was me and my friends standing on the side of Avondale projects @ 2:10 born and raised! Thank you so much for sharing this video I'm literally in tears😢

@dumont57 Жыл бұрын

Hi! That is so cool!! Wish I'd had the zoom on for you. This was early May 1987 on a visit about 20 years before I moved here. Glad you saw it. Peace to you too.

@Queen_Peacful Жыл бұрын

@@dumont57 you made so many people happy with your video. I was literally in tears looking at the video. I hope to see more of my childhood!! You rock💜💜💜💜

@dumont57 Жыл бұрын

@@Queen_Peacful Makes me so happy that someone cares. And 36 years later! I was surprised & thankful my tapes were still perfect when they were 30 years old, when I found & digitized them.

@timsmith658 2 ай бұрын

Those apts are known as Tom Brown Village, AKA…….”a brickyard”. Those were in my response territory for 37 yrs.

@Rhinosaurus1000 9 ай бұрын

Dear ole Birmingham. I’d just been born three months prior in this town. Thanks for the upload.

@greenhornet8262 Жыл бұрын

It’s crazy, I was born and raised in birmingham born in the 90s and left for college in 2012 and I can tell exactly where y’all are going. Y’all are coming from The east side/Avondale area into downtown. I recognized sloss

@user-rn2ph8lk6f 3 ай бұрын

This was the good old days i miss the 1980s good times thanks for sharing

@2bn2life62 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for uploading this..i remember going to the Christmas parade with my mom in the early 1970s..and in the late 80s it was my first big adventure with my new drivers license..in the 2010s it was one of my last views before leaving the USA. I miss the memories.

@marcusramos3592 Жыл бұрын

This sad wanna cry I miss those DayZ Birmingham was the place to be not only alot of stores and restaurants but it was always sum to do people was everywhere people stay at the parks and projects u could be coming from out of town and soon as you get close to Birmingham you could smell the Barbeque a mile away... But now it's like you can tell alot has happened to there over there years alot of important people died off businesses fails families either went down from drugs and seperations and sum moved away .......

@dumont57 Жыл бұрын

I know what you mean. Sad that communities disappear. Everything changes or moves out & away from town to new places. Sometimes things come back, but better. There are some great new places & people here.

@demetriusdiltz679 Жыл бұрын

Bro I literally just stepped into a Time Machine they drove right past Avondale projects I waz born in 92 so I often think about the days before me and how things looked thank u for this a lot of this stuff is just now being torn down it’s almost sad

@bobdobalina838 6 ай бұрын

I was going to University right over there.Would have graduated the next month. Man o man those were the days. Thank you for the time machine if for just a short time.

@jerrysanders9101 2 ай бұрын

Bob dobalina lol I remember that song.. I used to visit fam just outside Bham back in the day and surprisingly a few of the kids i would meet up with there were very up on music.. turned me on to the smiths and velvet underground even.. trip how life is

@msmagic1568 Жыл бұрын

There are several businesses along 1st ave N that no longer exist like Greg's Cookies, Army/Navy Store etc. Thanks for the video😊

@dumont57 Жыл бұрын

The video's primitive, to be kind, but at least it's there! ;-) Glad you enjoyed. Thanks!

@talikamurray1388 2 жыл бұрын

Back then Birmingham had more shopping center and restaurants then they do Now. Everything now is a ghost town in a lot of neighborhoods in Birmingham Alabama

@greenhornet8262 Жыл бұрын

Have you been there lately. It’s definitely refurbished and more lively today

@cawheeler27 Жыл бұрын

Seems like there's a lot going on downtown these days, especially with all the new high end apartments popping up.

@corneliushannah7454 Жыл бұрын

I was just saying to myself what happened to all the stores and restaurants.

@dumont57 Жыл бұрын

That's very sad. But some areas are coming back real nice. There's probably a great future here.

@dumont57 Жыл бұрын

@@corneliushannah7454 Even the whole Brookwood Mall has closed! But many great restaurants have opened, plus parks & trails & more. 😊

@larrywebb5217 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing this video, I enjoyed every minute.

@shaymcpherson189 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for posting!

@mas5867 Ай бұрын

I lived across the street from Magnolia Park several years before this video.

@TheBeachMawMaw 9 сағат бұрын

Lets remember this was filmed probably with a camcorder, definitely wasn't filmed with a cell phone! Lol I was born & raised in Birmingham. I grew up north of the city in Fultondale but worked in Birmingham for many years. Good memories!

@jazzyp2006 Жыл бұрын

I always recognize 1st Avenue North. Wow, Greg's Cookies is now Bud's Best. They moved to a facility in Riverchase.

@RETROTV1394 Жыл бұрын

Cool video, I wish I could find one with Huntsville.

@nhcp371 Жыл бұрын

Look exactly the same. Only difference are the cars & a lot of more businesses are opened.

@blueaeagle11 2 жыл бұрын

The old ladies weren’t wrong. It was even nicer then downtown than now

@sntemp Жыл бұрын

That's absolutely not the case. Downtown Birmingham is more vibrant and thriving now than it has been in 50+ years. It's had an amazing transition over the past decade.

@blueaeagle11 Жыл бұрын

@@sntemp i literally live here and was out last night. Avondale is not this downtown. I get what you’re saying. But no it’s not vibrant like this. It’s pocketed in different areas and still not as clean as this. Theres literally no shopping whatsoever on this strip like there was back then. You know it’s true

@sntemp Жыл бұрын

@@blueaeagle11 no I don’t know it’s true. Downtown in the 80’s wasn’t nice at all. Now we have fine dining and nice restaurants up and down 20th street, 1st and 2nd Ave north. We have a revitalized Lyric theater, a new city walk, 2 brand new stadiums, a big park, lots of brand new mixed use buildings, a lot of buildings that have been converted to nice lofts. Downtown Birmingham in the 80’s was not nearly as nice as it is today.

@blueaeagle11 Жыл бұрын

@@sntemp you do though. Sure there’s splashes of some nice new stuff but if you need to go buy something or you want to shop that day you’re going over the mountain and you know that as well. Sorry but your walking park and a couple breweries don’t have what you need. Just entertainment. Also charging ATL prices for Bham apartments is a joke. Back then it had a collection of everything. No need to go over the mountain. There’s still so many vacant stores down the theatre strip it’s sad. Some new things but downtown is still so far away from being “nice”

@sntemp Жыл бұрын

@@blueaeagle11 we’ll just have to disagree then b/c I lived just adjacent to Downtown and worked Downtown during this time period and it was a ghost town after 5pm and didn’t have anything close to what it offers now.

@darrylweatherspoon1171 10 ай бұрын

Very interesting.

@mlfitness67 Жыл бұрын

Born and raised

@janetphillips2875 Жыл бұрын

I always wanted to go to Kiddieland over near the Birmingham Fairgrounds and BIR. Never got to go.

@vvnavarrewolfvv4218 Жыл бұрын

I grew up by 5 points west, I played & worked at the fair grounds as a kid, some of the best times of my life.

@user-ig4ry4jd4k 5 ай бұрын

Thats too bad, it was a blast back then and the State Fair was always huge fun ...until Arrington.

@CBGRTR 9 күн бұрын

I was 13 years old drove areas a good bit over the years

@garethlloyd7103 6 ай бұрын

Drive through Birmingham AL, May 1987

@garethlloyd7103 6 ай бұрын

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@Sswoodall84 Жыл бұрын

Did u take pics of Southtown?

@dumont57 Жыл бұрын

If we did, they're on here from a distance. Sorry! Check Google for pics?

@handsome-brute2666 3 ай бұрын

You can tell they were born in the early 1900s🤔👵🏻👵🏻 when they use the word "Niggras"towards the end

@jerrysanders9101 2 ай бұрын

Lemme guess.. you are a democrat?😂

@thundorkat 10 ай бұрын

“The blacks moved back” wow…

@tyronekiddjr4505 8 ай бұрын

We never left.

@jerrysanders9101 2 ай бұрын

@@tyronekiddjr4505I think thundork just surprised to hear old white ladies “talking like that”.. but if you grow up in the south that’s like taking about the weather.. it’s the intellectual elitist liberals who tried to “make it shocking”. Black and white get along for most part in Bama 🤝