Driving through Anderson Indiana 1989

[@Originolley]

Q95 on the radio....Def Leppard Love Bites being played...Man!! Takes me back to being young. Many memories.

[@dougstanley7662]

Man this brings back some memories Weidner Chevy was still open and Russ Reganal Pontiac aswell and the prime battery building was still there.and best of all I was still a youngster.Thanks for posting.

[@jackson5116]

The old compass on the dashboard, really takes me back to when I first started driving. Back when you had to use paper maps, and look at the compass to know which direction you were heading. Wow, have times changed in 30+ years...

[@zjw3504]

I moved to Anderson in 2014, it's cool what the town looked like back then! Thanks for the video!

[@kevmodee1866]

You actually moved to Anderson in 2014? Why? I left Anderson the same year. It's gone down the toilet big time. I miss growing up there in the 60's & 70's though. Lot's of good memories as a kid.

[@nick6253]

@@kevmodee1866 it’s coming back thankfully. Slowly but surely

[@kevmodee1866]

@@nick6253 That would be awesome! Just seems like they got rid of auto manufacturing and that's when it began it's economic downturn. Good to hear it's bouncing back though! Thanks!

[@neldamartin1754]

Wow that big boys brought back some memories of Anderson in hey days we moved out in 1972

[@andersonian3122]

The Big Boy (Frisch's) is still there. My mom and dad met there in the 60's.

[@neldamartin1754]

@@andersonian3122 cool

[@djdoggo1911]

Is still there

[@chha6439]

It’s still there don’t taste the same, but it’s still there

[@rogermartin2280]

There's a big difference between 1989 and present day 2019. There is at least 50 percent of the businesses that are gone, plus 30 percent - ish housing has disappeared. It truly is a shame. We can use all the jobs we can get.

[@MrvuMrv]

Roger Martin I have lived in Anderson practically all my life. My family has lived in Anderson for many many years. From the stories they told me, Things started to decline after the GM factory closed and left. Now it just seems so desolate and empty. Some of the old stores are still lucky to even be open. Go to the lemon drop if you get a chance.

[@rogermartin2280]

@@MrvuMrv Lemon Drop has been there a long time , since 1950s. Bill Pitts is the current owner and has carried on the tradition. Of course when G M left this town , a lot of mom /pop busnesses and people population left as well. It will never be the same industrial powerhouse as in the 1960s at it height. Hopefully this town will keep what industry it has recently obtained, and does grow more in the near future.

[@pinotnoir308]

My childhood was very prosperous, carefree, and fun, all because my family lived in anderson and my father worked for delco. It was a beautiful city... i loved living there, my family was happy. The moment when delco-remi left was when the city fate was sealed. I literally watched one of the biggest manufacturing complexes leave the country, while that city began to wither and die, becoming like a second Detroit (The city itself is now filled with homeless, gang-bangers, and drug-dealers). It is unfortunate that has happened to due the powers that be wanting to find cheaper labor in some country far away, only to turn a bigger profit for themselves and not care about the workers there that put their hearts into making a living for there families (corporate greed at its best🤦‍♂️). My own family worked there faithfully for 3 generations only to be tossed aside like a used condom and my father had to work in a job that paid barely a quarter of he made in the factories. Today, this city is now a crime filled hell-hole, a place where you can't even go and get a pack of smokes without having to carry a gun, for fear of getting mugged every step of the way. That is why I left Anderson, and I'm never going back. The city is dead, and this footage only serves a reminder of better and happier time there, and uninvertantly it can show on what not to do on turning profit, especially at the cost of others.

[@juiced311]

Perfect soundtrack!

[@gabrielreyes8845]

The creator of this video is a LEGEND. Big props to him.

[@dakotaseals5185]

WOW The Clark Gas Station on 3rd and Broadway was still there, I use to work there back in the early 70's

[@DNFINST]

Based on the Jeff Healey concert date, this was July 22, 1989.

[@lelandfranklin3487]

Amazed how little has changed. Wow

[@dsouth7754]

Weird question, and I hope it's not too personal, but did you teach at Highland? I remember a Mr. Hilderbrand, but I never had any classes with him. It was a beautiful school, and so sad to see it close after all those renovations. They weren't quite complete when I graduated in '08, though. Would love to walk those halls again just to indulge my nostalgia.

[@andersonian3122]

No relation, although I get asked that quite a bit. I believe the teacher's name is spelled slightly different.

[@chha6439]

Man this brings back memories..70s broad St., Anderson, IN looking for my 70 Chevelle SS 454

[@TheodoreRizzo]

I lived there two years in 89 and 1990 wow some good memories there I was a teenager loved to go to the mounds mall on weekends

[@tedway1]

Downtown is as abandoned back then as it is now. Couple of car dealerships gone, with new ones on Satterfield

[@TruHauntings]

I was born in Anderson of 1987. And my mom was born n raised til she moved.

[@TheodoreRizzo]

Anyone know Dan the meter man?

[@Dratchev241]

oh Anderson, how it turned into a giant turd in the late 90s but hey Q95 is still Q95 lol

[@chrisnealis4270]

Wow... this is surreal. this was 8 days before my 7th birthday.

[@davehogue3381]

Can't believe my home town was exposed so badly...on national media so bad

[@booker3825]

This depressing now my town look like shit

[@LucasAbaddonAzrael]

anderson is a medium town

[@LucasAbaddonAzrael]

city*

[@buddycarmine2254]

You should do a side by side. Then & today

[@danielyoung6630]

NO GANG WARFARE? HARD TO BELIEVE.

[@LucasAbaddonAzrael]

not that many gangs i lived there you'd have to go to the bad side to find one gang then they'd shoot at you

[@kassidyshaul4874]

Theres really not that much unless you're deep into the westside.

[@racecar157]

did you run into sammy hawkins?😂😂

[@dennisfarverjr8504]

My family used to live in the house on the corner of pearl st had a little house in the back

[@TheodoreRizzo]

Dan the meter man used to live on pearl st

[@jayferrell4456]

I lived on 19th and walnut the video shuts off right before he gets to Walnut Street😢 I was excited when he turned on to 19th Street I was hoping to see myself or one of my six sisters in the yard playing I would have been six or seven and I am the second youngest.

[@rosscampbell5141]

Rax!

[@andersonian3122]

Their BBC was the best!

[@dakotaseals5185]

That sounds like Rod Stewart playing on the Radio

[@LucasAbaddonAzrael]

that big boys was removed only a few years ago i believe or it may be there still

[@FunnyShorts-Official]

It was removed and then put back. It sometimes wears colts clothes

[@natefields7997]

2 compasses always baffles me

[@andersonian3122]

Nate J. Fields Fields Lol. Redundancy, or just couldn't the old one unstuck from the dash. 1989 version of GPS.

[@garywilcher3414]

Clean that windshield next time

[@TruHauntings]

It was the 80s no one cared bout that kinda thing vs filming them was important as it is today

[@stigmurder99]

Lmao next time you're in 1989...

[@prodgunwoo]

i agreé

[@daveienparrish6114]

I live here its ass

[@LucasAbaddonAzrael]

i love anderson

[@LucasAbaddonAzrael]

i was born there

[@LucasAbaddonAzrael]

we don't get many tornados heck the last one i remember was a few years ago

[@MrSniper45ism]

Synical Ev I dont but your right it is me and boss go through it everyday it at least looked brighter the signs i mean

[@augustaporter3735]

It would have been better with stuff out of the way of seeing and clean windshield when you could see out and better music.

[@PEBaylor]

I don't know. I think the pre GPS compass was kind of a nice nostalgic touch. Also, I remember using those. I just don't know why he had two.

[@FunnyShorts-Official]

Hi

[@andersonian3122]

Yea I know unfortunately. My step dad had driven back from his parents about 3 hours away and unfortunately didn't wash the windshield before grabbing the big VHS camcorder and started recording when he got into Anderson. He just had the radio on Q95.

[@stigmurder99]

@@andersonian3122 hey the camera is better than nothing. And I still love q95 👍