Survival in Washington D.C.'s Most Evil Tenement (A Notorious and Disgraceful Slum)

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[@the1only467]

Thank you. Been a lifelong DMV resident and love D.C. history.

[@FactFeast]

You’re welcome. I’m happy you found it worthwhile. There are a couple more videos about D.C. on the channel. See the ‘American Slums and Tenements’ playlist.

[@theresaperry441]

This made me cry. My grandparents immigrated here from Italy in 1914. The 1st place they lived was Shott's Alley. It is no longer there. Was destroyed to build Senate office building. The immigrants lived in what had been stables and coach garages. They had dirt floors, no toilets, no heat or running water. Kids played outside in alley. You actually had a photo of Shott's alley early in video. Thank God they found better housing in just a couple months.😢

[@darlenebradley6756]

The streets bordering this slum, I believe, are located in what is present day Georgetown, which was long a notorious slum. Today, the alley slums are gone, the brickfaced buildings restored, and it is one of the most prestigious and expensive neighborhoods in the capital city. I lived just across the district line, in Bethesda, while attending Gerogetown University and working at the hospital. When I lived there in the mid-2000s, the 'slums' and tennaments were on the other side of town by Captial Hill in the SE sector, at the end of the 'D' bus line, called Capital Heights. My older patients could tell stories about how rough the area was before it gentrified and the poor people were pushed out.

[@elviolette]

True, at best a college town. That's why they never ran the Metro there... Now they wish they had.

[@triedntrueiam]

What? 5th and O St NW is nowhere near Georgetown; closer to the Convention Center. Capital Heights is in Maryland. And, it appears that the more gentrified DC is; the more the murders and mayhem increase. All of these areas have a metro station and bus service. Ya'll need to stop making up stories. 🤔😑🤣

[@frogmantoad8110]

Metro lines only introduce crime to new areas. Georgetown was very smart to keep the metro out

DC really don’t have any slums just projects and they are upscale compared to the rest of the US

[@somersetdc]

Wrong. This is no where near Georgetown. This area is around 5th Street, NW. Georgetown centers much to the West along 30th Street...at least 25 blocks away.

[@SakuraAsranArt]

I really hope Charlie was able to fulfil his ambition of getting him and his family out of the tenement to a small farm. These videos do a wonderful job of bringing these people back to life.

[@leafiddick2976]

me too, I wish there was a way we could find out what happened.

[@brianoneil9662]

My favorite narrator and my favorite channel with a new video. It is a good day. Settling in to be enthralled.🍮

[@FactFeast]

Thank you! I hope you find the story of living in this tenement interesting.

[@JamesLandolt-m1e]

This building would be at approximately what is today about 425 N St NW. I worked about 4 blocks south of this location for many years. Its no where near Georgetown as one of the commentors below indicated (its about 30 blocks to the east of Georgetown). Thank you for the video!

[@somersetdc]

Thank you. I posted a reply to say the very same thing as you. This is several miles from Georgetown.

[@brianoneil9662]

Thanks!

[@FactFeast]

A huge thank you for your support Brian!

[@DorothySpang]

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[@FactFeast]

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[@mauricedavis2160]

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[@eileenbauer4601]

Thank you for this video. I was born is Washington DC and have lived there most of my life, so this was especially interesting to me.

[@FactFeast]

A pleasure! Stories of the reality of life in the past are worth telling.

[@Laura-LaFauve]

I like this piece about Washington D.C. much better than the last one where the reporter was accompanied by police through a neighborhood. I wonder if the little family ever moved to a house? I was quite embarrassed at the state of parts of D.C. when i got lost there one day. Living in another part of the country I had assumed it was all well kept. I hope one day that it will be made a state. Now the people living there don't have the same control of the area that theylive in as they would have if it were made to be a state. They have to go through the federal government for things that other states could decide for themselves. We'll keep at it. The squeaky wheel gets the grease!

[@johnbruce2868]

Thank you. Sunday night and another unique, thought provoking, historical revelation. I wonder what was the US equivalent of the UK workhouse? How did the poorest families, the solitary disabled and the elderly survive? Records from 1900 indicate that the annual mortality rate of children under 5 years olds was 238 / 1,000 in the US and 150 / 1,000 in the UK. Worse in the US despite the notorious UK Victorian slums. Was American poverty 'managed' exclusively by organised criminal organisations whilst it was partially institutionalised in the UK?

[@matthewsatalic7767]

There were no workhouses in America. It was worse than the UK. We didn't any kind of safety net till the great depression ,FDR put those programs in place.

[@AverageAmerican]

In America the elderly and/or disabled could find themselves in the asylum which might be worst than a workhouse. But both were probably instituted by the same criminals so they could rob the Hebrew Sheeple of resources, dignity, and liberty. But just bcuz someone had enough wealth to avoid institutionalized care, didn't necessarily mean they lived happy ever after. If they signed the estate over to their caretaker upon death, their days might be shortened...

[@ABeautfulMess]

I was born here, in 67. Lived in Alexandria Va

[@bobjackson4720]

A few friends of my (from the UK) visited Washington in the 1970's as tourists. In those days exploring cities on foot was the norm. They did their usual walk but quickly realised they had entered the wrong street, and had to quickly retraced their steps, even back then the place was dangerous.

[@rachelbachel2]

Interesting part about our country is that while their are dangerous areas, such as this, parts of Atlanta Georgia, or certain areas in LA (parts of Pomona, South Central LA etc, the only people who they pose a danger to are the ones who live in those neighborhoods. But others just don't have a need to go there. I'm in Southern California. Our grocery stores, restaurants, Dr's, dentists, schools, parks, and jobs are nowhere near these areas. Unless you choose to work in these areas. Dr's, cops, paramedics, judges, and teachers who work there don't live there, and they usually choose to take jobs in those neighborhoods. Out of like civic duty or something. The only others who go to a bad area end up there accidentally like your friends. Take a wrong turn or get off the wrong freeway exit. But those of us who live here know the places to not go. Typically, the bad areas are kept to a specific area of a city. Or some cities are just not nice. Like San Bernardino, Colton, and Moreno Valley. Just cities you pass by on the freeway. There's no need to stop. That's where all the strip joints, liquor stores, pawn shops, and section 8 housing are located. When I've traveled to other states, typically the hotel you're staying at or a taxi driver will, as a courtesy, tell you if there's any streets nearby or neighborhoods you should avoid. People think of the United States as being dangerous because of these areas. Or television But for the majority of us we never have a reason or need to go to those places. Maybe for drugs, if you're desperate and your regular hook up is out of stuff. But usually, if you live in a nice area, the dealers you're getting stuff from also live in a nice area and it would be dangerous to try and go to those places

[@GlazzedDonut]

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[@FactFeast]

Thanks Benjamen! Great to know you’re doing so well and if these stories of history help in some small way, I’m glad. Nice of you to comment 😊

[@genmanion2389]

look how the big beautiful buildings hide it

[@calendarpage]

I grew up in DC, in a time before air conditioning except in stores and movies. However, we had fans, the rowhouse rooms were large, and it was just our family. I cannot imagine getting through Washington's heat and humidity in one of those tenements, maybe crowded in with another family or a handful of boarders. While I imagine there were poor of all races in the area visited by the author, segregation kept many blacks in the worst areas long after whites were able to move to better housing, and unable to afford the new housing that came in during the revitalization of the 1960's.

[@miapdx503]

And after the "revitalization" poor black people were still in the ghetto.

[@johnhenderson131]

This is when Abraham Lincoln was president, a man and president I admire most. I realize his term in office was cut short and admittedly he was preoccupied with the Civil War but, sadly and regretfully, it nevertheless diminishes him somewhat in my eyes. The other deplorable fact is, these horrid conditions were still an improvement on the life the poor black people were suffering under slavery in the Confederate States.

[@JamesLandolt-m1e]

At about 21:10 the narrator says that the young man he was speaking to had recently acquired a stall in the O St Market. This only a few blocks (at 7th and 0 NW) from the "National Flats - in the 400 block of N ST NW. However, in the picture was Center Market - which was the main city market for many years. The Center Market was at 7th and Constitution AVE NW so it was like 10 blocks south of National Flats. The history of Center Market is very interesting. The Federal Government decided to build a lot of Federal buildings in the area of Center Market in the 1920s and 30s so the Government closed the market and also had to relocate Chinatown further north on 7th street where it is today. Until then, the present Chinatown was a German neighborhood and the Germans were displaced.

[@ellstark372]

Mrs Malcolm sounds like she was a decent, virtuous mother. Oh the irony though that her youngest children were named Meghan and Harry.

[@somersetdc]

Very interesting. Washington DC is my home town. This area of N street, NW has been leveled and is now full of ugly 1960s public row houses. On another note, almost all of SW Washington DC was torn down for urban renewal in the late 1950s.. Much of this housing stock needed to go, but of course they also tore down some very lovely architecture and replaced it with awful Brutalist buildings. Brutalism was never as popular in the US as it was in Britain....thank God. Again, Thank you, JM

[@p1o9p8p1y]

After watching some of the videos about the drug epidemic in America you could do a comparison between poverty then and now

[@the1only467]

D.C. has been heavily gentrified it looks nothing like this even with the drug epidemic.

[@ryan.1990]

It ain't much better now unfortunately

[@Khatoon170]

How are you doing sir thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. As always iam gathering main information about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s first of all I looked up for meaning of tenement buildings were constructed with cheap materials, had little or no indoor plumbing and lacked proper ventilation. Murder bay ( known as hooker division) were disreputable slum in Washington d. C , roughly bounded by constitution avenue n w , Pennsylvania Avenue nw , 13 th , 14 th , Street nw . The area was center of crime through 20 th century with extensive criminal underclass and prostitution , occurring several brothels and hotels in area . The area was completely rebuilt during construction of federal triangle project in late 1920s and 1930s . Best wishes for you your family friends. Merry Christmas happy new year in advance.

[@FactFeast]

Thank you for your wishes Khatoon. I have a video about Murder Bay on the channel.

[@MomentsInTrading]

Washington DC has always been a run down place except for the government structures. The main reason for this is that it is not a State, so it does not have representation in Congress.

[@MrStar700]

Agree Worked there for years.

[@cynthiaclarke3979]

It's never had a Republican in charge..

[@the1only467]

You should take a stroll through there now. Gentrification has kept it anything but “rundown”.

[@skipstalforce]

My Grand father liverd here as a child, I believe the street name was carriage row or ali.

[@garybowler5946]

We've downgraded from tenements to tents, so what's your point?

[@lyndawilliams4570]

How do you survive this kind of living without having some kind of complex PTSD? 😢

[@montbrink4700]

You don't

[@AnnaGibson-d5u]

Was this still in the 1970s?thank u I watched it

[@EightyFour-s3z]

They ran the same experiments in London, at the same time

[@blu9645]

The black took better care of their kids and had clean homes. No trash on the streets. Their were much better off then the Europeans. And they had ambition

[@la-th5do]

Too bad the whites in the Appalachian Mountains won’t do the same 😢

[@jacobrocks7]

Welcome to the New America!

[@libraS.A.]

Unfortunately I was born and raised in S. E., D. C.

[@mijiyoon5575]

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[@FactFeast]

Thank you Miji. Always appreciated 😊

[@aarondavis8433]

It was never meant to be a city in which people lived in.

[@EightyFour-s3z]

Mostly deliberate. Mostly experimentation.

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[@noyb154]

inside a building, and free or cheap, is not the "worst place". a cold street where nobody cares is the worst place. govt subsidized slums (the implied solution to these whig history takes on so-called progress) literally just institutionalize and therefore make permanent a growing sub class of people who would otherwise seek help from people who would hold them accountable and shame them if necessary into fixing their situation. welfare programs make sure that generations of people stay poor and feel justified and content with their poverty. bleeding heart libs don't understand the concept of financial incentive. it's their blind spot. it's the same reason they don't understand economics and why they refuse to confront the effects of money printing.

[@caittails]

What a sad little opinion.

[@patriciagriffith7402]

@@caittailsno, this comment is accurate

[@ericluriergo8251]

Whatever works for You after 10:00 am

[@donnadees1971]

Need info about horrible living conditions…. Not a good thing.

[@blu9645]

The title is very misleading because I didn't hear anything dangerous compared to Europe and white slums

[@carlo6230]

NOTHING HAS CHANGED.

[@cynthiaclarke3979]

Exactly..

[@the1only467]

You clearly haven’t been to D.C. and know nothing of the city. You couldn’t afford the property tax here much less the rent. Stay in whatever rural area you live in.

[@dirtlevel]

@@the1only467look at this snob

[@rogerwest5793]

You are very good , but not always right.. wright to me! We cdn make better stories together!