"Goodbye to Glocamorra" (1968)

[@maureennerneycomando8638]

Thank you so much for posting this video. Both of my parents are in this video. It is so special to me to see them on film, and so young. Tjey are both passed now, but this is a treasured memory for me.

[@JasonStone-bq2fu]

Who were your parents in what time in the video?

[@sarsfield70]

I wonder if any of my Dominican friends that I grew up with this in the 1970's can learn from this. It doesn't matter how much you think Inwood is your neighborhood. If you don't own it it a'int yours. We failed to learn that lesson hope you all do :)

[@ucouco78]

Some of those shops were still around when I was a kid, My father was one of the few Latinos living in the area, he moved to a building in Arden street in 1962, I was born late 70's and fondly remember my Irish, Jewish and German neighbors, most of them were already elderly and their children had moved on.

[@JohnWalsh-kq9xy]

I love this film my father use to live on post and Islam worked in Doc Fiddlers with chickie. We lived in kingsbridge marble hill back then that was a little slice of Ireland. ☘️went to St. John’s loved growin up there. Got lots of friends from Inwood and the Boigie down BX down here in Florida. Always talkin about the ole neighborhood. Loved what the priest said at the end.

[@lissettevasconez9939]

Omg... I was raised there on 207 street and vermilyea ave. Plus! I graduated from good shepherd school on Isham street

[@donnacreagh9003]

120 Vermilyea and 207th

[@lissettevasconez9081]

That's cool!.. My mother had a nice Irish friend on Vermilyea Ave back in the late 60's. But things changed alot in the 70's.

[@stevenquinn4641]

A beautiful tribute to a simple life in a world that was more predictable and a slower pace I lived at 90 Elwood street My Aunt Helen Uncle Frank lived at 204th st and Sherman Its a different world My parents and their generation are gone ( WW2 generation ) I love this time capsule Inwood is still There, just different people with hopes and dreams Its now getting too expensive for the people to live

[@elvissolano3179]

Do you have pictures of Elwood street back then ?

[@nuances6828]

What a history. Thank you just learning

[@FormerlyNYVulgarian]

I wonder what ever happened to the interviewee in the car. He seemed to have a good head on his shoulders for his time period.

[@JoeBuck207]

He became a priest at Fordham.

[@FormerlyNYVulgarian]

@@JoeBuck207 makes sense he’s a Ram.

[@brianandersson655]

@@JoeBuck207 Did he? Cannot find any info on him....

[@margaretcoyne8262]

What a wonderful suprise I (Margaret Connolly Coyne) got from this posting as my father Tom Connolly is captured standing by people getting interviewed. I grew up in Inwood and enjoyed seeing the old neighborhood. Thank you!

[@denisetrynosky7287]

Steve Trynosky here. Using the wife's account. Interesting to see how many predictions they got right and how many wrong. Sort of disagree with some of what the young Fordham dude had to say. Dyckman Public Housing was there since the 1950's. They also never anticipated two things, the diaspora of Irish brought about by the first non-white face moving into the building which happened OVERNIGHT. East of Broadway changed so fast, I was there in '73 nor the Dominican, not Puerto Rican, not black, takeover. Here we are some 50 years later and the neighborhood is now being changed yet again. The Irish had their run, then Dominicans now its the Yuppies who have priced everybody except themselves out of the neighborhood! My old apartment now sells for $ 550,000 plus a $ 800 per month "maintenance" fee. Be interesting to see what the next iteration will look like. Having grown up in the "heights" then living or working in Inwood for 11 years, us, non Irish, non-Jewish folk often felt out of place.

[@brianjones5273]

Just wanted to thank you for posting this. I grew up in Inwood and graduated from Good Shepherd School in 1975. Although I did not know him, my older brother Charlie, ten years my senior, knew Fr. Travers quite well. Despite growing up in Inwood, Charlie and I are rabid Montreal Canadiens fans. He always said that Fr. Travers was quite a player. Best Regards, Brian Jones

[@joejohnson3479]

Did you live on Academy St?

[@perfectbreakfast]

Do you remember a Good Shepard student with a knife in the first grade about 1975?

[@VMA225]

Growing Up, North Of Inwood in Marble Hill, This Video Brings Back Some Fond Memories of New York, In The Grand Old Days. Thank You For Uploading This Great Video !!!

[@seancurtain5285]

I always enjoy watching this great video.

[@khiggins185]

Great people these Irish Americans 🇺🇸🇮🇪☘️

[@kjmm444]

I grew up on Post Ave and was 9 years old in 1968. What a great thing to watch. It brought back fond memories as they drove around in the convertible seeing the stores I remember as a kid. However, we went to Saint Jude's Church and school. Does anybody remember the Saint Jude's Bazaar? That would have been something worth mentioning. Nonetheless, I really enjoyed this and will save it in order to watch again and or send to friends and family. Keith McAleer

[@nycnvgirl]

Keith McAleer hi Keith, I remember st judes bizarre..we, as kids growing up, looked forward to that EVERY YEAR. I too was born in ‘59. I grew up on Isham street, went to good shepherd. I am only 1 min. Into this video and am looking forward to watching the rest. We were so lucky to have grown up in INWOOD..THE BEST CHILDHOOD MEMORIES by far...

[@kjmm444]

@S B wow. Blast from the past. You're not going to believe this, but just last week, I was thinking about your parents. I remember that your dad died young. I remember Sharon but forgot your name. Sorry. It was a great place and time to grow up.

[@kjmm444]

@susan evans Hey Susan I guess you may have known the Meehans at Good Shepherd. Jerry, Eddie, Regina, or Michael. Both families (McAleer & Meehan) went to Mattituck Long Island every summer through the 60s and early 70s. Great memories in Inwood and Long Island Keith McAleer

[@andyf7366]

I grew up on Wadsworth Ave and 191Street and I remember the St Jude's Bazaar. The parents of one of my school buddies from St. Elizabeth's School won a car at the bazaar in 1972 but she had never driven a car in her life. I think Taggart's made out on the deal. Our parents made many Sunday trips to Gaelic Park. I even went to several wedding ceremonies at Good Shepherd as a kid, Moved away from WaHi in 1973 as the nabe was dangerous and run-down Last time I visited was in 2007 and I showed my wife The Cloisters and Ft Tryon Park and where I grew up. We drove up Snake Hill and when we arrived at my apartment building she was so freaked out over the ghetto-ness that she would not get out of the car. Some good memories of the old days but I am content these days in Georgia.

[@VMA225]

Brilliant !!!

[@robertsturges5343]

577 isham street apt 5A is where I started in this world,before me my dad was at a greystone at 5000 Broadway. I played a a child throughout Inwood and consider it good fortune. The baseball diamonds,the hurling,the freshwater springs at the lower field pleasant memories. Best of all was jumping the trains at Sputyn Duval amd I was only 10 I am a Inwood boy. Robert Kennedy Sturges.

[@seancurtain5285]

Those were the good old days in Inwood, when that neighborhood was largely Irish. On the 22 of March, 1965, I left Inwood in Manhattan island for an island off the coast of S.C., where I spent 13 weeks training as a marine recruit in Parris Island. In August, 1973, I moved back into Inwood, but its decline was all to obvious by then.

[@roslindale12]

Pretty fascinating. I've been studying demographics and social change in cities for years, and one thing is certain, any neighborhood that's primarily made up of apartment buildings is inherently transient. Unless you’re wealthy, apartment living is a very temporary thing, at least in the USA.

[@skaworld509]

*you're

[@roslindale12]

@@skaworld509 ha ha, I swear spellcheck overcorrects because I see and make that mistake all the time.

[@seancurtain5285]

One of the men interviewed here said that he would attend a Legion of Mary meeting that afternoon. That reminds me of an experience I had in the Albany V.A. Hospital in late April, 2002. About 7 PM one evening, 2 sixtyish men entered my room and sais, "We're from the Legion". I was about to ask What Legion post?, but one visitor continues, "..Legion of Mary". Upon seeing the look of disbelief on my face, he then told me that the Legion of Mary was founded in Dublin by layman Francis Dull and a few women.

[@Richard-lh8jq]

Sean: Not surprised at Legion of Mary, BUT was surprised to learn that joining the 'Pioneers' in Ir-Am circles, meant pledging to total alcohol abstinence, NOT joining the youth division of the Communist Party USA! And so it was among those people, in that place, in those daze ...

[@marcelodesa1045]

that's incredible I was only 2 years of age when that video came out

[@Barbarian857]

I know some old Irish dudes that grew up there. They said there was a lot of family dysfunction, violence, and alcholism. There was a bar on every corner. A friend of mine said he witnessed two guys fighting on Seaman Avenue, one stabbed the other on his car. The guy died!

[@jptravers]

You're welcome! Fr. Travers is my father, so I know the feeling. Which ones are your parents?

[@blakemcnamara9105]

I wonder how surprised a Dominican in Inwood today would be if you told them that it used to be an Irish neighbourhood.

[@Jorge-lh6px]

Two years late to this comment but I’ve been doing research on demographic transitions within Northern NYC. I don’t think older Dominicans would be surprised since they were there, but the younger generation would most likely be shocked to hear. Yet, there are still pockets of Irish communities in the Bronx.

[@seancurtain5285]

When this interview was done in 1968, the actual word "Christmas" was still heard very much every December; not too many people used the terms "holiday" or "season" instead of Christmas.

[@eamonmacdonnell2627]

very true...same problem in Ireland..maybe having the name Christ in a word may upset some agnostic.!

[@seancurtain5285]

Woodlawn in the north Bronx was still a very Irish neighborhood at least up to the late 1980s. Beginning in early March in one of those years, the business community of Katonah Avenue hung sings across that avenue that read, "Beannachtai na Féile Padraig oraibh". Soon after these Irish language sings appeared that wished everyone the blessings of St. Patrick's Day, one of the leading daily newspapers carried an article that ridiculed and disparaged the business people for displaying signs in the official language of the independent Irish state.

[@andrewclarke1212]

Still overwhelming Irish in Woodlawn

[@km5449]

Yes....very cool!

[@romeysiamese6712]

Things are the same still...just different people and different religions.

[@jakej2256]

It was very brave of so many Irish to have made the journey to America to start new lives, I bet some of them must have missed Ireland as big cities like New York don't quite have the atmosphere or community spirit as many towns and villages in Ireland do.

[@patrickglennon7058]

True but big cities don't have the gossip 😕

[@constitution_8939]

Ireland is also now being swallowed up by "Immigrants" that are being intentionally planted there by the U.N. and certain NGO's to change the natural demographic of the British Isles including Ireland, Scotland and Wales and even the Scandinavian Lands of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark with people being led to believe that it's just some small scale Social Experiment when there's really a Lot more to it than that. And this is in no way temporary or small in scale but a very Dangerous and malevolent plan to destroy the concept of sovereignty in Every Country and none more so than those that built themselves up to what would be the beginning of Western Civilization such as the countries of Western Europe that had begun to break away from the Roman Empire as it began to self-destruct from within the Mediterranean Basin with the same destructive concept that has formed the European Union and is being forced on other countries unwilling to surrender their sovereignty and self-determination. It was the Roman Empire that stretched itself too thin and began losing control of the Empire when other countries and their cultures either not able to or unwilling to assimilate began being hostile to the point of invading parts of the Empire and soldiers unwilling to defend more and more territories till it all began unvaveling. At present, what could the Irish see as a benefit to themselves to be taking in so-called "Refugees" that were created by other external interests creating Dictatorships and then supplying weapons to militaries formed because of religious differences and intolerance in countries of a Continent as Huge as Africa and shipping those from Africa and other places into a small Island by comparison to Africa with incompatible cultures, traditions and languages if not for purposes that could Only be malevolent and Dangerous to the natural inhabitants and demographic of Ireland or Scotland, Wales and even England and on to France, Germany etc, etc. This is Not going to End Well no matter how and what way it's looked at and the people of Europe and now America as of May 2023 are going to have to Fight sooner or later and the sooner the better like Right Damned Now!!!

[@Iamjeffsledge]

That church is still there on that corner.

[@carolefarabell1745]

Lived on Arden Street!

[@Horaciowild1]

Watching this in 2020 it's seems like they where facing the same problems than we are facing in Europe today with the arrival of migrants .The only difference is that Afro Americans where from there while here in Europe today Africans migrants are coming from Africa.

[@rubydawn1]

Interesting.

[@TheSpritz0]

VMA- I never asked you this before, but we are both veterans (different wars, but this is just a generational difference!). What did you THINK after seeing "Apocalypse Now" for the first time?? I never fought in Vietnam, but somehow the movie was so damn powerful I didn't even think about I just sat through the film again!!!

[@Mountchoirboy]

Irony is the area while now Hispanic in demographics has not changed a bit. The Church is still there the stores are still there etc albeit different owners

[@foreverspartan1]

Church is still there because the Hispanics are Catholic and probably have Spanish service

[@dedeharp]

Yes, the guy riding in the car did go to Fordham and became a lawyer.

[@seancurtain5285]

In '64 and '65 I attended evening classes at the City Hall branch of Fordham University. Before every class, the teacher led the students in the Lord's Prayer or the Hail Mary, before the term "political correctness" had been coined.

[@Richard-lh8jq]

@@seancurtain5285 Prayer? Fordham was/is Catholic, and JESUIT affiliated, so prayer should have been no surprise. Up a block from Gaelic Park at W242 & Bway, is Manhattan College. I'm class of '68. It's also Catholic and run by the remnant DeLaSalle Christian Brothers. We had our own Vietnam-era iconoclastic moments, but Admin resisted the call to remove the crucifixes in any room where Fed money was paying/assisting tuition of students attending class in prep for teaching in "Title I" public schools. Hey, it's one thing or the other, right?

[@cloutbois2433]

the young man in the convertible should of said fordham is "masonic " centered....

[@VMA225]

" Apocalypse Now " was a great movie. I preferred " Platoon " and " Full Metal Jacket ". Those Movies were more realistic about the average GI and how he felt, being in a strange far off land.

[@lissettevasconez9939]

Wow... now inwood is all Dominican culture

[@l0rdf0ul]

I wonder that happened to that kid @ Fordham? Did you go to the Army? Vietnam? Did he return to Fordham and go to law school?

[@licensenj]

He's a Judge in Southern NJ.

[@blazayblazay8888]

THE DREGS HAVE FORGOTTEN WHO THEY ARE

[@hgallo690]

The area is now a Dominican wasteland! lol

[@scretching08]

That's what they said about the Irish 100 years ago! Change is part of life get used to it or check out!

[@lissettevasconez9939]

Yup!...Humberto gallow Inwood went downhill. I graduated from good shepherd and the church was my parish. Miss the good old days

[@Barbarian857]

I know a few Irish people who lived here in the 50s and 60s. There was a lot of violence and alcoholism. This Irishman stabbed another Irishman on my friend's car back then. The English thought the Irish were inferior and subjugated them. They fled here and were considered intruders. So, they came here and adopted the attitude of their oppressors. But everyone here is poisoned by Western indoctrination.

[@broughmar]

​@@scretching08 Except "they" were wrong. Irish created stable, upwardly mobile neighborhoods respecting God and'country. nothing like this now.

[@breezecatcher100]

This is where all the woke crap got a grip