HUEY STREET AND SURROUNDING AREA IN MCKEESPORT PA

[@lindacaldwell5390]

Love your videos

[@michaelwhite2823]

Being from dried out California, I can't get over the beautiful green country there. All the trees and hills. Beautiful country.

[@robertrice3343]

Excellent video Walter, Thanks for showing Huey Street and the surrounding area. Hard to believe what Mckeesport was and is now. When the mills left that was the beginning of the end.

[@garykay7477]

Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. I moved away many years ago and have been back in the area as I still have family around there. When back I try to drive around a little to see how things changed but when you ask do you remember this and that I always seem to be saying yes.

[@awakenedangrycensoredameri4459]

My dad is 83 and born and raised in Mckeesport. He went into the air force in 58. He loves your videos. He lives in California now. He wants to move back for his last days. He went to Wilmerding High school and he wants to see what Fite Station looks like now. His grandmother lived there until she died in 1969. Can you make a video of Fite Station sometime? Well. Some time soon. Since he's 83.

[@chrisgormley3517]

I use to live on the corner of huey and Versailles. The building you questioned at 3 minutes into the video was a small grocer called "Puggie's". Complete with a soda fountain and a butcher. We moved out of McKeesport in 1969.

[@davidklein1667]

I rented several very cool apt. In this area! The best and probably the all time funkiest , historica apt of my life was on Petty st. It was in a hugh red brick manservant. I had the original first fl. Enormous kitchen, the parlor became my bedroom and the dining room became my main room...hugh carved oak fire place(that had a working asbestos gas log!) The place was filled with stained glass and rich woodwork....all for 175$ a month!!! Heard it developed structural problems...bowing walls..and was torn down. We were pretty wild there!

[@davidklein1667]

Red brick manse!!!

[@marcdamico1987]

Used to buy isley's Iced Teas at the UDF store for quarter the best tea ever

[@davidsomerville126]

There needs to be some sort of citizens committee that would get together and help decide McKeesport's future. We 'ex-pats' could serve on that committee, since many of us would have a 'wider view' and experiences living in other places where successful efforts have been made to save/restore a town/city/area using the area's prominent resources. You see a city dying. I see so much potential for a thriving city.

[@razorsedge7100]

At 1:09 the gas station shown was an old Atlantic-Richfield station. They were built in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The architecture is distinctive...brick with a weather vane on top. There are 100s around the Pgh. area. McKeesport is filled with brick alleys. I've always wondered when they were laid down...I saw them as a kid and I'm 67 and they are still there. Walter...one question ...Where was the old Buchanan Photogrophy Studio in McKeesport? He did all the high school pictures in the 60s and 70s.

[@davidcicak8045]

The corner of Market and sixth.

[@razorsedge7100]

@@davidcicak8045 Thankyou David

[@nickmad887]

Thanks friend.

[@felixyusupov7299]

Are there any good areas of McKeesport?

[@Pa_school_bus_enthusiast]

Looks like they started redoing the parking lot of the old centennial school for the new senior living that’s going to be there

[@stevensiskind6076]

The empty lot at olive was my aunt's house.

[@lindacaldwell5390]

I remember the dteps by junior highschool

[@donnalutheran6335]

The church at the corner of shaw and huey is our church. CITY LIGHTHOUSE

[@Fireglo]

I have no idea why I keep watching videos of some random American guy driving round some random non-notable town in Pennsylvania. I'm not even American xD

[@michaelwhite2823]

I read a car crashed into a house in the 900 block of Huey a few years ago. I hope it wasn't one of those nice well kept houses up there.

[@lindacaldwell5390]

I remember thomas drug store