Looking back: Modesto ca

[@lorettasmith6054]

I'm a Modesto girl to and I sure miss Modesto and I wish I could go back

[@Demetrios1975]

Watching this video was like watching scenes from my childhood. The canals, La Loma, Beard Park... too many places to mention. It's a shame that the city has changed so much. I last visited in 2015 and barely recognized the city I left when I was 24 years old. Greetings from Virginia and thank you for the trip down memory lane.

[@christopherbinion812]

Were you able to see the grand opening of Brenden Theater?

[@emptyheadspace]

No matter what city or where ever forward progress will never stop it makes small towns big and big cities not worth living

[@Eureka21567]

Modesto girl, born and raised. I grew up in the 90’s in Modesto. Went back a few years ago and it definitely felt like home. Modesto will always have a special place in my ❤️

[@VidzMisc]

How old are you now

[@liberalsaredegeneratebetasoyl]

lol modesto is a dump one of the top worst city’s in cali prob usa

[@kofegrl]

Did you know any of the Tatting’s or Wickstrom’s?

[@NinjaxWizardGoVroom]

Me too

[@Portuguese-linguica]

Kid guitar just recently passed away. May he rest in peace.

[@llisallopez]

My family moved to Modesto in the early 90's from the Bay Area. It's sad to see how fast time goes by and everything has changed. Modesto will forever be a part of my life. Thank you for sharing.

[@marklaughlin7079]

This is a great video of Modesto. I have lived here since 1968 and it brings back a lot of old memories. I miss the Christmas decorations of downtown Modesto back in the 70’s. I remember Beard Brook Park well. I played on the train, the bones, the airplane, swam in the pool, and I remember the chickens, the fire truck, and drank water out of the lion faucet.

[@emptyheadspace]

I personally thank everyone for watching and commenting, most were of good things and a few of bad things. All I have to say as we all age we have certain memories that pertain to a certain period of time but the current events cloud those memories. Nothing ever stays the same. And where ever a person lives that place has bad areas that most fear.

[@tonygareth221]

I remember as a child it snowed in Modesto! I was at the little restaurant by train tracks. It was white and maybe had a windmill or something. I saw a pic of it in this video

[@leilaniyoung8512]

yes, the Old Mill Cafe was open all night nd day,great eggs and coffee

[@tonygareth221]

@@leilaniyoung8512 is that what it was called? Sounds right . River behind it

[@tonygareth221]

@@leilaniyoung8512 I remember the restaurant downtown that was actually a windmill but I’m talking about the place (forgot road ) with the creek behind it. Cemetery right down the street I think

[@tonygareth221]

Chicken diner I think it was called so you remember it

[@HayqueDori]

I grew up in Modesto in the 70's and 80's. I still remember the Woolworth's downtown when I was a kid. Also Benos, Roller King, Perry Boys Buffet, Webs and A&W drive up. I left to Southern Cali in 86. It has really changed. Some areas are so riddled with poverty and drugs, very sad. But I have great memories.

[@hughjarms4510]

my home town.i am 38 ,so 80s pics are realy special to me.takes me way back

[@muchomusiclibre]

me too, I'm 37. Motown!

[@hughjarms4510]

+muchomusiclibre wow, and you like buckethead? you must be cool like me

[@EnchantedSmellyWolf]

I'm just 28 right now. Why isn't anyone outside of their house? Feels like a ghost town. I miss my childhood.

[@biggbellylove]

born and raised,rember the $1.50 movies in front of vintage fair mall.roller king was my childhood(all night skates,EPIC),now it's METH DESTO,evil place to live,but great memories in the 80's & 90's

[@hughjarms4510]

B.K. Perry I used to go to the movies there all the time. the movies were the ones that were a few months later,but worth the price.

[@tflkwiz594]

I miss those times. Unfortunately my kids will never experience the great stuff Modesto had to offer when we were growing up in the 80's and 90's

[@tonygareth221]

I remember the $1.50 movies!

[@fasteddie1257]

Wavin' from Sonora. (y)

[@robertdircks6949]

Born and raised 83 to 2015 ran to AZ miss Modesto everyday

[@christopherbinion812]

Who else used to always go to the Chuck E. Cheese on Sisk Rd, then hit up Toys 'R Us?

[@tapatiolays4174]

Me

[@theautumnwind3731]

Me too bro!

[@humanbeing2796]

I was more of a Pizza Machine guy myself...

[@jjayala5512]

What bout john incredible lol 🤣

[@lindaibarra7281]

Anyone remember SHAKEYS pizza & THRIFTYS?

[@EmilioR-df1bn]

such good memories. i remember going everywhere with my mom when i was a kid we would always go to sams food city. and just be all over the place really. im 23 and sadly ive lost my mom recently but some of these pictures helped remind me of some good memories. also it was interesting how everything looked before thanks for the vid

[@madambutterfly7513]

I love Modesto, even tho I’ve lived in several other states & cities over my lifetime, but somehow, I always end up back here - lol - both my daughters were born in Los Angeles, but they grew up in Modesto in the 70’s & 80’s - I have lived in Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, New York, Montana , Oregon & Idaho . I moved back to Modesto & bought a home in a great area after 19 years of being away because I feel like this is my hometown, even tho I wasn’t born here. It still has a small town appeal and I feel safe here, even tho Modesto has gotten bad publicity with gangs, crime & car thefts. I think no matter where you go, these elements are in every large city, you just have to be careful no matter where you are, ie use common sense!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️MODESTO😎😎😎

[@daveforeman6931]

Thanks for doing this video- it is mostly the Modesto I grew up in from the 1950's til 2006 when I moved down here to Mexico. I have great memories of the earlier times. It sure has changed.

[@AceBangerTheGuru]

hows mexico ? my father used to say he was going to move there and retire ...

[@NinjaxWizardGoVroom]

Used to eat at webs with my grandpa back in the 90s. Awesome food good times. Miss you grandpa you were my favorite human.

[@D4rK3sTsH4d0W]

(EDIT 2: new comment) I'm only in my early 20s, so I don't have that much history in modesto, but i've always been fascinated by its history and how it changed over time. When I first moved to where i live in 2004, I saw there was an old train track by our house running north and south, but unused. My dad told me they were planning on turning it into a walkway. Around 15 years later they actually started building the Virginia corridor trail. It still doesn't run past my neighborhood, but over the past few months I've seen some more dirt being moved closer and closer on the trail. I started looking on google maps to see if I could follow the remnants of the railroad south, and saw it intersected with every single major east/west bound street in modesto, making me wonder if that was one of the main reasons they got rid of it. I spent about an hour scrolling north trying to find where the old railroad would have gone, and quit shortly after reaching Canada. This is a very long railroad and that's an unrelated story, but since I was a kid i've been interested in it for one reason or another. It was interesting to find out there was once a P street, which was removed when they added the 9th street bridge to Kansas, which followed the removal of the railroad. I may be mixed up but this is all i could figure out just from looking at pictures and google maps. Original comment: (EDIT: I've found it. It "IS" the railroad that was the Virginia corridor. Photo is at the corner of Needham and 9th street by the El Capitan Motel. Kinda sad to see the entire beautiful building on the right completely obliterated.) i've been looking on google maps and historical view on google earth for about 20 minutes now trying to figure out where the picture at 2:20 was taken. There isn't a P street that i know of, or one that i can find on google maps that looks like that. It shows on maps that it's towards the corner of N franklin and Kansas at the bridge, but based on map data the bridge didn't exist back then, but nothing around there looks similar at all. If anyone has information that'd be really nice. I became interested after seeing the photo had a train going through the middle of town, since I thought it might be the shutdown railway that goes all the way north through the middle of town. I've lived near the north part of it since about 2003 and have always been interested in it.

[@chrisemerald5942]

I lived in Ceres but was in Modesto all the time like big r the Chinese restaurant that was by the old gray hound bus station mc Mayon's Downey park crows landing had fun back in the Day great place to live then

[@theycallmejoe1972]

Cruzing old mill cafe I forgot about that train. What a great video lots of good memories here thanks for making and sharing!!

[@stephaniedetmer9979]

My Hometown......

[@teria6576]

Wow. Thank you so much for this. This has been my life. Truly amazing, has brought back so many wonderful memories for me.

[@calionelove1991]

My hometown havent been there sence i was 15 but i will always love modesto

[@DonaldERiise]

Great Job on this KZbin David Dorrity..!!

[@fasteddie1257]

Having grown up in Tuolumne Co. in the 60's. Was a treat while in HS to cruise McHenry.

[@kofegrl]

My grandparents Carl Emanuel Tatting and Emmy Wickstrom, we’re from Sweden & settled here in Modesto. I have so many fond memories of all the picnics, visiting all the relatives who owned property and were in agriculture when I was a young girl in the 60s. It’s sad now, most of the properties been sold off before, my dad passed away I took six of my grandkids to meet him and he gave us a tour of the home that my grandfather helped build in the 20s, and then one that he built for his family in the 40s. They don’t build homes like that anymore, he also helped build the old bridge with lions that stood on the ends of it. My dad grew up on River Road, the river was in his backyard, I used to love visiting my grandma Emy there🤗💗🌷

[@bagster7879]

Thank you for making this video. I miss my hometown everyday, and if I can't be there at least I can have videos like this.

[@bluesharp59]

Happy New Years and a Thumbs Up for you.

[@craigbowers1550]

Lived in Modesto late 50s to mid 60s. Attending Davis high. Great small town. Remember Winfield and the sos club.

[@Dr.Catacus]

I bought my first decent guitar at, I think it was called Bonner’s Music, on tenth street, by the Hotel Covell. I believe this was around 1967, or so. I still have that $39.00 guitar, but it’s worth more than money all these years later. Then there was the California Ballroom, good times ...

[@leilaniyoung8512]

thank you, really evocative of past Modesto. I wish there were a collection of canal drop swimming "holes or all the little libraries modesto used to have or the big track meet every year where world class runners came to MJC track for track meet

[@MarcoMoreno5757]

Glad to see some of my pictures in the video.

[@tonygareth221]

Do you remember a restaurant called...chicken diner or something like that? Might have been on Scenic but I can’t remember

[@elizabethfarrell9650]

awesome video... Thank you.

[@darrellbailey3040]

Thanks for putting this together David. Darrell Bailey, FAROS Pres 1961-62

[@billbye2427]

Wonderul place to live , attend Junior College, Buy a Orange 65 Pontiac GTO, pizza at Shakeys, great gun deals at Argonne Gun Shop, dancing at the Sandlewood. People respected other people. Thanks Modesto! Patsy,Don, Mary, Len etc.

[@BaileySEA]

Argonne? You mean Argonaut?

[@TheMchenryManShow]

Love this nostalgic stuff!

[@stevenforman3044]

great video... Thanks for this. :D

[@racerx4152]

My parents moved here from minnesota in 1962.Does any one remember those two stores on mc henry avenue called Beno's and value world? there used to be a drive in in the back too. Wal-mart is there now, I think, or close by.

[@emptyheadspace]

yeah just like anyplace else nothing will stop forward progression. I remember benos and the market, drive in and the go cart track later turned into a skate park. modesto was once a cozy little town but after scott Petersen and gary condit brought a negative image to the town there will never be that small town no more

[@Dr.Catacus]

I used to buy my Levi’s at Beno’s, back in the day.

[@DanPlaysGaming]

I was born in Modesto,California btw th w background sounds like the bee movie

[@DonaldERiise]

Really Good KZbin video ! Don

[@christianworkman8108]

I miss modesto

[@tonygareth221]

I lived there 15 years and southern CA 15 years. I was 70s, 80s, and 90s in Modesto off and on. I remember the chicken diner, a&w rootbeer floats and carhops, pool hall on mc Henry where some famous players played, big time baseball players for Modesto As...used to be a decent place

[@libertyforall5764]

9:34 Is this the same park that had the old train?

[@nickloya9922]

wow cool

[@mattheintschel4248]

Hello I am matt I see all your names and chats below and actually I think the music is kinda relaxing

[@valleycrew2092]

Who’s that riding the sk8 board at 9:26

[@getabettercartitleloaninca9122]

Nice video!

[@calionelove1991]

Who remembers the modesto bees

[@mickeybland8838]

Asher Brothers shoes moved to Livermore, my dad worked there.

[@Leann2]

It’s my birthday today and my son sent me this , it’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to. I miss California, thanks for destroying it democrats.

[@_ga210]

I love modesto even tho it’s a dangerous place to live but idc

[@jeffgrey663]

Its home

[@derekgoodwin4102]

Modesto rules!

[@herimendoza8510]

wat happened it changed

[@EnchantedSmellyWolf]

How did it change? I have a bad feeling but I'll say it. Immigrants?

[@emptyheadspace]

progress nothing ever stays the same

[@JoeyIsSobbing]

@@EnchantedSmellyWolf you gotta problem with immigrants?

[@81Enginek]

Merle Haggard was from Bakersfield. Not Modesto

[@redbartley5820]

+Fireman Bill Merle spent some time in butlers camp before moving to Bakersfield.

[@muchomusiclibre]

+Red Bartley Hi, where was Butler's camp?

[@bigdog95355]

muchomusiclibre just to the south of 7th street bridge

[@conniebabcock2839]

Merle haggard has family in Riverbank. He came to Riverbank to work in the canneries with buck Owens. They were both forklift drivers back in the 60s. They did play songs here in the Modesto area but they did play in Riverbank as well. Chester Smith of Modesto should be noted as a very big success. He wasFriends with merle haggard and buck Owens back then. They did perform at an old country western place on Highway 120 in Oakdale.

[@apolloandcreedbulldogges2229]

Tuesday Webbs special.. what you know about that

[@anissamonae1741]

Apollo and Creed Bulldogges yesss! Tuesday’s webs day lol

[@coolkidgirl-jf5lk]

I Live in motsto my home town

[@nataliahtellez4864]

Remember the train that use to go through Down Town

[@jeffgrey663]

Home

[@nbs_luis2093]

Wsm

[@emptyheadspace]

what does wsm mean? english only

[@nickloya9922]

@@emptyheadspace west side modesto

[@nataliahtellez4864]

From the Arcade at tha Mall to ride karts at Boomers to eating at the Run Run Burger.....who rembers the downtown nights at Modesto Sports Bar and Grill

[@Eman-wj8gq]

Back when Modesto was a small farming/car community rather than a cracked filled wanna be city.

[@ernesthyatt9936]

I pray to God I never have to see that bastard town again

[@Harg-fn9dh]

what modesto why?

[@muchomusiclibre]

haha! greetings from Modesto.

[@emptyheadspace]

you have a brain, you have individuality, you have 2 legs and 2 arms. Use all of these abilities to create a future for yourself and get out while you can. the more you talk about the less you will do anything.

[@exiledz7911]

Ernest Hyatt it's quite dangerous lmao

[@DoTheMost-]

Why are you watching a video about Modesto then? 😆

[@gamergamer9932]

qhere theq lion is i live close to th e eq

[@4cashTony]

I wish I could move, but iam stuck in this bitch.....I need to move tho. this town has no consideration for another living human being 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

[@gamergamer9932]

live by maze ave

[@juslangley]

Modesto is absolute crap now. Sad to see what it has become.

[@TheCctripp]

You forgot Ginger Gonzaga our new and up coming comic talent from Modesto. And what about the musicians like Merle Haggard? Also the music started of great and then the music selection is pretty bad.

[@EnchantedSmellyWolf]

I agree. Really, really bad...

[@johnbeer5242]

before every nationality became black😀

[@andysilvester8580]

i could go on and on on this methdesto ill sum it up on what it was n what it became modesto A's to modesto nut's ring a bell we are labeled hey oh snow redhot chilli peppers hotel california and in the end a nightmare avenge sevenfold wanna move your kids to walmartsmethdesto ha ha ha

[@chickendinner5572]

andy silvester you sound like you're on drugs. Learn to use punctuations man.

[@ikast4r]

I love Modesto it’s my home our home it’s special to me