DUQUESNE PENNSYLVANIA HOODS

[@porkulate]

It is just so sad to look at this video. I lived in Duquesne, PA from 1973 to 1975 in my mid-teen years. I graduated from Duquesne Senior High School in 1975 as did my dear Father - now many years deceased - a generation before me. When I lived there, the steel mills on The Monongahela River were still going full blast but things were starting to slow down a bit. So many of the town's adult residents worked in and made their living from the steel industry back then. The very early writing was on the wall that the United States and Pittsburgh/Duquesne were starting to wane as the world's greatest steel producers. I used to really enjoy going for meals in all of the ethnic clubs in Duquesne such as the Italian, Slovakian, Serbian and others. Schugert's Tavern and Bar was doing good business. I learned about Iron City Beer back in those days and 40 ounce bottles of Budweiser Beer which my high school buddies and I used to 'chug down' in the freezing Winter cold nights out of sight of the adults. I do not recognize anything much from my memories in the video. All of the abandoned, rotting and unoccupied buildings in the video just break my heart! There was nothing like this when I used to walk those well maintained cobblestone streets walking to High School almost FIFTY YEARS AGO! Senior citizens sat on their front porches and steps and we all seemed to know each other. I do not know what the future holds for Duquesne, but unless we return to our American roots as a country and a people that manufacture goods that people want and sell them at reasonable prices, many more towns like Duquesne are destined for abandonment and failure. I am so very disappointed to learn and to see what has become of the place of which I have so many fond and beautiful teenaged memories. I pray for the future of my country and The American People. 😪

[@olivierhutet]

En tant que Français, ce commentaire me fait l'effet d'un article de géographie urbaine, thanks a lot

[@claudiamisage3571]

I have to stop watching this less than five minutes into it. I’m crying ! Crying for my home town. I was taken home from the hospital being born in Mc Keesport, Hospital in 😂March of 1943, to a brand new home that my parents just finished building. Lived in this vibrant, beautiful, busy, fantastic, fun packed town until I was married in 1963. I left know it was not the same after the ripped out first street, knocked down the library. My mom lived in the home and died in our home in 1996. Gee what a sad, sad movie. Now I went to Holy Trinity , then Jr. High, the Graduated in 1960. Our home was actually in Duquesne Place, quite different from busy Duquesne. Thank you for posting, but it does hurt! 😞

[@edsteel6715]

I grew up there in the 1960's. It's hard to believe what has happened to it. Thanks for posting

[@callipitter8474]

When and why did YOU leave?

[@edsteel6715]

@@callipitter8474 I left for a job in the mid 1980's. When the Steel Mills shut down the jobs left.

[@callipitter8474]

@@edsteel6715 Seems everyone has the same kind of story. So sad!

[@Moneyman-lx3nw]

@@edsteel6715 that’s why it looks like this no jobs 😂

[@jenwuzhere2305]

I grew up in Duquesne.. back then, the mills were open and alot of families lived there..we loved that Kennywood was just across the bridge and up the road ❤️ I went to JFK elementary and the high school was 7th through 12th at the time, There was a playground at the end of the alley behind our house, and we used to play baseball and jump rope in the church parking lot across from the playground.. it was safe as long as you stayed out of burns heights. Now I wouldn't feel safe walking around Duquesne 💔 breaks my heart.

[@skateboardb4935]

I am from Duquesne I'm Brian Ambrose my dad is moe Ambrose my mom is Dorothy elash Ambrose elash is her maiden name

[@brittanysmith8184]

😂😂 burns Heights born and raised

[@BH-br4ee]

That's a bad sign when you see a CitiTrends store.

[@callipitter8474]

This little world of brick.. so eerily beautiful. Before I forget, thanks for no background music, and for pulling over to address your phone. Good job! I need to research what happnes to towns, if totally vacated. I know of one, Renfro Pa that no longer exsists, but how did that happen? Should be interesting. I will lose sleep over what they might do with all those bricks when this town is gone. I'm from Grove City Pa..not far away and, and thank goodness, still thieving!

[@skyjuanwalker7250]

didn’t even show the whole Duquesne

[@bonniebarker8493]

This is not the Duquesne I grew up in. It's a shame

[@Moneyman-lx3nw]

It sho ain’t

[@jenwuzhere2305]

I grew up there too💔 it's truly heartbreaking to see what's become of Duquesne 💔

[@ReccxLuxe]

I grew up in Duquesne in the 80s, 109 N. 4th St.. the house is gone, so is the house next to that. It’s cool to see driving around like this. It’s very nostalgic but also of makes me feel sad that all these things gone. That’s just the way life is I guess .

[@daves7525]

@ 15:47...The first house I bought, when I was 19, in 1971, on North Second St...on the left with red awning...

[@daves7525]

@26:46...house on the right where Wife grew up...1014 Sherman Ave.

[@marcdamico1987]

Looks almost as bad as McKeesport lol. I've been out of there for thirty years but I still miss the old days back in the port.

[@ryanthomas3628]

No way, McKeesport is worse. I just got outta there two months ago..

[@marcdamico1987]

@@ryanthomas3628 you don't have a clue I'm talking old school when Harrison Village was still around

[@dagreazy3815]

Ryan Thomas mckeespo wud be worst theirs to many white ppl in mckeespo the black ppl keep mckeespo bells ringin duke is black but smaller the hill billies destroyed mckeespo

[@dagreazy3815]

@marc damico Harrison village is still active Bailie Avev too

[@ryanthomas3628]

@@dagreazy3815 yeah, look at all the white people in McKeesport arrested on homicide charges..

[@fishstick329]

You went down a lot of one ways

[@mindfulnessme5493]

I love your videos but you need to be more careful. 😜 one ways? No bueno……

[@josephkolozi9364]

Typical sad ending of PA mill towns.

[@daves7525]

@ 27.20...I cant believe they let that beautiful house go like that...Steimers grew up there...

[@AwsomeKidOtis]

Come to Springfield and Holyoke ma it gets crazy

[@neighborhoodguy]

There’s a few in both on my page I’ll be back in the area soon !!

[@AwsomeKidOtis]

@@neighborhoodguy word

[@hoodygod110]

This is where I'm from Duke city

[@lorifoster6562]

I lived there up until a month ago. You went down through the nicer parts of Duquesne

[@johnlockwood8204]

brings back a lot of memrories both good and bad, thank you john lockwood

[@Victorialittle-f2j]

Even though i am watching this video two and a half years after it was made makes me sad to see Duquesne like this and it is even worse now. I grew up in Duquesne back in the 60's and still have family that lives close to where we grew up so I do go back there several times a year. Each time i go back another house is abandon or torn down, the streets are getting worse etc. etc. Even though i no longer live in the area Duquesne will always be my home. Why are you going the wrong way on one way streets?

[@Moneyman-lx3nw]

If someone doesn’t do something about this soon it’s gonna be empty

[@fishstick329]

You went down a one way

[@frankwoods4532]

Not only did he go down a one way, he also went through do not enter signs.

[@judifoster8]

More than once.

[@BrokenPandaPaws]

"do not enter", proceeds to drive down street, definitely got their schooling in Duquesne😅😅

[@SmokinOnWHO]

i still cant believe they took away save-a-lot

[@stevebarna7429]

My old neighborhood is on here. Well, half of it, anyways. Lots of empty lots now.

[@callipitter8474]

Why and when & under what circumstances did you leave. Im totally interested in how this happens.

[@stevebarna7429]

@@callipitter8474 when I was a kid (around 1990) my neighborhood was full of elderly people. As they died off their kids didn't want the house so they were sold off for peanuts, usually to slum lords. Then a revolving cast of crackheads were living around me. Literal crackheads, I dont mean that as a joke. Slum lords and crackheads dont maintain property all that well. Next thing you know a house has a leaking roof that never gets fixed and then its condemned and razed. If there were still good jobs in the area the houses would be worth too much for slum lords to bother with which would prevent a lot of the issues.

[@callipitter8474]

@@stevebarna7429 Good explaination! Thanks

[@SmokinOnWHO]

i wish yaw woulda showed the rest like crawford ave and catherine

[@amilliosparks2amilliospark456]

I love my hood

[@niecyjackson2441]

Wow

[@BrandonDelts-dg8qq]

A Corey rip

[@BrandonDelts-dg8qq]

2001 Ag

[@americanrefugee5775]

I miss Wylie

[@Makar_303]

Мда... Это заброшенное место в США выглядит так же, как большинство городов у нас в россии :D

[@JillErnst-h2x]

😢

[@PATRIOTRICH1]

I'm 60. I grew up here when it was a true city. Carpet bomb it all

[@americanrefugee5775]

Monti Stanley

[@brittanysmith8184]

U lucky u ain’t get shot goin down dem one ways and all dat creeping 😂😂 it’s big beef no steak and u rode pass my shit gat my car in dere and all

[@dennykovach9859]

Just take a few minutes to think about your HOOD its future your NIGGAS futures crazy how the youth think these days

[@20thCenturyFav]

Yikes

[@brittanysmith8184]

It ain’t dat bad it’s just da hood and ain’t shit bout us dirty mi nigga

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[@scottstipetic8894]

I lived on north 4th st my house is still standing I was born in that house on the dead end hello old Duquesne people it's scotty

[@scottstipetic8894]

Wow you can't read you went on 5 streets the wrong way Where is Duquesne finest