Retro Baltimore Part 21 (1980s)

[@MarloSoBalJr]

I can't say how much I appreciate you showcasing these archive news stories. I was born in '93 and only have a vague memory of Baltimore before the 2000s but now I know how similar our generation is to the previous from 30-40 years ago. Also, I operate buses for MTA, so that report on the ADA-compatible buses becoming a "new" thing is so interesting 😂

[@BaltimoreHistoryChannel410]

Thanks, buddy. The world we are living in today is going through a recycle, the same problems that was going on back thing in the 1980s is happening again in this generation. I don't see things getting better anytime soon. We got 7-10 more years left.

[@BiffTannen1983]

​@@BaltimoreHistoryChannel410your channel has the best videos. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤️

[@ernestgarrison2029]

I was at the first Afram, I was there when, they cut the ribbon at the Harbor. I road the subway the first day it open. I lived in Baltimore 61 years all my life. MY grandparents and parents were born here. I wish we still had the Afro clean block, when everybody got together and cleaned their neighborhoods.

[@angelicbean7635]

I been here 54 years in MD my formative years in the city . I wished we all could live in the city again . Me and all my family lived there and neighbors But it will never happen again in my life time . And that makes me sad. I can't even look at my old neighborhood without a deep sadness .

[@craigbrown6951]

Everyone, including myself. Please support this channel. If you truly love Baltimore you will appreciate the content that this individual puts out and does research whatever I'm appreciative of it and I need to do more to support this channel

[@ernestgarrison2029]

I miss the city fair.

[@mztabatha]

I do too.

[@brittanykirk2987]

Lead paint is another factor that contributed to the decline of Baltimore but often times that factor gets overlooked. Once a lot of landlords found out about lead paint poisoning and once the city set regulations for the lead paint removal, a lot these landlords didn’t have the money to make those changes to their properties. A lot of them just let the houses go back to the bank and abandoned them. You would have to strip everything in the house and replace the paint everywhere, some owners also let the city buy the homes from them for dirt cheap but the city never did anything with those houses, causing more eye sores around the city. They’re finally attacking that problem after 75 years. Baltimore city been filled with abandoned houses and slums since the 1890’s, it was only in certain areas though and they kept the poor ppl contained in those areas back then. Pigtown was one of the 1st slums in Baltimore dating back to the 1890’s. Nowadays, neglected properties and houses is all across the city from east to west Baltimore, north to south Baltimore. Our county areas are clean but that’s about it.

[@MarloSoBalJr]

My grandfather owned an apartment (2.5 units) on Auchentoroly Terrace with lead paint. Nice home(s) but that lead paint dust settling over a 90 year span (since 1870s?) was God awful. Peeled off like a snowfall

[@ravenaider]

Also Flouridated water is a factor

[@missshannon9790]

@ravenaider What's wrong with flouride water?

[@deshaunellis]

Another Classic for us . Baltimore is truly a historical city but never get the credit like other big cities

[@BaltimoreHistoryChannel410]

Yeah that's true.

[@allenstamper6804]

Man I miss the old busses they brought more memories

[@Parisraven]

11:15 in the video, that light still looks the same but it can be hectic turning onto Belair lol and way more foot traffic

[@yvonnebaltimore7729]

Another great vid!✨️❤️

[@sneakerzoutkastz8596]

Thank you for posting 😊

[@BaltimoreHistoryChannel410]

No problem buddy.

[@Marley99846]

Need that now

[@wraithstrongopark]

when they started moving the ethnic festivals, you knew it was a wrap. harbor place was the corporate powerhouse(the Rouse Co. ran it back then)and they didn't want anything to do with the fair, or the festivals.

[@woodbeastonyoutube9086]

Great episode. Question These recent house's that fell did they contain lead paint? Is that why old homes are not torn down? Happy Thanksgiving guys

[@BaltimoreHistoryChannel410]

Happy Thanksgiving. Are you talking about the event that took place in pigtown?

[@woodbeastonyoutube9086]

@@BaltimoreHistoryChannel410 The ones in the past few years?

[@ShORTiiqOtGaM3]

Damn they had real nice roads back then smh probably bc the current roads are those same original ones smh😭

[@ernestgarrison2029]

That neighborhood has went to the dogs. Southwest Baltimore

[@tiffsince84]

.60 cents for bus fare? In the eighties?

[@weezedurham4207]

Hellair n erdman was clean

[@warrenkemmer1307]

No wonder black folks felt some kind of way about the police back then, not one of them cops on that raid was black and i bet none lived in the city and probably had a us vs them mentality.