West Side of Bridgeport Connecticut.

[@tinman4585]

I fished pleasure beach every day as a kid. Fond memories of an old black woman teaching me how to catch fluke but cleaning them was tough. Mom used to fry them for us in Crisco❤️😀

[@katjetson]

There's something online for everyone, right? I grew up in Bridgeport but moved to L.A. in 1998. It's such a weird and wonderful thing to have nostalgia readily available on KZbin. Thanks for posting these.

[@fatherpanic1]

Me too grew up in BPT, left in 92 moved Atlanta.

[@richardminfield6767]

@@fatherpanic1 hey Ms. Johnson I grew up with your family in Marina Apts I moved out of Bpt some 15 years ago

[@richardminfield6767]

I lived in L.A as well however after 7yrs I came back to CT because my Grandmother passed away I grew up in PT Barnum and Marina I left bpt again 15 yrs ago

[@richardprovenzano904]

Awesome seeing my old city. My family left Bridgeport in 1975 when I was only 14. Nice taking a stroll down memory lane. Thanks

[@AryLand1975]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ABCBI]

Thanks for making and sharing this video! Brought back many memories. Born and raised there from 59 to 95, the port will always be home!

[@AryLand1975]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@JJ33438]

my brothers used to play at Went Field and Mt. Grove Cemetary! I lived in the west end have strong memories of that area. thank you for doing this!

[@gradventures9266]

I moved away from Bridgeport back in 95, I didn’t realize how much I missed it! I lived off of Boston Ave

[@Solercharge]

My thoughts exactly!

[@walkergillette3918]

I would only miss Bridgeport if I was in prison now

[@Jewelzbabiii]

31:23 my neighborhood 😩 so this is what homesick feels like 💔 been out of bpt for almost 7rs . Thanks for this upload .

[@xtraRellish]

Dang I put sooooooo many miles on these streets riding my bicycles. Awesome route choice. Keep up the content 👌

[@Solercharge]

I've always wondered if someday someone would upload dashcam videos of Bridgeport and then i find this. Thank you for sharing this. I didn't think i was going to feel like i was sitting in the front seat of your vehicle and seeing my home town again so soon. I was born and raised in Bridgeport. I moved to Florida in 2007 and never returned. I still get homesick from time to time. I left behind some very good memories and dark ones too. Thank you for this journey through my hometown. You picked the best music 🎶 for your video. I listen to a lot of Lofi hip-hop when driving around Florida. I've subscribed and will be looking through your Bridgeport videos. Please make more.

[@AryLand1975]

Thanks so awesome! Thank you for watching.

[@mattymatt6970]

there are A LOT of dash cam videos of bridgeport. all you have to do is search "bridgeport" on youtube

[@AryLand1975]

@@mattymatt6970 that's what it sounds like he did and found this video.

[@mattymatt6970]

@@AryLand1975 lol. ya. good possibility

[@Solercharge]

@@mattymatt6970 exactly what @Aryland said lol - I typed in Bridgeport and Aryland popped up.

[@Pnbjbty]

Maplewood ave and Norman st where i grew up. I still comeback to visit sometimes.

[@BasementVinyL85]

Huh? I grew up on maplewood and Norman too.. the condiminums and norman st market was the 💩

[@DrinkingStar]

Ary, for most of my early life, from birth to young adulthood(1945-1971), I grew up in the West Side except for the 3 years I lived in Success Park on the East Side during the time span. I have old photos of my grandfather's house and property which were located between Monroe and Hope Streets.. That area has changed much from the time he owned it. The Goodwll Building now stands across the street from it. The southern side of Hope, at one time, was the location of marshland that the city filled by using it as the town dump. Buildings and houses now stand on the dump-filled marsh land. At the far southern end of the marsh were 2 large buildings. One was used for running alcohol in the 1930s and the other was used, I believe, as a monastery of sorts. I also remember catching 2 turtles on the southern side of Fairfield Ave. near my father's garage which is roughly where the Post Office is now located. The area between Fairfield Ave and State Street running from Black Rock to downtown has also changed dramatically from when I was growing up in Bridgeport. BYW, I tell everyone my motto is:"Bridgeport born, Bridgeport bred, Bridgeport dead". [LOL] P.S. I now live in Monroe and I go to Seaside Park everyday. Is it a coincidence or a foretelling that I would live in Monroe when I lived on Monroe Street in Bridgeport during my infancy?

[@joeschnell5695]

Those traffic lights on railroad ave I would never sit at when I used to drive taxi on the overbite shift. The red lights would take too long to change to green. Love watchin your Bpt drive-thrus, keeps me remembering where I came from. Except for my school years (lived in and went to Milford public schools) then when I graduated I started my adult life in Bpt. Was born in Bpt but my mom elected to move to another town when my brother Steve (R.I.P) and I were about to be school age because she didn’t like the Bpt school system.

[@tomweeks5489]

Thanks for video; it brought back so many memories. I live in Florida now but used to live on Norman Street near Fairfield Ave when I was 19 and first moved away from my parents. My Dad’s factory he worked at for 30 years is off of Railroad Ave; I think it is now part of the Kennedy center or was. First job I had at 16 was there; Jason Shears and Powerwinch. They moved to Shelton in 1975.

[@rabahyacobi7161]

Nice video. Thank you

[@kendallstratton5547]

I was a kid that lived at 133/135 Wordin Ave (right across from Went Park) in BPT back in the late 60's & early/mid 70's and truly enjoyed watching your video. I see that the house is still standing and hasn't changed much at all, except it was olive green in color back then. It was the summer of 1970 that I was about to turn 4 y/o and almost got killed right in front of the house we lived in when I got run over by a car on Wordin Ave. Whatever happened to the factories on west end of State Street? The Pyramid? The State Street Diner? The Chicken Roost? The old A&P grocery store? It's all gone!! I remember the old guy with a few small Boston Terriers that lived in the building in the middle of Went Park. I remember taking our laundry to the laundry mat that was on state street around the corner and having the older kids in the neighborhood steal our money and throw me and my twin sister in dryer. I remember that our 3rd grade class at Elias Howe had to have classes over at Bassick High School because of overcrowding at the elementary school. As a young white kid, I used to get my ass beat and my lunch money stolen all the time at the high school. I remember being 6 or 7 y/o and sitting on the front step of the Pyramid and listening to the music while the adults partied there.. Until there was a shooting there and then mom said no more. We moved to Fairfield in '75 because it was getting to be a rough neighborhood. Tell me something that I can't remember... There used to be a hot dog stand, owned by an older black man and his wife, down towards Seaside Park that was either on Park Ave, Main Street or one of those streets that ran parallel with those streets and was on the left hand side of the road and I cannot for the life of me remember the name of that place? They had the absolute best chili dogs and were the nicest of people we ever knew. For some reason, the name Johnson seems to be coming to mind, but I'm not sure. It was a long time ago. Anyway... Thanks for the memories!

[@justincolatarci4604]

Thank you, Please more North End

[@CobblestoneAndBirch]

Well done. "Back on Park", I was literally saying to myself, "omg, is that the old Carvel"? Then your words popped up that it's gone. :( Passing Kolbe Cathedral where I played basketball with St. Patrick's girls basketball team. So eerie seeing the site of the collapsed L'Ambience Plaza where I think more than 25 people died. The 17 year old that passed, was a senior at Notre Dame HS where I was a Sophomore. It really hit everyone so extremely hard. Bittersweet memories in this video.

[@Pappysan]

That Carvel turned into a "head shop" selling pipes, etc. The original guys got busted for actually selling weed there but also had a couple of pistols. It's still a head shop, though.

[@nakaiswilling0369]

This one was the best for me this was my old neighborhood remember the Laombience plaza you started down the hill from it loved it

[@tomweeks5489]

I remember Laombience as well back in 1987. Worked Remington Shaver when that collapsed. I also always admired that BLDG with the twin turrets on top down the road.

[@MoniqueSkyy]

i don't know why this made me emotional....... but I haven't been home in 3 years lol

[@bigtinymanowarrior7330]

It's been 5 years for me and I'm homesick as well.

[@DucNguyen-bn8cc]

Thanks ....I always remember this place

[@TonyKopatch]

I'm up in New London I do miss my old town

[@titocruz6772]

Do you have videos on capital Ave over by main st n Madison thru there

[@FloresLopez]

Looking back at my childhood home. Looks so different. Been gone since 2000 but for some reason idk if I can return there

[@danocable]

My dad was from Bridgeport. A lot of OConnells in Bridgeport.☘️🙏😇👍

[@michaelzeisler2257]

My family had Zeislers Bakery on Fairfield Ave

[@fatherpanic1]

Passing St. Augustine brought back memories.

[@paulromsky9527]

Good idea heading down those streets on a gloomy winter day. Try it on a sweltering hot and humid summer night around 1AM.

[@Bluecollar711]

When you turned onto State Street all I could remember was State we're back in nineteen Eighty-Four 1985 1986 were the biggest cocaine wars

[@nakaiswilling0369]

That was my last old neighborhood before we moved out of Bridgeport in 91 down to Miami Florida I've been here ever since I was supposed to go up last year but the covert messed everything up and I can't go to my Grandma's birthday party should be 100 next month love the videos Man keep it up

[@AryLand1975]

I'm trying so hard to move out of Bridgeport. I'm trying to move to Florida or South Carolina ASAP.

[@nakaiswilling0369]

@@AryLand1975 yo I'm telling you these videos are the s*** on where you live at when you take the walk the dog for a walk was in back of that church across the street you said the school was there and caught on fire and it's gone and that parking lot behind the church I got arrested right after I move to Florida two months later I went back up I got my dad's truck four wheel drive my dad had a toll rope in your when you found a pallet so I tied up the the rope to the pallet and I was driving my boys all around the the parking lot and they arrested me for endangering three lights and that has stupid Connecticut longer to go to court I think was that was it called on top of Hill road chopsy Hill road are you moving to I'm in fort Lauderdale right now hit me up Facebook is better I'm the only one in the world with my name on my TV not the phone and now that top is a piece of s***

[@blessedbeauty2293]

- 1:27 it is no longer exit 2.

[@Tzippi]

How is living in Bridgeport? I’m peeping out a job there. Does it always look this snowy in the winter? Any sailing? Nice people?

[@loraweeks420]

I remember that road it's railroad Ave I'm from bpt

[@gregdolan6623]

Thanks for the great video! Spent my childhood on those streets. Lived on Wood & Maplewood, then moved to North & Briarwood. Why did you stop with the street names 1/2 way thru? Any plans to edit them in?

[@loraweeks420]

I remember that road it's dewy street

[@stephenmacdaniel5288]

One of the original West siders poplar represent.

[@dcarroll3686]

359 Norman and 740 Ellsworth tough years but it taught me soo much !

[@randomname7269]

My favorite Chinese food place at 30:10 🥴

[@Jewelzbabiii]

The best ! I miss it 😪

[@JJ33438]

thank you - I used to live there.

[@dhis888]

left bridgeport in the 70's. i was following along pretty good while you were putting up the street names then i got lost ! where you said the carvel is gone is that area where king cole super market used to be ?

[@AryLand1975]

yes.. that was the location of King Cole Super Market. It has been demolished early 2000's.

[@AryLand1975]

there will be a part 2 to this video..

[@dhis888]

@@AryLand1975 thank you for the reply. my wife and i were back in bridgeport a few years ago and i was having some trouble remembering my way around...thank god for gps lol

[@AryLand1975]

@@dhis888 it's sad how much Bridgeport has changed..

[@dhis888]

@@AryLand1975 i forgot how narrow streets get with snow and on street parking !

[@donflash1128]

You went past Bassick High right after the Klein.

[@AryLand1975]

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[@AryLand1975]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqCYoauNhMtrrpI this video is the start of the new Bassick location .

[@frankierobinsonsr277]

You were on the West End...Whittier st at the top was Whittier School..I grew up in PT Barnum Apt which is on the west end you were near there but didn't go...Bridgeport

[@AryLand1975]

I followed the Mail and Line and Signs road map. Google Maps also has it listed as west side.

[@paulromsky9527]

Nice video, but you missed listing what street you are turning on in a few places. You should edit the video to put those in, and on long streets, list a major cross street as you get to them.

[@AryLand1975]

I do normally put in names but it adds 5-6 hours of editing time I don't have .. I work a lot and have kids..

[@paulromsky9527]

@@AryLand1975 I hear you. Sometimes I edit a video and don't see errors until I play it back a few times... yup, it takes hours. I only commented because you did such a great job. I was following on Google Maps as you made each turn (and got lost toward the end). Since 1971 (when I left Bridgeport, but visited often), Bridgeport has changed a lot. I can't identify neighborhoods by look anymore, so I have to follow maps. Ahhh, kids... yes, they take priority. Thanks and Peace. You inspired me to do a drive through my town I call home (Hollis, NH). I started planning my route yesterday.

[@bigtinymanowarrior7330]

7:07 L.B. Tire to the left. Arnolds Cafe to the right if I'm not mistaken. Yes I'm old school

[@AryLand1975]

wow! nice to see people with the same memories.

[@loraweeks420]

You should show the night life of bpt

[@paulromsky9527]

At 8:30 you ran a red light. Rarely you will get pulled over for "shaving" a red light, but if you do, make sure you slide out your PBA card (or a $50 bill) behind your license as you show it. I never had problems with the "B'powt" police. Fairfield on the other hand is mostly after motorists.

[@gottimercs]

At 6:38 any one Remember those two streets on right side that don't exist anymore what they were called I forgot

[@paulromsky9527]

Late 1970's comment: "You want a tip? Don't go down State Street at night."

[@kevinbenjamin1527]

I'm from West Epic Elite Poplar Street

[@Stovito]

Fairfield ave 💪🏿

[@beverlymcgue514]

could not see names on business and got a headache going to fast... but at least i got to see where i might be moving too.

[@AryLand1975]

you can control the speed of the video in your settings.

[@paulcameron7509]

Bridgeport has so much repo activity going on. The west side is not rarely built, with the new movement of Bassett high School. Bridgeport soon change. Bridgeport is populated with so many zoning grounds, anyting can make Bridgeport. I as Paul Cameron running for Mayor See's Bridgeport as a gold min 4 prophecy of our future. 2024 and beyond would be a new beginning for our Bridgeport world. Infrastructure all around will be completed for new days to see. As far as what I see in hearing there is so much Bridgeport needs and we will establish that by our communities together. Now I have a plan that is just unrevealed yet and I will make sure our needs will be met. So instead of criticizing come to the table and make Bridgeport great. Vote November 7th 2023

[@sethcarley1446]

MR ARYLAND ,,FYI ,,, THAT RIDE WAS NOT THE WEST END OF BRIDGEPORT .. YOU TOOK US THROUGH THE HOLLOW THROUGH BULLS HEAD MAIN ST OVER WASHINGTON AVE DOWN PARK AVE . WHAT SIDE OF THE WEST END WAS THAT . THING YOU NEED BETTER MAP ,, TRY AGAIN PLEASE

[@AryLand1975]

I'm 100% sure my mail rout is right.. I used 6 maps that say the same thing.. you might need to upgrade your map.. I won't try again because it's right.. I'll put money on it and win this bet again...

[@FloresLopez]

Omg a bodega in park ave where ma grandma used to buy spanish sex books in animation 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dapperdonny4051]

What are the current Demographics of Bridgeport?

[@nelsontorres8954]

Hancock and Maplewood was my old stomping grounds from 85 to 93

[@nakaiswilling0369]

Nelson I lived at 7:30 Maplewood Ave I think it was Hancock the side street from 88 to 91 if this was so we hung out with each other, my nickname is Kia does that sound familiar to you

[@nelsontorres8954]

@@nakaiswilling0369 Can you name the rest of us .cause if you can you know I know you.

[@nakaiswilling0369]

@@nelsontorres8954 my nickname is Kia that's what you guys used to call me I used to hang out with DJ Carlos he was short he had two little brothers Hector and Vic and then I remember spot head Vic I used to wear glasses and then there was Papa he was a little heavy weight white skin Puerto Rican he used to dress house his mom was a m*** and then it was for older guys young man guys that I remember but I can't remember names now I don't remember any more names, I used to drive around on the white dirt bike, and we all had stolen cars then that's where I learned how to do it

[@nelsontorres8954]

@@nakaiswilling0369 it was Carlos cheeks me Robert Henry yuck we ran the block also little Johnny and damares

[@nelsontorres8954]

@@nakaiswilling0369 I'm 50 years old

[@theoelliss2724]

I can applaud the efforts made by the producer of these sightseeing videos around Bridgeport. What saddens me, though - is his failure to traverse many significant through - streets, choosing instead to return to many of the same streets already traversed.…in the case of this video, those unseen streets and neighborhoods are: Bostwick Ave. (PT Barnum Apts., Captain’s Cove Seaport), Yacht St., lower Ellsworth St., Grovers Ave., Brewster St., Canfield Ave. (all in Black Rock), Wordin Ave., Wood Ave., Maplewood Ave., Briarwood Ave., Clinton Ave., and Brooklawn Ave. This video is promoted as a tour of the city’s West Side…the additional streets/thoroughfares listed here are what makes this video a complete presentation.

[@AryLand1975]

I don't have the time and money to do all that you said in one video.. this video took 3 days of my free time to make! so, i didn't fail anything.. No reason to be sad. I could of just done no videos because, i don't get paid to do this. i have kids, work and a life.. I make these video to make people happy... As soon as i start making money doing this, That's when i can afford to make really great detailed videos.

[@audreymorgan7787]

The west side is good only PTthe police always going

[@minickdon1798]

P.T. stand up

[@walkergillette3918]

terrible just terrible...not the city, this stinking music

[@AryLand1975]

Let's see you make a better video.. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@kevinbenjamin1527]

I'm from West Epic Elite Poplar Street