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1920's Pigtown, South Baltimore MD
Found this commercial quality 35mm film in my great grandparents' basement back in 1995...I don't know how they came into possession of it, but I just recently had it processed. It features various shots from the "Pigtown" neighborhood of Baltimore City (where they were from). I'm guessing the (mid) 20's or early 30's, but I don't know for sure. There are lots of layers to this- I've watched it several times and pick up something new each viewing. The street shots were filmed at 1223 [Washington Blvd.], and the school recess shots are at Charles Carroll Barrister Elementary (School 34). I'm hoping someone recognizes a family member. Let me know if you have any questions or can help with m...
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  • @ThereWasABadKittiFromBmore
    @ThereWasABadKittiFromBmore 17 дней назад

    Crazy!! All of these videos are coming up from my Watch Later list. That's new RUclips ish....but they have taken down half of those videos. Wish I would have watched them, now they're sending me my leftovers...ain't that a b*tch😈

  • @franklinhernandez683
    @franklinhernandez683 Месяц назад

    You think you're going to see crime in that place like that

  • @franklinhernandez683
    @franklinhernandez683 Месяц назад

    Because he's innocent beautiful young ladies look at the way they dress look at the way they stuck together not to look do for mischief not to get over not to do just doing what white people were doing at that time making things work

  • @franklinhernandez683
    @franklinhernandez683 Месяц назад

    These are the people who made Baltimore these are the people who made it a special place to live these are the people who then took off in white flight because they knew they were effed if they stay there

  • @edstylc2441
    @edstylc2441 2 месяца назад

    I know this is an old thread (which I've seen many times). Just stumbled across a colorized version someone did on youtube of it. ruclips.net/video/kYtOqTCIPm4/видео.html

  • @masasaiyan6216
    @masasaiyan6216 3 месяца назад

    I could be looking right at my paternal relatives and not realize it. My Grandpop was born in 1915 and my Grandmother in 1920. My Dad and his siblings went to old School 34 in the 40s and 50s.

  • @dalecassidy49
    @dalecassidy49 3 месяца назад

    Pretty sure this was mid-late 20s when this was taken. I’m basing it on the fact that my mother had that exact same haircut, that the girls in this film have have and she was born in 1920. The picture I have of her is from 1927 with that haircut.

  • @thomashunt413
    @thomashunt413 4 месяца назад

    What's with the child molester in the backyard playing with the children? Strange. John Wayne Gacy's grandfather?

  • @user-ce9ge7rz3p
    @user-ce9ge7rz3p 4 месяца назад

    I wonder who filmed this fun filled gathering ❤❤❤❤ normal moment lost in time

  • @BiffTannon1983
    @BiffTannon1983 4 месяца назад

    That police officer was HUGE! 😳. From what I understand, the police were respectable & friendly, back then.

  • @TheFiscallySound
    @TheFiscallySound 4 месяца назад

    All of those people in this film are dead

  • @Walkingcedar2006
    @Walkingcedar2006 5 месяцев назад

    This feels like about 1930, going by the hair, clothes, and the car models. But, whatever. My Dad may have actually been born by this time, which was 1930, Mom in 1932. It might be 1928, but not much earlier.

    • @jelly.212
      @jelly.212 4 месяца назад

      So why did 'you' guys ruin Baltimore? 🤔 Wasn't there enough gibs?

  • @BigBoy4482
    @BigBoy4482 5 месяцев назад

    I grew up in Pigtown in the 80's i lived on the 700 block of Carroll St from 88-02

  • @user-mc6tr1vp2v
    @user-mc6tr1vp2v 6 месяцев назад

    that man with the peg leg... all the faces... such a wonderful document of history and humanity

  • @lotus6964
    @lotus6964 6 месяцев назад

    They had video recorders back then?

  • @AmericanMicro
    @AmericanMicro 7 месяцев назад

    I live in Blatimore, Park Hieghts

  • @fleotusbing
    @fleotusbing 7 месяцев назад

    Amazing footage! I'm Baltimore born, raised, and still live there. Was in Pigtown yesterday. The neighborhood's looking good.

  • @mikejordan6036
    @mikejordan6036 7 месяцев назад

    No didn't recognize my kid because that was a 100 yesrs ago Dummy

  • @Tom-xv5rk
    @Tom-xv5rk 7 месяцев назад

    My guess was Washington Blvd. Thanks for sharing.

  • @Auroradiluculum
    @Auroradiluculum 8 месяцев назад

    Wow!! Thank you!

  • @iracknads
    @iracknads 8 месяцев назад

    ruclips.net/video/kYtOqTCIPm4/видео.html Nass just restored this one. Very charming!

  • @nasshad1667
    @nasshad1667 8 месяцев назад

    Hi Dear, I hope you are well, I would like to colorize and restore this black and white footage and post the result on my channel. I will credit you and write all the information about the original black and white source in the description, I hope to get an answer from you.

  • @kyleberlin6990
    @kyleberlin6990 8 месяцев назад

    Thanks blacks

  • @toddcombs7221
    @toddcombs7221 8 месяцев назад

    Wow all of the little ladies have on dresses no pants.

  • @MagneticEnt.
    @MagneticEnt. 9 месяцев назад

    How did I bump into this .. beautiful just beautiful!!!! Love from California

  • @machinemanbaltimore
    @machinemanbaltimore 9 месяцев назад

    Love this!!!! Better times and better people.

    • @WestmoreCorp
      @WestmoreCorp 9 месяцев назад

      ...Not necessarily better for everyone, but definitely different.

  • @georgecavanaugh8757
    @georgecavanaugh8757 10 месяцев назад

    Ahhhh haaaaaa! That proves it! You see, pigtown was full of white people back in the 1920’s. See how the government gave them all brand new houses, and cleaned up after them. The government didn’t allow white people to be poor. Whenever they needed something they just went to the store and showed their skin color. Now that black people are in pigtown the government just lets their houses get run down, leaves trash on street, and tries to force them to pay for goods at the store. (Tries). This is all the proof you need of white privilege.

    • @bryp6553
      @bryp6553 9 месяцев назад

      Maybe if you people cleaned up the places you lived in and acted like decent folk the city wouldn't look like and be a shithole but we all know you guys aren't going to do that and that's why Baltimore, Detroit, and any other black majority place will forever be a shithole until either you guys get your act together which will never happen or the whites take back those cities.

    • @WestmoreCorp
      @WestmoreCorp 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@bryp6553Bryan, your ignorance is abysmal if you still think this after all we've uncovered. It's more likely you're a bot than THIS ignorant, but just in case... See this GOVERNMENT admission on fault for the past AMD current plight of poor Black neighborhooda around the U.S. Understanding redlining (handout) - files.consumerfinance.gov. files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_building_block_activities_understanding-redlining_handout.pdf

  • @clifforddriver9434
    @clifforddriver9434 10 месяцев назад

    The more things change the more things remain the same.

  • @liveandletlive807
    @liveandletlive807 11 месяцев назад

    99% sure my great-grandma is at 3:19. She is the tall one on the right. She was from the next neighborhood over so it might not be her but I'm almost positive she attended School 34. She was born to a poor parents that were immigrants from Germany. She went on to have six children, one of which became my grandmother. Almost all of her descendants still reside in or around Baltimore, myself included. Amazing to see this. Thanks for posting!

    • @helenpurcell5742
      @helenpurcell5742 10 месяцев назад

      I think this video is the coolest thing ever I've done watched it like 10 x

    • @Moxiestechnical
      @Moxiestechnical 4 месяца назад

      What was your grandmother name on your father's side I believe she could be related to me

  • @1962dbrown
    @1962dbrown 11 месяцев назад

    Where is the sound???

    • @georgefold
      @georgefold 11 месяцев назад

      It's from the 20's. There is no sound. 🥴

  • @LoyalOpposition
    @LoyalOpposition 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you for uploading this!

  • @millermark445
    @millermark445 Год назад

    Reminds me of scenes from Spanky and Our Gang

  • @millermark445
    @millermark445 Год назад

    Pigtown was always a working class neighborhood in SW Baltimore City. These might not have been the so-called "good old days," but you didn't have a murder rate of over 300 every year. These kids are enjoying themselves, having good, clean fun in one of the city's poorer neighborhoods. No doubt, some of these these kids' kids and grand-kids are still with us.

    • @liveandletlive807
      @liveandletlive807 11 месяцев назад

      Yep, definitely still here! My great-grandma is at 3:19.

  • @daleestep9518
    @daleestep9518 Год назад

    Back when the community actually cared about where they lived in their neighbors

  • @iVenge
    @iVenge Год назад

    As others have said, this is definitely 1920s footage. Probably mid- to late decade.

  • @mistrotech8894
    @mistrotech8894 Год назад

    It's crazy that I have family still alive that can remember times not that distant from this. Cherish your elders. I guarantee there are many stories you still haven't heard. The other crazy thing...those houses are still there and look pretty similar, but now just run-down with garbage in the streets. It has been forgotten. Used to live nearby, but had to move out after the riots. This video reminds me of my family and ancestors along Lombard street. It is a joy to watch.

    • @WestmoreCorp
      @WestmoreCorp 9 месяцев назад

      Which riots forced you to move?

  • @Kaodusanya
    @Kaodusanya Год назад

    THEY TIED A ROPE TO THAT BLACK BOY'S WOODEN LEG AND YANKED ON IT!!!!!! ruclips.net/video/YjTtBn4ivas/видео.html

  • @mtmstang23
    @mtmstang23 Год назад

    Now all these homes are owned by the ghetto 😢 😩

  • @tcarp77
    @tcarp77 Год назад

    Who is the tall guy with the weird hat???????

  • @josephmosca4506
    @josephmosca4506 Год назад

    Was that film on Washington Boulevard

  • @tcarp77
    @tcarp77 Год назад

    Little did they know their beloved neighborhood would soon be completely destroyed

  • @Hugh-Glass
    @Hugh-Glass Год назад

    george Fold,. Thank you for this video. Do you have a means of loading the longer clip that shows the kids playing the mean trick on the old peg leg man? I large wager depends on it..I'll split the proceeds if so. Thank you Sir, this is greatness

    • @georgefold
      @georgefold Год назад

      It's all one video. The part you're referencing is at 4:20. Good luck!

    • @Hugh-Glass
      @Hugh-Glass Год назад

      ​@@georgefoldthank you

  • @user-po8no1xp6e
    @user-po8no1xp6e Год назад

    I love watching these old American videos in which people and children were so friendly and close to one another. I sometimes cannot believe this is old America. Today people in the USA seem cold and very distant from one another. For example when did you last time see a group of children holding each other's arms and playing?

    • @ph214
      @ph214 Год назад

      I mean, they were punching each other in the face. I get it, it was all in play, but wow

  • @unclegoose3864
    @unclegoose3864 Год назад

    Its a shithole these days.

  • @God_Help_Us_AII
    @God_Help_Us_AII Год назад

    Sometimes I wish I had a time machine!

  • @jayreffner8831
    @jayreffner8831 Год назад

    Wow! Amazing footage. This should have way more views than it does.

  • @keithwilliams3073
    @keithwilliams3073 Год назад

    I lived in Morrell park don't know why it's called pig Town

  • @mikerocks8930
    @mikerocks8930 Год назад

    I lived in the 700 block of Washington Blvd .

  • @patricadyson778
    @patricadyson778 Год назад

    Why did they call it Pig Towne ?

  • @mvximus3188
    @mvximus3188 Год назад

    My great grandparents owned a farm and raised seven children on the land that the natty boh brewery now stands on (for us baltimorianz)