"it could bring people here and it could take people away from here." Fast forward to today... He don't know how right he was, just those words have a different kinda twist to them. Such a sad shocking sight on Penn, North, Druid, Franklin, MLK... All of it. Bmore needs love man.
This is Baltimore in the 80’s…. not much has changed since then, but this is where we were born and raised, this is “our city”, I appreciate the knowledge you give on the history of this place, you have great content, best of the history channel’s I’ve came across on RUclips thus far.
O yes i Remember this. I use to go to the upton rec center as a kid and the summer camp. Mrs Renee(i think thats her name) and Mr Cobb. I think he died a while back. Lexington market had the best chicken necks and chicken livers ever!
I lived on dolphin street right off Pennsylvania ave in McCullough homes That was my grandmother's house Then my parents moved to some apartments just below Martin luther king jr Blvd My aunt lived around the corner from shake & bake and my other aunt lived on division street
No projects came cause the growing middle class moved out of the city. The subway just allowed an undesirable element to be able to travel around faster.
They left because most of the jobs left when corporations decided to sell out America to increase profits. Which is what happened all over the country since about 1980. All the former decent working class jobs got sent to places like Mexico, China, and other parts of Latin America and Southeast Asia. All of the neoliberal polices over the last 40 years have weakened the middle and working classes while exploding the wealth of the super rich billionaire class. Today, an average CEO makes over 300 times the average worker compared to about 10-12 times in 1960. Long gone are the days when a man could own a home and 2 cars with a wife and kids on a single union working class job. Like at an automotive plant or Bethlehem Steel in Baltimore. Nowadays, it's hard for someone who is working class to even afford a decent one bedroom apartment. It's almost impossible to start a family too. Partly for these economic reasons, but also for social reasons One top of all the economic changes, there have also been social changes. Like the growth of feminism. Where women now graduate college at a 60-40 rate vs. men. So fewer and fewer women would be interested in dating a working class man. Since women are hypergamous by nature and almost never 'date down' economically. The combination of economic and social changes in such a short time has totally devastated entire communities and cities all over the country. Working class men have seen their economic/social standing fall more than anyone since about 1980 The government foresaw these effects coming from their neoliberal agenda. Why they ramped up the drug war in the 80s. As a way of controlling this growing group of superfluous people. A group who could be dangerous, as disaffected young men have been the most dangerous group in any society throughout history. Most times, they have little or nothing to lose.
"it could bring people here and it could take people away from here." Fast forward to today... He don't know how right he was, just those words have a different kinda twist to them. Such a sad shocking sight on Penn, North, Druid, Franklin, MLK... All of it. Bmore needs love man.
This is Baltimore in the 80’s…. not much has changed since then, but this is where we were born and raised, this is “our city”, I appreciate the knowledge you give on the history of this place, you have great content, best of the history channel’s I’ve came across on RUclips thus far.
Thank you for the kind words 🥰🥰🥰
Goodmorning! and your very welcome 🙂
"it means hope and the rebirth of a neighborhood . . ." smh
The Avenue lol
Them projects never came smh
Difficult for a city without trees or green space to survive
O yes i Remember this. I use to go to the upton rec center as a kid and the summer camp. Mrs Renee(i think thats her name) and Mr Cobb. I think he died a while back. Lexington market had the best chicken necks and chicken livers ever!
Omg I remember Mr Cobb! I grew up on Robert St. Wow
I lived on dolphin street right off Pennsylvania ave in McCullough homes
That was my grandmother's house
Then my parents moved to some apartments just below Martin luther king jr Blvd
My aunt lived around the corner from shake & bake and my other aunt lived on division street
Hopefully u got outta there 🤣🤣🤣 nah jk I love my city!!
I wouldn't even let my dog walk up and down Penn/north.
👍👍
No projects came cause the growing middle class moved out of the city. The subway just allowed an undesirable element to be able to travel around faster.
They left because most of the jobs left when corporations decided to sell out America to increase profits. Which is what happened all over the country since about 1980. All the former decent working class jobs got sent to places like Mexico, China, and other parts of Latin America and Southeast Asia.
All of the neoliberal polices over the last 40 years have weakened the middle and working classes while exploding the wealth of the super rich billionaire class.
Today, an average CEO makes over 300 times the average worker compared to about 10-12 times in 1960. Long gone are the days when a man could own a home and 2 cars with a wife and kids on a single union working class job. Like at an automotive plant or Bethlehem Steel in Baltimore. Nowadays, it's hard for someone who is working class to even afford a decent one bedroom apartment. It's almost impossible to start a family too. Partly for these economic reasons, but also for social reasons
One top of all the economic changes, there have also been social changes. Like the growth of feminism. Where women now graduate college at a 60-40 rate vs. men. So fewer and fewer women would be interested in dating a working class man. Since women are hypergamous by nature and almost never 'date down' economically. The combination of economic and social changes in such a short time has totally devastated entire communities and cities all over the country. Working class men have seen their economic/social standing fall more than anyone since about 1980
The government foresaw these effects coming from their neoliberal agenda. Why they ramped up the drug war in the 80s. As a way of controlling this growing group of superfluous people. A group who could be dangerous, as disaffected young men have been the most dangerous group in any society throughout history. Most times, they have little or nothing to lose.
Oh it brought ppl in all right 😏
And if say Pencil- vania avenue one more time 😫🤣