Sharon, Pennsylvania | A Sad Rust Belt City
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- They call it "Scarin Sharon, PA'' but I think after seeing this it might be for a whole other reason! This rust belt city has high crime at 40% over the national average, a poverty level of 27% (one of the highest in the state), and a declining population consistently each year (now 12.9k). This city was hit pretty hard from the industrial era decline and has been making recovery ever since. The empty buildings and condemned housing paint a picture of a once thriving place to be. Like most other places there are some good pockets in Sharon and its surroundings but here we are going to look at some of the more high crime areas and also some forgotten about places.
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This is a direct result of sending manufacturing overseas. We not only lost millions of factory jobs, but the millions of service jobs they supported. We should build what we buy.
I totally agree with what you're saying. There was a time the only time you bought things from overseas was if you went to Pier One or Cost Plus Imports.
Same in the UK, all manufacturing jobs, steel industries and everything else you can think of have moved to the Far East. This were all the semi skilled jobs that drove the UK forward. Now all the High Streets are full of cheaply made products produced in far away places. It’s an outrage that needs addressed pronto.
My booming steel town is now a ghost town.
Plus too many wealthy americans use off-shore 'tax havens' to evade taxes...$billions lost every year which could be used to support communities/businesses/infrastructure/attract new manufacturers....tragic😥
let say we put two products, one made in US and another made overseas but cheaper. I certainly sure that you would pick the cheaper one
I was born in the '50s and grew up in Sharon. At that time, it had one of the best school districts in the state as well as outstanding sports teams. Westinghouse Transformer Division and various steel industries were located in Sharon. It was a wonderful booming little city that had a small town atmosphere. Buhl Park
is a one-of-a-kind place for a town that size. There is, or at least was, a free golf course. The Girls' Buhl Club and Boys Buhl Club provided bowling, swimming and other activities on the evenings and weekends.
It was a great place to grow up and it saddens me to see its. decline
Maybe this showing of these places that became to this, is like a revealing, and perhaps by God, unknowingly to us, and maybe for improvement. The question is, why are these places like this now, what caused it, who caused it, when did it begin. No place should come to this and without people it would just be a beautiful thing created by God, so you have to wonder, what have people done, how did it come to this, and who did it. Maybe people just moved on and there is no bad reason for it, or, maybe it's time for honesty and facts.
There’s an enlightening article in the Baltimore Sun about what happened to the Sharon Steel Corp called “Peaks and Valleys of Business”.
It’s about Victor Posner, the “original corporate raider” who owned Sharon Steel. What he did to the 1000’a of workers he employed and their families is one of the most heartbreaking and cruel stories in American business.
It's a shame. Nice buildings, nice architecture. Some of that stuff would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to build today. Like that stone wall in front of that one abandoned church. It's a shame.
Thanks for the video. I was in Sharon a number of times in the early 80's and I considered it a very nice town. Sad to see it in disrepair.
I was born in Sharon in 1961 - moved to Mercer in 1st grade but, many friends and family members were still there until not so long ago. I love Sharon, and seeing this video brought tears to my eyes. So much of it is gone now, and so much more of it is just rotting away. God, I pray that the council can find a way to bring it back to life.
our country needs to bring back the manufacturing companies. I love this country. I would move to Sharon Pennsylvania. Thank you for sharing this video.
Thanks for watching!
I lived in Sharon for the first 18 years of my life. It is now one of the most depressed erias I know of. The house I grew up in was torn down afew years ago.
My wife grew up here. Even in mid-90's/early 00's this place was not doing too bad. I saw someone comment on the Winner's - that dude invented "the Club" - that car theft prevention device that locked to your steering wheel.
Crazy so many of those houses look like they could be fixed up and lived in.
Yep.. All it needs it a quick clean with cleaners from the doller store.
I was thinking the same thing
Know one has the money there to redo those homes.
Did a college internship back in 81 in Sharon. They get a lot of snow. It is a sad what happen with corporations moving everything to Asia. When I was there it was a nice town.
Thank you so much Hoods N Hollers for uploading this great video, I appreciate it!
I really enjoyed your narrative and the background music!
The absence of those contributes to the somber atmosphere of these videos. Which makes great impact on ones' mind.
The old downtown at the end is beautiful
You could literally make a horror movie out of this place its perfect..
Its always such a trip to see places when you live in that area and have to think where is that? You always uncover new spots in town for me now i have to check it out ha ha thanks
Mile long CSX trains with goods made in China pass through Sharon. To add insult to injury.
Sharon does look bad economically but it still has some industry left. The late Jim Winners put allot of investment in sharon till he passed about 10 years ago. Sharon steel, Winner electronic, the winner department store... Jim real believed investing into Sharon
Don't forget about JCL Energy! They are doing their best to turn it all around
I lived in Clark and my neighbor lived on Winner Road. So that's where the Winner's Tara restaurant is now. I was in that old original house when I was about 5; about 1958 at a Halloween party. I still have a red security club for my car.
When I was a kid we lived in a town nearby Sharon. We would go there every once in a while because they had a good medical clinic. They also had nice shops and restaurants. I think we went there for shoes at least once a year.
You probably went to the Reyers shoe store, which used to be a real destination. There were charter buses from Pittsburgh, Cleveland and other towns/cities that were hired specifically to go to Reyers. Sadly, the owners of Reyers said that they couldn't maintain a profit in Sharon anymore and have recently relocated to a new location in eastern Ohio.
Seems a lot of houses there are being abandoned.nice sharing
Sharon’s north and east side of town is still nice, mostly by buhl park
I lived in Farrell for 2 decades and that's also the hood.
I did Farrell as well it’s uploaded on my channel. Thanks for watching!
Can't some of these restored and sold,such a shame
Beautiful place at one time mow the lawns and paint and you got a nice place again
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Thanks for watching!
Looks like a ghost town. We just moved out of Pennsylvania after living there for 66 years. What a shame that it is going downhill.
Im in central NY and the same is happening here... People are leaving fast. It's sad.
Pretty grim. Last time I was there must have been in the '80s to go to a place that was well known in the region for chicken wings. Can't believe my dad drove for like an hour. People would never do something like that today, and honestly, they wouldn't be wrong to.
Yeah the Quaker is still there surprisingly. No one I know goes there because they stopped doing the buffets and their prices are beyond affordable on everything.
It's crashed beyond belief
Horrible place to eat most of the time
People drive 6 hours to get a burger at In-and-Out.
I currently live next to Sharon in hermitage. The town has been bulldowning a lot of abandoned houses . Theres lots of homeless people living in abandoned homes and the downtown is getting a revitalization currently. Its still pretty dead thou. The buhl steel mill is still running but not in full capacity. Farrell the town next to sharon is exactly like this. I have a coworker who used to work in the steel mill and was there when they layed off everyone. These old farming turned into steel towns have not recovered at all. Even here in hermitage its dead. The mall they have here is nothing but a JCPenney's. Its so bad now that sharpsville is a part of hermitage now. They voted on combining the towns. The population is still very and hasn't recovered. Once i get money im leaving too.
I'm from New Castle. Moved away in 1993 same thing happened there.
I uploaded new castle as well!
I live in Sharon. I wish I could leave also. Hopefully an opportunity comes soon
I know a broad who use to live in East Palistine, Ohio who married an old man 22 years her senior because he is a rich old Doctor and now lives in Hermatage, the next town over from Sharon, Pennsylvania. This supports my theory of what I've always known and believed for a great many years now, and that is, If you've got the money, you get the honey. No money, no honey. She married him because of his money, yet she's one of those holier than thou preach the word ones who only believe in the end that money is their God. Finally came out in the wash as to who and what she really is.
Used to live on Baldwin ave. and absoultely dreamed of getting the heck out of there. That was a terrible neighborhood... had a friend help me get a job and move away to canton ohio (which wasn't any better, worse actually)... but eventually got my own place in sandyvalley and have never been better since. Keep looking, and don't give up.
I wish I could have them then remodel them. I love old small town houses. My Uncle lived there and their house was beautiful
Chester, Pa should be a stop on your tour, especially the west side.
That will be up this week actually!
@@hoodsnhollers I’m a fireman In Chester, it’s definitely interesting here…
@@egarrett1117 I was there on a weekday in the afternoon, and one thing i remember was how quiet it was, like a ghost town. Definitely want to do a night one there as well when i get some time to see the difference.
He wants to live to see his next birthday.
@@SJM6791 Have to update on that. I already did Chester, lost the top cam footage for it so only had one angle, wasnt happy with just that by itself. So had to redo it recently. It'll be up very shortly.
I understand now why Americans are the way they are. No shade, but I get why a lot of you are a bit crazy. It's a country of extremes.
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I want that boarded up house with the pink boards at 5:40
Why is this town nearly abandoned and trashed? It's like being content living in a declined neighborhood, that town can generate a lot of business and jobs, local leaders need to do something
There's some decent areas within Sharon but for the most part its a rust belt city on the decline, very similar to places nearby it. I have shown some of the worst parts. It has potential to turn around, but as of now things haven't changed in a very long time. Thanks for watching!
Wow amazing video it's looks a lot of house's abandoned Sharon Pennsylvania. From Edinburg Texas
I was born in Sharon, PA and while I haven’t been to Sharon in over a decade, I am saddened to see how the town has declined. 😊
I'd love to have seen it in the early 20th century. Bustling with people and factory buildings. The architecture is still lovely.
The first part of the video is Florence Street where we moved to in the late 60's. i was a great street to live on. I lived there with my mother and brother until 1973 when I moved to North Carolina. I worked at and was a member of The Boys Buhl Club while in Jr. High. I also worked at GC Murphy while in High School where my brother was assistant manager. Then I worked at National Casting when I graduated in 1970. I came back to visit about once a year. I saw the slow decline of the area over the years. Visiting now is very depressing. To see what use to be beautiful well kept homes either demolished vacant properties or vacant rundown home rotting away. It is very depressing to see. Makes me glad that I left when I did. So sad to see it decline. A lot of great memories growing up there.
if you are ever in this area again I recommend you check out Struthers and Youngstown Ohio. That is the heart of the rust belt IMO
I uploaded Youngstown on the channel a while back, check that one out! And thanks for watching!
@@hoodsnhollers I’ll definitely take a look. I thank the algorithm for finding your channel.
Growing up just across the border in Ohio we never heard much news about Sharon PA and Crime but that's not the case anymore.. seeing the blight has added to the element as well..i remember the days going there with the family when we needed shoes from Reyers..As a young person then we never saw this and thought how lovely the area and the town was..As i grew older it was going to Quacker Steak and Lube for bike night..The fire on the river..Fathers day Car Show all great things..crime has certainly found it's way in though..It all boils down to one thing..Leadership..Those in office there has a task and they need to step up and take charge..Those old homes no doubt were rentals at one time neglected by greety landlords failing to take care of their properties..Run down and abandoned..never held accountable and this is the result
The end of a empire...................................Sad
The people I work for we have torn down a lot and I mean a lot of houses and buildings in both Sharon and farrell
I drive past Sharon via I-80 between Chicago and New York City.
This is surprising to me, because Sharon does not have the distressed reputation of nearby NE Ohio cities Youngstown, Akron, Canton, and Cleveland.
been out here 2 years.im from Indiana. moving my family to Ohio.. came for a job and when I got here none🤔. and the hills,rains, and police is enough to run anybody out of here
Seeing this reminds me of the commercials for the winter. It was a department store, and I can still remember the song .My dad driving us from Warren ohio to that store.My Sharon has changed warren is even worse. 😢
Old mill houses, ha. I was born here in 1952; Sharon General Hospital across from Isaly's dairy. I don't know why they don't just tear those buildings down. My hippy friends live in one of the old Victorians that had large rooms and round rooms with round glass; a great house. They tore it down back in the '70's. My mother was born in one of those houses up from the old Westinghouse factory.
Pretty much all of Western Pennsylvania lost its industry beginning in the late 70's - early 80's and most of it has never been able to recover. I have lived in Wesstern Pa. all my life and it isn't anything near what it once was.
How sad, there's some very nice looking homes that need a family
Left PA in 2015 best choice ever my town I grew up in is a craphole to
Where did you decide to relocate?
@@hayro1088 Great State of Oklahoma
Why is the city allowing this?
Capatslisim does that.
5:25 that house was mine.
Even at the time of filming. Many of the homes here look abandoned but aren't. The state tore it down while we still owned it, and we never were paid. Lived there 12 years.
Why are so many empty houses all over the world ? Is so sad 😔
Why are so many homeless all over the world ?
This is sadder than sad 😔 is HORRIFIC
and i'm HORRIFIED, is like i'm having a nightmare , me watching a cheap movie.
Got to be a turning of tables
So sad. I hope we get rid of the evil in the government
Some of the houses have great potential
What happened? Steel Industry left ? I'm guessing
Sharon Steel bankrupt in 1992, Westinghouse in 1984, National Castings and GATX in the 80's. Probably more than that.
Was that the downtown at the end ? There's no traffic lol
Yup that was downtown
Now the local hospital, that was bought by a for-profit company, is at risk of closing and taking all 1,800+ jobs with it. Steward Health Care is the company and they recently filed bankruptcy, they’re trying to sell off all hospitals but who knows if they will be successful.
Hermitage which is not far from their is Beautiful and looks like a Leave it to Beaver neighborhood
I was born there, when the mills left everything died.
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Industry looking for low wage slave labor. Finds it, and leaves the country and the people they "love" behind.
Lived here my whole life. Until 2016 Don’t even like driving through it anymore
You really on orchard?
Born and raised in sharon. Sad that it started looking like this.
Houses are just too far for any reasonable commuter. Service jobs are parasitic off the rich.
Should have did Sharon and Farrell as a combo video
very pretty houses. Sad to just let them rot away ...
Last time I was there was in the 80’s… the pride of the Jewish Poland community
Cant imagine the tax bill the people that are left pay
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Looks like somebody died very clummy clammy grayish cloud over this ran through city. Smh
do Oil City PA......that place gone....
thatll be up in the near future. thanks for watching!
Casa 🏡 de madera
Ellenville ny same way
That's a shame all them homes empty
But it'll trickle down I swear!!!!
4:55 that used to be the Red Cross believe it or not
So sad to see this.
Prediction:
America will be great again.🇺🇲
at least sharon doesnt have much crime
there are still plenty of beautiful parts of the city but yes the dilapidated areas are large 😣
Wuow pero no viven gente hay en este lugar
Las casas abandonadas podrían derribarlas
There was a time you can get a job cuz everybody was hiring did you came back said you couldn't find work you must be sleeping
Looks like Detroit in its hay day lol
This showing of these places that became to this, is like a revealing, and perhaps by God, unknowingly to us, and maybe for improvement. The question is, why are these places like this now, what caused it, who caused it, when did it begin. No place should come to this and without people it would just be a beautiful thing created by God, so you have to wonder, what have people done, how did it come to this, and who did it. Maybe people just moved on and there is no bad reason for it, or, maybe it's time for honesty and facts.
Maybe God should go to Sharon with a can of paint.
From Pittsburgh all way to Cleveland
Ya. The rich stay rich. And the rest move to section 8 housing. Whitch was a third of the video.
Wth happen it use to be a lovely area wow
Look I'll tell you what you move there I'm not stuck you are!
Rust belt Appalachia
What happened? Capitalism.
Nope. It was environmentalism that made it impossible for the industries that supported the town to remain in the United States.