Awful Abandoned Places in Baltimore : Narrated

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  • @gigibtsurvivor3348
    @gigibtsurvivor3348 Год назад +41

    Dan, remember the Dollar Days for abandoned city homes? The practice being that you purchase/lease an abandoned home for a $1 then we’re required to rehab it and live in it for a specified amount of time.

    • @DanBellFilmIt
      @DanBellFilmIt  Год назад +23

      yes. it never worked. people eventually took advantage of the loopholes and resold the homes without doing anything to them for a profit. i’m sure there were a few successes but all in all i don’t think baltimore will be revisiting those plans again.

    • @Echo_B
      @Echo_B Год назад +5

      @@DanBellFilmIt Is that how there's whole neighborhoods in certain areas where you can buy a house for 1k or at least a very low price?

  • @toddbevan
    @toddbevan Год назад +45

    It's some of the subtleties that make the difference and why I love Dan's content. There is an ambience track added, a desolate, whispering wind that adds so much yet is almost unnoticeable. That's good filmmaking.

    • @nickm5419
      @nickm5419 Год назад +1

      it reminds me of Halo Combat evolved, it has that spooky desolate feeling

    • @Canerican.
      @Canerican. Год назад +1

      I agree 💯

  • @jacobrosenberg8423
    @jacobrosenberg8423 Год назад +42

    So sad to see my home town rotting and descending into such squalor from such a distance. So sad for the people who live and die in all that filth, crime and drugs. It is hardly recognizable in the nearly fifteen years I have been gone and it was certainly decaying when I was still around. All that passed is now just memories, pictures and old videos. Far from what I even remember growing up in the 1970s.

    • @kevorka3281
      @kevorka3281 Год назад +3

      We all know who is to blame

    • @DavidWilliams-xj4zq
      @DavidWilliams-xj4zq Год назад

      Por que está suja o bairro ?

    • @rick1975100
      @rick1975100 3 месяца назад

      @@kevorka3281who black people or rich white people? You need to watch an old documentary on RUclips called the Baltimore plan. You will see Baltimore was called a slum vac then. Rich developers planned everything that’s going on in Baltimore. The wire tv show showed this. They allowed crime to run rampant with drugs. Back in history England would trade tea from china and gave them opium in return. England knew drugs would cause china to fall eventually. China is just recovering from this. In America during the railroad building days they used Chinese men and they would do nothing but lay around and smoke opium after work. It was all they was known for. My point is that if you want to destroy a specific group of people the best way is to flood their community with drugs. I watched Baltimore change from the 70s - 80s and around 86 things changed fast. Once crack came crime went up quick. By 89 Baltimore was a different city. Today it’s different. The drug game is dead. It’s no longer worth the risk of prison because the money isn’t there anymore. It’s hardly any dealing going on. You don’t see long lines of addicts buying drugs in alleys like before. Whites are even moving into hood. They know it’s changing and want to get in on the deal. In another 20 years the hoods surrounding downtown will be upperclass neighborhoods. The crime in Baltimore we have now is because the drug game ain’t what it was. Now the kids we use to see on the corners working for dealers are squeegee kids. We use to have them in the 70s and early 80s but they started getting jobs from dealers. Now they back trying to hustle money carry bags at the market or washing windows. They you have some that rob and steal. My whole point is today Baltimore is better and safer. People can’t help but to be negative and ignore the positive. I feel completely safe in Baltimore. The ones dying are in the streets living a dangerous life. It’s rare for innocent people to be killed. So change your thinking. It’s not blacks who or democrats that made Baltimore full of abandon homes.

  • @ScaredLGMD
    @ScaredLGMD Год назад +23

    I want everyone to remember that the junkies that you think are nasty are real people and they have real emotions and they have real trauma, and they just aren't a force of nature that exists. 😅 Saying this as someone whose dad was a professional heroine addict his whole life. Watched him die of cancer. Watch him also die overdosing multiple times and then have to be revived by paramedics. 😢 It makes me very sad face when people dehumanize anyone. Let's not do that when it's all trying to be loving and compassionate and you recognize that everyone is a result of their individual experiences. And there is not always appropriate support mechanisms in place for you to get the required education. You need to realize that there's something wrong in the first place. I know I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't had an intervening grandmother. At seven who put me into psychotherapy

    • @laurastrobel718
      @laurastrobel718 Год назад +4

      Sorry about your dad 😢 You aren't alone. I'm so glad you had your grandmother. Thanks for your input, God bless ❤️🌷🌄

    • @Fragrantbeard
      @Fragrantbeard Год назад +6

      I hope people take heed of what you are saying. I'm sorry your empathy and wisdom had to evolve, in part, from trauma.

    • @ScaredLGMD
      @ScaredLGMD Год назад +2

      @March madness that and a massive amount of psychedelics, debauchery, and probably liver damage i cant handle a single whiteclaw. Thanks lol for what its worth its nice to see people validate this.

  • @MrDan708
    @MrDan708 Год назад +10

    4:30 "Washers $1.25", I'm thinking that was an old laundromat.

    • @Tranqd.24
      @Tranqd.24 2 месяца назад

      No , it's obviously a hardware store. 😊 Back in the day each washer cost $1.25

    • @Parks91172
      @Parks91172 Месяц назад +1

      It was a laundry. I lived in that neiborhood most of my life and used that laundromat before.

  • @mollys3825
    @mollys3825 Год назад +11

    It’s so frustrating how the city just demolishes the old architecture instead of preserving it…

  • @tinastanbaugh
    @tinastanbaugh Год назад +23

    Love these quiet time videos.

  • @tobyjackman3212
    @tobyjackman3212 Год назад +37

    Mad that there's such homelessness & yet so many abandoned buildings. Fascinating to think that there's a story behind every door & it's incredible that the area in front of that leaning house hasn't been sectioned off because it looks lethal.
    Another great video Dan - you are my favourite on YT ❤

    • @nickm5419
      @nickm5419 Год назад +3

      Explore at your own peril

    • @lucianaromulus1408
      @lucianaromulus1408 Год назад +1

      Such homelessness and yet we send billions to places like Ukraine, Israel, Africa etc etc.

    • @tobyjackman3212
      @tobyjackman3212 Год назад +3

      @@lucianaromulus1408
      You do realise that foreign aid represents a tiny fraction of your government's budget, don't you?
      Always slightly mystified me why it's the _one_ (aritrary) expenditure people complain about
      What could possibly be the reason 🤔

    • @lucianaromulus1408
      @lucianaromulus1408 Год назад +1

      @toby jackman billions is small? LMFAO

    • @tobyjackman3212
      @tobyjackman3212 Год назад +1

      @@lucianaromulus1408
      Unfamiliar with the concept of fractions (as per my original reply) then.
      Sorry kiddo - didn't mean to talk over your head

  • @bobbythedesertwalker594
    @bobbythedesertwalker594 Год назад +11

    Dan, the soothing warm tones of your voice is always relaxing.

  • @cmdrbubbles
    @cmdrbubbles Год назад +15

    "Lots of tires and needles" *pans down to sneakers.* Wear ya damn boots Dan! ❤

  • @lauraodle5816
    @lauraodle5816 Год назад +7

    That voice of yours is like music to my heart. I've missed your videos! ❤ Where has everyone gone in such a vast area? Thank you, Dan.

  • @scottgower4837
    @scottgower4837 Год назад +9

    Very much like a Quiet Time. Provides a relaxing atmosphere as I wake and enjoy some coffee. Thanks.

    • @donniehill3735
      @donniehill3735 Год назад +1

      Exactly.. Perfect early morning wake up.. Coffee n Dan Bell vid voice.. 👍

  • @punchfisttop
    @punchfisttop Год назад +7

    Always wondered what those reflective red triangles meant. Great vid Dan!!!

  • @myu2k2
    @myu2k2 Год назад +13

    kinda wish there is some program to give tax breaks for creating green spaces in cities.... like turn old abandoned city blocks into parks, farmer's markets, and community gardens or at least use the empty spaces for solar panels or recycling centers... something other than another parking lot, strip mall, box store, or storage warehouse.

    • @gigibtsurvivor3348
      @gigibtsurvivor3348 Год назад +4

      Affordable and reliable housing is needed in addition to those community perks.

    • @myu2k2
      @myu2k2 Год назад +2

      @@gigibtsurvivor3348 or even bring better jobs in the area... give incentives to build housing in areas with raising job markets and discourage landlords from monopolizing low income properties.

    • @Jenda-ld8dj
      @Jenda-ld8dj Год назад

      The reason that's not done is because there is no money to be made from it.

  • @cookieskoon2028
    @cookieskoon2028 Год назад +18

    It's depressing right, but also fascinating. Also in a morbid sense, cozy for people like me who grew up in the bottom rungs of society, especially in the rust belt/Appalachia.
    I am so spiritually attached to the abandoned city and rural town that I even started building them in Minecraft as a side hobby. America's downfall and vanity is an enthralling thing to witness.

  • @laurastrobel718
    @laurastrobel718 Год назад +5

    Depressing and beautiful at the same time.😞 Good to see another video from you Dan. Hope you and Dillon are enjoying these early days of Spring 🌞🌸

  • @Lucky7tattooNettahoe
    @Lucky7tattooNettahoe Год назад +12

    Loving the recent uploads DB! Thank you for what you do.

  • @BollingHolt
    @BollingHolt Год назад +6

    It's always sad seeing things like this, places with much grander, illustrious histories from better days, eventually having to be abandoned and forgotten as people come in and "sh*t where they eat" and destroy their own communities. I'll never understand why people do that. As usual, great video.

  • @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars
    @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars Год назад +4

    Really wonderful to see these types of videos again Dan. I also feel conflicted because they're amazing to see but were and still are, peoples lives, local surroundings. That's incredibly sad 😔

  • @ericdravenX00X
    @ericdravenX00X Год назад +6

    Dead in Day, and Alive at Night. Thanks for this brief little history segment Dan.

  • @Glock30Fan
    @Glock30Fan Год назад +7

    I think it was a laundromat, not a hardware store. Says "load" on the sign.

  • @claudemckenzie2398
    @claudemckenzie2398 Год назад +17

    I think washers for $1.25 is the laundromat type. Washers at the hardware store are pennies

    • @Jennifermcintyre
      @Jennifermcintyre Год назад +7

      I agree a wash in a laundromat is about $1.25.

    • @DanBellFilmIt
      @DanBellFilmIt  Год назад +9

      Ahhh you’re right!!!

    • @jasonwomack4064
      @jasonwomack4064 Год назад +9

      Single load $1.25
      Based on the price, the sign is about 20 years old.

  • @angela_tarantulas
    @angela_tarantulas Год назад +3

    Another great video, Dan! Hope you’re feeling good and thank you for your work!

  • @SHANN0N0HARA
    @SHANN0N0HARA Год назад +3

    Great video. So much urban decay. I always imagine what these places were like back in the day, someone's business or someone's home....
    As usual great commentary and very interesting.

  • @MissFaithLouise
    @MissFaithLouise Год назад +6

    That collapsed corner building looks like the one on the news not long ago where a police pursuit led to a two car collision and a building collapse.

  • @DUCIDNI
    @DUCIDNI Год назад +5

    Keep these videos coming Dan!

  • @danielmiller6983
    @danielmiller6983 Год назад +1

    Whenever I see whole blocks boarded up like that it always reminds be of the Wire when they we’re throwing all those bodies in the abandoned row houses and boarding them back up. Once again great video. Love your content

  • @Reptilefriend84
    @Reptilefriend84 Год назад +5

    Sad to see, what's happening to this (once) beautiful City.

  • @webvideofan
    @webvideofan Год назад +2

    This was like one of your Quiet Time series. I always enjoy your narrated videos. 👍🏻

  • @knottheory79220
    @knottheory79220 Год назад +11

    The architecture of those town houses (row houses, whatever you want to call them) is wonderful. It's too bad they're so decrepit.

  • @nik1128
    @nik1128 Год назад +5

    Love seeing a new Dan bell upload!

  • @algomaone121
    @algomaone121 Год назад +1

    That destroyed building was a laundromat, not a hardware store. The sign said “Front Load Washers, $1.25

  • @saysham.9562
    @saysham.9562 Год назад +4

    5:10 👀 That door was once a window and
    the half windows below were full size before.
    I wonder how old that building is?

  • @LarryTezekjian
    @LarryTezekjian Год назад +2

    Great video as always Dan. Thank you.

  • @LadyLakeMusic
    @LadyLakeMusic Год назад +1

    Really appreciate these opportunities to have a look at Baltimore. What a far cry from back in the day. My grandfather built a house in what was then called Baltimore Highlands and it was made of Formstone. This would have been the 1950s. Previous to that my entire family had a very large house on Pratt Street right near Patterson Park.

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 Год назад +1

    Appreciate you sharing🏚 Just love your calm voice💕

  • @jerseytomato100
    @jerseytomato100 Год назад +3

    You must realllllllly love Baltimore to continue living there. Yikes. 😩

  • @brooks8656
    @brooks8656 Год назад +4

    Loved the video. Thanks Dan

  • @synth5091
    @synth5091 Год назад +16

    That's not a purse, that's a pockeybook.

    • @dot2562
      @dot2562 Год назад

      Its not a purse ,its a European carry all!!!

    • @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars
      @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars Год назад +4

      I'm UK, we'd call that a bag rather than purse or a handbag. Purse is to carry money in. Language is fascinating 😊

    • @tball5677
      @tball5677 Год назад +2

      Aww shit we got one of dem dare authenic, Bawmer natives hon👍

  • @maryhirsch2909
    @maryhirsch2909 Год назад +2

    What a nice surprise! Video from Dan Bell. Wow he shows it like it is.

  • @Poeboi
    @Poeboi Год назад +2

    I love these narrative videos Dan.

  • @elizabeth_evangelium
    @elizabeth_evangelium Год назад +2

    Wow Dan you are amazing keep ‘em coming 🎉🎉❤😊

  • @rosemaryangela1825
    @rosemaryangela1825 Год назад +4

    So glad to c u go back to what made u famous Dan - keep up the good work!

  • @ChloeAlexis
    @ChloeAlexis Год назад +1

    Dan, so good to see you post again. Hope all is well!

  • @simoneb8608
    @simoneb8608 Год назад +2

    Can you go back to the children’s asylum? That was such a cool abandoned venture

  • @fredgardner2870
    @fredgardner2870 Год назад +1

    Realize for every destroyed neighborhood is a very wealthy politician

  • @marcchambers1972
    @marcchambers1972 Год назад +5

    Great as always thanks 👍

  • @harryraam9566
    @harryraam9566 Год назад +1

    Been waiting for this, Thank u!

  • @goingslightlymad7172
    @goingslightlymad7172 Год назад +2

    Great video Dan! I love stuff like this!😁

  • @melbrown6019
    @melbrown6019 Год назад

    Great video! That leaning building 😱

  • @mikeharris2604
    @mikeharris2604 Год назад

    The second place you showed on Ashton and puliski st was a laundrymat my Grandfather ran it and lived in the back of it in the early 90s

  • @MrSgm111
    @MrSgm111 Год назад

    The erie wind sounds add so much to this ..almost apocalyptic…

  • @Gia_Mc_Fia
    @Gia_Mc_Fia Год назад

    Thanks for the interesting take on all the ruins left behind. We have so much to learn as humans. Sigh. Hope you are doing well these days. Much love from Oregon🌲

  • @lorrie5881
    @lorrie5881 Год назад +2

    This is so sad.. Hurricane Katrina rocked the hell out of New Orleans...and it still doesn't look this bad.. I was there around 1997 and went to Fells Point.. it hadn't gotten like this yet... So much history in Baltimore..used to be a beautiful city I wonder if Poe would be appalled or impressed? ( Joke)

  • @Canerican.
    @Canerican. Год назад +1

    Great video ,Dan! Thank You for sharing your talent with us!

  • @mystica-subs
    @mystica-subs Год назад +4

    9:14 just casually stepping next to a syringe

  • @dominicdavison8590
    @dominicdavison8590 Год назад +6

    Over 300 homicides in Baltimore in 2022. What a depressingly bleak place. An interesting town to visit for its history but certainly not to live in.

  • @HypeIsHereMedia
    @HypeIsHereMedia Год назад +4

    Everytime I see these neighborhoods, I sit and try to fathom why the local government will allow such filth, decay and trash to keep piling up. Just seems like something could be done. I'd love to see you go to Kensington Ave in Philly.

    • @jdl9679
      @jdl9679 Год назад

      Black people

  • @illegalhedgehog
    @illegalhedgehog Год назад +6

    love you dan ❤

  • @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717
    @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717 Год назад +2

    I know you wanted to "grab that purse," Dan.

  • @ScaredLGMD
    @ScaredLGMD Год назад +4

    ❤❤❤ I love your content bud

  • @purpleplanet9000
    @purpleplanet9000 Год назад +1

    Looks like many houses in the process of renovation get broken into. see the paint at 7:54

  • @survivor303
    @survivor303 Год назад +2

    24fps isn't ok for fast camera movement. 60fps then and 30 when you are darker areas.

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 Год назад +1

    Really ashame for these places💔

  • @ION400
    @ION400 Год назад

    “Wrestling rink”😆That’d make a lot of em, and chilly!

  • @tball5677
    @tball5677 Год назад

    I used to rehab old Baltimore city houses in up and coming neighborhoods and I am amazed more of these brick rowhouses arent falling down. You could dig a brick out in no time with a screwdriver on most of them.

  • @relicman
    @relicman Год назад +2

    I think that collapse is from the person that ran the light and hit the building. It seems like you discussed it in a passed video.

  • @chriscourson2824
    @chriscourson2824 Год назад +1

    Hi Dan!! I love your motel stuff!

  • @bobert8618
    @bobert8618 Год назад +1

    Randy Newman's "Baltimore" still relevant after almost 50 years!

  • @Dee12327
    @Dee12327 Год назад +1

    As someone who lives in Canada it’s insane to see the state of certain areas within the cites of the US, we have bad, or not very nice areas with shady people, and undesirable housing, but nothing like I’ve seen on videos like this one.

    • @lorrie5881
      @lorrie5881 Год назад

      Every one you see like this is Democrat controlled for decades

  • @jimmyday9536
    @jimmyday9536 Год назад +1

    Imagine if the city could use those SQUEEGEE KIDS to clean up these eyesores instead of busting out windshields and shooting people down on President St.

  • @DingleRingle7
    @DingleRingle7 Год назад +4

    Love dans vids so much!

  • @krisk1867
    @krisk1867 2 месяца назад

    That's Carrollton Ridge. The city still hasn't torn the houses down on Christian St.

  • @xknucklex8339
    @xknucklex8339 Год назад

    The burned car at the end made me chuckle 🤭

  • @matthewfarmer2520
    @matthewfarmer2520 Год назад

    Hi Dan 👋 thanks for another great Film It video. Awesome, hi Dillon 👋🤓

  • @lipstickzombie4981
    @lipstickzombie4981 Год назад +3

    Postmortem for a place.

  • @sc1338
    @sc1338 Год назад +1

    Love you Dan

  • @BarrettMulford
    @BarrettMulford 10 месяцев назад +2

    I know, why dont they just tear down Baltimore?

  • @Parks91172
    @Parks91172 Месяц назад

    I lived in the 2100 block of Ashton St. I saw this hood decline into what it is now.

  • @ianrjm969
    @ianrjm969 Год назад +4

    You had me at awful. 🥰

  • @loyalninecoffee2024
    @loyalninecoffee2024 Год назад +7

    Seems like Baltimore leadership is doing an outstanding job. If you have an urbex or abandoned YT channel then Baltimore will definitely help your views.

  • @misstuesday404
    @misstuesday404 Год назад

    Always very interesting content, i bet that ballroom and bar was a great place in its hetday, ThNK you Dan,......from England,

  • @ReedMichael1966
    @ReedMichael1966 5 месяцев назад

    Think about it like this dan ,we are all homeless until we all make it home .why not start over in baltimore ? It has potential to grow ,get new residents ,new corner stores ,barber shops,maybe a matket .but the abandoned buildings have to get up to code .now that its warmer out here ,now its a good time to start it .lets rebuild ...

  • @shakezuulah
    @shakezuulah Год назад

    This straight up looked like a scene out of The Wire

  • @Skeeter-Link
    @Skeeter-Link Год назад

    YaY!
    Dan Bell is BACK !! 🎉
    Don’t know what it is about you.
    But I’ve always liked watching your videos … 💙💕

  • @angela_tarantulas
    @angela_tarantulas Год назад

    It’s so sad to see the decay of a surely once beautiful city. For me, as I’m Swiss, this is something I don’t „understand“. I know, the big companies left and the whole economy broke down. It’s just totally insane from my perspective, as I’m living in a very small country with a strict border around to 5 countries. We don’t have any space, our cities are heavily crowded… sad to see the difference here, where so much space and beautiful buildings are left to rot.

  • @jomama5186
    @jomama5186 Год назад +1

    What a shame. I wish the govt would educate and employ people on building restoration and an apartment, or ver ylow rent apartment, when so many courses and apprentship hours were performed as an incentive. The key being a home at the end of the whole thing. Then these buildings could be saved and re-utilized.

  • @nobeac
    @nobeac Год назад

    Hey any chance a new ADR season on the way? I thought you were sent supplies along time ago to do these?

  • @FloridaMan0561
    @FloridaMan0561 Год назад +13

    Please be careful walking around them nasty junky needles!

  • @onejazzed
    @onejazzed Год назад +2

    Just awful. I remember women scrubbing those marble steps on their hands and knees till they glistened back in the day.

  • @thecentralscrutinizer304
    @thecentralscrutinizer304 Год назад

    D-Bizzle back at it 👍🏻

  • @Skeeter-Link
    @Skeeter-Link Год назад

    I’m thinking the building that fell down was a Laundry Mat. Or maybe like a Dry Cleaners
    1.25 shirts (ie)

  • @Rebelnightwolfe
    @Rebelnightwolfe Год назад +1

    Tour de Baltimore!

  • @renegade-debaylife395
    @renegade-debaylife395 Год назад

    Would you do a collide with omar gosh

  • @ReedMichael1966
    @ReedMichael1966 5 месяцев назад

    Now ,it only worth a dollar .im homeless but not hopeless .i would get a large dumping bin ,clean it out and start renovations.what are you planning to do about it ?

  • @jamessimon3433
    @jamessimon3433 Год назад

    Anyone remember that crazy fool what who drove into that building crushed a dude? I do.

  • @juliamenezes8053
    @juliamenezes8053 Год назад

    Sections of the states that are in this amount of rubble dont have much information to warn tourists and people that might move one day. Is there any ounce of presentable counties in Maryland? I almost considered going to Salem but I read about the patriotic behavior and number of college parties its not so isolated anymore.

  • @kimbra1132
    @kimbra1132 Год назад

    Look at the honeymoon fixer uppers. It's amazing how trashy us humans are. Dang, no pride in their community. But yet artistic in a 3rd world kind of way.

  • @lucasschommer5703
    @lucasschommer5703 Год назад +1

    Dan thank you fore the new video im wartch you on youtube and on facebook i have not seen a live saterday night drive fore a whil i seen somthen on pay a $1 to wartch you and dillen i dont thenk my phone would let me i have a flip phone put i do like the satderday night drive and i do like the video you put out on youtube and on f b thank you.lucas frome steven point wis if you stil have the cat how is she do you stil have mama dan you rock

  • @rolandchestnut9076
    @rolandchestnut9076 5 месяцев назад

    WHY ??????????????