I moved to the Shiloh neighborhood of North Dayton in January 2020. I live on North Main Street, a block away from Philadelphia. Dayton is the most run down city I've ever lived in, but I'm here to buy a home in two years, and do my part to improve and beautify a neighborhood. Dayton was culture shock for me. I grew up in the South Bronx, NY, and raised my son in Tacoma, Wa. Both of those cities have undergone gentrification, and I can't afford to live there anymore. I also lived in Torrington, CT for 10 years, which is in the Litchfield Hills, about 40 minutes from the Massachusetts border. Torrington is a city with a suburban/cosmopolitan feel. It was the safest place I lived, where the murder rate was 5 during my decade there, and those were domestic violence related. Dayton has gray skies most of the time, and the sunny days are unbearably hot and humid for me. Winters are bitterly cold, but they were worse in Connecticut. I never lived anywhere the sun hardly shines during wintertime, until I moved to Dayton. It would've been helpful to me, if the person who made this video announced the different streets he turned onto. I've seen some scary and desolate neighborhoods that I avoid like the plague. I hope to have the opportunity to help make Dayton an urban oasis, because it's a desert right now.
Welcome to Dayton. I've been in the area for 40+ yrs. It's pretty sad to know what those neighborhoods were like in the late 80s compared to now. Unfortunately, this video doesn't show the worst of Dayton...
@@waniesworld7256 I definitely am,and hate litter! I have pulled over on side of the road to pick up trash somebody threw out their window while driving to keep my neighborhood clean. If the people who live in the community dont respect or uphold it,no one else will.
I make videos of Dayton, Ohio on my RUclips channel and I told Charlie to film this area in North Dayton when he got the chance to and he has delivered the goods. This is the Santa Clara, Five Oaks, and Fairview Neighborhoods off of North Main Street. Charlie thank you for delivering the goods on this video
As a former Daytonian, one more thing: if you notice-most of the cars you see are nice. So thay means these people are are working class. They are making changes one step at a time. It may look rough on the outside, but most likely nice on the inside, for some of them.
@@jimmyboy5597 I would say both things contributed. Also, the failed social experiment with forced bussing caused a mass exodus of folks with middle class incomes from the city. They can invest all the money they want into downtown Dayton, but until they fix this mess, it will end up being like Chicago. Michigan Avenue and South side looking like a tale of two cities.
Some of those old homes have been neglected, but others seem well maintained. I'd like to think there could be hope for a comeback in the neighborhood.
The area filmed was once occupied by doctors and nurses because it was surrounded by 2 hospitals (Good Sam and Grandview) not to mention the close proximity to downtown. As you can see most of the homes are very large and the inside hosts exquisite woodwork. While it may be depressing to look at just a few blocks separates it from University Row where the homes are big, beautiful, maintained and occupied by majority black residents.
Bro for the outside looking in yup.. Born an raised in Dayton I wouldn't buy anything around there.. It does of course look horrible in the winter time in the summer it looks much nicer but still nope.. I bought my house in Dayton but for the money much better and safer hoods
@@mmjnice97 its a shame because if they took pride in their neighbourhood, this place could look very nice. Did the jobs market dry up in this area or something?
@@cboyyo9670 Dayton was a GM town with hundreds of part suppliers to support GM I worked dam near at all of them at some point growing up. Around the early 2000s GM abandoned Dayton and probably 90% of theses supporting companies either left with them or went under it was a death of a thousand cuts for the city. I couldn't find a job so I joined the Army and left Dayton for a time myself. When the housing bubble busted around 2006-2008 that was the last blow and Dayton become flooded with heroin. You have to understand that Dayton sits on the American crossroads of 75 Florida to Michigan and 70 new York to California any drugs that make it anywhere in the country have to drive through Dayton Ohio basically! So no jobs everyone loseing the homes and cheap heroin and cocaine everywhere Crime sky rocketed anyone with the means got the fu€k outta doge bro. Then they locked the main drug area's in with road blocks to the point that if you aren't from that hood you would be stuck for at least 10 minutes just long enough for a runner to offer you any drug you can think of.. It was the wild west cops didn't even like going into that place. . Bicycle cops yea fu€k!n right smh.. It was a war zone and before I joined the army I was one of those crazy broke kids with not much to lose.. So yea its still hasn't recovered yet in those places in that video. Please don't blame it on pride Cuz if your not from Dayton or your under 30 you wouldn't understand bro.. Didn't even tell you about the tornado that destroyed half of the dam city two years ago smh.. I love Dayton and it made me we still have about 10 more years before it seem close to what it was 30 years ago I would imagine. . after all those abandoned buildings are gone would be the best thing ever and take down 60% of those slum lord apartments. Give people big tax breaks to rebuild and reforms with people with a 10 year or more plan in the government will save this city.. I 🙏
This is what NE, D.C. looked like for years and when the properties got abandoned and sale prices lowered to practically nothing it bounced back with two grocery stores, coffee shops, all kinds of shopping and a Yoga studio. Homeownership is the key to generational wealth, so hold onto your family homes, sometimes it takes a group effort.
I recently have started to invest in Dayton as an out of state investor. I'm trying to rebuild one house at a time to bring back affordability to people who desire to work, pay there bills on time, stay away from drugs and help build there community. Sometimes you have to rebuild, but it's going to take a different mind set for this to really change. I love working with real estate, but more importantly I love working with people. Don't be discouraged, we will rebuild. Dayton Strong................
Too many people doped up to work. Daytonians ruined their own damn city. Cincinnati and Toledo are probably a better bet, Columbus is expensive as fuck.
This is what happens to beautiful homes, and once beautiful neighborhoods. It's so sad when people don't take pride in their surroundings, nor do they care about their own residence. SMH.
Once upon a time, these were nice neighborhoods. I noticed that there were still some well kept homes amidst the abandoned, boarded up houses. These are the people I feel sorry for. Probably retired, with homes that are paid for. Now stuck & can't afford to relocate. Also felt sorry for the kids jumping on the trampoline . It has to do a number on your mental health, living around all of that ugliness.
Minus the first 2 minutes and 30 seconds, the rest of the area looks nice, tbh. Shit looks extra depressing because it's cloudy, lol. Would look nicer if it was sunny.
Soon as "we" want to do better we can. can. We just have to stop with all of the excuses.. Make changes one step at a time. My family is from there and I lived there at different times in my life (1989 as a child and 2006 through 2011) as an adult. It aint that bad.
I wrote this comment for someone else but I feel it explains what happened in Dayton Ohio. You can see that at one time this was a really really nice place.. Dayton was a GM town with hundreds of part suppliers to support GM I worked dam near at all of them at some point growing up. Around the early 2000s GM abandoned Dayton and probably 90% of theses supporting companies either left with them or went under it was a death of a thousand cuts for the city. I couldn't find a job so I joined the Army and left Dayton for a time myself. When the housing bubble busted around 2006-2008 that was the last blow and Dayton become flooded with heroin. You have to understand that Dayton sits on the American crossroads of 75 Florida to Michigan and 70 new York to California any drugs that make it anywhere in the country have to drive through Dayton Ohio basically! So no jobs everyone loseing the homes and cheap heroin and cocaine everywhere Crime sky rocketed anyone with the means got the fu€k outta doge bro. Then they locked the main drug area's in with road blocks to the point that if you aren't from that hood you would be stuck for at least 10 minutes just long enough for a runner to offer you any drug you can think of.. It was the wild west cops didn't even like going into that place. . Bicycle cops yea fu€k!n right smh.. It was a war zone and before I joined the army I was one of those crazy broke kids with not much to lose.. So yea its still hasn't recovered yet in those places in that video. Please don't blame it on pride Cuz if your not from Dayton or your under 30 you wouldn't understand bro.. Didn't even tell you about the tornado that destroyed half of the dam city two years ago smh.. I love Dayton and it made me we still have about 10 more years before it seem close to what it was 30 years ago I would imagine. . after all those abandoned buildings are gone would be the best thing ever and take down 60% of those slum lord apartments. Give people big tax breaks to rebuild and reforms with people with a 10 year or more plan in the government will save this city.. I 🙏 dam this sh!t is depressing. . I bought my house in old north Dayton better than this hood but not a candy lane either. I feel pretty save there but I got cameras everywhere on my property cuz its still kinda ruff around the edges
@@pamm2230 abandoned,,, left,,, kinda means the same thing, and there are other GM factories still in America so your point is what in correcting me? Did I use their there or they're wrong to, or should I say" too"smh.. Look everyone knows that lots of Manufacturing jobs have gone over sea's. My point is that Dayton Ohio my home Town was basically hit with a prefect storm literally, of factors that created what you see in this video.
why would you buy a house that you have to have security cameras everywhere and a swat team stationed outside. sorry ill take a hard pass on that. you should have tried a little harder and opened your mind. unless of course you like living in all the chaos for some unknown reason.
I've lived in Dayton Ohio all my life and I hate it here. I live off east 3rd st and it's horrible here.. I hardly go outside.. the only time I do is when I absolutely need to. I wish our town could get better but with people not giving a damn it doesn't look like it will happen in my time
Hi Ashley I'm Rick got a question if you don't mind it doesn't pertain to this videothe question is can you sing by any chance I got a band and I'm looking for a singer I also to live in in Dayton I call it the shity of Dayton LOL
Main thing about the homes in dayton you cant judge a book by its cover alot of these homes loom ran down but they are extremely beautiful and well maintained
This is true but everyone in the city of Dayton that owns a house needs to take pride on the outside of their homes also. There is so much trash in the neighborhoods people driving around throw trash out in their own neighborhoods I have seen it in my days spent working in neighborhoods and a lot of it is by people that live in the neighborhood. Everyone keeps talking about investing in their neighborhoods like they want someone else to come in and provide all the funding but they're not willing to invest and take pride in their own neighborhoods and work within themselves. The neighborhoods did not get run down overnight it took years and it will definitely take years to improve it starting with today and tomorrow moving forward because it is the 💎 city
I’m born and raised in Dayton Ohio, Five Oaks to be exact. You made my city look so bad😂 that ain’t even the worst hood Go to the square or the bass Get out the oaks
Totally agree, this is not the roughest area I was born in raised in Dayton and grew up all over. In you are exactly right the squar and bass are the worse.
Yeah I'm a UPS driver on the west side. This is far from the worst. Cornel off gettysburg, fotip, queens, blueberry (definitely some bodies back in those woods). West 2nd st just out of drexel is real bad ( i literally got caught in a soft shootout off shasta yesterday) Summit square off hoover. Soto bass. All of these places are way worse than anything off salem. I guarantee you that.
I lived there as a kid in the early 90's. It was a nice place, tons of shopping, nice homes, great restaurants etc... it's all but decimated now. My heart sinks when I drive through there now. Half of the buildings are gone and it looks like little Detroit in most parts.
It's honestly nothing like Detroit. There are several blocks like this but most of it is not bad. Detroit can sell liveable homes for $1. Dayton is not that bad.
Five Oaks was declining in the early 90s. So sad to see just how bad many of the houses have become. It would be great to see revitalization, but not at the expense of people who live here.
If you make $70k per year you can live like a king in Dayton because this is only a portion. I love in downtown Dayton and it is simply gorgeous. Reminds me of bigger city living in a very compact town.
It might be ragged but we are the best people with the best hearts and that is what makes Dayton Ohio Beautiful! My City, my home for over fifty years.
I live in rural Missouri, and even in the country there are neighborhoods that look like that, trashed and questionable. What I saw in the earlier part of the vid were the homes, once majestic and beautiful, now so many of them rotting and trashed. It's sad to see that happen to any area. Once upon a time that neighborhood myst of been alive, healthy and full of life, children, cared for yards and homes. Watching you drive through it, one could almost hear the echos of better times. Thanks for the sharing this video. I'll keep those in that neighborhood in my thoughts and in my prayers. God bless them and you.
This is the area that I told you to film a while back in Dayton, Ohio. You are in North Dayton in the Santa Clara, Five Oaks and Fairview Neighborhoods. That one gas station that I told you to look for and film some drama is the Marathon Gas Station on North Main Street
This is sad to me. All it would take is for each person to care enough to do their part and it could be beautiful again. I love the older homes. They have such character and vintage charm.
Dayton Ohio use to be a BEAUTIFUL city. Crack cocaine devastated Dayton. Dayton tire and rubber left, Inland left which were main employer's. Breaks my heart to see what once was a THRIVING city now a shell 😭
ah ... my old neighborhood. I lived here for 19 years and at one time it was a beautiful neighborhood to live in. Walked the streets at all times of day or night... never had a problem. Once Crack came to town though... it went downhill quick. And then Dayton was the #1 foreclosure Capital of the US in 2009 for about 3 months. Now... I won't even go into that part of town anymore. Every night gunshots and theft everywhere. It's enough to break a heart.
They were, they were owned by Jewish people about 50 years ago, as my father told me. That's why the homes are very large. They were hardly no African-Americans or people of color that lived in that area at one time. Unless you were working for the Jewish families. They were absolutely amazing at one time.
@@shebaabdullah5929 my moms family grew up on that side of town during the 50s and 60s and they said it was a beautiful place.to grow up. But even had to move out because all the crime and drugs
Worst thing they ever did to the North Main Street area was block it off and put those Roadblocks up!! They basically chained everybody inside of a prison of drugs crime and poverty... Looking back I didn't understand what they where doing but now I see it for what it was a prison ghetto with no way out and a trap for anyone that was unfortunate enough to start living there 😒
I have lived in Dayton for the last 20 years and the other part of my life I lived in Cincinnati both of these cities are definitely run down and both of these cities used to be very affluent in the 50s and 60s when drugs hit the streets in the '80s the neighborhood started to go down that's why the houses are so large but ran down cuz at one point in time these were rich neighborhoods
This still looks like shit but there are few places I've been that look like the D a lot of times when I hear "oh that's the hood" I just laugh to myself like "ok" Michigan hoods are different and flint and the D are the worst
@@CharlieBo313 The weather was gloomy today in Dayton, so I am sure you recorded it today. I wish I could have met up with you to record this. Hopefully you can get East Dayton when you come back
@@CharlieBo313 The area that you were filming, you did a great job,😊 I will give you some history as my father and mother told me. The Five Oaks and Main Street area that you were in were mostly predominantly Jewish families that live there. That's why a lot of the homes were very large. They were hardly no African-Americans or people of color living there in that area. The only time that you see people of color there unless you were working for them. African Americans have their own side of town which are Germantown St, 5th Street, and 3rd Street area. That's the area that my mother grew up in. Dayton are separated by Bridges from one town to the next. You go across the bridge from Main Street, into downtown onto South End of Dayton.
Everyone trash talking Dayton have to realize this was once known as GEM CITY. Dayton used to bustle and was full of life and influenced culture. This was where Zapp and Roger are from and we know how they influenced the whole music scene to this very day. All of Dayton dont look like this. Trust me. My family has roots there.
You're absolutely right, people from the South came to live there for better opportunities do two jobs and GM factories etc. The best musicians came from here Lakeside Zapp and Rodger as you said and Ohio Players.
If people treated their property with more respect and the neighborhood to pick up their trashed areas, this areas would be livable. Get rid of the criminals and druggie.
Something people driving through certain parts here dont realize just how bad it is. Dayton right this minute, is the 3rd poorest city in the united states. And with poverty, comes crime, and drugs. Dayton is in really bad shape. We're not the most violent city, but as far as poverty and drugs. We're in the top 5 on both of those based on our population.
I remember those days, but honestly it's not as bad as some of these places he films, I expected it to be worse, about all the old businesses appear to be gone, I remember going to the upper crust, ice cream shops, Malone's grocery store, the Video store that had those tabs hanging on the hooks, Bonded gas station just to name a few
This used to be a good, middle class neighborhood. The houses, while not grand, are well-built and some are in good shape. Many would be fairly easy to refurbish.
This is the area that I told you to film a while back in Dayton, Ohio. You are in North Dayton in the Santa Clara, Five Oaks and Fairview Neighborhoods. That one gas station that I told you to look for and film some drama is the Marathon Gas Station on North Main Street
I'm born and raised in Dayton 1970 and left 12 yrs ago. This may sound strange, I now live in a gated community in the burbs of Houston Texas and I sometimes miss the west side, Dayton view and Westwood where I grew up. Miss it ,but never want to live there again. Gem City 4Life !!!!
@@dgratt183 He has done the city of East Cleveland, but it's always been in his Cleveland hoods videos. He has never specified that he's in East Cleveland but you can see him driving on Euclid in East and going down the surrounding streets.
I saw a documentary they a lot of those homes have arsenic and that the city is suppose to do something but that they aren’t 🥺 leaving them like that with kids and their families like that. It’s so heartbreaking 😭
This is the worst place in town to have a flat, and also the place most likely for it to occur. The roads are unmaintained and horrible. Its sad too, because as you drive through I can vision it 50-60 years ago, when it was vibrant and full of life. Now it's a mere husk of what it once was.
Dayton needs a Mayor that cares for the west side not just for the votes to get them in office! Vision and direction to get people to take pride in the neighborhoods! Dayton is Dead, sad it has so much potential
I lived in Dayton Ohio in the 70's was not like this. Of course Detroit Michigan didn't look like this when I moved up here either. Life how it has changed.
I went to Dayton 1 year ago a bought 3 homes 2 of which were sold and is now beautiful. Still there are a lot of “bandos”. 1 thing I found out is the city of Dayton ( ppl in office) is to blame. A lot of theses homes have $20k, $30k even $40k in BACK TAXES that they refuse to clear for ppl wanting to buy and renovate. Once tax paying owners move in work can be done
Dayton is a dumpster fire. Moved to Tennessee on 5 acres of woods and never looked back. 50 + years ago it was a decent city and then it went downhill.
This is a result of bad and selfish leadership. I moved to Charlotte in 2009 because the city couldn't keep what was founded there "NCR". So you know no new companies would be investing or relocating. The auto plants shut down and leaders had no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish
My late husband was raised in Dayton. Don't remember the street but he drove by the house in '77 to show me. His parents had a beautiful home built in Xenia (now Beaver Creek). I loved visiting there!
Lived on E. 5th St. in the 50's. I was a blue-collar neighborhood but safe. Left Dayton nearly 50 years ago but came back recently. Lots of changes; none of them good in the old neighborhood. Factories like Monarch Marking, which was in the alley behind our house, Master Electric all gone. Pretty sad to see. Went by my Grandmother's House on Pleasant. Guy saw me walking in the alley and told me to be careful; there'd been a shooting the night before.
I'm from Dayton and grew up on E. 4th St. between S. June and Ribolt St. It was always so clean and cared for. After the bussing started the owners sold and moved to the burbs. Blame the landlords for most of this. Section 8 killed a lot of neighborhoods. So sad. These were great houses in their prime.
The drugs are what really did it in the most. I watched down turn into Detroit in 10 years. Those morons don't give a fuck and will ruin their own town and blame everyone else.
Dayton turned into a ghetto city beginning in the 70’s. The corporate slumlords bought up homes by the neighborhoods and leased to some of the worst trash in Dayton. That why our family moved. It was a blessing too. The biggest ghetto hoods I remember was in Drexel.
This is my hometown. At 5:24 of this video is Redfern and Ferndale. This is the corner where I used to catch the bus to go to Valerie elementary school from 2nd grade up to 6th grade. This is my old neighborhood. I still drive thru this neighborhood when I am visiting my mom. Most of my family still lives in Dayton. which I will be going be visiting in the next week. Can you believe in the 70s and 80s this neighborhood used to be all white mostly. wow how things have changed.
Have you filmed in the neighborhoods around Hillcrest and Salem? I used to live over there. So many beautiful old homes just boarded up and rotting when I was there a couple years ago.
I live in Dayton view rite down from Salem n hillcrest.. Sum really beautiful homes over here but no1 wanna live over here lol it's horrible wen it's warm out side.. It hit 60° tha other day n i heard so many gunshots..!!
I grew up in the 80s in Dayton on hillcrest, back then it was mixed black and white, 95% of the whte ppl left in 90s and early 2000s to riverside and old north Dayton. I used to be bussed to my elementary school off Gettysburg to hickorydale elementary, back then they did this to white kids in the west side schools to attempt diversity, this was early 80s ,I think the school is gone now. I live in Tennessee today. I still visit Ohio family in brookeville every year
Most of the derelict houses look like they were beautiful homes in the past. What the hell happened? Watching from Australia.......Many 3rd world countries have conditions similar to this and this is the USA, unbelievable. Thank you for the video CharlieBo313, it’s superb.
Unfortunately these neighborhoods are the product odf redlining, and the crack epidemic. The houses are absolutely huge and many have beautiful ornate woodwork. It is a shame.
I wouldn't call this the worst hood in dayton. It gets worse, I (a small white guy lol) would feel perfectly comfortable walking around in this area. Hell I'd say hi to people. There are some areas where I wouldn't but Dayton is really not that bad. Most of the violent crime is drug dealer on drug dealer stuff. Probably obvious but I'd much rather spend the night outside in the worst area of Dayton than in one of the better areas in southside Chicago lol.
The worst looking areas have much less crime than certain areas near them. I live near Salem and Seibenthaler and sadly the crime does surround us like we are in the center of it all. I do not feel unsafe though as you said because many of us are armed and dangerous so we welcome any attempted robbery or attack.
@@kevinlong7515 Yeah it's crazy too because that area doesn't look nearly as bad as some places. I live in west carrollton and grew up in beavercreek so I've been lucky enough to be sheltered from a lot of it. But I've driven all over Dayton so I've seen some shit. I used to do deliveries for a pharmacy and ended up in a few pretty scary situations. Overall though I think there's a lot of potential even in the bad parts. 90 percent of everyone I met were nice as hell to me. Some dude who I delivered meds to his mom tried to share his blunt and whiskey with me lol. I had to decline because of work haha.
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I moved to the Shiloh neighborhood of North Dayton in January 2020. I live on North Main Street, a block away from Philadelphia. Dayton is the most run down city I've ever lived in, but I'm here to buy a home in two years, and do my part to improve and beautify a neighborhood. Dayton was culture shock for me. I grew up in the South Bronx, NY, and raised my son in Tacoma, Wa. Both of those cities have undergone gentrification, and I can't afford to live there anymore. I also lived in Torrington, CT for 10 years, which is in the Litchfield Hills, about 40 minutes from the Massachusetts border. Torrington is a city with a suburban/cosmopolitan feel. It was the safest place I lived, where the murder rate was 5 during my decade there, and those were domestic violence related. Dayton has gray skies most of the time, and the sunny days are unbearably hot and humid for me. Winters are bitterly cold, but they were worse in Connecticut. I never lived anywhere the sun hardly shines during wintertime, until I moved to Dayton. It would've been helpful to me, if the person who made this video announced the different streets he turned onto. I've seen some scary and desolate neighborhoods that I avoid like the plague. I hope to have the opportunity to help make Dayton an urban oasis, because it's a desert right now.
If you invest money in your house the crackheads will steal the stuff. Look at the neighborhoods
Some of it is Five Oaks
Welcome to Dayton. I've been in the area for 40+ yrs. It's pretty sad to know what those neighborhoods were like in the late 80s compared to now. Unfortunately, this video doesn't show the worst of Dayton...
Dayton is my home. Been coast to coast keep comin here it will be great again if people put money in it
Have you been down kensington or north Philly?
Look at my raggedy ass city😫🤦🏽♀️ we really need to have more pride in our community... it wouldnt look like this.🥺😭
I've put gloves on and picked up the trash in my neighborhood myself... Sometimes you've got to be the change you wish to see.
@@waniesworld7256 I definitely am,and hate litter! I have pulled over on side of the road to pick up trash somebody threw out their window while driving to keep my neighborhood clean. If the people who live in the community dont respect or uphold it,no one else will.
Did he show the bass??😂 If so OMFG. My city looks horrible!!
@@christianbrooks-moore8855 ikr!
Shit worse than Cleveland and Lima 😂
I make videos of Dayton, Ohio on my RUclips channel and I told Charlie to film this area in North Dayton when he got the chance to and he has delivered the goods. This is the Santa Clara, Five Oaks, and Fairview Neighborhoods off of North Main Street.
Charlie thank you for delivering the goods on this video
@@kinxori you don't speak for us, I care.
Doesn’t the mayor live in five oaks or somewhere close?
@@Steve-bm2zm Yes she lives in Five Oaks close to Grandview Hospital
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@@rodriguez00vitor stfu fuc boy beat cho azz
As a former Daytonian, one more thing: if you notice-most of the cars you see are nice. So thay means these people are are working class. They are making changes one step at a time. It may look rough on the outside, but most likely nice on the inside, for some of them.
True
Why don't they focus on their living quarters before that car or that Iphone?
@@watchthisnow321 because they may decide to move to a better neighborhood
They get like $8000 in tax money every year and they use that at the buy here pay here lot. Also repos are biiiiig around there.
Trevor- the place was nice before these people moved into the area.
More of what happens when corporations sends jobs overseas to make more money for executive bonuses.
Not really. This is caused by corruption in City Hall and progressive policies. I live here. I know.
@@jimmyboy5597 I would say both things contributed. Also, the failed social experiment with forced bussing caused a mass exodus of folks with middle class incomes from the city. They can invest all the money they want into downtown Dayton, but until they fix this mess, it will end up being like Chicago. Michigan Avenue and South side looking like a tale of two cities.
@@jimmyboy5597 I believe you are mistaken.
Not really the whites started moving out when the blacks started moving in
@@ricoconti3141 Yes whites began moving out, as blacks began moving in, but bussing sped up the process. That's when they left in droves.
Some of those old homes have been neglected, but others seem well maintained. I'd like to think there could be hope for a comeback in the neighborhood.
The area filmed was once occupied by doctors and nurses because it was surrounded by 2 hospitals (Good Sam and Grandview) not to mention the close proximity to downtown. As you can see most of the homes are very large and the inside hosts exquisite woodwork. While it may be depressing to look at just a few blocks separates it from University Row where the homes are big, beautiful, maintained and occupied by majority black residents.
I have filmed on the inside of these houses in this neighborhood before
This hood has some big houses. Plus most of the cars you see are more expensive then my car. This place has some amazing potential.
This hood used to be where all the rich people lived back in the day then was taken over
Bro for the outside looking in yup.. Born an raised in Dayton I wouldn't buy anything around there.. It does of course look horrible in the winter time in the summer it looks much nicer but still nope.. I bought my house in Dayton but for the money much better and safer hoods
@@mmjnice97 its a shame because if they took pride in their neighbourhood, this place could look very nice. Did the jobs market dry up in this area or something?
@@cboyyo9670 Yes, Dayton used to have plants related to the auto industry.
@@cboyyo9670 Dayton was a GM town with hundreds of part suppliers to support GM I worked dam near at all of them at some point growing up. Around the early 2000s GM abandoned Dayton and probably 90% of theses supporting companies either left with them or went under it was a death of a thousand cuts for the city. I couldn't find a job so I joined the Army and left Dayton for a time myself. When the housing bubble busted around 2006-2008 that was the last blow and Dayton become flooded with heroin. You have to understand that Dayton sits on the American crossroads of 75 Florida to Michigan and 70 new York to California any drugs that make it anywhere in the country have to drive through Dayton Ohio basically! So no jobs everyone loseing the homes and cheap heroin and cocaine everywhere Crime sky rocketed anyone with the means got the fu€k outta doge bro. Then they locked the main drug area's in with road blocks to the point that if you aren't from that hood you would be stuck for at least 10 minutes just long enough for a runner to offer you any drug you can think of.. It was the wild west cops didn't even like going into that place. . Bicycle cops yea fu€k!n right smh.. It was a war zone and before I joined the army I was one of those crazy broke kids with not much to lose.. So yea its still hasn't recovered yet in those places in that video. Please don't blame it on pride Cuz if your not from Dayton or your under 30 you wouldn't understand bro.. Didn't even tell you about the tornado that destroyed half of the dam city two years ago smh.. I love Dayton and it made me we still have about 10 more years before it seem close to what it was 30 years ago I would imagine. . after all those abandoned buildings are gone would be the best thing ever and take down 60% of those slum lord apartments. Give people big tax breaks to rebuild and reforms with people with a 10 year or more plan in the government will save this city.. I 🙏
I remember how beautiful Dayton used to be and now, it’s just so run down.
This is what NE, D.C. looked like for years and when the properties got abandoned and sale prices lowered to practically nothing it bounced back with two grocery stores, coffee shops, all kinds of shopping and a Yoga studio. Homeownership is the key to generational wealth, so hold onto your family homes, sometimes it takes a group effort.
I recently have started to invest in Dayton as an out of state investor. I'm trying to rebuild one house at a time to bring back affordability to people who desire to work, pay there bills on time, stay away from drugs and help build there community. Sometimes you have to rebuild, but it's going to take a different mind set for this to really change. I love working with real estate, but more importantly I love working with people. Don't be discouraged, we will rebuild. Dayton Strong................
So basically gentrification. We know how this story ends.
Too many people doped up to work. Daytonians ruined their own damn city. Cincinnati and Toledo are probably a better bet, Columbus is expensive as fuck.
The sky really fits the mood.
Sure does. Grey and depressing.
@@CyberHawk2024 thats midwest for ya. Just drapped in all black like a funeral
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Like most American cities in the winter.
it's always like this in dayton now
This is what happens to beautiful homes, and once beautiful neighborhoods. It's so sad when people don't take pride in their surroundings, nor do they care about their own residence. SMH.
The good part is the I Love West Dayton group is working hard to get areas like this cleaned up.
Once upon a time, these were nice neighborhoods. I noticed that there were still some well kept homes amidst the abandoned, boarded up houses. These are the people I feel sorry for. Probably retired, with homes that are paid for. Now stuck & can't afford to relocate. Also felt sorry for the kids jumping on the trampoline . It has to do a number on your mental health, living around all of that ugliness.
Unfortunately this is all of Dayton. This city has been on the decline since I was born. I love my city, but I pray the the Lord helps it.
It’s so relaxing watching you drive around!! It makes me sleepy!! Thank you!!!
I hate the hopelessness look in so many of our communities
Minus the first 2 minutes and 30 seconds, the rest of the area looks nice, tbh. Shit looks extra depressing because it's cloudy, lol. Would look nicer if it was sunny.
Soon as "we" want to do better we can. can. We just have to stop with all of the excuses.. Make changes one step at a time. My family is from there and I lived there at different times in my life (1989 as a child and 2006 through 2011) as an adult. It aint that bad.
@@kixmgc most of his videos it seems he looks at the weather and picks the gloomy days to go to these places. Makes em all look worse
I wrote this comment for someone else but I feel it explains what happened in Dayton Ohio. You can see that at one time this was a really really nice place.. Dayton was a GM town with hundreds of part suppliers to support GM I worked dam near at all of them at some point growing up. Around the early 2000s GM abandoned Dayton and probably 90% of theses supporting companies either left with them or went under it was a death of a thousand cuts for the city. I couldn't find a job so I joined the Army and left Dayton for a time myself. When the housing bubble busted around 2006-2008 that was the last blow and Dayton become flooded with heroin. You have to understand that Dayton sits on the American crossroads of 75 Florida to Michigan and 70 new York to California any drugs that make it anywhere in the country have to drive through Dayton Ohio basically! So no jobs everyone loseing the homes and cheap heroin and cocaine everywhere Crime sky rocketed anyone with the means got the fu€k outta doge bro. Then they locked the main drug area's in with road blocks to the point that if you aren't from that hood you would be stuck for at least 10 minutes just long enough for a runner to offer you any drug you can think of.. It was the wild west cops didn't even like going into that place. . Bicycle cops yea fu€k!n right smh.. It was a war zone and before I joined the army I was one of those crazy broke kids with not much to lose.. So yea its still hasn't recovered yet in those places in that video. Please don't blame it on pride Cuz if your not from Dayton or your under 30 you wouldn't understand bro.. Didn't even tell you about the tornado that destroyed half of the dam city two years ago smh.. I love Dayton and it made me we still have about 10 more years before it seem close to what it was 30 years ago I would imagine. . after all those abandoned buildings are gone would be the best thing ever and take down 60% of those slum lord apartments. Give people big tax breaks to rebuild and reforms with people with a 10 year or more plan in the government will save this city.. I 🙏 dam this sh!t is depressing. . I bought my house in old north Dayton better than this hood but not a candy lane either. I feel pretty save there but I got cameras everywhere on my property cuz its still kinda ruff around the edges
Well spoken, you summed it up in a couple paragraphs you did a better job than I would have done.😊
@@pamm2230 abandoned,,, left,,, kinda means the same thing, and there are other GM factories still in America so your point is what in correcting me? Did I use their there or they're wrong to, or should I say" too"smh.. Look everyone knows that lots of Manufacturing jobs have gone over sea's. My point is that Dayton Ohio my home Town was basically hit with a prefect storm literally, of factors that created what you see in this video.
Totally agree, I'm born and raised in Dyt so,I know exactly what you are saying
Dayton has been flooded with heroin since the 80s
why would you buy a house that you have to have security cameras everywhere and a swat team stationed outside. sorry ill take a hard pass on that. you should have tried a little harder and opened your mind. unless of course you like living in all the chaos for some unknown reason.
I've lived in Dayton Ohio all my life and I hate it here. I live off east 3rd st and it's horrible here.. I hardly go outside.. the only time I do is when I absolutely need to. I wish our town could get better but with people not giving a damn it doesn't look like it will happen in my time
Hi Ashley I'm Rick got a question if you don't mind it doesn't pertain to this videothe question is can you sing by any chance I got a band and I'm looking for a singer I also to live in in Dayton I call it the shity of Dayton LOL
@@angieghostuforick1645 as much as I'd like to think I can sing but I can't lol. Sorry
Move.
@@ashleystine9862 I can...
@@angieghostuforick1645 I can...
Long Live Lansky RIP💔
@@LilChiefMoe7 💯💯💯
who is that?
@@bre9060 Mic Lansky best rapper to come out Dayton got murdered in that area
@@ryanjones3128 fuck lil chief moe its 600 300 otf fuck the opps
@@gemcitysnowoppfreeirishmob9777 smh. ill check him out, thank you!!
Main thing about the homes in dayton you cant judge a book by its cover alot of these homes loom ran down but they are extremely beautiful and well maintained
Hey Calvin.🙋🏾♀️ This is truth!
That's right Nephew love Auntie❤
This is true but everyone in the city of Dayton that owns a house needs to take pride on the outside of their homes also. There is so much trash in the neighborhoods people driving around throw trash out in their own neighborhoods I have seen it in my days spent working in neighborhoods and a lot of it is by people that live in the neighborhood. Everyone keeps talking about investing in their neighborhoods like they want someone else to come in and provide all the funding but they're not willing to invest and take pride in their own neighborhoods and work within themselves. The neighborhoods did not get run down overnight it took years and it will definitely take years to improve it starting with today and tomorrow moving forward because it is the 💎 city
@@brianwhitten7970 EXACTLY. I'm seeing trash also. Just throwing it out of their cars. Smh
Hope you guys are having a great saturday.
Thanks for the uploads man.
I've deadass been watching you since 2016 Charlie keep up the good work G
Thanks for the support.
@@CharlieBo313 No problem Charlie, stay safe & stay dangerous out there ‼️
Yeah me too, 👊🇧🇷
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@@CharlieBo313 you should do Akron Ohio
I’m born and raised in Dayton Ohio, Five Oaks to be exact. You made my city look so bad😂 that ain’t even the worst hood Go to the square or the bass Get out the oaks
DeSoto Bass would be a good starting point
Totally agree, this is not the roughest area I was born in raised in Dayton and grew up all over. In you are exactly right the squar and bass are the worse.
Yeah I'm a UPS driver on the west side. This is far from the worst.
Cornel off gettysburg, fotip, queens, blueberry (definitely some bodies back in those woods).
West 2nd st just out of drexel is real bad ( i literally got caught in a soft shootout off shasta yesterday)
Summit square off hoover. Soto bass.
All of these places are way worse than anything off salem. I guarantee you that.
Yo my guy the bass is crazy at night lol
But won’t the square count apart of Trotwood🤔
I lived there as a kid in the early 90's. It was a nice place, tons of shopping, nice homes, great restaurants etc... it's all but decimated now. My heart sinks when I drive through there now. Half of the buildings are gone and it looks like little Detroit in most parts.
It's honestly nothing like Detroit. There are several blocks like this but most of it is not bad. Detroit can sell liveable homes for $1. Dayton is not that bad.
Five Oaks was declining in the early 90s. So sad to see just how bad many of the houses have become. It would be great to see revitalization, but not at the expense of people who live here.
Can't say I can blame anybody for leaving Dayton. It's a dying city that's not going to comeback. Dull, drab and depressing.
If you make $70k per year you can live like a king in Dayton because this is only a portion. I love in downtown Dayton and it is simply gorgeous. Reminds me of bigger city living in a very compact town.
Wasn't dayton hit by a bad tornado in 2019?
It might be ragged but we are the best people with the best hearts and that is what makes Dayton Ohio Beautiful! My City, my home for over fifty years.
Exactly and trust me this is not worse I've seen worse.
I live in rural Missouri, and even in the country there are neighborhoods that look like that, trashed and questionable. What I saw in the earlier part of the vid were the homes, once majestic and beautiful, now so many of them rotting and trashed. It's sad to see that happen to any area. Once upon a time that neighborhood myst of been alive, healthy and full of life, children, cared for yards and homes. Watching you drive through it, one could almost hear the echos of better times. Thanks for the sharing this video. I'll keep those in that neighborhood in my thoughts and in my prayers. God bless them and you.
This is the area that I told you to film a while back in Dayton, Ohio. You are in North Dayton in the Santa Clara, Five Oaks and Fairview Neighborhoods. That one gas station that I told you to look for and film some drama is the Marathon Gas Station on North Main Street
Pretty much all the dayton gas stations are dramatic. My friend had someone get shot right in front of him at a BP on Salem.
Your right that marathon 🙄
It was fun trying to sell my cars there. The 87 Cutlass was a favorite.
@@mattVmatt12 a teenager got shot outside that one. Sad.
And the shell on main and siebenthaler is off the chain.
This is sad to me. All it would take is for each person to care enough to do their part and it could be beautiful again. I love the older homes. They have such character and vintage charm.
I grew up in that neighborhood. I love those old houses. It's a shame to see them tore up like that.
Detroit is the D.
Dayton is Little D.
And Dallas is the big D! lol
Facts. No #13 for murders
RIP 🙏 Roger and Larry Troutman 😢
Brother killed brother them himself
Yeah my City looks bad but I wouldn’t trade it for nothing. 💎City💪🏿
How about get out there and help clean it up!
I used to live there when i was younger, but moved to Colorado Springs and joined the Army stationed at Fort Carson ..
It was nice in the 80s and early 90s.
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Since you’re up this way, if u go to Cincinnati u should go to price hill, and South and North Fairmount
price hill views are crazy
Dayton Ohio use to be a BEAUTIFUL city. Crack cocaine devastated Dayton. Dayton tire and rubber left, Inland left which were main employer's. Breaks my heart to see what once was a THRIVING city now a shell 😭
There used to be manufacturing jobs there. Now there's nothing.
The story of Ohio and Michigan in general tbh
Dayton was once known as Gem City and was once a mini music hub, producing Roger Troutman and a few other musical greats.
@@LeeDfined BT Express !
Seeing Dayton on these videos makes me kinda sad, I remember days of playing till the sun went down 🤦🏽♂️ city will never be the same
ah ... my old neighborhood. I lived here for 19 years and at one time it was a beautiful neighborhood to live in. Walked the streets at all times of day or night... never had a problem. Once Crack came to town though... it went downhill quick. And then Dayton was the #1 foreclosure Capital of the US in 2009 for about 3 months. Now... I won't even go into that part of town anymore. Every night gunshots and theft everywhere. It's enough to break a heart.
These must have been beautiful neighborhoods at one time
It’s was!
They were before all the whites moved out
They were, they were owned by Jewish people about 50 years ago, as my father told me. That's why the homes are very large. They were hardly no African-Americans or people of color that lived in that area at one time. Unless you were working for the Jewish families. They were absolutely amazing at one time.
@@shebaabdullah5929 my moms family grew up on that side of town during the 50s and 60s and they said it was a beautiful place.to grow up. But even had to move out because all the crime and drugs
This wasn’t even the worst parts just looked like five oaks area.
i use to visit my grandparents almost every summer and i attended dayton catholic one year. dayton really went down hill
Worst thing they ever did to the North Main Street area was block it off and put those Roadblocks up!! They basically chained everybody inside of a prison of drugs crime and poverty... Looking back I didn't understand what they where doing but now I see it for what it was a prison ghetto with no way out and a trap for anyone that was unfortunate enough to start living there 😒
The drug violence was out of control then. (Still bad but not as). The roadblocks helped with the gang gun violence.
Nothing looks intimidating here. Just abandoned houses slowly decomposing into debris.
I have lived in Dayton for the last 20 years and the other part of my life I lived in Cincinnati both of these cities are definitely run down and both of these cities used to be very affluent in the 50s and 60s when drugs hit the streets in the '80s the neighborhood started to go down that's why the houses are so large but ran down cuz at one point in time these were rich neighborhoods
This neighborhood has a lot of potential though.
Left Dayton, Ohio at the age of 10 back in 1997..it was a shit hole then..once upon a time it was a beautiful city...sad
So grey, dreary, depressing, every street looks the same.
It's just 5 Oaks to me
That description fits Detroit easily.
@BONG WATER I'm sure it looks pretty in Spring when everything turns green and flowers start blooming.
You should do Trotwood next time you're in Dayton
Compared to detroit it looks like Beverly hills
This still looks like shit but there are few places I've been that look like the D a lot of times when I hear "oh that's the hood" I just laugh to myself like "ok" Michigan hoods are different and flint and the D are the worst
When I went to detroit for the first time my first thought was just wow this is like a bigger and shitter version of Dayton lol.
This looks worst than dtown for me
@@lyn9572 but it's not as bad as Detroit, not even close
@@kevinlong7515 the weed is pretty good though lol
My father was based in Dayton, OH during WWII. Somehow I think it was a lot nicer place back then.
Hell, it was nicer 15 years ago!
@@DGTelevsionNetwork I'm sure it was!
You should do a Springfield Ohio drive trough. The Southside is lit in the summer
You recorded this awhile back because it was nice in Dayton today
Ok thanks. I thought I recorded it today.
@@CharlieBo313 The weather was gloomy today in Dayton, so I am sure you recorded it today. I wish I could have met up with you to record this. Hopefully you can get East Dayton when you come back
@@CharlieBo313 The area that you were filming, you did a great job,😊 I will give you some history as my father and mother told me. The Five Oaks and Main Street area that you were in were mostly predominantly Jewish families that live there. That's why a lot of the homes were very large. They were hardly no African-Americans or people of color living there in that area. The only time that you see people of color there unless you were working for them. African Americans have their own side of town which are Germantown St, 5th Street, and 3rd Street area. That's the area that my mother grew up in. Dayton are separated by Bridges from one town to the next. You go across the bridge from Main Street, into downtown onto South End of Dayton.
I used to live in one of these hoods with my mom and sister. Life takes you back so long, that you never want to leave
Everyone trash talking Dayton have to realize this was once known as GEM CITY. Dayton used to bustle and was full of life and influenced culture. This was where Zapp and Roger are from and we know how they influenced the whole music scene to this very day. All of Dayton dont look like this. Trust me. My family has roots there.
True
You're absolutely right, people from the South came to live there for better opportunities do two jobs and GM factories etc. The best musicians came from here Lakeside Zapp and Rodger as you said and Ohio Players.
If people treated their property with more respect and the neighborhood to pick up their trashed areas, this areas would be livable. Get rid of the criminals and druggie.
Something people driving through certain parts here dont realize just how bad it is. Dayton right this minute, is the 3rd poorest city in the united states. And with poverty, comes crime, and drugs. Dayton is in really bad shape. We're not the most violent city, but as far as poverty and drugs. We're in the top 5 on both of those based on our population.
Dayton is the 🏡 of The Ohio Players, Zapp, and Slave.
@shawn conrad Never heard of them.
All loosers probably locked up now.
Great Dayton Ohio worst hoods video part 2
grew up in that neighborhood in the 70s-80s it was great , now when I drive through there I get sad.
I remember those days, but honestly it's not as bad as some of these places he films, I expected it to be worse, about all the old businesses appear to be gone, I remember going to the upper crust, ice cream shops, Malone's grocery store, the Video store that had those tabs hanging on the hooks, Bonded gas station just to name a few
Lol I wonder if the Big E bar still exists, it was there up until the early 2000s I remember
We moved south to the mountains where my family originated from before Ohio when my grandpa came north to work for Delphi /GM
@@Willowtree82 My grandpa came from Columbus area to Dayton to work for Delco Moraine.
why’d they recommend me this knowing this where i’m at rn 😭😭😭 they shady
This used to be a good, middle class neighborhood. The houses, while not grand, are well-built and some are in good shape. Many would be fairly easy to refurbish.
Charlie do you still have the information that I emailed you about where to film at in Dayton, Ohio
This is the area that I told you to film a while back in Dayton, Ohio. You are in North Dayton in the Santa Clara, Five Oaks and Fairview Neighborhoods. That one gas station that I told you to look for and film some drama is the Marathon Gas Station on North Main Street
I still have that email. I used the location for this area. I didn't do any gas station/store recording but I'm back to doing those again, sometimes.
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@@CharlieBo313 - Don't please don't.
@@mfax1000 🤣
That shit looks depressing..Charlie what happened to the other camera you was using? This footage ain't as clear
I'm born and raised in Dayton 1970 and left 12 yrs ago. This may sound strange, I now live in a gated community in the burbs of Houston Texas and I sometimes miss the west side, Dayton view and Westwood where I grew up. Miss it ,but never want to live there again. Gem City 4Life !!!!
Shit I used to stay in that neighborhood in the very beginning he even drove past the building I stayed in! Glad I'm out of there
When you see the lawns in your neighborhood start going to hell, get out. It’s a precursor for what’s coming
Pull up to East Cleveland it’s worse down there
All star weekend there next year...detroit niggas finna take ova to city my boy😂😂😂😂😂
He's done a million videos of East Cleveland.
@@applejuice5635 East Cleveland, or the east side of Cleveland? It’s a difference. I haven’t seen Any videos of East Cleveland
@@dgratt183 He has done the city of East Cleveland, but it's always been in his Cleveland hoods videos. He has never specified that he's in East Cleveland but you can see him driving on Euclid in East and going down the surrounding streets.
@@dgratt183 And a "million" videos was an exaggeration, my bad haha. I've seen at least a couple videos of him driving there.
I saw a documentary they a lot of those homes have arsenic and that the city is suppose to do something but that they aren’t 🥺 leaving them like that with kids and their families like that. It’s so heartbreaking 😭
This is the worst place in town to have a flat, and also the place most likely for it to occur. The roads are unmaintained and horrible.
Its sad too, because as you drive through I can vision it 50-60 years ago, when it was vibrant and full of life. Now it's a mere husk of what it once was.
Dayton needs a Mayor that cares for the west side not just for the votes to get them in office! Vision and direction to get people to take pride in the neighborhoods! Dayton is Dead, sad it has so much potential
Diversity is our greatest strength!
Ain’t nun but a bunch of cops in the comment😂😂
People say that Dayton OH is going in the same direction that Youngstown OH went,,,,,,,,,,GOOD VIDEO!!!!
Nothing a fresh coat of paint can't fix
Looks like they were in the fiveboaks nieghborhood too. Definitely on lower Salem Ave. As well. I just saw my in-laws old house.
I lived in Dayton Ohio in the 70's was not like this. Of course Detroit Michigan didn't look like this when I moved up here either. Life how it has changed.
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unfortunately, the blight you see here is in pretty much every major US city.
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I went to Dayton 1 year ago a bought 3 homes 2 of which were sold and is now beautiful. Still there are a lot of “bandos”. 1 thing I found out is the city of Dayton ( ppl in office) is to blame. A lot of theses homes have $20k, $30k even $40k in BACK TAXES that they refuse to clear for ppl wanting to buy and renovate. Once tax paying owners move in work can be done
Dayton is a dumpster fire. Moved to Tennessee on 5 acres of woods and never looked back. 50 + years ago it was a decent city and then it went downhill.
Good ol Five Oaks. Where it's brick walls in the middle of the road within a 20 block radius. Gotta know your way in and way out
This is a result of bad and selfish leadership. I moved to Charlotte in 2009 because the city couldn't keep what was founded there "NCR". So you know no new companies would be investing or relocating. The auto plants shut down and leaders had no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish
The sad result of redlining and systemic institutional racism. No city should be okay with its citizens living in such conditions.
The cars are more valuable than the slums they live in
Fact is, a lot of people don't take care of their stuff. Especially if they are renting.
If you have a big ass bump in your street, pot holes and an iron fence in the middle of your road, you're in it. 😂😂😂
My late husband was raised in Dayton. Don't remember the street but he drove by the house in '77 to show me. His parents had a beautiful home built in Xenia (now Beaver Creek). I loved visiting there!
Lived on E. 5th St. in the 50's. I was a blue-collar neighborhood but safe. Left Dayton nearly 50 years ago but came back recently. Lots of changes; none of them good in the old neighborhood. Factories like Monarch Marking, which was in the alley behind our house, Master Electric all gone. Pretty sad to see. Went by my Grandmother's House on Pleasant. Guy saw me walking in the alley and told me to be careful; there'd been a shooting the night before.
I'm from Dayton and grew up on E. 4th St. between S. June and Ribolt St. It was always so clean and cared for. After the bussing started the owners sold and moved to the burbs. Blame the landlords for most of this. Section 8 killed a lot of neighborhoods. So sad. These were great houses in their prime.
The drugs are what really did it in the most. I watched down turn into Detroit in 10 years. Those morons don't give a fuck and will ruin their own town and blame everyone else.
Dayton turned into a ghetto city beginning in the 70’s. The corporate slumlords bought up homes by the neighborhoods and leased to some of the worst trash in Dayton. That why our family moved. It was a blessing too. The biggest ghetto hoods I remember was in Drexel.
This is my hometown. At 5:24 of this video is Redfern and Ferndale. This is the corner where I used to catch the bus to go to Valerie elementary school from 2nd grade up to 6th grade. This is my old neighborhood. I still drive thru this neighborhood when I am visiting my mom. Most of my family still lives in Dayton. which I will be going be visiting in the next week. Can you believe in the 70s and 80s this neighborhood used to be all white mostly. wow how things have changed.
Have you filmed in the neighborhoods around Hillcrest and Salem? I used to live over there. So many beautiful old homes just boarded up and rotting when I was there a couple years ago.
I live in Dayton view rite down from Salem n hillcrest.. Sum really beautiful homes over here but no1 wanna live over here lol it's horrible wen it's warm out side.. It hit 60° tha other day n i heard so many gunshots..!!
I grew up in the 80s in Dayton on hillcrest, back then it was mixed black and white, 95% of the whte ppl left in 90s and early 2000s to riverside and old north Dayton. I used to be bussed to my elementary school off Gettysburg to hickorydale elementary, back then they did this to white kids in the west side schools to attempt diversity, this was early 80s ,I think the school is gone now. I live in Tennessee today. I still visit Ohio family in brookeville every year
Most of the derelict houses look like they were beautiful homes in the past. What the hell happened?
Watching from Australia.......Many 3rd world countries have conditions similar to this and this is the USA, unbelievable.
Thank you for the video CharlieBo313, it’s superb.
Unfortunately these neighborhoods are the product odf redlining, and the crack epidemic. The houses are absolutely huge and many have beautiful ornate woodwork. It is a shame.
Corrupt politicians & corporations outsourcing jobs to cheaper labor countries
I wouldn't call this the worst hood in dayton. It gets worse, I (a small white guy lol) would feel perfectly comfortable walking around in this area. Hell I'd say hi to people. There are some areas where I wouldn't but Dayton is really not that bad. Most of the violent crime is drug dealer on drug dealer stuff. Probably obvious but I'd much rather spend the night outside in the worst area of Dayton than in one of the better areas in southside Chicago lol.
The worst looking areas have much less crime than certain areas near them. I live near Salem and Seibenthaler and sadly the crime does surround us like we are in the center of it all. I do not feel unsafe though as you said because many of us are armed and dangerous so we welcome any attempted robbery or attack.
@@kevinlong7515 Yeah it's crazy too because that area doesn't look nearly as bad as some places. I live in west carrollton and grew up in beavercreek so I've been lucky enough to be sheltered from a lot of it. But I've driven all over Dayton so I've seen some shit. I used to do deliveries for a pharmacy and ended up in a few pretty scary situations. Overall though I think there's a lot of potential even in the bad parts. 90 percent of everyone I met were nice as hell to me. Some dude who I delivered meds to his mom tried to share his blunt and whiskey with me lol. I had to decline because of work haha.
Would have liked to know what streets you were on...