Once again an excellent review of a town with interesting historic facts. I was interested in Terre Haute accross the river and will now watch your video. Great job !
West Terre Haute has Never Looked Good I lived there my whole young life in the late 70/80's and I can still go there and blindfold myself and walk through it
My stepdad came from there. Tells stories of his dad building some windmills and stone furniture in their yard that used to be sort of a tourist stop. I am trying to find any pictures of them...
"Wess-T" has been a blight for decades. Even in the '60s it had a stinking garbage dump at the "Y" at the town entrance and it flooded regularly. By 1975 the only downtown biz that I remember being open was Gropp Hardware. I think the block is gone now. At least the levee was reinforced, floodgates installed and the dump filled & beautified. With the vacant lots, WTH doesn't look any more blighted than some others in central Indiana & even worse next door in Illinois. Send American jobs to Red China? Been going on for decades.
Corporate vultures buying all the private homes, avoiding small towns, because of tiny populations - To some extent, people can still buy their own home.
I was born and raised in T.H. and after I got out of the military in '76 I went to work delivering uniforms, towels to bars and restaurants, dust mops, door mats, etc. West T was on my route. I hated that POS town. As soon as you cross the river from T.H. there was a small community of shacks just immediately to your right called Taylorville. It had maybe a dozen shacks, a nasty bar that I delivered to that smelled like crap, piss and puke. Everything in there was KKK related. They had an American flag and a KKK flag out front. The guy that owned the bar wanted a monthly delivery of 10 towels. Yes, 10 towels to last the whole month. When I would pick them up they were nothing but a pile of mold. West T started it's decline when the first house was built. Their water and sewer system is decades outdated. 75% of the town has no sidewalks, curbs or storm drains. It constantly floods there. It's just a small, poor, low income community that has no resources for any kind of upgrades. There is no pride. If you could go around and ask people in T.H. there opinion of West T, you'll know what I'm talking about. Then I drove a city bus for 10 years and had West T on that route as well. Trying to get a quarter from those folks was like pulling teeth. EVERYONE thought they should ride for free. Seriously!!It was like an epidemic. Finally I got smart and moved to Arkansas in late '92 got a job with Walmart , now retired and liver in Stone County Missouri just a couple of miles from Branson on Table Rock Lake. By the way, if a cop was around and saw you do a U-turn back in the '70's, you would have been under the jail. It was the most despicable, racist place filled with bigots that I have ever encountered.
I do P & D usually in North Terre Haute sometimes i have to go into west terre haute and I hate it, nothing about west t is truck friendly (im in a truck and trailer usually a pup but even with that its horrible) It's always a fight to try to get on the main drag cause of the traffic.
I can tell you horror stories about West T. I don't know why you keep saying there are no big cities around. What would you call T.H.? T.H. isn't an Indy but it does have a population of close to 60K. Also, West T doesn't have a school system. It is the Vigo County School System.
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Once again an excellent review of a town with interesting historic facts. I was interested in Terre Haute accross the river and will now watch your video. Great job !
West Terre Haute has Never Looked Good I lived there my whole young life in the late 70/80's and I can still go there and blindfold myself and walk through it
I was born in Terre Haute during WWll. My grandmother, who would be 130 today, was born in West Terre Haute. She always called it Toad Hop. 😊
My stepdad came from there. Tells stories of his dad building some windmills and stone furniture in their yard that used to be sort of a tourist stop. I am trying to find any pictures of them...
Nice to meet you😊
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I'm just curious what is bringing you here to Indiana from Texas?
@@andrewslife1979 for study, Indiana state university.
Go to Bloomington
My favorite part of west t is the iga/kirby foods grocery store. Its been a weekly stop for years.
Terre Haute was a good place to live if you were related the Hulman family or the Gibson family! I wasn't, so I moved to Illinois!
I have grown up in Terre Haute and I tell you I have been told time after time to NOT go to west t, I don’t.
I’m looking to move to Turre Haute , what is it like there from Cincinnati Ohio live in Atlanta Georgia now
It's an okay city, not the greatest. It depends on what you're looking for
I may be moving due to work. What are the schools like . What is the closest large city
"Wess-T" has been a blight for decades. Even in the '60s it had a stinking garbage dump at the "Y" at the town entrance and it flooded regularly. By 1975 the only downtown biz that I remember being open was Gropp Hardware. I think the block is gone now. At least the levee was reinforced, floodgates installed and the dump filled & beautified. With the vacant lots, WTH doesn't look any more blighted than some others in central Indiana & even worse next door in Illinois. Send American jobs to Red China? Been going on for decades.
What about taylorville in?
Wow, west terra haute looks eerily like…south terra hoot.
So invested in this place yet live farrrrr away lol
For yrs., West Terre Haute (or as locals call it, West T) has always been seen by many as the "ugly step-sister" to Terre Haute.
Corporate vultures buying all the private homes, avoiding small towns, because of tiny populations - To some extent, people can still buy their own home.
I was born and raised in T.H. and after I got out of the military in '76 I went to work delivering uniforms, towels to bars and restaurants, dust mops, door mats, etc. West T was on my route. I hated that POS town. As soon as you cross the river from T.H. there was a small community of shacks just immediately to your right called Taylorville. It had maybe a dozen shacks, a nasty bar that I delivered to that smelled like crap, piss and puke. Everything in there was KKK related. They had an American flag and a KKK flag out front. The guy that owned the bar wanted a monthly delivery of 10 towels. Yes, 10 towels to last the whole month. When I would pick them up they were nothing but a pile of mold. West T started it's decline when the first house was built. Their water and sewer system is decades outdated. 75% of the town has no sidewalks, curbs or storm drains. It constantly floods there. It's just a small, poor, low income community that has no resources for any kind of upgrades. There is no pride. If you could go around and ask people in T.H. there opinion of West T, you'll know what I'm talking about. Then I drove a city bus for 10 years and had West T on that route as well. Trying to get a quarter from those folks was like pulling teeth. EVERYONE thought they should ride for free. Seriously!!It was like an epidemic. Finally I got smart and moved to Arkansas in late '92 got a job with Walmart , now retired and liver in Stone County Missouri just a couple of miles from Branson on Table Rock Lake. By the way, if a cop was around and saw you do a U-turn back in the '70's, you would have been under the jail. It was the most despicable, racist place filled with bigots that I have ever encountered.
Thanks for the information!
I do P & D usually in North Terre Haute sometimes i have to go into west terre haute and I hate it, nothing about west t is truck friendly (im in a truck and trailer usually a pup but even with that its horrible) It's always a fight to try to get on the main drag cause of the traffic.
I can tell you horror stories about West T. I don't know why you keep saying there are no big cities around. What would you call T.H.? T.H. isn't an Indy but it does have a population of close to 60K. Also, West T doesn't have a school system. It is the Vigo County School System.
Well I consider larger cities are cities that have a population of 100000 or more
West Terre Haute has been on the decline since the coal mines shut down in the 50s. Shady politics and the drug abuse has not helped.
We call it Terrible haute. 😂 the collage isu. Stands for i screwed up
They got a stripper bar..bad boy town. West meth haute.