This is both amazing and sad at the same time. Amazing to see the vibrancy of Oakland then; sad to see all of that now disappearing due to rapid gentrification. :-(
@@GlobalGioReacts I'll be honest. Yes gentrification has had some what of an adverse effect on oakland. But immigration is what has really hurt oakland. Keep it real. Oakland is just not an American city anymore. And I have absolutely nothing against people trying to have a better life, but immigration is out of hand in oakland. A lot of the people who have moved here don't even like Americans, or they don't like a certain race of Americans. I've lived here 60 years and I've never experienced the hate and racism, and discrimination that I'm seeing and experiencing now. It sucks and makes me feel insulted. Traffic is a total nightmare. I really don't even like leaving my house and going anywhere in oakland. It's really difficult to put it into words, what this once great city with so much potential has become. Most neighborhoods you walk around in oakland you feel your living in a different country when you see the clothing people are wearing. It just doesn't feel like America in oakland anymore.
I lived in Berkeley CA in the early 1960's, I frequently went to Oakland CA because Montgomery Wards was there, Swan's or Housewives market was there Mauras fish wagon was cross the street, Rhodes and Capwell's, I. Magnin and Joseph Magnin was there, and the Roxie Theater was there, Sears Roebuck was on Telegraph Ave, my mom used to get our school clothes from Sears catalog and Wards catalog. I am 65 years old now and I want a house back there in Berkeley 🌹⚜️🇺🇸
This is an extraordinary video. It really touches me because I was there in those days, a bit clueless, but not completely. What I love is the bounce. I mean, Afro Americans bounce. They bounce up, they bounce down, they bounce back. Like my grandmother used to say about the Jews, we are like the grass, you cut us down and we still come back. No, that's not what I want to say. See, what I'm saying is that within all the black anger and the fear and the hatred of injustice there is a vitality and joie de vie within the hearts of black people and what this video suggests/reveals is that life-affirming, indomitable spirit. "The power of the people is greater than the man's technology." That is, the power of #blacklivesmatter is greater than Putin's racist/fascist hackers or Trump's shitweets. The dancing you see here, enclosed within this hip music track, is the dancing of people in South Africa, a joyous affirmation of life itself that informs whatever anger is expressed, even the showdown at Marin county courthouse. Black soul is about life and living and music and dance and life and love. Long may it live.
Um Didn't Trump help the black community with unemployment? I mean last time I check the unemployment hit record low. Obama sat around with his thumb up his butthole doing nothing for them.
Ok Now this video makes me cry as well as the other one “Angels”
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Oh Yeah! I remember that time, you even got a quick shot of the Jorgensen Steel Plant at the end of West Grand where My Dad (God Rest His Hard Working Soul) Sweated 38 years! Oakland was and still is a Shithole so bad that joining the U.S. Marines and gettin' sent to 'Nam didn't seem that bad! Thanks for some Bitter Sweet Memories!
Everybody wore natural hair not oen single colored hair and people socialized with each other not like today were you coudl never see me enter oakland with a whole buncg if people in one spot like lake merritt
This is both amazing and sad at the same time. Amazing to see the vibrancy of Oakland then; sad to see all of that now disappearing due to rapid gentrification. :-(
oakland is shit now
Oakland is still vibrant. We need people like you to move here.
@@marpar3971 We need people like you to move here.
@@GlobalGioReacts I'll be honest. Yes gentrification has had some what of an adverse effect on oakland. But immigration is what has really hurt oakland. Keep it real. Oakland is just not an American city anymore. And I have absolutely nothing against people trying to have a better life, but immigration is out of hand in oakland. A lot of the people who have moved here don't even like Americans, or they don't like a certain race of Americans. I've lived here 60 years and I've never experienced the hate and racism, and discrimination that I'm seeing and experiencing now. It sucks and makes me feel insulted. Traffic is a total nightmare. I really don't even like leaving my house and going anywhere in oakland. It's really difficult to put it into words, what this once great city with so much potential has become. Most neighborhoods you walk around in oakland you feel your living in a different country when you see the clothing people are wearing. It just doesn't feel like America in oakland anymore.
I lived in West Oakland in the 70s. Moved to East Oakland in the 80s. Got out of the state completely in the 2000s, lol
Thousands of people moving out now. Too expensive.
It was a beautiful place
@@dontennis2260 its not expensive! its freaking dirty with big homeless camps everywhere. it looks like a third world country
Most moved to places like Antioch, Fairfield, Vallejo, Sacramento and Stockton.
@@marpar3971 It's one of the most expensive cities in America unfortunately. Median home price is $725,000.
I lived in Berkeley CA in the early 1960's, I frequently went to Oakland CA because Montgomery Wards was there, Swan's or Housewives market was there Mauras fish wagon was cross the street, Rhodes and Capwell's, I. Magnin and Joseph Magnin was there, and the Roxie Theater was there, Sears Roebuck was on Telegraph Ave, my mom used to get our school clothes from Sears catalog and Wards catalog. I am 65 years old now and I want a house back there in Berkeley 🌹⚜️🇺🇸
I am the same age as you and I too remember every place you mentioned, as a kid.
Love the 🎶 music
Wow Oakland is beautiful
This is an extraordinary video. It really touches me because I was there in those days, a bit clueless, but not completely. What I love is the bounce. I mean, Afro Americans bounce. They bounce up, they bounce down, they bounce back. Like my grandmother used to say about the Jews, we are like the grass, you cut us down and we still come back. No, that's not what I want to say. See, what I'm saying is that within all the black anger and the fear and the hatred of injustice there is a vitality and joie de vie within the hearts of black people and what this video suggests/reveals is that life-affirming, indomitable spirit. "The power of the people is greater than the man's technology." That is, the power of #blacklivesmatter is greater than Putin's racist/fascist hackers or Trump's shitweets. The dancing you see here, enclosed within this hip music track, is the dancing of people in South Africa, a joyous affirmation of life itself that informs whatever anger is expressed, even the showdown at Marin county courthouse. Black soul is about life and living and music and dance and life and love. Long may it live.
japanjazzman I hear you. It’s great to see black pride & joy!
Black people are the real Jews.
Um Didn't Trump help the black community with unemployment? I mean last time I check the unemployment hit record low. Obama sat around with his thumb up his butthole doing nothing for them.
That is so true
I was born in Oakland back then in the 60s and 70s it was nice i dont love in Oakland anymore i moved to the country
I miss our town!
You moved out of the country?San Jose is nice and campbell, ca
Thank you to all the nice people I seen in Oakland if I go to Oakland I want to eat at giant burger.
Laguna Ave!
Go to True burger of Homeroom
Ok Now this video makes me cry as well as the other one
“Angels”
Oh Yeah! I remember that time, you even got a quick shot of the Jorgensen Steel Plant at the end of West Grand where My Dad (God Rest His Hard Working Soul) Sweated 38 years! Oakland was and still is a Shithole so bad that joining the U.S. Marines and gettin' sent to 'Nam didn't seem that bad! Thanks for some Bitter Sweet Memories!
That dance was so cool that that girl done at 1.42.
Please show more thank you
As the city started to go down
Thank u
EAST BAY DRAGONS!
Too much crime in Oakland ca
What's the name of this music in the background!?
Everybody wore natural hair not oen single colored hair and people socialized with each other not like today were you coudl never see me enter oakland with a whole buncg if people in one spot like lake merritt
Born & raised - 106th & E.
Song name?
in 1966 the white flight leaving Oakland in droves!! Oakland became known as AFRICA USA.......Businesses left to the suburbs in droves too!!
whats with this music tho?
EBG'S been around forever
It looks like Africa
Prety
Lil girl was could buggy