Brownsville, Pennsylvania | What The Hell Happened?

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  • Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024

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  • @robinsmith8252
    @robinsmith8252 Год назад +151

    You literally hurt my soul. This is my Mom's hometown. I spent many summer vacations and holidays with relatives there. Some of the best restaurants/pizza/hoagie places. The river, the railroad, a hospital, several groceries and pharmacies. EVERYTHING a small town needed. Wow. Just so sad.

    • @hoodsnhollers
      @hoodsnhollers  Год назад +17

      Thank you so much for watching Robin!

    • @E.Grablinski
      @E.Grablinski Год назад +6

      may be just not a season? in Russia, many cities look dull not in summer

    • @frankwoods4532
      @frankwoods4532 Год назад +7

      Days gone by. At least you have your memories to hold on too.

    • @anthonymiller8979
      @anthonymiller8979 Год назад +9

      Same here. I visited my grandparents here in the 1960s every summer. Was a thriving town back then. So sad to see it now. My grandparents lived on Angle Street just below Second Street.

    • @AAA-uy2ob
      @AAA-uy2ob Год назад +5

      So what happened

  • @cynthiacrowe4899
    @cynthiacrowe4899 Год назад +30

    This is my hometown and watching this hurts because when I drive home every couple of weeks to see my family, it gets worse! Uniontown is starting to die off as well. I grew up in Republic and graduated from BHS class of 09. I lived in old coal mining houses over in Thompson/Pencraft area. We grew up calling these "patches" so we were know as Patch kids! I'd love to see another video of those little towns that are within Brownsville. Great video, very nostalgic

  • @caracoates4834
    @caracoates4834 Год назад +5

    I grew up in the Mon Valley. We moved 30 years ago and it was dying then. When the mills closed, the state never really replaced the jobs there. It is really sad, I had a wonderful childhood in PA.

  • @Biofeedback1975
    @Biofeedback1975 Год назад +25

    This is truly heartbreaking 💔. These are the beautiful and peaceful towns that need to be restored and brought back to life.

    • @r.pres.4121
      @r.pres.4121 Год назад +4

      You have to make these impoverished towns attractive to new investment and diversify their economy. Otherwise you will spends millions cleaning up, repairing and renovating buildings but end up still with a dead impoverished town.

  • @mattcartwright8272
    @mattcartwright8272 Год назад +22

    Brownsville was a substantial town back in the day which is clear by the quality and scale of the buildings. Looks like the boom started in the late 1800s judging by the victorian style architecture. And then was over a 100 years later. Such a shame, looks like the type of place you'd have been proud to have lived in back in the day.

  • @rdmeenach
    @rdmeenach Год назад +15

    You are creating art with these videos. Urban decay drive by in silence. A beauty in these sad quiet images. Nice job.

  • @11mralman
    @11mralman Год назад +4

    Again, thank you for not adding narration or on-screen commentary. Your images are powerful enough to stand alone.

  • @jonzaremba
    @jonzaremba Год назад +30

    Maybe it was the weather or time of year but this is probably the most dismal of your videos i've seen so far. I love it.

    • @jchoward6451
      @jchoward6451 Год назад +2

      That's what i was thinking: the weather suited the scene.

  • @Floridawoodsbanshee
    @Floridawoodsbanshee Год назад +54

    Very sad time for many towns across America.

    • @g.m3399
      @g.m3399 Год назад +4

      Is this how it is… like everywhere where population of 20K or less

    • @r.pres.4121
      @r.pres.4121 Год назад +3

      This is most of small town and rural America, impoverished and forgotten about.

  • @BWowed
    @BWowed Год назад +11

    Its a shame to see such a nice small town so abandoned. Great video. Very peaceful.

  • @1940limited
    @1940limited Год назад +77

    If the people in that graveyard could talk, what stories they'd tell. Imagine what this place was like in their life time. Same old story: Jobs go away, town falls apart.

    • @FloridaGirl-
      @FloridaGirl- Год назад +7

      🎯 bingo

    • @renatoamaral8259
      @renatoamaral8259 Год назад +4

      Believe it or not, parts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, also falling apart. Same mechanism, same thing happening here.

  • @lindapietrasz8070
    @lindapietrasz8070 Год назад +18

    I loved this one. This town has so many levels of homes and businesses. I wish you would have filmed Connellsville, the city where I was born 70 years ago. I am sure it's about the same.

  • @lindapietrasz8070
    @lindapietrasz8070 Год назад +15

    Glad to see your channel continuing to grow. 40k so quickly!

  • @lindapietrasz8070
    @lindapietrasz8070 Год назад +2

    Thanks! As promised...
    Keep on keeping' on.

  • @lisabunnie22960
    @lisabunnie22960 Год назад +22

    "Haunting" is the perfect word. "Devastating" is the next.

  • @sandevieira5674
    @sandevieira5674 Год назад +3

    I'm attracted to these decaying industrial towns. The derelict remains of industry has some kind of mystery and beauty, and feel familiar for some reason.
    I love your videos.

  • @jasonpopielarczyk7511
    @jasonpopielarczyk7511 Год назад +13

    I grew up 10 miles south of Brownsville in Fredericktown. Very sad. I remember mid 80's as coal and steel industries started to leave, these towns fell apart. Not much left of the area.

  • @onrycodger
    @onrycodger Год назад +31

    Apparently it's like this of small towns all across the country....Really sad 😔

  • @jameshughes525
    @jameshughes525 Год назад +56

    It's weird seeing abandoned buildings with no graffiti, it looks like everyone just disappeared. Also I bet that place is really creepy at night

    • @hoodsnhollers
      @hoodsnhollers  Год назад +17

      It’s got quite an eerie vibe even in the daytime.

    • @moonfall8972
      @moonfall8972 Год назад +11

      Decrepit and depressing. There's no way this city/town can survive without an enormous reconstruction plan, and even then it would take untold years. There's no money to do it. And likely few patrons to sustain a massive revitalization plan. This is so haunting.
      Here in Ala, vacated property crumbles litter the landscape, especially the rural areas only a ten minute drive away from city. I always wonder why the city here doesn't take the long-abandoned structures down. But there's just too many.
      Thanks, again, for your time videographing --

    • @jameshughes525
      @jameshughes525 Год назад +1

      @@hoodsnhollers very true and I didn't see any cops, very apocalyptic

    • @MegaBait1616
      @MegaBait1616 Год назад +2

      Tagging is a mostly California thing......

    • @xbigwormx
      @xbigwormx Год назад

      @@MegaBait1616 True and i live in Cali.

  • @PortlandsTransport
    @PortlandsTransport Год назад +4

    There's something about the way you present this material that actually creates the actual "feel" of the places you cover.

    • @lindapietrasz8070
      @lindapietrasz8070 Год назад

      Yes, I believe it's because he doesn't use music and he doesn't narrate. He just lets us experience it as is.

    • @hoodsnhollers
      @hoodsnhollers  Год назад +2

      Thanks so much for the comment. I try to make it feel like you’re there with me

  • @ruthmccurdy8623
    @ruthmccurdy8623 Год назад +22

    Although this was sad. The lack of graffiti and intentional destruction made it less sad. Thank you.

  • @rbisme113
    @rbisme113 Год назад +2

    It's the rust belt. I lived in California, PA and Centerville, PA between 1989 to 2004 which are close neighboring towns to Brownsville, PA. Many people moved away due to job loss or better job opportunities. I have fond memories and so does my child of this area of the US. We will probably never return for more than a brief visit.

  • @parr40
    @parr40 Год назад +2

    I just bought a house in Hiller PA, right off Bull Run Road, Mike Walters & a few others actually cleaned up downtown, not too bad in the summertime, he own the sandwich shop & deli and Ron Whites Pickers Pub & Grub on high street has great food too

  • @jamesyman007
    @jamesyman007 Год назад +8

    Very haunting, sad and cool at the same time.

  • @marz_mitzi
    @marz_mitzi Год назад +12

    when even detroit has more future, this breaks your heart
    houses in detroit of all places are being renovated while this... is dying-

    • @1940limited
      @1940limited Год назад +7

      Many of those homes look liek really nice places, especially the brick construction models. How beautiful they'd be restored.

  • @Salvaging-in-Az
    @Salvaging-in-Az Год назад +5

    I would’ve watched an hour of this. Great stuff.!
    Steve.

    • @hoodsnhollers
      @hoodsnhollers  Год назад +4

      Hey Steve! Thanks so much. I'll be doing some lengthy special editions coming up within the next month!

  • @bobdagres4010
    @bobdagres4010 Год назад +8

    that church at the end is awesome. 😍

    • @hoodsnhollers
      @hoodsnhollers  Год назад +4

      There’s so many of them and it’s sad to see they probably won’t be restored anytime soon..if at all

    • @robinsmith8252
      @robinsmith8252 Год назад

      @@hoodsnhollers It's an old coal mining town. So many groups came to work. I know someone from that area by the way they speak and the foods they know. The families helped each other when times were hard.

  • @WhimsicalHelvetesfönster
    @WhimsicalHelvetesfönster Год назад +4

    So tragic but you're right- those churches were beautiful!

  • @allenscamaro2816
    @allenscamaro2816 Год назад +7

    I've always wondered who owns these types of properties, where the owners are, and if they still pay the property taxes on buildings not worth anything. You do great videos and I agree with the rest, it's like we're there ourselves driving around. Thank

  • @craftygrandma8506
    @craftygrandma8506 Год назад +1

    I live 20 minutes from Brownsville and I've never seen these places that you have shown. We only drive though there on rt. 40 to go to Uniontown so I never knew there were places like this on the back roads. Thanks for sharing.

  • @azdrifter3968
    @azdrifter3968 Год назад +1

    Watching videos like this made me decide that once my kids are on their own I'm going full time off grid living and spending time in these semi abandoned towns. I just bought a truck, now I just need a travel trailer to pull behind it to stay in. My kids are almost 17 and 18 and will be out of high school soon, ones already working and the other will be soon. We don't really have towns like this in Arizona, so I'm looking forward to exploring around the old parts of America in the Midwest and east coast. 👍

  • @haleyscore8477
    @haleyscore8477 Год назад +2

    When I saw the diner and wall painting at 07:10 , I knew w/o a doubt this was where one of my favorite cancelled Netflix shows was filmed :
    "I'm Not Ok with This"😄

  • @marial8235
    @marial8235 Год назад +1

    I used to visit in the 1990s as a CUP student. I had time in between classes and would visit towns in the Mon Valley. Brownsville was bad back then, but it is far worse now. I seem to recall a drug store still being open then. There was an antique store up on top of the Fort hill, left hand side I would patronize. Did a tour of the haunted Fort. In the 1990s the grounds were nicely landscaped. Took my Mom back circa 2010 and the Fort looked almost abandoned.

  • @noahroad6577
    @noahroad6577 Год назад +1

    I ❤ Pennsylvania. I upload videos myself. I do a lot of Stealth Camping in Pa.. you capture reality in your videos better than any I’ve seen so far. Great channel..

  • @giclat1098
    @giclat1098 Год назад +2

    What horrifies and fascinates me is despite fire and neglect the bones of these former homes - built mostly by hand by skilled workers of many trades - still stand after these years of neglect and emptiness. Many of these houses I recognise as kit houses ordered from catalogues to be assembled on site. In Canada many of these homes still stand occupied and loved. It has been a tragic waste of trees and human resources to see what is happening in the US and to see the same decline in the American worker!

  • @mikemartin6114
    @mikemartin6114 Год назад +2

    Sad to see. I used to travel on business driving from Pittsburgh to Masontown and back around 2001 to 2003. Can't remember the highway number, but driving from Pittsburgh onto the bridge over the Mon, the view of Brownsville to me was a beautiful sight and I will always treasure that.

  • @williamburke6210
    @williamburke6210 8 месяцев назад

    I was born and raised there in the 1960’s I had to leave when I turn 18. I still go back to visit. Many forgotten towns like this.

  • @karentoffan7027
    @karentoffan7027 Год назад +1

    You're video's have a sad beauty. Great work, thank you.

  • @InsaneSurvivors6
    @InsaneSurvivors6 Год назад +1

    You showed accurately what a abandoned or close to it area is.Thank you for a true great video.😁😸✌️

  • @jimpossidente5004
    @jimpossidente5004 Год назад +5

    I went to Brownsville in 2010. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

  • @703am
    @703am Год назад +1

    i worked at a car dealership on route 40 back in the mid to late 90's and drove thru the downtown area on my way to work it was bad then, now looks even worse. if Brownsville ever makes a comeback, it will be years and years.

  • @jjkdc62
    @jjkdc62 Год назад +1

    I made a day trip to Brownsville about 10 years ago. There was a lot of truly beautiful architecture in that town. I didn't catch it in your video, but I most remember the General Hospital, which shut down decades ago. I may have been demolished by now.

    • @hoodsnhollers
      @hoodsnhollers  Год назад

      Yeah unfortunately it was taken down. It would have been more towards the very end of the video I believe.

  • @thefridaynetwork
    @thefridaynetwork Год назад +4

    10:28 That was the site of the Brownsville General Hospital. It was finally demolished in 2021 after being abandoned for many decades.

    • @narutouusi-maki8483
      @narutouusi-maki8483 Год назад +1

      the new Hospital that was built to replace it on Simpson Rd is also abandoned, lol

    • @fredshepherd7925
      @fredshepherd7925 Год назад +1

      I was born in that hospital in 1958. I have lived most of my life in Maryland but still have quite a few relatives in that area.

  • @stephentepper976
    @stephentepper976 Год назад +5

    I went to California state college 1970~1974, not far from Brownsville. my roommate was from. Brownsville. Fiddles is still in business

    • @Reggie-The-Dog
      @Reggie-The-Dog Год назад +2

      I haven't been to Brownsville since 2000 and I am glad to hear that Fiddle's is still open!

  • @dalecrowe5340
    @dalecrowe5340 Год назад +2

    Your content is amazing. Are you planning on making a video in Yakima, WA? That place has a very 'unique' reputation as The Palm Springs of Washington.

    • @hoodsnhollers
      @hoodsnhollers  Год назад +1

      I'll definitely do that in the future, I love that area. Thanks so much for watching!

  • @whatabloodbrush
    @whatabloodbrush Год назад +1

    We need the same footage in the summer, thats a big difference and would be interesting!

  • @TheManInTheMasks
    @TheManInTheMasks Год назад +10

    I’ve never seen a town in my life where the projects are the nicest part.

  • @blueenglishstaffybreeder6956
    @blueenglishstaffybreeder6956 Год назад +7

    Tells you how long it’s been since being abandoned when a Coca Cola sign says 5c, such a shame for a beautiful town

  • @toolsteel8482
    @toolsteel8482 Год назад +5

    The steamboat Arabia was built in Brownsville. Brownsville was once more important than Pittsburgh .

  • @lindapietrasz8070
    @lindapietrasz8070 Год назад +2

    Congrats on 40k!

    • @hoodsnhollers
      @hoodsnhollers  Год назад

      Thanks Linda! I still can’t believe it!

  • @terrysmith7076
    @terrysmith7076 Год назад +2

    I was born in Reading PA in 1957 left at 6 months old went back with my grandparents in 1966. Now I understand it's a very bad place kinda sad.

  • @thejudgmentalcat
    @thejudgmentalcat Год назад +4

    6:55 what a strange dead end, looks like it goes right in the river! 😳

    • @Whisthum
      @Whisthum Год назад +4

      It does! most likely used as some sort of boat launch

  • @1940limited
    @1940limited Год назад +15

    What a nice town it must have been at one time when people were prosperous enough to afford those homes. No place in America should look like this. Then there's always the "affordable housing" that also gets trashed. Despite everything, there's a big coal train sitting on the tracks, ready to go. Coal isn't dead yet.

  • @morganchatsworthiii9178
    @morganchatsworthiii9178 Год назад

    7:00 Fiddles Diner. We ate their today. Such a cool place and location. Nice people, great food, and nicely priced. What was the building at 7:20?

  • @norwoodwildlife9849
    @norwoodwildlife9849 Год назад +14

    They've lost 75% of their population since the
    end of WW2.

  • @Wolvesintheclearing
    @Wolvesintheclearing Год назад +2

    Fiddles Diner looks like it’s worth a drive into town!!!

  • @robinday2137
    @robinday2137 Год назад

    My father grew up in a small hamlet just outside Brownsville. This town was a coal town. Strip mining and the subsequent collapse of the coal industry hurt the town.

  • @royfrye333
    @royfrye333 Год назад +4

    Reminds me of my hometown ; McKeesport, PA

    • @hoodsnhollers
      @hoodsnhollers  Год назад +2

      I have McKeesport uploaded on the channel. Check it out thanks for watching !

  • @huskboo
    @huskboo Год назад +2

    0:24 that’s literally my dads old house. Lots of memories there.

  • @victorortega9845
    @victorortega9845 Год назад +1

    THERE'S 1 THING IN LIFE: AND THAT IS, THAT PEOPLE FORGET THAT EVERYTHING HAS A BEGINING, AND ALSO AN END." EVERYTHING".

  • @yelapa999
    @yelapa999 Год назад +2

    Quite a few scenes for "I Am Not Okay With This" (Netflix) were filmed in this town.

  • @makeitso4793
    @makeitso4793 Год назад +1

    Worked at a large church that had a copper roof. Never saw a fake one but it looks good and sound.

  • @l.salisbury1253
    @l.salisbury1253 Год назад +4

    9:50 - piece of trivia: "Esso" is now Exxon!

  • @richard1849
    @richard1849 Год назад

    some serious old world stuff still there...thanks for sharing, peace.

  • @coracoleman4963
    @coracoleman4963 4 месяца назад

    It is so sad,my family lived on Jackson Street near a creek.Every home is gone.

  • @maticbukovac6966
    @maticbukovac6966 Год назад +2

    We usually think of homes being traded.... But if there is noone to buy these abandoned homes they just become derelict and their owners have to start afresh somewhere else...

  • @nintenbeer64
    @nintenbeer64 Год назад +2

    Don’t mind me, just watching these videos looking for a place I might be able to afford a house.
    Love the sign that says “we start up to $30/hr” so… starts or up to?

  • @tedkulinna9093
    @tedkulinna9093 Год назад +1

    I am 85 years old. SOOOO My grandfather at 16 started to work for the Monongahala

  • @sabrinatscha2554
    @sabrinatscha2554 Год назад +3

    So sad to see all those cute houses decaying

  • @darknessislight3689
    @darknessislight3689 Год назад

    So much joy 😊 has turned into so much pain 😔 if this town could talk.

  • @dorisdaumann5914
    @dorisdaumann5914 Год назад +1

    Here in Germany are abandoned houses also ... but I've never seen so many in one place ... + I'm 64 ...

  • @piroskaracz3621
    @piroskaracz3621 Год назад +1

    Bring it back to life. Ill bet there's so many businesses that would do well there...not needing a cold big city. Nice trees and greenery freshen it all up. So sad

  • @lindapietrasz8070
    @lindapietrasz8070 Год назад +4

    01:30 Stop sign has a sign attached that says "Smile you're on camera."
    *NO, YOU'RE ON CAMERA* !

    • @hoodsnhollers
      @hoodsnhollers  Год назад +1

      LOL! I say that to myself all the time when i see those

  • @kellysavage7073
    @kellysavage7073 Год назад +1

    the one sad thing i noticed is that almost all of the business are all closed but the BARS are in open running fashion

  • @tomcatt998
    @tomcatt998 Год назад

    I hauled steel fo a guy who lived there George Pollachek back in the 80s..
    Allenport to Martins Ferry...
    Haven't been back since,,
    it's sure looking sad🥺

  • @Surfguitarist59
    @Surfguitarist59 Год назад +2

    Thanks for showing this video. This was sad to watch. I mean every one of those buildings was a beehive of activity at one time. This is America damn it. This should not happen here..

  • @Khryptic
    @Khryptic Год назад +3

    sad to think theres so many homeless people and so many homes, less the people

  • @cordeliabuffy6419
    @cordeliabuffy6419 Год назад +2

    Years ago there was a revitalization project , but like so many of these things the people in charge took the money and nothing got done. All the river towns are like this to some degree.
    Its Pennsylvania and nothing good ever comes from that state .

  • @circlepfarm9729
    @circlepfarm9729 Год назад +11

    What a crying shame! America…how you have fallen!

  • @HackHunter1835
    @HackHunter1835 Год назад +3

    Well the residents there dont have to far to drive for a Walmart, theres one right across the river. That being said, that place was bad, real bad. There was a FOR SALE sign on one of those houses. Interested?

  • @mcarlkv53
    @mcarlkv53 6 месяцев назад

    family in brownsville since the late 1800's....only one relative left....sad

  • @robertstevenson57
    @robertstevenson57 Год назад

    Both my parents graduated from Brownsville High School in 1944. The moved to California in 1950 or 51. They would be saddened by this video.

  • @davybeardshall3709
    @davybeardshall3709 Год назад +1

    I go to college in California, only 5 minutes away. It’s interesting going straight from campus to this. Makes me wonder why they put a state university here.

  • @pikachu7118
    @pikachu7118 Год назад +3

    Unbelievable, just looking at theses homes and businesses, what it must have been like when it was a great place to live, it’s so sad that money rules this sad world 💔💔💔💔♥️😪😪😪

  • @jayjaynella4539
    @jayjaynella4539 Год назад +2

    5 cent coca cola sign looks fresh. The paint used must have been top grade paint. Up there since the 1950s.

  • @daveburrows9876
    @daveburrows9876 Год назад +2

    I've spend 63 of my 65 years within a 20 mile radius of Brownsville. This is what happens when greedy unions and greedy company execs force business to move so many of our jobs to other countries, who are now prospering.

  • @toddglover1121
    @toddglover1121 Год назад +1

    Nice video as always of times gone by,thanks for sharing.

  • @lakobause
    @lakobause 4 месяца назад

    What's weird is how some of these towns will have some odd small pockets of fresh development/revitalization, and everything else will look like Silent Hill.

  • @michaelwalsh98
    @michaelwalsh98 4 месяца назад

    Just like the other Coal towns in Eastern side of Pa. Mt. Carmel, Atlas, and burned out by the mine fire Centralia. So very sad, all were once great small towns.

  • @gazoontight
    @gazoontight Год назад

    I used to have family in Brownsville. So sad to see what it has become.

  • @canadiancowboy75
    @canadiancowboy75 Год назад +2

    Great would be a split video, one side when it was a well cared for neighborhood and present day.

  • @masterspin7796
    @masterspin7796 Год назад +1

    I just checked the real-estate sales you can get some good deals on a house...

  • @scottteagarden6710
    @scottteagarden6710 4 месяца назад

    I was born in Brownsville in a hospital that doesn't exist anymore.wjen i was in school i had teacher from there he told me it was supposed to be what Pittsburgh was how sad!

  • @williamroberts7919
    @williamroberts7919 Год назад

    It's the same in Europe, Britain has been hammered by mine , shipyard, factories closers, they go and so does the people.

  • @maxxbenzz7842
    @maxxbenzz7842 Год назад +3

    Welcome to America

  • @desawnporter6431
    @desawnporter6431 Год назад

    I wonder if Georgio's is still open in Brownsville

  • @kathleencollins3960
    @kathleencollins3960 Год назад

    Lack of opportunities. High tsxes, high housing costs. Drug use. Sad there are number of towns and cities across this country, that look like this.

  • @AlaskanInsights
    @AlaskanInsights Год назад +1

    a shame,. I love some of them old houses...

  • @InnocentPotato-pd7wi
    @InnocentPotato-pd7wi 6 месяцев назад +1

    Looks like Browsville would be a good place for Habitat for Humanity to come and restore houses! Many peoome prefer living in a quiet small town!

  • @rosannacellini2158
    @rosannacellini2158 7 месяцев назад +1

    This is so so sad. 😢