Born and raised. This was the hood in the 90's, shootings on a regular basis, drug activity, you name it. Seems to be calm now. Brought back a lot of memories, good and bad.
@KING_ WURLD_2020 lol thinkin gastonia has hoods is crazy, sure its got its less than safe areas but compared to charlotte, atlanta, houston, ect its far from a hood. they wouldnt put million dollar apartments in the middle of the hood hah loray mills is the area hes driving around. far from a hood.
@@nocturnalmayhem0 "Hood is short for neighborhood. It has nothing to do with city population. People call neighborhoods in the city "hoods" because it represents a certain area of a town or city. But any place where there is a decent gathering of homes can be and is a "hood" for the purposes of that it is a section of a municipality regardless of size and that it is mostly lived in by common folk. The "hood" abbreviation typically reflects the ordinary income status of people also. Most wealthy neighborhoods are not called "hoods" because it is their wealth status that makes them different from the common people. There is really no shame in being common or of average or low income. That is the status of most of the world.
True, he's driving on the west side but rly like another commenter said as long as you mind your business it will be chill. Yeah there's more drugs and shit off airline but it's not what I'd say is hood. Maybe some apartment complexes here I'd say are hood but this isn't.
Also Leonard Hamilton the FSU basketball coach. I worked at the Gastonia Gazette before I got drafted during Viet Nam. I still have relatives in the area. Gastonia was once a major textile manufacturing center. Today it is more of a suburb of Charlotte.
I lived in Gastonia N.C for 3 years before moving back up north, and it's definitely not a ghetto, or crime ridding area. It's especially quite, country, and boring... It's a very safe place for any "Race" of people to live. Of course" there's certain areas that have it's fair share of druggies, drug dealers, and drunks that's everywhere in the world... Over all Gastonia is a normal small town with average neighborhoods...
I grew up here it's not that innocent or safe he just went early in the morning. Come back in the middle of the night. Plus he only drove down airline and ransom and around the outside which isnt that bad. he didn't go all the way down in highland hills. Or over to linwood or d block. I've lost multiple friends and family from shootings in gastonia. My lil cousin was shoot on garrison near linwood in 2017
I grew up here and I wouldn’t say safe, but if you mind your business and stay to yourself more than likely you’ll be cool. A lot of drug activity, like any other hood.
yeahhh it can go down anywhere in da G you just wasn’t around it that’s why😂 I live in south florida I don’t feel threatened or it’s the hood down here at all but but ik i’m not around it and I carry myself a certain way you ain’t never walk down ransom in da G somebody gone check you I promise u dat
damn bro u forgot mt view lil mexico myrtle skool Marietta osceola and the rest of firestone it's a few more im forgetting lol this was just a lil sneak peak and alot of back tracking lol
Big Juug I go to Marietta all the time I spend the night at my cousins house at Greenview meadows apartments and over there everyone bee outside SO LATE. When I was about 7 or 8, people was shooting over there but I wasn't worried about it bc I was Soo safe lol.
Gas house!! And for those who say this ain't the hood please this is the hood!! Raised in the gas house I know!! Still not as bad as Charlotte NC tho 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
That is crazy because somebody commented that they where in the army with somebody from gastonia. Scroll to the top of the comments and you can see if it was one of your work mates.
I grew up in chapel grove that wasn't easy the place were I lived had drug dealers and suicides daily my mom finally got us the money to get out of that situation and we bought our own house and our own land like a mile away
Charliebo313 please do a convenience store walk in...even if there is no drama just ask the store clerk a question about the area or someone in there....it will be more entertaining with your hidden camera because they wont know they are recorded & it wont be any fact ish from seeing a camera in there face.
Looks like a blue collar working class-lower middle class type of neighborhood, doesn't look too gritty, grimey and hood. Probably a quiet hood, but it looks average to me.
So, what’s the purpose here? Every town has an older section. Back in my day, this was the good side of town. The people were decent , there were no drugs, and the people honored God & Country.
I use to live in Gastonia way back in the day when dusty rhodes son I think went to hunter Huss i Rembrandt the cat fish jam I use to stay on Shannon bradely Rd 918 28052 . Hurricane Hugo is when I leave. Man I remember the boys club when jame worthy use to come threw like 85 or 86 era I remember Carewinds I remember when the year the Charlotte hornets first year going to belks for school clothes getting jams shorts .i went Bessemer city high the good old days
Nothing usually happens here it’s fine actually you went by the neighborhood up the street from me only place that could be unsafe is anywhere near Erwin Center or a blue store (DONT GO TO THAT BLUE STORE)
The main problem with gastonia is we have a lot of resources that other small towns don't have so it will attract homeless people we have 4 homesless shelters, a greyhound bus station, an amtrak station and busy intesections for the homeless people to beg. But we have a lot of stuff other small towns don't have so they talk a lot of shit about us and Gastonia just seems worse.
I grew up not too far from here. These used to be great Neighborhoods. But like in most NC Town and cities, The Hoods built around Textile mills and others Plants. People moved into them to be near their work. But when the Mills left, So did the hard working people and the home were sold to Welfare recipients. But for the most part they are still good places to live. I don't recognize any of these streets. I guess if it not Franklin of Garrison, I don't know it.
People see images like this daily in almost every city and town in the US and never think of why there is a poor section of the city and a well to do section of the city. It has nothing to do with hard work. This is the economic reservation created by politics and culture that is exactly the same as how Native American reservations were created. Native Americans never said they wanted to work easy or work for fewer wages to be put on reservations. People in low-income areas never said they want easy jobs or low wages either.
@@kellysutton2780 Sorry Kelly, you meant thanks to capitalism. Business moves are made by the company. All companies that have moved overseas have moved for this one reason. ...They do not want to pay US workers what they are worth because that cuts profits. The US has a serious greed problem and it is the business-friendly politicians that have been ripping the US worker for decades. We see it with the current Stimulus that allows the richests companies in the US to have access to $500,000,000,000 of tax payer dollars. These companies can borrow from banks and other companies to get back on their feet. Vote wisely on November 3 to stop companies controlling US. You may not know it but US companies are laying more people than European countries. The leaders of the US are draining the US public for companies and investors. I am a former financial analyst for several companies. I know what they are doing.
The nicest neighborhoods in Gastonia is near Willow Creek houses, my neighborhood, and the houses near food lion and Gardner park elementary school houses and apartments
Lived here most of my life but, moved. It has calmed down a whole lot since the early 80s. They had some crime spikes here and there not too long ago but, nothing ongoing. Their is a lot of drug traffic, opioid addicts and some prostitution but, nobody really bothers anybody to the point of gun violence or, anything like that.
Why did u do a video in houston,Texas and not drive 45 miles south to Galveston TEXAS? I just don't understand that.galveston TEXAS is alot more grimey than houston,Texas it's just a smaller city but the crime rate is higher than Houston per capita.galveston, Texas has a population of about 50,000 residents after the hurricane.they tore down most of the projects but parkland is still up and the baccstreets near Broadway from 26th to 53rd are still hood.some hoods to name are the crooked split,Menard park, parkland,baccbay,and east end from like 9th street to 12th street.plz checc it out and do a video on it I'd like to c a video on that.thanks and keep making these videos I'm subscribed to ur channel I love wat ur doing and including the interviews with the locals really stepped it up even more.u could put ur videos and sell them on DVD for like $10 a piece I kno I'd buy a copy.something to think about atleast.
I was waiting to call you out ,this is the ol gas house i grew up in south gastonia in the 80s then and now lame but for those that see this and think lifes wasnt stolen here ask arround ,back in my day crowders mtn had sighns on both ends and i see that should have remained
Born and raised. This was the hood in the 90's, shootings on a regular basis, drug activity, you name it. Seems to be calm now. Brought back a lot of memories, good and bad.
You cant honestly do a Gastonia Hood Documentary without showing the "Blue Store", Mt. View, Glen Oaks, or Highland Hills
Stg
Blue Sore deadly asf
Forreal :P !!
Amen! Highland Ram here...high school sucked compared to jr high! #legendary
What? Mt View and Camelot straight hood
yo i live in gastonia lol this isnt no hood just a quiet little small city, a lot of those are old mill houses from the 20s and 30s too
@KING_ WURLD_2020 lol thinkin gastonia has hoods is crazy, sure its got its less than safe areas but compared to charlotte, atlanta, houston, ect its far from a hood. they wouldnt put million dollar apartments in the middle of the hood hah loray mills is the area hes driving around. far from a hood.
@@nocturnalmayhem0 "Hood is short for neighborhood. It has nothing to do with city population. People call neighborhoods in the city "hoods" because it represents a certain area of a town or city. But any place where there is a decent gathering of homes can be and is a "hood" for the purposes of that it is a section of a municipality regardless of size and that it is mostly lived in by common folk. The "hood" abbreviation typically reflects the ordinary income status of people also. Most wealthy neighborhoods are not called "hoods" because it is their wealth status that makes them different from the common people. There is really no shame in being common or of average or low income. That is the status of most of the world.
True, he's driving on the west side but rly like another commenter said as long as you mind your business it will be chill. Yeah there's more drugs and shit off airline but it's not what I'd say is hood. Maybe some apartment complexes here I'd say are hood but this isn't.
Need to visit Beatties Ford
I live in Gastonia, NC. too.
Hey C-Bo, this is the hometown of L.A. Laker great & Hall of Famer James Worthy!!
And Eric sleepy floyd
@@ts-kl3ed That's exactly right. I don't know how I missed that one
Also Leonard Hamilton the FSU basketball coach. I worked at the Gastonia Gazette before I got drafted during Viet Nam. I still have relatives in the area. Gastonia was once a major textile manufacturing center. Today it is more of a suburb of Charlotte.
Fred Durst
I live here and this is not any of our hoods Lmaoo this the nicer part of town really
Highland and rankin. Ebenezer is the hood trailer park in the boonies of KM
Yeah he didn’t really hit the actual hoods
Didn’t even hit Myrtle
Looks depressing
Facts lmao tf🤣go to Some QTs and they’ll find the real good real quick
I lived in Gastonia N.C for 3 years before moving back up north, and it's definitely not a ghetto, or crime ridding area. It's especially quite, country, and boring... It's a very safe place for any "Race" of people to live. Of course" there's certain areas that have it's fair share of druggies, drug dealers, and drunks that's everywhere in the world... Over all Gastonia is a normal small town with average neighborhoods...
Okay I see you dont call Gastonia NC a hood either....so why you get mad at me for saying it ain't hood ????
Gastonia is a beautiful place and everybody got heart out here... Love my city
One of my boys from the Army is from here. Just looks like a small town...
Always talking shit, when you haven’t been here and don’t know. Oh my bad, this makes Mexico look amazing.
Loud Gamingtv with your doors locked, lady. I bet you didn’t stop for a sprite.
I grew up here it's not that innocent or safe he just went early in the morning. Come back in the middle of the night. Plus he only drove down airline and ransom and around the outside which isnt that bad. he didn't go all the way down in highland hills. Or over to linwood or d block. I've lost multiple friends and family from shootings in gastonia. My lil cousin was shoot on garrison near linwood in 2017
god i can’t even escape this town on youtube i’m so sick
Gagahaga 😎 hahaha I love it
🤣🤣🤣 I live here too so me too
fr
You are free to leave at any time ...
I mean just don't watch the video
A lot of these hoods don't look much like hoods.
Gastonia looks good compared to them other shit holes he drive through
Gagahaga 😎 hahaha yeah ❤️
This looks like a tolerable hood.. almost looks safe..
Looks can be deceiving. A hood is still a hood, far as I'm concerned.
I grew up here and I wouldn’t say safe, but if you mind your business and stay to yourself more than likely you’ll be cool. A lot of drug activity, like any other hood.
He’s actually going thru multiple hoods. And there’s is even worse sides of Gastonia
It’s safe the worst thing that will happen is someone rip you off sell you Reggie instead of Loud
At most you would get beat up for talking shit
idk what brought you here Charlie but this ain't the trenches compared to everywhere else you've recorded. shoutout for the light on our town tho
He didn’t even drive through most the main “hood” areas
where is the main hood?
@@charlesgale4257 Cleveland Ave, Sims Cir, Radio Street/Barkely St, Modena, Mountain View, Mobile Ln and others.
no cap
Weldon st
Im sitting here waiting on dem to show the Blue Store😆😆
Skipped Holland Hills, Ware St., West Side, Camelot, etc.
I live in G town too.. trust me, there are way worst parts than that..
These are not “hoods”, they are neighborhoods.
I was here last year for about two months, didn’t seem hood or dangerous.
It's not
Nah that's the hood fr
yeahhh it can go down anywhere in da G you just wasn’t around it that’s why😂 I live in south florida I don’t feel threatened or it’s the hood down here at all but but ik i’m not around it and I carry myself a certain way you ain’t never walk down ransom in da G somebody gone check you I promise u dat
Ride through here at night it's a whole different story.
It really is!!!!
Fr
damn bro u forgot mt view lil mexico myrtle skool Marietta osceola and the rest of firestone it's a few more im forgetting lol this was just a lil sneak peak and alot of back tracking lol
Big Juug I go to Marietta all the time I spend the night at my cousins house at Greenview meadows apartments and over there everyone bee outside SO LATE. When I was about 7 or 8, people was shooting over there but I wasn't worried about it bc I was Soo safe lol.
Y'all talking about it looks nice lol bro didn't even hit any main hoods in Gastonia lol.
Gas house 704 💪🏾 thats my old street
I use to live there!!! Loved it... Moving back next year
Gastonia is a beautiful city from when I visited
Is this supposed to be bad, Because it looks good compared to some of the hoods in Detroit?
Vallaire Mceaddy this place way to small to even try to compare to a large city
Noticed less cars in driveways and yards. Less garbage in streets. Less boarded up houses than Detroit.
TRUE SO TRUE 🧡
Gas house!! And for those who say this ain't the hood please this is the hood!! Raised in the gas house I know!! Still not as bad as Charlotte NC tho 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
Definitely better than Lumberton
Nice looking small town
its not that small
My home. I left physically in 1981 to join the Army but I never left mentally. Gashouse forever!
That is crazy because somebody commented that they where in the army with somebody from gastonia.
Scroll to the top of the comments and you can see if it was one of your work mates.
My dad grew up here in the twenties and thirties, his dad was a policeman..Lived on Highland Avenue, house long gone.
Seems like South Carolina is a lot more country and ghetto and then North Carolina.
I really enjoy your videos. What camera are you using?
It was crazy in the 90's here everybody dead or locked up
Haha
@Loud Gamingtv we must not be from the same Decade then and I'm 37 we don't say cap
@Loud Gamingtv internet thug
@Loud Gamingtv lol ok im done with this conversation its not going nowhere
Ive heard people who live there year's ago call it the big gas house lol
York street is where I grew up we use called it the Block dang I miss Big Daddy Restaurant
Me too. I call it the Little Bronx!
My hometown. I live in Gastonia, NC
Great video yet again 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸
I grew up in chapel grove that wasn't easy the place were I lived had drug dealers and suicides daily my mom finally got us the money to get out of that situation and we bought our own house and our own land like a mile away
Charliebo313 please do a convenience store walk in...even if there is no drama just ask the store clerk a question about the area or someone in there....it will be more entertaining with your hidden camera because they wont know they are recorded & it wont be any fact ish from seeing a camera in there face.
Looks like a blue collar working class-lower middle class type of neighborhood, doesn't look too gritty, grimey and hood. Probably a quiet hood, but it looks average to me.
It is...just Country small town
It's No hood, just less expensive homes on the video. CHARLOTTE Is a hell-hole, u couldn't Pay me to live there!!
So, what’s the purpose here? Every town has an older section. Back in my day, this was the good side of town. The people were decent , there were no drugs, and the people honored God & Country.
They are just old mill houses , not the hood
I use to live in Gastonia way back in the day when dusty rhodes son I think went to hunter Huss i Rembrandt the cat fish jam I use to stay on Shannon bradely Rd 918 28052 . Hurricane Hugo is when I leave. Man I remember the boys club when jame worthy use to come threw like 85 or 86 era I remember Carewinds I remember when the year the Charlotte hornets first year going to belks for school clothes getting jams shorts .i went Bessemer city high the good old days
God bless gastonia. My son son was born there. Love you 😍
I am proud of. Gastonia N.C.
I’m from shotsburry, NC. & I’m so glad I made it up out the hood man. I wish I could say the same for my people
Where is that near?
Nothing usually happens here it’s fine actually you went by the neighborhood up the street from me only place that could be unsafe is anywhere near Erwin Center or a blue store (DONT GO TO THAT BLUE STORE)
The main problem with gastonia is we have a lot of resources that other small towns don't have so it will attract homeless people we have 4 homesless shelters, a greyhound bus station, an amtrak station and busy intesections for the homeless people to beg. But we have a lot of stuff other small towns don't have so they talk a lot of shit about us and Gastonia just seems worse.
These areas are a lot calmer than they were in the 90's and early 2000s
It's was WILD back then!
Gastonia is weird though. Lived here my whole life and everything is hood adjacent. Nice hoods right across from the hoood everywhere
Yo this where I live thats my hood
Is it a nice place ?
I'm in the area bro link
You part of that cult?
Hebrew Israelite my boi!!
John karl looks like he do perks lmao 🤣🤣
I grew up not too far from here. These used to be great Neighborhoods. But like in most NC Town and cities, The Hoods built around Textile mills and others Plants. People moved into them to be near their work. But when the Mills left, So did the hard working people and the home were sold to Welfare recipients. But for the most part they are still good places to live.
I don't recognize any of these streets. I guess if it not Franklin of Garrison, I don't know it.
People see images like this daily in almost every city and town in the US and never think of why there is a poor section of the city and a well to do section of the city. It has nothing to do with hard work. This is the economic reservation created by politics and culture that is exactly the same as how Native American reservations were created. Native Americans never said they wanted to work easy or work for fewer wages to be put on reservations. People in low-income areas never said they want easy jobs or low wages either.
Well this is close to my town it's sad because all the textile manufacturing jobs are gone thanks to the damn Clinton's
@@kellysutton2780 Sorry Kelly, you meant thanks to capitalism. Business moves are made by the company. All companies that have moved overseas have moved for this one reason. ...They do not want to pay US workers what they are worth because that cuts profits. The US has a serious greed problem and it is the business-friendly politicians that have been ripping the US worker for decades. We see it with the current Stimulus that allows the richests companies in the US to have access to $500,000,000,000 of tax payer dollars. These companies can borrow from banks and other companies to get back on their feet. Vote wisely on November 3 to stop companies controlling US. You may not know it but US companies are laying more people than European countries. The leaders of the US are draining the US public for companies and investors. I am a former financial analyst for several companies. I know what they are doing.
@@olzt100 well yeah you are right
@@kellysutton2780 Remember to vote for the people on November 3. The future of the US is depending on what we do.
@@olzt100 Clinton signed nafta
You need to go more west gastonia, near the new stadium lol. Or west gastonia walmart area.
With Charlotte growing Gastonia is about to be on the come up !
Exactly
They trying to put us on the map this month😒
This ain’t the hood of Gastonia🤣
Looks like a small quiet town
I live just across the border in Clover, SC.
Can i visit?
No Name Needed it’s a tiny town compared to Gastonia.
@@kristenanderson8920 i believe you. I just wanted to visit you beautiful. But i guess i can check out the town as well lol. Have a good day.
Lmaoooo I am married.
@@kristenanderson8920 I respect that.
I feel like a traveler. It is interesting video
I'm from Philly but my family tree is here and in Newberry south Carolina been to Gastonia as a child many times
Gastonia isn't all bad. Definitely rough in some spots. Downtown is improving but right near the new baseball stadium it can get wild
The nicest neighborhoods in Gastonia is near Willow Creek houses, my neighborhood, and the houses near food lion and Gardner park elementary school houses and apartments
I’m in Hudson woods I gotta say ts pretty nice, I b mad asl when all em willow creek kids try actin tuff 😹 2 story 4 bedroom ahh houses
Come back on a Saturday in the summer about 8 pm.
Looks like any poor town in the south, I love the trees tho
@@bigsosa1147 looks like a shithole from what I can see
Gastonia isn’t poor it’s a small city outside of Charlotte.
And def not a shit hole
Lmao 😁
Bro u should check out hoods in kitchener ontario
Can you record video on 360° camera?))
When u going to Cleveland
Lived here most of my life but, moved. It has calmed down a whole lot since the early 80s. They had some crime spikes here and there not too long ago but, nothing ongoing. Their is a lot of drug traffic, opioid addicts and some prostitution but, nobody really bothers anybody to the point of gun violence or, anything like that.
Man do salisbury nc real small town trap shit
Do an update crime rate up crazy now
Gastonia is the butt of every joke for people who live in Charlotte. It’s a lot worse than it looks on tape here.
Cuzzo we're to towns over from Charlotte we shouldn't even be relevant to y'all lmao
Two
Yea why gastonia so popular in charlotte
You're below the courthouse.. you need to go to the other side of the tracks😂
2:15 that's my road I probably was in the house too 😭😭
Was he near Lineburger park
Look at the hood super clean 🧼 Give it up to the ghetto
You did not go to the hood not once 😂😂
My granny and grandad lived on PENNY Park Dr. They had a big garden in the back. It was in the 60s.
Go to Lincoln homes and green acres on Slocumb st in goldsboro nc
Is Gastonia ghostless? Yes it is
The place where the Gastonia train station is that's bad.
Where is Gastón?
You have a lot of gas to be doing all this driving around why you doing this just asking what's the purpose.
This is west gastonia lol all that area is hood the rest of town looks normal
he in the east
He started on the west and ended on the north
Fam were myrtle school the victory mt.view glenn oaks Modena Osceola and firestone. At least u did go 2 York St and da baccstreet cuz.
Bro country af 😂
It is ☺️ got family there
Why did u do a video in houston,Texas and not drive 45 miles south to Galveston TEXAS? I just don't understand that.galveston TEXAS is alot more grimey than houston,Texas it's just a smaller city but the crime rate is higher than Houston per capita.galveston, Texas has a population of about 50,000 residents after the hurricane.they tore down most of the projects but parkland is still up and the baccstreets near Broadway from 26th to 53rd are still hood.some hoods to name are the crooked split,Menard park, parkland,baccbay,and east end from like 9th street to 12th street.plz checc it out and do a video on it I'd like to c a video on that.thanks and keep making these videos I'm subscribed to ur channel I love wat ur doing and including the interviews with the locals really stepped it up even more.u could put ur videos and sell them on DVD for like $10 a piece I kno I'd buy a copy.something to think about atleast.
These used to be hood hood, now they chill asl, I’m near Georgetown and shi honestly mad chill pretty boring tho
Not no hoods out here 😂😂 drug areas yes just like any city or town but definitely not no hood areas 💯😂 and yes I stay out here on the 17
🗣🎤 Might as well ride thru Durham NC, which was ONCE voted the best city to live in the USA 🤔
Durham is just a dump. Those "best places" lists are bought and sold. Never buy that bullshit.
I think he did..
When ?
@@trappaboi361 about 20 yrs ago
Need to go down west hudson or marietta.
Come interview me
bet. Say no more
HEBREW ISREALITE he will when he sees your message send him more details where you are
You have to contact him through his business email bro you can find it in the info section of his page. Dont discuss business in the comments.
Let me guess what you'll say: "My hood is so rough...everyone sells drugs... there are a lot of shootings etc etc"
Yawn.
Dont do the interview without the kid
I used to live on Weldon st beside jd last street on video I think
1:40 go through this a lot
The Gas House
Yep!👍
The hood my ass I’m born and raised on west end worst part in whole city
They passed my sister house in this video ima exit 17 babyyyyy
Small town but these no hood or ghetto places.
I was waiting to call you out ,this is the ol gas house i grew up in south gastonia in the 80s then and now lame but for those that see this and think lifes wasnt stolen here ask arround ,back in my day crowders mtn had sighns on both ends and i see that should have remained
Why u aint 🛑 u went the wrong way on morris u should of road down Davidson dont worry bout it ima give a proper tour
It’s funny that he drove right pass my street
If you're in NC, check out Rauhut Street in Burlington
Haha passed my house. We have good neighbors.