Awful Abandoned Places in Baltimore : Narrated

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  • @algomaone121
    @algomaone121 Рік тому +4

    That destroyed building was a laundromat, not a hardware store. The sign said “Front Load Washers, $1.25

  • @toddbevan
    @toddbevan Рік тому +46

    It's some of the subtleties that make the difference and why I love Dan's content. There is an ambience track added, a desolate, whispering wind that adds so much yet is almost unnoticeable. That's good filmmaking.

    • @nickm5419
      @nickm5419 Рік тому +1

      it reminds me of Halo Combat evolved, it has that spooky desolate feeling

    • @Canerican.
      @Canerican. Рік тому +1

      I agree 💯

  • @gigibtsurvivor3348
    @gigibtsurvivor3348 Рік тому +43

    Dan, remember the Dollar Days for abandoned city homes? The practice being that you purchase/lease an abandoned home for a $1 then we’re required to rehab it and live in it for a specified amount of time.

    • @DanBellFilmIt
      @DanBellFilmIt  Рік тому +23

      yes. it never worked. people eventually took advantage of the loopholes and resold the homes without doing anything to them for a profit. i’m sure there were a few successes but all in all i don’t think baltimore will be revisiting those plans again.

    • @Echo_B
      @Echo_B Рік тому +6

      @@DanBellFilmIt Is that how there's whole neighborhoods in certain areas where you can buy a house for 1k or at least a very low price?

  • @jacobrosenberg8423
    @jacobrosenberg8423 Рік тому +44

    So sad to see my home town rotting and descending into such squalor from such a distance. So sad for the people who live and die in all that filth, crime and drugs. It is hardly recognizable in the nearly fifteen years I have been gone and it was certainly decaying when I was still around. All that passed is now just memories, pictures and old videos. Far from what I even remember growing up in the 1970s.

    • @kevorka3281
      @kevorka3281 Рік тому +4

      We all know who is to blame

    • @DavidWilliams-xj4zq
      @DavidWilliams-xj4zq Рік тому

      Por que está suja o bairro ?

    • @rick1975100
      @rick1975100 7 місяців тому

      @@kevorka3281who black people or rich white people? You need to watch an old documentary on UA-cam called the Baltimore plan. You will see Baltimore was called a slum vac then. Rich developers planned everything that’s going on in Baltimore. The wire tv show showed this. They allowed crime to run rampant with drugs. Back in history England would trade tea from china and gave them opium in return. England knew drugs would cause china to fall eventually. China is just recovering from this. In America during the railroad building days they used Chinese men and they would do nothing but lay around and smoke opium after work. It was all they was known for. My point is that if you want to destroy a specific group of people the best way is to flood their community with drugs. I watched Baltimore change from the 70s - 80s and around 86 things changed fast. Once crack came crime went up quick. By 89 Baltimore was a different city. Today it’s different. The drug game is dead. It’s no longer worth the risk of prison because the money isn’t there anymore. It’s hardly any dealing going on. You don’t see long lines of addicts buying drugs in alleys like before. Whites are even moving into hood. They know it’s changing and want to get in on the deal. In another 20 years the hoods surrounding downtown will be upperclass neighborhoods. The crime in Baltimore we have now is because the drug game ain’t what it was. Now the kids we use to see on the corners working for dealers are squeegee kids. We use to have them in the 70s and early 80s but they started getting jobs from dealers. Now they back trying to hustle money carry bags at the market or washing windows. They you have some that rob and steal. My whole point is today Baltimore is better and safer. People can’t help but to be negative and ignore the positive. I feel completely safe in Baltimore. The ones dying are in the streets living a dangerous life. It’s rare for innocent people to be killed. So change your thinking. It’s not blacks who or democrats that made Baltimore full of abandon homes.

  • @bobbythedesertwalker594
    @bobbythedesertwalker594 Рік тому +13

    Dan, the soothing warm tones of your voice is always relaxing.

  • @tinastanbaugh
    @tinastanbaugh Рік тому +24

    Love these quiet time videos.

  • @tobyjackman3212
    @tobyjackman3212 Рік тому +38

    Mad that there's such homelessness & yet so many abandoned buildings. Fascinating to think that there's a story behind every door & it's incredible that the area in front of that leaning house hasn't been sectioned off because it looks lethal.
    Another great video Dan - you are my favourite on YT ❤

    • @nickm5419
      @nickm5419 Рік тому +3

      Explore at your own peril

    • @lucianaromulus1408
      @lucianaromulus1408 Рік тому +1

      Such homelessness and yet we send billions to places like Ukraine, Israel, Africa etc etc.

    • @tobyjackman3212
      @tobyjackman3212 Рік тому +3

      @@lucianaromulus1408
      You do realise that foreign aid represents a tiny fraction of your government's budget, don't you?
      Always slightly mystified me why it's the _one_ (aritrary) expenditure people complain about
      What could possibly be the reason 🤔

    • @lucianaromulus1408
      @lucianaromulus1408 Рік тому +1

      @toby jackman billions is small? LMFAO

    • @tobyjackman3212
      @tobyjackman3212 Рік тому +1

      @@lucianaromulus1408
      Unfamiliar with the concept of fractions (as per my original reply) then.
      Sorry kiddo - didn't mean to talk over your head

  • @lauraodle5816
    @lauraodle5816 Рік тому +7

    That voice of yours is like music to my heart. I've missed your videos! ❤ Where has everyone gone in such a vast area? Thank you, Dan.

  • @mollys3825
    @mollys3825 Рік тому +13

    It’s so frustrating how the city just demolishes the old architecture instead of preserving it…

  • @SADWETNESS
    @SADWETNESS Рік тому +24

    I want everyone to remember that the junkies that you think are nasty are real people and they have real emotions and they have real trauma, and they just aren't a force of nature that exists. 😅 Saying this as someone whose dad was a professional heroine addict his whole life. Watched him die of cancer. Watch him also die overdosing multiple times and then have to be revived by paramedics. 😢 It makes me very sad face when people dehumanize anyone. Let's not do that when it's all trying to be loving and compassionate and you recognize that everyone is a result of their individual experiences. And there is not always appropriate support mechanisms in place for you to get the required education. You need to realize that there's something wrong in the first place. I know I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't had an intervening grandmother. At seven who put me into psychotherapy

    • @laurastrobel718
      @laurastrobel718 Рік тому +4

      Sorry about your dad 😢 You aren't alone. I'm so glad you had your grandmother. Thanks for your input, God bless ❤️🌷🌄

    • @Fragrantbeard
      @Fragrantbeard Рік тому +6

      I hope people take heed of what you are saying. I'm sorry your empathy and wisdom had to evolve, in part, from trauma.

    • @SADWETNESS
      @SADWETNESS Рік тому +2

      @March madness that and a massive amount of psychedelics, debauchery, and probably liver damage i cant handle a single whiteclaw. Thanks lol for what its worth its nice to see people validate this.

  • @mikeharris2604
    @mikeharris2604 Рік тому +1

    The second place you showed on Ashton and puliski st was a laundrymat my Grandfather ran it and lived in the back of it in the early 90s

  • @cmdrbubbles
    @cmdrbubbles Рік тому +17

    "Lots of tires and needles" *pans down to sneakers.* Wear ya damn boots Dan! ❤

  • @Lucky7tattooNettahoe
    @Lucky7tattooNettahoe Рік тому +12

    Loving the recent uploads DB! Thank you for what you do.

  • @angela_tarantulas
    @angela_tarantulas Рік тому +3

    Another great video, Dan! Hope you’re feeling good and thank you for your work!

  • @scottgower4837
    @scottgower4837 Рік тому +9

    Very much like a Quiet Time. Provides a relaxing atmosphere as I wake and enjoy some coffee. Thanks.

    • @donniehill3735
      @donniehill3735 Рік тому +1

      Exactly.. Perfect early morning wake up.. Coffee n Dan Bell vid voice.. 👍

  • @laurastrobel718
    @laurastrobel718 Рік тому +6

    Depressing and beautiful at the same time.😞 Good to see another video from you Dan. Hope you and Dillon are enjoying these early days of Spring 🌞🌸

  • @MrDan708
    @MrDan708 Рік тому +10

    4:30 "Washers $1.25", I'm thinking that was an old laundromat.

    • @FallGelb1940
      @FallGelb1940 6 місяців тому

      No , it's obviously a hardware store. 😊 Back in the day each washer cost $1.25

    • @ChrisParks72
      @ChrisParks72 5 місяців тому +1

      It was a laundry. I lived in that neiborhood most of my life and used that laundromat before.

  • @TerrenceChilds-xz3xu
    @TerrenceChilds-xz3xu 2 місяці тому +1

    I'm so glad that I moved out of the inner city of Baltimore MD and now I live in towns Maryland

  • @punchfisttop
    @punchfisttop Рік тому +7

    Always wondered what those reflective red triangles meant. Great vid Dan!!!

    • @r.pres.4121
      @r.pres.4121 Місяць тому

      That means that those buildings are slated for demolition.

  • @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars

    Really wonderful to see these types of videos again Dan. I also feel conflicted because they're amazing to see but were and still are, peoples lives, local surroundings. That's incredibly sad 😔

  • @fredgardner2870
    @fredgardner2870 Рік тому +2

    Realize for every destroyed neighborhood is a very wealthy politician

  • @BollingHolt
    @BollingHolt Рік тому +6

    It's always sad seeing things like this, places with much grander, illustrious histories from better days, eventually having to be abandoned and forgotten as people come in and "sh*t where they eat" and destroy their own communities. I'll never understand why people do that. As usual, great video.

  • @myu2k2
    @myu2k2 Рік тому +14

    kinda wish there is some program to give tax breaks for creating green spaces in cities.... like turn old abandoned city blocks into parks, farmer's markets, and community gardens or at least use the empty spaces for solar panels or recycling centers... something other than another parking lot, strip mall, box store, or storage warehouse.

    • @gigibtsurvivor3348
      @gigibtsurvivor3348 Рік тому +4

      Affordable and reliable housing is needed in addition to those community perks.

    • @myu2k2
      @myu2k2 Рік тому +2

      @@gigibtsurvivor3348 or even bring better jobs in the area... give incentives to build housing in areas with raising job markets and discourage landlords from monopolizing low income properties.

    • @Jenda-ld8dj
      @Jenda-ld8dj Рік тому

      The reason that's not done is because there is no money to be made from it.

  • @danielmiller6983
    @danielmiller6983 Рік тому +2

    Whenever I see whole blocks boarded up like that it always reminds be of the Wire when they we’re throwing all those bodies in the abandoned row houses and boarding them back up. Once again great video. Love your content

  • @ericdravenX00X
    @ericdravenX00X Рік тому +7

    Dead in Day, and Alive at Night. Thanks for this brief little history segment Dan.

  • @Glock30Fan
    @Glock30Fan Рік тому +7

    I think it was a laundromat, not a hardware store. Says "load" on the sign.

  • @SHANN0N0HARA
    @SHANN0N0HARA Рік тому +4

    Great video. So much urban decay. I always imagine what these places were like back in the day, someone's business or someone's home....
    As usual great commentary and very interesting.

  • @MissFaithLouise
    @MissFaithLouise Рік тому +7

    That collapsed corner building looks like the one on the news not long ago where a police pursuit led to a two car collision and a building collapse.

  • @claudemckenzie2398
    @claudemckenzie2398 Рік тому +17

    I think washers for $1.25 is the laundromat type. Washers at the hardware store are pennies

    • @Jennifermcintyre
      @Jennifermcintyre Рік тому +7

      I agree a wash in a laundromat is about $1.25.

    • @DanBellFilmIt
      @DanBellFilmIt  Рік тому +9

      Ahhh you’re right!!!

    • @jasonwomack4064
      @jasonwomack4064 Рік тому +9

      Single load $1.25
      Based on the price, the sign is about 20 years old.

  • @Reptilefriend84
    @Reptilefriend84 Рік тому +6

    Sad to see, what's happening to this (once) beautiful City.

  • @DUCIDNI
    @DUCIDNI Рік тому +5

    Keep these videos coming Dan!

  • @knottheory79220
    @knottheory79220 Рік тому +12

    The architecture of those town houses (row houses, whatever you want to call them) is wonderful. It's too bad they're so decrepit.

  • @saysham.9562
    @saysham.9562 Рік тому +4

    5:10 👀 That door was once a window and
    the half windows below were full size before.
    I wonder how old that building is?

  • @webvideofan
    @webvideofan Рік тому +2

    This was like one of your Quiet Time series. I always enjoy your narrated videos. 👍🏻

  • @nik1128
    @nik1128 Рік тому +5

    Love seeing a new Dan bell upload!

  • @LadyLakeMusic
    @LadyLakeMusic Рік тому +2

    Really appreciate these opportunities to have a look at Baltimore. What a far cry from back in the day. My grandfather built a house in what was then called Baltimore Highlands and it was made of Formstone. This would have been the 1950s. Previous to that my entire family had a very large house on Pratt Street right near Patterson Park.

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 Рік тому +1

    Appreciate you sharing🏚 Just love your calm voice💕

  • @LarryTezekjian
    @LarryTezekjian Рік тому +2

    Great video as always Dan. Thank you.

  • @brooks8656
    @brooks8656 Рік тому +4

    Loved the video. Thanks Dan

  • @Mom2my4blessings
    @Mom2my4blessings Рік тому +1

    Great video! That leaning building 😱

  • @rosemaryangela1825
    @rosemaryangela1825 Рік тому +4

    So glad to c u go back to what made u famous Dan - keep up the good work!

  • @maryhirsch2909
    @maryhirsch2909 Рік тому +2

    What a nice surprise! Video from Dan Bell. Wow he shows it like it is.

  • @jerseytomato100
    @jerseytomato100 Рік тому +4

    You must realllllllly love Baltimore to continue living there. Yikes. 😩

  • @Poeboi
    @Poeboi Рік тому +2

    I love these narrative videos Dan.

  • @ChloeAlexis
    @ChloeAlexis Рік тому +1

    Dan, so good to see you post again. Hope all is well!

  • @tball5677
    @tball5677 Рік тому +1

    I used to rehab old Baltimore city houses in up and coming neighborhoods and I am amazed more of these brick rowhouses arent falling down. You could dig a brick out in no time with a screwdriver on most of them.

  • @elizabeth_evangelium
    @elizabeth_evangelium Рік тому +2

    Wow Dan you are amazing keep ‘em coming 🎉🎉❤😊

  • @harryraam9566
    @harryraam9566 Рік тому +1

    Been waiting for this, Thank u!

  • @goingslightlymad7172
    @goingslightlymad7172 Рік тому +2

    Great video Dan! I love stuff like this!😁

  • @purpleplanet9000
    @purpleplanet9000 Рік тому +1

    Looks like many houses in the process of renovation get broken into. see the paint at 7:54

  • @dominicdavison8590
    @dominicdavison8590 Рік тому +7

    Over 300 homicides in Baltimore in 2022. What a depressingly bleak place. An interesting town to visit for its history but certainly not to live in.

  • @synth5091
    @synth5091 Рік тому +16

    That's not a purse, that's a pockeybook.

    • @dot2562
      @dot2562 Рік тому

      Its not a purse ,its a European carry all!!!

    • @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars
      @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars Рік тому +4

      I'm UK, we'd call that a bag rather than purse or a handbag. Purse is to carry money in. Language is fascinating 😊

    • @tball5677
      @tball5677 Рік тому +2

      Aww shit we got one of dem dare authenic, Bawmer natives hon👍

  • @lorrie5881
    @lorrie5881 Рік тому +3

    This is so sad.. Hurricane Katrina rocked the hell out of New Orleans...and it still doesn't look this bad.. I was there around 1997 and went to Fells Point.. it hadn't gotten like this yet... So much history in Baltimore..used to be a beautiful city I wonder if Poe would be appalled or impressed? ( Joke)

  • @Gia_Mc_Fia
    @Gia_Mc_Fia Рік тому

    Thanks for the interesting take on all the ruins left behind. We have so much to learn as humans. Sigh. Hope you are doing well these days. Much love from Oregon🌲

  • @HypeIsHereMedia
    @HypeIsHereMedia Рік тому +5

    Everytime I see these neighborhoods, I sit and try to fathom why the local government will allow such filth, decay and trash to keep piling up. Just seems like something could be done. I'd love to see you go to Kensington Ave in Philly.

  • @mystica-subs
    @mystica-subs Рік тому +4

    9:14 just casually stepping next to a syringe

  • @marcchambers1972
    @marcchambers1972 Рік тому +5

    Great as always thanks 👍

  • @matthewfarmer2520
    @matthewfarmer2520 Рік тому

    Hi Dan 👋 thanks for another great Film It video. Awesome, hi Dillon 👋🤓

  • @MrSgm111
    @MrSgm111 Рік тому

    The erie wind sounds add so much to this ..almost apocalyptic…

  • @illegalhedgehog
    @illegalhedgehog Рік тому +6

    love you dan ❤

  • @BarrettMulford
    @BarrettMulford Рік тому +2

    I know, why dont they just tear down Baltimore?

  • @SADWETNESS
    @SADWETNESS Рік тому +4

    ❤❤❤ I love your content bud

  • @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717
    @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717 Рік тому +2

    I know you wanted to "grab that purse," Dan.

  • @angela_tarantulas
    @angela_tarantulas Рік тому +1

    It’s so sad to see the decay of a surely once beautiful city. For me, as I’m Swiss, this is something I don’t „understand“. I know, the big companies left and the whole economy broke down. It’s just totally insane from my perspective, as I’m living in a very small country with a strict border around to 5 countries. We don’t have any space, our cities are heavily crowded… sad to see the difference here, where so much space and beautiful buildings are left to rot.

  • @ChrisParks72
    @ChrisParks72 5 місяців тому +1

    I lived in the 2100 block of Ashton St. I saw this hood decline into what it is now.

  • @bobert8618
    @bobert8618 Рік тому +1

    Randy Newman's "Baltimore" still relevant after almost 50 years!

  • @nobeac
    @nobeac Рік тому

    Hey any chance a new ADR season on the way? I thought you were sent supplies along time ago to do these?

  • @Whyismytacoblue666
    @Whyismytacoblue666 Рік тому +1

    As someone who lives in Canada it’s insane to see the state of certain areas within the cites of the US, we have bad, or not very nice areas with shady people, and undesirable housing, but nothing like I’ve seen on videos like this one.

    • @lorrie5881
      @lorrie5881 Рік тому

      Every one you see like this is Democrat controlled for decades

  • @chriscourson2824
    @chriscourson2824 Рік тому +1

    Hi Dan!! I love your motel stuff!

  • @simoneb8608
    @simoneb8608 Рік тому +2

    Can you go back to the children’s asylum? That was such a cool abandoned venture

  • @relicman
    @relicman Рік тому +2

    I think that collapse is from the person that ran the light and hit the building. It seems like you discussed it in a passed video.

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 Рік тому +1

    Really ashame for these places💔

  • @Skeeter-Link
    @Skeeter-Link Рік тому

    YaY!
    Dan Bell is BACK !! 🎉
    Don’t know what it is about you.
    But I’ve always liked watching your videos … 💙💕

  • @survivor303
    @survivor303 Рік тому +2

    24fps isn't ok for fast camera movement. 60fps then and 30 when you are darker areas.

  • @lipstickzombie4981
    @lipstickzombie4981 Рік тому +3

    Postmortem for a place.

  • @ION400
    @ION400 Рік тому

    “Wrestling rink”😆That’d make a lot of em, and chilly!

  • @Canerican.
    @Canerican. Рік тому +1

    Great video ,Dan! Thank You for sharing your talent with us!

  • @BigNekox
    @BigNekox Рік тому

    The burned car at the end made me chuckle 🤭

  • @DingleRingle7
    @DingleRingle7 Рік тому +4

    Love dans vids so much!

  • @misstuesday404
    @misstuesday404 Рік тому

    Always very interesting content, i bet that ballroom and bar was a great place in its hetday, ThNK you Dan,......from England,

  • @jimmyday9536
    @jimmyday9536 Рік тому +2

    Imagine if the city could use those SQUEEGEE KIDS to clean up these eyesores instead of busting out windshields and shooting people down on President St.

  • @jomama5186
    @jomama5186 Рік тому +1

    What a shame. I wish the govt would educate and employ people on building restoration and an apartment, or ver ylow rent apartment, when so many courses and apprentship hours were performed as an incentive. The key being a home at the end of the whole thing. Then these buildings could be saved and re-utilized.

  • @loyalninecoffee2024
    @loyalninecoffee2024 Рік тому +7

    Seems like Baltimore leadership is doing an outstanding job. If you have an urbex or abandoned YT channel then Baltimore will definitely help your views.

  • @krisk1867
    @krisk1867 5 місяців тому

    That's Carrollton Ridge. The city still hasn't torn the houses down on Christian St.

  • @sc1338
    @sc1338 Рік тому +1

    Love you Dan

  • @cookieskoon
    @cookieskoon Рік тому +19

    It's depressing right, but also fascinating. Also in a morbid sense, cozy for people like me who grew up in the bottom rungs of society, especially in the rust belt/Appalachia.
    I am so spiritually attached to the abandoned city and rural town that I even started building them in Minecraft as a side hobby. America's downfall and vanity is an enthralling thing to witness.

  • @ianrjm969
    @ianrjm969 Рік тому +4

    You had me at awful. 🥰

  • @FloridaMan0561
    @FloridaMan0561 Рік тому +13

    Please be careful walking around them nasty junky needles!

  • @renegade-debaylife395
    @renegade-debaylife395 Рік тому

    Would you do a collide with omar gosh

  • @onejazzed
    @onejazzed Рік тому +2

    Just awful. I remember women scrubbing those marble steps on their hands and knees till they glistened back in the day.

  • @shakezuulah
    @shakezuulah Рік тому

    This straight up looked like a scene out of The Wire

  • @Skeeter-Link
    @Skeeter-Link Рік тому

    I’m thinking the building that fell down was a Laundry Mat. Or maybe like a Dry Cleaners
    1.25 shirts (ie)

  • @thecentralscrutinizer304
    @thecentralscrutinizer304 Рік тому

    D-Bizzle back at it 👍🏻

  • @ReedMichael1966
    @ReedMichael1966 8 місяців тому

    Think about it like this dan ,we are all homeless until we all make it home .why not start over in baltimore ? It has potential to grow ,get new residents ,new corner stores ,barber shops,maybe a matket .but the abandoned buildings have to get up to code .now that its warmer out here ,now its a good time to start it .lets rebuild ...

  • @Rebelnightwolfe
    @Rebelnightwolfe Рік тому +1

    Tour de Baltimore!

  • @juliamenezes8053
    @juliamenezes8053 Рік тому

    Sections of the states that are in this amount of rubble dont have much information to warn tourists and people that might move one day. Is there any ounce of presentable counties in Maryland? I almost considered going to Salem but I read about the patriotic behavior and number of college parties its not so isolated anymore.

  • @jamessimon3433
    @jamessimon3433 Рік тому

    Anyone remember that crazy fool what who drove into that building crushed a dude? I do.

  • @ReedMichael1966
    @ReedMichael1966 8 місяців тому

    Now ,it only worth a dollar .im homeless but not hopeless .i would get a large dumping bin ,clean it out and start renovations.what are you planning to do about it ?

  • @staceyrees353
    @staceyrees353 Рік тому +1

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @rolandchestnut9076
    @rolandchestnut9076 8 місяців тому

    WHY ??????????????