1972 SPECIAL REPORT: "DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE, AFTER DARK"
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Downtown Baltimore is a lively business and entertainment hub known for its theater district, with venues like the 1914 Hippodrome, as well as Royal Farms Arena for sports and big-name concerts. Irish pubs, diners and seafood restaurants dot the area, while stalls at bustling Lexington Market have local treats like crab cakes. Port Discovery Children’s Museum features inventive hands-on exhibits and a sports stadium
You wish Baltimore looked this civil now😂
1972, the year Baltimore said "Ya. This is good. Gonna stay right here......"
@16:50 "The areas have to be specified, I speak of the areas in which I live" - people spoke in public with proper tone and grammar back in the day
Some places gentrification isnt a bad thing
This guy uploads so much great historical content. A real treasure trove👍
Many Downtowns across America were scary after dark for many years.
Were?
@@SlipKid1975 For the most part, yes. A lot of major American cities have made their cities more appealing for night life since the 90s. Atlanta, Miami, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Denver, DC, Charlotte.... uh yeah many examples.
Now they are scary every second of the day. They don’t try to hide anything they do, every dirty deed imaginable, is done on the street, in broad daylight.
I’ve been traveling around America. Most downtowns in the USA especially in the Midwest and South are basically ghost towns and pretty bland in the evenings. Even during the day time, some of those cities have little traffic
truth
Seriously I’m loving this old footage ❤ Downtown Baltimore ❤
Why did they knock down these beautiful neighborhoods and start building the slums?
This was 1972 b.c(before crack)
The crack y’all chose to smoke
#GFYS
@@davidmicalizio824 that's what I say gfys
@@neverhungryagain2187 I never smoked crack a day in my life
@@salvatoresalernatano5964 I’m talking about the generation that smoked it. Nobody forced them to smoke it
Nothing compared to the trash dump it is now.
Guess you no longer live in the city...
This channels entire catalog should be national archives
Heck yeah. Nothing better.
That off-kilter theme music at the beginning was both chilling and colorful!
I don't remember it being dangerous downtown back in the early 1970s, even into the early 1980s. Most of the serious crime was in residential neighborhoods outside the downtown area. As mentioned in the video, the shopping district was open a couple nights a week and I remember shopping in the evening downtown in the '60s and '70s. My wife's folks would come up to visit from southern VA to see Orioles games in the evening at Memorial Stadium, then we'd go down to the Inner Harbor to eat at Phillips or Connelly's restaurants along Pratt St. This was in the early 1980s.
I was only in Baltimore once, about nine years ago, to attend a lecture at Johns Hopkins. I could tell THAT Hood ain't GOOD.
It reminds me of the area around Northeastern in Boston where I went to school. Perfectly safe .. until the cops went home for the evening.
At 14mins the lady interviewed with the white eye make up on was so so soooo beautiful and radiated positivity, happiness and a real joy of life! Can I go back 50yrs n marry her pls pretty pls🤞🤞
She’s very lovely!
Do you want me both
She was so stunning wasn't she
50 years later. No different now. Hmmm I can't imagine why
I'm loving these Bmore vids!! Not enough love for the city!
Where are the homeless and gangs?
If u deport all afromericans from this city it will become calm its simple
@@Efreet17 wtf? Seriously? racist much if you think that would solve the cities issue you're a dumbass blacks have nothing to do with the problems in Bmore. Corruption isn't biased wether what race, creed, religion its BAD PEOPLE who are the issue nothing to do with race
The animals were controlled to a point
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Gee I wonder what changed in Baltimore??🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Get a job
Baltimore was predominantly an industrial town, with an economic base focused on steel processing, shipping, auto manufacturing (General Motors Baltimore Assembly), and transportation, the city experienced deindustrialization, which cost residents tens of thousands of low-skill, high-wage jobs. #Wikipedia
@@elegantcourtier just ignore him. He's a known racist on ALL news on UA-cam regarding Baltimore and Black people
@@elegantcourtier So globalism AKA diversity Jack Dover many US cities but the reality is Baltimore is 70% B
Look up pictures from the 2015 Baltimore riots then come back and tell me W are the problems=
@@beewalk34 Yes Blks need to get jobs-
Notice how well spoken the locals are compared to the broken street slang that replaced it today.
Some good looking girls back then . Class .
I agree 110%. Women were much better looking in the 70s..
@@ousamaabdu794n prison tattoos, fake ass rubber lips, no metal nose ring,no nasty attitude.
❤In The 80s Too. No Tattoos. Natural Beauty & Thinner Too. No Green, Purple Or Pink Hair So They Look Like They Escaped From The Insane Asylum. 😅
A few years ago, gangs attacked tourists at the Inner Harbor. During the day.
Word up, yo..
Someone should make a sequel to this. "Baltimore After Crack".
Newark had the same problem after the '67 riots. The city was on the dscline prior but the riots was the death blow. I'm old enough to remember downtown Newark was so busy at night you almost couldn't move until after 10 PM. But with the rise of the suburbs and the malls people didn't need to shop downtown and after 6 o'clock it would empty out. A damn shame.
People left Newark because of lawlessness , the riots were indeed the final straw for most working people , we left south Orange in 69 after my fathers car was burglarized . 😢
Newark is still better than other cities in the south and Midwest. It’s actually worse in those other cities because those cities have downtowns that are ghost towns even in the afternoon. At least Newark still has some pedestrians on the side walks during business hours
so nice uNTIL THE BLKS TOOK OVER
I check all these baltimore videos out. Bro I rode in the limo with my stepmother, Dad and Run DMC to see "Tougher Than Leather" Premier at the Hippodrome!!
What !? You got to ride in the limo with RUN DMC ?
@user-br7wi7xc6n yeah. Run, Russell and Danny are my stepmothers first cousins.. crazy right
@@JB-hl1qx I knew this dude for 30 years...and he never shared that story with us..and we used to rhyme together...you think he would've mentioned that sometime in 1992....🤷😂
@@HezakyaNewz If I had that experience I know I would have told everyone & their mom about that !!
@HezakyaNewz bro you know what? I didn't think it was as big of a deal as it actually was. I used to be in the Phat Farm store chilling in the back, went to dinner with Russell and Kimora a couple times. Went to DefJam a few times. All this with my stepbrother who is ... Derrick Adams. He's a painter and had an entire season of the TV show Empire dedicated to his painting
22:07 The original "Gino's" at North & St. Paul. Thanks for posting this wonderful memory!
Love their food when I can put enough money aside to afford it. It's the best pizza place we have over here on the west coast
We had several Gino's in Newark also, two of them in fact that I used to eat at. The "Gino's Giant", a great burger. Better than McDonald's by far. Gino Marchetti of the Baltimore Colts founded them I've heard.
Remember Polack Johnny's?
I started going to Baltimore in 1970 and kept going there through the 70's. I was too young and crazy to be really afraid. I went to the Block which was more than a block baclk then and also an after hours place called Betty's on S. Broadway and then on Greenmount. All these people interviewed are either dead or like me very old. Like everyone else, I would love to go back and do it all over again with knowing a lot more than I understood then.
I remember as a kid going to the ethnic festivals before harbor place was built… the smells from the McCormick spice company… it was fun then not now
Bmore still have those gate on downtown storefronts too.
Man, they really destroyed Baltimore
1:06 she's cute ❤
the girl with the bird!
Really classy.
Good to know Baltimore has always been a 💩hole
30 minutes of video and everyone is too afraid to say why downtown Baltimore is unsafe. Just say black crime.
Just say you're a bigoted racist. I saw them interviewing white women in those "unsafe" areas too. So whites weren't out there committing burglaries, robberies and such. Baltimore had 1.5 million people then. All crimes were NOT restricted to just Blacks.
Don't say that. Diversity is our strength.
@@notyrants😂😂😂
Word, yo..
My grandparents had a advertising compamy in Baltimore in the 1970s they eventually retirrd on Naples Florida
Great old video. I couldn’t imagine livin in a place where I would be afraid for my Life to walk around!! Say what you want about the South I’ll live ($ die ) here before I’d even Visit some place like That. Thank you very much. ✌️
What about downtown Houston, or Dallas or New Orleans or downtown Miami? Would you walk aroubd there at night feeling safe? Downtown Atlanta?
I live in downtown Phoenix for years and would not walk pass Central 😂 during weekends for safety reasons. Still love living I. The downtown!
I’m from New Orleans I fw Baldamore tough. Makes me feel similar vibes to my city, and it’s as far north as you can go and still get hints of the south(good parts of the south of course)
The reason the inner harbor recreational area was established was to attract people downtown and it worked. Also the convention center and Camden yards.
White flight, as it was known.
Worst 52 yrs later.
Downtown Bmore feels apocalyptic
No one says why it is unsafe. Who is responsible for that?
Well it certainly isn't the fault of a people with low morals, low intelligence, low impulse control and no work ethic. Diversity is our strength.
I know..
Weird how the shopkeepers put bars in front of their businesses for no reason. LOL
Ya know?
Downtown is actually pretty safe at night. It’s other parts of the city that have the problem, lol. It’s the residential areas where you don’t want to be at night (or during the day in a lot of areas if you don’t know the right people in the neighborhood).
That's not until the Orioles built Camden Yards 20-years later!
Just like downton St. Louis
Boy, downtown sure looked a lot different in 1972.
No aquarium, no World Trade Center, no Science Center, none of it.
The population of the city was well over 800,000 in those days, though.
Population in Bmore was 1.6 million in 1972
@@CalvinP420 1.6M was the population of the Baltimore metro area, not the population of the city of Baltimore...
Dark crime has always been a problem yo
Ninjas
They used to call them “shines” back then.
Word, yo..
Baltimore is my home town. I did not realize that it was this bad in early 70s.
It wasn't.
@16:23 the Cockatiel lady is a babe! and that's the name of that tune...
I'm from DaBronx.
Nyc 1972- into the 90s was pretty wild - of course heroin use was through the roof back then. But Broadway didn't close, Yankees stadium was filled.. President Ford cut off fed $$..
Cops were crooked as ever.& mobsters ruled the streets. Son of Sam. Garbage strike. The Blackout of 76. All kinds of fun...
Downtown Baltimore seems like the media made things worse.
I think there's a racial undertone to this report.
As usual ...thugs,ghettos, and other code words.
Suburbia knows them all
Arthur Avenue says hello
The Bronx was nice back in the 70s but both black/white got beat downs when they walked into the wrong neighborhood. Italians didn’t like people coming into their neighborhood. Ricans were always carrying knives and ready to use them. Italians and Ricans were the biggest troublemakers.
Look at the Democratic Party bosses dealing with the problem with denial around 6:40 or so. And we wonder why things have gotten worse.
This was 1972. Things are exponentially worse today.
No they are not.
@@aaronheil6721 Have you been to Baltimore recently?!
all the time
@@Jeff-v2c
@@Jeff-v2c I live here here, it was worse back then.
@@Mr.Universe As do I. I also work in the city. It is definitely worse today. You must not get out much.
Thanks for a bit of nostalgia
It's much the same today fear and high crime. I visit during the day but wouldn't venture alone at night. Can you focus on art scene? Joihn Waters. Nice city
It seems that 80% of population are law abiding citizens and the rest are who we have to worry about. I miss going out at nite, used to like to walk or drive around on a cool nite
I think downtown has gotten worse that's why most of the good store's closed their business hect co. Movie theaters and including Hopkins plaza don't put a bandage on it face it the crime got worse.
1:51 crazy music to be playing during a news report called "Downtown Baltimore - Safe At Night?" - seems a bit biased towards "no" (and Strawberry Alarm Clock!)
This lamb concurs.
Like Philly now , nobody’s safe
but but diversity
They need cyborg cops… complete with prisons with robot guards.
The biggest criminals, on the streets, are the police department.
If you want to be 'safe," then go and get yourself locked up. Because, that's the only place where safety can be guaranteed ... in a dungeon.
@@itzenormous 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 in 2020 the year you were crying about black lives US citizens committed 21.571 murders
25% of those without guns
55% of the total committed by blks proving the 13th amendment has caused more crime than the 22nd
Lastly that same year nationwide police shot 1000 suspects less than 200 were black So who were the 800? No riots for them no statues or lib media press??
tell me again cops are the problem
@Donnell Okafor Yep 12 decide or 6 carry
My only problem is
How do we know who is the good guy once the shooting starts?
You realize that another armed citizen could shoot you thinking you are the aggressor? I support the 2nd but also support common sense
just avoid the predominate black parts in any city...even if your black
Most of the violent crime then was confined to the inner city residential areas of East and West Baltimore. The harbor area, the Howard Street shopping district and Little Italy were relatively safe - relative to today, that is. Today, you truly aren't safe anywhere, even during the day. Flash mobs and gun play and increased racial tension/polarization are a sad reality today.
Racial tension?
I knew a drag queen named Rachael Tension.
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" Today, you truly aren't safe anywhere, even during the day" - so no-one leaves their home?
@BorisBoris-sl1sf quit the bullshit. There's no regard for the law and you know it.
D.E.I. ruins everything
If ur used to being the only important race, or you are flat earth level deluded with propaganda against DEI, with all do respect, you don’t know the world around you, you’re consumed by feeling you got a band hand in life, cry me a river baby
DEI = didn’t earn it
My grandpa got us put of Baltimore he was a merchant seaman and we went to the West Coast
This Was The Year, 1972 I Was Born In September And Raised In Baltimore.
The purpose of this video was to convince people how safe downtown Baltimore was. I haven't seen any videos like this lately..
I was only 2 when this was filmed but I’m kicking myself for not buying up property around the Inner Harbor at the time
All because of damned Abraham Lincoln!
The Liberian repatriation should have been mandatory instead of voluntary.
This is still such a problem to this day. It's happening in many other US cities as well, but Baltimore seems particularly afflicted. I wish I had the answers, but it seems nobody does.
Lots of blame out there, but one little stat tells me about the roots of this mess:
In 2022, the state with the highest median household income in the US was Maryland.
Let that sink in for a second. Think of all the households in Baltimore (the largest city in MD), and remember that every one of them is part of that average. That means that outside of Baltimore there is obscene amounts of money being made.
AND WHY DONT PEOPLE FEEL SAFE ?
YOU KNOW THE ANSWER....
Word, yo..
by the way these people were embarrasingly wrong...baltimore is a shit hole even with the inner harbor...gee wonder why...
I partied lots in Baltimore from 1976-1980. Never had a problem. But if I was 18 now I would avoid it.
Where did I ever hear ten thousand people showing up at an event 8 times and no arrest would made? 1970s were truly a better period than the decade surrounding it. I was born in 1970.
Oh though 1970s is an era of creak heads, honestly.
@@seanpetaia that was the 1980s. It heroin in the 1970s.
@@qolspony does it’s matter though? Both eras literally invited the most deadly drugs ever, & to this day it’s had kills more Americans. If it not “only” America definitely the whole world too.
That baby at 4:43 is over 50 now.
@@ianmangham4570
Physically 52. Mentally 16.😂
@@bonanzatime Never mind son you'll get there eventually 🙏
@ianmangham4570 Thanks Dad! Yer so cool, especially now that you're 53.😆
This lamb believes the dad is in a nursing home paid for by the baby.
Teletector synchro scan devices. Hmmm ok lol
Downtown Chicago was similar in this same period-people went their to work or shop in daytime and after dark the area was close to empty
Completely off topic. I wonder what happened to the HOT chick in the thumbnail ? Yes I'm simping.
derp derp our country is going into the toilet derp derp
THATS BECAUSE ( LITTLE MELVIN ) WAS RUNNIN THINGS) YOU HEARD
How about Peanut King ?
I'm glad conditions in Baltimore have really improved since '77 😂
Nope. Last city in the US I would ever consider living in.
@@lchaney language has his own ways. Conditions of where i'm doing my days in are far from "considering", let alone places in the US:=)
😐 oh!😂😂😂you were kidding
😂😂😂
It looks really good compared to now, it got like 90% worse
29:49 is Mission Impossible S07 - Ep05 TOD-5. Doing some long research I finally found out what the show is this info is for anyone wondering what the show is at the time mark I mention.
I did a ridiculous websearch as well, and found the answer also, only to see that you already posted this. Thanks!
@@arthurw8054 Your welcome sorry I did not reply back till now.
Thanks; I had seen that episode at some point. That was Barbara Anderson as the waitress; who was also a regular cast member on the Ironside series, playing Officer Eve Whitfield....
"Lynda Day George (Casey) character's absence is explained by Phelps at the beginning of the mission when he tells the group that she is handling the operations on the European branch of the Alpha Group and will wait for the IMF team in the US first before acting. Since she was pregnant during the filming season, the female role went to Barbara Anderson (Mimi)." -Imdb
Downtown was revitalized in the 1980s. However, the city as a whole is much worse than it was in 1972
Of course it is with dope fiends moving there from all over the nation
I'm a Red Sox fan and Camden yards is my favorite park to visit for road games.
The Downtown revitalization lasted until may the mid-2000's if you're referring to the Harborplace area. What was once a tourist destination is no largely closed.
These videos make the saying "same shit different day" hit different. Bmore just is what it is. If everything material changes with time, but the same theme is still true, then its cause is rooted in the mentality of the people.
WDS’s legacy is obvious…put all resources in a tourist destination and let’s see what happens to the rest of the city.
16:25 foxy
Wow, what a fascinating video treasure! A Baltimore native, in 1972 I was just starting HS, and remember well the huge Inner Harbor revitalization project that would come a few years later. I still live in the area; sadly, this video makes B'more look like a Boy Scout camp compared to how it is today.
1972 - Baltimore, Safe at Night?
2022 - Baltimore, Not Safe at All - Night or Day
I worked downtown in the 1980s and 1990s and you did not feel necessarily unsafe. Willie Don knew that public safety (or at least the perception thereof) was absolutely necessary for a thriving downtown. Around 2000 it began to feel more sketchy. Today, I would never go to downtown Baltimore because it is not safe.
I know you like complaining and playing the victim, you seem like a negative, pessimistic person, but @1:11 mark in this video, in Baltimore, 1972, a woman says, "I don't even feel safe in the daytime.". Get that? You are not saying anything new, just same old tired victim mentality.
Baltimore has always been a very pocketed city, with certain areas being dangerous and other areas being just fine. From what I have heard, the waterfront was legitimately dangerous in the era before Harborplace. Since then it has been perfectly fine. Any of the other gentrified sections of the city will be fine. You just need to know the areas that are safe and those which aren't. Generally, most people won't have any business being in the unsafe areas in the first place.
@@rockets4kids and i have to add, during the day even the unsafe areas you'll probably be OK in, as long as you take the normal precautions and are there for a reason, like to patronize a business or visit someone who lives there
@rockets4kids some of the big city gentrification strategies remind me of what they did with risky subprime loans. They dispersed and package them with less risky loans leading to their ultimate collapse.
Sorry to hear that. I hope nothing happened to you.
That’s strange the “crowd” always causing problems …..
Such arrogance on the part of the narrator. The city was falling apart. It was unsafe. People were right to leave. 40 years later, calling Baltimore safe would be a punchline.
50 years later and it’s worse now than it was in 1972 !!!
🤔 I wonder why?
@@jaimestewart8295drug war, poverty,gentrification bad government policies and total neglect of its poor and working class citizens
@@Error_-qz2zr yeah that would be some of it for sure 👍
@@jaimestewart8295 did my comment got deleted by UA-cam? 😂 Censorship is crazy I didn't even say any bad words just why it got like this
@@Error_-qz2zr it probably did , that happens to me all the time
Baltimore always was a cesspool
It seems that the 70's were very dangerous times, the crime statistics and the number of serial killers etc were probably higher than they are today.
Statistics have gone down we got ring cameras now
Unfortunately, most cities peaked in the '80s, but not Baltimore. Was on a downward trajectory until 2015. And, then it blew up again.
32:40 ... the best part
Better then …no doubt
Hot girl at 1:06
At the very beginning I saw a pimp with a feather in his hat.😂
DEFUND WHO?🤣
Baltimore: What seems logical and reasonable deems to prove you otherwise
Omar coming, yo!!
4:45 that baby will now be 50 or 51 years old.
Don't know exactly why, but I trip on this stuff too. Watching documentaries of ordinary people is as close to time travel as I can get, and I'm awestruck by change over time.
I am that baby's exact age. ❤
It gets wicked at night
I don't see any afromericans on the street... was slavery still legal in 1970s?
The Mechanic was an eye sore. Thankfully it shut down by 2004. The buildings underground parking was the most useful part of its architecture
Was it brutalist architecture ? It seemed so
@@fellspoint9364 Yes, it was definitely and example of Brutalism, which was at it's peak around the time The Mechanic was constructed.
It’s still dead in downtown Baltimore.
Too many “teens” roaming about looking for potential victims.
Avon & Stringer couldn't have been more than 3 🚼 🚼. I was going on 14: Already getting high🤯. My father took me to Baltimore in 1969. When i was 10.
51 years later and the same thing is going on but even worse! It’s definitely not safe at anytime day or night!
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