WORST Parts of Aliquippa Pennsylvania
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- Опубліковано 25 тра 2022
- Aliquippa, PA....WOW. This city is loaded with run down neighborhoods and economic despair. This is a true example of what happens within a rust belt city. As steel factories began to shut down decades ago, businesses left in droves, as did the population leaving this a distressed community.
It truly feels very isolated from everything else around it, and a definite feeling of bad vibes. As with any city there are some good pockets but for the most part they're overshadowed by the bad in this case. Let's take a drive and see what it looks like.
Born and raised in Aliquippa in 70’s and 80’s. The town may be in bad shape but it has produced a lot of great people.
Grew up here as well, graduated in 70. It made me sad to see how deplorable roads and housing look like now!
My Dad was raised here in the 70’s too.
Over by Morrell?
One of many Pennsylvania Steel towns pushed into the dust bin during the 1980's, at one time a shining light, The American Dream.
Oddly, I thought it was a beautiful place. I loved seeing the wooded areas, the hills, the greenery covering antiguated walls, the calm, & The emptiness of it all..... like a funeral. How appropriate! A poor town that time forgot. But then, I often felt my mind wondering back to another time... of mutton sleeves, parasols, & paper collars. A hundred years & more, when all was bounitful, when people had their chance to live their dream. They say that all good things must end one day.
When I was a kid I had a baseball glove autographed by Joe Dimagio hope spelled that right. There was a black Spalding sports tag on it that said Made In Aliquippa Pa. I might even still have it out in my barn. I had no idea anyone made anything there in pa.
There are some beautiful parts of Allquippa I've driven through them
Yeah last time it was cleaned up was when flood came in
It has really changed
Oh it’s beautiful but with blight lol So many places like this now all over…
After WW2, even when the mills were roaring, Aliquippa was in decline as more and more people, often enabled by the GI Bill, moved out to the townships. Better schools, better air, a yard, and all that.
singer madonna, her dad silvio ciccone is from aliquippa, pa and went to geneva college, ended up in michigan with car company
When were small and being a teenager, Aliquippa was a beautiful city. Wow it has really changed
A lot of great athletes came from that little mill town:
Pistol Pete Maravich
Mike Ditka
Ty Law
Darrelle Revis
Sean Gilbert
and many more...
Cool. Thanks for that information.
Tony Dorsett?????
Yes, Tony Dorsett. I lived there many years ago. So very sad to see the decline.
Pennsylvania is rich with history. Alot of people don't know that many famous and historical people was born and lived in PA.
Wow I grew up in Rochester Pa! Not far fro quip town.
The entire Beaver Valley is in bad shape.
I left in 1985, headed to the new and growing South.
It’s really hard to come back to that area and see all the decay. Since leaving in the 80’s my life has been great. I feel sorry for all the people who stayed for many reasons. Western Pa was a great place to grow up in , but as an adult not many options for success.
Yes…I live in Rochester now and am from quip…so many vacant houses here now it’s sad
Pittsburgh is booming brah
I like the fact that you don't make comments. It allows me to focus on what I'm seeing. There are plenty of videos full of comments. 😊
Looks depressing, scary, you can make a thriller movie. Feel sorry for the people.
My grandparents lived here when I was little before they moved to Florida. It makes me so sad to see what has become of this town.
I have seen 4 or 5 Aliquippa videos, and this is by far the best. The most realistic. Great video, thank you
Thank you so much that really means a lot to me!
I don't know if anyone else was a child of the 1960's I am sure there R plenty but I wanted to share the fact I had a baseball glove my grand father got for me locally it was autographed by Joe Domagio if I spelled that right. The glove had that old style black & silver Spalding Sports tag on it. Under that it says made in Aliquippa Pa. I would say he got for me circa 1969. It was a youth or kid sized glove.
Very cool. Gotta love your Pop. No doubt it was. Made there.
Never saw a small city with so many housing projects
check out the new castle, pa one i uploaded. there's so many of them there its crazy
It reminds me of Detroit with the abandoned house and decay neighborhood
Aliquippa has been doing a good job with tearing down abandoned houses recently. You have to realize the population was around 24k at its peak and is down to around 9k. That’s a huge population decline since the steel mills closed. A lot of houses with nobody to live in them.
Curious, are any of the buildings/homes that I have on here torn down yet? Haven't been back in that area since, I was hoping to see it later when the leaves fell, would be awesome.
@@hoodsnhollers they have been working steadily to tear Down the past infrastructures…I’m a 90s kid…a lot of these buildings sat idly clear back then
@@hoodsnhollers Yes, many of them
The sky looks beautiful
Was thinking same, thought so today looking up...at the blue sky, white clouds...we are a speck in the universe; "we are here, "we are here."
Cracks me up. The only maintained buildings are public housing.
Look at all the expensive cars. LOL
this is great footage, I'm from PA and this town has bigger, nicer homes than most PA towns, but abandoned and trees growing thru homes and stuff
I've hauled alot of Gypsum to USG. I've ran 51 many times. The trip through the hole or the tunnel was always entertaining. People never wanted to wait their turn.
My family is from Aliquippa, Fadool/Frank. Though, I now live in Seattle my favorite restaurant is the Lebanese Club.
I know this is not exactly Pittsburgh, but I love the whole Pittsburgh area. This is beautiful in a decaying type of way.
Lol!
Typical of suburban Pittsburgh steel mill & factory towns!
These videos are like time capsules online, make me wonder what it looked like before it and so many others turned
One thing I noticed that the housing projects seemed to be well maintained and clean. The city overall seems to be relatively free of debris/garbage flowing on the streets. Definitely could get rid of many abandoned houses. I grew up in a Pittsburgh suburb in the 70s and 80s. This city looks much better than some of the rough neighboring towns that I remember.
WHY did all these little towns around Pittsburgh allow the feds to put a housing project in them? Don't they now see that the suburbs that didn't allow a project are thriving?
I used to do door to door sales in Aliquippa and throughout Eastern Ohio and western PA. So many cities and towns that are just outdated and run down. Such a beautiful part of the country with the trees and hills but yet little slums all throughout. I’ve walked the most dangerous streets and spoken with just about everyone on the block. It’s really sad the current state so many small towns are in - a lot of it due to political corruption (among other things) and Aliquippa is no exception the city of Aliquippa is instantly corrupt and has been for a very long time. A small town with massive inner city problems.
I moved out of PA to FL. PA is actually rotting away. It seems to be very over crowded as well. I would avoid that state.. advice to all
Hey Bob that hurricane made some places in Florida look pretty bad as in flooding a small city
I remember the good times we use to have there when we used to visit.
Over crowded? The population is much lower than it used to be
PA takes care of their people because it's a Commonwealth! That's why I stay!
I live in PA by the capital. PA is an aging state all the young people leave the state.
first time seeing your video and I enjoyed very much.
What's odd is the cars. No really bad rust buckets or clunkers. Even if the houses are major dumps, the cars out front are pretty nice looking. Unless there are no cars at all. And the occupants can't afford no wheels at all. I also wonder if they even plow some of those really bad streets in winter. Or do the residents have to wait like a week or 2 to get out. Also it takes about 30-40 years for a roof to develop large holes or fall in due to rot. When you see the caved-in roof, you know that building has been abandoned a long time.
I live near this neighborhood. Thanks for sharing!
3:14, must have been very beautiful at 1 time with brick roads. Then you have trashy people move in, then the neighborhood goes way down.
Jones and Loughlin Steel built this town and when it closed down it killed it.
That kid on that quad is gonna roll that thing
All those old duplexes- imagine the activity in those neighborhoods back in the day- not to mention all the demolished houses -
WOW. I am really amazed at how much multi family housing is there 😮 I just love some of those old ruin buildings. I would have loved a commentary while you drove.
Those first abandon buildings you pass at the very beginning- were they private residences or businesses way-back-when...?
Reminds me of The Deer Hunter.
Still a beautiful town, that's getting clean up, it will never come back or be like it was in the 50s,Pennsylvania should get a super fund to clean up all the dead homes and businesses from the infrastructure bill
Check McKeesport if you think this is bad I've lived in both!!
McKeesport is uploaded!
@@hoodsnhollers My sister lived in Mckeesport and Duquense both are them are just down right terrible!
True
@@Fater4511 need to take a massive bulldozer to tear those towns completely down
I live on Shaw Ave in Mckeesport. Most of my block is still lived in and kept up.
He actually rides up my block at the 20:05 mark.
Those steep streets must be hell in the winter. Some are one big pothole, yet every occupied home is paying the city property tax, plus sales, income, etc.That money's going somewhere.
This reminds me of the current state of my home town, Johnstown, Pa. Sad.
Good videography. The skies and scenery are beautiful! Not sure why you blanked out faces. Privacy is no problem when out in public.
Thanks so much! I blank them out sometimes just as a respect thing, if i get some mean mugging maybe ill leave those in. Got more mean looks and evil stares here in Aliquippa than anywhere else I've been btw
My father was from Johnstown! I thought the place was depressing in the 1970s when we would go visit my grandparents there! The '77 flood made it hellishly scary!
No not much property tax is paid too many vacant buildings not many homeowners anymore it hurts to see this
Thanks for the vid, I would never knew such a place had existed
Thank you for watching!
1st time I heard of Aliquippa was in early '70s; knew a great guy who was one of the roadies for my husband's rock band; only knew his, obviously, nickname 'worm' ... Worm was from Aliquippa! He must be 70+ years old now.
0:55 - old Spring Street. I grew up there back around '82-'83. Used to watch He-Man and Inspector Gadget on WPTT 22 in those days.
Come to East Liverpool Ohio or Wellsville Ohio just as depressing!!!
I actually did those very recently! It's uploaded on the channel!
@@hoodsnhollers That's awesome. The small river towns have dying on a vine for the last 40 years or so.
Yet there's always such nice looking late model vehicles parked out in front of these run down houses. Maybe the vehicles are more liveable than the houses. 😳
I was just thinking the same thing. Cars parked in front of houses that look abandoned.
@@lorinelson7607 Same thing in Philly. Sketchy.
Why invest in property thats only losing value, or you dont own? Might as well rock a fat whip😉
I lived in the sketchy part of aliquippa for years because of the cheap housing. But had a remote job that paid well an, at the time, had a brand new vehicle. You drive literally 5-7 minutes up the road to the Hopewell area and it's night and day.
There hasn't been much in demolition this year and some neighborhoods are no longer getting garbage collection. Also the city police department is now almost defunct and the state police are taking shifts. Summer 2022 hasn't been kind to Quip, nor to many of the towns on your wonderful channel.
I see many areas on here that look very beautiful. As you said, can take the bad with the good. Just sad the economic fell.
Kinda like smaller town of Pittsburgh
I spent some time there during 2020-21. I met some nice and hardworking family oriented people there.
Aliquippa is no not that bad we just got bad people.
So sad, it seems haunted.
The people living there are smart. They didn't get caught up in the work to make the rich man wealthy trap, just relax on the porch every day and let the government support you. Very smart Pennsylvania mountain folk.
Grew up in New Brighton. I can tell you that In the early 80s Aliquippa almost looked the same. Just looks like more projects ( govt housing ?) have been built
1:36, that was a really cool street!!!!
Perfect backdrop for movie
Grew up in the holla went to Jones School. Great times in the 60's
I’m really surprised some of those areas haven’t been renovated and done up.
There would have to be a market for the finished product. A neighborhood fitting of it and its price. Those neighborhoods are at best, depressing, at worst, dangerous, even deadly.
No jobs around to support a living in the area and if you do buy a house it would be cheaper to renovate yourself
I was born and In ambridge aliquippa was the same in the 1980s when JL steel shut down Alex
I grew up in the 1970's & early '80s across the Ohio River in Conway & Franklin Ave, (Downtown Aliquippa) was never a great place back then when the steel mills were still operational.
A dump
So sad.
Dateline just did a documentary there recently
i live 15 min away in rochester, pa, january 2019 i was bored and ended up in aliquippa, pa early one saturday morning driving around, no traffic. When i see abandoned buildings i always go home and look up the property tax records it fascinates me why they are empty ??? my guesses owner died, moved away, kids or relatives cannot afford to fix em up or pay property taxes etc.. I moved her 10 yrs ago from san jose california 45 min south of san francisco, where a 1 bedroom condo cost $500,000 or more, there are not abandoned buildings in california.
Aliquippa doesn't have much in way of paranormal except for the 2 giant skeletons dug up during j&l development. Mudlick hollow rd in vanport is close, infamous kelly rd in industry, new brighton armory building, beaver county has lots of old haunts, look up the george foulkes house in cannelton. Former indian burial grounds underneath 376/68 intersection next to 84 lumber too, there was a cursed house there that was demolished to make room for the highway, called rt 60 before it became 376. Happy hunting.
Supply and demand are real forces. People move to and for jobs, not the other ways around.
Yes…none of these houses were kept up after the original landowners either moved or died off
Quip Town Legendary ♥️🖤💪🏆🏈🏀✌️
It's a "kick you in the teeth" kinda town. A round of boilermakers at the bar...
The steets are clean of trash and debris...kewl
Wuow todas estas casas 🏡 Están abandonada
I'm from Aliquippa born and raised
Conway!
Me too. Parents lived there until they passed. Sad to see the decay and state of the roads.
I live in aliquippa its bad area an so is ambridge pa also thanks for the video
I think I graduated with you. Hello. Made me sad to see the decay. Places I never saw while growing up there. We lived near C&L Market. My parents have been gone 20+ years but where they lived looked nothing like the video.
If you think this town is bad, GO see New Kensington/Arnold area 15068
May God save America . The real one . Let peopple reacall
the meaning of UTILITY .
I was just gonna say its because nobody mines there anymore..
My dads family was from west Aliquippa
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Done
@@kimberlydeeney5652 thank you!
@@dianamarie5663 thank you!
It’s like The Walking Dead set, but real.
Every city and town has areas in decline with at least three dudes on a corner, eating food off the trunk of a car.
Everyone drives nice cars
Hey there's my old house ❤
Desturping pictures - worlds richest land and then this , looks like they rolls the asfalt in at night and dont rolls it out correct the morning after - seems like they are Lucky and still have electric power - - yet
Haunted houses
This is my hometown, born and raised here.
I just read that the usa is richer than my country ... but my country doesn´t look like that ... we have similar places, yes. But not like that ...
I lived here in Alliquippa .. horrible place .. Crime and drugs horrible. I moved 2016 and have no regrets
Best thing to do is use public money to remove blighted structures and let the empty lots return to green space.
They have no public money....The tax base has dried up... That is the problem...
I love this town for investment
We call it Ali-crappa
If you want to ruin an area build cheap/ section 8 apartments.
I've been to a few bad places. This has to be the worst one I've ever been to. I'd avoid it. Steer clear!
What a sorry place
Depressed
Oof.. This channel randomly pops up and seems oddly interesting.... Until the town you grew up in and graduated from is showcased.....
I'm curious if the bridge and area are still there called West Aliquippa, might have been out of scope for this visit. It's a whole section of Aliquippa with a 'one way in one way out' bridge on the side of town near the end of your video (14:11). Or it might be completely gone/dust/footnote in history at this point. Was a weird place separated from the rest of the world, lol.
Yes west aliquippa is still there .
Sorry but the worst there still s3ems better than where I am. Reading ,PA is not a pleasant part of Pa.
never hears of that place.
Hmo fee's ran them away
6000 woodlawn blvd west aliquippa pa BORN AN RAISED A C D THEY DONT KNO BOUT THAT 23 AN 1 onnat spicy vegetable chilli diet fool
I have set foot in Aliquippa City, Beaver County. I have driven through Aliquippa City, Beaver County. Of the many dirty, ugly, and crime-ridden steeltowns in Western Pennsylvania I have set foot upon, I have to opine that Aliquippa City, Beaver County is among the dirtiest, ugliest, and most crime-ridden of them all ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️. Even the people of Aliquippa City, Beaver County have been known to be dirtier, uglier, and bloodier than usual. Unfortunately, I don't miss Aliquippa City, Beaver County one bit ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️. ¶ When I was watching the above webcast, I noticed just how highly similar the housing units were. Why is that significant? I think many of its residents were steelworkers at the nearby Jones and Laughlin Steel-Production Works. If you have ever seen military housing units, then you have probably noticed one of their striking characteristics being that the housing units are either extremely similar, or exactly the same. What I am trying to underscore is that the people involved in steel production are doing so with purposes of creating, and maintaining, huge military arsenals (An extremely depressing place on Planet Earth 😭😭😭😭😭).
Its an old mill town !! All and all it really isnt that bad !! But this is what happens when the mills shut down !! Looks like every other old mill town in Pa. !!
You don’t say!! I agree!! Thanks for watching!!
Most famous resident of Aliquippa: Richie Allen.
JUST LIKE ELLWOOD CTY!
New castle too
And the neighborhoods surrounding Y.S.U. in Youngstown Ohio, a short 20 miles from New Castle PA. Both frightening especially at night
Ellwood City is Beverly Hills compared to Aliquippa.
I can see why Henry Mancini left that town.