Well, im originally from CT. I moved to rochester in 1989. I raised 4 kids with my wife here. The school systems in the suburbs are much better than Florida!It was the best move of my life. Ive lived here for 27 years now!Rochester is coming back;bigtime!!!...
You brought back some old memories to this RIT Grad, class of '71. I was in the last class to attend both old and new campuses. The old dorm, the former Hotel Rochester is no longer standing, I have some hilarious memories about living on the 7th floor. I have a UA-cam of the demolition. Who knows, we may have met there all those (50?) years ago on campus. With my age and health, I doubt that I will get back for a visit. OH, and I drank enough Genesee Cream Ale to float an aircraft carrier as a student there.
Wow I moved here from NYC. 1989.. cool video..things has definitely changed, downtown etc.. The weather, tho. Keeps me confused and sick.(it can be winter spring summer fall all in one day at times.. Loll..But it's a Beautiful Town. ..Stay safe and Healthy during the coronavirus..💒
I graduated from RIT in 1986 so this is pretty much how I remember the city although we didn't go downtown very often. The school of photography is where I spent most of my time and there it was in your video. When out of campus I lived at Rustic Village and then I rented a nice place at twelve corners. Being foreign it all looked wonderful to me and I don't recall worrying much about dangerous areas. Of course I was introduced to chicken wings and our favourite place was Red Rooster. There was a lot to do on campus on our free time, three movie theaters, swimming pool, ice ring plus parties every weekend. The one place I miss is Little Theater where I have watched so many movies. I loved coming in from Rochester's brutal cold to the warmth in the scent of buttered pop corn! It is a pity that I missed the opportunity to visit again in 2020. I was going to fly to Boston and drive to Cleveland so a stop to my old school and town was on the plans. Obviously due to the epidemic I had to cancel unfortunately.
Wow, great video. I'm a Rochester native and the building (with the circle top) used to be called The Changing Scenes restaurant back then. My mom was a Jazz pianist who played there right around 1988-89. I think it's just an office building now.
“Changing scenes” because I believe it used to rotate slowly. I was about 8yo around the time, but I’m pretty sure that’s the story of that restaurant...
Always enjoy videos like this. I went to middle school in Corn Hill (1st ward) at the time you visited and worked in the building on Main street. that was half finished at the time of this video. That building became the Hyatt Regency.
Thanks so much for this trip to my hometown! I was about 18 when you recorded this. I never thought I'd leave that town, and I'm glad I did, but I miss it!
You can still get a garbage plate ar Nick Tahoes (but I don't think it's the same like when Nick had it, so I go to Mark's on Monroe Avenue and get a sloppy plate)
Thanks for posting this. Im 22 and Ive lived in Rochester all my life. Needless to say, it looks completely different....some for the worst....but definitely some for the better. Its real cool to see what it looked like when I was a little kid
Fun video... Born (1969) and raised in Rochester and while you were shooting this video, I was in my second year of college at SUNY Brockport (other side of town)! I've since moved away to Los Angeles (1992) and I have to say, I don't miss very much about Rochester... ;-)
Thanks for posting this fantastic video! I spent the first 22 years of my life living in Rochester, and graduated from RIT in 2008. Rochester is quite an enigmatic city, you either get it or you don't. I currently live in New York City, in an area which is densely populated by my friends from RIT. All of us miss Rochester dearly and reminisce about our days at school and in the city.
The wife and I spent nearly forty years in Perinton, NY; which is just outside of the city. Schools were great for our kids. I worked in the city, but there is no way that I would have raised my kids there. Today, our next to oldest son lives in Ontario County. When we moved to Monroe County in the early 1970's, the city of Rochester was Conservative. Not today, you guy have a peach(Tongue In Cheek) of a Mayor. My wife and I now live in the south, and are happily retired. Rochester is too dangerous for us to even think of visiting. Nonetheless, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I used to live at 49 Troup Street on the second floor! Thank you for posting this. I moved to Rochester in July 2014, and I've always wondered what this city was like in the eighties when I was born.
1989 was a great year! In many ways it was the last year of my childhood. Rochester looked so much more prosperous back then. Nowadays it's a skeleton of it's former self. I wonder what the 10 year old version of myself was doing right then... Heh, they still used vinyls at the radio stations. I love it!
I like your video. Your tone at some points expresses a lot of disbelief and surprise at the changes, some not for the better, like the disappearance of the drug store/soda shop or a highway being built right next to the apartments you used to live in. I bet if you visited it again today you would be yet again shocked at the rust belt decay. RIT however has some really nice facilities nowadays and looks much different from how it did in 1989, though the core buildings are still there.
Thanks for the update. Sorry to hear NRH is gone but it was old when I lived there. I'm sure those old LPs were really scratched up - especially the first few seconds where we cued them up over & over.
Cory Goodfriend It looked like he was standing on Cobbs Hill from what I viewed. I remember going sledding down this hill. This is in Brighton where he's at right now
You're welcome! Yup...the Time Capsule ar RIT has a reel-to-reel tape of my radio show in there. Good luck to the people of the future who try and play it!
I was just listening a little closer to your trip to the hotel where your parents stayed and your apartment... I think my parents lived on Troupe Street in the late 60's before they purchased their first house on Adams Street in Corn Hill. I'm sending this to my dad right now!
isnt it amazing how time elapses, and things change. 15 years ago I was 17 and I remember it perfectly, well I remember a lot of things very well, and I remember experiencing life and being me in 1994, Now Im 32, But I know time is going to go on just like it has and in 15 more of theses quick passing years Ill already be 47,,,nearly 50! It just amazes me time..especially when Im in a waiting room and time goes so slowly.
Things in The "Flower" City have REALLY changed over the last 50 years. The difference between the late '60s and '80s is big, but from '89 until now!?!? Thanks for the memories!
Spent many hours hanging out at WITR while friends were on the air. I must have walked a hundred times over the time capsule and never noticed it! Thanks for posting this.
wow born raised (40yrs) in Rochacha ...round top of building was a revolving restaurant! we were very HIGH walking around downtown going to clubs...when 1st saw the what looked like a spaceship on top of building, going slowing in circles w/ lights all around, scared the shit out of me! moved from there to Hawaii 23 yrs ago...much better!!!
Thanks. I'm not really surprised. RIT always looked to the furure - not the past. I haven't shot any film in over 5 years. But I did spend many an hour in those darkrooms & its sad to see them go.
Came across your video...how wild to see RIT as it was again! I'm a Rochester native. I graduated in 1985 with a BFA and was the first to be married in the Interfaith Chapel. RIT has grown and changed drastically since 1989. There has been so much expansion over the years that the campus WE knew is swallowed up in many new additions!! The entrance has been modernized, which looks much better.
This was taken about 3 months after I was born. After seeing this, and hearing my grandmother's stories, downtown has changed ALOT. I am too young to remember Midtown Plaza in it's prime but I did go there once during the holidays when I was 6. My grandma was always telling me about how downtown used to be before it's current condition. So Rochester isn't perfect but there are lots of things unique about it that no other city has.
Lol the Genesee River looks less dirty, but I think Downtown looks better now. I've stayed at that hotel. It's the Rochester Riverside Hotel now, not a Holiday Inn and it's rather dated, but undergoing renovations. I'd have been 3 when this was filmed lol.
Interesting video. I visited Rochester in 1985 as part of a college class trip. We visited the kodak plant and the Eastman house. I dont' remember the city being so large. Maybe we just didn' get ot the downtown area. Very well done.
I was born and raised in Rochester at 262 Orange Street in front of the old 17 school, 1955 to some time around 1965 when they bought my parents house to build a new 17 school. Orange Street was pretty much all Italians back then. John Turner is my internet name. If you know who I am, say Hi :) I know it won't be Emily, she was an old lady when I was 8. I remember Joe and Mike 3 door's down from 262 and the Stalls next door.
RIT is a wonderful, exciting school - just as it was when I attended there. Explore several of the clubs and activities the school offers. It is a great way to make friends and perhaps do good in the community. Balance your schooling - your activities - and your free time and you will gain much from the experience.
They've been shuttering parts of the 490/inner loop recently, so (8:00) might not be there much longer. Which was a surprise to me. Rochester has definitely undergone quite a makeover during the last decade. Someone could post a tour of the city from 2007 (upload date of this video), and so much would be different versus today.
I grew up in Rochester and will say the suburbs are nice and affordable if your able to obtain a decent paying job. I wouldn't waste much time in the city for obvious reasons though. It was and always has been an area most people avoid unless you want to risk getting shot.
I remembered. I’ve been staying with a friend for a week in nearby Fairport before Labor Day 1981. I haven’t been to many parts in Rochester. I do have some pictures. I remembered downtown mall and Sibley’s dept store. Including RIT and National Institute of Technology for the Deaf. In 1989, I was in San Antonio and old friend says that San Antonio is better than Rochester. Now, he’s living near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
This is fantastic. I was a young boy in 1989 and I have such a nostalgia for the time period. I’ve also lived here in Rochester for my entire life. I’ve really grown to appreciate it, especially in the last 15 years. It’s a good place to live for the most part. We have a lot of history here. I have a couple of questions. Have you returned since this was filmed? Also, what type of camera were you using? Once again, great job! I’m happy I came across this.
I'm from Toronto. There used to be a ferry service that linked Toronto and Rochester via Lake Ontario. I'd be happy to make my way down to Rochester anytime there is a golf tournament at Oak Hill. The 2013 PGA Championship is at Oak Hill. Hope to be in Rochester then!
yeah, if theres still any offices left in it. Unfortunately, downtown Rochester is pretty much empty these days. I don't know when the restaurant closed exactly, but I wasn't open when I moved there around 2000.
@moestavernprankcall yeah, it's a mess. My mom still lives there and I get thru once a month. They've done a lot since then, but mostly around the inner loop (or what's left of it). Not a fan of what they have planned, like narrowing down East ave and putting in a bike lane. That's the emergency route for when 490 gets closed or restricted because of an accident. They want to put a bike lane in (like maybe 4-5 months is bike riding season). They filled in the south and east end of the inner loop. (Making it difficult for trucks to get to the brewery from 490 on the east side of town. It now ends at Main st by university.). They knocked down midtown plaza. From what I hear, they knocked down the Mortimer st parking garage and put in a bus station that serves RTS, Greyhound, and Trailways. I go downtown now and it's totally different than when I moved away in 2006. I grew up in Rochester (moved there in 72). And i get lost in downtown, anymore. There are new streets, missing streets, a traffic circle...i get lost anymore. But yeah, they still have a poverty problem along with the associated crime. I remember back in the early 90's, i felt rather safe in downtown. Now, not so much. Things have changed quite a bit.
I do not know much about Northern Cities in the US. I've been to Rochester many times and you have the best buffalo wings I've ever tasted. I guess the place is The Dinosaure. On Alexander Street there's a place called the Old Toe or something an Irish pub. Excellent draft beer.
At 4:15 of this production he shows a empty parking lot and says when he was in college it is to be a neighborhood drug store and soda fountain. He then states it's all gone now. Sadly he was only half right. The soda fountain and the store are indeed gone but the drugs remain which is one of the main reasons this city as gone downhill.
I was born in Rochester in 1989 . It’s crazy to see how much different everything was back then now that it’s 2021
Me to lol sept 1989
Well, im originally from CT. I moved to rochester in 1989. I raised 4 kids with my wife here. The school systems in the suburbs are much better than Florida!It was the best move of my life. Ive lived here for 27 years now!Rochester is coming back;bigtime!!!...
How about now?
Stop The CAP 🧢
Rochester (Henrietta) native, born 1967. I love watching all video's of Rochester, the older the better.
Amazing footage, could watch old Roch footage all day.
Back then you could still have a job at Kodak.
The joke is, Kodak just announced they're laying off half their workforce. Now there's only 3 people left!
Indeed
"where would we be without Eastman Kodak?"...well, now in 2021 we can answer that question.
Cancer free
You brought back some old memories to this RIT Grad, class of '71. I was in the last class to attend both old and new campuses. The old dorm, the former Hotel Rochester is no longer standing, I have some hilarious memories about living on the 7th floor. I have a UA-cam of the demolition. Who knows, we may have met there all those (50?) years ago on campus. With my age and health, I doubt that I will get back for a visit. OH, and I drank enough Genesee Cream Ale to float an aircraft carrier as a student there.
Wow I moved here from NYC. 1989.. cool video..things has definitely changed, downtown etc.. The weather, tho. Keeps me confused and sick.(it can be winter spring summer fall all in one day at times.. Loll..But it's a Beautiful Town. ..Stay safe and Healthy during the coronavirus..💒
I graduated from RIT in 1986 so this is pretty much how I remember the city although we didn't go downtown very often. The school of photography is where I spent most of my time and there it was in your video. When out of campus I lived at Rustic Village and then I rented a nice place at twelve corners. Being foreign it all looked wonderful to me and I don't recall worrying much about dangerous areas. Of course I was introduced to chicken wings and our favourite place was Red Rooster. There was a lot to do on campus on our free time, three movie theaters, swimming pool, ice ring plus parties every weekend. The one place I miss is Little Theater where I have watched so many movies. I loved coming in from Rochester's brutal cold to the warmth in the scent of buttered pop corn! It is a pity that I missed the opportunity to visit again in 2020. I was going to fly to Boston and drive to Cleveland so a stop to my old school and town was on the plans. Obviously due to the epidemic I had to cancel unfortunately.
Wow, great video. I'm a Rochester native and the building (with the circle top) used to be called The Changing Scenes restaurant back then. My mom was a Jazz pianist who played there right around 1988-89. I think it's just an office building now.
“Changing scenes” because I believe it used to rotate slowly. I was about 8yo around the time, but I’m pretty sure that’s the story of that restaurant...
Yup still there and looks like crap
@@timevans7141 yes!!! My dad kept telling me it was put out of comission
Always enjoy videos like this. I went to middle school in Corn Hill (1st ward) at the time you visited and worked in the building on Main street. that was half finished at the time of this video. That building became the Hyatt Regency.
Thanks so much for this trip to my hometown! I was about 18 when you recorded this. I never thought I'd leave that town, and I'm glad I did, but I miss it!
You can still get a garbage plate ar Nick Tahoes (but I don't think it's the same like when Nick had it, so I go to Mark's on Monroe Avenue and get a sloppy plate)
@@rodneyperry6942 dang I do like myself a good garbage plate
@@rodneyperry6942 Sadly, I hear Nick's is hitting some hard times, covid really hurt business.
@@peterbelanger4094no it’s not Covid… they said something about allowing customers to carry guns inside. Now people are afraid to go in
Thanks for posting this. Im 22 and Ive lived in Rochester all my life. Needless to say, it looks completely different....some for the worst....but definitely some for the better. Its real cool to see what it looked like when I was a little kid
Fun video... Born (1969) and raised in Rochester and while you were shooting this video, I was in my second year of college at SUNY Brockport (other side of town)! I've since moved away to Los Angeles (1992) and I have to say, I don't miss very much about Rochester... ;-)
Thanks for posting this fantastic video! I spent the first 22 years of my life living in Rochester, and graduated from RIT in 2008. Rochester is quite an enigmatic city, you either get it or you don't. I currently live in New York City, in an area which is densely populated by my friends from RIT. All of us miss Rochester dearly and reminisce about our days at school and in the city.
Great video, takes me back. I lived in Rochester in the late 70s and early 80s.
What school did you go to? I went to East
The wife and I spent nearly forty years in Perinton, NY; which is just outside of the city. Schools were great for our kids. I worked in the city, but there is no way that I would have raised my kids there. Today, our next to oldest son lives in Ontario County. When we moved to Monroe County in the early 1970's, the city of Rochester was Conservative. Not today, you guy have a peach(Tongue In Cheek) of a Mayor. My wife and I now live in the south, and are happily retired. Rochester is too dangerous for us to even think of visiting. Nonetheless, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
A conservative Rochester. That just sounds so foreign to me, lol. Definitely would have to be a LONG time ago to imagine the city that way.
*I remember RIT radio. The night DJ would fall asleep for an hour or so. Even now, I can still hear the needle hitting the end of record scratch. lol*
I used to live at 49 Troup Street on the second floor! Thank you for posting this. I moved to Rochester in July 2014, and I've always wondered what this city was like in the eighties when I was born.
This was fun to see! Only had lived there a year at the time of your video
1989 was a great year! In many ways it was the last year of my childhood. Rochester looked so much more prosperous back then. Nowadays it's a skeleton of it's former self. I wonder what the 10 year old version of myself was doing right then...
Heh, they still used vinyls at the radio stations. I love it!
Yup the light at the Kodak building is still lit
Yupper, now frontier field is near by.
It's a beautiful place to watch a ballgame, on a sunny summer day!
My undercarriage - and my cars - nearly rotted out too with all the salt Rochester used to put on the streets in the Winter.
I like your video. Your tone at some points expresses a lot of disbelief and surprise at the changes, some not for the better, like the disappearance of the drug store/soda shop or a highway being built right next to the apartments you used to live in. I bet if you visited it again today you would be yet again shocked at the rust belt decay. RIT however has some really nice facilities nowadays and looks much different from how it did in 1989, though the core buildings are still there.
Thanx from here and appreciate taking time to put together. One note Looks as tho you were looking at Pinnacle Hill while shooting from Cobbs Hill
Wonderful looking back in time. Rochester born and raised.
You didn't stop at the Red Creek Inn? Are you sure you went to RIT?
5:33 that overpass leads into a mall, if I remember correctly. I was in Rochester at this exact time. I lived roughly 5-10 minutes from down town.
Maybe over 30 years old but still looks like the same.
Thanks for the update. Sorry to hear NRH is gone but it was old when I lived there. I'm sure those old LPs were really scratched up - especially the first few seconds where we cued them up over & over.
What building is behind the Rochester Riverside Convention Center before the Chase Bank Tower at 5:38?
great video, but that in not Cobbs hill. That is Pinnacle Hill. The ones with all the TV Antennas on it.
Cory Goodfriend It looked like he was standing on Cobbs Hill from what I viewed. I remember going sledding down this hill. This is in Brighton where he's at right now
I got the hell out in 2005. I just could not handle the "lean into the wind slippery sidewalk shuffle" anymore.....
Huh?
You were a pussy then and a pussy now.
Thanks for uploading this. Cool to see all of the records in WITR.
It don’t look like that anymore. ☹️😐 I live here
The hill with the antennas on it is Pinnacle Hill. I believe the reservoir from which you were filming it was Cobb's Hill.
Wow I was just 2 days old when this video was recorded. Time fly real quick im 31 now
I was born in June 1990. I feel old now watching all the youngins now. And I bet I make you feel really old lol. Time goes by so quickly!
You're welcome! Yup...the Time Capsule ar RIT has a reel-to-reel tape of my radio show in there. Good luck to the people of the future who try and play it!
I was just listening a little closer to your trip to the hotel where your parents stayed and your apartment... I think my parents lived on Troupe Street in the late 60's before they purchased their first house on Adams Street in Corn Hill. I'm sending this to my dad right now!
I'm a native Rochesterian (Irondequoit), now living in Flagstaff, Arizona for the last. 40 years. You've still got your Rochestah accent. Me too.
isnt it amazing how time elapses, and things change. 15 years ago I was 17 and I remember it perfectly, well I remember a lot of things very well, and I remember experiencing life and being me in 1994, Now Im 32, But I know time is going to go on just like it has and in 15 more of theses quick passing years Ill already be 47,,,nearly 50! It just amazes me time..especially when Im in a waiting room and time goes so slowly.
That was Great !! Really neat to see how the city was back in time !
Shoot! I’m from Rochester and I was only eight months old when this video was filmed. This city sure changed a great deal over the years.
Things in The "Flower" City have REALLY changed over the last 50 years. The difference between the late '60s and '80s is big, but from '89 until now!?!?
Thanks for the memories!
Spent many hours hanging out at WITR while friends were on the air. I must have walked a hundred times over the time capsule and never noticed it! Thanks for posting this.
thanks for the video,
I suppose spring and summer must be nice there-
FWIW, there is only 1 transmitter on Cobbs Hill, and that is the county vehicle dispatch radio. The commercial transmitters are all on Pinnacle Hill.
Cobbs hill is one of my favorite places to bike to and I like to walk around the reservoir and Washington Grove.
Nice video, my dad went to RIT in the early 60's I got to show him this video, cool.
wow born raised (40yrs) in Rochacha ...round top of building was a revolving restaurant! we were very HIGH walking around downtown going to clubs...when 1st saw the what looked like a spaceship on top of building, going slowing in circles w/ lights all around, scared the shit out of me! moved from there to Hawaii 23 yrs ago...much better!!!
Thanks. I'm not really surprised. RIT always looked to the furure - not the past. I haven't shot any film in over 5 years. But I did spend many an hour in those darkrooms & its sad to see them go.
Came across your video...how wild to see RIT as it was again! I'm a Rochester native. I graduated in 1985 with a BFA and was the first to be married in the Interfaith Chapel.
RIT has grown and changed drastically since 1989. There has been so much expansion over the years that the campus WE knew is swallowed up in many new additions!!
The entrance has been modernized, which looks much better.
Born in 86 this is so cool to watch I love it
this my hometown i will forever love this place
Thanks for the tour, fond memories: G. Elliott, photo '69
I moved to SC in 2013, but it will always be home !
Well that was a neat little video, I was on my late 20's when you made it, gheesh, 60 now!
Where I was born - that’s my town !
Beautiful tribute and a great time capsule of my childhood home.
Wasn't the hill with the antennas Pinnacle Hill?
so cool! Wish you'd walked a bit farther out S Plymouth.
This was taken about 3 months after I was born. After seeing this, and hearing my grandmother's stories, downtown has changed ALOT. I am too young to remember Midtown Plaza in it's prime but I did go there once during the holidays when I was 6. My grandma was always telling me about how downtown used to be before it's current condition. So Rochester isn't perfect but there are lots of things unique about it that no other city has.
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Lol the Genesee River looks less dirty, but I think Downtown looks better now. I've stayed at that hotel. It's the Rochester Riverside Hotel now, not a Holiday Inn and it's rather dated, but undergoing renovations. I'd have been 3 when this was filmed lol.
Yes, downtown looks better right now, but that damn crime rate in this city is a mess...im moving in a few months
i live here !
Same
Thanks for uploading! I'm at UofR now - some things have changed, others haven't.
Thank YOU for Sharing,!!!
Interesting video. I visited Rochester in 1985 as part of a college class trip. We visited the kodak plant and the Eastman house.
I dont' remember the city being so large. Maybe we just didn' get ot the downtown area. Very well done.
Look at those old ass cars too. Fascinating.
I never left. Love it here
The weather is soo crazy here
I was born and raised in Rochester at 262 Orange Street in front of the old 17 school, 1955 to some time around 1965 when they bought my parents house to build a new 17 school. Orange Street was pretty much all Italians back then. John Turner is my internet name. If you know who I am, say Hi :) I know it won't be Emily, she was an old lady when I was 8. I remember Joe and Mike 3 door's down from 262 and the Stalls next door.
RIT is a wonderful, exciting school - just as it was when I attended there. Explore several of the clubs and activities the school offers. It is a great way to make friends and perhaps do good in the community. Balance your schooling - your activities - and your free time and you will gain much from the experience.
I was 10 years old then. The cars look soooooo old!
They've been shuttering parts of the 490/inner loop recently, so (8:00) might not be there much longer. Which was a surprise to me. Rochester has definitely undergone quite a makeover during the last decade. Someone could post a tour of the city from 2007 (upload date of this video), and so much would be different versus today.
I grew up in Rochester and will say the suburbs are nice and affordable if your able to obtain a decent paying job. I wouldn't waste much time in the city for obvious reasons though. It was and always has been an area most people avoid unless you want to risk getting shot.
I remembered. I’ve been staying with a friend for a week in nearby Fairport before Labor Day 1981. I haven’t been to many parts in Rochester. I do have some pictures. I remembered downtown mall and Sibley’s dept store. Including RIT and National Institute of Technology for the Deaf. In 1989, I was in San Antonio and old friend says that San Antonio is better than Rochester. Now, he’s living near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
This is a really cool video. I should do a video like this some day for my hometown, Greene, NY.
They built up R.I.T. A LOT since you visited in 1989.You wouldn't even recognize it. It is huge!
Fun to see the old footage.
This was on my birthday I turned 6 you were near my street...wow
Hi. I lived in NRH my Freshman year. I was also near Troup St and the Student Union Bldg / WITR campus radio. Its changed a lot since I was there.
"What would downtown Rochester be without Eastman Kodak"
Went to college at RIT and only finished up a year ago or so. Seems the placed hasn't changed, except for the addition of some buildings.
I may recreate this in 2021. It has changed quite a bit since then too!!!
This is fantastic. I was a young boy in 1989 and I have such a nostalgia for the time period. I’ve also lived here in Rochester for my entire life. I’ve really grown to appreciate it, especially in the last 15 years. It’s a good place to live for the most part. We have a lot of history here. I have a couple of questions. Have you returned since this was filmed? Also, what type of camera were you using? Once again, great job! I’m happy I came across this.
I enjoyed watching this. 🧡
I'm from Toronto. There used to be a ferry service that linked Toronto and Rochester via Lake Ontario. I'd be happy to make my way down to Rochester anytime there is a golf tournament at Oak Hill. The 2013 PGA Championship is at Oak Hill. Hope to be in Rochester then!
It died because no one promoted it! I'm looking out my window at the abandoned Ferry building as I type this!
...it's a shame!
lol. I lived at that house on Crosman too! Same side. But in 2003.
lifelong Rochester product..that was awesome to see
490 looks exactly the same 😂
Lmfao!! I was saying the same damn thing. I just drove on that road yesterday...it still needs maintenance. Lol
Was this video recommended to y’all by UA-cam too? 😂😂 such an old video idk how I got here
@@winsomework2533 yes it was. How random lol. Damn UA-cam must be reading my location lol
yeah, if theres still any offices left in it. Unfortunately, downtown Rochester is pretty much empty these days. I don't know when the restaurant closed exactly, but I wasn't open when I moved there around 2000.
Not as bad now...
looks like even back then it was starting to decline. there is a high amount of poverty now.
Nope, we good
@@tommcneill6292 Nope, you still have high poverty rates and terrible school districts.
@moestavernprankcall yeah, it's a mess. My mom still lives there and I get thru once a month. They've done a lot since then, but mostly around the inner loop (or what's left of it). Not a fan of what they have planned, like narrowing down East ave and putting in a bike lane. That's the emergency route for when 490 gets closed or restricted because of an accident. They want to put a bike lane in (like maybe 4-5 months is bike riding season). They filled in the south and east end of the inner loop. (Making it difficult for trucks to get to the brewery from 490 on the east side of town. It now ends at Main st by university.). They knocked down midtown plaza. From what I hear, they knocked down the Mortimer st parking garage and put in a bus station that serves RTS, Greyhound, and Trailways. I go downtown now and it's totally different than when I moved away in 2006. I grew up in Rochester (moved there in 72). And i get lost in downtown, anymore. There are new streets, missing streets, a traffic circle...i get lost anymore. But yeah, they still have a poverty problem along with the associated crime. I remember back in the early 90's, i felt rather safe in downtown. Now, not so much. Things have changed quite a bit.
man, has this city changed dramatically...
I do not know much about Northern Cities in the US. I've been to Rochester many times and you have the best buffalo wings I've ever tasted. I guess the place is The Dinosaure. On Alexander Street there's a place called the Old Toe or something an Irish pub. Excellent draft beer.
At 4:15 of this production he shows a empty parking lot and says when he was in college it is to be a neighborhood drug store and soda fountain. He then states it's all gone now. Sadly he was only half right. The soda fountain and the store are indeed gone but the drugs remain which is one of the main reasons this city as gone downhill.
what's Eastman Kodak doing these days?
Not much. They knocked down Kodak park and West Ridge is so open now. A lot of the businesses that were there aren't there anymore, either
Very cool look in time for those of us who were not born yet :)
make another video of all theses places in 2009 upload it to youtube and lets see how things have changed since 89!
Yes...to all of the above! RIT was previously located down the street from Kodak until about 1968.
Born there. Left after I got out of the military. Best thing I ever did.