I lived in Northpark 1978-1986.....Great central location.....5 minutes from Balboa Park....10 from Old Town......8 minutes to Downtown and only 20 to La Jolla !!
We settled in North Park back in 1985, after I enlisted in the Navy. Had a chance to enjoy our neighborhood for four years before being transferred. Now me and my wife have nothing but fond memories, and visit from LA as much as we can. But nothing can replace our time, and our townhouse in fabulous North Park :)
Joe Schloss!!! Wow! I played little league for him in the early 90's. He owned lthe sporting good store on university and now has his name all over Morley Field as deserved. Joe, thank you for all of your time, attention and memories, you were a positive influence to a lot of kids
I agree with Darlene. The planning association and the city have completely destroyed North Park with their " maximum density " and its so heart breaking! I grew up there, spent nearly 50 years there, went to McKinley elementary, built forts in all the canyons, went to the zoo when kids were free, was in the first couple years of girls little league in Morley field ( when they finally let us have girls teams) met my now ex husband in that park. Married him 5 months later in Balboa park at the wishing well ( married nearly 20 years)we raised our daughter in north park, we both grew up there, we went to the Christmas tree by the organ pavilion every Christmas eve and opened 1 present each. North Park Hardware had everything needed to do anything that needed done. If you wanted the best in Chinese food ever it was Peking Cafe on university oh man everything they made was the best and if you went there you were family forever! We rode our bikes everywhere and played football in the middle of the street, played hide and seek after dark in the summer went to thriftys and got a scoop of ice cream ( a big scoop) for 5 cents, went to chip's market on boundry st, and the little market on Gregory and cooper and the market on arizona and Dwight st crisis market is the only one left of the markets. We got gas at the station on juniper and 33rd st. When I was a teenager the parties in the back parking lot were legendary! We played a game nobody had ever heard of called Frisbee golf at Morley field, met a dude named snapper who took over a little broom closet in the public bathroom who pretty much made up the game and provided everything we needed to play. He was so awesome the city didn't even boot him out when they finally heard about him. A huge shout out to the N.P.B.T. Love you guys! The people that decided they had to live there cause it was so awesome moved in and changed it. Started calling cops on people that had been there for 3 and 4 generations cause they didn't like something they saw at their neighbors house, THAT WAS NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS but instead of talking to their neighbor and getting to know how to actually be a neighbor and not busy bodies started making everything some big thing they had no clue of and systematically forced the og's out. Everything that north park was is gone now can't even find a dive bar anymore. So so sad, it really was the best place to grow up. I MISS YOU RAY JOHN ERIC JEANNE AND ANNIE!!
North Park is very, VERY important to me. My family moved to San Diego in late '81 from Detroit, first living in Pacific Beach with family for a bit until we found a place in Point Loma. We eventually settled in City Heights, and I went to Wilson Jr. High and Hoover High, and during that time, I developed my love of long walks exploring my new surroundings. North Park became one of my favorite places and it would be where I would have my first job that wasn't associated with a paper route or door-to-door paper sales. I remember the roller rink near 30th and places like that, but it was more about the feel of the neighborhood. Little did I know that I would move there as an adult and have a lot of very adult times at the gay bars in the area--there were 6 or 7. I moved away from SD in the mid 00's to SF before relocating back to Long Beach, and since then, I've had many occasions to spend a weekend or two there, and though it's been gentrified and a lot of the charm gone away, but I still feel a lot of the charm and remember the early days fondly.
There will never be a sporting goods store like A&B. The screen shot of Joe really brings back memories for me, 4:44 Joe was a great person, war hero, coach of Little League for over 50yrs. Joe gifted me a history of San Diego high School in 1998. Joe asked me what H.S. did I play for, told him S.D.H.S. he said that if my name were etched in the book, that he would give it to me, a 50.00 dollar value at that time. We searched for my name found it many times, he shook my hand and gave it to me. What a great human being. I bought my sporting equipment from him and his brother when I was playing sports as a kid, than bought at the same store for my son when he played for Coronado high school. Rest in peace Joe will always love you, and remember what a great person you were to everyone who was lucky enough to have met you, and to have walked in your store. R . I. P. Joe.
James Dick === By ''thriving again'' you mean ubiquitous homelessness, crime, open drug use, prostitution and graffiti, then your idea of ''thriving'' is a bit skewed.
@@horrorfanforlife8664 === Uuhhh. Try the 60's early 70's. Then come talk to me. It's not saying much when your argument is less or a little less homelessness, crime, open drug use, prostitution and graffiti, is tolerable compared to the 80's and 90's. It just doesn't cut it. I don't live in that area anymore. But the few times I've had to drive through there recently, it's a crap hole compared to when I lived in that area in the 60's early 70's. Zero homelessness, almost Zero crime, Zero open drug use, Zero prostitution and Zero graffiti.
When I lived there, I got to see the last vestiges of the "old neighborhood." When it gentrified, it lost much of the charm, but time goes on whether or not I like it, but I still remember it fondly.
I lived in north park for 30 years, on Idaho and Polk, it was beautiful until last year, then Moved to east county, because it became very hard to find parking
@@armanidivanchi131 True. The San Diego Architecture Institute of America gave an onion award for yuckyness to the specific condominium that replaced my common 1915 woodside. They have windows open to a closed off attic. You can see in from the street but not out from inside. The bad design award was earned. The condo I moved to rocked.
I have been living here since 1985 and today I wish all these new buildings would slow down. In the last 5 years its overcrowded, parking is horrible,homelessness is on the rise on every corner,and every 2 days a high-rise is being created. I miss the ma and pa shops vs the trends and the parade was something beautiful that families came together. I'm grateful where I live its been 8 same neighbors for last 15 yrs and we get together to remember. One of them is 92 and we love hearing her stories..
Lived in North Park on Louisiana street and El Cajon Blvd and have nothing but amazing memories. Video brought back many good memories as I remember all those businesses. Wish they had shown the Skating rink just down from 30th and university
When I first moved to San Diego in 2009 I rented an apartment from a crazy landlady on Utah Street near the water tower. It was low-class and trashy and there were lots of vice - hookers, meth dealers - on El Cajon Blvd. It wasn't safe to walk to the Wendy's at night. It was if they were filming scenes to the movie "Precious" next door to the complex I was living in. Awful memories. I guess they've cleaned it up a bit since then. The only time I spend any time in NP now is to go to Rudford's. I'm surprised that restaurant wasn't profiled or even mentioned in this piece.
The change from single family homes continues. Across the street from our single family home a house was turned into 5 units with 4 units used as short term rentals. Sad.
I lived in early 90's through 2007 and had crime areas of drugs and prostitutes and murder etc and had seniors living there til some old businesses left and remolded now bunch of young kids now .
Destroyed. My grandparents house was the first house built in what is north park. In 1907.. Had it till 2006. Now its an F ING . complex. Both houses gone So what happened to save the single family homes.... Everywhere is mega apartments..
Sad to see the families leave now they're all south of University. Lots of apartments being built now and more breweries coming in. Oh also watch out for the homeless people screaming at you!
Sad to see today how over-built and congested these communities have become with the big push for ADU housing, on every square foot of land possible....all in the name of housing shortage. Some people call this progress. I don't think so. I've watched with sadness how overpopulated North Park and many other areas have become to the point to where lots of those single-family homes are occupied by multiple adult roommates which has created what I call "car-clutter" beyond belief. When you drive through there now, it's bumper-to-bumper curbside parking because there are too many people living there. Some think this is normal, but when you look at old videos like this and a decade or two earlier, there was no car clutter and very few apartment buildings, because San Diego had a more aggressive growth control plan back then. We lived in the 3500 block of 31st St between Myrtle and Dwright in the early 1960s and attended McKinley Elementary at Felton & Redwood. It was a super charming, unmolested neighborhood back then. Now, it totally sucks with the overcrowded conditions; not to mention the overkill of bistros, pubs, bars, coffee houses and eateries along the busy corridors like 30th St. Same situation down in South Park.
@@horrorfanforlife8664 === The 90's? Give me a break. North Park was a crap hole in the 90's compared to the 60's. Crime was nonexistent in the 60's early 70's. No drugs. No prostitution. No graffiti. Things began to turn around in the mid 70's in that area. And it's degenerated ever since. Well before your time.
Troll Slayer === ''... walk there alone at night.'' I don't live in that area anymore. But those times I've had to go through there during the day my head's on a swivel. The homeless are EVERYWHERE. The last two times I was in that area there were dozens of S.D.P.D. cop cars swarming the around and ASTREA was in support. In the 60's it was a great place to grow up. As young kids in the 60's we'd walk or ride our bike all over. Heck. In the 60's we very rarely locked our doors to the house. How things have changed. Young people have no clue what it was like back then in America compared to now or the 90's.
@@justthinken1 what I am saying is it is far safer now then the 90s. It's turned for the better now. I agree everywhere begining in the 70s turned to crap, especially the 80s when Regan was in office. He closed down mental institutions and that's when everything went to crap.
@@justthinken1 but the 60s and 50s had other horrible things if you were black. White people will never understand that those were not the good old days at all.
Now they have taken parking away so I won’t shop there. Tired of all the midwest moving here to suck up our water. San Diego has lost its “finest” title
A Street Car developed neighborhood, before cars were a thing. Street Cars taken away. General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy, "Taken for A Ride". Now we deal with the Pollution, Congestion, Parking, Costs, lack of walking. There is a parking structure on University and 30th. "Rails of the Silver Gate: The Spreckels San Diego Empire" By Richard V. Dodge. "The High Cost of Free Parking Book" by Donald Shoup. "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)" by Tom Vanderbilt
I lived in Northpark 1978-1986.....Great central location.....5 minutes from Balboa Park....10 from Old Town......8 minutes to Downtown and only 20 to La Jolla !!
Still no parking . . .
How the heck do we find all these lands for parkings lol Move away from the city if you just want to park and ride.
We settled in North Park back in 1985, after I enlisted in the Navy. Had a chance to enjoy our neighborhood for four years before being transferred. Now me and my wife have nothing but fond memories, and visit from LA as much as we can. But nothing can replace our time, and our townhouse in fabulous North Park :)
Im still looking for parking!😄
No Park thanks to our Gov. and Mayor, 2022
A lot of us wish we were back in 1986.
The transplants that have moved to North Park in the past 10 years are some of the rudest, entitled, inconsiderate people I've ever met.
Joe Schloss!!! Wow! I played little league for him in the early 90's. He owned lthe sporting good store on university and now has his name all over Morley Field as deserved.
Joe, thank you for all of your time, attention and memories, you were a positive influence to a lot of kids
That’s awesome he had such a positive impact on your life!
I agree with Darlene. The planning association and the city have completely destroyed North Park with their " maximum density " and its so heart breaking! I grew up there, spent nearly 50 years there, went to McKinley elementary, built forts in all the canyons, went to the zoo when kids were free, was in the first couple years of girls little league in Morley field ( when they finally let us have girls teams) met my now ex husband in that park. Married him 5 months later in Balboa park at the wishing well ( married nearly 20 years)we raised our daughter in north park, we both grew up there, we went to the Christmas tree by the organ pavilion every Christmas eve and opened 1 present each. North Park Hardware had everything needed to do anything that needed done. If you wanted the best in Chinese food ever it was Peking Cafe on university oh man everything they made was the best and if you went there you were family forever! We rode our bikes everywhere and played football in the middle of the street, played hide and seek after dark in the summer went to thriftys and got a scoop of ice cream ( a big scoop) for 5 cents, went to chip's market on boundry st, and the little market on Gregory and cooper and the market on arizona and Dwight st crisis market is the only one left of the markets. We got gas at the station on juniper and 33rd st. When I was a teenager the parties in the back parking lot were legendary! We played a game nobody had ever heard of called Frisbee golf at Morley field, met a dude named snapper who took over a little broom closet in the public bathroom who pretty much made up the game and provided everything we needed to play. He was so awesome the city didn't even boot him out when they finally heard about him. A huge shout out to the N.P.B.T. Love you guys! The people that decided they had to live there cause it was so awesome moved in and changed it. Started calling cops on people that had been there for 3 and 4 generations cause they didn't like something they saw at their neighbors house, THAT WAS NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS but instead of talking to their neighbor and getting to know how to actually be a neighbor and not busy bodies started making everything some big thing they had no clue of and systematically forced the og's out. Everything that north park was is gone now can't even find a dive bar anymore. So so sad, it really was the best place to grow up. I MISS YOU RAY JOHN ERIC JEANNE AND ANNIE!!
was snapper a cholo. new snapper from NPX3SDLS.loved growing up there on iowa st back when hollywood video was still around
North Park is very, VERY important to me. My family moved to San Diego in late '81 from Detroit, first living in Pacific Beach with family for a bit until we found a place in Point Loma. We eventually settled in City Heights, and I went to Wilson Jr. High and Hoover High, and during that time, I developed my love of long walks exploring my new surroundings. North Park became one of my favorite places and it would be where I would have my first job that wasn't associated with a paper route or door-to-door paper sales. I remember the roller rink near 30th and places like that, but it was more about the feel of the neighborhood. Little did I know that I would move there as an adult and have a lot of very adult times at the gay bars in the area--there were 6 or 7. I moved away from SD in the mid 00's to SF before relocating back to Long Beach, and since then, I've had many occasions to spend a weekend or two there, and though it's been gentrified and a lot of the charm gone away, but I still feel a lot of the charm and remember the early days fondly.
Palisade Gardens Skating Rink, 2838 University Ave. I used to take the 7B Bus all the way down University to the rink. Good times!
Unfortunately San Diego got too expensive and had to move. Now I'm moving again probably to Mexico a damn shame.
North Park is depressing AF
@patr70 true...always has been.
There will never be a sporting goods store like A&B. The screen shot of Joe really brings back memories for me, 4:44 Joe was a great person, war hero, coach of Little League for over 50yrs. Joe gifted me a history of San Diego high School in 1998. Joe asked me what H.S. did I play for, told him S.D.H.S. he said that if my name were etched in the book, that he would give it to me, a 50.00 dollar value at that time. We searched for my name found it many times, he shook my hand and gave it to me. What a great human being. I bought my sporting equipment from him and his brother when I was playing sports as a kid, than bought at the same store for my son when he played for Coronado high school. Rest in peace Joe will always love you, and remember what a great person you were to everyone who was lucky enough to have met you, and to have walked in your store. R . I. P. Joe.
Sad how north park has turned, it’s a nightmare to drive through, anyone who lives there I refuse to visit because the parking is horrible
I love these videos
And now North Park and the rest of Uptown is thriving again. Great to be part of it.
James Dick === By ''thriving again'' you mean ubiquitous homelessness, crime, open drug use, prostitution and graffiti, then your idea of ''thriving'' is a bit skewed.
@@justthinken1 if you think it's bad now you would have pissed your pants here in the 80s and 90s.
@@horrorfanforlife8664 === Uuhhh. Try the 60's early 70's. Then come talk to me. It's not saying much when your argument is less or a little less homelessness, crime, open drug use, prostitution and graffiti, is tolerable compared to the 80's and 90's. It just doesn't cut it. I don't live in that area anymore. But the few times I've had to drive through there recently, it's a crap hole compared to when I lived in that area in the 60's early 70's. Zero homelessness, almost Zero crime, Zero open drug use, Zero prostitution and Zero graffiti.
@@justthinken1 keep yelling at those clouds boomer. It’ll make a difference
@@Liz-sc3np === Do you have a point or are you always obnoxious?
Grew up there in 50s,, my dad had bakery on 30th st, went to north park movies, for 30cents,,,
When I lived there, I got to see the last vestiges of the "old neighborhood." When it gentrified, it lost much of the charm, but time goes on whether or not I like it, but I still remember it fondly.
I lived in north park for 30 years, on Idaho and Polk, it was beautiful until last year, then Moved to east county, because it became very hard to find parking
If you want more parkings, the city's economic growth will be limited.
One of San Diego's best neighborhoods.
Was
Darlene Hoohooly didn't like change back in 1986, I bet it would be tough for her to live through our current times
in the 50's we drove to North Park from Bay Park to shop. it was our shopping center. Penney's was our go-to store! 💞
I lived there then. I loved it. Then they tore down one too many homes for condos. Hope it's better now.
Condos are homes too lol Not everyone wants to live in a single family and wastes their time taking care of a single family home.
@@armanidivanchi131 True. The San Diego Architecture Institute of America gave an onion award for yuckyness to the specific condominium that replaced my common 1915 woodside. They have windows open to a closed off attic. You can see in from the street but not out from inside. The bad design award was earned. The condo I moved to rocked.
Awe grew up here in the 50s
I miss the old north park never be the same
I have been living here since 1985 and today I wish all these new buildings would slow down. In the last 5 years its overcrowded, parking is horrible,homelessness is on the rise on every corner,and every 2 days a high-rise is being created. I miss the ma and pa shops vs the trends and the parade was something beautiful that families came together. I'm grateful where I live its been 8 same neighbors for last 15 yrs and we get together to remember. One of them is 92 and we love hearing her stories..
800k homes I had to move
Lived in North Park on Louisiana street and El Cajon Blvd and have nothing but amazing memories. Video brought back many good memories as I remember all those businesses. Wish they had shown the Skating rink just down from 30th and university
and now the streets have thousands of potholes due to those unnecessary Center divider crosswalks
The place today 2022,is totally ruined.
It’s amazing how clean one of the dirtiest communities used to be and now is such a trendy shithole. Encampment fires, trash, and crime.
I lived on Oregon and Madison when the PSA plane crashed near my elementary school in 1978. We moved to Lomita a month later.
I enjoyed living in Casa Bella apts around 30th and El Cajon Blvd 1984-88. Walkable neighborhood convenient to everything.
These are great. Love it
Can’t stop progress & money always wins.
KFMB tv channel eight-------San Diego! More than remembering the pelican, how do you differentiate North Park, from Kensington?
When I first moved to San Diego in 2009 I rented an apartment from a crazy landlady on Utah Street near the water tower. It was low-class and trashy and there were lots of vice - hookers, meth dealers - on El Cajon Blvd. It wasn't safe to walk to the Wendy's at night. It was if they were filming scenes to the movie "Precious" next door to the complex I was living in. Awful memories. I guess they've cleaned it up a bit since then. The only time I spend any time in NP now is to go to Rudford's. I'm surprised that restaurant wasn't profiled or even mentioned in this piece.
I live in one of those apartments haha. Affordable housing FTW!
This is great. What would the people in this video say now?! 😆
In the 60's I remember Ozzie's Marching Chargers were always in the parade
The change from single family homes continues. Across the street from our single family home a house was turned into 5 units with 4 units used as short term rentals. Sad.
I'm 36s into this and refuse to watch the rest because it seems depressing and I dislike piano for its sentimentality and sadness.
Lol all these white people mad AF 🤣🤣🤣 .
why is it always the lightest skinned ones with the most racist comments
If we could only go back.
ANY BUSINESS OWNER WOULD APPRECIATTE MORE PEOPLE IN THE HOOD.
I lived in early 90's through 2007 and had crime areas of drugs and prostitutes and murder etc and had seniors living there til some old businesses left and remolded now bunch of young kids now .
Destroyed.
My grandparents house was the first house built in what is north park.
In 1907..
Had it till 2006.
Now its an F ING . complex. Both houses gone
So what happened to save the single family homes....
Everywhere is mega apartments..
Sad to see the families leave now they're all south of University. Lots of apartments being built now and more breweries coming in. Oh also watch out for the homeless people screaming at you!
Sad to see today how over-built and congested these communities have become with the big push for ADU housing, on every square foot of land possible....all in the name of housing shortage. Some people call this progress. I don't think so. I've watched with sadness how overpopulated North Park and many other areas have become to the point to where lots of those single-family homes are occupied by multiple adult roommates which has created what I call "car-clutter" beyond belief. When you drive through there now, it's bumper-to-bumper curbside parking because there are too many people living there. Some think this is normal, but when you look at old videos like this and a decade or two earlier, there was no car clutter and very few apartment buildings, because San Diego had a more aggressive growth control plan back then. We lived in the 3500 block of 31st St between Myrtle and Dwright in the early 1960s and attended McKinley Elementary at Felton & Redwood. It was a super charming, unmolested neighborhood back then. Now, it totally sucks with the overcrowded conditions; not to mention the overkill of bistros, pubs, bars, coffee houses and eateries along the busy corridors like 30th St. Same situation down in South Park.
Oh it's changed alright, sheesh.
Moved away from San Diego I can't raise my family there.
Now its full of homeless and sketchy people. And also you wouln't dare to walk there alone at night. It's far from being a family area now.
I grew up in north park. In the 90s it was far more dangerous than it is now.
@@horrorfanforlife8664 === The 90's? Give me a break. North Park was a crap hole in the 90's compared to the 60's. Crime was nonexistent in the 60's early 70's. No drugs. No prostitution. No graffiti. Things began to turn around in the mid 70's in that area. And it's degenerated ever since. Well before your time.
Troll Slayer === ''... walk there alone at night.'' I don't live in that area anymore. But those times I've had to go through there during the day my head's on a swivel. The homeless are EVERYWHERE. The last two times I was in that area there were dozens of S.D.P.D. cop cars swarming the around and ASTREA was in support. In the 60's it was a great place to grow up. As young kids in the 60's we'd walk or ride our bike all over. Heck. In the 60's we very rarely locked our doors to the house. How things have changed. Young people have no clue what it was like back then in America compared to now or the 90's.
@@justthinken1 what I am saying is it is far safer now then the 90s. It's turned for the better now. I agree everywhere begining in the 70s turned to crap, especially the 80s when Regan was in office. He closed down mental institutions and that's when everything went to crap.
@@justthinken1 but the 60s and 50s had other horrible things if you were black. White people will never understand that those were not the good old days at all.
Retro nimbis lol, bring back the old trolley line!!, omg the doctor in the video gets it!!
4:15 wanna bet this old fool wasn't living in that neighborhood, just had his business there
Now they have taken parking away so I won’t shop there. Tired of all the midwest moving here to suck up our water. San Diego has lost its “finest” title
The neighborhood has never stopped changing and *that's* your final straw?
A Street Car developed neighborhood, before cars were a thing. Street Cars taken away. General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy, "Taken for A Ride". Now we deal with the Pollution, Congestion, Parking, Costs, lack of walking. There is a parking structure on University and 30th. "Rails of the Silver Gate: The Spreckels San Diego Empire" By Richard V. Dodge. "The High Cost of Free Parking Book" by Donald Shoup. "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)" by Tom Vanderbilt
there's a MASSIVE parking structure right at 30th and Uni and parking lots up and down NP what the fuck are you talking about lmao
What entitles you to store your private property in a public place?
They city as usual. F it up. By allowing houses turned into apartments.
Our neighbors are disappearing thanks to Todd Gloria😡.
Glad the racisms left
MAGA!
COPE HARDER
so much for no development…a&b sporting goods…joe slosh!
You come through there all the time