My hometown. I grew up at 863 School Street and went to St. Clare's School shown at 3:32. At 5:35, there st the corner of Miller Avenue and St. Clair Avenue was a Thrift Drug Store. We used to catch the bus to go to Southland Shopping Center OR all the way to "dahntahn Picksburgh"
@RoxanneMurtagh
Жыл бұрын
Wondering if you knew my cousins, the DeMaio girls (Denise, Patty and Janice)? I used to visit from New Jersey and spend time over the summer with them.
@SNOWMINATTI
Жыл бұрын
Trying to figure out why the drive through alleys...trying to make the city look worse than what it truly is? Born&raised there. Bear for life, head up/back straight!
@ironwoodworkman4917
8 ай бұрын
Do you think PA needs to lower it's taxes? Seems like people are running from the state.
@zeeqq105
3 ай бұрын
No jobs. No people. Houses become empty and businesses leave. Decline of a neighborhood.
@mauricemoragne8103
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Clairton. City died a hard death when the Mill closed. You drove past the Catholic School where I went in 1,2nd grade. This was a strong middle class city. Now, it has degraded into this. Sad
@BernardBouchard-qq9kq
25 күн бұрын
The mill never closed.
@mauricemoragne8103
25 күн бұрын
@@BernardBouchard-qq9kq It pretty much did. The few workers remaining were nothing compared to the 70s.
@RoxanneMurtagh
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, I lived in Clairton back in the mid 1960s. I was a little girl then about 5 or 6 and seeing this is just heartbreaking. I lived on Ivy Street and used to love going with my mom to Isaly's for a cone or a klondike bar. My mom used to shop at Skapik's for our clothes. So many good memories. We moved to New Jersey by the time I reached 3rd grade as my dad got a good job there. Thanks for the tour but it is really hard to wrap my head around the sadness of all this.
@manthony777
Жыл бұрын
Things change in 60 years 🤔🤔
@joecampbell2066
Жыл бұрын
Was in your class I believe ! Lived on School St. Joe C
@RoxanneMurtagh
Жыл бұрын
@@joecampbell2066 Hi Joe. Sorry, as we moved when I was 8 I really can't remember any classmates from grammar school! Interesting though my favorite cousins (the DeMaio's) lived at 869 School Street so you may have known them. They have all since moved away from Clairton.
@cecesmith6229
8 ай бұрын
McKeesport across the river is probably even worse
@midniteblue3313
5 ай бұрын
Basically the whole Mon Valley.
@jamesnichols2188
2 жыл бұрын
I live in clairton they are trying to restore nice video thanks for sharing
@TheSUPERWIND2023
Жыл бұрын
My house was set on fire back in 2012, I remember being very upset about it but now that I look at the city, I'm glad I left. it has become a very depressing looking city.
@BernardBouchard-qq9kq
25 күн бұрын
My mother's family had a Jitney bus from Clairton to Glassport to their streetcar line.A jit is a nickle in Scotish.
@sing759
Жыл бұрын
i was watching The Deer Hunter and it brought me here
@chucknovotny1016
Жыл бұрын
The deer hunter was filmed here and this is we're it takes place. The guys in the movie were all from here. Even the movie when he calls home from Vietnam he asks the operator for Clairton Pa.. Thats why it probably led you here
@BernardBouchard-qq9kq
19 күн бұрын
Raised in Clairton went to Nam. It was more like Leave it to Beaver back then.Shopped at Connie Goldstrohm's market.
@tre57production
2 жыл бұрын
And the title of this video needs to have the word hood taking out of it because hood is not the community hood is what people are hoods. There are a lot of good people that comes from this city and there are some bad people that need to be locked up that's what makes the community bad the people that cannot live civilized but other than that it is a good City it needs rebuilt and people need to take care of their community and once again there needs to be major job opportunities in this city like big businesses they need to tear down the clerican steel mill and put a waterfront with a lot of businesses down there and higher felons and give them a second chance then Clariton can come back like the way it was back in the day but once again my hometown got a lot of love for this city always.
@stricknice5260
2 жыл бұрын
What
@tre57production
2 жыл бұрын
@@stricknice5260 if you commented what then this went way over your head sorry you didn't understand
@tre57production
Жыл бұрын
@@stricknice5260 I was born and raised there it’s a great city
@ironwoodworkman4917
8 ай бұрын
Why would people vote for anyone that is not bring new industries into their city/town? Having only one is why we get this all over the U.S. Then the city's keep the tax high only give a short time to repair the houses and do not let you recycle the houses etc. To much government and to much tax = this all over the U.S. What a waste. If the bureaucrats were gone, Life would return.
@SweetDreamz0223
11 ай бұрын
It looks like a ghost town. Also, where are the people? I know this was recorded during the pandemic. But you should still see more people out on the streets. I don't know, maybe it's because I live in a big city with millions of people. So I'm always accustomed to seeing a lot of people outdoors, compared to smaller cities!!!
@BernardBouchard-qq9kq
25 күн бұрын
I knew the guy's who built these houses it's only100 year old my family farmed and mined this land Grt.Gram.sold out to Carnegie Illinois land.
@jonathankoziol6573
Жыл бұрын
Where “The Deer Hunter” took place
@eddiejclayton1
9 ай бұрын
Drove past my childhood home at the 17:02 mark.
@ironwoodworkman4917
8 ай бұрын
I wonder where you live now. Seems like people are running from PA. I was told the taxes are very high.
@BernardBouchard-qq9kq
19 күн бұрын
My buddy Paul married MaryLou Skapik.
@emberash1943
2 жыл бұрын
WOW 😳 very cool seeing the olé "hood" I have a small request, next video when you're on Miller Ave turn onto Thompson Ave and go around the stadium also Jefferson Dr.area (up on the hill) and also the little playground off 10th& McPherson, Ravensburg bridge & into Clairton park; that'd be pure AWESOMESAUCE 👌🥰 If you could squeeze Peter's Creek in there somehow I'd appreciate it 😎. Seriously thanks, for posting but to be fair, those places that are rotting away have looked like that since 1982.. Sad as hell but it's a City with soul, it'll come back someday🤞 (if it does, I'd move back 👌💯)
@gregmoore2073
Жыл бұрын
I live here now. It's not reviving at all unfortunately. From St Claire to Village Inn is just trouble.
@emberash1943
Жыл бұрын
@@gregmoore2073 wish I could say it surprises me but it doesn't... I can only dream then.. stay safe✌️
@dennisc8985
18 күн бұрын
The Deer Hunter town
@jaybirdstarks7838
2 жыл бұрын
Shout out to the neighborhood guy stay safe out there 👍
@rebeccastarr4660
Жыл бұрын
Check out Mitchell Ave
@nelsonadamson982
2 жыл бұрын
20:42 Even the vinyl has rusted
@leighannferguson8310
Жыл бұрын
OMG you went up Vankirk St. that's where I grew up. You passed my house. It's been abandoned since my family and I moved out in 1988. I was 15. It was a great neighborhood back then. The town was very nice until you went way downtown. I loved living there. It's such a shame to see how horrible the place has become. It makes me wanna cry. I had so many great times on my street hanging out with my friends. I miss those days. I'm now 50. 😔
@ironwoodworkman4917
8 ай бұрын
Do you think PA needs to lower it's taxes? Seems like people are running from the state.
@DM-qd6bv
Ай бұрын
I lived on Vankirk St as well. I left in 86. I agree that it was a great street to live on.
@leighannferguson8310
Ай бұрын
@@DM-qd6bv oh wow. I may have known you. My name used to be Leigh Ann Thompson. Ring any bells ?
@DM-qd6bv
Ай бұрын
@@leighannferguson8310 it absolutely does! Did you live in the middle of the block? I’m trying to remember the names of other “kids” from that block but my memory isn’t very good. I remember someone named Eddie who had a sister that may have been around your age but I can’t recall her name.. I lived at 884.
@leighannferguson8310
Ай бұрын
@@DM-qd6bv I lived at 881 Vankirk. It was definitely the middle of the block. We had a big front porch that was made of cement with wooden banisters. The house has been empty since I moved in 88. It's a brick house.
@LuckyTheCat777
Жыл бұрын
i lived there for a year was not too bad but all i did was went to work and keep to myself but now i moved to castle shannon
@gregmoore2073
Жыл бұрын
I recently moved from Castle Shannon to Clairton.. we could make a movie called Trading Places part 2 hehe
@dagreazy3815
Жыл бұрын
U left castle shannon to clairton why it was to whyte for you? Lol
@gregmoore2073
Жыл бұрын
@@dagreazy3815 I was tired of being surrounded by heroin junkies dying. Thought maybe the crack culture would be a nice change of pace.
@tre57production
2 жыл бұрын
My hometown I moved out back in 2012 but still Its nice community if the police due there job the right way and not harass the wrong people. Also this city needs jobs to bring the city back. And that steel mill is killing Clairton it's sad.
@manthony777
Жыл бұрын
He was very slick about this video. He mostly showed back alleys. There are some really nice homes in Clairton. He made sure not to show them.
@dwaynejackson1423
2 жыл бұрын
Home sweet home there are roads and allies he didn't even turn down our future in Clairton is in trouble all our youth have there is football and basketball I look at video and can't help but think how can we put more in our thrown away cities like Clairton outsiders will never understand what it's like
@gregmoore2073
Жыл бұрын
Desperately needs more commerce to lift it up. Nice to see a produce store just opened on St Claire, I hope they stick around
@musicindustrytea3283
2 жыл бұрын
This place is really a ghost town omg
@BillLowenburg
2 жыл бұрын
Clairton is one of the most desperate-looking towns in America. Especially at the time of year the video was made. At least beer is cheap there. It's not unlike many of the coal region towns near where I live, in NE Pennsylvania - Tamaqua, Summit Hill, Mahanoy City, Shenandoah, Mt. Carmel, etc.
@musicindustrytea3283
2 жыл бұрын
Dang so it’s worse places than Philly in PA
@blairnamlowie4128
Жыл бұрын
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@wontoo3for564
2 жыл бұрын
🚐 This looks like a very early Sunday drive, bcuz I don't see any people going to school or work. I'm surprised how clean this neighborhood is, no "Zombies" and no people congregating out on corners. 🚐 Thanks for the video ☺
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