I was born in Saint John in the General Hospital September 26, 1944, 76 year ago today. We lived in the below street level apartment at 43 1/2 Peters Street and moved from there in 1952. My mother rented the apartment from the Doyles for $10 a month exactly half of her $20 a month from the government pension she got after my father was killed in Normandy France August 8th, 1944. Captain Ellis G.Andrews MC , he was born in Saint John as well. My mother had just turned 18 two weeks before my dad was KIA and I was born seven weeks later. At the bottom of the street was Ungars laundry and where Tim Hortons is now was the Mayfair theatre and next to that was Lawtons pharmacy. I went to Centennial school grades 1 & 2. Across from our apartment was Union alley. y mother worked at the Sunray grocery store which I believe is still there today. Next to it was Duvals hardware. A coincidence that I saw this post today. I must admit Peters street looks a little run down. Patricks street was always a little nicer street re the houses. Most of the kids I went to school with came from families who didn’t have much. All were good kids and there wasn’t any crime or issues. Unfortunately when I went back to see our old apartment a number of year ago the building had burnt down so a lot of memories were gone.
@TheRealWilliamm
5 жыл бұрын
sees a mcdonalds cup on the ground and thinks hes in the ghetto lmao .. this is a gorgeous town compared 85 percent of the usa
@C-Stanz
7 жыл бұрын
You take for granted the fine Victorian architecture in SJ. I actually think all the bombed out buildings & industrial grit give it more character.
@Kn270
7 жыл бұрын
I can imagine all of the angry peope who live on Waterloo street just disliking this...
@jeffkelly636
2 жыл бұрын
I rented in this part of town for 2 years in the mid '90s. Top floor apt with nice warm radiator heaters and a huge bay window livingroom view. My rent (shared apt for 3) was 175 heat included. Never had an issue with any neighbours. Short walk to Tim Hortons and for groceries. Parked on the street and never had an issue or break-in. Peaceful neighbourhood then. Used to get a small pizza at formerly Niccos? delivered for something like 6 or 7$ to school! Tims had cherry eclairs for .99 - back when they had fresh pastries with lots of whipped cream and lemon filled donuts. Lived in Moncton one year later in the '90s and got my car broken into for the first time ever. The thief dumped everything from my glovebox in the parking lot across the street and the good Moncton police called and gave it all back to me. Then I went shopping for a new vent window. The most snow I've ever seen in one winter, ever. Saint John is a beautiful city to be in, especially in summertime when the harbour air is just like air conditioning. Memories.
@priendly
9 жыл бұрын
How about a tour of Elliot Rowe or possibly old North End? I lived on Newman Street one winter in the 80s, across from an elementary school. During recess one day, the children set my garbage on fire. Thanks for the video. I'll always remember Saint John as a tough town.
@adreyap
9 жыл бұрын
i have grown up on a street below waterloo and ya its bad but imagine the good this video makes me feel bad about where i grew up :( and thats not fair!!
@curtisallen4049
6 жыл бұрын
I lived on peter street for 3 years..some rough people...but there also some great people that that street...
@jodyhayward6120
9 жыл бұрын
I do feel bad for anyone having to grow up in an area like this. In order to succeed you have to work that much harder. You can say it is not a bad area compared to others in Canada but compared to areas of Saint John it is. On a daily basis I see mothers dealing drugs out of strollers, men and woman fighting in the street and prostitutes soliciting on the corners. This video was shot less than a year ago. Since then, there has been a murder with a man thrown from the window of the blue building and another stabbed for beating up his wife. As the weather gets warmer, the group selling drugs or showing up with their pit bulls to hang out for 4-6 hours even with children gets bigger. The Tim Horton's is the only one I have ever seen that hired a security guard to stand out side all day to keep them away. The police I am sure watch all this but I have yet to see more than one arrest in 4 years.
@elliotspray659
9 жыл бұрын
St.Jhon is my second home and it's a good place
@nickrobertson3849
7 жыл бұрын
monctons a hub city sj is a shit stain
@Noles506
9 жыл бұрын
People can get mad all they want but the fact is the comments are spot on by the poster of the video, well for the most part. Uptown is not all run down nor is the South End. Look at King St East, Leinster, Princess St, Prince William, Canterbury, around Queen Square. Lot of nice places and it's gotten better over the past 10 or 15 years, BUT.. in saying that when you fix up a neighbourhood and make it unaffordable to people on the bottom rung of society they just move somewhere else! Lower West, "Old" North End as they call it.. parts of the East side now, parts of the South End and parts of Uptown mainly around Peters St area, Cliff St. Millidgeville is nice, lived there for 6 months or so and it doesn't even seem like you are in SJ at times (No Fog). Upper West, Milford, parts of East, all nice areas. My Nan actually lived on Waterloo for like maybe 40 some 50 years and when I was a kid it wasn't half bad, KFC, Bowling Alley, Prince Edward Square was decent, it was a nice area. She had a bank across the street. And now they wanna fix it all it up and like I pointed to earlier it will just move everyone to some other part of town because you'll see even more police in the area because of the new residents! I spent a lot of time around that area as a kid , never had any problems..had a lot of fun actually. SJ low lives, to a corner near you, then when they decide that's the next big project on to the next one! Remember what Water Street looked like in the 90's early 00's? I know it's a big a** comment but whatever I love the city, but it's been mismanaged for years and when they joined up with out East, West they thought the city would BOOM but hadn't planned on people saying hey if we move to KV or Grand Bay or out past the Airport we can avoid the taxes.. So you get stuck with a big city with not a lot of people spread out.. so it costs a lot to run.
@Abbaskinkyvelvetbed
5 жыл бұрын
I e not been here but this looks like an old part of town with amazing architecture that is not being looked after but in other cases is! Hardly a ghetto lol
@portcitypersona
7 жыл бұрын
Man .go back to Rothesay and let us residents take care of it.
@mattbelyea4940
8 жыл бұрын
The north end (Indiantown) is looking terrible with boarded and damaged housing.The rifle range though upgraded with ymca and new housing. what's gotta give eh
@lawrencekeleher1231
8 жыл бұрын
Tell em Matty
@setht4808
7 жыл бұрын
Lol.........that red apartment to the left at 00.30 in the video in lived there almost 10 years ago now.....there were so many freaking bugs!
@kmanberry8061
9 жыл бұрын
2:06 - 2:12 the blue apartment building on the left hand side was where my grandmother use to live.
@RMatty95
8 жыл бұрын
I bet there are worse areas in Saint John than this..but honestly if you think this is bad you should see Hartford, Connecticut...
@chelseawalkerduck
8 жыл бұрын
+Matt Richard i heard Connecticut was beautiful lol nice place to settle down.
@RMatty95
8 жыл бұрын
Only if you're in the suburbs or out in the sticks. The cities here are horrible, other than Stamford
@nofishchris8066
8 жыл бұрын
ahh! me old stompin' grounds! used to play rooftop tag up that whole street 3:15 in the 80"s
@rednecknber8581
9 жыл бұрын
moved to ontario few months ago hope never to return to saint john
@Bing42
8 жыл бұрын
Obviously he's never been to Indiantown. Victoria street is a sad sad place
@theresacunningham3783
2 жыл бұрын
One our guys Gary's old stomping grounds clubhouse right down there and raping and all your people need to know that not cool then life
@theresacunningham3783
2 жыл бұрын
He needs to get a life children and the abbreviated females that have no idea what's going on Gary's ask come to my place & we'll do some puffs a couple of puffs there is photos of him taking of a child under age & if he disagrees look on line
@mikehickey420
4 жыл бұрын
Waterloo really isnt bad .. A more appropriate video you could have made would be the characters of waterloo tim hortons!
@joharc7317
7 жыл бұрын
Rate at the moment I see my house!! 2:08
@valpeens8189
7 жыл бұрын
my mom lived there someone shit in her hallway on peters st
@szabolcsnagy7638
5 жыл бұрын
This is really not bad...come to Hamilton and drive down on Barton street...
@freakyflow
5 жыл бұрын
Drive into anywhere in Hamilton ..Women there look they were worn out at 18 One way streets to nothing and the stink ..Steel plopped right in the middle of a city ..great planning
@dannyandpamela3441
7 жыл бұрын
I'm from saint John myself nothing in saint John just a city with no work nothing for anyone
@stemietree
9 жыл бұрын
Hi. I'm compiling a slideshow-style video of SJ - showing how much of the city is in decline. I would like to use this footage.
@chelseawalkerduck
9 жыл бұрын
Go ahead.
@priendly
9 жыл бұрын
stemietree I want to see that video when you finish. Waterloo was rough in the 80s and looks possibly worse now. I'm sure there are still some good people living there just like back then. I had good friends in my youth living at the bottom end. I lived in a different decrepit part of downtown. We were always aware we were living in a ghetto. I live in a beautiful resort area these days and I might get sentimental for the times I had but would never choose to return.
@wordenm
6 жыл бұрын
St. Joseph's Hospital...where I was born in '69 =)
@IStink3
9 жыл бұрын
Welcome to Saint Medicore
@nathanielb3510
7 жыл бұрын
What's the music?
@onechangedlc
8 жыл бұрын
thumb nail misleading never saw that scene
@chelseawalkerduck
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your comment brenda, go to Waterloo at night park in front of the church and honk, they all come out.
@onechangedlc
7 жыл бұрын
My comment was more about the wait in the video to get to the Waterloo Prostitute area. I do not deny they exist. Lived on Richie Street so saw them, even saw a home owner yelling and chasing one off his property on Golding Street. I blame dilaudid and oxy dependency. Scourge since the late 90s.
@saraslsowksk5507
4 жыл бұрын
2:22 shut up brenda
@TheMikeMelvin1
8 жыл бұрын
I doubt any of you so far know anything about saint john as it relates to real estate. if you want answers about why things are the way they are. .. I'll answer all questions. I ha e lived and invested in that city for 36 years.
@davidwilson8951
9 жыл бұрын
I and my great other live on this street and we're fine. with whatever else happens, the better half of town , obviously lives around your corner!!!!I'd bet maybe even in yer own house!
@gizmonother5611
7 жыл бұрын
hurtin area
@Matt00033
29 күн бұрын
Its way worse now ffs
@xanderoff
9 жыл бұрын
There are worse places to live, like I grew up south end spent 20 years there, on saint James street. You shouldn't judge a book by the cover like ffs people like you that drive around with mommy and daddy and making a video of what you think is the "ghetto" like really walk a mile in our shoes. Iike I said I lives south end I am not a gangster or a gang member I went and graduated from high school when to collage and have a career. But to look at me I look nothing more then a common street thug I have tattoos, and that but I am at the top of my field what have you done?
@chelseawalkerduck
9 жыл бұрын
xanderoff Good job, I respect that. Honestly, I do. And yes, I'm aware that good people come from all walks of life and what not. I'm aware that some times when the hand you're dealt isn't that great people will have to work harder at becoming something that is more than what they we're brought up in.
@MrCgford1
Жыл бұрын
Grew up in the north end on Metcalf Street, my biological sperm donor was best friends with Lomax! Anybody Remember Lomax on the corner of main lol, man times have changed, when I go back home it's usually for a funeral which is never good
@dgpropertymanagement366
11 ай бұрын
I remember Sean
@cindybates68
9 ай бұрын
@@dgpropertymanagement366 lol i remember shawn lomax . done quit a few yrs inside with him , kingsclear and springhill... crazy but solid ... he past away didnt he
@corymackenzie9363
7 жыл бұрын
more whores than regular people in these parts be careful walking around here with out ur car youll be mugged for sure
@clahazen4222
7 жыл бұрын
NOBODY GETS MUGGED IN SAINT JOHN LIAR AND THE ONES WHO DO GET RIPPED OFF ARE THE JOHNS THAT PICK UP HOOKERS AND FALL FOR THEIR BULL
@Rav3n3sque
7 жыл бұрын
Bahaha mugged, they drove past my building twice, I have lived here for five years... And truth be told although loud the hookers are no problem. In fact, if you look these streets up on crime mapping they are safer than many others because the high traffic. You are obviously not from here or you'd know where the real ghettos are.
@Muneeb1996
7 жыл бұрын
This is nothing compare to Toronto
@casablancavic
7 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I didn't grow up there. I would have killed myself ten times over because the place is such a hole. LONG LIVE TORONTO
@Abbaskinkyvelvetbed
5 жыл бұрын
Wow your high maintenance then
@nancylandry10
4 жыл бұрын
You should go back to Toronto!!!!Waterloo St. is not a dump.
@lifewithsylvia4411
7 жыл бұрын
Can't stand it up there! Lol
@tracywebb1681
7 жыл бұрын
what a dump,I couldn't imagine renting a apartment there.
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