I watched this video with great sadness. Seeing the huge crowd, active businesses, flags, etc. makes it look like a vibrant place to be. How many of those people could have predicted that McKeesport would become the shell of a city that is seen today
This is a great video. I played in the McKeesport High School Tiger Band that day at track side. I remember playing with my back to the last B&O train of Budd cars as it departed the city for Versailles, PA. It was truly a sad day for the citizens of City of McKeesport.I agree with Walter. It was the beginning of the end for McKeesport forever!!
This was supposed to be the beginning of a new "ERA" for mckeesport. Downtown is almost empty. No more Memorial or Veterans Day Parades. Both american legions are gone. On market and walnut. The VFW is gone. Murphys Greens Coxs Jaisons all gone. And midtown plaza was supposed to bring businesses back.what a debachle that turned out to be. Even the YMCA left. Oh well Maby i should have left with the last train.
Yeah. I saw four guys standing under the Midtown plaza in the dead of winter in like 1980, they were so broke they were all sharing one cup of BK coffee and one hand rolled cigarette...
Isn't the ymca just a homeless shelter now? I was helping at the food bank there a while ago with my church.... Pretty sure that's all it is. This was such a beautiful town. So sad
I lived in Mckeesport in the 70's , It seems funny that all these people would come out for this . Now a days you could advertise free T.V.'s and no one would be there !
Recently learning that my grandfather on my fathers side worked on the railroad and lived in McKeesport for years before relocating to Miami, Florida. The McNamara family. I’m the last of the Family and gave the last name to my son.
I watched this video with great sadness. Seeing the huge crowd, active businesses, flags, etc. makes it look like a vibrant place to be. How many of those people could have predicted that McKeesport would become the shell of a city that is seen today
I was alive then but just a baby ... looks like still a bustling & vibrant place, far cry from the current state sadly.
They bussed us down from Serra High School for this. We put pennies on the track. This was pretty much the beginning of the end. I left 35 years ago.
This is a great video. I played in the McKeesport High School Tiger Band that day at track side. I remember playing with my back to the last B&O train of Budd cars as it departed the city for Versailles, PA. It was truly a sad day for the citizens of City of McKeesport.I agree with Walter. It was the beginning of the end for McKeesport forever!!
This was supposed to be the beginning of a new "ERA" for mckeesport. Downtown is almost empty. No more Memorial or Veterans Day Parades. Both american legions are gone. On market and walnut. The VFW is gone. Murphys Greens Coxs Jaisons all gone. And midtown plaza was supposed to bring businesses back.what a debachle that turned out to be. Even the YMCA left. Oh well Maby i should have left with the last train.
Yeah. I saw four guys standing under the Midtown plaza in the dead of winter in like 1980, they were so broke they were all sharing one cup of BK coffee and one hand rolled cigarette...
Isn't the ymca just a homeless shelter now? I was helping at the food bank there a while ago with my church.... Pretty sure that's all it is. This was such a beautiful town. So sad
When Oddos moved into the midtown plaza,the end was near
The ymca is on white street now and has been for over 10 years
@@talk-is-pitt that was not the ymca that was the boys club.
I lived in Mckeesport in the 70's , It seems funny that all these people would come out for this . Now a days you could advertise free T.V.'s and no one would be there !
I used to eat lunch at the Ockay Restaurant. It was across the street from my office.
Recently learning that my grandfather on my fathers side worked on the railroad and lived in McKeesport for years before relocating to Miami, Florida. The McNamara family. I’m the last of the Family and gave the last name to my son.
Anyone you know in this video
Zonano Popovic, Leonard staisey, Andrew Jakomas, Flegal,
Grown-up men wearing grown-up men hats (not baseball caps!) and no grafitti on the freight cars in the beginning of the film. A very different time!
2 things 1-There is nothing wrong with wear baseball caps and 2 i bet you those trains were painted elsewhere most likely in another county
Times change moron. No men in cowboy hats or powdered wigs either.
Say what you will but why would anybody need to wear a suit and tie to watch a train go by?
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