1972 SPECIAL REPORT: "DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE, AFTER DARK"
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- Downtown Baltimore is a lively business and entertainment hub known for its theater district, with venues like the 1914 Hippodrome, as well as Royal Farms Arena for sports and big-name concerts. Irish pubs, diners and seafood restaurants dot the area, while stalls at bustling Lexington Market have local treats like crab cakes. Port Discovery Children’s Museum features inventive hands-on exhibits and a sports stadium
This channels entire catalog should be national archives
This guy uploads so much great historical content. A real treasure trove👍
This was 1972 b.c(before crack)
The crack y’all chose to smoke
#GFYS
@@davidmicalizio824 that's what I say gfys
@@neverhungryagain2187 I never smoked crack a day in my life
@@salvatoresalernatano5964 I’m talking about the generation that smoked it. Nobody forced them to smoke it
Seriously I’m loving this old footage ❤ Downtown Baltimore ❤
22:07 The original "Gino's" at North & St. Paul. Thanks for posting this wonderful memory!
Love their food when I can put enough money aside to afford it. It's the best pizza place we have over here on the west coast
We had several Gino's in Newark also, two of them in fact that I used to eat at. The "Gino's Giant", a great burger. Better than McDonald's by far. Gino Marchetti of the Baltimore Colts founded them I've heard.
I’m from New Orleans I fw Baldamore tough. Makes me feel similar vibes to my city, and it’s as far north as you can go and still get hints of the south(good parts of the south of course)
That baby at 4:43 is over 50 now.
Same age as me lol, 52 😅🇬🇧✊🇺🇲💯🤟
I'm loving these Bmore vids!! Not enough love for the city!
Where are the homeless and gangs?
If u deport all afromericans from this city it will become calm its simple
@@Efreet17 wtf? Seriously? racist much if you think that would solve the cities issue you're a dumbass blacks have nothing to do with the problems in Bmore. Corruption isn't biased wether what race, creed, religion its BAD PEOPLE who are the issue nothing to do with race
The animals were controlled to a point
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In 1972 there were 1.5 million people in Baltimore, today there's 569k.. A lot of people left when they tore down the projects, for ever changing the ring counties. Where I lived in Baltimore county has had a complete 180 in terms of demographics and crime.
Yup, they shipped them out to Timonium and destroyed Dulaney Valley High School. My brother lived out there while it was being systematically destroyed. A 21 year old woman’s body was dumped in a residential neighborhood right in the middle of a 4 way stop intersection. That was only 1/2 mile from where my brother lived. He got the hell out of there.
Most of the violent crime then was confined to the inner city residential areas of East and West Baltimore. The harbor area, the Howard Street shopping district and Little Italy were relatively safe - relative to today, that is. Today, you truly aren't safe anywhere, even during the day. Flash mobs and gun play and increased racial tension/polarization are a sad reality today.
Racial tension?
I knew a drag queen named Rachael Tension.
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At 14mins the lady interviewed with the white eye make up on was so so soooo beautiful and radiated positivity, happiness and a real joy of life! Can I go back 50yrs n marry her pls pretty pls🤞🤞
She’s very lovely!
Do you want me both
She was so stunning wasn't she
Some good looking girls back then . Class .
I agree 110%. Women were much better looking in the 70s..
Where did I ever hear ten thousand people showing up at an event 8 times and no arrest would made? 1970s were truly a better period than the decade surrounding it. I was born in 1970.
Oh though 1970s is an era of creak heads, honestly.
@@seanpetaia that was the 1980s. It heroin in the 1970s.
@@qolspony does it’s matter though? Both eras literally invited the most deadly drugs ever, & to this day it’s had kills more Americans. If it not “only” America definitely the whole world too.
I check all these baltimore videos out. Bro I rode in the limo with my stepmother, Dad and Run DMC to see "Tougher Than Leather" Premier at the Hippodrome!!
What !? You got to ride in the limo with RUN DMC ?
@user-br7wi7xc6n yeah. Run, Russell and Danny are my stepmothers first cousins.. crazy right
@@JB-hl1qx I knew this dude for 30 years...and he never shared that story with us..and we used to rhyme together...you think he would've mentioned that sometime in 1992....🤷😂
@@HezakyaNewz If I had that experience I know I would have told everyone & their mom about that !!
@HezakyaNewz bro you know what? I didn't think it was as big of a deal as it actually was. I used to be in the Phat Farm store chilling in the back, went to dinner with Russell and Kimora a couple times. Went to DefJam a few times. All this with my stepbrother who is ... Derrick Adams. He's a painter and had an entire season of the TV show Empire dedicated to his painting
I don't remember it being dangerous downtown back in the early 1970s, even into the early 1980s. Most of the serious crime was in residential neighborhoods outside the downtown area. As mentioned in the video, the shopping district was open a couple nights a week and I remember shopping in the evening downtown in the '60s and '70s. My wife's folks would come up to visit from southern VA to see Orioles games in the evening at Memorial Stadium, then we'd go down to the Inner Harbor to eat at Phillips or Connelly's restaurants along Pratt St. This was in the early 1980s.
I was only in Baltimore once, about nine years ago, to attend a lecture at Johns Hopkins. I could tell THAT Hood ain't GOOD.
Did you listen to documentary at all? I'm sure you weren't on the streets where the most crime occurred. Certain blocks were safe. Certain other blocks weren't. Thats how it is now for the most parts in inner cities. The most crime-ridden area in LA is downtown LA with the homeless encampments happening and just a block over there are the finest restaurants and beautiful high rise apartments. I mean idk Baltimore now but it seems from what I hear it's pretty bad.
Newark had the same problem after the '67 riots. The city was on the dscline prior but the riots was the death blow. I'm old enough to remember downtown Newark was so busy at night you almost couldn't move until after 10 PM. But with the rise of the suburbs and the malls people didn't need to shop downtown and after 6 o'clock it would empty out. A damn shame.
1972 - Baltimore, Safe at Night?
2022 - Baltimore, Not Safe at All - Night or Day
I worked downtown in the 1980s and 1990s and you did not feel necessarily unsafe. Willie Don knew that public safety (or at least the perception thereof) was absolutely necessary for a thriving downtown. Around 2000 it began to feel more sketchy. Today, I would never go to downtown Baltimore because it is not safe.
I know you like complaining and playing the victim, you seem like a negative, pessimistic person, but @1:11 mark in this video, in Baltimore, 1972, a woman says, "I don't even feel safe in the daytime.". Get that? You are not saying anything new, just same old tired victim mentality.
Baltimore has always been a very pocketed city, with certain areas being dangerous and other areas being just fine. From what I have heard, the waterfront was legitimately dangerous in the era before Harborplace. Since then it has been perfectly fine. Any of the other gentrified sections of the city will be fine. You just need to know the areas that are safe and those which aren't. Generally, most people won't have any business being in the unsafe areas in the first place.
@@rockets4kids and i have to add, during the day even the unsafe areas you'll probably be OK in, as long as you take the normal precautions and are there for a reason, like to patronize a business or visit someone who lives there
@rockets4kids some of the big city gentrification strategies remind me of what they did with risky subprime loans. They dispersed and package them with less risky loans leading to their ultimate collapse.
Sorry to hear that. I hope nothing happened to you.
Bmore still have those gate on downtown storefronts too.
Downtown is actually pretty safe at night. It’s other parts of the city that have the problem, lol. It’s the residential areas where you don’t want to be at night (or during the day in a lot of areas if you don’t know the right people in the neighborhood).
I started going to Baltimore in 1970 and kept going there through the 70's. I was too young and crazy to be really afraid. I went to the Block which was more than a block baclk then and also an after hours place called Betty's on S. Broadway and then on Greenmount. All these people interviewed are either dead or like me very old. Like everyone else, I would love to go back and do it all over again with knowing a lot more than I understood then.
Weird how the shopkeepers put bars in front of their businesses for no reason. LOL
Ya know?
Baltimore always was a cesspool
29:49 is Mission Impossible S07 - Ep05 TOD-5. Doing some long research I finally found out what the show is this info is for anyone wondering what the show is at the time mark I mention.
I did a ridiculous websearch as well, and found the answer also, only to see that you already posted this. Thanks!
@@arthurw8054 Your welcome sorry I did not reply back till now.
Thanks; I had seen that episode at some point. That was Barbara Anderson as the waitress; who was also a regular cast member on the Ironside series, playing Officer Eve Whitfield....
"Lynda Day George (Casey) character's absence is explained by Phelps at the beginning of the mission when he tells the group that she is handling the operations on the European branch of the Alpha Group and will wait for the IMF team in the US first before acting. Since she was pregnant during the filming season, the female role went to Barbara Anderson (Mimi)." -Imdb
Baltimore is my home town. I did not realize that it was this bad in early 70s.
It wasn't.
Baltimore in 1972.....I was born in '71 in Towson, I can remember being somewhere between 3 and 5 years old my Grandmother, who lived in Baltimore up until '52 when they built a house in Loch Raven Village, talk about the mess Baltimore was (then) and how there is not way she would ever go into the city for any reason. Fast forward to late 2023 and her words have only been reinforced many many many times over. Baltimore, the one major city that makes Detroit look good.
I don't get people who act like that. I'm only slightly younger than you, and I've NEVER been afraid of Baltimore City. There's no reason to be, at all.
When people get shot, or beat up, in "The Hood," it's usually because they wronged someone, and were looking over their shoulder when it happened. Random people don't get assaulted, or accosted. If you mind your own damned business, you'll be fine in Baltimore.
lol, Towson kid talking about the means streets of Baltimore.
@@HKim0072 Laugh it up skippy, Baltimore is a shit hole and is Maryland as a whole. So sorry you are unable to get out.
False.
Fifty years later and it's not safe to raise a family within 30 miles of Baltimore.
THATS BECAUSE ( LITTLE MELVIN ) WAS RUNNIN THINGS) YOU HEARD
40 cents for a pack of cigarettes? A loosey on Long Island now goes for $1
2 cents/butt....
These videos make the saying "same shit different day" hit different. Bmore just is what it is. If everything material changes with time, but the same theme is still true, then its cause is rooted in the mentality of the people.
WDS’s legacy is obvious…put all resources in a tourist destination and let’s see what happens to the rest of the city.
Boy, downtown sure looked a lot different in 1972.
No aquarium, no World Trade Center, no Science Center, none of it.
The population of the city was well over 800,000 in those days, though.
I'm glad conditions in Baltimore have really improved since '77 😂
Nope. Last city in the US I would ever consider living in.
@@lchaney language has his own ways. Conditions of where i'm doing my days in are far from "considering", let alone places in the US:=)
😐 oh!😂😂😂you were kidding
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It looks really good compared to now, it got like 90% worse
50 years later and it’s worse now than it was in 1972 !!!
🤔 I wonder why?
@@jaimestewart8295drug war, poverty,gentrification bad government policies and total neglect of its poor and working class citizens
@@Error_-qz2zr yeah that would be some of it for sure 👍
@@jaimestewart8295 did my comment got deleted by CZcams? 😂 Censorship is crazy I didn't even say any bad words just why it got like this
@@Error_-qz2zr it probably did , that happens to me all the time
I agree
AND WHY DONT PEOPLE FEEL SAFE ?
YOU KNOW THE ANSWER....
Salaam my brotha ✊🏾
It gets wicked at night
No one says why it is unsafe. Who is responsible for that?
Wow i aint heard the word gino since my grandma was living
We really do come back over and over in life, the girl in the thumbnail has "Kristen Stewart" vibes.
The reason the inner harbor recreational area was established was to attract people downtown and it worked. Also the convention center and Camden yards.
My birth year ❤️
I was born 2 years later, just down the BW Parkway on Fort Meade.
Downtown was revitalized in the 1980s. However, the city as a whole is much worse than it was in 1972
Of course it is with dope fiends moving there from all over the nation
I'm a Red Sox fan and Camden yards is my favorite park to visit for road games.
The Downtown revitalization lasted until may the mid-2000's if you're referring to the Harborplace area. What was once a tourist destination is no largely closed.
JOHN WATERS FILMED ON THAT YEAR ON THOSE STREETS
Nothing has changed
Yes it has it got more dangerous
If they did this now, it would be a joke. Drugs are the greatest killer of our society. Its what's going to destroy this whole country....
Just like downton St. Louis
I'm from DaBronx.
Nyc 1972- into the 90s was pretty wild - of course heroin use was through the roof back then. But Broadway didn't close, Yankees stadium was filled.. President Ford cut off fed $$..
Cops were crooked as ever.& mobsters ruled the streets. Son of Sam. Garbage strike. The Blackout of 76. All kinds of fun...
Downtown Baltimore seems like the media made things worse.
I think there's a racial undertone to this report.
As usual ...thugs,ghettos, and other code words.
Suburbia knows them all
only on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Upton avenue lexington market penn north are areas where alot of the dangers are. People wont bother you if you carry yourself a certain way
51 years later and the same thing is going on but even worse! It’s definitely not safe at anytime day or night!
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Like Philly now , nobody’s safe
but but diversity
They need cyborg cops… complete with prisons with robot guards.
The biggest criminals, on the streets, are the police department.
If you want to be 'safe," then go and get yourself locked up. Because, that's the only place where safety can be guaranteed ... in a dungeon.
@@itzenormous 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 in 2020 the year you were crying about black lives US citizens committed 21.571 murders
25% of those without guns
55% of the total committed by blks proving the 13th amendment has caused more crime than the 22nd
Lastly that same year nationwide police shot 1000 suspects less than 200 were black So who were the 800? No riots for them no statues or lib media press??
tell me again cops are the problem
@Donnell Okafor Yep 12 decide or 6 carry
My only problem is
How do we know who is the good guy once the shooting starts?
You realize that another armed citizen could shoot you thinking you are the aggressor? I support the 2nd but also support common sense
One of these days I am going to get to the block in Baltimore.
Come anytime....I live up the street from the block....spent thousands of hours in there....had some great times. You'll be fine...just mind your business and enjoy ya self
Don't get too wasted....lol....you need your streets smarts
@@HezakyaNewz Oh, no drinking for me sir. If I go, it will be when doors open. Do my thing then bounce while there's still daylight. PG County got the bright idea of closing all underground spots right as the MGM went up. Ironically, I hit up the underground spots at night because it was too close to base didn't wanting anyone recognizing me. 😂
@@morbidcorpse5954 Well that's even better. You'll be cool...I usually go during lunch time. You basically have all the women to yourself... because it's nothing but smelly old men at that time. I was able to take a few home just to bang. Going at night....it's busy and the girls are too busy for personal attention...unless you got the money.
I get by on my flavor and personality...so they be attracted to be me without much money.
@@HezakyaNewz Cool 🤘
Baltimore sadly nothing has changed..
Yes it has 😐
0:55 - That might been the most Bawlmer accent to ever Bawlmer, hon.
25:45 - "So called gay people"?
6:09 Vladimir Zhirinovsky looks like Edward J McNeal
25:26 Is that a 4 door '70 Charger as a taxi?
It seems that the 70's were very dangerous times, the crime statistics and the number of serial killers etc were probably higher than they are today.
Statistics have gone down we got ring cameras now
Unfortunately, most cities peaked in the '80s, but not Baltimore. Was on a downward trajectory until 2015. And, then it blew up again.
Baltimore: What seems logical and reasonable deems to prove you otherwise
1972- wait until you see 2024...
Gee I wonder what changed in Baltimore??🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Get a job
Baltimore was predominantly an industrial town, with an economic base focused on steel processing, shipping, auto manufacturing (General Motors Baltimore Assembly), and transportation, the city experienced deindustrialization, which cost residents tens of thousands of low-skill, high-wage jobs. #Wikipedia
@@elegantcourtier just ignore him. He's a known racist on ALL news on CZcams regarding Baltimore and Black people
@@elegantcourtier So globalism AKA diversity Jack Dover many US cities but the reality is Baltimore is 70% B
Look up pictures from the 2015 Baltimore riots then come back and tell me W are the problems=
@@beewalk34 Yes Blks need to get jobs-
What was the name of that movie at the end of the show🎥
I wondered the same thing
Heavy.
I bet those same people are still around today lol
I think downtown has gotten worse that's why most of the good store's closed their business hect co. Movie theaters and including Hopkins plaza don't put a bandage on it face it the crime got worse.
Look at Baltimore now. Detroit, Chicago, New York, LA, sanfransisco,,Atlanta. All high violent crime areas. Goodbye business's one should ask oneself what do all these places have in common?
Don’t forget about Philly
1:06 she's cute ❤
4:45 that baby will now be 50 or 51 years old.
Don't know exactly why, but I trip on this stuff too. Watching documentaries of ordinary people is as close to time travel as I can get, and I'm awestruck by change over time.
I am that baby's exact age. ❤
what show was that at the end ?
I was wondering the same thing.
Mission Impossible S07 - Ep05
Munde hon!!
The guy that stated that Bolton Hill was Crime Free and safe. Well my brother and I will rehab an apartment on off of John Street.
The deli on the corner across from the elementary school come was actively selling drugs out of the establishment and there was a police car that set out in front of the store. The reason this is known, was because they offered to sell my brother some drugs when he went in there to pick up lunch.
What happened to Joe Citizen???
DEFUND WHO?🤣
72 B.C
30 minutes of video and everyone is too afraid to say why downtown Baltimore is unsafe. Just say black crime.
Just say you're a bigoted racist. I saw them interviewing white women in those "unsafe" areas too. So whites weren't out there committing burglaries, robberies and such. Baltimore had 1.5 million people then. All crimes were NOT restricted to just Blacks.
My goodness - and they were scared then? Baltimore has really gotten scary and deadly in 2024!
Lol of course it’s not safe, especially these days.
Do Unto Others… according to….
52 years later. Only gotten worse
It’s a mess now
40. Cents ..for a pack of fuggs
I'm from Kentucky...never been to Baltimore but was it really that bad in the 70's if so it has to be war and hell now....I always wanted to visit but maybe not now🤔
We can tell you're from Kentucky... Baltimore is great. I live and work in the City. It gets a bad reputation from Republicans in flyover states who are scared to go somewhere if there isn't a Cracker Barrel nearby.
Yes, just stay home.
Born in Baltimore City, 1950. Parents bugged out in 1959 (taking us kids with them, of course, "White Flight"), and when the black tide reached me in the mid nineties, I said good-bye and good riddance to the Socialist State of Maryland all together.
Anyone who stays deserves whatever misfortune befalls them.
I left Towson in '89 to go out of state for college, I never went back; Maryland stopped being where I was "from" in '89. I still have family there, whenever I go for a visit I only ever feel an intense dislike for the area. I will never live in the Baltimore area again, not for any reason.
What about Maryland, makes it a "socialist state" as you say?
Do you even know what you're talking about?
I'm going to guess that the answer is NO. A very definitive NO.
Good on you for not hating your parents. So many people from your generation hated their "r^cist" parents for daring to protect their families from the obvious elephant in the room.
@@MatewanMassacre With the absolutely massive redistribution of wealth to Baltimore to keep that hole subsidized, whether it's Maryland taxpayers paying for Baltimore's police and firefighters salaries, the city school teachers salaries, the gigantic unaccountable welfare programs that exist in the city, including dedicated buses just to take one person to and from their job early in the morning and late in the afternoon, to say there isn't a level of socialism to this equation is just foolhardy.
You go from neighborhood to neighborhood in Baltimore, at least half the residents are entirely unemployed, reliant on welfare paid by Maryland taxpayers from all across the state, and just loiter on streets and in front of businesses and homes.
If that's a healthy society to you, I got some oceanfront property in Kansas I'd like to sell you.
It's worse now.
It wasn't that bad back then. You could walk around at night almost anywhere without feeling afraid.
So diversity not a strength?🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@silentmajority8365 makes no sense, Baltimore had a huge black population back then and it was still a great relatively safe city to live in especially compared to now; so obviously race has nothing to do with it.
@@silentmajority8365 You laugh at yourself, frequently?
Because, honestly, nothing you said was that funny, bro.
One of those newspaper headlines shown in the video says "6 homicides bring total to 220 for the year" which is pretty high.
Did you not watch the video and hear what the people were saying?? Jeez.
How much more well-spoken ordinary people were back then, just imagine doing an interview like this today. Half of the reply would be profanity and the rest would be unintelligible.
All because of damned Abraham Lincoln!
What awful hair. The women looked straight out of 1956. The 70s were forgettable.
The revitalization of the Inner Harbor helped things quite a bit.
Some places gentrification isnt a bad thing
@25:40 - "You have so-called gay people around here - and they're not dangerous. It the people they associate with that are" - I guess he means drag queens? Those ol' dangerous drag queens even 50 years later LOL
See this was a golden time period where people knew how to act nowadays its not safe to go to a concert .
"Fiddler on the rooftop..."yeah right, we know who's calling the shots 👃
Major drug importers, but we can't name them.
Deserve what they got... That whole country. Look who runs Washington 😊
The narrator sounds like Barack Obama.
He sounds like Al Sanders from WJZ back in the day as well.
Dammit i need to know what happens in that show lol
Mission Impossible S07 - Ep05 TOD-5
I don't see any afromericans on the street... was slavery still legal in 1970s?