Camden, New Jersey | What Happened?
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2022
- Camden, NJ is INSANE! This is easily one of the worst and most dangerous cities in America. It truly looks like the aftermath of a war. Camden ranks one of the highest violent crime rates in the United States with 313% over the national average, and the poverty rate is around 33%. The population is sitting at around 70k and has been on the decline for decades. Rent and housing is cheaper here than most other cities in New Jersey, but would you take the trade off? Let's take a drive and check it out!
In 1985 I was moving from FL to NJ pulling a small trailer and made a wrong turn off an exit into Camden. It was after dark. I drove like 10 blocks before realizing it wasn't getting any better. Cop pulled me over and asked what I was doing there. I explained I was lost and where I was headed and he said to follow him and he'll get me back to the freeway. Dude was golden. I'll never forget that.
Cops as they were, back then!
I got lost trying to get to 95. This was in the early 2000s. I had a Buick Regal with very dark tints. Nobody bothered me but no one stopped to help me either. Got to where I needed to go safely.
Imagine growing up around zombies and not falling victim to the madness. God bless the children coming up who are susceptible to getting caught up.
I grew up there until I was 15. Ended up graduating high school, going on to college and obtaining my Master’s Degree, started a family and married for 20 years and my daughter just went off to college. I am in no way the exception because many have come from the city and gone on to do great things. People just tend to focus on the negative in the city.
Camden is now a real set for the Walking Dead movies and TV series!
My first time ever in Harlem, got off the train on 125st, and all you saw was Zombies.
Sam's discount store was'nt cheap enough i guess
Amen 🙏🏾
I noticed the one residence with hanging plants all on the porch. So sad. One lone person trying to make a difference.
:(
A lot of people do that in Camden
I've noticed something from the USA when a city starts to get worse in terms of violence when it starts to get bad spoken, or deteriorated, people instead of working together with the community to improve or solve problems, people prefer to just leave and move to other cities, so the drug dealers take over the place, this has happened in many American cities.
I'm currently living abroad. Whenever I meet non-Americans with that cliche "American dream" of moving to NYC and living out their idea of what they think this country is based on all the years of sitcoms and other media they consumed, I want to show them this and tell them they aren't missing out on much.
I've seen third world countries that cleaned up better than this.
Yeah I've seen third world countries that look nice
NYC a dream? really? Suburbia, probably Californian cities - sure, but hardly NY. My own impression (both from the media and the only personal visit back in the 1990s) was quite sad. It wasn't as bad as this Camden video but close.
It's amusing to hear foreign perspectives of the US.
I grew up 20 miles from NYC and never had a desire to live there.
The "American Dream" - propgated to Americans is buying a house in suburbia..not living in a city like NYC.
This is nowhere near NYC, it's a 3-4 hour drive from NYC to get here
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv hour and a half
Clearly there is no jail time for criminals.
I have always wondered, it cost nothing to put your trash in a trash can. No matter how poor you are you can walk to a trash can and put your litter in a can.
We grew up poor, very poor . But my dad made us pick up the trash people throwed in our yard as fast as my dad seen the litter. And if litter was in our neighbor's yard we had to pick it up as well. Picking up litter Is free.
The "my dad" part is the missing ingredient for like 90% of them
You should take a look at the Kensington Ave area in Pennsylvania. Camden is several notches above Pa.
Camden the last I knew is like 2nd largest murder place in US .Haven't been through there since 2007 but housing district I was in is way worse than what's shown and people living in abandoned buildings with windows busted out .Looks like Ohio's ghost towns
Good for you do a quick history lesson and see why these communities are the way they are and start pointing fingers at the FOR PROFIT system America has. Your politicians don't care about people just their pockets. Sad.
I agree. And not having a dad is no excuse. I was raised by my grandma, we were very poor but our house and yard was kept clean. There's no excuse for trashy property except you just don't care.
I grew up in Camden in the 60s (Polak town, as they called it) so seeing this breaks my heart. I will always hold a soft spot in my heart for Camden because it is where my happiest memories come from. I have compassion for the people living there now; many who lived their have anger towards the . They seem to have no self-esteem for themselves and for the place they live. I understand they live in poverty but picking up trash would make it seem so much better. But I guess they’re stuck and can’t find the energy or pride to change their situation and environment. It seems to be passed down from generator to generation. I hope someday Camden will get back to the way it used to be, and I pray for the people living there. May God bless them.
No disrespect...are there any good or ok places in Camden
don't fool yourself.... it will never get any better it's too far gone. reminds me of my hometown. Gary Indiana. don't feel so bad Gary is much worse. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
I grew up Liberty st my whole life 💯
Around West Jersey Hospital remember when Parkside was beautiful!
@@ptahsekhemtehuti5824 grew up about 25 miles east of camden down route 70. I was lucky...
I attended college in Pennsylvania and met a gentleman from Camden New Jersey who had to go home for a family emergency and I offered to drive him when I arrived in Camden New Jersey I could not believe my eyes I thought I had entered World War II Germany to see the decay that I was seeing and wondered if I was still in America I grew up in Boston and Boston does not have areas like thisThis was in the late 1980s but I said this to say that the gentleman that I met was an awesome gentleman great family values and a great person so you cannot judge the people by the way the city looks but I was very surprised that how the city looked
Should come down to new Bedford Massachusetts looks very similar to Camden NJ
What college did you attend?
@@nightfangs2910 Right! I grew up in Lawrence and it looks similar to this lol
Idk but I'm always in awe, happy to live in the middle of nowhere away from big cities.
I hear you, but this is a very small city.
@@mbtravel7294 But it's part of Philly really so it's part of a metro area of a few million people.
@@mbtravel7294 ever been there?? Don't wanna be
Comming soon to a small town near you.
I grew up in West Camden during the 60's. It was great. At five years old I walked to school by myself. We played outside until 9-10pm on the weekends, ate Yum- Yum, sold on Baird Blvd. It was a beautiful time.
We all know what happened.
Jersey Born! Camden Raised! Back in the 80s 90s, the abandoned businesses displayed in the beginning of the clip were Alive, Active, and Well! That was downtown Broadway in Camden. Seeing how ran down it's become is sad, but I do have wonderful memories from my childhood when everything and everyone was cooling and chilling, hanging outside, from snowball fights to playing with the fire hydrant. Good memories indeed 😌
What happened to Camden to make it what it is today???
I was there! Fairview, Lakeshore Dr is where I grew up. Rand Street out East is where I hung out! ✊🏾
There's a book by Chris Hedges called "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" that talks about the hallowing out of the country and takes Camden, NJ as a prime example. Tons of union jobs shipped down to Monterey, Mexico or automated. He goes in depth with interviews and research. Very good read with fascinating illustrations.
THIS IS FREAKING SAD ...AMERICA WORST THAN PHILLIPINE OR MUMBAI SLUM ....WORST THAN 3RD COUNTRIES !!!! WHAT IS GOING ON ....WHERE IS THE MAYOR OF THIS TOWN ? DO SOME THING !!!!!
Mayor doesn't care about it ..he doesn't live there 😂🤣
You want to invest your money in trash? Well no one else does.
Government doesn't care, it's up the people in the community and if they don't care enough to DO SOMETHING then it won't get done.
Back in the 70’s and 80’s, all of those businesses on Broadway were open and still thriving.
The wheels have been in motion for years to allow this city to deteriorate in order to be bought out block by block to build businesses and expensive homes. It’s slowly being done throughout the city. Campbell’s headquarters stayed. Subaru built a complex. American Water built their headquarters on the waterfront. Some other large businesses in East Camden. All that ribbon cutting, but no jobs for the residents.
Correct. Yours is a truthful comment. The troll comments though...
Don't forget Rutgers and Cooper's Health System.
No business will hire anyone with no skills and no discipline or ambition to gain skills. Technology makes those people worthless. Doubt it? How many human toll takers are left on the Ben Franklin bridge? How many fast food orders are taken through kiosks and phone apps? And it will only accelerate because machines and robots don't need vacations and benefits and won't sue you for racial discrimination if the boss looks at it wrong.
Low skill and undisciplined people cost far more to employ than they produce for the employer.
That's because the "residents" don't want to work
The businesses were not thriving, not by comparison to what had been there in the 1950s. Many businesses followed the middle class elsewhere. Campbell's headquarters stayed, but the factories that had employed thousands moved elsewhere. Powerful unions kept making demands that companies refused to surrender to. Instead, the companies moved manufacturing to the South, or even to other countries. RCA's factories left. The shipbuilding companies stopped producing as many ships due to lack of demand caused by containerization.
Damn… this is one of those cities that really makes me appreciate where I live (despite wishing I could move somewhere else). Sad scenes that even movies don’t show.
I worked there in the early 80’s at a food distribution warehouse. We would get robbed at gunpoint in the middle of the day for food. Houses all burned out, abandoned, and in disrepair. Roving bands of dogs. Poverty is an ugly thing.
It was worse 30 years ago. Same for Irvington Newark and Trenton. Many burned out and boarded up properties were torn down and new homes replaced them.
IRVINGTON IS A LOVELY TOWN 😁
@@jameslewis8690 Was
you forgot Patterson New Jersey Clifton New Jersey and all the towns around there I left New Jersey in 2009 I miss it though.
I wonder what the common factor was between all those places…hmmm
@@jameslewis8690 used to live on Grove Street and then 16th ave
I’m a CDL truck driver and I just picked up a load from the Camden, NJ Port. During the day. First time here. I’ve been to most all of America. This was by far one of the, if not the worst city I’ve ever been to.
My father who lived in Camden 1915/1954. He always said this is what Camden was coming to.But it is just a fact of life in many cities across the country.
I will forever hold a place in my heart for Camden and the people there. The youth have no idea they live in such terrible conditions. We made a way to smile and have the best childhood in the city. Most of the people in the city have a great spirit regardless. I actually lived in this area (Parkside) and went to UPK as a youth. Sensei Rob has saved a lot of us.
I went to upk right up there on Mount Ephraim avenue also I sparred Nasir Dickerson and a couple other guys
What is going on? It looks empty. The stores are closed too.
Did people move???
My family is from Peru and even there I have never seen such dirty and destitute streets. Even in the poorest villages in the mountains of Peru you don't see this kind of misery. People are clean and friendly and there is 0 gun violence. People need to stop putting down TWC's when TBH there are plenty of horrible places here in the US.
Please, this looks like Lima
It's not about the poverty. It is about mentality, attitudes and responsibilities of ppl. Also laws.
Wow
Thanks for the footage.
I use to drive in those streets every day for work. All the drug addicts get moving around 7am to try and find their next score. Too bad you didn't capture downtown Camden where the people with money are buying up blocks to build more expensive housing and how they're pushing people out just to make money. Sadly if you only make minimum wage Camden is one of the few places you can afford to live in New Jersey.
ha
Well if you make minimum wage then get a job at McDonald's they pay 11 dollars an hour. People who live here don't make minimum wage, the government is their source of income
Camden is starting to get gentrified too?
It's business. Don't take it personal. Those who choose to live this way get pushed further out. Give about 15 years this place will begin to look better. The cost to buy will be so cheap. People's taxes will go up without realizing and will be forced to sell or loose their property.
There was a riot that happened in 70's and it never was the same and it's sad Camden was a beautiful city years ago
I grow up in Camden so it never looked like it this and went to schools in Camden.
I used to live in almost everywhere in Camden....North, South and East near Cramer Hill and Pennsauken, it's always been this way and it's sad to still see it the same, now that I have kids and I go through there I tell myself I would never raise my kids here but when you're a kid living through this like I did you just get use to living where you are and deal with it, damn shame.
I'd like to solve this puzzle, Pat.
El problema es que mucha gente entró al primer mundo, pero el primer mundo no entró en ellos.
Claro que si.
Verdad
Correct.
Keeps getting better. 😀👍🏻
Thanks so much for being around from the beginning!
It's crazy. Drive only 10 minutes from Camden and you'll be in some of the nicest towns in south Jersey. Such as Collingswood, Haddonfield, and Haddon Heights.
Excellent capture on the area. Appreciate the high definition. Have been there before.
Nice shots of the bikes! Its almost like they were about to hit you!
They almost did!
This is definitely not what you call "living the dream" in the USA
Sadly it is.
Nightmares are also dreams...
The trucking company I worked for in the early 90's hauled scrap metal to a recycling company in Camden. It looks like it hasn't changed a bit. Wow! What a rough town. I went down with one of the drivers. Couldn't wait to dump and get out of there.
Never been to Camden but can tell you exactly what happened. The Federal Govt. subsidizes Billions to states and cities. Somehow, those funds have begun to vanish before reaching communities. Remember when new buildings like Recreation Centers and Libraries were built? Remember when young people lined up for summer and part time jobs instead of standing around on street corners? Remember when kids roamed the neighborhood with lawn mowers looking for yard work? That was the America I grew up in.
You cannot be more wrong.
There are no job opportunities there. None.
Barely any yards to cut in inner city communitys. I remember when parents took teens to fill out job applications. Now most applications are done online. I've noticed more places offering on the spot interviews due to labor shortage.
@@eddie054 You are correct. Once those large corporations pulled out, eliminating 80-90K jobs, it was the beginning of the end. You see this in a lot of smaller cities and towns where the local plant closes.
@@eddie054 Do they have transportation?
I was born in a neighborhood like this in Boston in 1937. We moved to a small suburb with lawns and trees when I was 8 and I hated it. I was homesick for the slums. I remember walking up the street on my second day and thinking I had seen all the one-family houses I ever wanted to see. Still feel that way about one-family houses, but realize how lucky I was to escape the ghetto. Still feel just the slightest twinge of ill-conceived nostalgia when I watch walk-throughs of the most wretched big city neighborhoods.
Not too far from this is Cherry Hill. A completely different suburban world.
No worries, there's a plethora of ghettos from which to choose from to relocate to.
@@vh2337 Feelings and logic are two very different things. I'd live in Monte Carlo if I could.
i felt this deeply. i was born and raised in Camden, then moved to Collingswood, which was farrrr more idylic, clean, and felt more safe. we lived in a townhouse there and i attended a christian school. my family still lived in Camden or around it. visits were done in Camden during the day, and even then, i remember my mom sternly telling me to stay in the house with the adults. i still feel that twinge of nostalgia when i visit or have to drive through Camden, but i am grateful to my parents for sacrificing so much to get out of there.
Which Boston neighborhood ? I live in Boston. The South End ?
Your hood skills are level 10 crazy bro
Notice the air conditioner window units are all on second floors. Not just because of heat, if you want to keep them, that's where they go.
I was born in Gary, IN and it looks so similar but smaller to Camden because there is nothing left standing in Gary.
Very sad for a new world country with all this money and nothing is happening to solve it's people's housing crisis and the drug epidemic has sadly been shoved aside as well...smh
Money only goes so far...people have to want help and be committed to it but sadly that's not the case in many of these types of places.
Camden needs change. These streets are filled with too much crime and drugs. I know this is a controversial topic but gentrification is something that needs to happen to make communities better. I live in Camden right now and I can tell you that once things started to get better, the people living in the areas that got better felt safer and knew they could walk home from a hard day of work without worrying if they would even get home. Change is inevitable and for the most part its necessary.
To be fair, the new police department has reduced crime there a lot over the last 10 years.
@@WiseOwl_1408 believe it or not yeah, it was much worse. In 2012 this was the most dangerous city in the country and it’s barely half the size of Philly. Damn near 60 people got shot in one summer.
Yes I was just telling people Camden honestly not what it used to be anymore. The city is definitely doing better. Just gotta long way to go
There is amazing architecture there, I sure hope some of it can be saved. Beautiful
Love the bars on the windows tells a story
Camden new jersey is get more run down i see .I do have good memories back from the 80's going there visiting my mother aunt .She live her aging years working for a convent as a cook after her husband died. Remember when I first learned how drive and went to see her... She say let's go to the casino... LOL....
*Camden, New Jersey. The city I was born in thinking the sound of gunshots across the street everyday was a normal thing everywhere. Sometimes I meet people from NJ and NY who tell me they're grateful they left because they knew there was no future for them there. This looks like a literal trash can everyone's living in. They have no idea how terrible their life is until they move to a much more clean, peaceful and thriving area where everyone is kind, happy and not trying to rob them and kill them. I still have family there in NJ, but I'll never go back to live. I've visited roughly 25 different states and lived outside the U.S. and as far as I'm concerned, I'm a Floridian through and through. I'm staying here in FL.*
I've lived in NJ since 1948 and my town hasn't changed much at all, it's beautiful and safe. My kids and grandkids grew up here also and are extremely happy and successful. Don't judge a place by one city.
I was also born in Camden. To see how life could have been and is for many others, makes me appreciate my parents more than ever for getting us out when we were kids. Moving to Tennessee was the best thing my Dad ever did for us.
I grew up in Camden. My parents and sister are still there. (Well, my parents moved to Collingswood). We’re all doing well. College degrees, stable households, etc… Once you look past the landscape, the people are wonderful! Lots of good things come out of that little big city!
Ironic how one of NJs most affluent towns,cherry hill is the next town over 🤔.
NJ's socio-economic picture as a whole is rather unique I'd imagine. You can drive through the wealthiest communities in America to the poorest in minutes.
@@squallie78 It's very much the same in parts of Delaware, especially Wilmington.
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The closest Camden comes to Cherry Hill is Camden Catholic High School out on Cuthbert Rd. You've got to go thru @ least 3 or 4 towns before you hit Cherry Hill, which is the way they like it. And these days C.H. ain't so affluent any more, as witness their empty shopping plazas & their one time massive school system reduced to something like 1 bldg.
@@g.hon.4645 Cherry Hill is really close to Camden I’m there every week and it’s a few minutes worth of driving (less than 10).
It's obvious that this is a depopulation situation, it's happened all over the rust belt. I expect, though, that the properties are owned by some sort of entity. It is incumbent on municipal and county governments to mandate a resolution, force a resolution that makes the property owners level the abandoned structures, clear and level the property. empty fields are better than that.
youre right. however, this is youtube and most wont understand the corporations buying real estate
Why? What incentive does the property owner, or the city, have to tear down buildings and leave an open field? The open fields will just get littered with homeless drug addicts and trash, which is pretty much all that remains in Camden. Campbells Soup is one of the only major employers in the city, except for the city government. There is hardly any economic activity there and it is extremely unsafe. There's no way they're going to get people to move to Camden if the build apartments.
@@jt8251 It’s cheaper to tear the property down than restore it, profitable even. Exactly what happened in Detroit. Endless blocks of houses leveled just in the last twenty years.
I can’t think of a single constructive suggestion.
I never seen it before but this is horrible!!!! How, in America, is this happening?
That is so messed.... I walked them streets and was not like that... so sad 😞
Heart breaking !!!
Great content👍👍👍👍💯💯💯💯
Absolutely depressing. Well at least the neighborhood watch is active.
Imagine raising children in a place like this.
Its really messed up to know that this living conditions has to exist in our society, and I say has to because it absolutely exists in all our cities
Great work, a great video. I remember growing up in the east end of London after the docks were shut down, after years of neglect now you can't buy for love or money. I'd like to visit this town, I'm an Artist
Oh my God! I worked for a company based in Norcross, GA and I occassionaly met with one of our managers of the NJ plant. I had no idea how horrible this place is.
I have had nightmares like this! 😮
i live in philly, 2 miles across the river, and have never been to the bad part of camden, i have no reason to be there, thanks for the video
Thank you for watching
Philly is just as bad if not worst I get Philadelphia's news and I remember in February just one month into our new years Philly had well over 100 homicides
Philly is worse, ever seen Kensington?
This comment aged well... Philly and it's good old Kensington...
I dont live in Kensington
Camden, been like this since the late 80’ early 90”s when I use to roll over there from Philly to knock down shorties. You don’t see a welcome to New Jersey sign until you get to Cherry Hill. Only thriving business is Cambell Soup and maybe the Aquarium!!!!!
This is what happens when you that poor people move up into the good neighborhoods and they aren't ready for that move they don't have the skills to maintain a home or the money they say to theirselves I'm going to move to a nice neighborhood but they bring their bad habits with them and then they bring down that neighborhood too
You are so right there's no excuse for this people just don't appreciate things, they just know how to destroy as soon as it started the deterioration should have been taken care of , why do people have to destroy where they live
This clearly was never a well off maybe nice but it was never a rich neighbourhood I can tell by the way it looks
True.
Pretty much how I remember it from 25 years ago when I left it last, born and raised in Camden city. Loved the couple decades I resided there. This city is home to some of the most wonderful people I’ve ever met in my life.
This was s where I learned to roll through stop signs back in the 1990s after working after 10 pm- so I didn’t get shot in the head sitting at a stop light or sign- this is now Armageddon on steroids - real news 🙏♥️⛵️❤️
Post apocalyptic! All the places that look this bad have one thing in common! I was born and raised in Paterson NJ it's exactly the same..take a wild guess what it is.
Omg !! The more he was driving, all of the blocks were boarded up!!!
I'm surprised to see a Mc Crory's store in Camden. We had one in Passaic where i was born & raised, closed down but was replaced by other businesses. Mc Crory's closed in the mid, late 90s so to see a building still inactive since the 90s, reflects the development of Camden.
It is a certainty that anyone walking these streets is up to no good--because there is no industry. I read there is not even a GROCERY store in the City limits! The people born and stuck there have the odds stacked so heavily against them. I don't think any of us can relate to this who have not lived in a ghetto. Thank you, Hoods N Hollers, for giving those of us who don't get there to see with our own eyes a glimpse into what poverty REALLY looks like. Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much for watching!
Crazy isn't it? No supermarket, but they have a soccer stadium and a casino, smh.
It has been like this for 60+ years. They have build projects and within a decade they are ruined.
Caden at one time was the main hub for electronic manufacturers a earlier version of silocone valley on a world wide scale.
Lol! RCA is a gated community of condos now.
I was in Camden 12 years ago, on my way to Washgington D.C......IT hasnt changed. VERY sad.
The motorcycles kinda give it a _Road Warrior_ feel.
It's probably a similar thing across the nation in that: underneath all the blight and crime there are a lot of beutiful historic homes and buildings.
Here, the whole neighborhood is like historically intact, and in a restored state, would actually be quite beautiful, some of these houses must be from the 1880s.
Good content
I grew up in the city we all left in 2001 to San Antonio Texas it's been like this since I was a kid in the '80s...
A hot sultry afternoon somewhere what looks like a depressed area of New Jersey Camden. I am from the UK. Parts of the UK are looking very similar these days.
Seriously? Seems like it's getting like that in to many countries, states, cities. How sad. This NEVER should have happened. That's why police work so hard to remove the drugs only it's just getting out of hand for them as well. 👎 Can't fight City Hall. Crazy.
Was full of bad people in the 70’s. Now not so full.
Is that the american dream?
Holly Sh...... i stay in Germany 😮
...The América dream!!!
you need to be awake to realize the american dream!!!
The American dream..u have to be asleep to believe it
The American dream never made it here.
Really? What about Frankfurt Germany around the main station?
The American Nightmare!
When I worked for Bell Tell the garage that served Camden had special Friday orders. The whole garage got their first ticket there. They had to be out by noon. No one went there till Monday.
I drive to Camden for work. Sad sights to see… worst is when you see bad things in front of elementary schools..
Ei esse canal é maravilhoso! Saudações do Brasil. 🙏👏👏👏
This is what happens when you prioritize other groups and countries over your own citizens🥱
I can imagine that's a scary place be at night
When Campbell's pulled the plug it affected Camden and Cherry Hill. That was a BIG economic cost for the Metro area Philadelphia included in the ruins too.
Nice looking classic Dodge at 6:59
That shot of the dilapidated church with the tweaker in front of it made me feel a certain way I can't describe...
What makes me angry is that cities will use tax dollars for the upkeep of better parts of it city, where the citizens can afford their own upkeep and completely disregard the lower income areas.
Makes perfect sense, the low income throw trash every where but the 🗑 smoke crack and weed all day and pop wheelies up and down traffic and bust gunshots over drug money they care less about a clean environment
As any kid who plays SimCity knows, the "lower income areas" are an economic drag on the city. They require high services to cope with the crime and arson, while not paying much in taxes. The goal shouldn't be to indulge or subsidize low-income areas, but to turn them into high-income areas for skilled workers.
Are you serious? Ghettos are total money pits! The Gov pours mo ey into them and they never change.
@@stevenlitvintchouk3131 I absolutely agree with you. You are speaking in terms of factual reality. Unfortunately, speaking such truth is, for the most part, frowned upon these days. People have a certain kind of cognitive dissonance and don't like facts and truth getting in the way of things, especially where "victims" are concerned.
Looks like a scene out of Back to the Future when Marty is heading towards Biffs Hotel.
Templehall was like this in the seventies. Thank God I got out to Sauchenbush.
I know is across the river, but when I attended a church in the late 90's on 27th and Crammer, some how I felt like if I was still in North Philly.
"Awful" is the only way to describe this.
Reminds me of Newark back in the 70's and early 80's even though we still have areas that look like this now!!!
My mom grew up in Camden, even went to Camden high in the 70’s. my grandparents still live there to this day, we moved out in the early 90’s to Miami but I would stay plenty of summers with them and DAMN! I can’t believe my eyes when I see this, because when you’re young and in it you don’t realize how bad it is
This is why God created suburbs. So you aren't forced to live with animals.
I was part of the American Engineering team getting the Acela ready in Philly back in 1999 - Camden had the big aquarium and outdoor music shell but all other parts were wasteland. You'd think that modern tech would help get the criminals off the streets so good people can live there.
6:02 Trampoline, then above ground pool, then basketball net. Someone is having fun.
What are the odds to find so many if not new cars, at least kind of new ones and seems they live in the area .
Perhaps “ auto insurance it’s too high that they can’t afford a house “.
Failed to see how many motorcycles and , moped and three wheels are running in those streets !
Depressing! It’s so sad to see this. The buildings, although run down, have nice architecture. If only citizens and government could come together and rehabilitate even one block at a time…Give businesses an incentive to return. Sadly, the worse it gets, the worse it gets…
Ok. Now do the night time version of this video. Lol.
That’ll be uploaded in the near future
Be safe out there, man.
My then 70 year old mother and handicapped brother were robbed in camden in the late 80's.
All those newer cars in such a run down area? Do they care more about their cars than their homes, I don’t understand. 🤦♀️
Expensive sneakers and gold jewelry
Welcome to America
Philly and Camden = Step brother and sister
Absolutely right and people from Philadelphia keep commenting how bad Camden looks like Philadelphia any better in fact it's worst people get murdered every day out there Camden is more safer then Philly...I'm not from either or but I'm just saying
No that is Chester PA and Camden NJ that are step brother and sister. Philly is way bigger and still has a lot going for it.
Asbury Park NJ was like that, but they cleaned it up and now is beautiful and thriving.
The difference is the good leadership vs corrupted and lazy.
Back in the 40's -50's Camden was a middle-class working city with thousands of good paying manufacturing jobs... Campbell Soup, RCA, New York Shipyard...etc. All gone... now it's one of the poorest and violent cities in America... Very sad...