Just stumbled across this. I left for the Navy just 4 years before this was shot and have only been back a handful of times since... growing up in the 6th Ward just at the foot of the Buttonwood St bridge; it may stand to reason why. Seeing it in its old form felt great! The cars!!! AND A YUGO!!! The school, roads - all of this place holds 17 years of very strong memories of my early life. Thanks for the share!
My parents started an Italian bakery on 221 s. 5th street. It was safe there and then .Over the years the crime would put a black eye on coming into the city to shop. My parents ESCAPED and sold the business when they started seeing less people coming into the shop. It had nothing to do with there baked goods!!! People were scared to come in and the city gave parking tickets out like crazy. So between crime and city greed my parents sold it!! You could give me free rent at 221 s . 5th and I would not live there.
I lived at 310 S.5th in the early 80's. What a dump. The lady in the 3rd floor apartment jumped out the window and died on the sidewalk. Later I lived on Walnut st. It was the height of the crack epidemic, and it wasn't really safe to go outside, even in the daytime. 100% correct about the crime and greed.
Did you guys see all those beautiful vehicles??? The van and pickup truck I drove those days I still have them big memories and some of my friends not alive anymore Enjoy the life do your best and be a good person
Thank you so much for posting this. In 1989 our family was living in Reading three years already, but in a different section of Reading closer to West Reading but still within Reading proper. 400 block of Tulpehocken St. What memories!
Wow, @ 2:49 it's, a, YUGO CAR!! made in Yugoslavia. They sold for something like $2500/ new.. And that weird bubble car in the beginning of the video too. Not sure what that is, Toyota? Does anyone know?
I grew up on the 400 block of 12 street and graduated 4 months after this video was recorded. When the video was going out 13th street it literally blew my mind and took me back to that time period all over again. It actually is great to see that videos like this surface from time to time. Thanku for taking me back to my old neighborhood again.
@@iLikeMyOwnPosts I miss those days, playing till the lights came on at night and not having a care in the world. Unfortunately the city took a turn for the worse and don’t see how it could ever return to the city of old.
I probably was at Mr. Wentzel's bilingual classroom that day at Reading High School or probably if I miss behaved I was at the vice principal Mr. Lee the black man office 😁😅
