"Goodbye to Glocamorra" (1968) 

Who were your parents in what time in the video?

Do you have pictures of Elwood street back then ?

120 Vermilyea and 207th

That's cool!.. My mother had a nice Irish friend on Vermilyea Ave back in the late 60's. But things changed alot in the 70's.

He became a priest at Fordham.

@@JoeBuck207 makes sense he’s a Ram.

@@JoeBuck207 Did he? Cannot find any info on him....

*you're

@@skaworld509 ha ha, I swear spellcheck overcorrects because I see and make that mistake all the time.

Sean: Not surprised at Legion of Mary, BUT was surprised to learn that joining the 'Pioneers' in Ir-Am circles, meant pledging to total alcohol abstinence, NOT joining the youth division of the Communist Party USA! And so it was among those people, in that place, in those daze ...

Keith McAleer hi Keith, I remember st judes bizarre..we, as kids growing up, looked forward to that EVERY YEAR. I too was born in ‘59. I grew up on Isham street, went to good shepherd. I am only 1 min. Into this video and am looking forward to watching the rest. We were so lucky to have grown up in INWOOD..THE BEST CHILDHOOD MEMORIES by far...

@S B wow. Blast from the past. You're not going to believe this, but just last week, I was thinking about your parents. I remember that your dad died young. I remember Sharon but forgot your name. Sorry. It was a great place and time to grow up.

@susan evans Hey Susan I guess you may have known the Meehans at Good Shepherd. Jerry, Eddie, Regina, or Michael. Both families (McAleer & Meehan) went to Mattituck Long Island every summer through the 60s and early 70s. Great memories in Inwood and Long Island Keith McAleer

I grew up on Wadsworth Ave and 191Street and I remember the St Jude's Bazaar. The parents of one of my school buddies from St. Elizabeth's School won a car at the bazaar in 1972 but she had never driven a car in her life. I think Taggart's made out on the deal. Our parents made many Sunday trips to Gaelic Park. I even went to several wedding ceremonies at Good Shepherd as a kid, Moved away from WaHi in 1973 as the nabe was dangerous and run-down Last time I visited was in 2007 and I showed my wife The Cloisters and Ft Tryon Park and where I grew up. We drove up Snake Hill and when we arrived at my apartment building she was so freaked out over the ghetto-ness that she would not get out of the car. Some good memories of the old days but I am content these days in Georgia.

Did you live on Academy St?

Do you remember a Good Shepard student with a knife in the first grade about 1975?

Two years late to this comment but I’ve been doing research on demographic transitions within Northern NYC. I don’t think older Dominicans would be surprised since they were there, but the younger generation would most likely be shocked to hear. Yet, there are still pockets of Irish communities in the Bronx.

very true...same problem in Ireland..maybe having the name Christ in a word may upset some agnostic.!

Still overwhelming Irish in Woodlawn

True but big cities don't have the gossip 😕

Ireland is also now being swallowed up by "Immigrants" that are being intentionally planted there by the U.N. and certain NGO's to change the natural demographic of the British Isles including Ireland, Scotland and Wales and even the Scandinavian Lands of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark with people being led to believe that it's just some small scale Social Experiment when there's really a Lot more to it than that. And this is in no way temporary or small in scale but a very Dangerous and malevolent plan to destroy the concept of sovereignty in Every Country and none more so than those that built themselves up to what would be the beginning of Western Civilization such as the countries of Western Europe that had begun to break away from the Roman Empire as it began to self-destruct from within the Mediterranean Basin with the same destructive concept that has formed the European Union and is being forced on other countries unwilling to surrender their sovereignty and self-determination. It was the Roman Empire that stretched itself too thin and began losing control of the Empire when other countries and their cultures either not able to or unwilling to assimilate began being hostile to the point of invading parts of the Empire and soldiers unwilling to defend more and more territories till it all began unvaveling. At present, what could the Irish see as a benefit to themselves to be taking in so-called "Refugees" that were created by other external interests creating Dictatorships and then supplying weapons to militaries formed because of religious differences and intolerance in countries of a Continent as Huge as Africa and shipping those from Africa and other places into a small Island by comparison to Africa with incompatible cultures, traditions and languages if not for purposes that could Only be malevolent and Dangerous to the natural inhabitants and demographic of Ireland or Scotland, Wales and even England and on to France, Germany etc, etc. This is Not going to End Well no matter how and what way it's looked at and the people of Europe and now America as of May 2023 are going to have to Fight sooner or later and the sooner the better like Right Damned Now!!!

Church is still there because the Hispanics are Catholic and probably have Spanish service

In '64 and '65 I attended evening classes at the City Hall branch of Fordham University. Before every class, the teacher led the students in the Lord's Prayer or the Hail Mary, before the term "political correctness" had been coined.

@@seancurtain5285 Prayer? Fordham was/is Catholic, and JESUIT affiliated, so prayer should have been no surprise. Up a block from Gaelic Park at W242 & Bway, is Manhattan College. I'm class of '68. It's also Catholic and run by the remnant DeLaSalle Christian Brothers. We had our own Vietnam-era iconoclastic moments, but Admin resisted the call to remove the crucifixes in any room where Fed money was paying/assisting tuition of students attending class in prep for teaching in "Title I" public schools. Hey, it's one thing or the other, right?

He's a Judge in Southern NJ.

That's what they said about the Irish 100 years ago! Change is part of life get used to it or check out!

Yup!...Humberto gallow Inwood went downhill. I graduated from good shepherd and the church was my parish. Miss the good old days

I know a few Irish people who lived here in the 50s and 60s. There was a lot of violence and alcoholism. This Irishman stabbed another Irishman on my friend's car back then. The English thought the Irish were inferior and subjugated them. They fled here and were considered intruders. So, they came here and adopted the attitude of their oppressors. But everyone here is poisoned by Western indoctrination.

​@@scretching08 Except "they" were wrong. Irish created stable, upwardly mobile neighborhoods respecting God and'country. nothing like this now.