Driving around Reading, Pennsylvania in 1989

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7 жыл бұрын

Driving around Reading, PA in 1989. Downtown area, the High School and all the way up to the Pagoda.
This was filmed during my stay as a Exchange Student that year.
Enjoy the ride!

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@SavingwJCAM 3 жыл бұрын

I'm from Reading,pa and 3 months after this video was recorded I was born

@marcusrolon6037 2 жыл бұрын

7 months after for me

@bearcoyote9170 Жыл бұрын

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

@blkvetteman1 Жыл бұрын

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!

@kerrygrabowski4343 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

A fellow 'ski, I see. I grew up on the south side, around 9th and Cotton. The videos blow my mind every time, and are like an instant time machine.

@kerrygrabowski4343 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Kazasia-_- 3 жыл бұрын

It’s so weird seeing my city long before I was born I see reading high hasn’t changed much from the outside

@loristockton7495 3 жыл бұрын

Thank You this was my Mother's home town, good memories.❤

@Eye-it-azz 11 ай бұрын

2 years before i was born, I’m now 30 years old. Could still recognize most of the places and streets

@thepeterchannel3230 2 ай бұрын

This city is immortalized in the board game "Monopoly" . The "Reading Railroad" is one of the properties on the board. Classic..

@MrBubyV 2 жыл бұрын

This is nostalgic. Thanks 👍🏽

@MrBubyV 2 жыл бұрын

This is nostalgic…. thanks for sharing. 👍🏽

@hendrix24 Жыл бұрын

This is my home town. I was born there in 1989. What a coincidence.

@electralexa99 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this!!!

@chokopyua3577 6 жыл бұрын

A year before I was born. I love you so much for this footage. Thanks♥

@ComicVantage Жыл бұрын

I was 13 and living in Reading at this time. So may memories, Thank you!

@TodosLados 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this. Wow! Thanks a lot. Great footage!!!

@tesaoderole7331 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching :)

@warrenguy76 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@blkvetteman1 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. Grew up on the 300 block of W Buttowood. Yes, the last row of homes just before the bridge. So many memories.

@warrenguy76 Жыл бұрын

@@blkvetteman1 very cool neighbor! 😉 yes what memories of a time gone by!

@user-fk8bf7rq4k Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this!

@goodkid457 4 жыл бұрын

4:51, that was my childhood home right there on that corner. might see it again later this month...

@Lisa-ps2rv 3 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic!

@luisbaez1599 Жыл бұрын

Reading ❤️

@evelyngarcia986 2 жыл бұрын

Wow things change now it looks different now

@marylouskillin2099 4 ай бұрын

I remember it well

@JoseRodriguez-jc1vd 3 жыл бұрын

Nice work

@chantaethomas1109 5 жыл бұрын

Wow. 😱😎

@alfredrivera7146 5 жыл бұрын

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 😁😅

@27inzenith 3 жыл бұрын

March 19, 1989 was on a Sunday.

@kennyplay5982 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@DebraGill 2 жыл бұрын

I believe it may have been a pacer.

@DebraGill 2 жыл бұрын

Shoe factory? Curtis, Stevens and Emory. My first job was there.

@rlb3255 Жыл бұрын

Embry, not Emory

@DebraGill Жыл бұрын

@@rlb3255 thanks, it’s been 50 years since I worked there. 👍🏻

@rlb3255 Жыл бұрын

@@DebraGill Me too!!

@DebraGill Жыл бұрын

@@rlb3255 you worked there too? 😊

@rlb3255 Жыл бұрын

@@DebraGill Yes briefly. Unsure of the year though.

@josephferrante5140 Жыл бұрын

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.

@SuperBigdaddywood Жыл бұрын

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.