This is where KZfaq really shine. Posts like this with historical films like this. Its like going back in a time machine.

It shows that things never really change.

I love these old films. This one shows how to get free ice cream and how well-meaning government when not backed up by the community fails miserably in the long run.

Things never change.

The only thing that could be accomplished was getting rid of the out houses in the alleys. Generations of slum lord families still own the slums and occasionally pay fines to a corrupt City Hall. Nothing changes but the money keeps circulating. Slum lords and City Hall got a good thing going for them. I was told privately by an official at City Hall that he and his colleagues enjoy "living the country club life." They wouldn't change a thing, and all they have to pay is lip service.

Hardy a damn thing has changed since 1953. Maybe the B'mo' Sun should pull the article they wrote then and just reprint it with a new date.

In Baltimore we still make our own fun. This is like time-travel. Sad for people who can't see the beauty in this city, then or now.

At 15:09, I noticed a paint can "1819 Biddle." A quick search with Google Street View shows mostly boarded up housing at 1819 E. Biddle today...

WOW---this is so great for me to watch-- my dad-Yates Cook was very very involved with this--I was born in 56 but heard about this often-and of all things I ended up being a building inspector for 19 years- Dad--I miss you.

Ill never forget Koontz dairy , Rices bread , Bonds bread trucks delivering milk and bread during the 60s . The Good Humor trucks ringing their bells as us kids would yell , Wait a minute ! Good ol Baltimore in its last good days.

Very sad. Looks like Baltimore 2019.

If they would only hold these landlords accountable today for decent homes.

This is great man. Thanks for sharing!!!

Compared to the Baltimore ghettoes of today, this 1953 ghetto seems like an enchanted neighbourhood. Wonder if the name of the street was Barbary Lane? (Tales of the City Reference)

Man things just cycled around and got worse!

I bet Mr Gary family still own some of these houses that need to be destroyed in the city.

It’s still true today as it was back then. You CANNOT give someone out of poverty. You can only give someone an opportunity to do it themselves. This country is so stupid it’s unreal. We’ve known for millennia that some people are just more responsible than others. I don’t care if you give everyone $10,000,000 each, within a few years many will be back in poverty. It’s not even a question of equal treatment, it’s a question of variability. No matter what you do, some people will be poor. THAT IS A FACT!!! All these programs do is make people dependent on the government. Then they have the nerve to call it “The Independence card”. Has there ever been a bigger oxymoron.

"People with the same kindness & neighborliness, as elsewhere." NOT ANYMORE, sister... Not anymore. 💯😩😞

Wow that Baltimore plan really has worked out nicely. Look how beautiful all the homes are now and how friendly all the people are. What a wonderful place we’ve all grown up to know and love. Thank you to everyone involved. Glad I got the hell out of there and moved west. Took me almost 30 years but no more Crabs in a basket lifestyle for me

It’s interesting that finances for repairs fell into the hands of tenants when originally the slumlords were the ones challenged in court to respond to violations. Why didn’t they either collect from the slumlords or from the city? Why loans, when occupants weren’t responsible for damages in the first place ?

Unfortunately, it shows just how little has changed since 1953. Hopefully others will see this and understand how much work has yet to be done.

19:29 On the Pilot Program: Now if they had kept with this instead of building Corbusian slums and driving x-ways through thickly settled ghettoes, maybe, just maybe, we wouldn't have to deal with a HUGE "underclass" problem. Just a little one. Now... too late!

What is a $50 fine? People paying their rent and living in horrible conditions!

It's amazing that this woman felt safe enough to enter these poor, blighted neighborhoods. It wouldn't fly today with the daily shootings and the anger and hate.

Wow!!! The city was tore up back then too

judges still have the attitude of the first judge

Where is those houses located in Baltimore City?It looks like they are located in South Baltimore.

Ten years before I was born.

reminds at the beginning of an old film noir or dragnet episode

These places are 20 times worse and more dangerous now than 70 years ago. This "plan" had no chance of working.

DAM BALTIMORE WAS ALLWAYS FUCKED UP.

what block is that some of them look just as bad today

60 years later...and we are still f'd. It started out as a noble idea....but....

this tha baltimore my dad came up in. he was born in 49. i wish i knew what hood this was.

and they said black and white kids didn't get along

70 years later and they're saying the same thing

And the real estate rental industry responded to this by blockbusting, leading to even further decline.

Well you knock and walk away.

2022 and nothing has changed, what plan?

Maybe she should try knocking on their front doors instead of crawling along the allies in the back. lol

So. How did that plan work out???

Poverty was indeed a problem then. Caused a lot of blight. The problems now are mainly due to drugs like crack cocaine and gang activity. And welfare in the 60’s which took the fathers out of the homes and allowed people to become lazier and not have any incentive to ownership.

Half of these people leaving comments on how messed up Baltimore was and still is probably have never even lived in Baltimore. Or they go there twice a year to go to the inner harbor and have the nerve to comment on Baltimore

Wow, how fitting considering the current affairs in Baltimore. We need less gentrification and let's start helping people whoo need help. All we build now is playgrounds for people with disposable income to eat and have fun.

904 Bevan st Baltimore Maryland 21230 is my house for 5 Years August the 1st. 2016 to 2022 until now

Only thing to do is move 😎👍🏾

It's been downhill ever since

I live on Bevan Street Baltimore Maryland 21230

did they say the man of the neighborhood got to work

70+ years of liberal policies and not much change. 🍻🍻🍻Here’s a cheer to the next liberal mayor voted in that won’t change a thing

2019 and it's worse. #Baltimore

They rebuilt all of those houses with led paint and tainted cheap materials. Folks got really sick, which created a whole new problem. SMH...

They were about to steal the first of their Browns teams.

I'm from randallstown

Wow it was a jungle even in 1953

looks like the plan never went down or it failed i guess what you get when you only vote one way.

What else is new

Their solution was the projects

What BS. They will never change.

The ghetto

It got worse when the drug dealers moved in.

𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐓: it 𝗗𝗜𝗗𝗡'𝗧 work!!!!!

I have been renovating houses in Baltimore City for 45 years and most of the destruction, and trash to houses is done by the tenants, their children and street gangs. Teens having babies, guys not going to school for an education and hanging on street corners selling drugs. Help yourself and quit blaming the system for failures in your life.

Good liberal propaganda film. How did it work out? I was talking with some black VA coworkers from the Bmore suburbs the other day about HUD forcing people from the inner city on the middle class areas to majority white neighborhoods. I had assumed they would be for it. One guy said his family had moved to the suburbs in the sixties to get away from the crime and would move further out if "they" ruined his neighborhood. The other guy was from Kenya and said he wanted to "shoot those n*" who were taking over the playground after school. He said he had to take his daughter to the hospital because some teens had pushed her off the jungle gym and recorded it on their iphones. I jokingly called him a racist. He said because I was mixed I did not "know about n*s." Only in America.

Baltimore still looks bad, also people weren't as nice to black people like this video tries to portray

Ah yes, the D'lesandro crime family. What a truly bad joke!

A young black boy screaming "Mother! Mother!"??? I don't think so. It's "Momma". So scripted. 😆

so Baltimore has always been a slum?

sounds like a propaganda film

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