Born and raised in Aliquippa in 70’s and 80’s. The town may be in bad shape but it has produced a lot of great people.

One of many Pennsylvania Steel towns pushed into the dust bin during the 1980's, at one time a shining light, The American Dream.

Oddly, I thought it was a beautiful place. I loved seeing the wooded areas, the hills, the greenery covering antiguated walls, the calm, & The emptiness of it all..... like a funeral. How appropriate! A poor town that time forgot. But then, I often felt my mind wondering back to another time... of mutton sleeves, parasols, & paper collars. A hundred years & more, when all was bounitful, when people had their chance to live their dream. They say that all good things must end one day.

A lot of great athletes came from that little mill town: Pistol Pete Maravich Mike Ditka Ty Law Darrelle Revis Sean Gilbert and many more...

After WW2, even when the mills were roaring, Aliquippa was in decline as more and more people, often enabled by the GI Bill, moved out to the townships. Better schools, better air, a yard, and all that.

singer madonna, her dad silvio ciccone is from aliquippa, pa and went to geneva college, ended up in michigan with car company

I have seen 4 or 5 Aliquippa videos, and this is by far the best. The most realistic. Great video, thank you

When were small and being a teenager, Aliquippa was a beautiful city. Wow it has really changed

My grandparents lived here when I was little before they moved to Florida. It makes me so sad to see what has become of this town.

Looks depressing, scary, you can make a thriller movie. Feel sorry for the people.

first time seeing your video and I enjoyed very much.

I moved out of PA to FL. PA is actually rotting away. It seems to be very over crowded as well. I would avoid that state.. advice to all

I like the fact that you don't make comments. It allows me to focus on what I'm seeing. There are plenty of videos full of comments. 😊

Wow I grew up in Rochester Pa! Not far fro quip town. The entire Beaver Valley is in bad shape. I left in 1985, headed to the new and growing South. It’s really hard to come back to that area and see all the decay. Since leaving in the 80’s my life has been great. I feel sorry for all the people who stayed for many reasons. Western Pa was a great place to grow up in , but as an adult not many options for success.

Aliquippa has been doing a good job with tearing down abandoned houses recently. You have to realize the population was around 24k at its peak and is down to around 9k. That’s a huge population decline since the steel mills closed. A lot of houses with nobody to live in them.

I don't know if anyone else was a child of the 1960's I am sure there R plenty but I wanted to share the fact I had a baseball glove my grand father got for me locally it was autographed by Joe Domagio if I spelled that right. The glove had that old style black & silver Spalding Sports tag on it. Under that it says made in Aliquippa Pa. I would say he got for me circa 1969. It was a youth or kid sized glove.

Never saw a small city with so many housing projects

I live near this neighborhood. Thanks for sharing!

Cracks me up. The only maintained buildings are public housing. Look at all the expensive cars. LOL

I've hauled alot of Gypsum to USG. I've ran 51 many times. The trip through the hole or the tunnel was always entertaining. People never wanted to wait their turn.

I know this is not exactly Pittsburgh, but I love the whole Pittsburgh area. This is beautiful in a decaying type of way.

The sky looks beautiful

Those first abandon buildings you pass at the very beginning- were they private residences or businesses way-back-when...?

It reminds me of Detroit with the abandoned house and decay neighborhood

WHY did all these little towns around Pittsburgh allow the feds to put a housing project in them? Don't they now see that the suburbs that didn't allow a project are thriving?

this is great footage, I'm from PA and this town has bigger, nicer homes than most PA towns, but abandoned and trees growing thru homes and stuff

0:55 - old Spring Street. I grew up there back around '82-'83. Used to watch He-Man and Inspector Gadget on WPTT 22 in those days.

Thanks for the vid, I would never knew such a place had existed

Jones and Loughlin Steel built this town and when it closed down it killed it.

3:14, must have been very beautiful at 1 time with brick roads. Then you have trashy people move in, then the neighborhood goes way down.

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I used to do door to door sales in Aliquippa and throughout Eastern Ohio and western PA. So many cities and towns that are just outdated and run down. Such a beautiful part of the country with the trees and hills but yet little slums all throughout. I’ve walked the most dangerous streets and spoken with just about everyone on the block. It’s really sad the current state so many small towns are in - a lot of it due to political corruption (among other things) and Aliquippa is no exception the city of Aliquippa is instantly corrupt and has been for a very long time. A small town with massive inner city problems.

Grew up in New Brighton. I can tell you that In the early 80s Aliquippa almost looked the same. Just looks like more projects ( govt housing ?) have been built

1st time I heard of Aliquippa was in early '70s; knew a great guy who was one of the roadies for my husband's rock band; only knew his, obviously, nickname 'worm' ... Worm was from Aliquippa! He must be 70+ years old now.

One thing I noticed that the housing projects seemed to be well maintained and clean. The city overall seems to be relatively free of debris/garbage flowing on the streets. Definitely could get rid of many abandoned houses. I grew up in a Pittsburgh suburb in the 70s and 80s. This city looks much better than some of the rough neighboring towns that I remember.

These videos are like time capsules online, make me wonder what it looked like before it and so many others turned

All those old duplexes- imagine the activity in those neighborhoods back in the day- not to mention all the demolished houses -

WOW. I am really amazed at how much multi family housing is there 😮 I just love some of those old ruin buildings. I would have loved a commentary while you drove.

I see many areas on here that look very beautiful. As you said, can take the bad with the good. Just sad the economic fell.

There hasn't been much in demolition this year and some neighborhoods are no longer getting garbage collection. Also the city police department is now almost defunct and the state police are taking shifts. Summer 2022 hasn't been kind to Quip, nor to many of the towns on your wonderful channel.

What's odd is the cars. No really bad rust buckets or clunkers. Even if the houses are major dumps, the cars out front are pretty nice looking. Unless there are no cars at all. And the occupants can't afford no wheels at all. I also wonder if they even plow some of those really bad streets in winter. Or do the residents have to wait like a week or 2 to get out. Also it takes about 30-40 years for a roof to develop large holes or fall in due to rot. When you see the caved-in roof, you know that building has been abandoned a long time.

That kid on that quad is gonna roll that thing

Those steep streets must be hell in the winter. Some are one big pothole, yet every occupied home is paying the city property tax, plus sales, income, etc.That money's going somewhere. This reminds me of the current state of my home town, Johnstown, Pa. Sad. Good videography. The skies and scenery are beautiful! Not sure why you blanked out faces. Privacy is no problem when out in public.

Still a beautiful town, that's getting clean up, it will never come back or be like it was in the 50s,Pennsylvania should get a super fund to clean up all the dead homes and businesses from the infrastructure bill

I’m really surprised some of those areas haven’t been renovated and done up.

Reminds me of The Deer Hunter.

1:36, that was a really cool street!!!!

Perfect backdrop for movie

I grew up in the 1970's & early '80s across the Ohio River in Conway & Franklin Ave, (Downtown Aliquippa) was never a great place back then when the steel mills were still operational.

Kinda like smaller town of Pittsburgh

Yet there's always such nice looking late model vehicles parked out in front of these run down houses. Maybe the vehicles are more liveable than the houses. 😳

Come to East Liverpool Ohio or Wellsville Ohio just as depressing!!!

i live 15 min away in rochester, pa, january 2019 i was bored and ended up in aliquippa, pa early one saturday morning driving around, no traffic. When i see abandoned buildings i always go home and look up the property tax records it fascinates me why they are empty ??? my guesses owner died, moved away, kids or relatives cannot afford to fix em up or pay property taxes etc.. I moved her 10 yrs ago from san jose california 45 min south of san francisco, where a 1 bedroom condo cost $500,000 or more, there are not abandoned buildings in california.

I spent some time there during 2020-21. I met some nice and hardworking family oriented people there.

Dateline just did a documentary there recently

Check McKeesport if you think this is bad I've lived in both!!

I was born and In ambridge aliquippa was the same in the 1980s when JL steel shut down Alex

A dump

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So sad, it seems haunted.

My family is from Aliquippa, Fadool/Frank. Though, I now live in Seattle my favorite restaurant is the Lebanese Club.

The people living there are smart. They didn't get caught up in the work to make the rich man wealthy trap, just relax on the porch every day and let the government support you. Very smart Pennsylvania mountain folk.

So sad.

Wuow todas estas casas 🏡 Están abandonada

I was just gonna say its because nobody mines there anymore..

It's a "kick you in the teeth" kinda town. A round of boilermakers at the bar...

Aliquippa is no not that bad we just got bad people.

My dads family was from west Aliquippa

The steets are clean of trash and debris...kewl

I live in aliquippa its bad area an so is ambridge pa also thanks for the video

It’s like The Walking Dead set, but real.

If you think this town is bad, GO see New Kensington/Arnold area 15068

I'm from Aliquippa born and raised

Everyone drives nice cars

Best thing to do is use public money to remove blighted structures and let the empty lots return to green space.

I just read that the usa is richer than my country ... but my country doesn´t look like that ... we have similar places, yes. But not like that ...

This is my hometown, born and raised here.

Haunted houses

We call it Ali-crappa

Every city and town has areas in decline with at least three dudes on a corner, eating food off the trunk of a car.

Hey there's my old house ❤

May God save America . The real one . Let peopple reacall the meaning of UTILITY .

If you want to ruin an area build cheap/ section 8 apartments.

I love this town for investment

What a sorry place

I lived here in Alliquippa .. horrible place .. Crime and drugs horrible. I moved 2016 and have no regrets

Desturping pictures - worlds richest land and then this , looks like they rolls the asfalt in at night and dont rolls it out correct the morning after - seems like they are Lucky and still have electric power - - yet

I've been to a few bad places. This has to be the worst one I've ever been to. I'd avoid it. Steer clear!

Oof.. This channel randomly pops up and seems oddly interesting.... Until the town you grew up in and graduated from is showcased.....

Depressed

Sorry but the worst there still s3ems better than where I am. Reading ,PA is not a pleasant part of Pa.

never hears of that place.

Hmo fee's ran them away

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I have set foot in Aliquippa City, Beaver County. I have driven through Aliquippa City, Beaver County. Of the many dirty, ugly, and crime-ridden steeltowns in Western Pennsylvania I have set foot upon, I have to opine that Aliquippa City, Beaver County is among the dirtiest, ugliest, and most crime-ridden of them all ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️. Even the people of Aliquippa City, Beaver County have been known to be dirtier, uglier, and bloodier than usual. Unfortunately, I don't miss Aliquippa City, Beaver County one bit ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️. ¶ When I was watching the above webcast, I noticed just how highly similar the housing units were. Why is that significant? I think many of its residents were steelworkers at the nearby Jones and Laughlin Steel-Production Works. If you have ever seen military housing units, then you have probably noticed one of their striking characteristics being that the housing units are either extremely similar, or exactly the same. What I am trying to underscore is that the people involved in steel production are doing so with purposes of creating, and maintaining, huge military arsenals (An extremely depressing place on Planet Earth 😭😭😭😭😭).

Its an old mill town !! All and all it really isnt that bad !! But this is what happens when the mills shut down !! Looks like every other old mill town in Pa. !!

Most famous resident of Aliquippa: Richie Allen.

JUST LIKE ELLWOOD CTY!

I can see why Henry Mancini left that town.

Pa has so many brick roads I lived in Athens pa an we had one called stevenson street while mile or two of uneven bricks lol