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We all can agree...the Shipyard & military took part in destroying Washington Ave...what we call Overtown...

Anybody familiar with World Credit furniture store on Jefferson?

They demolished all that architecture 😢😢😢...because they owned land uptown. Used to be woods up there. Now its humming. But downtown...😢😢😢😢😢

Scenes from Disney's Zorro were filmed here in the late 50's

There's another theater 21st & jefferson Avenue..downtown Newport News

WoW, born in 1950 from this area. Brings back lots of childhood memories! Thanks.

I am glad I moved away from Newport News

I lived on 35 and terminal 1965-71 . Then moved to Marshall courts. Loved to go Washington Ave. It was beautiful during Christmas.. I went to Newport news intermediate 78-80. Thank you for the video. Downtown was the place to go Sears Leggetts were the big stores and Nachmans. So sad its all gone. I miss 34 street bridge.

What happened to NN?

“The Good Old Days” when African-Americans had no civil rights in Newport News, or anywhere else in the country. Old images that bring trauma to some but beautiful nostalgia to others (hence the music).

So sad

I was born and raised in newport news and now live in Florida after 60 years in newport news. The images brought back such fond memories to me.__ron bell

Grew up in Chatsworth and played around the rocks like this at Chatsworth Park and in and out of the train tunnel there. This was in the 60's.

Good video

I was stationed in NN whilst in the Navy. Lived in Huntington Hall. Now back in early 90s most everything shown here was gone, literally and towards the end of town whole blocks of abandoned buildings from the 50s thru 70s stood there like people one day just got up walked out and left forever. Even with the so called blight , one could still see how gorgeous that town was. I truly loved my time in NN. My submarine was getting built and like I said it was early 90s. Before cell pbones, social media and all the other crappola we have now which only separates us from each other even further, NN was/ is still a great place for a very young man whom considers NN some of his very best memories of his lifetime in youre great city. Thank You NN for helping and young kid grow into a decent man he us today.

Is just me or do the houses look out of place.

Nice collection, none too many about these days.

So it just ends abruptly!

I went to NNHS for 8th grade in 1970-71 - the last year they were a high school! I was in the 8th grade, and the next year they changed over to a middle school system, and eliminated the five year high schools. I didn't even live near there - this was back when they were still trying to desegregate schools (STILL) by forced bussing. I lived all the way across town on 79th and Chestnut Ave, in a huge apartment complex that covered blocks of property and was eventually torn down, (although it wasn't bad when I lived there) and replaced with a housing addition. I dont know anything more about it than that, because I graduated from high school at Hampton High, (which is STILL being coached in football by Mike Smith!) in 1975, married in 1976 to an Airman at Langley, and moved away from Virginia in 1977 when he got discharged from the Air Force. We moved to his home state of Indiana, and are still there! We Used to come home almost every year, especially after we started having kids, to visit, and I drove us around to some of my old haunts, and discovered the whole complex was gone! There were just houses and streets I had no memory of! Someone asked us if we were lost when I pulled over to look at our map of Newport News and Hampton, and they told me that's what happened to it, but hadn't been there long enough to know exactly when. I remember the very last Turkey Day football game, but even though I was I'm the "Breeze Band" I had to miss it, because I had the flu! We listened to it on the radio. Hampton won, I think. Must have been because I remember yelling, "It's NOT FAIR!!" at the end of the game! 😭😭 There used to be a little bakery across the street from the main entrance of the school, who did a ton of business on chocolate iced donuts every morning before school! We used to line up after band practice, in the pay parking lot next to it, and get fresh, hot donuts before class, and a Pepsi from the machine at the pay parking lot pay booth. I remember there was practically a RIOT the morning we went there to discover that the price had gone up to a quarter a can after being fifteen cents all the time before that! A whole bunch of folks were MAD! If I didn't have enough money for two donuts and a can of pop - breakfast of champions you know!! - I could just go to the school cafeteria for breakfast before school, and get a grand breakfast for a whole DIME! Two scoops of scrambled eggs, two rashers of bacon - nice and crisp, if you asked politely - a piece of crisp buttered toast, jelly, OJ, and milk! All for a dime! Must have been some sort of federal funding involved - no way they could afford to do that otherwise! My mom said no way could she afford to feed me breakfast like that for a dime, so she gave me fifty cents a week on top of my lunch money to eat on. I remember going to school really early in the morning on the band bus - I think we had to be at the bus stop by 6:15 to catch it from so far out. Lots of the older girls would still be working on their makeup, and had their hair in rollers on that bumpy ride to school! (At 8th grade, I didn't have too much to work with yet!) It surely was a workout getting around that school on three floors, all stairs, and stretched out for over a city block from one end to the other! No air conditioning, unless you had to go to the office or the clinic. Or the "computer" class - I think they had window units for any area they wanted to cool. That computer class was all punch cards - I think they called it Data Processing? Anyway, it was ridiculously noisy and those little punch out things were strewn all over the place! Even in the hallway, from the bottoms of people's shoes. Had to be a Senior Business Student to be in that class, I think. Maybe a Junior - I don't remember for sure. It was intimidating enough trying to function as a "Mouse!" Which is what we were called, since the 9th graders - Freshmen - were called "Rats." We had an assembly just done by us - the Mice - called, oddly enough, the "Mouse Assembly!" There was a play in it, I don't remember too much about it, but I was in It! But, not belonging to the right clique of girls who had been friends since kindergarten, I was an outcast, and they pretty much left me out of everything involved with planning our costumes. I was in a group of four of us who were all supposed to be "Fairies" with wings and wands and the whole trip. I kept trying to find out what I was supposed to do, but they just shut me out. So, my mom, an art teacher, and I made a costume of my own, and it was really pretty cool, considering. The other three were all dressed alike, and mine was totally different. However, being 5'8" tall, and the other three being about 5'4", I towered over them, and it made me look like the "Chief" or the "Boss Fairy"!! And in the picture in the yearbook, guess who is front and center, at the photographer's request?? Ha!😜 See what happens when you try and shut folks out? Sometimes the plan backfires.... and a million years later, I've grown way beyond it, but it was a sort of a little triumph of my own at the time. And when you're the new kid on the block, through no fault of your own, you get your triumphs where you can find them! We had lived up in Denbigh before that, and had a nice house of our own. It was one of the first houses built new on Denbigh Blvd., in 1964, where the land across the street was all still farm land, and one house across from us. Two lanes, and a long walk to R.O. Nelson Elementary School when you missed the bus! It was outside of Beechmont, which was the "ritzy neighborhood" but i didn't care. We moved away after i finished 7th grade, and i was looking forward to going to high school - still 8th grade then - at Denbigh High School. But then i got a last minute notification from my parents that we were moving into a three bedroom apartment in Newport News "proper" and I was going to be sharing my bedroom with my 4 year old sister!!😲 Say what again?? Holy cats, was that a mess. My stepdad worked at the Shipyard in the Piping Design Department, Monday-Friday, 8 to 5. Or was it 9 to 5? Anyway, it was broached to me that he would be living closer to work. So, thats why I was uprooted from my school, home, neighborhood, and friends, to be living closer to the job he'd been working at since he graduated from the Apprentice School following WWII? The same building even? Somehow I gathered I was being sold a bill of goods, but there wasn't a thing I could do about it! We only lived there a year though - and we moved even further away in Hampton! THEN we moved to Churchland, and I ended up at Western Branch! Yeah! That was nice and close to their work! THEN, I ended up finishing my last two years of High School at Hampton High School!! I didn't care much by then where it was, I just wanted to be DONE with high school! I married in 1976, a year later, and moved away in 1977, a year after THAT! Felt a lot like a gypsy by then, and moved a bunch of times after that, but Newport News/Hampton has always been home to me. I miss the water. I miss the air and the smells, and the beaches, and the sand, and the ships and small boats. I miss the fresh crabs and other seafood, and the good bbq, and NOT having to specify Sweet Tea when ordering it in a restaurant! And not having to explain to people that putting sugar packets on the table does NOT a sweet tea make! Of course, I can make my own, to which my northern-born husband has become seriously addicted!! Plus my fried chicken, greens, biscuits, etc., and so on. But, no matter what you do, when you're gone, you miss it. And when you come back for visits, you realize more every time that no, you really can't go home again....

Hermoso! 2020.

Tommy Nolan is excellent. However I can't find this episode on imdb. Who is the young cowboy?

So glad I found this. Grew up in the Hidenwood area 1955-77. Attended Ferguson High. My parents lived in area for some 60+ years. We would get our hair cut at Mr. Diggs, downtown, and then go to the Sears.

Times change and things improve. The shipyard/navy has build it up a great some now with parking structures, businesses, and apartments.

Awesome

Can we just leave well off alone from developement greed

Enjoying this ty

Great work here, surprised in 5 years it doesn't have more views then this

3404 Washington Ave I had my store. The homeless ran me out.

And all of that stuff is still there....Crazy how things change but DON'T..

I has a store there on 3404 Washington Ave...

Very cool.

When America was a special place to grow up in.

I have watched this many times, has brought tears to my ol' eyes everytime. I was raised in NN. Lived there from 1954 to 1967. I lived on 45th St. 3 doors down from Ernest's place, which is still there I Think .My Momma ran a boarding house in order to care for me. I went to Stonewall Jackson and a while at NNHS. I also lived on 37th street later on. I miss those days so very much.do any of you remember the Royal Crown Bottle Cap shows at the Paramount on Saturdays? 6 RC bottle caps and you got in free. we played games, played Bingo, won prizes, then watched cartoons, old keystone cops, 3 stooges, and a full length movie. That woulda been around 1960-64 just guessing. NN was not perfect, but it was great for me. I came back to NN in 1991 for the 1st time since 1971...Wow!!! Almost everything was gone between 50th street and 37th street!! I drove from 50th street all the way to where the ramp from 64/664 came down into the downtown area. I remember Woolworth, W.T. Grants, Antines, all of the them had little snack bars where you could get real fountain drinks, a hotdog or burger, french fries, or a little meal. It was heart breaking to see everything about gone, almost like I was never there. I wish I hadn't gone down there and seen. I just try and remember the way it was.

I love this video, seeing Clint. And I love the way Susan looks at him. So happy he found someone after the death of his second wife. Remember in Without A Song where he sings about love? Miss you, sir...

Does anyone remember when Elvis Presley performed at the Paramount Theater. Seems like it was around '55 or '56. I recall the price to get in was like either 50 cents or a dollar.

As well I am still growing up in NN, I wish i could go back to the old days to see what it was all about. And I wish i could meet Ella Fitzgerald lol (she was born in Newport News :D fun fact ) I am 9 and love NN as it is now.

No true fan of westerns could forget Big Glenn Strange.🤠👍🎻

Wow I grew up downtown didn't know it use too look like this crazy how time flys

Lovely to see these lovely people being appreciated.

Yeah make a gr8 new day!,,,,

Downtown Dodge City in Gunsmoke was filmed at lower Iverson (Topanga & south of the 118) ranch and is now a trailer park

This movie ranch was booked months even years in advance I wonder why it closed?

does anyone know the song names in this video

I lived on 28 street and chestnut street some of my family still there.

Thank you for showing this ,I miss it very much i was more happy in those days and can live a good life too. 1930's and up to the 1975's

Sacralidge, money money money.

I was wondering the same thing.

Wonderful video :) !

How close is this to Spahns Ranch? Pretty close I gather

I was there the first day the theatre opened. My father was the manager at New Market Bowling Alley and my sister and I would go to work with him and he'd give us money to go to the theatre. I remember when Gone With The Wind played there. Those are great memories.......