What Happened to Louisville Kentucky?
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- What happened to Louisville Kentucky?
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One correction, the flood was in 1937*
Louisville ain't shit and you know it. One of the poorest and racist cities in America.
There were several...but this was the worse and hurt the city the most. My great grandmother had recently migrated from Mississippi and the misdt of the great depression and said the water went up to the 2nd story of the home she was staying in and it was only her dog that woke her up as it started barking as the water cane and racism and other issue took place when food did come for the survivors whereas some white people did not want to share with the black people that were in need. The flood also changed the trajectory of city growth where is the center of money switched from the central business location in The Valley and went out towards the East end in the hills where was harder for there to be another flood and it also calls more people to start building and migrating in Cincinnati which is on a series of hills and did not experience the same level of flood that Louisville did sitting in a flood plain..
@@Keonny77 wow my grandmother came here from Mississippi back then too. Did a lot of people come from Mississippi to Louisville for some reason?
@@babsylindsey A lot of people did come out of Mississippi, Alabama Tennessee and rural Kentucky. Probably more than came out of Alabama if you were to do a survey of black people and Louisville many of their relatives probably came out of Alabama. In my family my mother's mother came out of Mississippi and my father's mother came from North Carolina and my sister's father's mother came out of Tennessee however the men all came out of rural Kentucky both of my grandfather's were from rural Kentucky one from Lebanon Kentucky in Marion County and the other fun Boston posssibly in either Shelby or Nelson County. Kentucky was a Southern state and a slaveholding state however almost immediately after the war many black people started going to the industrial North. In the deep South... I'm pretty sure you have heard of the great migration but what you may not know is that there were several waves they are generally known as the 1st great migration and the 2nd great migration. Louisville was on the 1st great migration and was also considered a way station that many people stopped on their way going up into Detroit Indianapolis & Chicago. Ironically my family came in the 1st migration the relatives I have that did not end up in Chicago and other more common destinations for Mississippi migrants stopped in Louisville and during the 2nd migration my relatives who were from Kentucky started going out to Detroit around the sixties. However it was not only rural black people who came to Louisville it was also Southern whites. For instance the senator from Kentucky Mitch mcconnell many people do not realize this but he was born in northern Alabama around the area which is also a part of Alabama that some of my relatives came from. Anne Braden who was white civil rights leader from Louisville was also connected to Birmingham Alabama. Colonel Harland Sanders first wife was also from Alabama. At the turn of the century Louisville as this article shows was a major industrial port city in the middle of the country and you came here for good industrial jobs for the people that did not go up to places like cincinnati so that's why you see people coming from places like Mississippi Tennessee and Alabama because Louisville at the time of the Civil War was one of the largest cities in the nation And we lost that position probably sometime around between 1910s and 30s. People migrated based off of what was the most affordable & cheapest ticket they could find via the railroads and the Louisville and Nashville railroad was extensive across the South so if your ticket was going to Chicago or if you couldn't afford that you would come to Louisville or any other large city you could get to.
@@babsylindsey i forgot.. the white lady my gradmother cleaned for... Mrs Adams was also from Mississippi.
Look up information about the great migration. Books the warmth of other Suns and Up North in Louisville discuss these migration patterns.
*Me sitting at work in Louisville, KY* "wait, what happened to us?"
I actually live across the river in Southern Indiana, but most tech jobs are in Louisville. The nice thing about the area is that the cost of living compared to many other cities is quite low. Another interesting fact, is that located in Brooks, KY (part of the Louisville Metro area) actually has the largest laptop repair facility in the world: Geek Squad City.
Other interesting thing: we also have Thunder Over Louisville. it's the largest annual fireworks display in North America to celebrate the Kentucky Derby.
Hey now, us Bullitt county folk lay claim to Brooks. As a former Brooks resident, even though we butt up against the Louisville line we don't get the Louisville Metro Money, but you are absolutely correct about everything else.
@@Tommatto you seem familiar.
Apple has a distribution center here too 😊
Me driving in Louisville wondering what happened to Louisville 😭
Exactly why I clicked? From Shelbyville, and now live in Frankfort. Cut my teeth in them Louisville streets. I saw the title and said, "Did I miss a major news story about Louisville getting wiped off the map?"
in January 2021 i moved to Louisville. never visited it before, just wanted to get out of Boston. it was honestly one of the best things i did, met some lifelong friends, reignited my passion for music, and discovered a forgotten gem. i was only there for 6 months, but i truly fell in love with this city and want to go back eventually
My old lady and I tore off from the DMV in 2016. Best decision of my life too. Been here for 7 years and now have a Son.
I have lived in Oldham Co. my entire life and it is a great area. I am in the "country" but still within 15 minutes of being down town. Wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
I moved back in December of 2021. I was only absent because of the military. I left TX near FortHood, about an 1 and some from Austin. The only thing I miss about TX is my bestie and the weather. Why did you leave Louisville, and how do you pronounce it? I’ve always pronounced it Lou-E-Ville. Wishing you Love, Peace and Happiness
Same…we left Philly and I feel like I live in a Hallmark movie now.
Come back we need more Bs fans down here! 31 years in Boston and 4 years in Etown and I only miss the snow and sushi/seafood 😅
One I left Louisville and came back I realize how special Louisville was
Louisville has been taken over by crime. It's very sad.
I worked there for a long time at Humana. I worked downtown Louisvile and enjoyed walking around every day. It's not safe anymore
Finally some honesty lol.
It is a sh*t show now!
I worked at the Humana Waterside building (i can see it at 4:11, it's the square building with a landscaped walking area in front of it, behind and to the right of the modern looking central building of high priced condos, it was under construction when I worked there and we joked about how insanely priced it was.) back in 2006 when Medicare Part D was privatized. There was the occasional homeless person that would forage for cigarette butts from the outside smoking area, people would leave unsmoked cigs in the ashtray for them. We would walk a few blocks to get amazing Jamaican food from a little kitchen in the basement of a church (Presbyterian?) a few blocks away. I rode a TARC bus to work, once I fell asleep lol and had to get off WAY past my stop, i walked like 10 blocks to work and never felt threatened as a 24 yr old white female. Now, i've moved to Nashville for work but friends tell me downtown Louisville is not safe for that kind of cavalier behavior anymore. I'd visit the hot chicken spot after work, alone, and never felt unsafe even with the bullet proof glass between me and the order taker and the dine in eating room completely destroyed by vandals, not a single table or chair left intact, i guess they got tired of fixing the dining room, maybe that wasn't such a smart idea for me to go there alone, but the chicken was so good!
Because the vast majority of the population is narcissistic, stupid, and selfish..
My mom worked for a Humana and died of cancer about 18 years ago her name was Sandy Chaney do you know her
I lived in Louisville 40 years ago and it was a wonderful city then, I really loved Louisville. But, all things change and usually not for the better. Unfortunately Louisville just mirrors the decline of most US cities. The death of the middle class leaves a void that struggles with changing societal and cultural realities. America is in a steady state of decline. Instead of asking what happened to Louisville you have to ask what happened to the America that many of us knew 50 - 60 years ago.
The Democrat Socialist Marxist will destroy every city they touch.
@@Ray-vq2jcthat’s not what’s happening but ok
Louisville has went down so much. I visit there yearly for work and it looks like a ghost town except for the homeless people sleeping on benches and of course the riots. Great city!
Lived there all my life and we are moving out of state next week. City has gone to hell with all the crime.
@@randomguyMN That's exactly what's happening, high crime, homeless camps and mayors that are more worried about lining their pockets.
Louisville has changed since the Brianna Taylor incident causing riots, and pandemic. The homeless population has more than tripled in the last 3 years. It's not safe downtown anymore. It's a shame because there was a lot of fun stuff to do in the city ...not now thanks Greg Fisher...as we call him "Fisher-Price."
now we have a communist in power so it will get worse
Fisher-Price 😂
The new mayor is Fisher 2.0. Proud to say we did NOT vote for him. We are moving out of state soon, we cannot wait!
Well have a new mayor now, and he is even worse. I did not vote for him!
I wouldn't single out any mayor; the city has had poor leadership overall in the public and private sector. Several consecutive mayors did whatever the corporations wanted, ignoring mass transit because it doesn't draw enough affluent people, and arrogantly dismissing calls for police reform in the '80s, 90s and 2000s -- reforms which could have prevented the killings of Taylor and others.
The bus system is crumbling, and I am a bus rider -- when it comes.
The fentanyl and meth crises hit hard, but they did nationally. The crime and homelessness problems mirror national trends.
The worst part about this city is rush hour seems to last all fucking day now because the traffic is so congested and they can't exactly make everyone move to fix the layout.
The city could get some light rail. There are even some smaller cities than Louisville with light rail/streetcar systems. But this would require Louisville to put on their big boy pants and act like a major city for once. But they won't...small town mentality.
Immigration is causing all the congestion. Overpopulation. Also laws aren't followed because foreigners don't respect our customs here, which causes more wrecks. I've witnessed more wrecks involving immigrants than any other demographic and seen several almost run over American high school children. It's not infrastructure, it's diversity.
Lived in Kentuckiana (Louisville plus nearby counties in Kentucky and Indiana) since my birth in 1990. Love it here!
as an adult transplant to Louisville, I (albeit irrationally) hate the word Kentuckiana with the burning passion of a thousand suns.
I just get annoyed by folks on the Indiana side of Louisville who act like going to Louisville is going to China.
I lived on the Louisville side until I turned 13, then moved to Jeffersonville, Indiana in seventh grade. But I cross the bridge to Louisville nearly daily. To me, all of Kentuckiana is one big, beautiful, proud thing. I love Louisville and Southern Indiana. But so many see the divide as something extreme.
Moved from Louisiana to get the heck out of the state and met my husband and love this place and people!!
It’s not a perfect city, but I love it, it’s one of those cities that just has such a distinctive culture, the derby, bourbon, and so much street art (usually of horses) I once saw someone refer to a fancy hat as a royal wedding hat and was like “wdym that’s a derby hat” lowkey forgetting derby isn’t a national holiday and most people don’t have a decades worth of derby hats in their closet
Living other places I always made the mistake of assuming everyone knew what the derby was.
As a lifelong Louisvillian, I really enjoyed this video. Aside from the minor error, which was corrected in the pinned comment, it gave lots of good information about our history. One thing that was NOT mentioned was the people. I've never seen a city with friendlier, more giving people. It's an amazing place to live, work, and visit, and I hope the turnaround will continue and we'll begin growing again.
Also, there's no better place in the world to party. If we don't have something to celebrate, we'll make something up.
EDIT: I tend to respond in kind, and when someone is a jerk to me, I'll be a jerk right back. So I have to wonder, all you guys who are arguing that there aren't nice people in Louisville, maybe it's because they were responding in kind to how you treated them.
Seconded but change everything you said to the word. "Garbage"
Spoken like a true lifelong Louisvillian who hasn't lived anywhere else 🤣🤣
Yeah, it's great if you're white
@R Voit Only after 5. And during Derby Week. And of there's a festival. Or a basketball game. Or it's the weekend. Or a holiday. I mean, hardly ever. 😝
@@nativekentucky7290 Had a bad experience, did we? Or did you really just live in Jeff or New Albany?
The player lowered the zombie population.
What happened to Louisville? After Abramson, we got two REALLY REALLY crappy mayors- Armstrong was a do-nothing, and Fischer has been actively incompetent.
All Armstrong did was put in the skate park and champion the metro initiative. Abramson was a dynamic mayor, doing all he could to revitalize the city and bring in growth. Fischer always looked like he just woke up after a hard bender.
@@pl1guru Agree with everything you said. Amrstrong had zero personality. And the skate park was 99% ready to go. It just happened on his watch.
@@pl1guru OMG you're right, Fischer does always look hungover!
And We just did the same thing again and voted a train wreck in for mayor
You hit the nail on the head.
Don’t forget, it flooded again in 2009. The issue with Louisville now is poor management.
And that’s a hard cold fact that people won’t acknowledge. And downtown is crummy, nothing like Indy or cinci. We could have a rockin downtown but nope.
@@chrismasters4951 Yeah, well, don't try rockin' in Indy anymore. Unless you're carrying.
I grew up not far from Louisville, and my dad worked at UPS in flight operations (which is HQ in Louisville, and their global hub is here too!)
It’s my goal to come back once I can get a job with UPS airlines.
I live in Louisville. Louisville is my birth place. I'm 44 and have moved out of the state several times and finally settled down for good 11 years ago.
As a local Louivillian, I love my city. And we are currently seeing some incredible growth in all kinds of ways.
I grew up there in the 90's and it is sad to me when I come back to visit the way neighborhoods have become trashy and drug addicts seem to be all over the place, but I will always cherish my childhood there. I think it was truly a special time and place to be a kid.
Yes, including crime.
It's still a huge city with tons to do and lots to offer people. It definitely has a lot of crime, but it's mostly confined to certain areas and pertains to drugs, gangs, etc.
😂 Ya, sure. I live in a good area of Louisville, recently we had someone shot, a guy tried to assassinate one of the mayoral candidates, went outside to get my Amazon packages and there was a swat team outside my house. And you can't leave anything outside, even if it's chained up.
@@redneck7929 you don't live in a good area then...you live in a so-so area, or maybe even a bad area
@@TheSwissChalet Mostly half million dollar and up homes. Sorry, not Portland or Taylor Blvd. area. You're delusional if you don't see that crime is up all across the city.
@@TheSwissChalet Mostly half million dollar and up homes. Sorry, not Portland or Taylor Blvd. area. You're delusional if you don't see that crime is up all across the city.
@@redneck7929 anything west of bardstown isn’t “good”
Lived in Louisville 4 years while in college, and for another 2 years afterward. It really is something special. It has a culture all its own and boasts a large religious and ethnic diversity not found anywhere else in the Bluegrass State. I was recently displaced from my home there due to a fire, but already I hope to return. The difference between the vibes of Lexington and Louisville feel about as drastic to me as between New Orleans and Detroit.
that's not a great comparison...lex is way more hospitable, although, i do miss the art in louisville...
Agree. I like it so much, I retired here!
@@erniholt9357 did you retire in lex?
Louisville would be better off if it was 100% White.
Born and raised in Louisville moved to North Carolina and been trying to get back to Louisville since. I miss Louisville with a passion. The snow, the vibe, the food ( indy's chicken, grippos, kings chicken, big red, white Castle etc), music, cost of living, 4th street live, waterfront action, just pulling up to the park and its deep as fuck for no reason, etc. Everyday you have a reason to be fitted. People here Kentucky and think ppl riding around on horses yea at Churchill downs off Taylor. Go to the Westend (da whole Westend), Shively, Newburg, East Hancock, park Duval, victory park etc it's a whole other ball game but it's all love. Violence is everywhere Louisville live by the code of principle. You'll get fucked up for what you did but most of the time you'll get it for how you did it. Oh and must know red and blue is a big thing in Louisville and I ain't talking about crips and bloods. You either a wildcat (blue) or Cards (red) fan. Don't come with that flip flop shit we take this very serious. Love Louisville
👍👍I chose to retire here! I have traveled far and wide, but no place ever quite compared to Big Lou.
(BTW: You sure got it right with that red vs blue thing....hell, I'm afraid to divulge my preference, in this public forum!)
I was born in Louisville
You will regret it. Very boring.
@@ThinkEagle7 Can't imagine being bored in Louisville! Louisville has, literally, EVERYTHING! From the music and theatre scene, to the excellent facilities available for every sport imaginable. From hockey to golf, Louisville has it ALL. Our museums are almost too numerous to list: Speed Museum, Frazier Museum (for those interested in war/armaments), Slugger Museum, Science Museum, Mohammed Ali Center....and many more. Louisville's food scene is diverse, and second to none in a city of it's size. And if you are into nightlife, you will NEVER be bored.....4th Street Live, Main Event, and more bars/taverns/craft beer joints, etc., than most people can try out in a lifetime! Add the Kentucky Derby, Louisville Dog Show Cluster (third largest in the country), Kentucky Kingdom, Louisville Zoo....I could go on and on. The parks are amazing! The same man who designed New York's Central Park, also designed the Louisville Park System (Olmsted).
If you find Louisville boring, you aren't even trying.
@@erniholt9357 the crime is unbelievable.
Have lived in Louisville since I retired about ten years ago. I love this town. It really has it all.
From KY lived in Clarksville and the highlands for a few years. Some good memories
I grew up in Louisville and started my career at the Courier-Journal. I could walk the downtown streets, even at night, and never worry about my safety. The live music scene in the 90s was like a little Seattle. There was always plenty to do and I was proud to show off my city to visitors.😊
I do miss my hometown (been in Tampa since ‘97), but it’s not what it used to be. I still visit family and have witnessed its slow demise. On a positive note, the people are still just as lovely and welcoming as ever. It’s Louisville’s people that make it special and, of course, the city will always hold a special place in my heart.❤
So glad you got out of Louisville alive. 1997 was one of the last years a person could work downtown. I used to love the dear old C-J. Now it's just four pages of USA Today with obits and local sports squeezed in. Live music was truly great in the 90s!
I’ve been in Louisville for 7 years and I LOVE it here ❤
Literally why. I'm from Kentucky probably originally. Literally the worst state. After Louisiana. The one I'm in now.
I think you reaaaaally undersold the impact of ups here. Worldport being the central hub for ups worldwide. Pretty much any package shipped in the US comes through Louisville
Unfortunately, I live right next to it. I have to hear airplanes fly directly above me all day and night.
@Arctic Tundra same. But it's convenient cause I work there lol
I've lived in downtown Louisville my entire adult life. When I moved into my first place on East Main St......it was just desolate. But now that area is called NuLu and now has many shops and restaurants and is really thriving. In fact it seems like there has been a revival of most of the downtown area
Louisville is not even close to a forgotten place.
Me sees title:
"The knox event started"
Yep
Wow you left out a lot! Louisville is a vibrant and diverse city with a large global population. It has been certified as a Welcoming City since 2010 and is growing at a rapid pace.
We have largely been the fastest growing city for almost two decades
So surely we have a NBA, MLB, NFL or NHL team right?
@@jasonmilly3320 we won’t get those teams since every city around us has a professor team. Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Tennessee
@@jasonmilly3320 No, because the NCAA basically has a lock on Kentucky. And the University of Louisville has made sure that the NBA doesn’t put a team in Louisville, because they don’t want any kind of distraction/deterrence from UofL basketball. Not to mention all of the money that the NCAA makes off of UK merchandise. UK is the most profitable team for the NCAA. So it’s kind of understood that Kentucky is absolutely off limits for Pro teams
Not a strength
I cannot express to you the level of relief I felt once you started properly pronouncing our city's name at about the 3 minute mark.
For the uninitiated, chose your favorite syllables of Louisville and drop the rest. If you do that, you'll have said our name right.
I always tell people to say the name as if you have peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.
I never seen a place with more pride in pronouncing it’s name correctly than it being a true tier 1 city to attract people. Natives care about insignificant things in Louisville and I believe that’s why it turns out of towhees off. Louisville residents heads are too far up its own you know what that they don’t realize they come off as in inviting
He wasn't able to pronounce Belknap Hardware though.
Lived there from 1998 through 2014. I miss living there a lot. A lot of great memories and friends made.
Highways block the river front. Dead zone in center. Big problem. Can be fixed.
Interstate highways.
"mild climate" It was -9° with a -25° wind chill a couple hours ago. 40mph gusts. However, snow usually doesnt stick around more than a day or two.
Lol like once in 30 years, very little snowfall compared to cities like buff,cle,det etc..
There's another factor that affected most any large city that saw a huge decrease in manufacturing jobs. It invariably causes a real-estate crash as middle class workers move away to find work and tens of thousands of homes are suddenly up for sale and vacant. This causes an influx of lower class (IE an unskilled and uneducated "workforce") to move in as they can purchase homes for extremely low prices that they could not afford otherwise. This causes crime to skyrocket, as unemployment is very high and the motivated, career-seeking number of workers in the city falls significantly. This has happened in just about any city that lost significant manufacturing, such as the Midwest cities of Youngstown, Warren, Detroit, Pittsburgh, on and on. Louisville's crime rating is 95% higher than the national average of US cities, similar to the other places I just mentioned. Once the crime rate jumps up it's very difficult to bring it down, as you cannot displace the residents that are the source of that crime, and it is a barrier preventing an influx of skilled or professional workers that could potentially rejuvenate the city with new forms of technology and industry.
Facts
Just curious. Where did you get that 95% figure from? I would love to see your data source. Yes this city has its issues but I am pretty sure our crime rate is only moderately above the national average. I mean 95% would be like Gary Indiana, Chicago or even Detroit.
@@JHuffPhoto Louisville is one of the most violent cities in the US.
It is pronounced Lou-a-vull
Yup, you can tell an out of towner made this video.😁
Luh-vull
THANK YOU
Exactly!
Came here to say this cause it needs to be said.
Learn english
I lived in Louisville from 1990 to just recently, leaving because the city does not have an ocean next to it. We loved it. The riots of 2020 seemed to take a bit of wind out of its sails, with an increase in crime and coarsening of civil discourse. Unfortunately this stuff is not restricted to Louisville. I’d recommend it. It’s a fine city.
What riots? I was there and they were protests made worse by far right gun nuts and the police
I lived there for a few years about 10 years ago. Left because I was raising a family and the school system is a nightmare. However, that is true in many places now after the last few years.
I remember the Standard Products building. It was in bad shape when I was last there about 20 years ago, it was in a largely abandoned industrial area - places I find interesting. It’s probably all been turned into condos now.
I just visited Louisville a week ago. I thought it was a lovely city with friendly people all around
OMG GUYS THEY MADE LOUISVILLE FROM PROJECT ZOMBOID
I lived in Butchertown for 6 years and now Jeffersontown for the last 10. Nothing happened to us, we're still here and doing fine.
Louisville is a product of not wanting to catch up. The left behind and are happy and proud of such.
i dont think its the not wanting to catch up. Its the To poor to catch up. Lets be real about it. I would also like to say as one of those people in the Louisville community. WE aint happy about it one bit.
They really jsut need more Dollar Generals
Catch up to what? I don’t live in the cities so idk what’s going on there, I assume it’s similar to other places in Ky just crowded.
@@DB-sy6xc louisville is it's own beast. only thing louisville is trying to catch up to is the murder rate of chicago.
@@yuanbananaspleitz4784 probably cause it’s more crowded than other places. That drives people crazy I’m sure. That’s awful though still.
When I saw this video I was like"Is this a joke?" I've lived in Louisville KY for around 40 years (moved here from SanFrancisco w/mom and lil sis when I was 5). I'll have to tell my friends and family about this video, they'll probably get a good laugh from the title.
The Houston Rockets owner Les Alexander threatened to move the Rockets to Louisville in the late '90s if Houston didn't build a new arena after the Oilers left town for Nashville.
As a Kentuckian, I'm surprised that this was the first thing that popped up in my newsfeed. Good job, TH-cam.
Louisville got overrun with Zombies, shame but without West Point and Rosewood to help them stop the hordes it was doomed
Ah
I love my city so much. It's forever where I choose to call home
As a lifelong resident the city is getting bad downright depressing. Most natives are trying to build up savings for a move🤦♂️
Agree. It needs to be cleaned up bad. And a face-lift. The rich east side is nice but otherwise it's just kinds old. Flat and depressing. Reminds me of Detroit a little in spots. And old Louisville could be amazing but it's not at all. I prefer the Norton commons area also
@@horseplop9 Bad part about the "rich east side" (where I live) is that we are taxed to death. Taxes are by far my biggest expense. I pay about $10k on my homes and another $2K on my vehicles. Add the state and local income taxes along with the sales tax and it is just absurd. Makes me want to move somewhere that is a bit more kind on taxes.
Born and raised there and I now live in Reno…I moved back and forth several times.. but there is more out there.. great city tho ‼️‼️💯
@@horseplop9 old Louisville is pretty nice honestly. Had an apartment there for a few years and really enjoyed it.
Thank God someone said it, this city is absolutely awful. I moved here in 2007 when I was 21 with no real intention of staying long. I ended up meeting my husband and he refuses to move, so I'm stuck here. I'd move in a heartbeat if I could. Just in the 15 years I've been here, this place has gone downhill bad. They try and market this city like it's a big city, but it has absolutely no conveniences of a big city. Most big cities have a thriving downtown metropolis area where it is self-contained, meaning you can live there and not have to leave the city for your needs to be met. But that's not the case in Louisville, if you live downtown you still have to leave the downtown area to find a grocery store that isn't a glorified convenience store in the bottom floor of a bougie, over-priced hotel...and basically any other basic needs. And most big cities have adequate, reliable, efficient transportation. Louisville has TARC busses and that's about it. And have you ever tried to deal with those busses? And I don't mean just trying to get from point A to point B for an event, I mean actually trying to use the busses as your main mode of transportation to get to and from work, school, etc? Because it's downright frustrating and unnecessarily time-consuming. This city will never be a big city because they refuse to allow for the growth that would need to be possible in order for it to be a big city. Is it a big city? No. Does it try to act like it is? Yes. Could it be one day with proper growth planning? Yes. Will it be? Doubt it.
Its such a beautiful place too. Very accessable. If you're in the suburbs, you can walk to the city, or you can walk to a farm. Its awesome.
Uhhhh no you cannot walk to a farm nor can you walk to the city from the suburbs. Pedestrian infrastructure is nonexistent from the suburbs to downtown.
I am originally from Louisville and this is a place I get to go back to Maybe several times a year as most of my family still lives there. My mother moved us from Louisville in the late eighties because of the economy. The problem with Louisville is that it did not promote education enough. Most of my relatives did very well from the sixties up to around the early nineties because they all had good Union backed manufacturing and blue collar jobs. These relatives are now retired most of them live in Louisville and they are still receiving pensions in addition to their social security and 401k. However for we the people who came out for them that is a different story. For years people went under the presumption that you would be able to get out of high school and go work at 1 of the many factories and manufacturing locations and other blue collar jobs in the city and establish a solid middle class existence for you and your family. My Uncle's an aunt's worked at Philip Morris off of Broadway and some of them work for Brown and Williamson tobacco I even had a grandmother who worked the General Electric appliance park and my father worked for Louisville gas and electric. Before we move to Atlanta Georgia in 1988 my stepfather worked for American standard and when they finally closed out of Louisville and my mother was having trouble finding non manual labor they gave him a payout and that was one of the things we used to find our move to Atlanta. Today I see some people still think they can just get out of high school in Louisville and they will do as well or better than their parents or grandparents did in the eighties and seventies and that is not as easy as it was previously. Of the factories that are still located in Louisville the 2 Ford plants. They are not paying nearly what they previously paid and neither is General Electric. Yes they are still good paying jobs if you are able to stay there alone enough and establish yourself and they are still major contributors to the economy. But that is not enough diversification the future is in pharmaceuticals, medicine, insurance, technology. While I do see some positive changes occurring for the Commonwealth of Kentucky and Louisville they allowed other cities to pass them by and have aways to catch up. When I was growing up Louisville was larger than Nashville. Nashville is now way larger than Louisville in regards to its city and metropolitan area population and growing. One reason is because Nashville invested and embraced education before and you have universities like Vanderbilt. In spite of that I consider Louisville to be an underestimated city with a lot of positive qualities and characteristics. If they can improve their level of education which they are doing and get over some of the old mindsets that prevented businesses from growing and setting up it will be able to rival cities like Nashville and Charlotte. More college educated people will draw more companies to set up and grow in low costs areas like louisville which is still centrally locate to other markets. That's happening now.
if future is going to be in pharmaceuticals and medicine, those personnel need to stop being so damned corrupt and not overcharge so God -damned much for their shit.... like why the fuck does a life-saving epi-pen cost maybe $100 (at most) to produce yet they charge over $600 for one of them for someone with an allergy to something they have no control over??? or why does chemotherapy cost so damned much when the supply of chemo-chemicals is all the collection of the mustard gas produced during the world wars and stored in Richmond, KY??.... Pharma and medicinal big wigs need to change their corruption and stop lying to people and creating all these "medicines" that cause more harm than good when there is NATURAL cures and remedies out their with NO, ill repeat" NO harmful side effects..... i mean, come the fuck on to the makers of heart medicines who also own Round-Up for killing the number one plant you can collect, harvest, and make into a tea or salve EASILY for heart medicine..... fuck the corruption!!!!
My dad tells me how Louisville and Nashville used to be pretty similar, with Louisville maybe even being the better city. Seeing the two today, it's very hard to believe that. I've always said though Louisville doesn't know (or even want) how to act like a major city. Like many of the residents, it's a depressing small town mentality.
@@jasonmilly3320 that may be true and someways in someways not but yes about around the 90s as well Nashville bypass Louisville and population but Louisville was a manufacturing hub for most of the 19th through 20th century and is the gateway to the south close to the Chicago Indianapolis in Cincinnati was larger than Nashville.
If you look in the neighborhoods of Louisville, you still should be able to tell that the homes in Louisville are very ornate and decorative great German craftsmanship from the Germans who moved there in the 19th century, which is a sign of wealth you have old Louisville and Cherokee triangle, and several other neighborhoods of 19th and 20th century mansions more so than you have in cities like Atlanta in Nashville, which is an indication of wealth.
As someone who grew up in Louisville with JCPS, the education is terrible. Combining the inner city schools with the suburbs has only dragged the suburbs down to the lowest common denominator. It’s terrible.
@@g.williams2047 That is incorrect but at the same point I didn't graduate from the Louisville public school system but I do think people make it out worse to be than what it actually is. People didn't like it because they're racist but they don't want to admit that. They went into the County to avoid integration and the merger forced integration on them with bussing system that moved in their city kids that did not have the same resources that people in the suburbs had who had been running from the city to escape integration. But my relatives that have graduated from JCPS did pretty well I have relatives to graduated from Central and Wagner and Male.... if you have the time and access you put your kids in the so called better schools... which really means lower discipline problems and less poverty.
The issue is not the schools it is the parents and the lack of resources is some people have or importance they put on education. I also have relatives who graduated from the parochial system as my family was Roman Catholic and my father and his other siblings graduated from Flaget and others catholic schools. and they didn't do any better than the people who went to public school.
As someone who lived in BG for 20 years all I’ll say about the ville is it is a island onto itself culturally speaking. It’s just not uniform with the rest of the state, an for context to this point, simply look south to Tennessee and how the average rural citizen looks at Nashville as being integrated into their state identity.
@@Paul....... it’s perfectly bland like a city used a background for a sitcom
I live in Louisville and I’m from BG!
It can’t b uniform to the rest of the state bc it’s an actual *urban* city. Most of KY is rural & small town. It’s kinda southern, kinda midwestern & very diverse; the only _city_ in KY like that. The very reason I ♥️ it 👍🏽
I have had some outstanding chow there but if you live anywhere else in KY, Lewvul is southern Indiana.
Or lawvul
Dude, yes! I grew up in New Albany. I was told stories from my Great-Aunts and Great-Uncles about how NA used to be bigger than Louisville before it became "a suburb of Louisville". But all of us who grew up there still considered it part of Southern Indiana.
@@deuslaudetur2451 lulvul
The main campus of the University of Louisville is south of downtown. You showed a view of the Health Sciences campus downtown that houses the medical, dental, and nursing schools.
Grew up and live in Louisville, great city with great people. Glad I’m from here.
i do miss ear-x-tacy. the highlands just isn't the same. and rocky horror at the vogue will always be in my heart
the Knox Event happened in 1993, that's what happened to Louisville
So sad,
I was there to see it all unfold.
I lived in Louisville from 72 to 84 and left the state of Kentucky in 85. It was a great place to grow up back then.
Louisville is a great city but lately the crime has skyrocketed from car break ins (even in the good parts like Lyndon and st matthews) to shootings at the Jefferson mall the other day while I was there with my kids 😢 also the traffic on 65 southbound is ALWAYS HORRIBLE! But nonetheless it’s where I grew up and the city has a lot to offer in the way of jobs and recreational things to do.. and the bar scene is pretty huge as well for younger people
I'm originally from Chicago (don't even get me started on old "Chiraq"). Lived in Kentuckiana for 12 years. Looking forward to moving back next year (God willing)!
The issues weve been having with the police and the marching (and some police-anger-related vandalism) have put a dent in my hometown. The main parks (like Cherokee) arent being kept up like they used to and some of the really awsome older business had to shut down. There's still a lot of jobs here though, and the food and booze culture bustles
Blame the liberals that run this city they are in bed with the thugs
Louisville won big in basketball in 2013 and in 2016 had a good football team I wouldn’t say forgotten but not recognized
I haven't read every comment but has anybody mentioned the WORLD CLASS food scene in Louisville. I've heard from and read several professional and amateur sources that our food scene, (amount of high-quality restaurants of all budget levels and Chef levels), is second to only the likes of New York City. Just on a smaller scale.
K, thanks.@@Ac_Adapter
moved from texas to go to uni in louisville and been living there for almost 7 years now. its a really chill place to live. not expensive compared to bigger cities, pay is pretty decent across the board. i like it. though it can get boring if you're the type that loves going out to events.
Well there are certainly events around the Lexington area especially around Christmas for example we have the Southern lights show at the Kentucky horse park. I'm sure There's events around Louisville I just don't go there much. Lexington isn't that far of a drive if you wanna see Christmas lights dancing to music on your radio. After you drive through those there's a fair with kettle corn, rides and more. There's also fairs that go county to county in the summer but that might be every state. We also have a lot of tourist attractions around the state that not alot of people may know about but I'm done typing.🤣 God bless and have a good one.
Why would you leave Texas for school? Just wondering, as there are plenty of fine schools down there.
I lived there in my Teens in the 70s when Lums and a few other companies had their headquarters there. I hope they do revive as it was a nice place to grow up in.
Lums! My parents used to take me there when I was little. Haven't thought of it in forever.💜
I feel the futher west you get in Louisville the rougher the area gets. I deliver often and it gets pretty sketchy downtown at night.
I’m a Louisville native that moved just a couple of weeks ago to DC. Personally, I would blame the decline on the abundance of minorities, just like like Detroit. I would never leave the East side because of this.
i've lived in louisville ky all my life its a great city truely
Lack of hotel rooms and many expos and events leaving Louisville for Indianapolis and other cities hit Louisville big time.
They are coming back. And now they are proposing $700million for renovation and expansionn of kentucky expo and louisville commonwealth center downtown. Louisville it's building hotels every over month.
Good ol Loo"vull. One of the top places I'd consider moving. Such a pleasant city with fun atmosphere
I just came to see Loiusville from Project Zomboid in real life.
Yeah man i cant believe they made Kentucky in real life. That was crazy.
Louisville is my hometown. Funny you mention, my grandfather retired from L&N. I left many years ago to pursue bigger and better quality of life. And I got it. Proud of my roots but I would never live there again.
The Knox event has not been kind to this city
The knox event is contained.
@@apchistuz or is it?
*VSauce music plays*
No mention of Churchill Downs or Louisville Slugger?
Dont always get everything in a vid, i coulve mentioned it in the intro but i chose to focus on the larger industries
Tourists attractions unfortunately don't greatly impact the infrastructure of a large city. Neither does nightlife.
@@djtrankilo231 Yep, which is why a lot of us were shocked that we got the Yum Brand stadium downtown.
@@forgottenplaces9780 yet you missed humana, barely mentioned UPS, automakers etc.
@@fenleyjones cant mention everything in 4 min
Louisville is the biggest small town you'll ever love.
That's right, all the frustrations of a city with none of the conveniences, and terrible education! Go Louisville! 🤮
I love Louisville. Have lived around this area since the 90's. We have a great professional soccer team here that I absolutely love. Louisville City FC!!!! Would love to see the return of a professional hockey team. The Louisville Panther games were a lot of fun to go with the wife and kids.
I LIVE HERE AND I LOVE IT. IM 47. I LOVE THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY.
What happened? Crime, crime, and more crime.
And zombies
It’s Looahvuhl and I don’t think we’re forgotten 😅 you forgot about Humana too 😊
For some like myself, it's Louie-ville.
I love history and I live in Louisville so I am constantly looking for old buildings that you can tell used to be beautiful/loved but are no longer. BUT I noticed the building in your video at 2:23 which happens to be the garage I park my car in everyday!!! I have always wondered and tried to speculate about what I thought this gorgeous building used to be, because it clearly was something. The windows, tall ceilings; theres a giant open room that goes through all four floors of the building that features some nice greenery below, overgrown now. Theres also a really nice view of the city skyline that I love. I speculated it was a factory of some sorts, I imagined seamstresses or typists 😂 But a train station?? I would loveee to know more about this building as you can tell please let me know what you know! Great video too thank you👍
one problem, you pronounced louisville wrong.
Its pronounced 2 ways both of which i used
Locals pronounce it “Lou-ih-vuul”
@@forgottenplaces97802 ways being the wrong way and the wronger way?
@@Porge28 do you live in KY?
@@Jwilk21 Yes.
As a Memphian Louisville looks like an incredible place
I moved to Louisville from northern NJ in 2014 and it was a great choice. Seems like the people that choose to live here love it
The property taxes in NJ are just so brutal, I probably wouldn't have sold my grandmother's house in Kearny back in 2011 if they'd been lower.
@@stephenbrand5661 its brutal. My parents still live in NJ and pay about $9,500 a year in property taxes. In Louisville I pay about $1,900
@@t206kid Yeah our property tax bill in 2010 was about $12,000. I think being in Hudson County made it especially high. You could see the Chrysler and Empire State buildings out the window of the top floor but it wasn't like we were in Hoboken or somewhere else right on the river. I liked it because I used to live in Brooklyn so I had work connections in the city and could easily commute from Kearny to Manhattan. We put the house on the market and it sold in less than 3 days and we got 60k more than our asking price.
I live on the outskirts and work downtown often. Crime, drugs and migrants are absolutely out of control. There is no coming back from this.
What happened? Seems like you lay it out very well.
Thousands of jobs lost from tobacco and railroads. GE and Ford still around but they cut jobs as well due to outsourcing. Other cities also along the river have also been affected.
GE just cut more jobs in the last month as well. I'm sure others large employers did as well. Economy looking rough.
They cut and then they rehire they just don't want to pay what they were paying previously with the strong unions my grandmother retired from GE and lived a long life in retirement.
I have a sister now who is an engineer at GE and does very well and lives out in Middletown. The issue is that line work doesn't pay what it did in the 80s and 70s. You had people making 6figures in non-management positions@ GE back then... that's gone.
When Phillip Morris closd in the late 90s. The people were making over $21/hr which is the equivalent of $60k to $70k annually today... not to mention all the overtime. People now need degrees, lincensures and certifications to make that kind of money.
Also UPS
GE is owned by the Chinese now and it's around in name only. They're squeezing every penny out of that dump and making the work conditions more demanding on the body than it ever was before all to make what used to be like 4-5 jobs one job.
Everywhere is hiring tho if you can’t find a job you just don’t wanna work which seems to be the case everywhere now
I grew up in Louisville. I moved away a little over a year ago. I lived in the highlands during the pandemic and the lax on crime government would lead to homeless people walking naked down the street and junkies nodding off on sidewalks in what used to be the nicest part of the city. I worked for many different companies in Louisville, the wages are substandard and the cost of living in desirable areas is astronomical. I love the skateparks there but the skate scene was dying out when I left. Rampant alcoholism plagues the city, all of the bill boards are either for bourbon or auto accident attorneys as a result of the large number of drinking and driving accidents. It used to be a pretty cool place though.
My hometown damn I can’t believe what it has succumbed too, the violence the hate, prayers to my hometown!! I left 7 years ago but it will always have a special place in my heart ❤️
Many of the small towns near Louisville are fantastic places to live. Affordable housing and reasonable commutes, only moderate traffic.
Live here, grew up here. Great city except for the west half. JCPS, the school district sucks as they have failed to combine the poor inner city with the wealthier outer city, resulting in the inner city dragging everything down.
I was born and raised in Louisville and have lived here all my life. While there are some issues like all cities this size everything you could ever want is here. We have some of the best hospitals in the world and there are more jobs than there are people to fill them. No these are not all downtown most are out a bit they are there. The cost of living is lower than most cities and I love it here not perfect but its home.
Jobs left, two mayors in last 30+ years, Breonna Taylor. JCPS is one of the worst in the country if you have children. In last 24 months, 500 homicides according to local news. Metro taxes aren’t worth it, so as you said ppl have left and continue to do so. UPS is also a huge employer here and does so much all over Jefferson county, been very stable since Louisville bought the snowplows in 1997. Crime has spread with Fischer’s leadership, and Greenberg doesn’t seem to have a concrete plan. Good luck, pretty place to become so overrun.
Give Greenberg a chance. ⚖️
@@billtribble2904 I’m worried if you can’t protect your office, how will you protect the street in front of you let alone a Germantown, downtown, and metro. It pains me to see what happened to that place, believe me.
Louisville's greatest strength is its cultural sophistication. Actors Theater of Louisville was called by the NY Times the best American theater west of Broadway. We have a great orchestra, ballet and opera, and some progressive grass roots theatrical troupes.
The architecture of the city is stellar. The preserved Old Louisville section has the largest Victorian neighborhood in the nation, and there are many other beautiful sections with Gothic and Greek Revival and wrought iron buildings.
Louisville's worst deficiency is its absence of innovative political or business leadership. The mayors and councils have for several decades rubber stamped developers plans that have made housing unaffordable and let our mass transit crumble. They ignored decades of calls for police reform, resulting in the Brionna Taylor killing, and so much violence.
I've lived around Louisville my entire life, and I just want to know what happened as of recent. Louisville was a safe, and happy community until 2020 then crime rates jumped over 400% and most studies in Kentucky show that someone dies from a murder in Louisville about every second to an hour. I'd really love an explanation video on why something as terrible as this happened to what used to be such a great place.
theres always been crime
They are too busy being politically correct, and there is ZERO accountability. Police cannot do their jobs anymore, and the criminals are having a field day!
I like how the pronunciation got more and more correct as the video went on.
I grew up there and it wasn't a bad place to live. But I sure wouldn't want to live there now. I left around 2000. I hate going there now and only do if I absolutely have to. They have a total idiot for a mayor and one of the worst public school systems in the country, not to mention a huge homeless problem, racial issues, crappy roads, garbage, litter, graffiti.....the list goes on.
Facts. They will keep voting blue until it crumbles
This is the honest facts, if you’re not from Louisville and move there you’ll love the city especially if you’re a professional and not involved in sketchy activities. However, if you’re coming to Louisville involved in sketchy activities and/or are from Louisville…and grew up in the Westend, East End, Clarksdale, Shepard Square, Smoke-town, and the numerous other places that’s crime ridden you’ll probably have a different view or take on the city.
After 40 years in New England, I have finally returned home at age 62. Finally, Louisville is again the marrow of my existence.
absolutely cracking up at the title and thumbnail. louisville sure ain't forgotten, we're still here. some important notes:
1 today, louisville is still one of the most segregated cities in the us
2 we got an award for the best tasting water in the country!
3 the people here are fantastic. i just wish it was more walkable and that the architecture was a bit less hostile
Ain't shit happened or no more forgotten than any other city in the state's..you busting our ball's!
This channel has done this for nearly every other of its videos, just for other cities, its a bit deceptive.
Louisville was far over 256 thousand in 2000. I'm from there and it was around 380 thousand right before the consolidation.