We got ethnically cleansed and all we wanted was just to be left alone! Now there are no projects and there is no southie it was a town and a community and built around families Again now there are none we where right and the sick part is the media 👹 knew this all along and how come they never the white kids getting beat up and attacked and jumped?? We couldn't go into Roxbury either
It’s a crime that this only has around 2,000 views, this is a CRAZY well edited, narrated, and structured video. This TH-cam algorithm HAS to change, because this needs, even DESERVES more exposure. HOLY CRAP
Excellent Southie Documentary. Someone finally telling our story as it happened, both sides and the truth. Thank You Ryan & i'm still here🍀 Thanx Ted, Danny & Paul💕
Thank you for walking ME back down memory lane. I grew up in Old Colony Projects. SOUTHIE had its problems but we were all close, had a lot of heart And alot of fun,memories, some of thr best people ive known. I will carry those memories FOREVER.
My wife is from Old Colony. Her name is Samantha but like she didn't have this last name but most of the family was named Ward I don't know if you do them.
Great video, I'm happy I stumbled into it. I'm all Irish living in Southie via Roxbury, a single father raising my son in South Boston and I'll show him this video because it's important and it's the only place he knows as home 2 new subscribers
dst girl here,I loved watching this, and all the movies made in our good old stomping grounds! Paul was a neighbor. Myself and my family went to St. Peter and Paul’s church on Broadway, Condon elementary… got my first apt on the east Broadway side of Southie which was opposite of my Southie lol only could stay a few years and the rents got outrageous so off to Quincy and Weymouth I went. I still have family there but it’s not the same. I wish it was cuz i don’t think they’ll ever be a place like it again.
I was homeless in Boston as a drug addict and spent a lot of time in Southie. Southie has a haunting energy to it. There were times I would spend nights on Carson Beach and I could feel spirits around me. I never got that type of freaky feeling anywhere else.
If you wanna live in Southie today, be prepared to spend at least $3,000 a month on rent, and that’s with roommates. Parking is scarce and the bus is a pain in the ass. It’s a great area that has changed drastically since the past. It’s a much younger demographic and there are a lot of ppl from out of state. I know a lot of families who sold their homes there for millions of dollars and moved to the suburbs.
@greenwaypropertysolutions3831 I am fully aware on the issue of gentrification. The same thing happened to hells kitchen and also in L.A. (venice). But Southie is still predominantly irish.
@@robertreed-kl4th Irish in what regard tho? Yea there’s a lot of Irish family names but to say third and fourth generation families are true Irish would be misleading. MA in general especially the South Shore is predominantly Irish last names When it comes to Southie- I wouldn’t say that neighborhood is predominantly Irish anymore. Not a chance Many of them have sold and left, especially nowadays. The cost of living is way too high for families who grew up there to afford anymore. Yes there are some but to say the majority is would be false.
Born 187 orton-marrotta way 1961 I was in every scene in one way or another 1970's, ide like to meet you Ryan, Danny Lynch, Paul jenner as well. The glory days of southie are instilled permanent in our hearts. I miss my hometown very much. So many great people are now gone, saddens me to my core. Great documentary Ryan, but if you say "old colony street projects" again I'm gonna put you in a headlock... Dst.projects. is just that, no development, no dst apartments,..ok, got it? I'm ribbin ya as a genuine southie guy should.. I'll be looking for ya Ryan, Mike Thomas
Ryan I need to say that your video was excellent. It gave me as a person from NJ an insight that I never had before. Thank for all of you hard work. I am sure this was an incredible challenge. Keep up the good work!!!
I was born in Gloucester. As a baby we moved to Boston where my sister was born. We traveled a lot as my Dad was in coast guard. Than when my mom and dad separated we ended up in south Boston projects only I didn’t know that till later. I went into first grade rice Franklin through 6th grade. Than it burned down. So than off to Gavin Jr. High which is no more. Than in 8 th grade my Ma moved us to Ohio. I was so sad. Begged her to move us back to Southie but oh well now due to family I’m in Alabama. Never really think about Ohio just my teen years. But my heart has always longed for Southie. I know it’s not the same anymore and told even Boston was bad. So here I am in Alabama with my 3 kids and many grands and one great grand. I Keep hinting my last which is to go home to Mass. one last time. Now I’m 72. Like this page hope I can find more. They called submarines spuckies when I was in Southie best I ever had. They try but no good. Thank you will finish watching when I get home.
Excellent! Among the best documentaries I've seen. Very moving! You showed the complexities and depth of the community! I hope to see more of your work!
Was there! And thankfully left, but we always come back. When I moved back from Philly Caffe Poliania just opened their new store. Absolutely amazing. Glad they are still in operation.
it's a crime that this beautiful video doesn't have thousands and thousands of views. I'm not even from the US and it was like a wonderful, almost nostalgic window has been opened on a very interesting part of one of the greatest american cities. Keep up this great work, it's very much appreciated!
My friends father constructed the little stone area between thomas park and southie high, where he is sitting at 1:07:30, we used to call it no mans land growing up
Well done. I grew up (in the Netherlands) the first 7 years of my life in a neighbourhood that was growing more and more rough because of gentrification in other neighbourhoods which meant a lot of people were displaced to ours, which caused my parents to move to a village outside of the city (which in some ways is comparable to a suburb, I suppose). Looking back, that might have been somewhat of a white flight response. This video brought back a couple of memories. I remember the kids I used to play with were more diverse than the place where we moved. I don't think my parents are racist, they've literally dedicated much of their retirement tending to and helping refugees. I think they were mostly scared of the increased crime and violence that came along with dislocated people back in the 90's. Somehow maybe it was easier for them to deal with foreign problems than ones that were homebred, I don't know. They've always helped other people though, they both worked in health care for most of their live's, one way or another. Some things are universal and it's important to not shy away from the past. Maybe I'll watch this with my parents.I wonder what they'll think and if they can somehow relate to it.
Thank you for covering that difficult time in Boston history. As a (white) kid during that period, it was confusing why there was such a problem between races (and the homophobia also, which was also prevalent at the time). We had a mixed-race family in our neighborhood and they were the nicest people - I had a huge crush on one of the daughters. My dad would always talk about them though, and say they didn't belong there. (Later in life he was one of the first people to donate platelets, and during clinical trials learned he was saving the life of a young black boy with Leukemia, which really changed his outlook). I remember taking the bus into Roxbury and the black kids there throwing stones at us. My friend and I rode our bikes into a black neighborhood years before that too, and we had a basketball thrown at us and called honkies, and then a few weeks later we found ourselves back down that same street and stopped to shoot some hoops with those same kids! I think for kids it was just a really confusing time, and it was called racism but I think a great deal of it was confusion and economic frustration - inflation was bad and times were pretty hard compared to more recent times of low unemployment.
Anyway, great documentary. Nuanced and fair takes on some topics that most in your shoes would just go to the alarmist, sensationalist mainstream attitudes about in current day media/content creating.
I grew up in J P until I was 16 , 1st in bromley health projects then hyde sq until 1969, had all kinds of friends.blacks , Puerto ricans, whites , greasers in black leathers jackets and catholic schools guys in pennie loufers with nice clothes but we all played together. Love it then
Fuck me southie has changed so much.Was over there like 17 years ago from ireland. Great craic with some great people in the pubs. Looks like its changed so much now. I was 19 the only area in boston i could get severed a pint😂
"It wasn't always good" C'mon Teddy sure it was. It was all good. Great job. Mr. Storm missed a lot the family run hole in the wall businesses that were a large part of the fabric of the neighborhood. Everything from places like the Sea Shell to a cobbler shop being run below a three decker. Almost as many Bakeries as bars, package stores to tropical fish all operating deep in residential neighborhoods and thriving. Noonan's, ice cream stands, Old Mr. Boston, and the landmark Ocean Kai. Who can forget the Rag Man and the H St Stables. The smell of the incinerators from the schools, projects, and Spectacle Island busting into flames out of nowhere the light the harbor. Skiing in the snow from the back of an MBTA bus. 6 pack on a Friday night at 16. As far as I can tell thus far, all good. Or, at least it never hurt us and if it did, it won't hurt anyone anymore. It's all gone. Thanks for the memories.
I am of 100% Irish descent i am Canadian but my family goes back to probation as well to Boston in 1920s as well as Hells Kitchen. I love my roots and proud to be.....IRISH
Also no mention on how Boston City Council has continually shortened the parade due to “safety issues”, yet has let the Caribbean parade continue with continued gun violence every year
Do your homework - the idiocy that is associated with the Caribbean festival/parade has most certainly affected the scope of it as it relates to the parade route. With that said, this years St. Patrick’s day parade route was as long as it ever has been. Both were primarily affected by the Covid era, and yes, the Southie parade was outright cancelled whereas the Caribbean festival was only scaled back during the initial year of Covid. That being said, the St. Patrick’s Day parade is in March, right when serious shutdowns first became a reality wheras the Caribbean festival takes place several months later, in late summer, when outdoor events with mask stipulations had become more common. Don’t worry my man, the black folks aren’t trying to steal your cushy, yuppie Boston experience from you.
"I was born down on A Street, raised up on B Street, Southie is my home town!" I remember singing that song in a minstrel show in our youth group as a kid.
My mum used to have to go through peoples back yards and jump the fence up the hights to get home from school during bussing she lived next to southie high
Ryan, Congratulations on your first feature documentary. As a resident of Southie, it was clearly a large undertaking to say the least. You're a natural in front of the camera... just remove your sunglasses. :) All the best to you! Theresa
This brought me back to my days living there in the 70s until 1983. I was 4 to about 14 years old. I remember the public school system was still segregated. I lived through some experiences there that most people wouldn’t believe.
I notice that you have taken down your originally reaction to Thrice Upon a Time where you dismiss the film and say you wouldn't analysis it because it sucked? I frankly thought it was a shitty and disrespectful video that misses the point of the Rebuilt entirely, but I'm curious to why it was taken down. Did your option change?
I lived right next to the Polish Citizen Club around the corner on Boston St... and lived on Rawson St off Boston St. My mother was a Polish Immigrant from Germany( most won't understand why, it was 1950)
Couple of things. There are 3 housing projects, not 2. Old Colony, Old Harbor & D Street are 3 different housing projects. Most of the original Old Colony has been torn down at this point at rapid speed, it’s like the last nail in the coffin of the death of the neighborhood. There is also no Downtown Southie. Lol.
You're not allowed to maintain organic, working class or poor communities within America. It's bad for maximum, expanding profits and debt-building. "Ethnically" cleanse the old working classes from the cities, depopulate em too, and cycle in new groups. Repeat when necessary
I worked for a construction company on West Broadway across from Capo and there were some days driving down that street where both sides had double parked cars and trucks and there was basically one lane to get thru lol. Best coffee I’ve ever had tho is the “Sidewalk Cafe” on E 4th street.
Dynamite video. You nailed down the daily life of Southie. It is too bad that innocent students had that crazy bussing and were so scared to go to school. To this day, it leaves a stigma against Boston. I live here and I’m embarrassed for white Irish people just like myself. How cruel it all was. Nice nice job. It’s hard to watch.
Nice vid but I grew up in the Greater Boston area during the 70s. One thing I think you misconstrue is that people WANTED to live together tribally. There is nothing wrong with that. People want to live near their relations and participate in their culture and traditions. That doesn't make them racist. That is a gross mischaracterization. People immigrated here and naturally gravitated to those who understood their language and culture who could help them settle in. No need to make it into a racist epic for faux virtue signaling. Was there racism? Absolutely. Not just black/white though - another mischaracterization. It has been human nature since the Neolithic times. But there was also great compassion and respect for other cultures.
@@ericshippie1563 Gosh as it always has. That is foundational. Back to the Brahmins and the peasants. That is a societal issue throughout all time everywhere in the world. I don't see it as xenophobic but as tribal pride. I reiterate- there's nothing wrong with that. For those who want to champion socialist ideals of uniformity and total equality - I think that is a fools errand that is unethically foisted on the whole who do not embrace same. We are enriched by our diversity which we maintain by that very tribalism. Something we were raised to appreciate. I know I can get the best Cannoli in the Italian section. A wonderful evening of music, dance and storytelling in Southie. And don't even get me started on the sights and eats of Chinatown. Somehow it became vogue to denigrate people's heritage, customs and traditions in the holy grail of painting everyone with a stiff gray brush. We excoriate the Irish mom donning Native American costumes they themselves sold us at the pow wow. We cancel the Swedish girl wearing Kimono the Chinese store fitted her to. But we never tell a POC not to wear baseball caps and sneakers they rightfully bought. We seem to want it both ways today. Not I. I celebrate the Lebanese lahmajun I'm having for dinner with a nice German Pilsner beer. 😉
I notice that a lot in England, when there's an Irish community, it always ends as soon as the black and asian people arrive, a generation later and it's gone, i can have empathy for them trying to stop 'bussing', liberal people in power will never Irish communities to stay for too long
It wasn't even about them being black, it was about them being non-Irish Catholic period. Italians could have come down from the North End in droves and we would have said the same thing. This was about a decade before my time but I heard plenty of stories from my parents.
S. Boston is part of Boston, it's not suburban. I worked there on A Street, behind Gillette for years. Where do you live, Newton? that would be a suburb, maybe you got the neighborhoods mixed up.
We had lived in Dorchester for a year than back to D street old colonies project. For a few more years Than off to Ohio. I remember my Ma saying we left just in time before the bussing
I totally can relate when I moved out to the suburbs it was so quiet I looked at my roommate and said I haven't slept in four nights I need to pull the fire alarm so I can hear sirens I didn't do it but it definitely was a thought
as a irish man who has went through discrimation living in belfast , this broke my heart . how the irish never helped the blacks . i thought the irish and the blacks were treated like shit from the start ,
As someone born n raised in Southie, I think the anger & hate was misplaced. Majority of people from Southie weren’t actually upset about Black kids being bussed in. What they were upset about was that their kids were all of a sudden being taken out of their neighborhood schools. It was a failed experiment.
Last time I saw a photo of ireland it was with a gay interacial couple holding hands in front of the Irish flag a white Irish man bottoming for a black man mabye you potadoeheads back home got bigger problems than us north american celts 1 clan
The red line and orange line T stops used to be a warzone. Even now Boston is still one of the more segregated city's, certain neighborhoods and suburbs of Boston don't like other suburbs.
The Longest and Most Difficult video I've done in the series...technically my first feature length documentary! Hope ya enjoy!
Hell yeah nice work
Congratulations on the big milestone!
We got ethnically cleansed and all we wanted was just to be left alone!
Now there are no projects and there is no southie it was a town and a community and built around families
Again now there are none we where right and the sick part is the media 👹 knew this all along and how come they never the white kids getting beat up and attacked and jumped?? We couldn't go into Roxbury either
Ryan if you want to hear the real story about South Boston the projects and the riots I'm 3rd generation from old colony
Please cover my home city of Everett, just outside of Boston
It’s a crime that this only has around 2,000 views, this is a CRAZY well edited, narrated, and structured video. This TH-cam algorithm HAS to change, because this needs, even DESERVES more exposure. HOLY CRAP
Excellent Southie Documentary. Someone finally telling our story as it happened, both sides and the truth. Thank You Ryan & i'm still here🍀 Thanx Ted, Danny & Paul💕
Thank you for walking ME back down memory lane. I grew up in Old Colony Projects. SOUTHIE had its problems but we were all close, had a lot of heart And alot of fun,memories, some of thr best people ive known. I will carry those memories FOREVER.
My wife is from Old Colony. Her name is Samantha but like she didn't have this last name but most of the family was named Ward I don't know if you do them.
You did a great job with this. Better than any pro doc I’ve seen.
This is really good. I'm from Boston but I've worked in Southie for 13 years and the transformation since then is insane.
Sterling documentary, this is a beautifully crafted and engaging look at one of my favourite areas.
wow, the production values and quality of this video is excellent. how does this video not have way more views?
Great video, I'm happy I stumbled into it. I'm all Irish living in Southie via Roxbury, a single father raising my son in South Boston and I'll show him this video because it's important and it's the only place he knows as home
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Excellent Video Sir !!
dst girl here,I loved watching this, and all the movies made in our good old stomping grounds! Paul was a neighbor. Myself and my family went to St. Peter and Paul’s church on Broadway, Condon elementary… got my first apt on the east Broadway side of Southie which was opposite of my Southie lol only could stay a few years and the rents got outrageous so off to Quincy and Weymouth I went. I still have family there but it’s not the same. I wish it was cuz i don’t think they’ll ever be a place like it again.
This Is Epic! I Love Your Style of Narration. The History Of South Boston. Great Video!
This is excellent, you did a great job making this Documentary !!!!
I was homeless in Boston as a drug addict and spent a lot of time in Southie. Southie has a haunting energy to it. There were times I would spend nights on Carson Beach and I could feel spirits around me. I never got that type of freaky feeling anywhere else.
That's what demons do.
?drugs
🤢
Everything is haunting wen u have demons
You did all the drugs
If you wanna live in Southie today, be prepared to spend at least $3,000 a month on rent, and that’s with roommates. Parking is scarce and the bus is a pain in the ass. It’s a great area that has changed drastically since the past. It’s a much younger demographic and there are a lot of ppl from out of state. I know a lot of families who sold their homes there for millions of dollars and moved to the suburbs.
Nice fastpaced condensed info-packed - lively video - great editing !
Southie nowadays is a big college campus. Rent is outrageous. And there are a lot of yuppies
And they can’t even afford to live here. 😂😂😂 they all have roommates 😂😂😂
It's still predominantly Irish though.
@@robertreed-kl4th it’s not about ethnicity… it’s a rich vs poor issue. That’s what everyone who isn’t from there doesn’t understand.
@greenwaypropertysolutions3831 I am fully aware on the issue of gentrification. The same thing happened to hells kitchen and also in L.A. (venice). But Southie is still predominantly irish.
@@robertreed-kl4th Irish in what regard tho? Yea there’s a lot of Irish family names but to say third and fourth generation families are true Irish would be misleading. MA in general especially the South Shore is predominantly Irish last names When it comes to Southie- I wouldn’t say that neighborhood is predominantly Irish anymore. Not a chance Many of them have sold and left, especially nowadays. The cost of living is way too high for families who grew up there to afford anymore. Yes there are some but to say the majority is would be false.
Born 187 orton-marrotta way 1961
I was in every scene in one way or another 1970's, ide like to meet you Ryan, Danny Lynch, Paul jenner as well.
The glory days of southie are instilled permanent in our hearts.
I miss my hometown very much.
So many great people are now gone, saddens me to my core.
Great documentary Ryan, but if you say "old colony street projects" again I'm gonna put you in a headlock...
Dst.projects. is just that, no development, no dst apartments,..ok, got it?
I'm ribbin ya as a genuine southie guy should..
I'll be looking for ya Ryan,
Mike Thomas
Ryan, We enjoyed watching this. Very well done! Informative and detailed. We watched Chinatown as well!
Ryan I need to say that your video was excellent. It gave me as a person from NJ an insight that I never had before. Thank for all of you hard work. I am sure this was an incredible challenge. Keep up the good work!!!
Good job with this documentary.
I was born in Gloucester. As a baby we moved to Boston where my sister was born. We traveled a lot as my Dad was in coast guard. Than when my mom and dad separated we ended up in south Boston projects only I didn’t know that till later. I went into first grade rice Franklin through 6th grade. Than it burned down. So than off to Gavin Jr. High which is no more. Than in 8 th grade my Ma moved us to Ohio. I was so sad. Begged her to move us back to Southie but oh well now due to family I’m in Alabama. Never really think about Ohio just my teen years. But my heart has always longed for Southie. I know it’s not the same anymore and told even Boston was bad. So here I am in Alabama with my 3 kids and many grands and one great grand. I
Keep hinting my last which is to go home to Mass. one last time. Now I’m 72. Like this page hope I can find more. They called submarines spuckies when I was in Southie best I ever had. They try but no good. Thank you will finish watching when I get home.
Hey you definitely passed the test you know what it's spucky is. So I grew up in the 80s I was born in 75 in South Boston
Excellent! Among the best documentaries I've seen. Very moving! You showed the complexities and depth of the community! I hope to see more of your work!
They should make a documentary about white people going to black neighborhoods
Great job! I have mostly good memories of Southie. Thanks for a spin around the old neighborhood!
Fabulas and well thought out documentary kudos !
I love this video and what you’re doing I hope you could one day make a little video on Everett/Malden
Was there! And thankfully left, but we always come back. When I moved back from Philly Caffe Poliania just opened their new store. Absolutely amazing. Glad they are still in operation.
The Polish Triangle. I owned a house on Carpenter St. but lost it when I caught a long bid.
Cafe Polonia is such a hidden gem.
it's a crime that this beautiful video doesn't have thousands and thousands of views. I'm not even from the US and it was like a wonderful, almost nostalgic window has been opened on a very interesting part of one of the greatest american cities. Keep up this great work, it's very much appreciated!
I want to say thank you. Was good to see much of my hometown. So many changes.
No mention of Charlestown. Charlestown had more Irish than any Boston neighborhood. 1sq mile
My friends father constructed the little stone area between thomas park and southie high, where he is sitting at 1:07:30, we used to call it no mans land growing up
Well done. I grew up (in the Netherlands) the first 7 years of my life in a neighbourhood that was growing more and more rough because of gentrification in other neighbourhoods which meant a lot of people were displaced to ours, which caused my parents to move to a village outside of the city (which in some ways is comparable to a suburb, I suppose). Looking back, that might have been somewhat of a white flight response. This video brought back a couple of memories. I remember the kids I used to play with were more diverse than the place where we moved.
I don't think my parents are racist, they've literally dedicated much of their retirement tending to and helping refugees. I think they were mostly scared of the increased crime and violence that came along with dislocated people back in the 90's. Somehow maybe it was easier for them to deal with foreign problems than ones that were homebred, I don't know. They've always helped other people though, they both worked in health care for most of their live's, one way or another.
Some things are universal and it's important to not shy away from the past. Maybe I'll watch this with my parents.I wonder what they'll think and if they can somehow relate to it.
Nice job watching from cork southie ireland
Yo man, though I may be an Aussie, thanks for this piece of Well Documented History, very entertaining.
Brother!!? Beautiful, powerful, thank you
Neighborhoods like Charlestown and Southie are ridiculous rent has forced many of the locals out. Now it's Starbucks and high stores cater to yuppies
Thank you for covering that difficult time in Boston history. As a (white) kid during that period, it was confusing why there was such a problem between races (and the homophobia also, which was also prevalent at the time). We had a mixed-race family in our neighborhood and they were the nicest people - I had a huge crush on one of the daughters. My dad would always talk about them though, and say they didn't belong there. (Later in life he was one of the first people to donate platelets, and during clinical trials learned he was saving the life of a young black boy with Leukemia, which really changed his outlook). I remember taking the bus into Roxbury and the black kids there throwing stones at us. My friend and I rode our bikes into a black neighborhood years before that too, and we had a basketball thrown at us and called honkies, and then a few weeks later we found ourselves back down that same street and stopped to shoot some hoops with those same kids! I think for kids it was just a really confusing time, and it was called racism but I think a great deal of it was confusion and economic frustration - inflation was bad and times were pretty hard compared to more recent times of low unemployment.
Well stated and very true.
I love this series! Would love to see one for Dorchester!
Your Boston series is just a whole nother level 😍
Anyway, great documentary. Nuanced and fair takes on some topics that most in your shoes would just go to the alarmist, sensationalist mainstream attitudes about in current day media/content creating.
Tho, eww, I couldn't disagree more with most of wrap-up overview takes.
Well done and comprehensive, good job !!😊
I grew up in J P until I was 16 , 1st in bromley health projects then hyde sq until 1969, had all kinds of friends.blacks , Puerto ricans, whites , greasers in black leathers jackets and catholic schools guys in pennie loufers with nice clothes but we all played together. Love it then
Very well done. I don't agree with everything you said, but you did a great job on the whole..
Fuck me southie has changed so much.Was over there like 17 years ago from ireland. Great craic with some great people in the pubs. Looks like its changed so much now. I was 19 the only area in boston i could get severed a pint😂
It’s full of Tory’s now
@@matthewromano9621Have you seen ireland now it'll be lost in 40 years maybe less just like everywhere else.
IM from australia and I really enjoyed this video, thank you I always had an infascination with southie
Great job on the vlog
That was a good documentary. I loved it. Keep up the good work
Great job, dude!
This was a great video! I myself am a black man, thinking of moving to Boston, and your video popped up.
"It wasn't always good" C'mon Teddy sure it was. It was all good. Great job. Mr. Storm missed a lot the family run hole in the wall businesses that were a large part of the fabric of the neighborhood. Everything from places like the Sea Shell to a cobbler shop being run below a three decker. Almost as many Bakeries as bars, package stores to tropical fish all operating deep in residential neighborhoods and thriving. Noonan's, ice cream stands, Old Mr. Boston, and the landmark Ocean Kai. Who can forget the Rag Man and the H St Stables. The smell of the incinerators from the schools, projects, and Spectacle Island busting into flames out of nowhere the light the harbor. Skiing in the snow from the back of an MBTA bus. 6 pack on a Friday night at 16. As far as I can tell thus far, all good. Or, at least it never hurt us and if it did, it won't hurt anyone anymore. It's all gone. Thanks for the memories.
I am of 100% Irish descent i am Canadian but my family goes back to probation as well to Boston in 1920s as well as Hells Kitchen. I love my roots and proud to be.....IRISH
Also no mention on how Boston City Council has continually shortened the parade due to “safety issues”, yet has let the Caribbean parade continue with continued gun violence every year
Do your homework - the idiocy that is associated with the Caribbean festival/parade has most certainly affected the scope of it as it relates to the parade route. With that said, this years St. Patrick’s day parade route was as long as it ever has been. Both were primarily affected by the Covid era, and yes, the Southie parade was outright cancelled whereas the Caribbean festival was only scaled back during the initial year of Covid. That being said, the St. Patrick’s Day parade is in March, right when serious shutdowns first became a reality wheras the Caribbean festival takes place several months later, in late summer, when outdoor events with mask stipulations had become more common. Don’t worry my man, the black folks aren’t trying to steal your cushy, yuppie Boston experience from you.
Ya’ll really hate brown people.
Where is Downtown Southie?? Is that near the Southie/ Braintree boarder?
Used to live on the corner of C street..the we "Made it" out to the south shore in '76
"I was born down on A Street, raised up on B Street, Southie is my home town!" I remember singing that song in a minstrel show in our youth group as a kid.
My mum used to have to go through peoples back yards and jump the fence up the hights to get home from school during bussing she lived next to southie high
Ryan, Congratulations on your first feature documentary.
As a resident of Southie, it was clearly a large undertaking to say the least.
You're a natural in front of the camera... just remove your sunglasses. :)
All the best to you! Theresa
This brought me back to my days living there in the 70s until 1983. I was 4 to about 14 years old. I remember the public school system was still segregated. I lived through some experiences there that most people wouldn’t believe.
I notice that you have taken down your originally reaction to Thrice Upon a Time where you dismiss the film and say you wouldn't analysis it because it sucked? I frankly thought it was a shitty and disrespectful video that misses the point of the Rebuilt entirely, but I'm curious to why it was taken down. Did your option change?
Nope.
Excellent documentary!
May I ask; what is the song at 11:33? Is it something by the Get Up Kids?
I lived right next to the Polish Citizen Club around the corner on Boston St... and lived on Rawson St off Boston St. My mother was a Polish Immigrant from Germany( most won't understand why, it was 1950)
Couple of things. There are 3 housing projects, not 2. Old Colony, Old Harbor & D Street are 3 different housing projects. Most of the original Old Colony has been torn down at this point at rapid speed, it’s like the last nail in the coffin of the death of the neighborhood. There is also no Downtown Southie. Lol.
Also Billy Bulger is from Old Harbor !! Not Old Colony.
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You're not allowed to maintain organic, working class or poor communities within America. It's bad for maximum, expanding profits and debt-building. "Ethnically" cleanse the old working classes from the cities, depopulate em too, and cycle in new groups. Repeat when necessary
Also, gentrified areas are culturally and familially dead areas. They only provide vapid con$umption/con$umers
Please Irish keep coming to Massachusetts. I love my Irish Neighbors and Family.
Irish stay in Ireland now, it's one of the richest countries in the world.
Massachusetts isn’t the same as Southie
@@al1665 and flooded with 3rd world refugees and muslims.
@@al1665real Irish leave non Irish stay get it right
You hooked me with Eva lore, you’re keeping me with the Boston lore.
Great job im from the DStreet and it does feel good too see God's Country. What a great place too grow up.
I worked for a construction company on West Broadway across from Capo and there were some days driving down that street where both sides had double parked cars and trucks and there was basically one lane to get thru lol. Best coffee I’ve ever had tho is the “Sidewalk Cafe” on E 4th street.
Mystic River in reality was filmed in eastie. Share a lil of the light
I'm from Dorchester. Good job Ryan 👍🏾
You did a really good job and were a true journalist through out the film.
I hope you have a great long successful career! Good luck.
Dynamite video. You nailed down the daily life of Southie. It is too bad that innocent students had that crazy bussing and were so scared to go to school. To this day, it leaves a stigma against Boston. I live here and I’m embarrassed for white Irish people just like myself. How cruel it all was. Nice nice job. It’s hard to watch.
Nice vid but I grew up in the Greater Boston area during the 70s. One thing I think you misconstrue is that people WANTED to live together tribally. There is nothing wrong with that. People want to live near their relations and participate in their culture and traditions. That doesn't make them racist. That is a gross mischaracterization. People immigrated here and naturally gravitated to those who understood their language and culture who could help them settle in. No need to make it into a racist epic for faux virtue signaling. Was there racism? Absolutely. Not just black/white though - another mischaracterization. It has been human nature since the Neolithic times. But there was also great compassion and respect for other cultures.
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Well said and right on the money ☘️☘️☘️
Well put. I agree with you. But there definitely seemed to be some kind of zenophobic territorialism AND class warfare in Boston before.
@@ericshippie1563 Gosh as it always has. That is foundational. Back to the Brahmins and the peasants. That is a societal issue throughout all time everywhere in the world. I don't see it as xenophobic but as tribal pride. I reiterate- there's nothing wrong with that. For those who want to champion socialist ideals of uniformity and total equality - I think that is a fools errand that is unethically foisted on the whole who do not embrace same. We are enriched by our diversity which we maintain by that very tribalism. Something we were raised to appreciate. I know I can get the best Cannoli in the Italian section. A wonderful evening of music, dance and storytelling in Southie. And don't even get me started on the sights and eats of Chinatown. Somehow it became vogue to denigrate people's heritage, customs and traditions in the holy grail of painting everyone with a stiff gray brush. We excoriate the Irish mom donning Native American costumes they themselves sold us at the pow wow. We cancel the Swedish girl wearing Kimono the Chinese store fitted her to. But we never tell a POC not to wear baseball caps and sneakers they rightfully bought. We seem to want it both ways today. Not I. I celebrate the Lebanese lahmajun I'm having for dinner with a nice German Pilsner beer. 😉
Well it’s ok for black and brown people to have their own organizations and neighborhoods. It’s only racist when YOU do it whitey.
Boston Some Years Ago - I don’t want to be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me
16:05 should've said "i never think of things that clever any time i have a godess standing right in front of me like that."
I notice that a lot in England, when there's an Irish community, it always ends as soon as the black and asian people arrive, a generation later and it's gone, i can have empathy for them trying to stop 'bussing', liberal people in power will never Irish communities to stay for too long
It wasn't even about them being black, it was about them being non-Irish Catholic period. Italians could have come down from the North End in droves and we would have said the same thing. This was about a decade before my time but I heard plenty of stories from my parents.
Captured what's left of my childhood. Miss the old days....... Totally get what they were saying now 😢😅
Thanks for this series
wrong. Dorchester has and has always had many more irish catholics than south boston. it’s much bigger and didn’t sell out like southie did
That's where my Gram ended up when she ran away from Ireand as a young lass.
She got to be a live in "Nanny" in the land if the free.
No way
I've had a few problems iñ southie being from e.boston and Sicilian. Crazy times in 60-70s
The best allegory of the busing situation was, “Neither community had a pot to piss in, and now they are being told what alley to use”
Poor people being bussed across the city to go to shitty schools in a different neighborhood. Waste of money and resources
@@southie3177yes, but good for division as the people in power want. Always division and fear.
Say it louder !! Noone ever wants to admit that !!
Old colony and Mary Ellen McCormick are 2 different places old harbor is another name for Mary Ellen McCormick
S. Boston is part of Boston, it's not suburban. I worked there on A Street, behind Gillette for years. Where do you live, Newton? that would be a suburb, maybe you got the neighborhoods mixed up.
Newton borders Brighton which is Boston. I would pick one of the W towns for a suburban one. Either way Southie is absolutely not a suburb
I used to go to the Quiet Man next to Broadway Station.
We had lived in Dorchester for a year than back to D street old colonies project. For a few more years Than off to Ohio. I remember my Ma saying we left just in time before the bussing
White flight 😂 btw. Bussing didn’t work 😂😂😂
I totally can relate when I moved out to the suburbs it was so quiet I looked at my roommate and said I haven't slept in four nights I need to pull the fire alarm so I can hear sirens I didn't do it but it definitely was a thought
Well done.
Awesome documentary 💯⁉️
That conner was the nuculus of the neighbahood
I would love to visit there!!! ☮️💟
Where did the Irish who moved out go? Maybe parts of Quincy?
A lot of Southie people are in Quincy
I thought that this type of thing only happened down south. LOL 😆
as a irish man who has went through discrimation living in belfast , this broke my heart . how the irish never helped the blacks . i thought the irish and the blacks were treated like shit from the start ,
Belfast is a shithole of the Ulster is a lost cause
As someone born n raised in Southie, I think the anger & hate was misplaced. Majority of people from Southie weren’t actually upset about Black kids being bussed in. What they were upset about was that their kids were all of a sudden being taken out of their neighborhood schools. It was a failed experiment.
My grandfather was a. L st brownie
Bring back the old Southie
Great job
KEEP BOSTON IRISH
born and bread irishman here, give boston back to the native americans
@@darnellbiggumsthe9th658you egit. Take a look what varadkar is doing at home you should be more worried about that
@@darnellbiggumsthe9th658 You deserve to be exiled for that comment.
@@darnellbiggumsthe9th658LOL 😆
Last time I saw a photo of ireland it was with a gay interacial couple holding hands in front of the Irish flag a white Irish man bottoming for a black man mabye you potadoeheads back home got bigger problems than us north american celts 1 clan
"You can be anything you want" a cop or a criminal.. I love Southie.
86 to 93 in Boston for the most part , hard not to love massively - worried about migrants and schools
The red line and orange line T stops used to be a warzone. Even now Boston is still one of the more segregated city's, certain neighborhoods and suburbs of Boston don't like other suburbs.