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- Drone footage of abandoned military housing next to former navy base in Warminster, PA.
Closed around 2011
Shenandoah Woods, located in Warminster, Pennsylvania, off Bristol Road.
Housed military families stationed at Willow Grove Naval Air Station and Johnsville Naval Air Development Center (later Naval Air Warfare Center).
Located next to Warminster Community Park, built on the end of the NADC/NAWC runway.
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Lived at 1120 Viking Drive from 1996 to 2000.
To see this video is heartbreaking. And that patch of grass right there at 2:40, that used to be a youth center. I used to go there after school and play until our parents came to pick us up.
You were there when i was! I was just a little kid! I went to Longstreth 95-97
@@abigailg2272Wow, I went to Longstreth from 96-98, then to Klinger from 98-00!
This made me happy and sad to see. I lived on Viking Drive in the mid 70's, my dad was stationed at Willow Grove. When the housing first opened the locals did not want the base there. The military families were called "gypsies." It really looked like it grew into a great place to live. In the early days it was still quite barren. Thank you!
I lived there from '78-'86 on Skyhawk Drive.
Why are the yards connected by open fences?
Assuming those sections were taken down so that the lawn mowing equipment can get through quickly.
Most locals in liberal areas (Blue States) like the $$$$$ bases bring in to the local economy but not the people, noise, & ‘message’ they bring in. Notice how many military installations have closed in Blue States? Some places in the USA appreciate the military & actively support them
@@jamessimms415 Pennsylvania's state legislature is always Republican controlled, governor goes from one party to the other, Montgomery county has been Republican controlled far more than Democrat but hey it's a good story.. . Reality is the Bush administration put it on the closure list . Some say Pennsylvania bases were on the list because the State went to Kerry. Who knows, the Pentagon decided the number of bases was too high nationwide and the only reason some were kept around were as pork barrel spending or socialism.
Thanks for the video... Me and my family were the third family to move into Warminster Base Housing (620 Skyhawk... I think. I was 11!) in 1973. No trees and no grass then. All the rest of the units were still being built. The bus stop didn't exist yet. We had to walk all the way to Bristol Rd. to catch the bus to McDonald school. It's gone now as well.
I lived, as a child, across the train tracks from "The Fuge" 1958-1960. My father was a Navy pilot but didn't work there. He flew out of at Willow Grove. We lived in an old farm house off of Mearns Road. Long since torn down. I went to Warminster Elementary school.
I walked those fields years ago 1960. Before the Longstreth Elementary was built. Then attended it in 1963
i used to live here and it’s so eerie seeing it like this when it used to be so livley
The waste the gov't comes up with at our expense.
this is peanuts compared to the storage of old airplanes, weapons and ships that will never be used. Government waste is rampant.
As long as people keep giving the military more money thay have no incentive to change. The military budget should be reduced 10% each year for the next 5 years. Enough of the no-bid contracts, the bloated contractors doing jobs the servicemen and women used to do, ridiculous weapons that wind up being sold to other countries, warships that are useless in the fight against terrorism......
the list goes on and on.
As long a folks are foolish to believe the propaganda (fear and lies) that is fed to them by the media this will continue.
I wonder who's brother in law has the landscaping contract? Should be worth a tasty kickback.
Just found this, thanks for sharing it. I was stationed at Warminster 89-93 when they changed from NADC to NAWC and then sadly closed. We lived in Souderton, but I had several friends that lived in base housing, my kids first childcare provider was in base housing, sadly I can't recall the street. We had an active archery club on base and used to hunt on the base side of the fence, in the woods just across the old airfield perimeter road. I shot one of the largest bucks of my life in those woods one Friday afternoon. Bowled in a men's league up the road, Street Lanes I believe was the bowling alley. I loved it there, I'm from NE PA so it wasn't too far from home for me. Very small Navy community, we were all pretty close knit. They were drilling all over the place then, looking for contaminants, as someone mentioned, for years aircraft manufacturing dumped anything anywhere, and then I'm sure the Navy wasn't any better in the early days. Was a Super Fund site I think, and I do recall hearing that the housing had one of the highest percentages of lost pregnancies and birth defects in the military, not sure if that was true though. Thanks again for sharing this.
Update as 8-8-24, I looked at Google maps and saw that the all the buildings and play ground equipment are gone, it show just cement foundations, street and trees
Thanks for the memories! It's a shame these are abandoned. Surely there is a need for affordable housing in the area.
You bet. Thanks for watching. From what little understanding I have of the situation, sounds like some disputes about going that route from the surrounding neighborhoods, they also have issues now with drinking water contamination in the area, so I'm sure that doesn't help.
Unfortunate. What did you fly/shoot with?
DJI Mavik Pro. I'm pretty new to using a drone (as you can tell by how choppy it is), but really love using it.
I appreciate the street-by-street fly-over. Little has changed since I left in 1979, though they did end up paving an "exit" at the end of Skyhawk through what used to be our side yard. Skyhawk used to end in a big circle where we played street hockey. I don't recall the street along the baseball field having a name back then, and it didn't wrap the south and east borders of the property back then. That was just fencing. It connected with Orion Drive coming down from Corsair. We played for hours in the woods bracketed by Orion and Crusader.
That’s what they did with the old navy base housing in Brunswick, maine, it’s now housing and the base has many things like organic restaurants, a college, childcare center, and many things. They utilize it instead of leaving it in the dust. We are wasting so much of this earth with building and abandoning.
Background music is irritating. But subject matter is interesting.
Then turn your sound off
.....or - ask for your money back
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What's the story? There is no narration
Your a pro, you did the best work I've ever seen a done take. Great work :-)
Wow! After leaving the Navy in January, 73, I went back to working for Bell of Pa. Out of Mearns Road. I spent a lot of time preparing wiring those p,aces for telephone. Miss the NADC. Saw some nasty jets fly in and out of there! Thanks for the video!
That's a lot of wasted land, housing, and opportunity to help people.
Toxic wastewater unfortunately caused this from Naval fire retardant used on the flight line at NAS Willow Grove if I am not mistaken. Sad but true.
Actually, it is next to the Johnsville Naval something. They used the base to test aircraft electronics. 70 years ago trained the Mercury astronauts in a giant centrifuge to test G-force. The homes were used for housing of base workers.
@@heygetoffmylawn1572 this makes more sence henc the us gov fence and signs
Johnsville at one time built Brewster Buffalo aircraft. Many were buried under the ground after the war. The ground is polluted with Zinc Cromate and other toxic chemicals. Not a good place to live.
@@kingscum605 the fence the Democrats are building around them in DC is more substantial.
@@heygetoffmylawn1572 You are both correct.
They've found some nasty toxins in the ground and water related to past base operations.
Lived at 1058 Sea King drive.. late 80’s early 90’s… it had a Rec center beside close to the bus stop… wonder what happened to it???
All the buildings been Dazed, gone
Those giant shade trees alone make it look like paradise to me. If it becomes necessary to tear down the homes, they should leave the green space.
This community was literally directly behind the water tower in the middle of my neighborhood. I used to walk around through it all the time when i lived there.
I lived on 624 Corsair 1976-1978. Rode my bike 🚲 in the Little Woods bike trail, and pretty much everywhere in Shenandoah Woods. Played on the Giant stride in the Big Woods. The houses use to be a caramel color on Corsair. Great video, and awesome music. It really has not changed much, except for the missing playgrounds. The pine trees have grown. I remember a lot of the pine trees were Christmas tree height. And when it would snow ❄️, it was beautiful, like a winter wonderland.
We lived on Skyhawk Drive from '78 - '86. Yes was quite different in the earlier days. Lots and lots of memories!
The merry-go-round thing at “the park across the street”, monarch caterpillars, hot tar along the street during summer, walking to the bus stop, and “the mini mart” were my childhood in the 90s
I was in the Army Reserves and flew huey's out of Willow Grove NAS. We used to hop over to Warminster all the time to do compass checks and slope training at the east end of the run way. I remember the base housing over there. They didn't seem to mind the noise.
I lived on Seaking Dr in the 80s used to race our big wheels down the hill behind our townhouse and around to seaking Dr . And played in those woods . Didn't know it was abandoned. 😢
I lived on 572 Skyhawk Drive from ‘78-82 and we were restationed there and moved to 619 Skyhawk til 86. On to Memphis! Many friends and many great memories!
Dated a girl that lived on seaking Dr in 1980- 1981 angie kemry
What a disgrace. Only in America. Meanwhile people don't have homes.
Only in america? Lmao..... You're beyond dumb.
Would venture a guess the housing has ton & tons of asbestos. Good enough reason to fence it off until it could properly be remediated. Plus perfluorinated compounds used in firefighting has been discovered & the site is a Superfund Site.
Go ahead & house people there. Don’t complain when third limbs start to grow out of people.
@@jamessimms415 Wasn't asbestos prohibiting by the time these were built. Outside of, why was the place abandoned?
@@charles6771
Chemical contamination
@@rugby8-Philadelphia Water? Weren't they on city water?
Was stationed at NAF Warminster from '71-'75....was the first one to live at 1122 Viking Drive.....great memories there...
First....this video and your drone-flying skills are amazing. Second....my observation from 37 years Navy service and follow-on federal service: I’ve seen this happen at so many military bases. HUGE contracts awarded to rebuild, remodel, tear down old and in more than one instance, completely build anew both facilities AND military housing, only to “BRAC-closure” the installation months later: Willow Grove, Weymouth, Winter Harbor, Lakehurst, Westover, Brunswick, Newport, Pease, Portsmouth, Otis, Cutler, Loring, (yes, the West Coast and interior US, too--all service branches). In most cases, through the GSA, other federal agencies are given first consideration to acquire the properties; more often than not, the state and/or local government is given the opportunity to reuse. The saddest cases I’ve seen, are when they are used as subsidized / low-income housing--and no consideration given to the draw on local education and law enforcement resources--and suddenly the local municipality is left to deal with the resulting issues. The best cases I’ve witnessed (and been instrumental in), are when the land is used for recreational park use or restored to a wildlife resource--and structures reused for new businesses and higher education facilities. So, this is just “food for thought”: providing low income/subsidized housing, isn’t always the best answer. Additionally, (and I’ve seen this in more than one instance), due to technological advances or new mission needs, there is a renewed build-up of the military (always welcome by a once military-dependent community’s economy). But now, the military housing is no longer available to military personnel....and local housing costs in that area are almost prohibitive to (particularly) the lower ranked personnel. I’m not on a soapbox, leaning one way or the other politically. I just add my thoughts, borne on knowledge and experience, to the conversation. Again, Bravo-Zulu, amigo....a great video well done!
So, don't make housing cost affordable and have more homeless living on the street or create higher wages and training?
@@sonyahandyfreedom I’m asking respectfully, so I hope that you’ll respond in kind. Explain further your viewpoint please, and let it be based on experience, knowledge, and education of the process, and not some baseless extremist political viewpoint--either right, or left. And I’m seriously interested…I do not intend to berate you, one way or the other. Have a good day.
They could be rented out making a lot of money instead of having to pay out for maintenence with tax dollars.
They cannot be rented out because the land they are on is contaminated will chemicals from the fire fighting flame retardant that was from Johnsville Navy Base!
Michael Hauschild So was it base housing?
Sheila Anne yes it was!
@@Metalasanything1 lol....sources and test results please
I say agenda 21 gonna agenda 21
I used to live on Skyhawk Dr back in the late 80s.
Very interesting to see how well kept everything is for a place that's abandoned supposedly
I agree....who is mowing the lawns??
Agree, if its contaminated and abandoned, then why are other communities built around this place. This looks as though the military has property and wants to ensure no one touches it.
@@danaehenthorn3068 I was thinking the same thing
Great drone flying
Great video. I'm very impressed especially seeing how the trees are bending in the wind but the camera work you did with this drone is so controlled. Makes me want to start a new hobby.
Drones are literally so fun, just gotta be careful cus they can break easy and wind can take them away from large heights. That and the federal regulations that one must abide bu
I lived there from 81 to 84 while stationed at NADC.
Wow your amazing with the camera! Brought back memories. Remembered all the street names. Hung out there in high school with BF. such a shame to see them sit and rot! So many people, especially our veterans who need homes.
Thanks, I'm still new to flying the drone, so a bit choppy, but I'm getting there. Yes, lots of cool memories!!
It would be nice to see the homes go to some use but unfortunately the water there is contaminated making the homes uninhabitable.
I lived there back in the 90s! Had lots of friends here, then moved down to VA, now we all live back up here in PA........who all remembers the Raffertys
Seriously!? I was born in Norfolk in 89 and we lived here on Viking Dr from 1995-1997. Spice Girls and Hanson days!!
Had so many friends that lived here throughout elementary school.. so sad to see it so desolate. I remember going to many birthday parties of classmates.
k b mostly 1999-2004
2:39 I got my ankles broke while trying to play basketball....I later learned my strength was in video games.
2:59 last house the left next to the bundle of big trees, I buried my gold fish in the backyard in 1999.
6:13 I threw a snowball at my crush at the time, he cried and he was no longer my crush.
7:59 I ran into that tree while playing manhunt and still have my scar.
1997-2001 Great childhood.
When/how did they find out the grounds were contaminated?
Onikonobi is that your real picture
Never mind Saw Your Twitter Wow You Must've Fell From The Star's Cause Your Gorgeous Love.
I lived at 205 Skyhawk drive for years, my father was a marine. This was base housing for military families. I was here on 9/11 they installed that gate after it happened, and had armed guards. That's also not a battlefield behind Skyhawk drive. It's a baseball field. Thanks for covering this though. I think I want to come back and see it myself.
"This used to be my playground" 🎵🎶🎵🎶
Yup could be all salvageable but it will probably rot to nothing. Good to know are tax dollars are well spent and the politicians you know are in tune to what we need for sure!
Land is contaminated I read.
Everything's contaminated and it being an old air base the government won't tear it down
For this place to be abandoned, someone is taking care of a lot of the landscaping
I just noticed.....all the streets are named after Naval aircraft. That makes sense.
Lawns sure do look well maintained for an abandoned community.
Well lived in Warminster for over 20 years... out of nowhere husband divorced me and force me to leave my beautiful home in Warminster because I was a stay at home parent all my marriage . Would love to see you fix theseup I simply can’t afford to buy.... but would love to be able to rent these cheap as a little income person.Guaranteed it could be a beautiful neighborhood with the right people in it
Thanks for the cool video! I lived at 628 Corsair Drive in 86! So many memories!
Thanks!! I was at 618 corsair in 87 for a few months. Live in West Chester now. Cool place to spend part of my high school years.
Dave C lived there from ‘78-‘86 on Skyhawk Dr. we were stationed there twice. 619 and 572 Skyhawk Dr. so many friends!
At 1:56 that was a baseball field we use to play at. Can still kind of see it. Moved there before neighborhood was finished at the end of Skyhawk Dr. I remember it being a true cul-de-sac so path was made later? Haha, Those big trees were just planted back then, 73-74ish? A gravel parking lot at the end of our street was the school bus stop to McDonald Elem. Moved to Pax River, MD after.
The whole area is contaminated with fire retardant that made people sick back in the day for all the people talking about re-zoning the area or bulldozing it. Cool spot to see though.
Interesting
Finally. I couldnt find this nugget in any other post.
I think NBC 10 did a story on all the young people who grew up there that got cancer.
There is PFAS contamination in the water from said fire fighting foam; it's an emerging contamimant but the epa so far has set the advisory limit to 70 ppt. Also, PFAS are found in non stick cooking pans, so if that coating is flaking/scraped off, throw out the pan!
@@heckleyeah399 I knew that. Was just curious if the ppl posting or watching actually knew.
Very nicely done! I live in the neighborhood next to it. Me and my girlfriend were in the park tonight and saw a big hole in the fence and decided to go check it out for a few minutes. Such a shame to see it like this. Graffiti EVERYWHERE and broken windows. Creepy knowing that all this vandalism is going on so close to my house. Crazy thing tho, we head a few screams when we were in there as the sun was setting and a few other loud noises from inside some of the homes. Not sure if it was people or animals
Nick M Yesm unfortunately the community behind it of homeowners were against giving it to a low income development, saying they didn't want another Warminster Heights. They were so selfish on they claimed the military had promised that it would close the airbase, that the area would revert back to being just open space. So now they have it abandoned. The residents that live behind it took signatures and spoke on the township meeting they didn't want a low income housing development there. So instead now a private developer was instead building expensive townhomes...in the mean time the residents have behind them now an abandoned hazardous area that is now worse for them.
Carolyn Pachas sad....
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I lived at 609 Corsair- went to Klinger Jr High & William Tennet Intermediate and yes, the locals were not nice to us 'military brats' as I was always called. Was in the mid 70's. Sad that Willow Grove is closed too.
Lol I go/went to those schools those houses still look. nice after so many years
Kinda surprised to see somebody's been maintaining the lawns and landscape. I wonder why if they're only going to bulldoze it.
Pa loves their ordinances and will fine the owners every day they arent taken care of. Even though no one is there. Its just an easy target to make the state money.
I was thinking same thing
@@mark-wn5ek...Pa resident here...you got that right. 200,000 more votes than actual voters. Go figure. And the SCOTUS sees NOTHING wrong with that. Some body over there is compromised. I wonder who?
@@mark-wn5ek
Actually, no, they don't
Kevin Silverblood The Navy stills owns the property. Warminster is looking to buy it & return it to open space park land.
The Airbase is now a community Park.
@spic mix yup, and if they put homeless in these the same would happen.
And all the houses lawns perfectly done ?? These properties are being maintained and are far from abandoned.
Lol no, search around for more videos and check out the condition of the homes.
The properties are maintained to keep local kids from burning down another house like they did throwing a party a few years back, gives the cops an easier time patrolling
I lived on Seaking Dr 2003-2005. I retired from the U.S. Navy.....Lot's of BBQs...Great memories!!! Sad that the Willow Grove Base closed along with the housing.
What a shame it’s such a beautiful neighborhood.
Me and my friends did this the other day & now I be watchin’ all vids related to it
I lived at 1087 viking drive from 98-04. Heartbreaking to see this
1139 viking drive 98 to 01
Would love to take a walk here. 😊 thanks for sharing
I lived on 618 Skyhawk from '86-'90
I lived at 1098 Seaking Drive in the early 80’s and I was a Klinger Clipper at the Jr. High
Lived on Skyhawk, also went to Klinger
Lol I went to Shelmerier elementary and Klinger around 1982 lol small world
LOL. We lived at 1099 Seaking when I was stationed there from 95-98.
I used to live on viking drive in front of the park
Why can’t this be re-purposed for a homeless community. Help them get back on their feet.? Many are popping up all over, and successful!
The water is too contaminated...
Considered now to be unliveable.
@@Black_Reign Warminster doesn't have city water?
Give free housing to a few, then a few more, then a few more, then a few more, then a few more, then a few more, then a few more, then a few more,.......
Prime example of government spending. This could of or would of been a good place to start a housing program for people to purchase a and rebuild for housing.
& Rebuild there lives and there hope in #life.when can we live without worries? On earth that is..
The groundwater is contaminated. Its unsuitable for anyone to live there
@@bren-xmotorsports55 then why does the county and city want the property. It's called repipe the system to main supply line.
Very cool video, and so sad to see what’s happened to the old neighborhood. We were stationed there around 2004-2008, and lived on Viking Drive. We once won Yard of the quarter..hard to believe it was ever that pretty.
Nice drone work sir
I lived on SEA KING DRIVE FROM 1974 till 1978 GREAT YEARS! My brother played HOCKEY on the street! the housing was BRAND NEW! WE were the 1st family to move in from PATUXENT RIVER Maryland. I GRADUATED from William Tenant Sr HIGH in 77.
PS: Is there a lawsuit in effect about the contamination IN BASE HOUSING in SHENANDOAH WOODS at NADC WARMINSTER PA? please advise me? THANK YOU 😊
I grew up in Roslyn my father was CPO of security at Willow Grove NAS, in the 50s I was born 1960 left in 1977 sad to hear about it closing, surprised to hear its contaminated.
Contaminated?
I think the original development for the Johnsville Naval air station was called Lacy Park. The homes were rented out at the time, that would have been in the late 50s or very early 60s. It’s possible the homes from Lacey Park were torn down. I worked at Lafferty Chevrolet in 1964 and 1965. I think my grandfather in the 40s had a contract to remove what was then called rubbish (trash) from Lacey park inhabitants who were all military people.
Just found this video and it brings back memories. Just remember Hurst performance products was from Warminster as well and I knew the person who started that company.
While at Lafferty Chevrolet we would loan new cars to Hurst to measure up for four-speed transmission shifters.
These comments were edited to correct spelling errors that TH-cam voice to text thinks they need to change.
I just stumbled onto this video too. The memories...I worked on these houses as a multi-services contractor (from the long building at 2:16) during the late '70s when the base was functional. Families and kids. These buildings are all gone now (2021), local redevelopment. The original farmhouse for all the land here, known to me as T1, is still standing since it's a historic structure. Oddly, many of the Lacey Park buildings are still standing and occupied. I remember Hurst and Burpee Seed Co. being here and so much more.
@@tetraire3844
Burpees had a field across from Lafferty Chevrolet and they grew tomatoes in there in a test plot, a test plot to you and I may be an acre or two but to them it was maybe five or 6 or 10 acres. That would’ve been in 1966 because that’s when I bought my first new car when I worked at Lafferty an SS 396 Chevelle. I knew a couple that lived on Olive Street in Warminster but I lost touch with them when in the mid 70s I was transferred to the Pittsburgh area for a company I worked for. Another place I remember as a child would be Hatboro and there was a bakery there called Sonheimers, the spelling may be incorrect.
No, this is not Lacey Park. This is up off of Bristol Road near Davisville Road. Lacey Park is about two miles away, tucked into the area between County Line and Jacksonville. Lacey Park was originally housing built for NADC workers, I think during and shortly after WWII. It was then sold to a private party who turned it into low income housing, at which point it devolved into a suburban slum. Eventually, people who lived there that cared about the place and took over management and improved things greatly. As I understand it, it was originally called Lacey Gardens, the became known as Lacey Park during it's low years. It's not called that anymore, I don't think, but its still there.
@@kilroy2517
OK, thanks for giving me the information. It certainly didn’t look like Lacey park. I remember the houses in Lacey Park used coal as a fuel source for the heat. I stayed there once with a friend overnight but that is about the limit of my involvement. I guess I was gone from there about 1967 to another dealer in Doylestown. So it was a long time ago, thank you for your input.
@@kilroy2517 My apologies for a fuzzy explanation. I mixed locations in the same sentence without adequate qualification. My recall of what I was told was "Lacey Park" was to the immediate south of an apartment complex known as Ashwood Apartments (where I lived at the time of the NADC contract) which was south of Street Rd. , east of Jacksonville Rd., north of County Line Rd.and west of Newtown Rd. Lacey Park was mildly notorious at that time as a tread lightly neighborhood. From a brief tour, I remember a number of large 2 story buildings that had fallen on hard times. I am very glad that things there are better. I left the area in 1980 for a contract at Patuxent River NAS and regrettably have been unable to get back to the area since. I truly miss Eastern Pennsylvania's beauty and extraordinary cuisine. There is no cheese steak but a real Philadelphia cheese steak. The shipping charges for Habbersett Scrapple are painful but somehow breakfast still isn't the same without it. I had hoped to visit this last year but...COVID. Many thanks for the update.
Lived there 74-77 1114 Viking dr. Was awesome lots of football great playgrounds and mud clump fights
Ha thats cool, I was watching the video and thinking it was military housing for a closed base, and looked at the text and saw I was right!
I did too. We had a small Nike base neighborhood in our town. It had that look.
So how are the houses on the outside still fine if the land is contaminated
Would make a great spot for someone to film a movie in.
Joan Rivers thought so to
Who keeps up the grass 🙄 looks nicely kept up and trees seemed trimmed also.... doesn't make sense
government doesn't recycle anything
Concord california same thing at the concord naval weapons station
Nice! Another mavic owner here and fly sometimes at Warminster Community park!
Awesome. I think my second or third flight was there, at the park as well. My mother-in-law still lives in the area so I am there frequently. I had been waiting for good weather to go and shoot Shenandoah Woods. I also needed to get more time and comfort with the Mavic. Still a bit shaky (as you can see in the video) :-)
I use to live there back in 2006-2010
Nope. Not sure when it was closed. I lived there till 04. I believe it was 2010 when it was finally shut down.
There were two "Secret" ways in. One was by the centrifuge buildings and the other was from my neighborhood off of Independence Road by the water tower. We would ride around in there with our bikes until security would kick us out. Damn that was a looooooonggg time ago.
After the base closed you could drive on the base if no security guys in patrol cars were around. I drove on one day and got on to the runway (before all the new buildings went up). I drove all the way to the Street Rd. side, turned around facing Bristol Rd. and gave it all I got with my Honda Accord (lol). I only got up to around 90 mph and I ran out of room. I just wanted to see how fast my old Accord could go. Then I started to drive around the single lane roads on the Edge of Shenendoah Woods. That was when security pulled me over. They asked who I was and wanted to see my I.D.. They said some guy flying an R.C. airplane told them I was speeding down the runway. They told me to leave and they followed me out of there. That was one of the neatest things I've done at that base besides see the cool airshows they had there in the seventies and eighties. I loved that place, but not as much as I loved Willow Grove Naval Base. I still cringe when I drive by on Easton Rd. and see Willow Grove. I still live about a mile from both old bases.
Grew up on Corsair right at “the circle”...591, 1982-1986
Is it me or are the lawns still maintained..they look very green and not overgrown
Must be The Walking Dead set. I lived in that neighborhood in my infant and toddler years
I live around the corner from there,,this area has bad water from base I believe.
I grew up across from the Willow Grove air base in Horsham. Same problem with the water. (jet fuel?)
mike blaz yeah bro horsham right next to the airbase our schools water was down for like 2-3 months
Looks like it would make a great Tiny House Community
Could you go over 1105 Viking?
Lived there 99-04 last house on left of Viking dr.
The government knows there’s ample space/housing for those who need it, and yet….
Someone is maintaining the place and doing grass cuts and shrub trimming. Interesting.
I used to live here from 2005-2010. My father was stationed at NAS Willow Grove. They PCS'd my dad because this neighborhood was going to be turned into a FedEx receiving facility; however, it doesn't look like that 2010 deal went through.
There's no chance of these properties being reopened for sale again?
Well who's keeping up with the lawn mowing? the yards all look trimmed as well as the ballfield. I know the base closed down several years ago but it's a shame that this housing wasn't refortified and is just going to waste. This is a damn shame to see this housing going to waste like this.
At first I thought this was a "New Town" development like Reston, Virginia. What happened? Did the air base close? Why wasn't this sold to a community developer?
It was closed 20 years ago when they closed the base next to it. The base became obsolete. They since found ground water in area to be toxic due to fire retardant chemicals used during aircraft fire drills. Asbestos found in the homes made back in the 50's. Area deemed now to be uninhabitable. Developers have backed away due to PA EPA regs.
The bus stop! 😭
I spent so many days there!
Viking Dr
Longstreth Elementary 1995-1997
I just looked at Google maps, it all gone, they Dazed it about 7 months ago
I've been in the park that circles this development many times, always been curious to see it from the inside, wow! (No, I didn't go in the holes in the fence lol)
One of my classmates (Class of 1961) at WTHS lived there.
What a waste. The only thing keeping us from solving a lot of our problems is a lack of imagination.
Military ripped out all the pipes, ground water was found to have high levels of lead and other contaminants. You dont want to live near military instalments god knows what they where doing and dumping.
@@Ffs0rz That's awful. Thanks for the background info.
@@busterbrown446 yeah and i drank that water for 6 years of my life man.
coordinates?
My family and I lived here in the early 90's my dad was in the Navy we moved here when I was 3 and left when I was six we lived on Sky hawk drive in the 2nd to last house on the right side.I still remember going to the baseball field and playing on the little playground behind my house,some of the worst years of my life happened here so good riddance as far as I'm concerned
They say the ground and water became contaminated…what about the neighborhood just next to it with houses having pools? Wouldn’t that area have been contaminated as well? The only separation is a fence from what I saw on the video…why shut just this area off and leave the rest around it?
Y’all remember the “upside down planes”?
Are these up for sale?
What model drone did you use here?
We lived at 1099 Seaking from August 1995 to July 1998.
I thought The Naval Air Warfare Center closed in 1997. Didn't this housing go with that installation and not Willow Grove Naval air station??? Did Warminster ever purchase it in 2017 to create Open space?
its sad when the goverment can waste money like this. but can not afford to pay better benfits or higher s.s. what a darn shame.
sandra osheasandra01 we can't get a raise in SSI because of the 2 million Muslims Obama ordered SS to place on full disability for a minimum of 5 years per person within the familys,and the reason is that no US company can guarantee they don't employ a single apostate/atheist and Muslims refuse to work with apostates ,how else do people think the 200,000 Somalis Obam a imported can afford to fill the entire mall of America shopping 7 days a week ,a family consisting of 2 parents and 5 kids receives nearly $5,200 a month in cash and unlimited food stamps, I'm a professional land Lord and have 3 Muslim family's for tenants and all 3 showed me letters from SSI listing their income at $740 per family member .
sandra osheasandra01 Apparently the drinking water was contaminated. At that point its easier and cheaper to relocate
@@leviledford4778 wow. Why isn't that more main stream information/knowledge.
@@chuckn.1367 hmmm
@@leviledford4778
Completely untrue
We live nearby. Thats why I was interested. Haven't been there for a while. Development deal fell through a couple years ago because it is now considered a toxic waste site. Toxic ground H2O and asbestos in the homes. It will cost a developer a fortune to remediate. Too bad...it's prime real estate.