Rochester, NY 1963
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- Rochester was first known as "the Young Lion of the West", and then as the "Flour City". By 1838, it was the largest flour-producing city in the United States. Having doubled its population in only 10 years, Rochester became America's first "boom town".
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Rochester was such a great place to grow up. I was downtown almost every day in the 1960s, 70s, and early '80s. I moved to South Florida 35 years ago and I've only been back a couple of times. Downtown used to be our New York City, it was filled with people and I worked at many of the restaurants there including The Rascal, The Rio Bamba, Top of The Plaza, the Shakespeare, Trebor's, and the Flagship Hotel. Yes, I got around lol. Also remember many wonderful breakfasts, lunches, and dinners at the old Manhattan Restaurant, and Christmas shopping at Sibley's and Midtown Plaza, which I miss so much. Those were the glory days of Rochester and it was so exciting and I have great memories. It's sad to see what has happened, especially to the downtown area which is no more. As someone here said, it exists only in memory.
I grew up in Greece in the 1980s and it was awesome. I live in the southern tier now in Naples New York, which is a very beautiful area and I don’t often go to the city but even Greece now is having their issues.
Retired RPD In 2001. Rochester was my home for 20 years. Bitter sweet. Made great friends, started a family, now moved out of state. That job eats you up and spits you out without any remorse. My last day administration gave me my retirement badge and they shook my hand and that was it. 82 Homicides last year. Good luck to everyone still there.
Thank you for your service.
Thank you. I BACK THE BLUE AND ALL FIRST RESPONDERS.
We need all the luck we can get. The state of our City is scary and heartbreaking. Seems beyond repair. I hope I’m wrong. I live in Spencerport a 10 minute drive to the City but a world away. I feel so bad for the people who have to live in the City. The hardest part for me is leaving behind the magestic Catholic Churches, one more beautiful than the next. Pieces of art amongst urban decay. Pray for us!
@@Ivorymoana I empathize and can relate to your statement. I too lived in Spencerport (Ogden Center Rd) and I was baptized at St. Monicas.
Born in Rochester 1958. Was a beautiful place and great place to grow up. Graduated HS in 1976, left town and never looked back. My parents lived there until they passed a few years ago, i saw the city change step by step when i would visit them a couple of times each year. It was innovation and hustle (Kodak, B&L, Polaroid, Xerox, etc. That made Rochester great, it can be great again. I understand there is a strong digitech presence in Rochester, new innovative companies and good paying jobs to attract and retain people. There were poor people in Rochester in the 60s too, but they were helped by a generous and vibrant community. Cmon Rochester, there are lots of us out here cheering for you to be great again.
Thank you for posting the video. Born there in 1952, family moved to SoCal in 1963. My Dad worked for Rochester Products and my Grandfather for Kodak. Miss the lilacs and white hot dogs.
Sigh. This was pretty much "peak Rochester," with Kodak, Xerox, Bausch and Lomb, and Gleason essentially like Silicon Valley in producing high-paying tech jobs, and superior school systems--even in the city (Monroe High was as good as Brighton or Penfield). Midtown was a new, innovative mall. Downtown was full of retail, including best-in-U.S. stores like Sibley's and Forman's, and class acts like Scrantom's and Levis Music. The corporations, especially Kodak, made products of high value (not "virtual" social-media toxins) and valued their employees and customers as much as their shareholders. How the mighty are fallen.
Of course, what this does NOT show is the impoverished redlined areas. If you kick your social issues down the road they will only get worse.
"Kick your social issues down the road they will only get worse" exactly. Plus, we've entered late-stage capitalism - a cannibalistic economy that is heading towards a feudal state.
Thank you so much for mentioning the redlining! So many former and current residents want to blame how the city turned out on the residence that are minorities. But they won't speak about how redlining affected this city. They won't speak about how when one family of color would move into a neighborhood they would send out letters to the neighborhood saying the n-word are coming! The residents began to sell their homes and the city began to abandon the neighborhoods that the black and brown people were moving into. I got to see Rochester in the 80s and 90s.
I also have a ton of great memories of my mom working in midtown and my father being a bus driver for almost 40 years! But there is no denying the way that the city government completely began to abandon the city. It seems like the bad decisions were purposeful in hindsight. Thanks again!
Very well-said. My great uncle told me a story: he recalled knowing a "colored" guy in the 40s who succeeded at all his businesses. Whatever he started he did well in. He kept buying cars - Cadillacs and Lincolns. My uncle asked him "Why do you keep buying all these cars? Why don't you invest your money in a house?" and the guy said "Who's gonna sell me a house?"
@@aboriginalstraightshooter7967Italians were redlined into ghettos but turned them into clean, pristine, vibrant neighborhoods with zero street crime. Blacks who relocated from the south in huge numbers brought riots and sky high crime rates. My old Italian neighborhood was safe and pristine. We sold to an older black woman with five sons in jail. One got out a few weeks later and immediately drove a Cadillac into the backyard above ground pool my father had kept pristine for a decade. Our house became a drug den and refuge for criminals. Our old neighbors literally fled for their lives. You can’t drive down the street without taking your life into your hands, multiple motorists have died from drive buy shootings. They burned half the city down in ‘64 and a few years ago were quoted in the paper saying they didn’t remember why they did it, they were just bored. Now it’s all papered over by overprivileged suburban white women thrilled by the idea of BBC.
I was born in Rochester in 1967. I wish there were films of 1967, 1968, 1969, and you get the picture. What remains of this once great city is only in people's heads. Sadly no video of the once great New York Central EMD E & F units rolling through the city.
@Josie Iatomasi Where, please. Link?
Once a wonderful city! The city that grew me Rochester New York! I love you always but so sad to see your decline! I moved away at 25 yrs of age for it is so cold there! I loved the people of Greece New York kindly neighbors, life long friends! Outdoor life as a kid was the best! As an adult it is freezing lol and a lot of snow work! I wished home could be like it once was proud and cared about city! Sweet Rochester New York I thank you for allowing me to grow up with love n care! God bless RNY :):):)
" Motivation will get you started, Goals will get you moving, Your purpose will drive you home", sending my full support from Rochie NM (BAYANIHAN sa Legit 💛)
Born in Rochester in 1967 and grew up there. Still here today.
Same here brother.
Memories can not be forgotten
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Inwas born in rochester in 2004, i love my city, i dont live there anymore, i recently moved last year to be with my fiance and now im expecting my first kid❤
Nice selection of films. Even if much was borrowed from "Rochester: A City of Quality". I grew up there. 1960 to 1070. I have lots of treasured childhood memories with my friends. However, I left in 1970 at age 18, never to return except for visits. Why didn't I stay? I guess I just didn't feel welcomed. I just didn't feel loved. I was 8 when we moved there. It was not a warm, fuzzy experience being the "new kid". I was bullied for a long time. Thinking about it, the effect of the bullying was traumatic. I lost trust; in adults, in my teachers, and in most of the kids I met in West Irondequoit. I became jaded and alienated - right through until graduation in 1970. There were some fun times. I wasn't the only jaded and alienated kid in my class. However, almost everyone I was close to in those days left town after college. There was a kind of smugness and arrogance in Rochester, and it was especially smug in the suburbs. Smugtown; isn't that what some call Rochester now? There was and still is a lot of truth to that. Only now Rochester has nothing to be smug about. When I look through my old yearbook, I note that the array of activities available to students was incredible. I never availed myself of these opportunities because I never truly felt welcome. A shame really; I missed a lot. A little kindness would have gone a long way then.
You have not missed a lot. I grew up in west irondequoit an am looking to leave hopeful this new year.
Sorry you had a negative experience. I grew up in Rush Henrietta and I loved every minute of it. Great friends and neighbors, stickball in the street, carnivals, rollerskating parties, cookouts, parties on holidays (and many other times) at the house, visiting the downtown mall, local restaurants and a loving family. I could go on and on. Nothing is perfect but I feel totally blessed to have grown up in a suburb of Rochester. There are many factors that determine Happiness. One house can be full of happiness and the next door not so much. I personally always saw Irondequoit as kinda too close to the city for me. Even though we had friends on Rock Beach road in Irondequoit we would hangout with a lot. Im beyond grateful I grew up when and where I did before the internet ruined life. Family, friends and social interactions are crucial for healthy happy person. Again sorry you had a negative experience.
@@joebuzz2758 Nothing wrong with your nostalgia, but Rochester is the city. The suburbs are the suburbs. I'm glad you have such warm and fuzzy memories of Rush-Henrietta. It is not the city, and never has been. Did you have weed houses to get a nickle bag, or, oh my, a big spender, an O Z, down the street from your house? What about "Horse", that is Heroin, and junkies? Do I need to bring up Crack houses for the more recent era? How many prostitutes and or pimps lived in your neighborhood? How bout welfare mommas? Did you ever walk down Main Street to the Holiday Inn at Crossroads Park and greet the drunks hanging out inside the stairway to stay warm in the winter? Nooo? Wait, or what about West Main from Nick Tahou's to Bulls Head and the street walkers? I'm talking the 1970's here, not the 2000's. It has NOT gotten better! . . . Penfield, Fairport, Pittsford-Mendon, East Rochester, Greece, Gates-Chili, Irondequoit, Brighton, Webster, none of these towns are Rochester either, any more than Rush-Henrietta is, and they have nothing in common with Rochester, other than geographical proximity. What high school did you go to? Madison? Franklin? Monroe? Charlotte? Marshall? East? No wait, you're a "Heck of a wreck from Edison Tech"! Did you ever do a dual meet in sports with one of the inner-city public school? Did you ever ride the city bus from Midtown Plaza out to Rush-Henrietta? No wait, you were the adventurous type and jumped on the Genesee bus and took it out to Genesee Valley Park and walked over to the U of R for a thrill! There was, way back then, and even now nothing similar between the suburbs and the city. The suburbs have their own names, town centers, and governing authority. They all have a vastly different ethnic and socioeconomic composition, and were and are in no way similar to that of the actual City of Rochester. I lived through the civil rights riots of 1964. Did anybody bust through your front door on Halloween night out there in the burbs? Has that EVER happened out there in the burbs? Comparing Rush-Henrietta to Rochester is just as absurd as comparing Grosse Point Shores, Michigan to Detroit, or Oak Park, Illinois to Chicago. You did not live or grow up in Rochester.
@@philipoien7562 damn tell em how you really feel
@@redcomic619 FEEL? What I described is the real City of Rochester as it was when I lived there from my age of recollection of around 3 years old (1963 like the video shows) to 1989, when I moved away for good; only to visit one last time in 2005 with my wife and kids. In 2005, the city was just more dilapidated. My old neighborhood had several empty lots, including where the house I lived stood, because the houses caught fire, either through accident, or intent, and either the owners, the banks, or the insurance companies did not think it financially sensible to repair or rebuild. The refusal to reinvest either with replacement residential or even commercial property is THE sign of a dead and decaying city. It has only gotten worse. Look up Lenox Street in Rochester on Google Maps and try to count the number of vacant house lots in a one mile radius. You will loose track. The commenter's idyllic life depictions probably exist out in the "Burbs" but I know nothing about that life. I didn't live or grow up out there, and IT WAS NOT THAT WAY IN The City of Rochester. Take Care.
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Nice visit back into a simpler time! Well done! Born here in 1959 This was a time before foreign cars, rampant crime and corruption and welfare. By comparison look at the sad state we're in now!
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Thank you for sharing... The music fits well... good luck 😊
memoirs from the past... there's something in the past that will always be mysterious.
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My Father worked with Sears , shoes Sales man. Then Rochester Telephone Company.
My grandpa was VP of Rochester Tel for 26 yrs
I was 7 years old in 63 and living on the corner of S.Goodman and Linden. Many good memories growing up in that neighborhood which is drill holding its own!
Still holding on.
Looks like a beautiful city with lots of big businesses.
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dikit host... so nice to know this .
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RIP to the ROC! Maybe one day it will flourish once again.
The complexion of that city sure changed in the ‘60s.
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Absolutely right
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Weird seeing all The company's and buildings that are no longer around.
so much better back then
Amazing, I like it and I’m so sorry for the people of that time those and I believe majority are not in this world anymore 😢, if anyone past in the way that he knew his reason of presence and follow the creator he is successful
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Wow. Hard to believe I was alive back then. Now my grandchildren have children. Rochester was picture postcard perfect back then.
It's heartbreaking to see what it's become. It was Kennedy's Democrat Party back then. Not the abomination it's become as of 2024.😢
as a kid my friends and me often walked on Lyell Ave. in the evenings ( circa 1959 ) We never encountered any thing close to being criminal, it was a friendly and warm place. Today I would only walk that area with an armed escort. It's dangerous
Back when New York was the empire state.
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Talk about high tech - upstate New York was the first "high tech corridor" along the I 90 Thurway from Hudson Valley to Niagara Falls.
Born Dec 1957, still here. Showing all the big companies but how about all the smaller ones that sprouted up and grew from the work and business they got from Kodak xerox Roch Products etc. The tool and die companies the printing companies packaging and more. There were good jobs and a lot of money to be spent. It was a prosperous city, but not anymore. Like so many other cities industry left and cities became rundown. This one has yet to reinvent itself, and we're running out of time
I was born here.......in 1967...and left when I was six..came back and graduated high school at East. Its crazy but to have been so young I remember most of the companies in this movie. I had family members that worked these places. But can someone clarify a memory for me? Did we have a Gerber baby food place? Because I remember a lit up baby on a building or a baby food jar I swear, but I cannot ask anyone because my family has passed on lol. I feel silly asking but it bugs me.
It was out at, or near the traffic circle where Buffalo Road and Mt. Reed Blvd. intersected. I lived near Bulls Head Plaza in the 60's and my parents would go past it to get to 490 or whatever the road was called back then that went West to the Thruway.
@@philipoien7562 okay I knew I wasn’t imagining this. Thank you
@@philipoien7562 and I remember Bulls Head. There was an a&p and a Rite Aid… and a store like a Kmart because I bought some gold fish lol. I had family in the back on Clifton. I lived off of Plymouth and Exchange on Fenwick at that time.
Yes. I remember working there as a temp in the mid to late 70's. Trimming endless carrot tops off carrots that came down a conveyer belt from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
@@MalibuBon to be honest with the stress I deal with now at work that sounds peaceful and monotonous 😆 I’d love that right now
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Born in Rochester 1952. It was a wonderful place then and a great place to grown up. Now most of it's industry is gone or transplanted elsewhere along with it countless small shops and suppliers that supported them. Largely thanks to the track Mario Cuomo put NYS on, and the efforts of State Democrats, New York now has the 7th highest tax rate in the USA. The sales tax rate is outrageous, the income tax rate is ridiculous, so are the property tax rates. Despite that, you have to deal with embarrassingly high crime rates. One in 125 Rochesterians will become a victim of violent crime every year giving Rochester the dubious distinction of being the number one city in NY in that regard. The homicide rate in Rochester rose 125% in past 5 years - higher than even Buffalo or Syracuse.
In the early 1970's I spend several years in the US Army before returning to Rochester, getting married and starting a family. Of course the second half of that decade had most Rochesterians struggling to keep their heads above water due to years of double digit inflation, rising fuel prices, interest rates and even higher high taxes. In 1980, Ronald Reagan began the process of turning the economy around. Unfortunately, as a stabilizing consumer price index and rising wages were seen by greedy Democrats as an invitation to dig deeper in our pockets and raise taxes - which they did again and again. By 1985, I had enough and decided to flee the taxes, the crime, the rules and regulations. I packed up and moved south to Florida. No State income taxes, lower sales tax, great weather, better opportunities and an even better place to raise a family. We flourished.
Today I live in one of the few truly free remaining States.
My advice to anyone still in my hometown is to get out now, while you still can.
Sad of some these memories .the city was rich nowa memories
Back when New York was the empire state,
A very high tech city in the day. Also a very wealthy city. Unfortunately all that wealth and companies went public. So all that wealth went to Wall Street and now it’s one of the poorest cities in the country
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Any films of Rochester in 1983 ??
1970's only
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Who made this? Not the rochester I know
I lived there then. I was 22yrs old in 1963. It was a fantastic, vibrant, fun city! It is now a hollowed out cavity of what it was then. Too bad we can't time travel and return to the Rochester NY of 1963.
It was awesome then but that's all gone. Retire next June. 60+ year's and good bye. Its nothing like this video to bad.it sucks now.
How People were looking for people that they know?
Definitely not the same city it used to be!!!
I lived in Rochester from 1986 to 1989
A great city but that was many years ago. Like other cities in the U.S. it's now infested with drugs and violence that's spilled into the inner suburbs. I vividly recall walking on Lyell Ave. with my friends in the evening. We were never unsafe because those living in the area had respect for others, respect for the law. Today, I don't even drive on Lyell Ave. or anywhere else in the city, it's too dangerous.
It was better in the 1910's and 20's
Those where the good days.
nary an African American anywhere!. no wonder Rocbester is described as Two Rochesters and as an "Apartheid City."
Still is. Since the vast amount of outsourcing, technological change (film to digital), and automation of the past 40 years, there is no economic base in the central city to help people improve their economic lot on their own. Much as in Detroit, Cleveland, or many other northern postindustrial cities. There is no simple solution. The ONLY longterm one is education, and given the frightful decline and politicization of public schools, unlikely. First thing need is MORE VOTECH.
When this was made the population of Blacks in the city was miniscule.
@@tomfields3682 It's not as if black people didn't want to live in the city. They were pushed out into the outskirts. There was also a lot of indigenous people that were still in Rochester as a part of the Iroquois tribe. But you guys don't like to talk about that either. So many expect us to believe that you just immigrated here and the land was empty but it wasn't. But then people wonder why their precious cities declined!?
@@aboriginalstraightshooter7967 Not sure about the status of the indigenous people, but no, blacks weren't "pushed to the outskirts" . Look at the 1960 census for the city and the county. Very few Blacks in or around Rochester then. Ask anyone who lived there back then. When it came to the Great Migration, Rochester was late to the game.
Well, they were there, they just weren't filmed at the time. For this video anyway.
Where are the Black people in this video?...Speaks volumes. But ok
They weren't there yet, most of them still down South.
The looting was in ‘64.
@@tomfields3682Yes we were! We were just relegated to the rural areas. I have family that was in Bath Avoca and Elmira.. I was born in the 80s my grandma and grandpa are buried in Avoca on my granny's old land. People like to paint a picture that's not true.
@@WinstonSmithGPT Its crazy how a lot of Rochester residence like to try to act as if as soon as black people came to Rochester we just started looting. Rochester is extremely racist and it has been since its inception. There were indigenous people of color here initially that were killed off or pushed out that no one likes to talk about. But the traces and names of them are all over Rochester! Not to mention the way Frederick Douglass house was burnt down by white citizens. You know the house that was across the street from where highland hospital is today!?Nobody likes to talk about redlining, nobody likes to talk about all the slumlord that purposely started to completely abandon their properties in the city. Nobody likes to talk about how 104 was put right through whole neighborhoods of color dispersing many of us and our businesses. Nobody likes to talk about how corrupt the city of Rochester has been for decades! The truth of the matter is you can't come to someone else's land, take their land and then expect the land & the people that are literal thieves to thrive on it until the end of time. That karma is going to come back. And is truly unfortunate to see.
Speaks "volumes" to whom? To you?
The Democrats ruined Rochester.
Or redlining, racism and the lost of companies like other rust belt cities