This was a college project that aired back in the day during 1979. The story revisits what happened in what was one of the city's best known African American shopping districts 11 years, after the 1968 riots.
Right? It's kinda crazy. It looks so familiar and so different all at once. So cool seeing this window back in time of a place I thought I knew really well.
@@seankilleen6632 Great thought. It does seem as though it is taking long to get back in the groove of things. You are right. It has taken so long with much more to go. I wish i had millions. I'd love to buy Kentucky Towers and bring it back to life.
I read and researched about how president Lyndon Johnson's "fair housing act" did a lot to destroy these businesses while pretending to be for fairness to black communities. It happened across the country but absolutely wrecked Louisville. It is so sad that this occurred and was never restored.
I was 11 years old when this happened, that area never recovered it was vibrant on Saturdays people would be shopping all up and down the streets, my mother would take us to the Library up the street , while she shopped. There were a lot of black owned businesses there, it's never came back up to this day February 2021.
Do you think City Council, mayor or anyone else cared about them tearing and burning up their own neighborhood, but the Army make sure that they got nowhere near downtown 4th Street shopping area. I remember those buildings stayed board it up and burnt out for years. My father knew many of those black business owners they had their life savings into those businesses they never recovered.
Why don’t they actually teach us about MLK and Malcom X? They don’t want people to turn against our government bc if we knew all the facts people wouldn’t feel comfortable with voted in tyrann.
I grew up 4 blocks from there. The grocery store came back a couple of times under different names but had direct competition from Kroger and Win-Dixie up on Broadway. There are a lot of businesses at Lyle's mall that make it more difficult to keep a business there. The laundromat was around when I was a kid and I used to go to the library on the end of the block well into highschool. They do have some community gardens in the green spaces there now.
@infinity MFG That's encouraging to hear about the community gardens. Do you have any info on who organizes them and where they are located? I live in southern Indiana and know a cattle farmer who is begging people to haul away his manure :D That would be a good Saturday afternoon project to haul some manure to them, I bet I could get a few more guys with trucks to help out too.
I grew up on the corner of 31st & Rudd, right in front of the flood wall. At the end of our block was the K&I Bridge. We'd sled down the flood wall in the winter. I went to Portland Elementary, and eventually to Shawnee. If anything, I think it has gotten worse. Gangs, Drugs and Crime. Makes me sad.
WOW! Even though I was born 12 years after this footage was made, it boggles my mind that nearly 40 years later, like-minded Blacks back then were saying exactly the same thing that I so adamantly argue today! Nothing has changed within our black community at all, and it is so sad - it doesn't even look like we care about real change from within and this is a very huge problem!
@@jonpatterson5668 i moved to Louisville from florida around June-July for college and tbh i dont see much happening besides people putting breona taylor signs in heir window but whats that gonna do? These peaceful protest arent going to change anything. Im not saying arson and such is the way its far from it and will make things worse. We need to talk to these people that are running things not these meaningless walks. That's why i dont do the walks anywhere, they're pointless.
This neighborhood, Parkland, has made very little progress since '68, but nearby in West Louisville, there have been some success stories, like the Lyles Mall area, and the West Muhammad Ali Blvd. restaurant incubator and the African-American Heritage Center, and some good restoration in Russell.
Its catch 22. Communities are neglected, and there's talk about 'white flight', but if there's investment, improvement, and renewed diversity its considered gentrification.
Nothing to be confused about. The displacement of people is the big issue in gentrification, not the improvements and investments. It's coming in and moving people out but profiting from the area. It's basically America's blueprint but for a neighborhood. Lol
@@itsthehumor95 Unfortunately that displacement is only the byproduct of the availability of goods goods and services. There isn't really any way to stop that. If you put in a lot of services people want to live near more people will compete to live in that area. More competition drives the cost of living up to a point where people cant afford to live there. Its not some malicious plan. Its just simple competition.
@@HeiligerGrimmnir I understand your point but as long as you understand what makes it so, we'll have to stop there. Agree to disagree if you will. But I get what you mean.
Reminds me of what's going on today. History certainly does have a way of repeating itself. Then again, Dubenil has been a CESSPOOL for a LOOOOOOONG TIME!!!! There are Locksmiths and some Police Officers that won't go there!!!!
Our house was on 31st St, right in front of the flood wall. At the end of the block was the K&I Bridge. I grew up there during the late 60's to almost 1980. I went to Portland Elementary, which was an experimental School that used new Teaching method, to teach children. I eventually went to Shawnee Middle / High School. We survived the riots. We survived the bussing riots. My little brother is buried in a small cemetery in The West End. I still go there when I return for visits. If anything... The West End has gotten worse. It's all about Gangs, Drugs and Crime now. When we were kids, back then, you could still run the streets and play with all the kids on your block, be they black, white, yellow or whatever color. Now, from what I observed on my last visit, you wouldn't let your kids run loose to play at all. Our House cost $3000 back in the day. My Dad showed me the mortgage on the house, from back then. His house payment was $30 dollars a month. That house was built in 1907, and still exist to this day, and on zillow it only shows a value of around 40K. I miss that area,and the time of my childhood.
I'm very familiar with this area of Lou. I went to work for the Reynolds Metals Co. at 28th and Hale in 1975 and worked there until I retired in 2009. it was and still is a very problematic area then and still is today. The last foot beat cop walked the neighborhood for several years after I went to work for Reynolds. There were very few new business'es that opened in that area for as long as I worked at Reynolds. The few that did had their windows and doors covered with iron bars. We had several employee's robbed going from one building to another but no injury's. We had two to four Guards per-shift trying to avert trouble with the neighborhood teens. Reynolds opened up their main plant on Hale Ave. in 1919. I believe the main reason we had as little problems as we did is due to the fact that Reynolds was a big employer of Blacks for which many lived near the Plant.
"riots are the voice of the unheard" almost as if people don't just start rioting for no reason, the abuse and oppression that african americans deal with it'd be totally understandable to be angry. Redlining, racist policing, racist housing and banking policies, infrastructure ignored and falling apart, no jobs or low paying jobs. History isn't a hard thing to learn, when a group of people are mistreated, they become upset, not rocket science.
@@jacobjohnson4801 Tell that to the "Domestic Terrorists" (Conservatives) but not to the "Peaceful Protesters" (BLM/ANTIFA). I had a voice, and it was not heard for the past 4 years, I was called a "deplorable" "racist" "nazi" with no justification, should I prove those who would slander me right and go break into my local deli and shoot the owner for a tv on their wall? After 2020, In the face of a conspiracy installed totalitarian government with the full backing of all "journalists" rewriting history in real time while boasting about rigging the election and calling for the drone bombing of American citizens on American soil, "activism" and riots coordinated by billionaires for almost an entire year starting because of an overdose, permanent national guard occupation of the capital complete with a razor wire backed "green zone" (I thought borders were bad), hedge funds conspiring with government officials to manipulate our economy and trading, the complete dissolution of our constitution and the majority of the rights listed therein, the solidification of a practical slave class of illegal immigrants that will perpetually be used and abused by massive multinational companies that will have the carrot of citizenship dangled in front of their face forever, BILLIONS of tax payer dollars being shat out everywhere on earth but back to the initial tax payer (we just haaave to keep those multi million dollar Pakistani gender programs going! But forget about the 2k we JUST promised you, also Egypt, have a couple billion, just cause), if there was a single person in America pre 2020 without a complaint, there is certainly no individual in this country without a grievance now. There are 40,000,000 actual slaves on earth TODAY, why don't we do something about that? I live in louisville kentucky, I recognize the streets mentioned in this video, and I remember when rioting washed through our streets LAST YEAR ruining and ending countless small family owned businesses, again. It's frustrating to find this video and see the extent to which history repeats itself, and that nothing was learned by any party by the SENSELESS VIOLENCE that riots and looting bring with them. Rioting is a great idea if you want to turn public centement against you, hence "Peaceful Protestors."
I was 8yrs old and lived on Cecil and Greenwood. It was after the murder of Rev. Martin Luther King. We were in the house and our parents sit out on the porches that night. All night long sirens fires and madness ruled. Im now 60 and its about time that this area needs a reup.
@@GodisAgapelove4172 there were billions of dollars in damage and destroyed in mainly low income minority communities during the Trump era. However, I don't recall Trump calling for any of those attacks.
Awesome steve... Friel and Stovall omg-It's no where near as bad then as it is now,they would really complain now.Keep up the good work.Was that a Jefferson dry goods pleather you had on lol...mj
I work on 26th St. This area is dead, full of crime, drugs and prostitution. Garbage all over the place. Why invest in an area when the folks who live there don't even respect it? It just gets worse and worse down here. I feel sorry for the older and elderly folks down here.
@@tonjamcmanus7143 Yes ma'am it has. Im a utility worker and thats been my area for quite a while. Ive seen it all. Then the older folks who are so nice don't have the ability to move and are so disgusted. Its not the legacy they wanted to leave.
This happened before my time. But I remember hearing people talk about it when I was little in the 80's. I remember when that was a library behind where that man was talking. Today it's even WORST! The manufacturing jobs have dried up and the remaining jobs pay very poorly! What little money people have disposable or otherwise is absorbed by major companies like Kroger's on Broadway. Even if you were to open businesses in this area...who in the neighborhood under 60yrs would have the money to support and patronize them?
Awesome points. So many are waiting for a handout instead of heading out into the world to make a better life. That is the point of growing up and moving on into the world.
it's bad that it's been this long and still the metro counsel hasn't done anything still to this day... No wonder why the African American's still feel the way that they do..
Louisville is a segregated mess. Mitch has held the city back for decades and there's little to no opportunity for young poc here. Louisville's greatest successes was Muhammad Ali and even he had to leave to be that great.
@@BurnedTrashcan your weak a** would try to refer to one or two instances of boiled over outrage (which honestly is justified in any circumstance where a group of people are being heavily disregarded and held back by an oppressed and racist system) vs. a multi decade ego trip that has benefited the state none but made the individual richer than the majority of citizens in it. Poor people, poor health care, poor schools...I can go on.
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Its a trip seeing this in 2021. Some buildings are still there and a lot has changed. Wow. Thanks for this video.
Right? It's kinda crazy. It looks so familiar and so different all at once. So cool seeing this window back in time of a place I thought I knew really well.
I was about to say I was just down there and to see it look like this...just wow
@@semaj_5022 Exactly
I'm curious how the damage from 2020 will impact downtown Louisville. It took so long to build it up.
@@seankilleen6632 Great thought. It does seem as though it is taking long to get back in the groove of things. You are right. It has taken so long with much more to go.
I wish i had millions. I'd love to buy Kentucky Towers and bring it back to life.
Glad I came across I Need to Get Up On My Louisville history
Me too
OMG I did not know 28th st had that history!!
I read and researched about how president Lyndon Johnson's "fair housing act" did a lot to destroy these businesses while pretending to be for fairness to black communities. It happened across the country but absolutely wrecked Louisville. It is so sad that this occurred and was never restored.
I was 11 years old when this happened, that area never recovered it was vibrant on Saturdays people would be shopping all up and down the streets, my mother would take us to the Library up the street , while she shopped. There were a lot of black owned businesses there, it's never came back up to this day February 2021.
Do you think City Council, mayor or anyone else cared about them tearing and burning up their own neighborhood, but the Army make sure that they got nowhere near downtown 4th Street shopping area. I remember those buildings stayed board it up and burnt out for years. My father knew many of those black business owners they had their life savings into those businesses they never recovered.
Audio why don't Louisville teachers teach us these? This is Louisville history
They don't teach history. They teach propaganda that will make u consider enrolling.
Why don’t they actually teach us about MLK and Malcom X? They don’t want people to turn against our government bc if we knew all the facts people wouldn’t feel comfortable with voted in tyrann.
@@shroomgoblin2639 no. They teach you both people. And they're both dead right? The not too subtle message. Peaceful or fighter. You lose.
Damn 502 this is amazing just popped up on my timeline the ancestors want us to see something
This just popped up.
Weird.
I grew up 4 blocks from there. The grocery store came back a couple of times under different names but had direct competition from Kroger and Win-Dixie up on Broadway. There are a lot of businesses at Lyle's mall that make it more difficult to keep a business there. The laundromat was around when I was a kid and I used to go to the library on the end of the block well into highschool. They do have some community gardens in the green spaces there now.
@infinity MFG That's encouraging to hear about the community gardens. Do you have any info on who organizes them and where they are located? I live in southern Indiana and know a cattle farmer who is begging people to haul away his manure :D That would be a good Saturday afternoon project to haul some manure to them, I bet I could get a few more guys with trucks to help out too.
Old neighborhood.........Went to Parkland Elem.........Lived on Catalpa
We lived on Olive Street & I went to Parkland.
I lived on 28th and Hill and went to Parkland too...
My man Kenneth Johnson (aka SLICK from WWF) is the pastor now at Shiloh on Catalpa
My friend lived on 28th and hill near the church and i use to go through that shopping area, its crazy to see what it use to look like
I grew up on the corner of 31st & Rudd, right in front of the flood wall. At the end of our block was the K&I Bridge. We'd sled down the flood wall in the winter. I went to Portland Elementary, and eventually to Shawnee. If anything, I think it has gotten worse. Gangs, Drugs and Crime. Makes me sad.
Some of these buildings are still here!!! Crazy lol
3:25 That's the realest shit I've heard in awhile.
So real
WOW! Even though I was born 12 years after this footage was made, it boggles my mind that nearly 40 years later, like-minded Blacks back then were saying exactly the same thing that I so adamantly argue today! Nothing has changed within our black community at all, and it is so sad - it doesn't even look like we care about real change from within and this is a very huge problem!
Are you still on here in 2021 , I'm interested to see how you feel now
@@jonpatterson5668 i moved to Louisville from florida around June-July for college and tbh i dont see much happening besides people putting breona taylor signs in heir window but whats that gonna do? These peaceful protest arent going to change anything. Im not saying arson and such is the way its far from it and will make things worse. We need to talk to these people that are running things not these meaningless walks. That's why i dont do the walks anywhere, they're pointless.
Cause Louisville is a liberal stronghold....it will be the same way in 40 additional years.
@@parson7260white amerikkka has spoken
Good video and good representation of history.
This neighborhood, Parkland, has made very little progress since '68, but nearby in West Louisville, there have been some success stories, like the Lyles Mall area, and the West Muhammad Ali Blvd. restaurant incubator and the African-American Heritage Center, and some good restoration in Russell.
Hi! I'm working on a film project about Louisville, and I'm wondering where you got this footage from 1968? Any leads would be very helpful!!!
How’d your project turn out?
Did you finish your project?
Did you finish it? I would love to watch it
Contact Michael Stone on Facebook he got footage
@@sheenadowner7043 okay thanks
that one guy with the brim hat sounds like Muhammad Ali
Confusing as to why you would burn down your own neighborhood
Steve! Good piece.
Didn’t know Impellizzeri’s pizza started out as a butcher shop. Crazy.
That’s probably a relative the owner of impellizzris was Kenny pastor he was a friend of my dads
Why would you invest in the area if it's going to be vandalized and burnt?
One of the smartest comments in this comment section.
Its catch 22.
Communities are neglected, and there's talk about 'white flight', but if there's investment, improvement, and renewed diversity its considered gentrification.
Nothing to be confused about. The displacement of people is the big issue in gentrification, not the improvements and investments. It's coming in and moving people out but profiting from the area. It's basically America's blueprint but for a neighborhood. Lol
@@itsthehumor95 Unfortunately that displacement is only the byproduct of the availability of goods goods and services. There isn't really any way to stop that. If you put in a lot of services people want to live near more people will compete to live in that area. More competition drives the cost of living up to a point where people cant afford to live there. Its not some malicious plan. Its just simple competition.
@@HeiligerGrimmnir I understand your point but as long as you understand what makes it so, we'll have to stop there. Agree to disagree if you will. But I get what you mean.
Looks a whole lot like June 2020 to me
I loved Louisville, nice people there too.
thank u 80eku
It's cool piece of history
My home town.
Reminds me of what's going on today. History certainly does have a way of repeating itself. Then again, Dubenil has been a CESSPOOL for a LOOOOOOONG TIME!!!! There are Locksmiths and some Police Officers that won't go there!!!!
Dumesnil
Wow. Opinions have changed quite a bit.
Open craft stores in the west end of louisville instead of pawn shops and liquor stores
Hard to stay open when your shop is constantly being looted and vandalized.
Our house was on 31st St, right in front of the flood wall. At the end of the block was the K&I Bridge. I grew up there during the late 60's to almost 1980. I went to Portland Elementary, which was an experimental School that used new Teaching method, to teach children. I eventually went to Shawnee Middle / High School. We survived the riots. We survived the bussing riots. My little brother is buried in a small cemetery in The West End. I still go there when I return for visits. If anything... The West End has gotten worse. It's all about Gangs, Drugs and Crime now. When we were kids, back then, you could still run the streets and play with all the kids on your block, be they black, white, yellow or whatever color. Now, from what I observed on my last visit, you wouldn't let your kids run loose to play at all. Our House cost $3000 back in the day. My Dad showed me the mortgage on the house, from back then. His house payment was $30 dollars a month. That house was built in 1907, and still exist to this day, and on zillow it only shows a value of around 40K. I miss that area,and the time of my childhood.
Wow I live right down the street from this area and didn't know the history.
Always thought about what the area looked like!
what year was this video?
1979
@@80eku jimmy carter
"Want improving but don’t do anything about it."
Well said
I'm very familiar with this area of Lou. I went to work for the Reynolds Metals Co. at 28th and Hale in 1975 and worked there until I retired in 2009. it was and still is a very problematic area then and still is today. The last foot beat cop walked the neighborhood for several years after I went to work for Reynolds. There were very few new business'es that opened in that area for as long as I worked at Reynolds. The few that did had their windows and doors covered with iron bars. We had several employee's robbed going from one building to another but no injury's. We had two to four Guards per-shift trying to avert trouble with the neighborhood teens. Reynolds opened up their main plant on Hale Ave. in 1919. I believe the main reason we had as little problems as we did is due to the fact that Reynolds was a big employer of Blacks for which many lived near the Plant.
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This could run on tonight's news without editing and would still be accurate af.
Riots and vandalism don’t work? Weird...
It's almost like rioting is counter productive!
"riots are the voice of the unheard" almost as if people don't just start rioting for no reason, the abuse and oppression that african americans deal with it'd be totally understandable to be angry. Redlining, racist policing, racist housing and banking policies, infrastructure ignored and falling apart, no jobs or low paying jobs. History isn't a hard thing to learn, when a group of people are mistreated, they become upset, not rocket science.
@@jacobjohnson4801 Tell that to the "Domestic Terrorists" (Conservatives) but not to the "Peaceful Protesters" (BLM/ANTIFA). I had a voice, and it was not heard for the past 4 years, I was called a "deplorable" "racist" "nazi" with no justification, should I prove those who would slander me right and go break into my local deli and shoot the owner for a tv on their wall? After 2020, In the face of a conspiracy installed totalitarian government with the full backing of all "journalists" rewriting history in real time while boasting about rigging the election and calling for the drone bombing of American citizens on American soil, "activism" and riots coordinated by billionaires for almost an entire year starting because of an overdose, permanent national guard occupation of the capital complete with a razor wire backed "green zone" (I thought borders were bad), hedge funds conspiring with government officials to manipulate our economy and trading, the complete dissolution of our constitution and the majority of the rights listed therein, the solidification of a practical slave class of illegal immigrants that will perpetually be used and abused by massive multinational companies that will have the carrot of citizenship dangled in front of their face forever, BILLIONS of tax payer dollars being shat out everywhere on earth but back to the initial tax payer (we just haaave to keep those multi million dollar Pakistani gender programs going! But forget about the 2k we JUST promised you, also Egypt, have a couple billion, just cause), if there was a single person in America pre 2020 without a complaint, there is certainly no individual in this country without a grievance now.
There are 40,000,000 actual slaves on earth TODAY, why don't we do something about that? I live in louisville kentucky, I recognize the streets mentioned in this video, and I remember when rioting washed through our streets LAST YEAR ruining and ending countless small family owned businesses, again. It's frustrating to find this video and see the extent to which history repeats itself, and that nothing was learned by any party by the SENSELESS VIOLENCE that riots and looting bring with them. Rioting is a great idea if you want to turn public centement against you, hence "Peaceful Protestors."
Man tony hasn't changed much
I was 8yrs old and lived on Cecil and Greenwood. It was after the murder of Rev. Martin Luther King. We were in the house and our parents sit out on the porches that night. All night long sirens fires and madness ruled. Im now 60 and its about time that this area needs a reup.
My buddy lives out there. I might know u lol
Who is destroying these black communities and why? This is what we need to focus on if we want change.
Exactly and since this was made in 1979 we can’t blame Trump.
@@GodisAgapelove4172 there were billions of dollars in damage and destroyed in mainly low income minority communities during the Trump era. However, I don't recall Trump calling for any of those attacks.
@@crocsonletsgo9665 Right Trump didn’t call for any attacks.
How ironic to think what's been going on in the last year
Same shit different day.
Same shit in Detroit... nothing will ever change..
Awesome steve... Friel and Stovall omg-It's no where near as bad then as it is now,they would really complain now.Keep up the good work.Was that a Jefferson dry goods pleather you had on lol...mj
Black Sabbath
Still not putting money into the area
My city The Ville!
Better find u then
Love it all day The Ville
@@lanacastillo49 I'm always around
@@kristofortaylor6324 oh are you?? Better get yourself ready then
@@lanacastillo49 Creepy lol
What are you trying to tell me internet? Tell me !
It's dec 2019. It's not like that NOW. It looks livable now
no louisville has looked like absolute shit ever since the breonna taylor lootings
I work on 26th St. This area is dead, full of crime, drugs and prostitution. Garbage all over the place. Why invest in an area when the folks who live there don't even respect it? It just gets worse and worse down here. I feel sorry for the older and elderly folks down here.
The drug dealers have taken over that area. Zombies walking around high on Crack, heroin and spice. It's so sad.
@@tonjamcmanus7143 Yes ma'am it has. Im a utility worker and thats been my area for quite a while. Ive seen it all. Then the older folks who are so nice don't have the ability to move and are so disgusted. Its not the legacy they wanted to leave.
This happened before my time. But I remember hearing people talk about it when I was little in the 80's. I remember when that was a library behind where that man was talking. Today it's even WORST! The manufacturing jobs have dried up and the remaining jobs pay very poorly! What little money people have disposable or otherwise is absorbed by major companies like Kroger's on Broadway. Even if you were to open businesses in this area...who in the neighborhood under 60yrs would have the money to support and patronize them?
went to Parkland,I was in kindergarden in 68
James Johnson
Awesome points. So many are waiting for a handout instead of heading out into the world to make a better life. That is the point of growing up and moving on into the world.
it's bad that it's been this long and still the metro counsel hasn't done anything still to this day... No wonder why the African American's still feel the way that they do..
Birth is the start of living but death is the beginning of Life
grasp that one. It's the truth they don't want us to know
History sure does repeat itself. Black on black is worse then I’ve seen in my 24 years of livin. I’m prayin for our ppl 🙏🏼
So thin then lol
Hmm weird how this popped up
Ikr crazy how this popped up in my feed I live in Louisville
Some stuff today, if not worse
My Grandmother had shoe store there that didn't vandalize it because she wrote soul sister on the windows!
Imagine that!
@@TheWtQueen yes sir!
Wow! 🖤
Well obviously he not from Louisville
Needs more Korean shop owners on the roof....
lmao
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Solid historical comment. Lol.
Smart. 👌
No excuse for. Robbing your neighborhood or tearing it up. That’s just bull shit
You can’t help people who won’t help themselves. The truth.
Louisville is a segregated mess. Mitch has held the city back for decades and there's little to no opportunity for young poc here. Louisville's greatest successes was Muhammad Ali and even he had to leave to be that great.
You'll blame one man in our govt, but not the criminals stealing, looting and vandalizing. Lol. OKAY.
@@BurnedTrashcan Yea he's a huge part of the state lacking
@@itsthehumor95 okay bud. Whatever you say. 🙃
@@BurnedTrashcan your weak a** would try to refer to one or two instances of boiled over outrage (which honestly is justified in any circumstance where a group of people are being heavily disregarded and held back by an oppressed and racist system) vs. a multi decade ego trip that has benefited the state none but made the individual richer than the majority of citizens in it. Poor people, poor health care, poor schools...I can go on.
My daddy was riot right along with them!
Birth is the start of living but death is the beginning of Life
grasp that one. It's the truth they don't want us to know