Tell your morehouse and Spellman graduates not to move to sandy springs but to qualify for a 203k loan and fix up a property with a foundation thus revitalizing the area and keeping it black.
Having gone to Spelman College, this is like a second home to me and the gentrification is really overwhelming ... they even tried to jog on campus and were upset when told they couldn't. This video is VERY important and shares necessary history that people need to be aware of.
So people buying crap houses in a drug and crime infested gross neighborhood, fixing them up and improving the neighborhood is something that you don’t like? Lol 🤡
My husband used to live in Vine City, then moved to Bankhead Courts. The Courts are gone now, of course. I met him when I moved to ATL in '06. I moved back to Ohio 3 years later and he followed me. Been together 15 years. We drive through here everytime we come and see his mom, who lives off Cascade Rd. now. Subscribed. 😘
I am a 70 year old republican, conservative Christian white man. For about 7 years I lived on Beecher Street in West End, across from John A White park. I never really thought about it at the time, but I was probably the only white person living within a 5 mile radius of my house. I never felt out of place or at odds with my neighbors and fellow residents. Only once in all that time did anyone say anything negative to me, and it was as I was jogging around the park where the baseball fields are, right off Cascade Rd. Poor guy was there from another area apparently playing baseball and all he said was, "Hey man, you're in the wrong neighborhood aren't you?" I'm laughing now just remembering it, but I had to rescue him from the other neighbors, lol. I actually said, "He didn't mean anything by it." I live in an upscale area on a lake in South Carolina now, but those memories and acquaintances I cherish to this day. I didn't feel different from anyone else there. It just seemed natural. The house was an inheritance thing and it saved me the expense of living Iike a pack rat in an apartment. I had nice neighbors, a yard and a park, and life was good without wealth or worry. There's a sense of community one gets from living there. I eventually moved to Buckhead where the environment felt more pressured than West End. But I still feel like a part of that place, even though I've fallen out of touch with it over the years. I still have old friends I see occasionally from the Bluff, so shout out from Chip to Long Boy, Little Fat Boy, Larry, China-man, and all my brothers from back in the day. How 'bout you Marion, Leon & Sonny Williams of Williams Bros Grocery fame. I love you guys, and I have to get back to see y'all soon. I have so many business things happening but I gotta make time for memories too. I guess I might stick out like a sore thumb to some folks but my people know me. Oh yeah, a cop pulled me over the last time. He said outta state plates but y'all know the deal...... white dude in a black neighborhood! He wanted to search me so bad but when I asked to see his warrant he gave the "Have a nice day" send off. Now I know how some people feel coming to visit me on the lake. And I dare my neighbors to ask 'em about the "wrong neighborhood." Let's hope that doesn't happen.
@3:35 idk why but that part was so creepy! The music suddenly stopping simultaneously as the vehicle comes to a stop. As it continues on to reveal a "deathy" looking street. Man I wouldn't feel safe in those streets. Death is right around the corner! 😮😮
Shittin' me! I guess I missed the beautiful part! That's why this video called "Atlanta's WORST neighborhoods!" I'm from NYC and we ain't got shyt on what I just saw in this video 😂😂😂
Hey boo, new member of your squad. Showing love from the whatsapp! Also loved this video. My family has a house in Georgia so could potentially arrange a meet up next time I’m there 😏😌
Everyone should learn that these neighborhoods were purposely segregated due to racist policies. The music industry, the lack of food, clean water, education, closed down industries, decent living conditions, and work had led to the decay of urban neighborhoods. You can't blame people when this is what they were born into and expected to survive in. And now most are being heavily gentrified and displacing people once again! If you made it out of these neighborhoods, god bless u and I am so proud of u. U can do anything u want in life.
Trust me we got enough rough hoods here in the D. Like any other rough hood long as you be cool then everything is cool. Course there are some places where they have been cleaning up the blight here and there.
I lived in Vine from 1984 to around 1990 and I cannot recognize it from the video you took. Thank you for taking the time to make it. If you make another please say the name and cross street that you are on. I was pausing the video trying to see the street signs...lol. I'm glad that they are fixing up the area because a lot of history is in that area. But I don't think that it being gentrified is 100% the answer. I still think that it should keep it Blackness about it. I remember when the Marching Bands would practice in the neighborhood. Those were fond memories. I went back to Georgia a few months back, I was able to go to 5 Points but not Vine(I even took the Marta Train) Next time I visit I hope to be able to drive thru my old stompin grounds and see all the changes.
Oh wow how was the area when you lived there ? Ok, I got you on my next video ! I also agree, they would rather push blacks out and raise the prices smh. Wow I’m Glad you shared your memories that’s so cool to know! Thanks 😊
@@jameekadasjay8784 When I lived there is wasn't the best neighborhood. The crack was there but you didn't have all the crime as they do now. They had it but it was mostly some petty theft, maybe some fist fights here or there but using guns against each other was very rare. As a matter of fact I don't recall anyone getting shot during my time in the Vine. I meet my husband there while I was staying on Magnolia, and we are still together 30 years later. I remember working at a Churches Chicken on Northside Dr in the neighborhood and I knew they were gonna get rid of the neighborhood because the owner at the time was an older Black business guy who had connections with people downtown who gave him the heads up about the Vine area, and he told me about the city plans for Vine City which is why he decided not to sell the Churches Chicken at the time. He knew he was gonna make big money from it in a few years if he hung on to it. He knew about the Games coming to Atlanta way before it was made public.
@@jacksoncynthia82 wow I love that you met your hubby there ! Yes the gun violence is at an all time high just fight with your hands smh and thanks for sharing your experience!! 💕💕
Man the Bluff is not what it used to be at all. Snow on the Bluff is still my favorite ATL movie. Low-key better than the actual ATL movie lol They're really not trying to "Clean up the city" more like trying to raise the rent so we get the fuck out. We have to remember ATL is like Black Hollywood, especially for Black Women right now.
Lol idk I love the movie ATL but they both are good movies! I agree they raise the rent and blacks move out further and further. Yess so many people are moving here it’s crazy. I’m not ready for traffic to get more worse than it already is lol
Gentrification has begin.....wished it happened 40 years ago when I was living in the hood. Our apartments would flood if it rain. Nice to see Mercedes and BMW parked in the driveways. During my time you barely could drive through yet along park one...lol
I'm originally from this neighborhood (Vine City). It's crazy how some things changed and some things remain the same or worse. It's funny to see the sprinkles of white people waiting on gentrification to be complete. 😂😂 All the new homes in between dilapidated homes is crazy. Smh I was hoping I would see our old duplex. We moved from this area when I was a young kid. In the 80s it was filled with straight dope and crime. Came back frequently though because still had family that stayed there on one of the good streets. 😂 Can't ever forget the roots.💪🏽 Vine City baby.
The houses are pretty decent and neat. I’ve seen some hood and this doesn’t even compare. It doesn’t seem like people are living in some of these old houses tho
It most certainly is. I'm from here, and my parents got the hell out, it was rough, especially in the '80s. You had decent streets and a street over was hell. Shit was crazy.
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Tell your morehouse and Spellman graduates not to move to sandy springs but to qualify for a 203k loan and fix up a property with a foundation thus revitalizing the area and keeping it black.
Having gone to Spelman College, this is like a second home to me and the gentrification is really overwhelming ... they even tried to jog on campus and were upset when told they couldn't. This video is VERY important and shares necessary history that people need to be aware of.
Yes the AUC video will be coming soon !!!
@@jameekadasjay8784 I AM EXCITED!!
What history?
@Billy Damnit history of ATL and how the city let the area get bad and now they want to Crack down on shit when money is involved.
So people buying crap houses in a drug and crime infested gross neighborhood, fixing them up and improving the neighborhood is something that you don’t like? Lol 🤡
My husband used to live in Vine City, then moved to Bankhead Courts. The Courts are gone now, of course. I met him when I moved to ATL in '06. I moved back to Ohio 3 years later and he followed me. Been together 15 years. We drive through here everytime we come and see his mom, who lives off Cascade Rd. now.
Subscribed. 😘
That’s amazing , I love your story 💕! What made you move back to Ohio ? I loved that he followed you . Thanks so much 😊
Thanks for this vlog the buildings genuinely look awesome I love it thanks for taking us around am so grateful
Anytime 😊
I am a 70 year old republican, conservative Christian white man. For about 7 years I lived on Beecher Street in West End, across from John A White park. I never really thought about it at the time, but I was probably the only white person living within a 5 mile radius of my house. I never felt out of place or at odds with my neighbors and fellow residents. Only once in all that time did anyone say anything negative to me, and it was as I was jogging around the park where the baseball fields are, right off Cascade Rd. Poor guy was there from another area apparently playing baseball and all he said was, "Hey man, you're in the wrong neighborhood aren't you?" I'm laughing now just remembering it, but I had to rescue him from the other neighbors, lol. I actually said, "He didn't mean anything by it." I live in an upscale area on a lake in South Carolina now, but those memories and acquaintances I cherish to this day. I didn't feel different from anyone else there. It just seemed natural. The house was an inheritance thing and it saved me the expense of living Iike a pack rat in an apartment. I had nice neighbors, a yard and a park, and life was good without wealth or worry. There's a sense of community one gets from living there. I eventually moved to Buckhead where the environment felt more pressured than West End. But I still feel like a part of that place, even though I've fallen out of touch with it over the years. I still have old friends I see occasionally from the Bluff, so shout out from Chip to Long Boy, Little Fat Boy, Larry, China-man, and all my brothers from back in the day. How 'bout you Marion, Leon & Sonny Williams of Williams Bros Grocery fame. I love you guys, and I have to get back to see y'all soon. I have so many business things happening but I gotta make time for memories too. I guess I might stick out like a sore thumb to some folks but my people know me. Oh yeah, a cop pulled me over the last time. He said outta state plates but y'all know the deal...... white dude in a black neighborhood! He wanted to search me so bad but when I asked to see his warrant he gave the "Have a nice day" send off. Now I know how some people feel coming to visit me on the lake. And I dare my neighbors to ask 'em about the "wrong neighborhood." Let's hope that doesn't happen.
@3:35 idk why but that part was so creepy! The music suddenly stopping simultaneously as the vehicle comes to a stop. As it continues on to reveal a "deathy" looking street. Man I wouldn't feel safe in those streets. Death is right around the corner! 😮😮
Wow...lived in Vine City from 1979-2003...thank you for posting...born and raised ATL!!
Oh wow that’s amazing! Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing. I wish someone could buy, renovate those old houses and sell them low back to our community. 🖤
It’s just the opposite selling it to others and not even giving people in the community a chance
Renovating cost money. Why would someone put in sweatequity and sell low. The whole point is to make money on a flip.
Invest Atlanta have a program for Vine City area now for home buying.
Why so their investment would be ruined, yeah right. I mean it’s about making money on that flip. Nothing more nothing less.
This is was very interesting to watch i really enjoyed watching this!
Thank you 💕
Thanks for the tour ❤
No problem!
Thank you for sharing this video of the different sides of atl
Yes I got more ride alongs coming soon !
Ooh how I love your Outro so beautiful 😍
Thank you 💕💕
Beautiful environment, thanks for showing us around.
Np 😊
Shittin' me! I guess I missed the beautiful part! That's why this video called "Atlanta's WORST neighborhoods!" I'm from NYC and we ain't got shyt on what I just saw in this video 😂😂😂
Even in the hood houses are 500k here. The house prices of this city is out of control
Really nice drive around the bluff
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Hey boo, new member of your squad. Showing love from the whatsapp! Also loved this video. My family has a house in Georgia so could potentially arrange a meet up next time I’m there 😏😌
Hey girl and thanks ! Yes just let me know 😊
Beautiful vlog
Loved it
Thanks 😊
Just subscribed good video
Thank you !!
Everyone should learn that these neighborhoods were purposely segregated due to racist policies. The music industry, the lack of food, clean water, education, closed down industries, decent living conditions, and work had led to the decay of urban neighborhoods. You can't blame people when this is what they were born into and expected to survive in. And now most are being heavily gentrified and displacing people once again! If you made it out of these neighborhoods, god bless u and I am so proud of u. U can do anything u want in life.
I 💯agree!
@@jameekadasjay8784 💯💯💯 it's sick! We all need to join forces and rise up 💕
Only thing I see is the difference between people who take care of their neighborhood and those who don't.
Trust me we got enough rough hoods here in the D. Like any other rough hood long as you be cool then everything is cool. Course there are some places where they have been cleaning up the blight here and there.
Yes they are trying to clean up the entire city slowly
I've never been to ATL but I do wanna visit soon
You have to come !!
nothing to see dirty
I lived in Vine from 1984 to around 1990 and I cannot recognize it from the video you took. Thank you for taking the time to make it. If you make another please say the name and cross street that you are on. I was pausing the video trying to see the street signs...lol. I'm glad that they are fixing up the area because a lot of history is in that area. But I don't think that it being gentrified is 100% the answer. I still think that it should keep it Blackness about it. I remember when the Marching Bands would practice in the neighborhood. Those were fond memories. I went back to Georgia a few months back, I was able to go to 5 Points but not Vine(I even took the Marta Train) Next time I visit I hope to be able to drive thru my old stompin grounds and see all the changes.
Oh wow how was the area when you lived there ? Ok, I got you on my next video ! I also agree, they would rather push blacks out and raise the prices smh. Wow I’m
Glad you shared your memories that’s so cool to know! Thanks 😊
@@jameekadasjay8784 When I lived there is wasn't the best neighborhood. The crack was there but you didn't have all the crime as they do now. They had it but it was mostly some petty theft, maybe some fist fights here or there but using guns against each other was very rare. As a matter of fact I don't recall anyone getting shot during my time in the Vine. I meet my husband there while I was staying on Magnolia, and we are still together 30 years later. I remember working at a Churches Chicken on Northside Dr in the neighborhood and I knew they were gonna get rid of the neighborhood because the owner at the time was an older Black business guy who had connections with people downtown who gave him the heads up about the Vine area, and he told me about the city plans for Vine City which is why he decided not to sell the Churches Chicken at the time. He knew he was gonna make big money from it in a few years if he hung on to it. He knew about the Games coming to Atlanta way before it was made public.
@@jacksoncynthia82 wow I love that you met your hubby there ! Yes the gun violence is at an all time high just fight with your hands smh and thanks for sharing your experience!! 💕💕
Man the Bluff is not what it used to be at all. Snow on the Bluff is still my favorite ATL movie. Low-key better than the actual ATL movie lol They're really not trying to "Clean up the city" more like trying to raise the rent so we get the fuck out. We have to remember ATL is like Black Hollywood, especially for Black Women right now.
Lol idk I love the movie ATL but they both are good movies! I agree they raise the rent and blacks move out further and further. Yess so many people are moving here it’s crazy. I’m not ready for traffic to get more worse than it already is lol
Im on griffin st...get down or lay down
Do you feel like they are gentrifying the area ?
Gentrification has begin.....wished it happened 40 years ago when I was living in the hood. Our apartments would flood if it rain. Nice to see Mercedes and BMW parked in the driveways. During my time you barely could drive through yet along park one...lol
Wow that’s crazy ! Time has really changed . Thanks for sharing your experience!!
Gentrification isn't always a good thing. Changing the rich culture of upstanding Black Americans by bringing in white liberalism isn't always nice.
You in Atlanta GA that's where me from 😍💕💖
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@@jameekadasjay8784 yes Atlanta GA all the way 💯🙏🏿
I’ve been too this bit when I went to ATL
I'm originally from this neighborhood (Vine City). It's crazy how some things changed and some things remain the same or worse. It's funny to see the sprinkles of white people waiting on gentrification to be complete. 😂😂 All the new homes in between dilapidated homes is crazy. Smh I was hoping I would see our old duplex. We moved from this area when I was a young kid. In the 80s it was filled with straight dope and crime. Came back frequently though because still had family that stayed there on one of the good streets. 😂 Can't ever forget the roots.💪🏽 Vine City baby.
lol thanks for sharing you story! 😂😂 sprinkles, you are right! I bet in the next few years that area will looked completely different
2:09 *THE VULTURES LET YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN THE CEMETARY HOOD*
Yes crazy how nature works
@@jameekadasjay8784 I know😵💫😧
Right near the campus and they expect people to send their kids away to school there?
Yep smh
The houses are pretty decent and neat. I’ve seen some hood and this doesn’t even compare. It doesn’t seem like people are living in some of these old houses tho
Lol yes because it’s slowly being gentrified ! I was shocked to see how nice some of the houses where and the people that live there .
Only if the neighborhood can be built up soon a lot of potential
Yes it’s coming slowly
And it's "Pitchburg" if you're from Atlanta
He can't be from the A you don't get to the Bluff till you see that yellow store You're in vine city play Boi
Lol that’s why the title say the bluff/ vine city
Why is that school not torn down and developed
It’s a lot of abandoned videos there.
RIP Morris Brown 😞
I heard it was coming back !
I think Camden N.J. was worst and a place in Philly.
I believe you ! I heard Philly was bad .
@@jameekadasjay8784 Camden is a nightmare
Westside The
Best Side
This is actually beautiful. It’s not too Hoody lol
Lol hoody
That's daytime sister at night is a hold different animal
It most certainly is. I'm from here, and my parents got the hell out, it was rough, especially in the '80s. You had decent streets and a street over was hell. Shit was crazy.
That’s our ATL
Yes !
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