Philadelphia - The Mill Creek Documentary: Past, Present, & Future
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Documentary:
The Mill Creek Community Partnership (MCCP) under its Fine Art Through Our Eyes Community Arts Initiatives with Eli Lu Productions has produced "The Mill Creek Documentary: Past, Present and Future" as Part I of its Urban Preservation Outreach Initiatives to serve as an outlet and resource to document, preserve, awaken, re-ignite, engage, inform, empower, heal, inspire and activate the Mill Creek community, its residents and surrounding communities. The project was made possible through
the generous support of The Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia.
Mill Creek " A Well Where HOPE is Dispersed"
Produced & Directed by Cassandra Green
Directed, Filmed, Produced and Edited by Jean " Lu" Bevins and Joyce "Eli" Bevins
Narrated by - Jacob Duffy Halbleib
Music composed by Simon Wilkinson www.thebluemask.com
Project Manager - James P. Smith
Graphic Design and Art by Jean "Lu" Bevins
Interviewees:
Men of Mill Creek Organization
West Mill Creek Advisory Council Members
Frances Aulston - Founder, President & CEO -
West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance/Paul Robeson House
Leor Barazani - Developer, M.B. Crafters
The Honorable Jannie L. Blackwell -- Councilwoman,3rd District
Rose Bryant -- Lucien Blackwell Homes Tenant Council President/
Founder & Exec. Dir. Rose's Clubhouse
Monsignor Carroll - Archdiocese of Philadelphia
(Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Carroll)
Claudine Cooper - Executive Director,
We Never Say Never Organization
Pastor Evon DeLee - Senior Pastor, The Church Down The Way
Pastor Ramona Gaines - Founder/ CEO Styllwaters Café/
Movement Is Medicine - Author
Cassandra Green - Co-Founder & President
Mill Creek Community Partnership
Jean "Lu" Bevins -- Filmmaker/ Fine Art Through Our Eyes Young Artist /
The Church Down The Way
Joyce "Eli" Bevins -- Filmmaker/ Fine Art Through Our Eyes Young Artist /
The Church Down The Way
Betty Leacraft - Fiber Mixed Media Artist/ Resident
Michael Johns - AIA, NOMA, LEED-AP-
Chief Operating Officer Philadelphia Housing Authority
Tobias Poole - Broadcasting Professional /
radio station, WRTI-FM- Temple University
Michael A. Rashid - President and Chief Executive Officer
(CEO) of AmeriHealth Caritas
Jean Reed - Mill Creek Resident
Beverly Rouse - Community Activist/Counselor
Angela Simon - Mill Creek Advisory Council RCO/Resident
Dr. Pearl B. Simpson - Author, Professor
Artie Stuart - Brown Educator, Performer, Historian
Tim Warfield Jr. -- Jazz Musician, Composer, Educator
Mill Creek is a neighborhood located in West Philadelphia (PA).
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Very interesting documentary. I grew up at 45th and Westminster Ave. We were living there when the Mill Creek projects were erected. That bakery that Dr. Pearl referred to was owned by the Trawick family. The best donuts you could buy for a nickel! Their son, Harold Trawick went on to teach Phys Ed at Martha Washington and later retired as Principal. By the time these commentators came into the community, Mill Creek had reallllllly changed. Good luck in your endeavors.
Mr. Trawick taught me Tough love as Principal of MW. I don't remember the Bakery but I heard stories from my Parents.
The passion expressed in this film is heartwarming. Thank you for your hard work, great story!!
Thank you for watching!
I grew up on 4700 Wallace Place...and I swear, Mill Creek was the most liveliest neighborhood ever! So many friends, family and memories. This neighborhood made me who I am today. It prepared me to endure anything that life could throw at a man. This was a very nice piece. I'm digging that song the old heads was singing about 49th & Hoopes St. @ 25:20
I remember back when I use to visit West Philly when I was younger (late 80) and my father use to walk me to 50 Market Street and 52. It was black owned business everywhere. I really appreciate that now. It so sad 😔 😫 how it looks now.
I felt so lost when I moved back 2013. Everyone was anger high...no hope..no plans.. just fighting and killing ourselves.
But it still some who care and try to bring back the Brotherly Love.. but the youth is so far gone. So sad.
I pray ever day for my family lives. That still live in Philly I pray That they just make it. Alive and do some good. But I couldn't stay there. It was very depressing and so I moved to ga 2013.
I 💟 Philly. I love the culture and I definitely learned a lot of positive BLK history . Wish it could be rejuvenated how beautiful it could be once again.
shout to mill creek, belmont, mantua [the bottom], carol park, parkside, overbrook, cobbs creek, wynnefield, etcetera, the west philly sections black...
I Love Philly!!!... my home sweet home!
Vey inspiring story, bring back memories of other hoods i know in philly.
Thank you for watching!
This is all the education I need. 💯✊🏾❤👍🏾
Great documentary! Keep up the good work
I grew up in this community and was always fascinated with it's history. Wonderful piece! Hello "Dr Pearl"!
this is amazing to see we need more of this for these kids to see for them to understand that its more to life then what's goin on today....i love y'all for this story...god bless
Thank you Polo for the positive feedback!
I really like the Mill Creek documentary ,because I now live in it ,it's been # 18 yrs. since the massacre....time keeps moving along ,luv the Phila.articles.
I live one block from Mill Creek - near 42nd and Baltimore. I always had an interest in the history and geology of the neighborhood, even took the Mill Creek bus tour narrated by Adam Levine, Philly's own expert on underground creeks and streams. I love this area. I was not born nor raised here but chose West Philly as my home.
I love mill creak
If we are not investing in ourselves how do we expect anyone else to?
I went to St. Ignatius, graduated in 1983. Lived on 50th Brown. We need to do something to bring it back.
inquizative44 I went to St. Ignatius in the 50's
inquizative44 This is Antonio Parker. I graduated from St. Ignatius in 1983 too. Who is this?
I really enjoyed this 👍👍
Grew up,715 south june court.best years of my life.keep mill creek alive,blake.
Wow, I'm from Philly and I never even heard of this. Even before MOVE. I wonder why this is almost never talked about. Thank you.
Fam, this was incredible. Thank You for all that you continue to do. Your story is inspiring 1Love from D.C ❤🖤💚
Thank you
Hey. Just watched this! Sending a shout out from Nitty!
I grew up playing girls softball at Mill Creek playground, attended Sulzberger and cha cha at Shannahan! Great memories and best time of my life!! Great documentary!!
I also went to St. Ignatius and graduated in 1983. This is Tay Tay grom 48th and Parrish St. My dad is Carlos Brown from the 46 street high rises. Great memories coming up!
Memories are what can build our future.
Thank you for doing this. This was great work!!!
I lived in that neighborhood for 6 years. I still work in the neighborhood at one of the schools. I wish all the kids could see this and get inspired to take an active part in their neighborhood. They aren't too young to be an active citizen for their future.
My uncles and OG's spreading positiveness!
Good documentary, really enjoyed watching
So very well done.
I love Philly I came to Philly in 1986 and we in 20!7 and I'm not gonna go anywhere else
John Silva born bred and raised in Philly...still here for 45 yrs and my kids the same
these dudes showed across the street from my grAndmom house shout out Bernard aka st. Bernard for doing the art there 👑😎EMIRJ the artist
I grew up in the Mill Creek housing project. Lived on the 6th floor I remember playing on the enclosed front porch too lol, we moved to SW Philly in 1969, and then to NJ my parents got out when the getting was good!
Intresting I remember the high rise that wer torn down, had a friend ,went in there ,it wer so dark,around there,it wer scary &Blessings to the community workers.
I was born and raised at 768 North Brooklyn street right off of 42nd and Lancaster avenue. I remember the Red Devil and Mr. Kings. Kim brothers and Mr. Copeland. Mr. Dewee for penny candy. I remember when Toyland actually sold toys lol.
I've never saw this documentary before but My Mother used to tell me about the settling neighborhood & how the foundation was sinking into the Earth because I used to live back on 48th. & Parrish Street back in the 70's as a child when the odd number side of 49th. & Brown Street & parts of 49th. & Reno Street had to be demolished around that time .
Bard catching wreck on those West Philly walls!
Very interesting Documentary I grew up on 46th Between Parrish and Westminister. They thing I remember most is All of the Families in the neighborhood and boy was it a lot, seems like everybody was related to everyone. The Bowies, The Mallorys, The Ballards, The Sloans and so many more.
I miss that part of West Philly
I was born and raised in South Philadelphia in the 60's. I really admire all the good people interviewed in this presentation. They are doing their best to try and hang on and make a difference. I agree that unemployment is the beginning of this sort of devastation. I don't know that we will ever get that back. Out of high school I started out in the tool and die trade and had to do a career change in my early 20's because the factories were all closing. This may sound harsh but if you want to tackle the drug problem, start lining up drug dealers and executing them. Make an example and I guarantee the drugs will stop. I lost my only son to heroin and I have a tremendous hatred of drug pushers. Drug trafficer, dealers, pushers and the like should all die a thousand deaths for the destruction they bring upon any community.
I remember as a 5 year old, our fam moving to another part of West Philly because-of the Mill Creek homes collapsing.
Touchingly classy ladies abd gents! 🍸
I was born and raised in Philly I have moved to places like New York, Atlanta, and Virginia. I moved back to Philly in 2014 when I got back nothing changed killings, drug abuse and all the garbage that came with that city. I moved to Maryland in 2017 and I refuse to go back. Best of luck to all Philadelphians trying to revitalize that city.
Gentrification in Mill creek began with the Empowerment Zones under Bill Clinton as a teenager I attended the community meetings with my Mom Crystal Cornitcher, she was tge Founder of the Millcreek Coalition... now my kids nieces and nephews are growing up there...i love seeing all my oldheads and my schools Sulzberger, James Rhoades, Our Mother of Sorrows wow I substitute teach at James Rhoades when the opportunity presents itself.
I am proud of being from Philly eventhough I grew up in South Jersey as a kid. But my father was in the military. We use to live on the Naval Base around south philly back in '87-89. So I'm hearing that buildings that have been boarded-up for decades because they are owned that the city can't do much about that? it sounds like a bunch of B.S. My grandmother moved to Philly in 1946. And told some of those buildings was falling down back in the 50s & 60s. Not to mention some places was so old over the years and was never touched it was the the building just eventually gave up from standing and would collapse. Someone have been pocketing the money over the last couple of decades. I read somewhere that Philly hads over 40,000 vacant row homes...smh
Ok
DUBLIN 2017
I also went to Our Mother of Sorrows up until 3rd grade.
I grandmother worked with Mr. Joyner and I remember Frank’s, $1.00 hoagies!
Well the developers are buying all those bandos .. mill creek is the new victim of regentrification
celyncapo yup it's on its way
It’s all been planned.... as the neighbor gets older they build suburbs... then when properties are at rock bottom they buy it up and gentrification happens.... then the suburban strip malls get old and prices begin to drop... and it goes round
All is by design 🙄across the US prolly since the riots.
Is there anybody reading these comments at this account because I used to live in the city’s Mill Creek neighborhood from 1975 to 1984 because the first few years was back on 4802 Parrish Street at the new houses that my grandmother had bought but she only lived there for a short time since she had spent most of her years in a nursing home since she was sick because my mother and 3 young uncles had lived there up until 1979 just 2 years after my grandmother passed away then months later me and my mother ended up living with cousins later in 79’ up until late 84’ when we moved onto the other side of the city but I do remember living back on 49th. & Brown street during the time there was a vacant lot where houses once stood over 50 years ago .
Hi there, thank you for sharing this story with us. The area is very different now in terms of new structures and homes. Is there anything you're seeking in particular?
"Cubano Chant" @18:17
I live here (for the past 11 years) & am about to give you the KEY to why America is deteriorating. Everyone interviewed is speaking about “fun” “parades” “games” “barbeques” and even the older generations are immature in this way. God didn’t create us for those things. He created us to worship Him. Without the One True God in our speech and in our actions morality diminishes. No obedience to God, no peace! Sure recreational things have their place but the PRIORITY should be pleasing God. This is what no one’s saying and this is the KEY to success!
My Grand ma Miss Pally had a speakeasy 5119 Reno
My grandma lived on 50th Brown on the corner house. I probably know you. My Grandma had a thrift shop on 50th st.
inquizative44 51 and brown the corner store took in the street number.
Ramona Gaines!
Ask yourself the question; How did the neighborhood get that way and who lives there?
Seen and heard a lot about the youth , but didn’t see actual youth 🤔
49$T in this bitch
Were I grew up .Don't worry gentrification is coming
I remember her speak easy I use to go there wow
+kimmy blanko ah you know pally
michael morgan so is a world war.
It already happen in ny.
michael morgan *Where
this is amazing to see we need more of this for these kids to see for them to understand that its more to life then what's goin on today....i love y'all for this story...god bless
Thank you Polo for the positive feedback!