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Back in the 1970's and 80's ,I agree South Bronx is the worst looking ghetto of all time Harlem too. Nothing looks like that the worst looking ghettos are the ones with 6 / 8 story project buildings boarded up some of them were crumbling to the ground. Some of the buildings look like the were bombed out like the buildings in Berlin after WW2. New York has plenty of project buildings, New York has cleaned up alot of these areas present day.
My father owned a house on Browning st. in Camden NJ I have been there too many times, and its the worst looking ghetto currently (Newark, Trenton, Irvington, Jersey City, Patterson look real bad too). Now a days its Camden for sure, but you would need 2 Camdens, 2 Detroits, 2 Philadelphias to equal the decay and grimmey ghettos of the South Bronx and Harlem back in the 1970's and 1980's, nothing will ever come close to that again.
I personaly think that the Midwest ghettos of Chicago, Detroit, and, Cleveland are by far the worst I've seen in the states.
I go with the eastcoast. Midwest cities are more spread out then the Eastcoast cities. High population density as well its like people living on top of people on the eastcoast (Northeast) and if your in a ghetto in the middle of a pile of rumble and boarded up project buildings its just a nasty place to live.
Alot of ghetto pics I have seen of Detroit and Cleveland were horrible looking but alot of the pics were single family homes with front yards and back yards with green grass and a couple of feet of space between the houses as well, from a EastCoast point of view it looked suburben if you cleaned up the area, it would be suburbs in Jersey.
Chicago is not as conjested as NYC either. I agree the Midwest has horrible looking areas, worse then the Westcoast or down South but Newark, Irvington, South Bronx, North Philly, Camden, Balitmore I think they look worse then Detroit, Chicago ,Cleveland etc. Just my point of view.
Thanks for posting these pictures. Memories, a lot bad but some good. I grew up in Valencia gardens. We moved in around 1967. It was still pretty nice then. The one thing that was good about it in a was that even in California in the 60's and 70's, a lot of cities and neighborhoods were still pretty segregated. Living there ( It was predominately black after a while and we were a white family ) exposed me to other races ( mission district just down the street largely Hispanic) on a daily basis. That was good, It was normal to me. I can remember my cousins that lived in the suburbs coming over once and being HORRIFIED that we were " living with black people", and I could not understand it. It was that way in many places. A few years after we moved in, it started a slow decline that picked up rapidly in the late 70's / 80's. Many of the people I knew died of drugs or violence, although I must say it was not as bad a it was in the 90's. I left in 93. The picture of the building with the mural of all the kids on the outside wall is the building that I lived in. It is good for the people living there now, the new complex is pretty nice. strangely I cried when I heard they were going to tear it down, It was my childhood.
Worst I've seen in person Watts, Skid Row L.A. and parts of Baltimore. Worst in pics is North Philly and now Belle Glade FL. Mid Atlantic slums look the worst in general.
That actually fits in perfectly-at least in Philly/Chester ghettos.
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I go with the eastcoast
