Downtown Bloomington Illinois

[LittleRidleyStares]

Bloomington may not be all that great, but it's a hell of a lot better than Decatur.

[yamahaguy05]

I live in bloomington right now and it is the biggest shit hole EVER! I have never encountered a bigger bunch of ass holes who have no clue how to drive before in my life. FUCK BLOOMINGTON NORMAL!

[woowhofags]

@yamahaguy05 i live there to and i agree although the gamestop is amazing!

[donnad23]

i am 18 years old and i live in bloomington normal ill i have lived here all my life i was born here!

i love it because my family lived here but im ready to move on to somewhere diff.

it's a great place to live many nice people also there are plenty of diff. races here so that makes it nice to see so many types of family, but the thing i do HATE is there are tooo many pot holes lol

[bobertr69]

cant wait to go back home japan sucks lol

[Tnig16]

ive lived here most of my life...jus sad to think one day this gonna be a big city nd nobody will see what it use to be..one thing forsure tho this is my home n always will be nd ill always remember it like this

[SdkCompositions]

@Tnig16 Lol I don't think Bloomington will ever be a big city.

[Jackie371]

Nice pics. I live here. The paintings of the Stevenson's are gone. They redid that bldg. Where is the painting on that bldg of the man with the yellow background & lots of writing? I've lived here 20 years & drive around a lot, but I've never seen that one. lol Seasonal variety would be cool. Like the snow piled up super high & cars getting stuck in town a week ago from the snow. I almost got stuck going up that hill by the Pantagraph-it was bad. The park in summer is nice. I'll try to do it.

[lovejordanpenn]

i live here lol its nice but boring not much to do here any more

[PrairieThunderFan1]

lived here for 6 years now... great place.

[anders578]

i was born and raised in bloomington and normal. Am at ft sill now but will return home soon. lived at isscs in normal for some years. am hoping that others that lived at the home will see this. thank you for lifting me up . i have always loved home and will return soon.

[Clementine0Tangerine]

heehee, u took a pic of the balcony behind the den....silly caleb....i have memories of that balcony. :p

[RandomShowable]

that is ma dads van on 0:07 the purple one

[paintbaler1122]

the pic at 3:58 used to be my home but know i dont live ther also a long time ago it used to be a cigar factory

[MHfreak1991]

@paintbaler1122 hmm interesting. i like bloomington, but im never there anymore

[Jackie371]

Good town, but too cold for too many months.

[shimeonmorpheus]

i miss bloomington =(

[jlassh]

I love the song, i guess you moved away from here too lol

[MHfreak1991]

@jlassh sort of, its still my home, butt im in the military, so im never home

[jlassh]

@MHfreak1991 yeah, making me feel melencholy, great mixed video, blowing my mind seeing i haven't been back there in like 5-6 years.

[iowafester]

Looks like downtown Bloomington was one of those Midwestern cities that experimented with urban renewal that ended up with a bunch of holes that turned into parking lots.

[osamabindrinkin40s]

I was born in Bloomington, IL and now live in a sorry as town called Lincoln, NE.  Bloomington's downtown almost looks the same as Lincoln's and Lincoln is a lot bigger.

[joefax530]

Wow, these are great, and the soundtrack's perfect. I spent my childhood in Bloomington and moved away in '74....but all of these buildings were there 35 years ago, obviously---I've taken shots of many of these same venerable old structures on trips home. The melancholy tunes underscore the urban decay and images of a downtown barely hanging on. Beautiful job!!!

[MHfreak1991]

@joefax530 thankyou, sorry it took so long to see all these comments

[Jackie371]

"buildings were there 35 years ago" lol There are only a couple things that have changed in all that time--there are way too many people here & way too many new buildings & housing areas now. A lot more crime from the ghetto closing in Chicago & lots of them moved here, thanks to Judy Markowitz putting up a billboard saying, "Come to Bloomington, it's better here." Not now because of that. One very good thing--the train (can't play on it now) has added a cool caboose. You can tour it sometimes.

[gaggem]

Damn, That brought back memories I grew up in B Town! I miss it too. But Family still posted up there some of you all might know me from my aunts mexican stores La Chiquita she also Owned Nuevo Chimis of of Prospect Back in the early 90's Boy I had some good times!

[bucsphan]

Thank you! I moved from Bloomington in 1987, still miss home. Done with Normal yet?

[MHfreak1991]

@bucsphan i would love to do normal, but since im in the military i dont have time, hmm ill make one of my town im in now

[efost32]

i miss this so much! i lived off of mclean and douglas for the last two years and just recently moved back home to quincy....I WILL BE BACK!!!

[Anarchist86ed]

Gawd downtown is so depressing. I live mere blocks away from there. I can see the tower from my house.

[madmarine3533]

semper fi did i tell you that my ex is from bloomington we always used to go to that little bar in the country in merna.

[MHfreak1991]

thats cool, ive never been to merna

[Juraxell]

I was born and raised there, Nice job. Go do one in Normal now.... :)

[MHfreak1991]

that was actully my next idea. lol

[MHfreak1991]

thats cool

[Grunt0311954]

hey u have great taste in music!! i love five finger death punch. gunna listen to them in iraq and afghanistan ooohrah.

[MHfreak1991]

OORAH

[lam681]

Good job Caleb :)

[MHfreak1991]

thanks