Weeping for my lost hometown...Who is responsible? All those living in Portsmouth and all those who left it behind never to look back. All of us that "loved Portsmouth" yet did nothing to help save it. Buildings demolished just outside of Portsmouth in 2011: Rubyville Elementary School (I attended K-6), Rosemount Elementary School and Clay High School with its beautiful landmark arch everyone could see from St. Rt. 23. I attended Clay 7-12. I only go home for Thanksgiving. Isn't that ironic?
That was the saddest thing ever. I grew up there in the 50s and taught at Wilson in the 70s. I've been gone a long time but I loved living in Portsmouth.
Not everyone looks at these buildings like the older generation does. When they were fist built they were "New" and exciting state of the art structures, but how can you look at PHS new school and long for the old delapadated buildings that it replaced. The Video starts out with the Grant Bridge, which had lived out it's usefulness. I am sure 50 - 75 years from now, the old timers will moan when the current bridge and Highschool come down, but that is called progress & that is one thing we lack!
Face it people ... The good is GONE. All we have left is the bad. Portsmouth now isn't nothing like in those days. Nostalgic and all. It's the end of time people. Get used to it and get right with the LORD. It's coming sooner than you all think.
Everywhere you look is BAD. Nothing GOOD in this world anymore. LEet alone anything GOOD in Portsmouth. It is now over-run by Drug Lords and Dealers - oh and did i forget to mention, the Prositutes? Portsmouth is now a backyard septic tank.
Face it people ... The good is GONE. All we have left is the bad. Portsmouth now isn't nothing like in those days. Nostalgic and all. It's the end of time people. Get used to it and get right with the LORD. It's coming sooner than you all think.
Everywhere you look is BAD. Nothing GOOD in this world anymore. LEet alone anything GOOD in Portsmouth. It is now over-run by Drug Lords and Dealers - oh and did i forget to mention, the Prositutes? Portsmouth is now a backyard septic tank.
I grew up in Portsmouth in the 50s til 1970s and worked at Empire Detroit Steel as a supplier to the blast furnace. When the mill went down, I was so glad to flee Portsmouth. At one time, I was proud to live there and quite a great place to live until the place fell apart due to the greed of city leaders and unions. I fled to Birmingham, AL which was great and later to Pensacola, FL. I look back at Portsmouth as a wasteland.
Have you ever wondered why the FBI sits right in the middle of Portsmouth but does nothing about the corruption?? Portsmouth corruption operates under the RICO ACT yet goes on & on. It's the "Blue Code Of Silence" hard at work. One THUG, covering up another THUGS wrong doings...
Nice Video Frank. Portsmouth has been swallowed by the gangsters of corruption for years. The crooks of the city & county has brutalized the area down to its skelital remains. Many crooks like your Sheriff, Marty Donini and his incompetent gang. You have the corrupt court system(s) framing innocent citizens who expose them. Judge Walter Lytten was/is a real crook,,, The thug Eric Wrage playing Lytten's game of corruption along with the gang of attorneys there like Joan Garaczkowski.
Holy Redeemer still stands. The original US Grant suspension bridge was structurally deficient and replaced with a new cable-stayed bridge. This video is not 100% accurate. FRANKHUNTER12 can either choose to be part of the problem in Portsmouth or part of the solution. If it's the later maybe he needs to move.
Interesting all the comments cheering the destruction of once beautiful buildings. I wonder if these folks ever leave their house, property, or offices.
A city/society that has no past, has no future.
Adaptive reuse, creatively moving forward.
Although, I'm no Richard Florida acolyte, do check out his "Creative Class" book. Also, check out Jane Jacobs "The Death & Life of Great American Cities" - its heavy on NYC, but is relevant to smaller towns too.
Nope. Chicago. I did however tour a bit of S. Ohio driving from Chicago to Maryland for a wedding. We stayed off the interstates and enjoyed every mile of the road trip. Even took the ferry across the river down stream at Augusta.
Heck, consider how Augusta continues to exist. Its a real town, but its decided to capitalize on its assets rather than ignore it and destroy it.
I'm a fan of all small towns and study them and how to revitalize them.
Portsmouth has been a hotbed of unemployment, welfare and city government corruption for a very long time. That's why the greatest number of those who graduate from there hit the road as soon as possible (or soon after they've gone throught their education grants at Shawnee State.) It says a lot about a city when your biggest employer is the Southern Ohio Medical Center. It's not that I want to rag on the town. I loved it growing up. But all this is so sad and unnecessary.
I think that as industry left along with gradutes, there was no one left to take the helm in a positive way. That condition obviously continues. I know there are groups who could put into play some of the touristy (followed by jobs) items I have hinted at in my videos. Sorry, but murals are a dime a dozen and people do not stay overnight to visit them. Portsmouth has natural resources that need to be developed.
Terrific video. Great collection of images from the Portsmouth even I grew up in during the 60's and 70's. I left Portsmouth after high school in '76 and have only been back a handful of times. I didn't even realize until now that Holy Redeemer was gone. I went to church and grade school. I think the saddest though was the demolition of PHS. What a classic structure of a building, only to replaced with a generic box type school as is the norm here in Las Vegas. Very sad to look back on.
Thank you truegritwayne. There is a bit of good news for you. Holy Redeemer is still standing. My error. I hope you will view my other videos and take them as tongue-in-cheek. I wish the city the best and hope it recovers. Frank Hunter PHS 1955
i say tear the floodwall down and let that crap hole get washed down the river. When i graduated from PHS i got out of there as quickly as i could and never looked back.
And further more.. Waltsa says the police are "Thugs and Gangsers oh Corrupt" it sounds to me like someones is one of two things.. 1. Denied a Job or 2. A criminal that got caught and is bitter about it.. lol Rest your neck you make this city look like crap..
Ya know I agree with Luke... But then you read down and you see the typical crap about corruption.... The video isnt about corruption its about tearing down old building (eyesores).. Ok you tore old ran down schools down and you have NEW ONES.. you tore down the dump called N&W Passenger Building.. Last time i checked the trains that come thru here are FREIGHT... now you have a New Jail... Which is needed with all the Oxy Heads we have around here... TEAR EM DOWN AND MOVE FORWARD!!!!!!
hey guy, id rather have all of those nasty looking schools down and have the nice things we do now... i just grauduated from there, and no one used the grey hound station. the grant bridge wasnt safe anymore. why have mercy hospital and the hospital on the trail when we have somc and it isnt a damn eye sore. the columbia burned down and they are rebuilding it. good job, you are an idiot.
Only weirdo's say porch-miff... I grew up in Sciotoville and we said Ports-mith, at least it's closer to the actual word... LOL anyhow... I love Portsmouth, it was nice to see some of those photos. I always love visiting. Sure it's gone down hill in some parts, but every small town goes there at some point. I miss martings, I used to LOVE to smell all the candles on the 3rd floor and lay on the beds as a little girl.
Born and raised on Scioto Street I attended Lincoln Elementary, Grant Middle School, PHS and graduated from NDHS 1992. Left for Cinci in 1997.Love the pictures spent many summers at Dreamland Pool.Sorry to see what has happened to Portsmouth over the years.
frank, its pronounced: porch-miff. LOL i suppose porchpouth'll do too. i rememb er thos bldgs. growing up too. the steel mill was a great old mainstay down towards new boston. my grandpa worked there. b tw river vices is good readin'. would make ol' mark twain chuckle and nod.
No one can or will save Poortsmouth, The corruption is soo rampid. Theives and gangsters control the place. A CORRUPT FBI office sitting blinded right in the middle. Cincinnati's FBI office covers for these thugs.
farewell ancient edifices. new h.s.? well i liked the old one. steel mill and railroad? many families liked them. who's your daddy portsmouth? tragic story. the end.
i was born in portsmouth in 1955, and now live in mi., i always enjoyed going back there. i lived at the east end of charles st. , thanks for the photos, i recognized most of them,it really took me back. btw, my house was nocked down,as were most others on that part of charles st.
Holy Redeemer was not torn down; the church next door, Trinity Methodist, however, was torn down. Is there a place to see what replaced the torn down buildings?
what have the fathers replaced these old worn out buildings with? Then we will be able to tell if they are on the right track. Seems like any small town across this country.
Weeping for my lost hometown...Who is responsible? All those living in Portsmouth and all those who left it behind never to look back. All of us that "loved Portsmouth" yet did nothing to help save it. Buildings demolished just outside of Portsmouth in 2011: Rubyville Elementary School (I attended K-6), Rosemount Elementary School and Clay High School with its beautiful landmark arch everyone could see from St. Rt. 23. I attended Clay 7-12. I only go home for Thanksgiving. Isn't that ironic?
pawnitbabe 1 month ago
The most important building remains .... the Portsmouth Brewing Company
ohiozetapdt 2 months ago
That was the saddest thing ever. I grew up there in the 50s and taught at Wilson in the 70s. I've been gone a long time but I loved living in Portsmouth.
Dr.R.Becher
DrBBecher 6 months ago
2 of those aren't even destroyed, they're still there.
And a lot of those have been replaced by newer and better things.
Chrispisz12 11 months ago
I went to wilson elementery in first grade as a child! Thanks for the memories!
babybugangel35 11 months ago
@babybugangel35
Just curious when you were there...I taught first grade there in the 70s
DrBBecher 6 months ago
Great job!! Sorry to know so many historical structures are gone.
NSveteran 11 months ago
Not everyone looks at these buildings like the older generation does. When they were fist built they were "New" and exciting state of the art structures, but how can you look at PHS new school and long for the old delapadated buildings that it replaced. The Video starts out with the Grant Bridge, which had lived out it's usefulness. I am sure 50 - 75 years from now, the old timers will moan when the current bridge and Highschool come down, but that is called progress & that is one thing we lack!
ignert1 1 year ago
holy redeemer is still there and the icehouce wasnt torn down.....it was knocked down in a windstorm.....
vegalyrae123 1 year ago
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Face it people ... The good is GONE. All we have left is the bad. Portsmouth now isn't nothing like in those days. Nostalgic and all. It's the end of time people. Get used to it and get right with the LORD. It's coming sooner than you all think.
Everywhere you look is BAD. Nothing GOOD in this world anymore. LEet alone anything GOOD in Portsmouth. It is now over-run by Drug Lords and Dealers - oh and did i forget to mention, the Prositutes? Portsmouth is now a backyard septic tank.
hornetsfanjc 1 year ago
Face it people ... The good is GONE. All we have left is the bad. Portsmouth now isn't nothing like in those days. Nostalgic and all. It's the end of time people. Get used to it and get right with the LORD. It's coming sooner than you all think.
Everywhere you look is BAD. Nothing GOOD in this world anymore. LEet alone anything GOOD in Portsmouth. It is now over-run by Drug Lords and Dealers - oh and did i forget to mention, the Prositutes? Portsmouth is now a backyard septic tank.
hornetsfanjc 1 year ago
Some of these are still there.
My dad works at Norfolf Western.
Portsmouth used to be so nice.
I wish it was still like that.
Now its just a town run over with drugs =/
Chrispisz12 1 year ago
I feel like I see the Ice house everyday. But broken. No?
I love portsmouth.
I feel like McKinley elementary and Roosevelt Elementary are still around, aswell.
sethewing10 1 year ago
Really sad.
allisonfaye5 1 year ago
I grew up in Portsmouth in the 50s til 1970s and worked at Empire Detroit Steel as a supplier to the blast furnace. When the mill went down, I was so glad to flee Portsmouth. At one time, I was proud to live there and quite a great place to live until the place fell apart due to the greed of city leaders and unions. I fled to Birmingham, AL which was great and later to Pensacola, FL. I look back at Portsmouth as a wasteland.
sandcrab2002 1 year ago
Have you ever wondered why the FBI sits right in the middle of Portsmouth but does nothing about the corruption?? Portsmouth corruption operates under the RICO ACT yet goes on & on. It's the "Blue Code Of Silence" hard at work. One THUG, covering up another THUGS wrong doings...
ExposeTheCorrupt1 1 year ago
Nice Video Frank. Portsmouth has been swallowed by the gangsters of corruption for years. The crooks of the city & county has brutalized the area down to its skelital remains. Many crooks like your Sheriff, Marty Donini and his incompetent gang. You have the corrupt court system(s) framing innocent citizens who expose them. Judge Walter Lytten was/is a real crook,,, The thug Eric Wrage playing Lytten's game of corruption along with the gang of attorneys there like Joan Garaczkowski.
ExposeTheCorrupt1 1 year ago
Wow,I don't even remember some of those places at all. Some I think may have been out of business and torn down just when I was born in portsmouth.
I miss Martings,it was a damn good department store back then. I miss the old portsmouth a lot. Thanks for the video.
Dunes 2 years ago
Hey not so fast! I go to Holy Redeemer. I was there Sunday and it's still there!!!!
Axisbold 2 years ago
My error. I hope you will view my other videos and take them as tongue-in-cheek. I wish the city the best and hope it recovers. Frank Hunter PHS 1955
FRANKHUNTER12 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this video.. Yep many of the old buildings are now gone, and I miss them, but that's what
they call progress I guess. I've been in the portsmouth rail yard many, many times, having worked there for
23 years.. It's nothing but a whistle stop now since they don't make up trains anymore. Now I see that the
WPAY Radio station, including the property has been sold, and the new owners are going to turn it into a
public radio station, (not a commercial station). Too bad.
Bennie449 1 year ago
Holy Redeemer still stands. The original US Grant suspension bridge was structurally deficient and replaced with a new cable-stayed bridge. This video is not 100% accurate. FRANKHUNTER12 can either choose to be part of the problem in Portsmouth or part of the solution. If it's the later maybe he needs to move.
portslunaticfringe 2 years ago
Interesting all the comments cheering the destruction of once beautiful buildings. I wonder if these folks ever leave their house, property, or offices.
A city/society that has no past, has no future.
Adaptive reuse, creatively moving forward.
Although, I'm no Richard Florida acolyte, do check out his "Creative Class" book. Also, check out Jane Jacobs "The Death & Life of Great American Cities" - its heavy on NYC, but is relevant to smaller towns too.
Good luck Portsmouth - be creative.
jakebarnes28 2 years ago 2
WELL SAID JAKE. Are you from Portsmouth?
FRANKHUNTER12 2 years ago
Nope. Chicago. I did however tour a bit of S. Ohio driving from Chicago to Maryland for a wedding. We stayed off the interstates and enjoyed every mile of the road trip. Even took the ferry across the river down stream at Augusta.
Heck, consider how Augusta continues to exist. Its a real town, but its decided to capitalize on its assets rather than ignore it and destroy it.
I'm a fan of all small towns and study them and how to revitalize them.
Don't give up & in fact redouble efforts.
jakebarnes28 2 years ago
Tongue-in-cheek promos for Portsmouth
FRANKHUNTER12 2 years ago
Portsmouth has been a hotbed of unemployment, welfare and city government corruption for a very long time. That's why the greatest number of those who graduate from there hit the road as soon as possible (or soon after they've gone throught their education grants at Shawnee State.) It says a lot about a city when your biggest employer is the Southern Ohio Medical Center. It's not that I want to rag on the town. I loved it growing up. But all this is so sad and unnecessary.
clydesplace 2 years ago
I think that as industry left along with gradutes, there was no one left to take the helm in a positive way. That condition obviously continues. I know there are groups who could put into play some of the touristy (followed by jobs) items I have hinted at in my videos. Sorry, but murals are a dime a dozen and people do not stay overnight to visit them. Portsmouth has natural resources that need to be developed.
FRANKHUNTER12 2 years ago
Terrific video. Great collection of images from the Portsmouth even I grew up in during the 60's and 70's. I left Portsmouth after high school in '76 and have only been back a handful of times. I didn't even realize until now that Holy Redeemer was gone. I went to church and grade school. I think the saddest though was the demolition of PHS. What a classic structure of a building, only to replaced with a generic box type school as is the norm here in Las Vegas. Very sad to look back on.
truegritwayne 2 years ago
Thank you truegritwayne. There is a bit of good news for you. Holy Redeemer is still standing. My error. I hope you will view my other videos and take them as tongue-in-cheek. I wish the city the best and hope it recovers. Frank Hunter PHS 1955
FRANKHUNTER12 2 years ago
ah should have read this one as well
bandito07 2 years ago
holy redeemer is still there. it was the church next to it that was knocked down
bandito07 2 years ago
i say tear the floodwall down and let that crap hole get washed down the river. When i graduated from PHS i got out of there as quickly as i could and never looked back.
blackbeard1991 2 years ago
And further more.. Waltsa says the police are "Thugs and Gangsers oh Corrupt" it sounds to me like someones is one of two things.. 1. Denied a Job or 2. A criminal that got caught and is bitter about it.. lol Rest your neck you make this city look like crap..
valleyac8 2 years ago
Ya know I agree with Luke... But then you read down and you see the typical crap about corruption.... The video isnt about corruption its about tearing down old building (eyesores).. Ok you tore old ran down schools down and you have NEW ONES.. you tore down the dump called N&W Passenger Building.. Last time i checked the trains that come thru here are FREIGHT... now you have a New Jail... Which is needed with all the Oxy Heads we have around here... TEAR EM DOWN AND MOVE FORWARD!!!!!!
valleyac8 2 years ago
hey guy, id rather have all of those nasty looking schools down and have the nice things we do now... i just grauduated from there, and no one used the grey hound station. the grant bridge wasnt safe anymore. why have mercy hospital and the hospital on the trail when we have somc and it isnt a damn eye sore. the columbia burned down and they are rebuilding it. good job, you are an idiot.
LukeMault21b 2 years ago
Only weirdo's say porch-miff... I grew up in Sciotoville and we said Ports-mith, at least it's closer to the actual word... LOL anyhow... I love Portsmouth, it was nice to see some of those photos. I always love visiting. Sure it's gone down hill in some parts, but every small town goes there at some point. I miss martings, I used to LOVE to smell all the candles on the 3rd floor and lay on the beds as a little girl.
atreyin88 2 years ago
Born and raised on Scioto Street I attended Lincoln Elementary, Grant Middle School, PHS and graduated from NDHS 1992. Left for Cinci in 1997.Love the pictures spent many summers at Dreamland Pool.Sorry to see what has happened to Portsmouth over the years.
JKLSparks 2 years ago
Its cool to go down to the flood wall (i live in portsmouth) and see old things.Makes me happy
sethewing10 2 years ago
i boarded a bus at the old bus station going to louisville for my induction into the army a long time ago. gives you a lump in your throat.
dictionar1 2 years ago
frank, its pronounced: porch-miff. LOL i suppose porchpouth'll do too. i rememb er thos bldgs. growing up too. the steel mill was a great old mainstay down towards new boston. my grandpa worked there. b tw river vices is good readin'. would make ol' mark twain chuckle and nod.
dictionar1 2 years ago
Someone Please Save Us ...Before You Know It Town Won't Exist.But There Will be a Mural On Every Street Where Our Family's and Houses Used to Be.
ShermTheGerm77 2 years ago
Hey Sherm the germ... yall from Porchmouth. Me too. What do you think about parking meters at the murals?
FRANKHUNTER12 2 years ago
Sad as it may seem yes .and the parking meter thing is just another way our city likes to fuck people out of money for nothing.
ShermTheGerm77 2 years ago
Seems to me that cars should not be parked in front of murals. It can damage the murals and anyway, it block the view other people have.
FRANKHUNTER12 2 years ago
For an item of interest about murals
google River Vices by Robert Forrey.
FRANKHUNTER12 2 years ago
No one can or will save Poortsmouth, The corruption is soo rampid. Theives and gangsters control the place. A CORRUPT FBI office sitting blinded right in the middle. Cincinnati's FBI office covers for these thugs.
waltsa200 2 years ago
farewell ancient edifices. new h.s.? well i liked the old one. steel mill and railroad? many families liked them. who's your daddy portsmouth? tragic story. the end.
dictionar1 2 years ago
I certainly miss all these old treasures.
RonnR 2 years ago
i was born in portsmouth in 1955, and now live in mi., i always enjoyed going back there. i lived at the east end of charles st. , thanks for the photos, i recognized most of them,it really took me back. btw, my house was nocked down,as were most others on that part of charles st.
claarky 2 years ago
it used to be a booming town. very sad to see it now.
ohioarrowhead 2 years ago
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ohioarrowhead 2 years ago
The icehouse just naturally collapsed. Its infra-structure rotted away to the point that a high wind knocked it over.
The Columbia fell victim to arson,but the front of it is still standing,and the owner has at least laid a new floor.
strangedoctorweird 2 years ago
Holy Redeemer was not torn down; the church next door, Trinity Methodist, however, was torn down. Is there a place to see what replaced the torn down buildings?
glas3486 2 years ago
Trinity Methodist was replaced by a butt ugly eye
sore that looks like something out of H.P. Lovecraft. All the angles are wrong.
strangedoctorweird 2 years ago
@strangedoctorweird I went to Trinity for years. I couldn't believe they tore that beautiful church down.
allisonfaye5 1 year ago
what have the fathers replaced these old worn out buildings with? Then we will be able to tell if they are on the right track. Seems like any small town across this country.
terslate 2 years ago
Keep on tearing down the run down buildings, and the condemned houses. It would make this town alot cleaner.
schnauzerwoman2 2 years ago