4. A Ghost Town on Barton Street

Part 4 of the Barton St. Video's in a set of 9+. This video deals with closed businesses and the lack of consumerism on a section of Barton St. within the Barton Village Shopping Area.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Barton
• Village
• Hamilton
• Ontario
• Canada
• Business
• Location
• Poverty
• Street
• Shopping
• Closures
• Bankrupt
• Ghost
• Town
• Vacancies

[JesusWeeps420]

They should go to other areas... i have been all over America and the closest place  I have seen to down town hamilton is Detriot... its disgusting and dirty. You have to be pretty hard up to live down there

[mrgionni]

Either that or pushed into the situation by corrupt government. Long story.

[jload1]

Back in the day,Barton was booming!

[mrgionni]

Yup, this is the one that they removed my voice and fair use audio for a segment of other audio that was claimed. Looks like I'll have to redo this one.

[ALuimes]

Barton St. is the closed thing Canada has to Detroit,

[mrgionni]

Oh I've been through Detroit, way less people on Barton Street though.

[FireShorts]

That's a shame. I commend you for trying at least, it shows that you did care at one point. Barton is one of the tougher (maybe toughest?) nuts to crack in this city, aside from maybe King East before downtown. Thankfully other neighbourhoods like James North are turning around. People are cleaning up their act and taking pride in their city. I hope this feeling extends to areas like Barton, which were once so vibrant and important.

[zegarski]

Downtown Hamilton can rebuild it just needs a strong mayor.

[freethepeople2012]

@ALuimes I guess you don't know about vancouver then.

[fanofwrestling123]

Want your audio back in your video, Here, watch?v=_lVVZsJNfDE&playnext_f­rom=TL&videos=82qJbvMHI5Q. After that is done, put this in the description. All audio goes to there respective owners, no Copyright infrighment. Used for entertainment not for profit.

[curtiswashik2]

god dammit, it would have been fine as a normal slide show, but you had to waste 5 minutes of the video with your stupid ass effects on the way your shitty text came in. fuck you and i hope you live on barton, and your moms a hooker too.

[slodrive]

Sad state. I'm a member at a boxing club on Barton -- there are some great quality people that frequent the area...well, a bit to the east of where this video is shot.

I think this area needs some James St. N treatment -- basically the community coming together and starting to reshape itself. A coat of paint and some time with a broom do wonders.

Some of this area, though, I'm afraid, should probably be turned into parkland. Green the place up.

[EdM021]

This is how cities get turned into oceans of blighted property.

[althat101]

This should be called the ghetto or Poverty Central

[JesusWeeps420]

Not my fault, I voted for Baldisaro... The pot man could have cleaned the streets