It got worse and worse over time. In the early/mid-sixties they had poor whites in one part of the complex, Pitt students and grad-students in another, Puerto Ricans in another, and Blacks everywhere else.
I went back there a few times to see unfortunate friends who were still living there as late as 1972. They were constantly harassed. In most of the rest of the 'Burgh people get/got along pretty well.
No doubt the constant agitation will eventually make every city a hell-hole. Still, of the places I've lived in PA; Philly, Allentown, Harrisburg, York, and Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh was by far the most harmonious.
So you lived in Allentown. Have you heard of Pen Argyl? That’s where I’m at.
Still, of the places I’ve lived in PA; Philly, Allentown, Harrisburg, York, and Pittsburgh
how’d you like York...?
My late grandmother (worked as a domestic when she came over from Ireland) ran a boarding house in the lower Hill (Melody Tent area-the state took the house for the building of the Civic Arena). After that they moved to the Lower Hill. A lot of Irish immigrants there back in the day (tho most long gone).