Olney and NE Philly were never “nice.” They just went from six-pack seedy to ghetto ghoulishness.
I disagree, brother. I lived there, and it was a good place to grow up.
It was bad when Olney HS was in session because the morons that went there raised hell in “whitey’s neighborhood”.
Other than that...it was an OK place to be a kid...for a while.