GARY: The USA's Most Dangerous City? What I Actually Saw

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  @72mphZ · 3 years ago · pinned

  Chicago is worse then Gary. Chicago in 2021 there were 834 murders.

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  @MagnoliaHoosier · 3 years ago

  I had a flat tire on the way out of Chicago just inside of Gary probably 5 yrs ago. A man stopped to help and I wasn’t sure if I was going to be murdered or something else. Instead of the worst, he changed my tire for me and we had a nice chat. I offered to pay him, but he refused.

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  @ichaffee1 · 3 years ago

  I suddenly got a horrible feeling that this will be what a lot of this country will look like if we continue the way we are going

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  @ablethetan · 3 years ago

  At <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISajeWJ3Cts&amp;t=1928">32:08</a> to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISajeWJ3Cts&amp;t=1938">32:18</a> this video shows what used to be a soft drink bottling company named Superior Beverage. &nbsp;My father managed that company for the owner for 30 years. &nbsp;I began working there each summer starting at age 12 and and by the time I was 17 graduated to working summers in the steel mills because my father could not match what the mills paid. &nbsp;I paid for my entire college education working for US Steel during summer vacation. &nbsp;I am now a retired Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon looking back to where it all began and can only remember the loving and hard working people who once built Gary and made it a safe and successful place to live. &nbsp;It breaks my heart to see what has happened here. I could write a fifty page essay about how and why it occurred. &nbsp;I witnessed the whole process. &nbsp;Gary is the best example in the USA of the American dream turned into the American nightmare.

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  @thejfactor1 · 1 month ago

  This is where they should be building dozens of data centers.

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  @lashlarue7924 · 3 years ago

  A trucking company I used to work for had a terminal in Gary. &nbsp;I once got lost and made a wrong turn into Gary after dark. &nbsp;I stopped at a stoplight (still working). &nbsp;A cop came along and told me that I shouldn&apos;t stop at the lights after dark; the prevailing practice was to just run right through, to avoid getting robbed. &nbsp;Imagine a COP telling you that! 😬

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  @omisan771 · 3 years ago

  It&apos;s always surprising to me how fast a house can fall apart because it is not occupied. As if the roof was thinking &quot;Well...there&apos;s nobody living in here, I give up!&quot;.

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  @marquese1960 · 10 months ago (edited)

  Michael Jackson was born in Gary Indiana as we saw and his father Joe worked at US Steel as a crane operator.

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  @jro8503 · 10 months ago

  I was afraid for your safety in that church!

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  @stalebread5887 · 3 years ago

  I grew up in South Bend, IN. When I was a freshman in high school in 2011 my football team made the playoffs and had to play a team from Gary in Gary. Their school looked like it hadn’t been touched since 1960. We ended up beating them like 49-0. But the kids on the other team were just happy to have something to do. I felt bad for the conditions they had to grow up in though.

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  @fez3606 · 1 year ago

  Any town/city built on one company/industry is doomed to failure eventually.

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  @MNye-sx5ke · 2 years ago

  I grew up in Gary in the 1950&apos;s , early 60&apos;s. &nbsp;It was such a great city! &nbsp;I am filled with such fine memories as I see these buildings and streets again. &nbsp;As kids, we were outdoors playing all the time. &nbsp;The parks were nearby with perfect slopes for sledding. &nbsp;Everything was within walking distance and very safe. &nbsp; For one brief shining moment there was a great city there!

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