Columbus Neighborhoods: South Side

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• JO

  @jordansharp4809 · 4 years ago

  I’m a 23 year old that recently moved to the Columbus area. I love history and YouTube at that. These videos and a few beers is how I end my evening recently. I love learning about the history and seeing places I work.

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• AI

  @airtow6766 · 6 years ago

  These WOSU Neighborhood Series are the best , most interesting thing that WOSU has ever produced. great!

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• OP

  @oppiewelch6741 · 2 years ago

  i grown up in the south end its my home allot of good memories there

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• DA

  @davidspiess9753 · 5 years ago

  I grew up in what use to be the last neighborhood on Parsons Ave. Southern Pines. Always said I was from the southend.

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• GR

  @GranPuba · 7 years ago

  They keep bringing up Buckeye Steel, and do mention high turn over. But fail to mention all the deaths that place had. My dad worked there decades ago and told crazy stories of death's that acured there constantly.

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• CH

  @chevyone5512 · 1 year ago

  My grandpa and dad and uncles worked at buckeye steel my dad was a crane operator there they would go to the bar across the street babarts bar its is still there under a new name

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• TH

  @TheLakebabe1 · 2 years ago

  It's The "Southend"....and proud to say I grew up there!

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• FR

  @frankelias1952 · 1 year ago (edited)

  This is amazing. A large portion of my up bringing was in German Village, (626 south 6th Street, the house is no longer there, it was right next to Franklin Plating). I went to Beck Street Elementary School and later Champian Middle school . My dad used to take me into Becks Tavern and Planks Cafe to play pool. I used to walk my sister to school to St, Marrys on 3rd street. I &nbsp;Would fish in the &nbsp;Schiller park pond(Gross) With a cane pole and my mom would make our Holloween costumes for the Schiller park costume contest, and we would go sledding on little hills at the park. I used to ride my bike from 6th Street all the way to Greenlawn park and jump the trash mounds. Lol... My parents would give me lunch money and I would save it for the day and after school I would take it to Gd Ritsiy&apos;s and buy French fries and a mint chocolate chip single scoop ice cream , on a sugar cone every day, riding my bike to Sunshine swimming pool was awsome, it was only 10 cents to get in. I was in Cub Scouts and got to lead the Veterans day parade, because it was also also my birthday and also got to be at a ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of one of the new Sciota river parks. <br>WOW, OMG! This really brings back memories. This was in the dawn of the 80&apos;s, 😅 until about 85. As much as I loved it as a kid, I remember much of the empty, burnt out buildings, especially along Parson Ave. and Livingston around Children&apos;s hospital<br>Oh, yeah, I even worked at the steel plant for a while as a Machinist. I can still smell that steel plant in my memory.

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• US

  @user-vn3ui6vj7y · 1 year ago

  As a native south ender this brought back a flood of memories and had me waxing nostalgically!!!

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• TH

  @Thomas-y1r · 2 years ago

  Came to Columbus in 1956 lived in a trailer court on High Street and Williams Road. Watched the Great Southern Shopping Center being built.ovr on Parsons Avenue in 1962, they built Buckeye Junior High School across the street from my house. Went to Scioto Trail Elementary,Buckeye Junior High and Graduation from Marion Franklin, Loved living and growing up on the South End. Good times

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• MA

  @madmike8325 · 5 years ago

  That was both one of the best and worse places to grow up but I wouldn&apos;t trade it for millions. I no longer live in Barthman ave but Barthman ave will always live in me

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• AN

  @andreabeth2352 · 4 years ago

  This was really great! My family has lived in the South end for many years. We are from the Southwood and Parsons area. I&apos;ve lived in several homes there and surrounding streets. My grandpa worked for Federal Glass and both of my parents went to South High School. It&apos;s amazing seeing how things were and how they have evolved. Businesses have come and gone but many of the buildings are still there. It has been strange these last few years with Buckeye Steel being torn down. It just feels so empty driving by.

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