@2:23 used to live two blocks up on the right..shootings all the time

Lived there in the 70s. Holyoke was/could be SO beautiful. Going along thru this video, I am aghast at the number of empty lots, open space, that used to be beautiful apartment buildings factories and businesses. Looks like Detroit now.... and it isn't cheap to live there.

Awesome video. I'm watching with my pops who grew up in the apt block where McDonald's is now. He loved growing up in holyoke. William Sullivan.

@601TRAVELS

3 жыл бұрын

That is awesome to hear.. Glad you guys could watch this together. I had a nice time driving through - hope it brought back some memories for him! Thanks for watching!

Nice church at 1.25, and clock tower at the light you sat at👍 looked like everyone got off the road for you again! 😂👍 All the best 601 for the new year and Christmas👍 which ever come first🤔

@601TRAVELS

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know why but I always seem to get to these places when everyone is off the road and sleeping. I get so many comments like 'where is everyone', 'that place is dead' lol.. Its funny. THANK you so much for your continued support the past year, it means a lot to me and I wish you the best for the new year as well. You are an awesome person 👍😀

Jestem z Polski, 20 lat temu mieszkałem w Holyoke na Florence Ave. Tak trafilem na ten film. Kościół, który widać na poczatku to Holy Cross, byłem w nim kilka razy. Znam też sasiednie Spreengfield, Chicopee i South Hadley. I jeszcze chodzilem nad Connecticut River. Good Chanel. pozdrowienia z Polski.

Grand video!! Nice tour - kinda reminds me of Lynn when I used to live there. I just subscribed to your channel, by the way!! 👋👋

@601TRAVELS

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much and welcome to the channel 🙂

love holyoke, had so many true friends there, fernandez family restaurant OMG, and kennedy fried chicken. i miss holyoke so much ❤️🙏✌️

@601TRAVELS

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching and commenting on this video! Glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻🙂 please subscribe if you haven’t for more videos to come.

@citrussam6924

3 жыл бұрын

Most of those 39 something thousand are crackheads i would know i grew up here and still am here you passed my street and a rapist live on it by the house is a park where a lot of shooting happened also fights its a dangerous place ngl

@jinavl

2 жыл бұрын

Kennedy fried chicken..Appleton street?? I lived on pine

@animegirlforever9215

2 жыл бұрын

@@601TRAVELS girl I hate it here

@rchrdpnccruz8432

2 жыл бұрын

Appleton and chestnut used to be the best chicken spot 80’s

Everything is on point Born and raised in holyoke Thanks

@601TRAVELS

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Appreciate your watching and commenting 🙂

I have been to Holyoke Ma last weekend. I went to the bookstore near the Mall

@601TRAVELS

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Are you from the area?

@antwanalex4147

3 жыл бұрын

@@601TRAVELS no I have visit Springfield Ma.

Do a part 2. The flats, south Holyoke, Northampton st, the highlands e.t.c.

@601TRAVELS

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Great suggestion.

Grew up in Holyoke. A lot has changed since I moved from there. I don't recognise much!

Looking to move out of Boston and my company has another site in Springfield… had seen some places to rent / buy in the Ingleside area near the high school / the river- what is that area like?

@shawnantunes

2 жыл бұрын

The best place to live in Holyoke is West Holyoke, the Ingleside area has some pretty nice houses, and also the neighborhoods off of Homestead Ave are great. The neighborhoods in front of the High School are pretty good, but maybe stay away from the houses behind the School.

We have also lived in the same house for 11+ yrs i have seen so much growing up here lmfao i can probably give more information then there is in this video WAY more i know everywhere you have gone so far and im half way through the video

@601TRAVELS

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching 😎

@PleasePlanSustainably

3 жыл бұрын

Hi! I’m thinking of buying a house in Holyoke. What are your favorite neighborhoods?

@adamhaller724

Жыл бұрын

@@PleasePlanSustainably buy in South Hadley or Wilbraham if your dead set on Holyoke go to the mountain side

CARMELO RIVERA HOLYOKE THE FLATS 44.. west street school....2020...🍿

@601TRAVELS

3 жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻

@massachusettsmeloman1629

3 жыл бұрын

Always !!

U were real close to my house on pine street

@601TRAVELS

3 жыл бұрын

Next time I’ll stop by for a spritzer! 😂

@8yiviy8pro31

3 жыл бұрын

601 TRAVELS lol

I heard from a good friend of mine that came up in Holyoke that this is the burnt building capital. Light it up leave and collect the insurance.

Nice

@601TRAVELS

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

High street

Ahh that's Dwight st

Hardly any people on the streets and not many commercial businesses shown in this video. Malls, hotels ? Does everyone stay in due to the high crime rate?

@601TRAVELS

Жыл бұрын

Holyoke was odd! there was no one out and about when I was making my rounds through town.

Much love where i get my H

Es un lugar peligroso?

@601TRAVELS

4 жыл бұрын

Si!

@karolllopez2766

4 жыл бұрын

OMG

@bighead5849

2 жыл бұрын

@@karolllopez2766 no

@shawnantunes

2 жыл бұрын

It can dangerous by the downtown area, although I've never had a problem. The rest of Holyoke really isn't that bad.

Hey friend! Wanted to say Merry Christmas!! I hope to get some new videos uploaded in 2020...hope you are still a sub! Stay safe & happy travels!

@601TRAVELS

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for coming by and I look forward to your uploads!!

@tonyarhembree-blue6872

4 жыл бұрын

@@601TRAVELS For sure!!! You are welcome! Stay safe!

Atleast im in suffolk

Born and raised in holyoke from the flats my son is Jermaine Da hotboy 44

From when this video was filmed the area gotten way worse, I was just there and recognize the church tower and that area looks way worse as of yesterday

@elgator6119

5 ай бұрын

Adding, the streets were just as dead while I was there as in the video, all the people must come out at night

Howd you not mention the LAAARGE PuertoRican population? which is a little over half ...I mean how'd you miss THAT!! I was born and raised in Holyoke

@Debbie52S

2 жыл бұрын

A lot was missed I agree

If this list was honest: 1. It's a shithole 2. It has the highest crime rate in Massachusetts 3. It's worse than Springfield 4. The parts near Downtown especially close to the Connecticut river are the worst 5. It looks like Bridgeport, Connecticut 6. The Holyoke Projects are terrible 7. There is a lot of poverty 8. There is a high unemployment rate 9. Holyoke is safer than only 4% of the cities in the U.S. 10. It isn't getting any better 11. It looks very poor and run down 12. The housing costs and taxes are high for a city this bad because it's in Massachusetts 13. The closest major city is Springfield which is terrible 14. It borders Chicopee which is very bad 15. It borders West Springfield which is also a very bad town 16. It's very close to Northampton which isn't great, and is only safer than 22 percent of cities in the U.S. 17. There are a lot of run down old mills and factories here 18. The winters get very cold 19. The Flats is probably the worst area 20. The area near the Easthampton border is the nicest area 21. The dinosaur footprints are located here, so that's good 22. There is a mall here 23. Route 91 goes through Holyoke and has a few exits here 24. It's convenient to Springfield. 25. It's a drive up or down Route 91 to Vermont or Connecticut 26. It's far away from Boston 27. THe education system is very bad

@601TRAVELS

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you love it there 😂

@Sammykyt

3 жыл бұрын

@@601TRAVELS I don't like it at all I am just making a point because I live in Massachusetts and know a lot about it

@601TRAVELS

3 жыл бұрын

I know lol.. I was being sarcastic 😂

@Sammykyt

3 жыл бұрын

@@601TRAVELS Just making sure

@shawnantunes

2 жыл бұрын

Holyoke is definitely not worse than Springfield lol!!

Holyoke? What a name....

@601TRAVELS

4 жыл бұрын

I always thought it was an odd name as well.. Kind of makes me think of egg yolk and religion at the same time.. which.. is weird. haha.. Thanks for coming by Midnight!

@cys-fi6230

3 жыл бұрын

It was an Irish city, probably originally meaning Holy Oak.

Are there any people in this town

@601TRAVELS

Жыл бұрын

A few. They ran from the camera.

@ifyouknowyouknow6964

3 ай бұрын

Holyoke is odd , there’s really buoy much going on so teens get high in abandoned houses, they meet up at random houses or places , this place seems third world Low key. A lot of people don’t have money, so their options for enjoyment are limited . So a lot of people stay to themselves and their immediate families. I grew up there and every chance I got to leave to New York I left . I don’t wish for it to become populated what I wish for Holyoke is to have more active down town similar to noho, more activities for teens and kids . But in order for that to occur you’d have to push out the population around the area. The crime rate isn’t as high as people say, Springfield is worse , but still nothing like the bigger cities. I am on the other side of the country and I’m more afraid to walk here in daylight than I am to walk over there.

this information is from wikipedia

@601TRAVELS

3 жыл бұрын

It might be there, too, but I can guarantee you it's not taken from there.

forgot 1 thing your aren’t from holyoke if you haven’t been to holyoke high

is anyone have a room for rent in holyoke?

@601TRAVELS

2 жыл бұрын

Let’s find them a room!

I saw my self

There's nobody out there what type of crimes?

@YM-wj2dr

Жыл бұрын

Yes that's what I noticed.

@ifyouknowyouknow6964

3 ай бұрын

The crime there is not really normal, the crime that starts there are either from people coming in from Chicopee or spring field or ct, or people coming from p.r or another country, another thing is, every city has its crazy teens, and there is just a lot of over dosing , teens selling weed etc. I was explaining I’m in another state and I’m more afraid to walk over here in daylight than I am to talk there .

Looks like u drove by on a sunday morning

@601TRAVELS

3 жыл бұрын

Can’t remember for sure but I think you might be right.

@jonblaze333

3 жыл бұрын

@@601TRAVELS ya looks like it. I'm from Holyoke. Thanks for the vid!

@601TRAVELS

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure. Enjoyed driving through! I wound up getting lost and going over some water and wound up in a neighborhood with roundabouts. I had been in the car for about a week recording at the point haha. Good times!

That whole city THE HOOD

You forgot to mention that the city is a dump- literally. The alleys are full of garbage, the people take no pride in their heritage, leaving the train station to rot. Holyoke is a hell-hole.

Lol too scared to go in the hood keep to the main roads

@601TRAVELS

Жыл бұрын

You know it!

@adamhaller724

Жыл бұрын

@@601TRAVELS would include a ride down canal street where I used to stay at

Almost as boring as chicopee

@601TRAVELS

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear

@shawnantunes

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, unfortunately the mall is about the most exciting thing, but other than that it's pretty bland.

@Debbie52S

2 жыл бұрын

Are you from there? Both Holyoke and Chicopee have rich historys and beautiful architecture. Both cities have national historic districts.

Speak speak boring

@601TRAVELS

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t don’t understand?