McKees Rocks??? (Pittsburgh: apartment, appliances, high school) - Pennsylvania (PA) - Page 2 - City-Data Forum

ward6923 · 10-08-2009, 02:45 PM

haha that is very true Drover!!! good tip for people looking to move!

Renaldo5000 · 10-08-2009, 05:15 PM

The place has gone downhill. It can be dangerous at night if you don't know how to carry yourself. It's not a full-blown ghetto, but it is not a place you'd want to live.

tallydude02 · 10-09-2009, 10:59 AM

I drove through McKees Rocks the other day and I quickly acclerated to get out of there. I got creepy vibes going through there. I actually felt cleaner after leaving there. **SHUDDERS**

Oh yeah, McKeesport, another "McKees" isn't much better, although they are not that close to each other,

highway29south · 10-09-2009, 11:19 AM

Are you looking at McKees Rocks the bottoms or McKees Rocks, the area? Big difference!

I live in Robinson Township which is considered "McKees Rocks" by the Post Office and Realtor.com only. Doing a house search requires you put in "McKees Rocks" because putting in "Robinson township" does nothing.

No one has ever been able to figure out why they consider this area McKees Rocks. And they refuse to give us our own post office or zip code, even though the McKees Rocks post office is almost as far away as Crafton's.

Honest Bob · 10-09-2009, 11:27 AM

When I worked for a machine shop in Export Pa, we did work for the Steel Mill in McKees Rocks.

I cannot say anything bad about the place because they sent a colored man down to our shop to pick up rollers for the steel mill, when I got them done.

Now this guy was the nicest guy you ever wanted to meet, and I worked in a shop with no colored people. I would honestly tell you that the people that I worked with were real bung holes and you couldn't set your tools down - without someone trying to steal it.

Well this fellow asked me one day why there were no colored people working in our shop and i told him the truth, " because Lincoln freed the slaves a long time ago!"

This guy went out of his way and told his boss that if he ever saw a job application with my name on it - to hire this guy, because I always did a good job and none of my work ever came back - where it was not acceptable. Unlike the other people who worked in our shop and couldn't even read a micrometer.

I would say that in this world, you have good people and you have bad people and you should not judge people - by the color of their skin or where they live.

But when you force one group of people to live in one area and when you live in a area that has almost 20% unemployment - you have to accept that some of the people are going to resort to other means to make a living for themselves.

Be it prostitution, drugs, crime - theft, robbery, what ever.

I wouldn't print no travel brochures with the picture or name of McKee's Rocks on it - as a place to spend your vacation, but I am sure that there are some good people who live there, who cannot afford to move out of there and are stuck in their present situation.

I would suggest that you try to find a place that is as close to where you plan to work, that has the lowest crime rate and the lowest taxes or rent that you can afford to pay and still live.

I wouldn't live in a shooting gallery - just to save a couple of bucks!

creepsinc · 10-09-2009, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Internet Superman

When I worked for a machine shop in Export Pa, we did work for the Steel Mill in McKees Rocks.

I cannot say anything bad about the place because they sent a colored man down to our shop to pick up rollers for the steel mill, when I got them done.

Now this guy was the nicest guy you ever wanted to meet, and I worked in a shop with no colored people. I would honestly tell you that the people that I worked with were real bung holes and you couldn't set your tools down - without someone trying to steal it.

Well this fellow asked me one day why there were no colored people working in our shop and i told him the truth, " because Lincoln freed the slaves a long time ago!"

This guy went out of his way and told his boss that if he ever saw a job application with my name on it - to hire this guy, because I always did a good job and none of my work ever came back - where it was not acceptable. Unlike the other people who worked in our shop and couldn't even read a micrometer.

I would say that in this world, you have good people and you have bad people and you should not judge people - by the color of their skin or where they live.

But when you force one group of people to live in one area and when you live in a area that has almost 20% unemployment - you have to accept that some of the people are going to resort to other means to make a living for themselves.

Be it prostitution, drugs, crime - theft, robbery, what ever.

I wouldn't print no travel brochures with the picture or name of McKee's Rocks on it - as a place to spend your vacation, but I am sure that there are some good people who live there, who cannot afford to move out of there and are stuck in their present situation.

I would suggest that you try to find a place that is as close to where you plan to work, that has the lowest crime rate and the lowest taxes or rent that you can afford to pay and still live.

I wouldn't live in a shooting gallery - just to save a couple of bucks!

Just some friendly advice, old-timer: better take that phrase you used a couple of times, switch the order of the words and put the word "of" in the middle, or people are going to get upset. Don't ask me why (I don't understand it, either), but it seems to be the way the world works. Some phrases are OK for awhile, then they aren't. But a similar phrase (with "of" in the middle

) seems to be just fine, or even preferred. Silly, I know, but people are silly.

A.C.Reese · 12-08-2010, 03:17 PM

I am 81 years young. I was born in the Rocks in 1930 on Island Ave left in 1934 to Pgh.I knew a Bill Duerr ? who became Police Chief and got a prison sentence. A Shorty Warner son had a band. Sam Costa who owned a Grocery store.---If any old timers remember any of these it would be nice to hear from you.----E-Mail [email]Okmustang45@yahoo.com[/email].

----------I do remember a beer brewery burning by a junk yard which we played in.

XRiteMA98 · 12-08-2010, 03:31 PM

My church is in MckeesRocks and in the neigboring houses, actually on the whole block seem to be nice people. The houses are small (they kind of look like the ones in Morningside), clean and the people are very friendly. Now driving up there I've seen houses that look terrible. There used to be a bakery there, Jenny lee, that burned down. I guess it depends, but if you have small kids you probably want to look elsewhere.

Pitts10yrs · 12-08-2010, 07:03 PM

They built all the housing projects on the hill there and they are ruining the community and school.

PreservationPioneer · 12-08-2010, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Pitts10yrs

They built all the housing projects on the hill there and they are ruining the community and school.

McKees Rocks was the site of the first public housing project in Allegheny County, in 1940. Yes, 1940.

It's not a recent development. If the community was going to be ruined by it, that would have happened 70 years ago. Maybe it did, but whatever effect was felt by the community, it happened before a lot of us were born.