My Dad’s whole family settled in Rochester when they arrived from Germany in the 1850s.
They were prosperous businessmen, founded churches, raised families. In 1910, the Sunday Schools still taught in German.
The last Rochester relative died in her home on Brightford Heights at age 100 a few years ago.
What has happened there has happened all over America.
This reminds me of the Cabbott purple package special reserve cheddar. Tough to get other than local.
Know right where that is. Nice area. Large outpatient medical park nearby.
Lot of history in Rochester. Spent hours with a friend wandering the cemeteries along Lake Avenue looking at the old headstones. Did drill at the old and now closed ARNG “castle” on Main Street.
Having Kodak, Xerox, B&L and their economic activity “hid” some of the socioeconomic problems that Rochester had, mainly lots of single parent households in minority neighborhoods that had high levels of poverty. A recipe for disaster.
Now when I travel back to Rochester, I eat and shop more outside the city - Pittsford, Victor, some in Greece. There’s just a lot of Rochester that I would consider unsafe and not worth the hassle. Still some nice areas, but not nearly as many as, say, 20 years ago. The other problem with Rochester has been an incompetent mayor and administration (that dislikes police) the last 8 years. Just clueless. She’s on the way out in a couple of weeks, The new mayor can’t do any worse.