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That dude seems to be a good one.
Im from near where he was mayor. When we were trying to get mandatory paid sick time passed in the city of Pittsburgh John came and walked the line with us. He once went on the daily show to outline his plan to get a subway to open in the little hood-ass town he was mayor of, because there was no place in that town where you could get ready to eat food and he was trying to stop tax money leaking out to other towns. Dude has a tattoo for each person who died by violence in his town while he was mayor. He's no bullshit.
At first when I read subway I thought you mean public transport and thought “that’s no small task!” When I realized you meant Subway the sandwich shop I was sad that a town didn’t even have a Subway??? They’re a dime a dozen!
Yeah, the sandwich shop. All of Pittsburgh got hecked up pretty good when steel manufacturing went to places where workers have no rights like China and Alabama. Some neighborhoods ended up in a spiral where a lot of people moved out, so they didn't have any money to do anything with, so more people left and people who used to spend money in the community now had to spend it elsewhere (depressing both income and tax revenue in the community). John's old neighborhood, Braddock, was kinda famous among Pittsburgh neighborhoods for getting absolutely smacked by this cycle.
I lived in Pittsburgh for a decade, and man, you're totally right - there were (are?) some serious ghost towns in the area. I recall a trip to Ford City where it was like "here is a town, there is a neoclassical courthouse, there are streetlights and pavement and buildings, but no cars or people." Went to a bar there and there was literally nothing inside that would let you know you weren't in the year 1985 (when it was 200X). Even the prices were out of the past. It was totally surreal.
Have you ever seen the movie The Deer Hunter? It's set during the Vietnam war, and it's shot in Pittsburgh's Polish Hill neighborhood. It was shot in 1978, 45 years ago. Polish Hill still looks like that today.
I heard Polish Hill was getting gentrified like the "East End" aka the side of East Liberty that bougies decided to rename so their friends wouldn't think they live in the scary ghetto with GASP... (whisper) black people. I used to hang out at Gooskies back in the day, though I heard it might be closing or closed? EDIT: I have not watched it but now it's on my list, thanks! EDIT 2: Man you also brought back some memories of Nico's Recovery Room - where you'd have blue collar guys side by side with Carnegie Mellon future millionaires. Fucking great.
Quickly becoming one of my favorites. He looks like he belongs somewhere the 1860s.