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Behind Detroit's Notorious Ruins
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Detroit has rich a architectural history. Joel Stone of the Detroit Historical Society takes a look at some of the iconic buildings, architects, and neighborhoods that have contributed to this remarkable legacy.
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Iam watching this in aug 2 2021 all of most of everything that was shown is different or torn down.this old 🎥 video needs to be taken down Detroit looks way better now i love 💙 💙 💙 Detroit.she will rise again 💘
Elon musk should build some electric car plants in Detroit, that would revitalize a good portion of the population,over time..
Instead of trying to recreate the past, why dont they accept the present and clean it up? The architecture is amazing but the buildings are useless if abandoned. Just knock it down and plant trees!
This is what Democrats and Unions do to a city. Take note.
Detroit was the new roman empire of the 1950s, it's a shame to see it today
If they had the money they could fix those buildings and houses. The abandoned factories could be used for processing recyclables and making things in America again
You can't "come back" when you continue to have babies conceiving babies, no fathers, no schooling, no skills, and those kids walk the streets rather than go to school and get an education. The republicans don't want to support planned parenthood nor birth control , yet when these children are born, they turn their backs on them. Pitiful !
Hahahaha you blame Republicans for a city that’s been run by Democrats since the 1960s. It’s truly unbelievable that you somehow found a way to say it’s Republicans fault for Detroit being this way cause they don’t want Black Children to be killed in the womb. Talk about a stretch.
The old buildings in Detroit, commercial, residential, industrial are or were works of art and craftsmanship. The style, ornamentation and decoration gave many of those old buildings character that is missing in so many today.
Blks the destroyers of cities
The mansions are gone from Brush Park. Illitch took pride in tearing down city blocks so he could build the city he wanted. I don't miss him.
I was raised in Detroit in the 70s and early 80s. "The Exodus began after WWII" is nonsense. While there was a shift and some degree of scaling back naturally due to the war ending and change to a peacetime economy, the booming auto industry stayed strong for years. Two things killed Detroit: Unions, which prevented workers from being fired and led to inferior products and gave foreign companies a foothold in the market and the race riots. The exodus of whites that didn't want to be targets of roaming gangs of black thugs combined with the collapse of the auto industry due to being filled with lazy drunks that didn't work and could not be fired led the city to what it is today.
If you go back far enough you will see that the decline of the city started when Cavanaugh left office and Coleman Young took over..the city was in flux, and the RACIST RHETORIC that Young spewed publicly was not lost on the WHITE population of the city..They took the hint, moved out to the suburbs, and a MAYOR whose only public notoriety was not in politics but rather as a BAR OWNER on Livernois Ave. came to run the city and use it as his personal cash cow..Others helped the downfall of Detroit, but SOULMAN MAYOR was leading the charge...
I am 65 years old. I was born and raised on the east side of Detroit. I moved to Georgia in my 40’s for work. The Detroit that I grew up in, was the best place in the world to me. Neighbors talked to each other and watched out for each other’s kids. There were plenty of jobs. Then, Detroit was known as the “Motor City “. Also was the birth place of “Motown”. Everything went to hell in a hand basket when they started sending the jobs to Mexico and other countries. I’m not alone when I say that watching our city decline into what it is today is so Heartbreaking. I live in NC now, but Detroit will forever be my home, and I will always be proud of the city that I grew up in. I pray for them to turn it around again. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Detroit. A more recent experiment of Left policy. Once was the shining light of entrepreneur ambition. American exceptionalism. Look what happens when the Left gets control.
Needs investment capital that all.
still with the BS line that it's because a few factories closed. have you ever been to Amish communities in PA, OH or IN? they have NO factories at all, very little business or industry, yet they own some absolutely gorgeous land, and lots of it. they don't have crime, poverty, people sitting around on the front porch sucking cigarettes, crackheads, scrappers, chevys sittin on 22s or rotting neighborhoods filled with garbage. could it be....is it even remotely possible......that's it's a difference in the people?
This is what happens when democrats raise taxes on the auto industry.
"Y'all need to take this old bullshit down"! Because here in 2018, Downtown Detroit has never looked better" even mid-town, corktown, Greektown, Harbortown, techtown, university district, the Ave of fashion, La Salle Gardens, Palmer Woods, Boston Edison, Indian Village, East English Village, west Village, Rosedale Park, & ect. Detroit City is on a Upswing"! So y'all can take down this pist"! Unless you're talking about some of the neighborhoods around the City, that haven't been improved yet"! But like I've stated in the beginning, Downtown Detroit is on the Rise"!
The black fist, which we see towards the end of this video, is what destroyed Detroit.
WORDto BIGbird You kidding right?
Agreed
Why did the car manufacturers leave Detroit? Answer: Unions; all of the transplant factories in the South are non-union.
Another white man's creation but like always blame it on black people ! You are a lying sack of s#%t
It is because of black people - there is no doubt.
Of all of the videos I have watched of my home town from many years ago this is the best one I have seen yet so far Most have awful background music put to a slideshow. The narration was nicely done and the truth told. Thank You
Wow!!! DETROIT!! The way it was!! Once an undeniable "GREAT" city back in the day!! I would love to see this city that had so much beautiful architecture, rise again and make a giant comeback!! Think about it, this was a "model city," the city that put the nation on wheels and provided so many, many, many jobs for everybody. If needed or wanted a job, go to Detroit and you got it! Detroit was once the fourth (4th) largest city in the nation with a city limit population of 2,000,000, surpassed only by New York, Chicago and Philadelphia!!
very well done!
Many cities in Germany looked worse than this but look at them now. The RAF and US Air Force "helped" us to solve some of our city planning issues by leveling everything. In Paris a huge fire helped them lay out the city we know today. In Germany we took the opportunity to make the bombed out cities more car friendly by making broader avenues and Autobahns go through some of the cities. That which was worth having was rebuilt and the rebuilding is still going on. We still have huge traffic problems but nothing compared to what we would have if everything stayed as it was. We have cities that escaped the bombing and the renewal and while they are charming, the city centers are being choked by lack of change. I am not advocating war as an incentive to urban renewal but suggesting that after the shit hits the fan you have an opportunity to rebuild a city better than it was before. It would be nice to have a plan. Redoing the same old structure seems foolish. There are enough large cities world wide that could act as examples. American cities are often so similar to each other that you can't tell the difference by driving through them. I would like to see Detroit rise anew from the ashes.
They aren't doing squat there. Watch some current videos and it looks worse than ever. They are just letting it totally rot away
Why are you vomiting those tails you are telling OBVIOUSLY YOU haven’t been here or have no idea what you are spewing out of your pie whole there’s PLENTY happening HERE that is positive judging from your name probably more than what s going on where you reside
Maybe the citizens should make some money and pay some taxes, instead of sitting on the couch and waiting for a paycheck.
Detroit used to be nice and rich.
What a piece of shit this city is. My god.
Fuck off mate. Bet you've never been
Detroit still has the potential to rebound.
Dream on...
I just don't understand why the city could not even MAINTAIN their own buildings??? They say its because of there finances. HOGWASH!!!! They can at least maintain their own buildings even though they are empty. Its wonderful to know that there are many people in the City of Detroit that are still proud and willing to try anything to help restore their home. Detroit has an abundance of good, hard working people trying to make it the great again. I honestly wish them the best and hope that one day I can help them as well. Detroit has so much history and it needs to be PRESERVED as much as possible.
There was money to build two sports stadiums when the city says it is bust. Money for circuses, but not bread. Right wingers say unions are to blame, a liveable salary is needed. WallyWorld with the cheapest garbage from overseas helped destroy this city. Hey car companies, build cars we ant to buy, at a price we can afford.
Geoffrey Lee So many different things and they are all very sad! It makes me sick to see much of Detroit going down the toilet and looking like a war zone.
***** Your right.....that is one of the biggest problems! I just don't understand that mentality of just destroying your very own city and neighborhood and for what?? Its so stupid!
+AMCNorthstar 93 I heard a statement in another video that said just that. Detroit looks like many of the cities that were bombed in ww2 with equipment that was made in Detroit. Like it came home to roost.
MrTheHillfolk IT may have been me that wrote that statement. Unfortunately this is a problem in these northern cities especially around manufacturing areas. And yes it does look like some of the great cities that were bombed during WWII in Europe. Even those cities were destroyed by personal greed, power and carelessness.
Most people don't know this, but famous architect Albert Kahn of Detroit, was black.
Most people might know this. But everyone in Detroit is black.
Jay J. Bennett Most people don;t know this........but Gordy Howe was teh last white person to set foot in Detroit and survive.
***** most people definitely know this .when whites aren't around. Blacks can't survive. Fact!
As a black man, I would like to teach you that Black people made Detroit great in the years 1905-1945 but afyer the world war two, which the USA won thanks to the heroic efforts of the Tuskeggee Airmen, the white man ruined Detroit by over populating it.
Lol isn't it predominately black now? Wouldn't that suggest that the city was overpopulated by lazy blacks who don't take care of shit?
***** You took away our dream!
i didnt take away anything. i dont live in detroit. i was there this past monday and all of the inner city neighborhoods look like shit with 1 out of every 5 houses being lived in. Nice job guys.
by the way do a quick check on black birth rates against white birth rates. the results will probably surprise you.
+Horace Ball you can't possibly be serious with that comment. Do you understand what a TAX BASE is? So the 1.5 MILLION people living in Detroit in 1950 ruined it. Not them selling their homes to get away, not the collapse or the public schools and city services (which made more people move away) and not the 90% unemployment in the black community. But white over population...I'll wait.
this extract is not mine but i like it - For almost 150 years the United States has been conducting an interesting experiment. The subjects of the experiment: black people and working-class whites. The hypothesis to be tested: Can a people taken from the jungles of Africa and forced into slavery be fully integrated as citizens in a majority white population? The whites were descendants of Europeans who had created a majestic civilization. The former slaves had been tribal peoples with no written language and virtually no intellectual achievements. Acting on a policy that was not fair to either group, the government released newly freed black people into a white society that saw them as inferiors. America has struggled with racial discord ever since. Decade after decade the problems persisted but the experimenters never gave up. They insisted that if they could find the right formula the experiment would work, and concocted program after program to get the result they wanted. They created the Freedman’s Bureau, passed civil rights laws, tried to build the Great Society, declared War on Poverty, ordered race preferences, built housing projects, and tried midnight basketball. Their new laws intruded into people’s lives in ways that would have been otherwise unthinkable. They called in National Guard troops to enforce school integration. They outlawed freedom of association. Over the protests of parents, they put white children on buses and sent them to black schools and vice versa. They tried with money, special programs, relaxed standards, and endless handwringing to close the “achievement gap.” To keep white backlash in check they began punishing public and even private statements on race. They hung up Orwellian public banners that commanded whites to “Celebrate Diversity!” and “Say No To Racism.” Nothing was off limits if it might salvage the experiment. Some thought that what W.E.B. Du Bois called the Talented Tenth would lead the way for black people. A group of elite, educated blacks would knock down doors of opportunity and show the world what blacks were capable of. There is a Talented Tenth. They are the black Americans who have become entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors and scientists. But ten percent is not enough. For the experiment to work, the ten percent has to be followed by a critical mass of people who can hold middle-class jobs and promote social stability. That is what is missing. \Through the years, too many black people continue to show an inability to function and prosper in a culture unsuited to them.Detroit is bankrupt, the south side of Chicago is a war zone, and majority-black cities all over America are beset by degeneracy and violence. And blacks never take responsibility for their failures. Instead, they lash out in anger and resentment. Across the generations and across the country, as we have seen in Detroit, Watts, Newark, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and now Ferguson, rioting and looting are just one racial incident away. The white elite would tell us that this doesn’t mean the experiment has failed. We just have to try harder. We need more money, more time, more understanding, more programs, more opportunities. But nothing changes no matter how much money is spent, no matter how many laws are passed, no matter how many black geniuses are portrayed on TV, and no matter who is president. Some argue it’s a problem of “culture,” as if culture creates people’s behavior instead of the other way around. Others blame “white privilege.” But since 1965, when the elites opened America’s doors to the Third World, immigrants from Asia and India-people who are not white, not rich, and not “connected”-have quietly succeeded. While the children of these people are winning spelling bees and getting top scores on the SAT, black “youths” are committing half the country’s violent crime-crime, which includes viciously punching random white people on the street for the thrill of it, that has nothing to do with poverty. The experiment has failed. Not because of culture, or white privilege, or racism. The fundamental problem is that white people and black people are different. They differ intellectually and temperamentally. These differences result in permanent social incompatibility. Our rulers don’t seem to understand just how tired their white subjects are with this experiment. They don’t understand that white people aren’t out to get black people; they are just exhausted with them. They are exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence, the endless complaints, the blind racial solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, and the reflexive animosity. The elites explain everything with “racism,” and refuse to believe that white frustration could soon reach the boiling point. Done!
rott bilse ..very well said
that is one of the best shithole in the country
Henry Ford would weep if he saw this.
And the decline of the American automotive industry.
The Government needs to react to this.However it does look as if Detroit is finished.
Detroit will NEVER be 'finished' Visit sometime, its an amazing city full of great people 💯
I remember the city of 1978, a beautiful city. What happened? my uncle immigrated in 1958. He came from Germany!! He built skyscrapers, had a beautiful home and a great car. We visited him and his family in 1978, everything was so great, and an American dream. What did you do? This city is really dead? Or have they just lost or left behind. Bring the people who had built a !!! Makes advertising to bring new, innovative business ideas in this city! Which is again succeeded in passing a second time ... this is the city of environmental protection and safety technology, companies will come and show what can be done to establish safety and environmental protection in this city(i think)! Whoever economy here, it society everywhere! Cheer up, one makes the beginning and the rest comes...new Time
contacted by German companies to invest here!
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When Detroit was 90% white, it was very prosperous. Now that it's 80% black, it's a complete shithole. A coincidence I'm sure. Race is just a social construct, after all. Breeding only matters to every other animal on the planet, not us.
when africa was 100% black, it was very prosperous. Now that europeans have invaded it, it's a complete shithole. A coincidence I'm sure. Race is just a social construct, after all.
sub-Saharan Africa was a malaria-infested jungle filled with cannibals living in mud huts. you have a very strange definition of "prosperous". and if you're talking about Egypt, the nubians weren't responsible for building it, they were responsible for its decline--white people, like King Tut, built it. much like Detroit. history repeats.
Phuck Joogle ladies and gentlemen, someone who has never cracked open a history book or read anything of substance ever is posting on UA-cam. indeed, history really does repeat itself. have fun with your life!
it's good that you can admit your ignorance. but you really don't need a "history book" where DNA is involved.
That's too simplistic. Correlation does not imply causation.
90% of Detroit's population ------------------------------- >> Muslims, eewww..!! good luck.
Detroit saving plan: 1 Study what goods US are importing and see what can be produced on those empty buildings, clothes, furniture, shoes, electronics, bikes, toys, plastic goods, metal goods, etc, try to compete with cheap quality tech, like China, since real estate is cheap in Detroit and transportation can be cheaper with the rail, it is possible compete in this world economy 2 City have, and this is a must, keep tax low for new ventures, tax revenue will hit city arcs after production is set up, not before 3 Promote education 4 Control drugs in three ways, education, marihuana legalization and enforcement 5 Improve accountability of city officials 6 Improve existing services 7 Campaign study of ghetto by choice, teach people the economic value of safety and harmony, may be create a program of economic incentives to cleaner neighborhoods in endangered areas
Write off the back taxes on abandoned houses so that they become worth buying to live in, also saving the city the $22000 cost of demolishing each one.
Stupid, the buildings are empty because cars and other goods that used to be produced in Detroit moved elsewhere. There is no turning back. US corporations of Capitalist America found places where US goods can be produced with cheap labor and light taxes. IBM, Dell, HP, Apple, GM, Chrysler, Ford are American firms, but their goods carry the stickers: "Made in China, Made in Mexico, Made in Brazil, etc."
It will come back!
The City of Detroit needs a fresh start - tear down abandoned homes and trashed buildings. President Obama has given funds to all major cities for a renewal and rebirth - a chance for a new beginning. All across America cities are in the midst of a massive tear down and renewal.
Detroit is actually actively in the process of tearing down abandoned homes. The problem is, there is 90,000 of them. It'll take literally decades to remove all the decay. Downtown Detroit is nice and economically growing.
Detroit is a comeback city...save Detroit!
Beautiful buildings. So sad to see greed destroy that city. When unions demanded wages twice as high as the rest of the country, this is the result.
Being born and raised in Detroit i have great memories. I would love to see it rebuild into the great industrial city it once was! I didn't realize that Cass Tech was no longer open.
Thank you, I appreciate the news!
you need a much better mic
"... it's up to the people of Detroit." LOL The people of Detroit are like 60% of the problem, the remaining 40% is due to the democrat politicians that have ruled the city for decades.
Jonathan G it's because all the car companies left. I live in Michigan.
how low is your IQ? 12?
Detroit has no power as to the overall economic policy. US firms moved elsewhere, because the Federals (both Demtards and Reptards) whored with Coporate America to send jobs abroad for cheap labor, and hence more profit.
Blame the Democrats. Detroit had not had a Republican mayor since 1962.
Although Coleman Young, and those who continued to vote him in at each election, have a great deal to do with Detroit's fall from grace; the reasons go much deeper than that! Some of the manufacturers seldom invested in their businesses, because, as they tell it; they had to pay the stockholders. They paid them; then the Japanese moved in and they couldn't compete without costly improvements so they bought Japanese steel and parts instead of making them. High crime levels was an environment that also created "White Flight", and later on, "Black Flight"! Getting them back will require better parenting by those who remain in the city. Drugs, guns, and gangs are killing their kids, and the neighbors kids also.
AlexS71192 blame the car companies, the whole city was so dependent...
Sarah....Actually Detroit had a very diverse business climate; although the auto companies were at the top of the wage bracket. Most of Detroit's income came from resident taxes, both income and property taxes. Loss of residents meant a loss of taxes.
Sarah. It was Democratic policies that put them out of business. Democrats favored strong unions paying every worker $20.00hr starting with lots of benefits. Was a ton of money back then. Democratic officials kept raising taxes driving away the wealthy tax payers. All while city couldn't control their spending within their budget that got them into debt. Sarah this is why every ghetto in America is Strongly Democratically controlled. Their failed Socialistic Policies don't work.
Alex....You have no idea what you are talking about, just the typical BS ignorant people speil daily.