Detroit Is Tearing Down Their Old Auto Plants!
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- Detroit is home to many industrial ruins. Humongous auto plants have stood vacant in the city for years, and residents have watched nature take over many of these old properties. Detroit is finally beginning to tear down some of their extinct auto assembly plants that once gave Detroit it's nickname of the Motor City. In this video I show you some of Detroit's abandoned neighborhoods that surround the old AMC Headquarters, along with a nice neighborhood as I continue to tour the entire city.
0:00 - 8:33 Plymouth Road Hoods
8:33 - 11:56 More Hoods
11:56 - 17:55 Abandoned AMC Headquarters building
17:55 - 22:30 A Mostly Abandoned Neighborhood
22:30 - 31:34 Grandmont Neighborhood
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Not only these auto plants provide direct employment, but many suppliers like tool & die shops, machine shops were a part of the end product and provided even more employment. That whole supply chain took a hit.
When the Philadelphia navy yard shut down around 45 years ago a local Industrial hardware company that had two full time salesmen working g full time selling to the yard were laid off I click g at least one inside person. Think I read that when large companies shut down for every one job they had was eliminated two jobs in the local area were eliminated. Ouch !
henry ford was vertically integrated. he carried taconite pellets down to the rouge in his own fleet of ships. he made that ore into steel at the mighty rouge. a buddy of mine worked for karamanos as a contract computer guy. he was sent to fix the rolling mill it wasn't making good sheets from the molten steel. Ford has shops all over detroit making stuff for him he couldn't make enough of to make it cost effective. the other car companies had to follow somewhat to stay competitive.
the shops in Detroit couldn't control their theft losses so they moved out to the suburb's where they could pay for police protection in their property taxes and actually get the police to come. that stopped happening as detroit fell further and further into its own pit of filthy corruption. until it imploded like some of the auto plant gem cities in this state. high crime vandalism move into a city where there is or was an auto factory. get all the theft vandalism and crime one can handle. until ones insurance policy is cancelled or premiums go through the roof.
so the shops all moved north of 8 mile. 10 mile road was lined with small shops serving the auto industry suppliers. all of which either did not start in Detroit or did not finish in Detroit. the problems with detroit are too many to go into here. what and who caused them i dont know . they dont seem to be able to fix detroit. many of us are thinking of buying some raw land maybe 10,000 acres of vacant land in Detroit and starting a cattle ranching operation. we got the slaughter houses right in the eastern market.
@@joeybleu66 Good take. Ford had the money and prowess to do that. Best wishes on your new venture.
And Mr President, as representative of We the People (Democrats or Republicans) reflect the Will of the PERSONS (voters) shipped the manufacturing jobs to China. However, the up side to DEMOCRACY, is We the PERSONS, not happy with the Mr President in power, can turn to the ballot box next 'round ... and next 'round ... and next 'round ... and zzzzzzzzz ... Isn't DEMOCRACY fun! We the PERSONS vote for the entertainment created by wars, fake moon landings etc. and the DEBT tied to the vote! Making America great 1 homeless person at at time!
The Lima Accord of 1975 and NAFTA changed all that.
Can't imagine how city officials had to deal with such a population loss of 1.2 million people. I don't think any city in the US or world had to deal with anything like that.
Its so crazy to think that Detroit was once a nice beautiful city to raise your kids in.
Like many US cities-large and small.
It was the Best city in the Nation the Paris of the Midwest Jazz artists flocked to Detroit it's left an amazing rich culture here in it's wake
Yes the Paris of the West it was called. I too grew up in Detroit. Went to Detroit public schools which were a model for the nation. So many homes that were beautiful. Sad, just sad.
Whatever happened to the grand Cooley high school, Hudson’s Department Store and the highland park Ford Factory?
Sad deal looking at that elementary school and thinking about all the little children with hope in their eye.. man if walls could talk especially if they knew the fate of the little kids..
Good job........The plymouth road corridor was my neighborhood for much of my childhood..Before the riots in 67 it was a great city..Somebody planted thousands of Dutch Elm trees back in the 40 s Id guess.Each home had 1 planted between the sidewalk and the curb..Driving down the street it lokked like you were going thru a tall tunnel.Then a blight came thru called Dutch Elm Disease and killed every Elm tree.The city came thru and sprayed them but to no avail.......All of them were lost......Detroit was a beautiful city in the 50s and 60s...
No not even a dog just another said puppy that don't know shit yet.....
Chris, you are 100% correct on your assessment of the reasons why Detroit has the problems that it does. Crime, schools, taxes, loss of jobs plus other reasons all add up. Underground interstate freeways in major cities are the best way to build them. My parents would refer to the interstates in Detroit as " The Ditch". With downtown Detroit making comeback, I think that taking out interstate 375 into downtown is a mistake. In 1956, Detroit took out their streetcar tracks. Sixty one years later, they started building them again.
As a kid my mom would take me down to Palmer park and we'd ride the street car down to Hudson's downtown, great memory, my dad who worked for GM told me later in life that they bought the street car company and closed it down, they didn't want public transportation competing with their car sales
Thumbs up for your thoughtful comment but I respectfully disagree, in that I consider transitioning 375 to a Boulevard as a humongous win. In the first place we're only talking about a mile-long stretch of road so the complaints about it being vital for convenience sake to me is silly. Opening up a new route on that side that will be an atrium for development as well as walkability/bikeability with its connections to the Greenway and the Riverwalk (as the exclusive bike road alongside the boulevard is going all the way to Atwater) coming from Gratiot will be fantastic. If they're smart they will incorporate the QLine to make this the eastern edge to a loop. It would go around past Comerica Park and Ford Field on it's way to Woodward, it'd be too perfect.
As a Detroiter I can say there is entirely too many Highways in the city. Every local road (which are massive as far as carring capacity goes) just dead ends and usually forces you to use a highway or a road that has been semi turned into a highway. I totally understand the need to have a few of them, but perhaps tearing through prominent neighborhoods, and charging right through the heart of down town was a mistake. I (who live on the SW side) shouldn't have to drive 15 minutes to go under three miles to get to the East of Downtown. The roads are overly complicated for being used by a fraction of the people they were intended for. I think Detroit needs to become a physically smaller city, and allow the other neighboring cities to annex/buy parts of the city. Just my two cents though, no expert.
The powers that be carved up Detroit purposely as they did with other major cities. They needed to break up the old Catholic ethnic neighborhood's in order to get political control, lose our traditional customs and turn us into wage slaves for the empire. Read the book "The Slaughter of Cities" Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing.
Actually, that was a key point in my thesis I did on Detroit, and about it making a comeback. The city limits are way too bug for the residents that actually still live there. Shrinking the city makes sense and also saves the city money in providing services for areas with hardly any people in them. No, you're on the right path with your ideas.
You’re correct, but what city would want to buy them? Maybe Ferndale would by Palmer Woods and Sherwood Forest. But would Redford buy Brightmoore? Why would neighbouring cities buy places with high poverty and crime rates?
Much of the car centric culture in the USA is the result of poor planning leading to communities that lack alternatives to use ing cars of very little trip. Suburban areas tend to lack the cohesiveness that older more walkable communities had. Allowing Crime to get of control in older communities is a factor in making them less vulnerable as is the effects of the Great Society programs that took the fathers out of the homes and left many children growing up without positive roll models and the dramatic raise in illegal drugs and the profitable under ground economy that leads to more crime. 😊
I volunteered at some civil engineering things with crash barricades and some of these ideas were discussed math wize. I feel for the city of Detroit. You have the same problem with the water system as you do with the highway system. A lot of people who did the best they could and paid their bills and paid off their houses and made a lot of sacrifices to be financially responsible for themselves held on to their houses when the crunch came. The city said you live at the end of a water line that we can't maintain for the six or eight people that are left. You lost everything to.
My Dad had a Rambler, then sold that and got an Ambassador station wagon. My sister had a Matador and her husband drove a Gremlin. I loved the Ambassador and Matador (I drove that several times when I started driving). My sister's husband was a mechanic that worked on auto carriers, he always said AMCs were the best cars. Memories.
The folks bought a 64 rambler wagon with a small displacement V8, it was a great car. They later got a newer one and I remember it having some kind of trouble. I wish I still had the green 64.
Thanks for the video. I grew up near Plymouth & Meyers in the 50's & 60's. You drove within 3 houses of the house I spent 21 years in @ Mendota & Wadsworth. It's sad because the street was lined with towering Elms, lawyers lived on our block, the Director of Detroit's waterfront lived next door & the big house in a double lot across the street built ornamental fountains throughout Detroit, the remains of one is still in the front yard, where goldfish used to swim. Our old house has just been restored so it still stands. But while I occasionally dream of moving back into the City it just isn't safe for me. In the late 70's I took over my grandparents home in Highland Park. It was a share the wealth neighborhood. They shared my wealth. Stole everything of value, my tools, vacuum cleaner, bicycle, car, even my grandfather's retirement pocket watch. I fled after a year. It's an empty lot now. The freeways disrupted neighborhoods all over the City, forcing tens of thousands to move. What had been decades of development, of stable neighborhoods, schools, businesses were all assaulted, patterns disrupted, homes burgled, cars stolen, it just became physically unsafe to live in Detroit. The elderly often live with weapons, afraid to leave their house. There are good neighborhoods, here & there, but still traveling the streets between us dicey
Wow, thanks Chris. I'm a 70-year old man now but this video took me back to my childhood. I grew up on Schaefer just south of Grand River across the street from the NE corner of the large warehouse. There was (still is?) an Edison electric substation on Hartwell Street that was at the back of where my home was and parts of your video covered my old paper route for the Detroit News. I used to also play among the rail cars that were parked on those tracks on the East side of the AMC / Rambler complex that is being torn down now. Memories, memories! Thank you again.
Chris, you drove by the house on Woodmont that my mother was born in and that I grew up in. Thank you!!!!
Hello Chris !! Thank you for the tour of Detroit . I grew up in the Detroit area. Nice to see the interest . And your reporting is spot on.
Street level videos such as this one I really appreciate, as it shows the spaciousness there is with the city of Detroit.
I had previously assumed, with Detroit being an industrial center, that the area would be packed and stacked with buildings, but videos such as this one shows otherwise.
Breaks my heart I grew up in that building. Went to work with my mom on weekends. Beautiful building especially the lobby the staircase was beautiful marble we lived about 2 miles from there.
So there's still no news on what they're going to do with it?
(Didn't watch).
If so why so quiet, are they?
No news
Hey Chris,
I lived in Pleasant Ridge in ‘72-‘74 , six blocks south of the Detroit Zoo right at the time that I696 was going through, dividing our neighborhood permanently.
We moved before the full effect of it hit and when I returned years later, I was glad we moved out.
Speaking of AMC, over the years I have had some AMC cars. They always started and were really dependable. One was a 68 AMX another was a 69 AMX and a 70 Rebel Machine. All great cars, wish I never sold them......
Got a 76 pacer with the original alternator and starter
@@jimoconnor6382 My mom and dad had a Pacer when I was a kid. I felt like we were in a department store window..... lol
@@jetsons101 its still a good car.
@@jimoconnor6382 AMC's of that vintage seemed to always start and run great.
Sad that the front of that building couldn't be saved. That was the beautiful part of it and it's a shame to lose it
Any old well constructed buildings have to be torn down in the minds of today’s younger generation that way garbage construction that won’t even last 50 years can be put up because it’s what *they* want
I disagree. If it can't be repurposed, and put to use, get rid of it! Clear the space for new that will attract new talent and work into the area. It's the only way to move forward.
Yeaahhhh throwaway culture!!
I've been down every one of those streets as an Uber driver picking up passengers,it was an amazing experience. You may have already checked out some of the older videos posted by others like yours but the difference is huge
I went to Cooley High School with a Wayne Panek. Any relation?
@@ramblerdave1339 not likely, can't say I know much about any Panek's Still a lot of WWII fog 3 generations later I am the last ☣️⚠️👑
Who in their right mind would go to Detroit ??? Omg!!
Chris another great video. These are so well done with time codes and street locations on the screen, as it lets you bookmark for further exploring. And just great video content.
First time viewer. You bring up interesting and very good points. Well done sir. I subscribed.
To clarify, automotive production ceased in the AMC building in the late 50's. It was then used for Administration, Engineering, Design, Prototyping, and Testing throughout the Chrysler days. Work was done not only on Jeeps, but Dodge Trucks as well, thus it was known as: Jeep and Truck Engineering, JTE. I worked in that building for 11 years. Sad that at least the front portion (Tower and Mahogany Row) couldn't be saved.
WOW PHENOMENAL VIDEO THANK YOU CHRIS FOR POSTING 😊😊
My wife and I had a 19American Motors Javlin, in 1974 what a cool car we drove it more than 10 years but in reality it was a conglomeration of all the manufacturers it had a ford 351,( they called it a 360) a Chrysler trans and rear end GM AC and power steering, they stamped the body most of the interior and frame and suspension, it still had front drum brakes at a time when everyone else had changed to discs, I always thought it to be the best looking of the American sports cars, it gave us very little problems, a great car.
Thanks for the update on old AMC Stay Safe
LOL, I guess I'm a dinosaur then. I remember Pacers, Gremlins, and Ramblers. Nothing wrong with the Rambler's looks but the others.... 😂
AMC Eagle SX/4 was a cool 4wd car. Wish I had bought one back in the early 80s.
I worked at General Motors Fleetwood Plant on Fort St. at Springwell Ave. before I moved back to Florida, now that plant is gone and there no sign that it ever existed. Several thousand people were employed there.
Another informative video Chris! I remember those old AMC Gremlin's well as a neighbor had one.
Nothing informative about this dumb video.
I remember back in the day when AMC had city buses. It was in 1975 and D-DOT AMC city buses and the bus numbers were from 1200 through 1250 series. Those AMC city buses were out of D-DOT'S Shoemaker Terminal located on East Warren and St.Jean on the Eastside of Detroit. And you mentioned Borman Foods that owned Farmer Jack. That is the only history of American Motors Corporation and D-DOT is the Detroit City Bus System. I also remember when,Borman owned Farmer Jack.
Thanks so much for this very interesting upload, I've just subscribed and I have "hit" the notification bell as well, I hope you will be doing some Detroit-Windsor crossings in future, maybe do a bit of exploring of Windsor, Ontario as well? I've always been fascinated about these cities, in relationship to each other, a border crossing that is seamless, no soldiers, no barbed wire fences.
I bought an AMC Jeep CJ7 in 1986, the last year they made that model Jeep. I was 20 years old.
The more abandoned, destroyed structures torn down, the better. Dont have enough people living in the city to maintain the volume of structures built in it. Clear it out, let it go back to nature until the land is needed again.
Yup woof!
My family moved to Plymouth and Southfield from 7 Mile and Ryan in August 1975, right around the completion of I-96. It was almost like moving out to the suburbs. Plenty of nice homes, businesses and people. But, when the 80's came around it was all over. Drugs, high crime, and the recession changed things and not for the better. Thank you for the tour of my old 'hood Chris and keep up the great work!
Why not??? Here in Syracuse, New York, we’ve torn down Carrier Air Conditioner, closed General Motors and Chrysler plants, shut down General Electric and Electronics Parkway, torn down parts of Bristol Myers and sold what’s left to overseas companies, numerous “mom and pop “ companies and businesses forced out of business, and I won’t even get into the fact that we used to make cars here (Franklin auto) , numerous breweries and commercial bakeries and a world famous casket/coffin manufacturer! We’re tearing down part of Interstate 81 to make a new “neighborhood “ to make politicians feel better about people having to move to build the highway (50 years ago), and make people drive further to get from one side of the city to the other ! So why not tear down perfectly good buildings…….here in Syracuse, all old buildings are turned into high rent apartments and condos! ……..if we only had the people who could afford to live there!!!
Amazing old city!
Thanks for your video and information. I rode in Nash cars as young boy. But have never been in these areas of Detroit.
The Children of Grandmont, went to my High School, Cooley High, and that was my stomping grounds you were driving through. It was thriving in the late sixties, but the two Major Department Stores at Grand River and Greenfield, were already suffering from the Competition of the Northland Mall, 3 miles north, in Southfield. All the neighborhoods north of that area, and west to Rosedale Park, were equal to Grandmont, or better, in the housing quality and beauty of the neighborhoods, and Parks. I went to School with kids of so many different nationalities and races, that I was never exposed to earlier in life, before moving to Detroit in 1966. As a fan of the AMC cars, I was in a a School where many children of AMC employees attended, and was no longer an outcast, for driving a Rambler. As a member of the Great Lakes Classic AMC Club, I know many people, who worked for AMC in the Plymouth Road headquarters, back in the day.
looks like the area is turning back into forests - only these forests have sidewalks.
Now known as "Detroit Meadows."
The streets used to have Pacers and Gremlins running around on them (two American Motor car models I recalling seeing frequently).
I have fond memories of visiting my grand parents Plymouth Rd and Meyers area. I remember playing with the other kids in the neighborhood. I remember driving by amc building, and my Dad worked part-time at buro's electric, we lived in Livonia at the time ,Inkster and Plymouth Rd area.
That's a good start
Side note: Chris, you fly a drone ten times better than me. Is the old Packard auto plant building still standing? There are so many classic brick homes in Grandmont, glad to see that they are being kept in good repair. Another great watch from Chris.
Its being torn down now
Currently being demo'd.
@@ChrisHarden Thanks for info. What a sad end to a once great automotive name plate.
@@Henry_Jones To bad, I saw a TV special on the history of American cars and that place up until WWII was humming but its golden era was pre 1929. Love your humor you put into your vid's.
My Mother loved her AM cars.The last one was an 1968 white Ambassador with a crappy engine that would flood often.She had a Rambler or two in the late 40's and 50's.Later she would buy Subarus with stick shift as she needed it to get up to her tiny place in the mntns.
It's disheartening to see much of Detroit neighborhoods ghost towns now. I remember Javelin and AMC. The Pacer was the car of the day. The closing of the steel mills all from the American Steel closing had a huge impact on the automotive industry. Then plant closings didn't help Detroit. It used to be so alive and thriving. Toledo south of Detroit a mere 55 miles away has Stellantis Jeep and Chevrolet plants. Jeep was considering moving out of Toledo which is the birthplace of the first SUV manufacturing. Jeep was the staple of WWII Jeeps. Detroit really suffered from the auto industry movings and closures and the great housing crash of 2005. All that is left are memories. Unfortunately, gentrifying of these areas doesn't help either. Detroit's downtown is still good. The casinos like Greek Town and Motorcity Casino is helping keep that going. Don't know if Detroit will ever be as thriving as its former self. But many areas around the country are starting to feel the same effect.
yeah the mayor can keep the rich people safe for four miles n of the river after that its the wild wild west after the sun goes down. a buddy of mine was mugged at the rosa park station over by the book Cadillac hotel. it was in 2022. the hotel doesn't provide free parking for its employees. my friend has three kids and a pregnant wife he cannot afford $25 a night to park close. he was walking past the rosa parks place and a male came out of the darkness with a hatchet. normally the mugger would have scored but this was not his lucky night. i hope he recovers to mug again. my friend got a job in Farmington three miles from where he lives. he will never go back to work in Detroit. many people say its a third world shit hole N of campus martius. allegedly take your life in your hands on the streets anywhere north of there when the sun goes down.
What's not often noted is the factories provided a tax base that supported the City as it grew. In 1900 Grand Boulevard was built on the edge of the City, in farm fields. The Packard plant on Grand Boulevard was built in farm fields, as was Henry Ford Hospital Main on the Boulevard. The financial problem after WWII was the factories needed to expand but all the land in the City was already built out. So the new factories were built out on farm fields on the edge of development, abandoning the old factories in the City & stopped paying taxes. Factory workers moved out to the new suburbs near the new factories. No different that what happened after 1900, just further out. This has repeated, new factories further out & new developments, leaving the older suburbs & again abandoned factories behind. Developers make it easy for new homeowners to finance the new houses while, as in Detroit, property taxes go up to pay for city services the now abandoned factories used to pay for. Detroit's Mayor Duggan is trying to clear large lots to bring tax paying factories & commercial businesses back into the City so City services can be restored & expanded
Such a tragedy. So many houses were burned down it now appears more rural than urban due to overgrown trees and weeds.
Chris, I live in Toledo Ohio and this city is following Detroit down.
Thank You, for your video. Being as I left Detroit , in 1960 , for the Navy , everything , looks different ! Our home is still there , and looks nice ! Home was , 9950 Asbury Pk. . My Schools were , Coolidge Elementary , Tappen Jr. High , and Cody High , all gone . There is something to be said . about supporting your school system , with " property Taxes " .
Many churches and liquor stores down that road. Javelin and AMX weren't brands but products (cars) from AMC.
Great videos like let’s go on Plymouth Rd going west the GM plant in Livonia so Livonia had a few GM plants and Trim plant on Plymouth My mom worked there I just wanted to see it I don’t even know the plant # they used so I couldn’t find it up maybe what you film was it that some co bought Tys
Sometimes Mr. Harden you kinda sh** on my beloved city but you do show some of what happens to a city when it puts all of it's eggs in one basket. As a long time Detroiter, I do appreciate your videos. 👍🏾
Need to bring the factories back, the loss of industry has hurt us.
Hey Chris, I don’t know if you’re only checking out city’s connected to flint but I feel like you should check out Lapeer, we have the oldest running courthouse in Michigan and we used to have the oakdale mental hospital. The place is full of history and on the rise, I feel like having someone like you tour the place would give some really great exposure but of course it’s just an idea.
I’ll make a video on Lapeer one day. Not sure about going inside the oakdale but I’ll definitely view it from the outside and talk about it when I do
Detroit's hugest downfall over the last 40 years, is the fact that any investor that has ever come in, has always put that money towards downtown detroit! The other incident is the fact that if it goes into any neighborhoods those are connected directly to the outskirts of downtown but only on the East and North sides.
Detroit is the only city that had race riots in the late sixties that has never fully recovered! People fail to realize, it is the neighborhoods that built the city the way that it is exclamation do not invest in your neighborhoods, it is going to be a ghost of its former self and it's gonna fall once again within 20 years!
Smart investors. Who would invest in Detroit ??
Actually downtowns build cities
@@christianlendo7787 the neighborhoods are what caused the rise of downtown. Ford , Chrysler weren't in downtown to start.they were on the outskirts of Downtown. The neighborhoods brought the people there, that started the other industries to build there offices in said downtown.
AMC, Packard, Hudson etc... not in downtown.
Oh man, the AMC Pacer was an amazing, futuristic...lemon. But my parents used to have a Nash Rambler. Thing was a tank.
Must be a west side thing. On the East side almost everybody drove a Chevy, a Ford or a Chrysler. I think there were maybe 2 Ramblers in the whole neighborhood.
Reminds me of North St Louis. Shootings almost everyday. And sadly sometimes comes into St Louis. I live in burbs, sadly use to go visit great zoo and parks. But now, not worth the risk**
RE:jack long. Yep. Once they let crime get out of control, the city is doomed. Doesn't matter how nice the buildings are.
Sad . Detroit is so poor and dangerous now, I wouldn't want to fly over it .
It's a tale of two cities. New Detroit with all the downtown renovation spreading outward but only so far and Old Detroit which is turning into meadows. Looks like the city movers and shakers have decided that the New will bring in plenty enough revenue while the Old is losing money daily so as the houses/buildings there become derelict, they are demolished and more meadow added. The city will also at some point turn off utilities and city services to certain areas that just don't have enough folks living in. Like Delray, the last remaining neighborhoods will find out what Eminent Domain means. So eventually, you'll have the downtown and connected neighborhoods and vast meadowlands with occasional large warehouses. New Detroit will run with about a 4-500,000 population that can pay their way.
Maybe. We shall see.
It really does seem they want to shrink the city, imo.
Dearborn is going hood too if anyone's noticed. Lol
my uncle is a land lord has 100's of property's every time he gets a new property he renovates its about 50 percent of the renovation propertys get broken into and all appliances and new copper and toilets stolen
I believe it. That’s another big reason why investments aren’t made
Rutland and the Southfield both run north and south. Where is the intersection you speak of?
Chryslers bought AMC to take the Jeep Brand and destroyed every other product soon after
... ain't it the Truth !
During the recession that happened during 2008 in 2009, tons of people lost their houses! You had indicated at the beginning of the video how one side of 96 was barren and just no houses, well that's what happened with those houses the people lost them and had to go elsewhere. In neighborhoods like that once you have empty houses that aren't going to sell, they get boarded up. Well at that point you now have empty houses with squatters, drug addicts, and tweakers who will hang out in them and party and get high. And then 1 day somebody goes in and sets 1 of them on fire, and in most cases it catches the dwellings on either side to catch fire.
When this happens then you have abandoned houses that are burnt half to the ground. So the city has to step in and tear them down. Thus hence, leaving empty lots. When I hung out in that area on both sides of 96 during the late eighties and early nineties, it was still quite vibrant with most of the houses that were there still being occupied!.
this part in Desmont looks just like the Historical District of Mt. Clemens-------Thank You Samual Clenens 😁
People nowadays look at Detroit as a shit hole, and Michigan, but Detroit was number four in the United States for being one of the best places to live from the music to the machinery so many things cereal, companies valsic pickles everything started in Detroit yes, even Kmart cars highways lumber copper steel from the great lakes. The list goes on and on and on but now all forgotten and a lot of people today do not know the history. Such a shame.
Looks like Mt.Clemens @ 16:32 :):) Mt.Clemens is a Very Friendly Walkable Community !!!
Well at least terror is torn down assuming due to its structure it was most hazardous because it's most likely to fall down. But if it was in still proper condition wanted terms out of been that they would leave that because that would make a great corner piece for a rentals type building. You know a car guy has an idea once in a while. Well done
That brand is Jeep. I didn't know that until about a year ago.
Iknew it for about 10 years
@@baassbooster 20 years ago I used to know AMC owned it but for some reason I completely forgot until recently.
As someone who grew up in the rust belt, steel mills being the entire economy, this is sad to me. I hate to see the blight of abandoned factories and plants. It reminds me of how these areas were once prosperous. Btw, look up an AMC Pacer if you haven't already. It's good for a laugh!
When I was in high school in the first half of the 70s AMC cars were popular first cars.
@@ambikawolf664 My family had some nice ones (an Ambassador station wagon and a Matador). My Dad loved Ramblers. I was not a big fan of the Gremlin but my former BIL loved his.
It is sad. I feel like this will be every city in just a few years now.
@@lisawebb1977 no
I actually have one and I drive it during summer and it actually drives better through snow
Great video, but I need a little help. Where is the farmhouse located? Southfield and Rutland are (somewhat) parallel, and they don't intersect. What is the name of the family? Thanks!
They were running a truck driving school in the parking lot of AMC. When you drove by before they started tearing the building down.
Every time you said "Schoolcraft," I heard "Bull Crap." I was on my laptop doing stuff with your video playing in the background.
It is shocking how much alike are Detroit MI, and Gary IN. The views, the layout, the abandonment, and sustained neighborhoods look exactly alike. You could switch Plymouth Ave in Detroit for 5th Ave in Gary and no one would even notice. What is weird about Gary which sits on the east side of Cline Ave north of I-80/I-90 Borman Freeway, is that it is mirror opposite of Hammond which is west of Cline Ave. Gary being the so-so ghost town, and Hammond very much untouched and full of life. Of course with Detroit being several times larger than Gary and Hammond combined, it's easy to have area's of plight in some parts of Detroit yet still have neighborhoods virtually untouched and doing well. Unfortunately abandoned warehouses and old factories keep neighborhoods depressed and the only way to bring in new investments is to tear them down so that re-growth can happen and given time, it'll happen.
That is crazy it looks like miles of nothing no grocery store or restaurants or anything just abandoned buildings
Every major factory that help in w2 is gone
Yep, final demo of Packard has begun. My guess is they will be done within 1-2 weeks with Packard.... Fisher Body may be next...
Sad to see old architechture get demolished. Every building after 1950 is a stale box. Art Deco needs a revival but $
Anyone know if any of this video was recorded on Longacre street?
I had a 1954 Nash Rambler. It was unibody construction and the floors rusted out and it broke in half. The junkyard came and gave me $75 for it.
I used to also ride down Plymouth Rd in my Cadillac with my fuzzy dice dangling on my rear view mirror 😂 until a certain cop pulled me over near the police station for going 5 over the speed limit.
I drove an AMC Pacer in high school in the 70s. It was the ugliest car but my friends loved it since I was the only one with a car. I had to put the car in neutral, roll it down the hill to start the car. It got crushed in a car accident a couple of years later. I rarely see them on the streets these days.
I remember every single brand you mentioned (although I only heard about the Nash and Hudson brands). My Mom loved Studebakers, she lost a brand new one in the Connecticut flood in the 50s. I do not consider myself a dinosaur by any means, doo you consider your Mom a dinosaur (I am probably her age)? As far as the schools, there are less children too. I live in a nice suburb, but schools have been closed/torn down as not needed anymore.
once the neighborhood changed the government didn't care anymore.
At around @23:47 when the item of the area being a farm at one time . . . being a surprise? Nope!
Take a look at the Santa Clara Valley of California some 60 years ago, countless acres of fruit orchards. Now, nearly all of it gone [except for the region south of San Jose], replaced by Silicon Valley.
Detroit is vast. Drive around lost for hours on several occasions. Glad we got smartphones now.
The city finally got the permit for the packard plant and it is being destroyed and cleaned up at this moment showing the symbol of the decline of Detroit is gone also can you do Grosse pointe I know it’s close to Jefferson chalmers which isn’t that bad of a area it’s actually a nice neighborhood but it’s prone to flooding so it’s good but it’s not the best
I thought AMC was headquartered in Kenosha Wisconsin.
Its' predecessor, Nash, was.
It is so sad to see the deterioration of so many cities.I don’t know how viable it is,or the logistics,but with such a high unemployment rate,and so much work needing done,it would seem like a good idea to put together a urban renewal plan that would put together crews that could cut down trees,haul trash away,make the city what it once was.Maybe put some of the land back into being farm land.
They razed my High School and the house I grew up in is gone. I grew up there in the 50's and 60's This is hard for me to watch.
The freeway problem in Detroit is true for most all other big cities.
When the neighborhoods turned Black they were no longer safe.
I lived in two different Detroit neighborhoods growing up.
SSSHHHH. You are not supposed to state the obvious.
Are you doing a Dearborn Video?
Who's keeping the grass somewhat mowed in the empty lots?
@ 24:13 I used to get my haircut there.
The Gremlin!!!
I realize you won't care but I watched a couple of your videos on a different device NOT connected to my Gmail account and you still pop up on my Gmail feed. Thank you Agent Smith.
GOOD. Many of them have been defunct since the industry consolidated long ago. Old infrastructure is a burden.
With respect to freeway construction vs. the condition of this - or any other - city: The decision to build up suburbs and access them with auto was made on a federal level. True enough, more and new housing was needed after WWII, but the deterioration of the core city and the construction of the suburbs was a reciprocal process. The FHA could have decided to build, and rebuild in the core cities first, and expand into suburban areas as needed. But they didn't. And yes, freeway construction is, in itself, very destructive to the fabric of a city.
The amc plant was still in operation under chrysler till 09? Wow thats a suprise. Wonder what theyey were making at the end.
Not sure good question.
Jeeps
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv which jeep? Compass? Commander? I know wranglers have always been built in ohio.
I believe the last Jeep branded vehicles from the plant on Plymouth Road were XJ platform Cherokees.
Automotive production ceased in the AMC building in the late 50's. It was then used for Administration, Engineering, Design, Prototyping, and Testing throughout the Chrysler days. Work was done not only on Jeeps, but Dodge Trucks as well, thus it was known as: Jeep and Truck Engineering, JTE.
The chrysler 300/dodge charger is still based on the AMC LX platform
actually Chrysler 300 is based on Mercedes-Benz W210 built from1996-2002.
Some of these streets look amazing, I wonder how the people below the poverty line survive. How do they eat? Also notice virtually every car in the video was American made - even if they’re not building American cars Detroiters are still buying and owning them.
You see American brands in the suburbs too… throughout the whole state for that matter
@@ChrisHarden surely quite rare to see entirely no Hondas or Volvos though…? Certainly an interesting video 👍