Even in some of those really bad neighborhoods, you can still see the occasional house with a cut lawn, new windows and a fresh coat of paint, some stubborn person or family still proud to live where they are or at least trying to make the best of it. It's both heartwarming and heartbreaking.
the saddest part is, is that the ghetto portion of this video use to look EXACTLY like the ‘rich’ part of this video 50 years ago ........................... absolutely astonishing if you really think about it
goldmovie to much I’m here from the government and I’m here to help!!!!!! Look at it now with your libs who make welfare as the main source of income and destroy families
@@McClellan71 Bernie isn't a god, Chris, only we can save us, and for a whole host of reasons this probably isn't going to happen, or, it certainly isn't going to happen in our lifetimes. I can only hope for future generations we evolve to a place where we understand *how* to save us...eliminating personal agendas which just get in the way, because it isn't out me, or you, we aren't singular entities. If there's one thing you can plan on, it's that none of this shit will change before you and I dissolve into dust.
This vid gives a glimpse of the former beauty of Detroit. Those abandoned homes were beautiful and well built. Large, with porches, tree lined streets. What a disaster....
I lived in Detroit for 20yrs, I worked for Chrysler. I had to move... SMH. My Brothers and Sisters would not let me live in peace. Always breaking in and stealing my stuff... GOD please Bless them, poverty will make you do things. Always I live in the country and I love it... I still live in Michigan but UP north. Thanks for the reminder... I lived in a NICE area. Haverhill north of Warren 4600 block. I don't want to live in a BIG city anymore.. TOO many people. Keep posting, GOD Bless YOU.
Niggas brought down Detroit. It USED to be Motor City. NOW it's ghetto slum. Call Code Enforcement on the ghetto. They will evict them! Drugs! That's what causes slums.
It's happening everywhere...I've had my whole life stolen down to family pictures personal clothing and so on... IDK what's happening in America but it ain't what it used to be
@@karlastaley8078 Where the heck do you live??? Who would steal someone's family pictures. That is insane!!! I've never had anything stolen from me in my life but I grew up in the suburbs. I have also lived in several cities and I have never experienced a break in there either. Thieves need to be wiped off the face of the earth!
It might as well have been bombed in a war. The Bronx was once in as bad shape now it is pretty liveable with some really nice areas. Things can improve.
I randomly clicked on this because it was in my feed. I moved away from the Detroit area about 15 years ago for school. It broke my heart to see what the city looks likes now. Side note: my family lived in Detroit until I was 12 then moved to Grosse Pointe Park (In the video right when you enter GPP, there is a little brick clock tower on the right hand side, that’s Pemberton! My street!) The Pointes are fantastic for raising a family and the schools are top notch BUT being Black in the Pointes was a lot back in the 90’s and 2000’s. Cops absolutely would follow me if I was walking around or rollerblading down the street and when I hit 16, I learned very quickly to cut through Detroit if I needed to go anywhere (like I-94). I had never been pulled over and NOT ticketed so much in my life. I know they were just checking the address on my license. They assumed anyone Black was from Detroit and thus suspect. If you really want to show people the division between GP and Detroit, make a right on Alter, heading towards the water. When I was there GP literally dug up the street and planted trees so people could not drive from Detroit into GP using side streets. Jefferson became the only way to head into GP. Then they put the GPP police station one block from Jefferson and Alter making it easier to patrol. I did a paper in college on the profilings GPP police engaged in at that border. The difference between the cities is crazy when driving but showing people Alter and then the next street over in GPP (Barrington I think) is something unimaginable. I’ve been to a lot of cities in the US and no where have I seen a place go from poor and destitute to $350k minimum houses in a single block like the Alter border of Detroit and GPP.
My cousins live in Grosse Pointe... You literally drive through the "hood" to get there and its shocking how you just go past one street and you are in a totally different place.
It used to be like that going from South Orange NJ (Million dollar plus homes) to Newark, NJ (Projects and boarded up housing etc) vice versa. However, I think Detroit is more severely dilapidated in several areas than Newark NJ at the present time. Never been to Detroit and thanks for sharing (interesting too), but I have seen similar (maybe less severe) on both coasts. Some examples, Paterson, NJ to Wayne, NJ with the latter being the wealthy town. Fairfield CT to Bridgeport, CT South San Bernardino, CA to North San Bernardino where all the poverty is in the valley and the money is in the hills. Back in the 70 s to 80 s The South Bronx used to have miles and miles of burned out buildings, but NYC has changed now. It is sad to see a potentially good city just deteriorate like that.
@@notnek202 hey man you can go back to the 1930s by yourself. I'm gonna stay here in 2020 where it doesn't fucking matter if you're black or not. You know what the former Soviet Union countries DID have? Communists. Communists who killed 10s of millions of their own people by starvation. You ignorant racist old fuck.
@Po Polsce na pewno. Próbowałem powiedzieć, że drogi w miasteczkach wiejskich (jak w Mołdawii) są w jakiś sposób w lepszym stanie niż te amerykańskie, mimo że Ameryka jest „supermocarstwem”, podczas gdy większość ludzi nigdy nie słyszała o Gruzji
@@Special_Agent_NSB yes, i'm under the impression that these streets were left in such bad repair to deter the wealthier residents from straying into the poorer areas and vice versa
Why do you even compare I live in one of the former soviet union country (Georgia) and we have pretty good streets, actually government reconstructs them in every 4 years so
Driving east down Jefferson is amazing and is one way to see the spectrum of Detroit in just a few miles. It’s part of my tour anytime someone from out of town visits. You have the bustle of downtown, then you go through some modest neighborhoods, then go into one of the most beautiful Detroit neighborhoods (Indian Village). You see the new homes in the marina district, the Chrysler plant, then that super depressed looking section of Jefferson, and then BAM! You’re in grosse pointe, one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. Your videos are great!
I've been a fan for awhile. I always enjoy that you have talk radio on. I don't think people have mentioned that but I find it interesting to hear the local news while you drive locally. Also, I always feel like I'm about to hear on the radio that a giant virus has spread or that a zombie apocalypse has started. It would go well with the urban decay. Great videos. Lots of footage to make people think.
CharlieBo, I truly enjoy all of your videos and I think the ones you narrate are even better. Your video makes me feel so many emotions and I am drawn to them and can't even explain it to me!!
Bro you're starting to get big I was chillin with my sisters boyfriend and he showed me one of your videos. I was like oh shit that's Charlie Bo. Keep doing your thing bro. I don't think you realize how entertaining you are....
slabbinonspokez z I can answer that (well partially). The answer is the Catholic Church. They did it for 100s of years to kids and they are so fucked up, now they are pedos.
@@CharlieBo313 I seen many of your vids and practically been all over the country. Ever think of going to Alaska sometime to either Fairbanks or Anchorage?
This was a good night my life with the fact is that for me to go out with you and I can make it in my car and I have no idea why they didn't want you to do that with the same thing ever since I have no clue what you baby I can do it for you to get me wrong but I can do with the fact you guys have any plansz
What would make these better is if in between the driving around the hood, the guy picks up different ho's walking the streets and gets a BJ either in the car or maybe inside the burned out houses. Is there a version like that out there?
I use to live on Chelsea when I was a kid, me my mother and younger brother were the last white family in the neighborhood, we had to move due to bricks being thrown through our windows at night, itd sad how things can change so quickly
This makes me want to visit Detroit. I liked the historical buildings and town before the suburbs and how it all lead to the suburbs and Lake. Nice smooth videos and easy to watch.
Not sure how I happened upon your video but, I found it very enjoyable! It's very sad to see homes of that nature in such disrepair. I can still see the Beauty in them..and would love to hear the stories behind them. "If walls could talk".. Thank you for posting the videos!
Kids playing outside, while the adults are barbequing in the backyard. Sleeping with the windows open and the doors unlocked. Then came the democrats and their corruption.
@@charleslloyd4253 you already know. Coming to a town near you. Dude I just watched a thing last night where Joe is using the military to fly and drop off illegal immigrants all over the country. Unbelievable simply unbelievable.
@@charleslloyd4253 while vets live in squalor. That’s right the most popular president in history. UA-cam has to manipulate the thumbs up thumbs down ratio to make it seem even. I seen one video where it had 36 likes and 2k dislikes. An hour later it was reversed. I couldn’t make this 💩up.
@@waltersobchak7275 Democrats say that people can not survive on less than $15 an hour. While the disabled veteran, senior citizen and disabled person. Lives on what would equal $4 to $7 an hour.
The Vanity Ballroom @ 5:26 . Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Louis Prima, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey and Cab Calloway, The MC5 and Iggy Pop all played there. Amazing.
Dale Gilchrist I’ve heard they are going to rehab the Vanity in the near future. There is some money going into the Jefferson/Chalmers area. They re-did Jefferson adding in the medians in the past couple of years. Detroit is odd in that unlike a lot of big cities I’ve been in it really doesn’t make good use of its waterfront property. Lots of industrial or run down buildings. It’s getting better but the Jefferson corridor from the Ren Cen to the Grosse Pointe boarder could/should be better utilized.
Great to have internet and UA-cam to upload these to show everyone to with their own eyes and not having to go to these places in person like we had to do long ago.
Once those empty blocks were full of homes-families, shops, parks. This is sickening. Thank you for filming. My grandparents were at 6 mile/Seymour and Chalmers.
The first time I rode down Jefferson I was 9 years old in 99 and i couldn’t believe it. My uncle lived in st Clair off Jefferson you drove by his old house by the way. That was the first time I truly grasped poverty. Thanks for the tour.
Despite people trying to trash talk Michigan it is indeed a beautiful place to live. He drove be one of the houses my wife and I reside in just off of the water. I am very fortunate and blessed to live where I do. The people bad talking it are all the negative nancys that have nothing else better to do. Or blame the rich for their misfortunes.
Very cool. You are the man who is speaking truth to power. The current narrative in the media is all about the Detroit come back. What I see is a mixed bag of some "come back" but mostly forgotten areas unless you have money and power. Great insight!
What's even more amazing is that blocks can vary greatly in the same neighborhood with some streets being well kept and on the same block you have "hell" houses... It looks like the crisis "played leap frog" in the neighborhoods... As far as "redevelopment"... Why would any sane person want to move onto the "street" that wasn't too kind to your car's shocks and has become a dump ? BTW, I love the narration, Charlie !
Nice job with the narration. The videos where you're driving around at night with drug deals and crazy shit going on don't necessarily need it but it's perfect for one's like this.
Both of us were born too late to see Lakeshore Drive before 1950, when the lots were dozens of acres, the ornate homes larger than 10,000 sq. ft., plenty of open space all around the house, and wrought iron fences (some of which were melted down to support the WW2 effort).
There's also a big difference between the Brightmoor and Rosedale Park neighborhoods on Detroit's west side. Brightmoor is full of run down and torn up houses with empty lots. Rosedale Park has nice looking homes that their owners appear to take lots of pride in, that are always well kept up.
Kind of scary you literally can do whatever you want and nobody would know i often think if one day they build up Detroit again how many bodies and other stuff will be recovered 😔😩.
I have lived in Grosse Pointe Park most of my 35 years and I still have never gotten used to the Alter Road 'dividing line'. That last block on the lake side of Jefferson are million dollar homes w crack house duplexes on the other side of their backyard fences. Its an ever-present, invisible wall that slaps you in the face from both sides.
This why u cant put Detroit in box its so spread out it has its bad spots good spots and magnificent spots so have someone sho you all of it i think this city is great"
My hometown of Grosse Pointe Park. For those wondering, Grosse Pointe Park and Detroit have the widest gap of Median income per household for 2 cities that border one another in the entire United States. The relationship between the 2 communities has been rough, to put it best. For a recent example, look up Kerchavel Avenue Farmers Market
So sad! So many homes and buildings gutted and demolished. Fucked up. We are losing our history, people and what made us a beautiful place to be. Shocking.
Um not where i live either your in a pot hole hitting non surfaced sewers and surfaced sewers makes you drive curvy the whole time pa worst roads Ohio decent for north
I live in Oregon. my dad and Grandma lived in Detroit back in the 1920's thru 1950's dad was from sparta illinios grandma lived in Detroit she was married to a guy worked on railroad lines. so she traveled a lot on them trains. those roads your riding on would be shaking my ole car apart. times have changed a lot. I appreciate your video's
Detroit looks like a war zone in alot of parts.grosse point and such spent their money wisely detroit did not!!havent been back in over 30 yrs!!sad to see some parts!!keep up the videos !!
My friend AL owns Riverfront building materials on Jefferson and Chalmers. You passed his store on the right when you turned left at Jefferson. Great guy! Great store! His area looks sharp and it has improved greatly.
I used to live in this area. This RICH drive has always been there. That is the Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross neighborhood (and a few other famous people). That Mayor back in the late 70’s and up to about 5 years ago, really did a bad number on Detroit. Also the DICK MOVE by the Motor Companies, moving their plants to other countries in order to save a dime...that was pretty shitty! Shame on them!! I used to live in Warren, Sterling Heights, Mt. Clemens, St. Clair Shores....it has all gone a bit down hill in the past 20 years. Sure do miss White Castles but in the freezer section in the store, I swear the White Castle Burgers taste just like they did 20 years ago at 1 am in the morning after a night out partying. Hope someone will help Detroit come back to what it used to be and MORE! Politicians and business owners should be held accountable to the areas they are entrusted with. To abandon the whole city like that, with help from the dick head mayors who pilliaged the city....they should hve been held accountable. But they were NOT. Going forward, strict oversight needs to be done to prevent the thieves from ruining people’s lives. What the hell was the name of that Mayor in the 70’s? First black mayor I think he was called.. Took Detroit right into the crapper.
You're so right...The Big 3 is definitely responsible for a lot of this destruction closed and moved all those factories out of Detroit but still want you to purchase their vehicles ain't that a bitch...perfect example look at the city of Pontiac G.M. had 10 operating factories going at one point life was very comfortable for those people there 70's and throughout the 80's but by the end of the 80's it started but by the '00's it was over closed up tore down all those factories and moved out of state now Pontiac and Flint are suffering beyond belief...They HELL with G.M. I know this because I dated a lady from Pontiac and watch the destruction with my own eyes the devastation G.M. caused
If i was a multi billionaire, i'd build new factories in Michigan and employ the people from Detroit and life would be better for them. Then I'd open businesses to serve the communities so that even more people would have jobs.
I am showing this to my friends over seas. They asked me how it could be so different, only a few block away. I sadly have to tell them, the difference is between people who don't care about their community, and people who do care.
It's not that simple. It's also larger houses that are being cared for by resident-owners rather than amateur landlords who collect the rent and don't reinvest in their units.
@@1L6E6VHF That may be a part of the problem. But its a community thing. I am a contractor in Detroit. I've had the aluminum siding ripped off the house, in the middle of the night. The neighbors said they didn't hear anything. You can't not hear that. I've never drove through gross pointe and seen someone throw an entire churches chicken bag out the window of their car. I see that once a week, here in Detroit. There are some of us who love this city, and you can see it here and there. Home owners cutting the grass on the vacant house next door. Then you come to the house, with trash all over the place, junk cars 5 deep in the drive way, and a garbage bag in place of the broken window. I think its a community issue, maybe even more personal issue, not sure.
I worked downtown and often drove down Jefferson to my house in Roseville, near Macomb Mall. The border line is stunning and sad. This route is so sad with so many homes gone. And, yeah, there are potholes that could house a family of four. :-( There are a couple of my favorite highlights along Jefferson -- the bridge to Belle Isle and the Water Works building -- awesome!
very dismal spots, like a wasteland . Thanks for uploading these and good job narrating. Really gives perspective on what these inner cities in this country have become.
It would be nice to do this drive on Jefferson in the summer - with a complete drive from Downtown Detroit to south of Selfridge ANGB in Harrison Township. Hell, I use to cycle on Lake Shore Drive about 20 years ago. It will definitely open up some eyes - especially when you hit the Wayne/Macomb County Border and Ford Mansion.
Used to drive this way for something to do back in the mid 90's. Was like night and day back then. The whole Jefferson drive to Selfridge is pretty eye opening back then.
Yeah I was right around the corner from you on Lakewood & E Vernor and it looks totally different. My block and my house looks the same but different people there now and some homes just vacant. Was a beautiful neighborhood back in 70s early 80s
It's honestly amazing how in just a few blocks can show absolute destruction to rich houses.
Ranger J ,
No Disneyland though
Michael So well said 🙌🏾
Us rich like to be next to the poor so we can laugh while drinking our 40s of olde
yep
where would you choose to live if you were wealthy, in a run down ghetto or in a safe neighborhood?
Even in some of those really bad neighborhoods, you can still see the occasional house with a cut lawn, new windows and a fresh coat of paint, some stubborn person or family still proud to live where they are or at least trying to make the best of it. It's both heartwarming and heartbreaking.
Saw a garbage can out on the street. Like, wtf? Who's picking that up❓❗❓
When the churches have bars on the windows you know it's all over.
It Detroit, these already exist.
@Винчански Србин пойти и поесть говна
@Винчански Србин keep dreamin boy
@Винчански Србин America is a leader of the free world.Not a warmonger like Serbia who started and lost 4 wars in 10 years.
@Винчански Србин all you know is propaganda from your own loser government. Stop being a jealous pussy.
the saddest part is, is that the ghetto portion of this video use to look EXACTLY like the ‘rich’ part of this video 50 years ago ........................... absolutely astonishing if you really think about it
goldmovie to much I’m here from the government and I’m here to help!!!!!! Look at it now with your libs who make welfare as the main source of income and destroy families
@@christorpher84 Have you ever taken an IQ test? It appears you spelled your own name wrong.
@@kgbeezr75 Well he's absolutely right.. so there's that. Is Bernie going to save us?
@@McClellan71 Bernie isn't a god, Chris, only we can save us, and for a whole host of reasons this probably isn't going to happen, or, it certainly isn't going to happen in our lifetimes. I can only hope for future generations we evolve to a place where we understand *how* to save us...eliminating personal agendas which just get in the way, because it isn't out me, or you, we aren't singular entities. If there's one thing you can plan on, it's that none of this shit will change before you and I dissolve into dust.
@@kgbeezr75 actually.. Bernie is the exact opposite of what we need as a leader. I think you missed my point entirely.
Even the trees said "We've got to get the f**k out of here!!"
Ya live there for a month and anyone would volunteer for confinement.
That's my grandma's old neighborhood. It used to be full of elms, like a canopy over the street. Dutch Elm Disease killed them years ago.
lol!!!! Now thats funny!
This vid gives a glimpse of the former beauty of Detroit. Those abandoned homes were beautiful and well built. Large, with porches, tree lined streets. What a disaster....
ripperduck IF CITY OFFICIALS... PEOPLE.. EVERYONE took INTEREST in THEIR OWN LOCATIONS!!!🏠🏡🚔🚔🚔CARE what happens to areas of the "D"
“The blacks” 😂
shows you the power of racism an jealousy.
Yes they were. Love those style with the porches.
@Ben Manning try reading a book , a history book to be exact, because fact dont care about your feelings.
I lived in Detroit for 20yrs,
I worked for Chrysler.
I had to move... SMH.
My Brothers and Sisters would not let me live in peace.
Always breaking in and stealing my stuff...
GOD please Bless them, poverty will make you do things. Always I live in the country and I love it... I still live in Michigan but UP north.
Thanks for the reminder... I lived in a NICE area. Haverhill north of Warren 4600 block.
I don't want to live in a BIG city anymore.. TOO many people.
Keep posting, GOD Bless YOU.
Man I felt that bro from the ❤️♥️ heart just a young bull trying to do the same
I lived on the Eastside my entire life and my house has never been broken into and no one I knows has either.
Niggas brought down Detroit. It USED to be Motor City. NOW it's ghetto slum. Call Code Enforcement on the ghetto. They will evict them! Drugs! That's what causes slums.
It's happening everywhere...I've had my whole life stolen down to family pictures personal clothing and so on... IDK what's happening in America but it ain't what it used to be
@@karlastaley8078
Where the heck do you live??? Who would steal someone's family pictures. That is insane!!! I've never had anything stolen from me in my life but I grew up in the suburbs. I have also lived in several cities and I have never experienced a break in there either. Thieves need to be wiped off the face of the earth!
There are neighbourhoods in Detroit that almost look post apocalyptic. Sad to see given what a thriving city it once was.
It might as well have been bombed in a war. The Bronx was once in as bad shape now it is pretty liveable with some really nice areas. Things can improve.
it was until they moved in
Neighborhood. That's the correct spelling Millennial idiot.
@@miket3taylor The US is literally the only country that spells it that way
I randomly clicked on this because it was in my feed. I moved away from the Detroit area about 15 years ago for school. It broke my heart to see what the city looks likes now.
Side note: my family lived in Detroit until I was 12 then moved to Grosse Pointe Park (In the video right when you enter GPP, there is a little brick clock tower on the right hand side, that’s Pemberton! My street!) The Pointes are fantastic for raising a family and the schools are top notch BUT being Black in the Pointes was a lot back in the 90’s and 2000’s. Cops absolutely would follow me if I was walking around or rollerblading down the street and when I hit 16, I learned very quickly to cut through Detroit if I needed to go anywhere (like I-94). I had never been pulled over and NOT ticketed so much in my life. I know they were just checking the address on my license. They assumed anyone Black was from Detroit and thus suspect.
If you really want to show people the division between GP and Detroit, make a right on Alter, heading towards the water. When I was there GP literally dug up the street and planted trees so people could not drive from Detroit into GP using side streets. Jefferson became the only way to head into GP. Then they put the GPP police station one block from Jefferson and Alter making it easier to patrol. I did a paper in college on the profilings GPP police engaged in at that border. The difference between the cities is crazy when driving but showing people Alter and then the next street over in GPP (Barrington I think) is something unimaginable. I’ve been to a lot of cities in the US and no where have I seen a place go from poor and destitute to $350k minimum houses in a single block like the Alter border of Detroit and GPP.
My cousins live in Grosse Pointe... You literally drive through the "hood" to get there and its shocking how you just go past one street and you are in a totally different place.
magic dirt vs tragic dirt?
It's like when Dorothy opened the door in The Wizard of Oz. Totally different.
It's supposed to be that way.. shits systematic
It used to be like that going from South Orange NJ (Million dollar plus homes) to Newark, NJ (Projects and boarded up housing etc) vice versa.
However, I think Detroit is more severely dilapidated in several areas than Newark NJ at the present time.
Never been to Detroit and thanks for sharing (interesting too), but I have seen similar (maybe less severe) on both coasts.
Some examples, Paterson, NJ to Wayne, NJ with the latter being the wealthy town.
Fairfield CT to Bridgeport, CT
South San Bernardino, CA to North San Bernardino where all the poverty is in the valley and the money is in the hills.
Back in the 70 s to 80 s The South Bronx used to have miles and miles of burned out buildings, but NYC has changed now.
It is sad to see a potentially good city just deteriorate like that.
@@backwoodbilly5975 not necessarily
those streets are literally worse quality than the streets in former Soviet Union countries. trust me.
Because they don’t have blacks.
@@notnek202 hey man you can go back to the 1930s by yourself. I'm gonna stay here in 2020 where it doesn't fucking matter if you're black or not. You know what the former Soviet Union countries DID have? Communists. Communists who killed 10s of millions of their own people by starvation. You ignorant racist old fuck.
@Po Polsce na pewno. Próbowałem powiedzieć, że drogi w miasteczkach wiejskich (jak w Mołdawii) są w jakiś sposób w lepszym stanie niż te amerykańskie, mimo że Ameryka jest „supermocarstwem”, podczas gdy większość ludzi nigdy nie słyszała o Gruzji
@@Special_Agent_NSB yes, i'm under the impression that these streets were left in such bad repair to deter the wealthier residents from straying into the poorer areas and vice versa
Why do you even compare I live in one of the former soviet union country (Georgia) and we have pretty good streets, actually government reconstructs them in every 4 years so
You did a great job of narrating. Keep up the great work and the narration.
It's amazing how fast the transition from pure hell to pleasurable Paradise
Shockingly fast. World War Z set to affluent neighbourhood in a couple of blocks.
Do more narration Charlie
Driving east down Jefferson is amazing and is one way to see the spectrum of Detroit in just a few miles. It’s part of my tour anytime someone from out of town visits. You have the bustle of downtown, then you go through some modest neighborhoods, then go into one of the most beautiful Detroit neighborhoods (Indian Village). You see the new homes in the marina district, the Chrysler plant, then that super depressed looking section of Jefferson, and then BAM! You’re in grosse pointe, one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. Your videos are great!
I grew up in Grosse Pointe and left in the 80's. I really enjoy your videos. The narration is nice too. Keep em coming.
thanks for the narration makes the clips so much better
I've been a fan for awhile. I always enjoy that you have talk radio on. I don't think people have mentioned that but I find it interesting to hear the local news while you drive locally. Also, I always feel like I'm about to hear on the radio that a giant virus has spread or that a zombie apocalypse has started. It would go well with the urban decay. Great videos. Lots of footage to make people think.
My dad is from Detroit. He left in 1977. It's sad to see what it has become.
Keep up the good work, i like ur videos. 👍
I left in 79".
I left in 81
CharlieBo, I truly enjoy all of your videos and I think the ones you narrate are even better. Your video makes me feel so many emotions and I am drawn to them and can't even explain it to me!!
Bro you're starting to get big I was chillin with my sisters boyfriend and he showed me one of your videos. I was like oh shit that's Charlie Bo. Keep doing your thing bro. I don't think you realize how entertaining you are....
Thanks for watching, appreciate the support. There is plenty more to come.
@Rosie O'Donnell like hes gonna answer that 😆 derp.
search race vs iq . they got a rough deal .
slabbinonspokez z I can answer that (well partially). The answer is the Catholic Church. They did it for 100s of years to kids and they are so fucked up, now they are pedos.
@@CharlieBo313 I seen many of your vids and practically been all over the country. Ever think of going to Alaska sometime to either Fairbanks or Anchorage?
@@ScorpioBornIn69 or to barrow thats a ghetto
hell yeah man.!!! digging the narration 👍
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This was a good night my life with the fact is that for me to go out with you and I can make it in my car and I have no idea why they didn't want you to do that with the same thing ever since I have no clue what you baby I can do it for you to get me wrong but I can do with the fact you guys have any plansz
What would make these better is if in between the driving around the hood, the guy picks up different ho's walking the streets and gets a BJ either in the car or maybe inside the burned out houses. Is there a version like that out there?
Thanks for the videos and narration. It really gives an idea of what Detroit looks like to someone who doesn't live there.
Thanks for sharing Charlie. Grew up in Lapeer County. Can remember Detroit in the good old days. Now in Australia.
Neighborhood was beautiful when I was a kid , now it looks like an apocalypse hit absolutely disgusting the way people live
I use to live on Chelsea when I was a kid, me my mother and younger brother were the last white family in the neighborhood, we had to move due to bricks being thrown through our windows at night, itd sad how things can change so quickly
Holy fuck that’s awful
It's called white flight.
@@jhowardsupporter no, white flight is a voluntary thing, they fled because they had no choice
@@danman7903 All the other white families left cos of the black people. It's called white flight and is nothing to be ashamed of.
@@jhowardsupporter what
This makes me want to visit Detroit. I liked the historical buildings and town before the suburbs and how it all lead to the suburbs and Lake. Nice smooth videos and easy to watch.
Not sure how I happened upon your video but, I found it very enjoyable! It's very sad to see homes of that nature in such disrepair. I can still see the Beauty in them..and would love to hear the stories behind them. "If walls could talk".. Thank you for posting the videos!
You'll notice that some of these abandoned houses still have satellite dishes. Just like Eastern Kentucky.
The gray skies make even Grosse Pointe depressing
Enjoying the videos. The narration is a great addition. Keep up the great work.
Good job on the videos man, I always enjoy them. I'm from Indianapolis, but I've only been to Detroit a couple of times in my youth.
3:49 fucking unreal. Sad to think of all the homes, lives, memories. What it once was....
Kids playing outside, while the adults are barbequing in the backyard. Sleeping with the windows open and the doors unlocked. Then came the democrats and their corruption.
@@charleslloyd4253 you already know. Coming to a town near you. Dude I just watched a thing last night where Joe is using the military to fly and drop off illegal immigrants all over the country. Unbelievable simply unbelievable.
@@waltersobchak7275 And providing them money, subsidized housing and food stamps. While poor citizens have to wait in line.
@@charleslloyd4253 while vets live in squalor. That’s right the most popular president in history. UA-cam has to manipulate the thumbs up thumbs down ratio to make it seem even. I seen one video where it had 36 likes and 2k dislikes. An hour later it was reversed. I couldn’t make this 💩up.
@@waltersobchak7275 Democrats say that people can not survive on less than $15 an hour. While the disabled veteran, senior citizen and disabled person. Lives on what would equal $4 to $7 an hour.
Love your videos, CharlieBo313! Now I can see why people have claimed to see Bigfoot in inner city Detroit.
Thanks for this ! I enjoy your videos.
Your channel should be named 'Tours In The Hood'. Thanks for the footage.
But he sometimes goes to nice suburbs
No it should be named 'Boy in the hoodz'
The Vanity Ballroom @ 5:26 . Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Louis Prima, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey and Cab Calloway, The MC5 and Iggy Pop all played there. Amazing.
Dale Gilchrist I’ve heard they are going to rehab the Vanity in the near future. There is some money going into the Jefferson/Chalmers area. They re-did Jefferson adding in the medians in the past couple of years. Detroit is odd in that unlike a lot of big cities I’ve been in it really doesn’t make good use of its waterfront property. Lots of industrial or run down buildings. It’s getting better but the Jefferson corridor from the Ren Cen to the Grosse Pointe boarder could/should be better utilized.
Anyone else find these relaxing to watch? or am I trippin? Love the commentary.
Looks like something out of the game Fallout. Thank you for the upload; a real eye opener about Detroit and Gross Point, Michigan.
Great to have internet and UA-cam to upload these to show everyone to with their own eyes and not having to go to these places in person like we had to do long ago.
Hard to believe that Detroit,was one of the most prosperous cities
Back in the day...
Nice Narration ,,, Please do more ,,So interesting ,sad but interesting ! you have a very worthy Narration Voice !
Once those empty blocks were full of homes-families, shops, parks. This is sickening. Thank you for filming. My grandparents were at 6 mile/Seymour and Chalmers.
The first time I rode down Jefferson I was 9 years old in 99 and i couldn’t believe it. My uncle lived in st Clair off Jefferson you drove by his old house by the way. That was the first time I truly grasped poverty. Thanks for the tour.
Wow. That was a crazy change. The homes in that area are beautiful. That lake is beautiful too. Michigan is a beautiful state.
The lake is full of blood
Youn Drip ..they need to sell Michigan to Canada already.. state is a dump and a sess pool of crime and corruption..
"Beautiful"....smh
@@wastedtalent2117 You mean detroit? 99 percent of michigan is the most beautiful state in the USA
Despite people trying to trash talk Michigan it is indeed a beautiful place to live. He drove be one of the houses my wife and I reside in just off of the water. I am very fortunate and blessed to live where I do. The people bad talking it are all the negative nancys that have nothing else better to do. Or blame the rich for their misfortunes.
Cool hearing ya talk!
Very cool. You are the man who is speaking truth to power. The current narrative in the media is all about the Detroit come back. What I see is a mixed bag of some "come back" but mostly forgotten areas unless you have money and power. Great insight!
Hey - just found your videos they are very interesting and important I think. Thanks for posting.
This used to be the richest city in America.
@Frick Matic mass exodus
Lots of money still here. Just in the suburbs.
The Chinese tell their children to clean their plates and remind them than in America children are going hungry.
@K A because most of Detroit manufacturing jobs went to China
@K A the USA has a higher murder rate than china
What's even more amazing is that blocks can vary greatly in the same neighborhood with some streets being well kept and on the same block you have "hell" houses... It looks like the crisis "played leap frog" in the neighborhoods...
As far as "redevelopment"... Why would any sane person want to move onto the "street" that wasn't too kind to your car's shocks and has become a dump ?
BTW, I love the narration, Charlie !
also liked the narration. sounds good and gives more perspective from someone who is actually there
It is totally different once you got into Grosse, that's wild! With those new developments though the run down parts are probably already sold.
Thank you for making this
Thanks for the narration - good to hear your voice and opinion.
Nice job with the narration. The videos where you're driving around at night with drug deals and crazy shit going on don't necessarily need it but it's perfect for one's like this.
Both of us were born too late to see Lakeshore Drive before 1950, when the lots were dozens of acres, the ornate homes larger than 10,000 sq. ft., plenty of open space all around the house, and wrought iron fences (some of which were melted down to support the WW2 effort).
There's also a big difference between the Brightmoor and Rosedale Park neighborhoods on Detroit's west side. Brightmoor is full of run down and torn up houses with empty lots. Rosedale Park has nice looking homes that their owners appear to take lots of pride in, that are always well kept up.
So sad to see these areas run down. I was following along on street view and see some parts getting better again thankfully. Thanks for sharing.
Man thank you im from Dexter and Davidson my job moved me outta state but your videos help me to see my city
"This is where it gets REALLY nice"...probably where the politicians and bankers live?
Kind of scary you literally can do whatever you want and nobody would know i often think if one day they build up Detroit again how many bodies and other stuff will be recovered 😔😩.
I have lived in Grosse Pointe Park most of my 35 years and I still have never gotten used to the Alter Road 'dividing line'. That last block on the lake side of Jefferson are million dollar homes w crack house duplexes on the other side of their backyard fences. Its an ever-present, invisible wall that slaps you in the face from both sides.
Love your videos man !!!!
Charlie I like your videos whether you talk or not. I prefer the ones when you just show the landscape. At any rate you a good videographer.
Thanks for watching and for the support, appreciate it.
You deserve much appreciation Charlie, I always look forward to your videos.
This why u cant put Detroit in box its so spread out it has its bad spots good spots and magnificent spots so have someone sho you all of it i think this city is great"
I like the narration
you just earned a new sub for this awesome content :)
My hometown of Grosse Pointe Park. For those wondering, Grosse Pointe Park and Detroit have the widest gap of Median income per household for 2 cities that border one another in the entire United States.
The relationship between the 2 communities has been rough, to put it best. For a recent example, look up Kerchavel Avenue Farmers Market
So sad! So many homes and buildings gutted and demolished. Fucked up. We are losing our history, people and what made us a beautiful place to be. Shocking.
True
We have gravel roads in Pa in better shape than that.
I beg to differ
Off roads here in Florida are more sandy than grave.
I live near Philly, A lot of their streets are as bad.
Not long ago a sink hole ate a bus in Center City.
Um not where i live either your in a pot hole hitting non surfaced sewers and surfaced sewers makes you drive curvy the whole time pa worst roads Ohio decent for north
Your channel pic is a picture i took from my boat in the Keys...where did you get it?
Great videos Charlie (: its so sad to see, but most of america wouldnt believe it otherwise. So devastating. Keep safe& post more bro.
Wow in so many years Detroit didn't change a lot it looks almost just like it used to look in the 90s!
Looking at a lot of the abandond home they were very nice at one time. So sad families had to leave.
It’s almost like an apocalyptic movie.
So much potential though...
Thanks for posting, I lived on Kercheval & Dickerson when I was a kid, It's interesting to see what's become of my childhood neighborhood
Gerald Murphy ...I grew up on Dickerson, below Jefferson. My street is gone now...part of an earlier renovation.
MsD4acre I lived at 1589 Dickerson
@@geraldmurphy6912 wow just looked at your old house on google street view. So sad
@@Motoman313 It was a great house
@@Motoman313 My parents worked so hard to keep it, but eventually we had to walk away
SO much more interesting with narration! Thank you!
Even the tree are giving up it leaves.
Nice job with the narration, but sometimes some of the things you show us speak for themselves. I'll never forget the bonfires in the street.
I got to see that one.Do you remember the location?
Narration very good also you gots so.e good shocks on that car
I live in Oregon. my dad and Grandma lived in Detroit back in the 1920's thru 1950's dad was from sparta illinios grandma lived in Detroit she was married to a guy worked on railroad lines. so she traveled a lot on them trains. those roads your riding on would be shaking my ole car apart. times have changed a lot. I appreciate your video's
Thanks for these man!
Detroit looks like a war zone in alot of parts.grosse point and such spent their money wisely detroit did not!!havent been back in over 30 yrs!!sad to see some parts!!keep up the videos !!
like the narration bro.
Thanks for watching.
Great narration, I been watching your video's and look forward to new one's great job !!!!
That’s crazy I’m from California. God damn . East side whole different city dawg
Wow this is like night and day. Awesome videos!
My friend AL owns Riverfront building materials on Jefferson and Chalmers. You passed his store on the right when you turned left at Jefferson. Great guy! Great store! His area looks sharp and it has improved greatly.
I used to live in this area. This RICH drive has always been there. That is the Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross neighborhood (and a few other famous people).
That Mayor back in the late 70’s and up to about 5 years ago, really did a bad number on Detroit.
Also the DICK MOVE by the Motor Companies, moving their plants to other countries in order to save a dime...that was pretty shitty!
Shame on them!!
I used to live in Warren, Sterling Heights, Mt. Clemens, St. Clair Shores....it has all gone a bit down hill in the past 20 years.
Sure do miss White Castles but in the freezer section in the store, I swear the White Castle Burgers taste just like they did 20 years ago at 1 am in the morning after a night out partying.
Hope someone will help Detroit come back to what it used to be and MORE!
Politicians and business owners should be held accountable to the areas they are entrusted with.
To abandon the whole city like that, with help from the dick head mayors who pilliaged the city....they should hve been held accountable. But they were NOT.
Going forward, strict oversight needs to be done to prevent the thieves from ruining people’s lives.
What the hell was the name of that Mayor in the 70’s? First black mayor I think he was called.. Took Detroit right into the crapper.
Coleman Young
You're so right...The Big 3 is definitely responsible for a lot of this destruction closed and moved all those factories out of Detroit but still want you to purchase their vehicles ain't that a bitch...perfect example look at the city of Pontiac G.M. had 10 operating factories going at one point life was very comfortable for those people there 70's and throughout the 80's but by the end of the 80's it started but by the '00's it was over closed up tore down all those factories and moved out of state now Pontiac and Flint are suffering beyond belief...They HELL with G.M. I know this because I dated a lady from Pontiac and watch the destruction with my own eyes the devastation G.M. caused
The new mayor is improving, first time since the 80s that detroit gained population.
Wow, the houses are huge.
Thank you for videos, well done!
About time Charlie! Way to go! Keep talking!
If i was a multi billionaire, i'd build new factories in Michigan and employ the people from Detroit and life would be better for them. Then I'd open businesses to serve the communities so that even more people would have jobs.
Good luck
We white people already did this and got here to his point. Ain’t gonna happen again.
God speed.
I am showing this to my friends over seas. They asked me how it could be so different, only a few block away. I sadly have to tell them, the difference is between people who don't care about their community, and people who do care.
It's not that simple.
It's also larger houses that are being cared for by resident-owners rather than amateur landlords who collect the rent and don't reinvest in their units.
@@1L6E6VHF That may be a part of the problem. But its a community thing. I am a contractor in Detroit. I've had the aluminum siding ripped off the house, in the middle of the night. The neighbors said they didn't hear anything. You can't not hear that. I've never drove through gross pointe and seen someone throw an entire churches chicken bag out the window of their car. I see that once a week, here in Detroit. There are some of us who love this city, and you can see it here and there. Home owners cutting the grass on the vacant house next door. Then you come to the house, with trash all over the place, junk cars 5 deep in the drive way, and a garbage bag in place of the broken window. I think its a community issue, maybe even more personal issue, not sure.
Also I love your narration videos!
I worked downtown and often drove down Jefferson to my house in Roseville, near Macomb Mall. The border line is stunning and sad. This route is so sad with so many homes gone. And, yeah, there are potholes that could house a family of four. :-( There are a couple of my favorite highlights along Jefferson -- the bridge to Belle Isle and the Water Works building -- awesome!
Those lone walkers on the street make me feel completely lost.
That's crazy.... I remember driving down this same street and thinking the same thing when I got to that nice area. Complete opposites
Great work, Charlie. Keep up the narration. I'd love to ride with you. Lived there for 40+ years, and I have a lap full of video equipment.
very dismal spots, like a wasteland . Thanks for uploading these and good job narrating. Really gives perspective on what these inner cities in this country have become.
It would be nice to do this drive on Jefferson in the summer - with a complete drive from Downtown Detroit to south of Selfridge ANGB in Harrison Township. Hell, I use to cycle on Lake Shore Drive about 20 years ago. It will definitely open up some eyes - especially when you hit the Wayne/Macomb County Border and Ford Mansion.
Used to drive this way for something to do back in the mid 90's. Was like night and day back then. The whole Jefferson drive to Selfridge is pretty eye opening back then.
I use to live on Eastlawn between Jefferson and Kercheval back in the 70s. Man its depressing to see this.
Until the blacks moved in
@@money4083 if whites cared so much they should have never left but they were racist and scared and left.
Yeah I was right around the corner from you on Lakewood & E Vernor and it looks totally different. My block and my house looks the same but different people there now and some homes just vacant. Was a beautiful neighborhood back in 70s early 80s
I enjoy your trips around Detroit. I live in the suburbs, but I still love Detroit no matter what
You are one brave dude Charlie!!👍
This is something out of Mad Max