velvet mary I work in downtown Detroit alot for my job, and I say that every day. I wish I could have seen Detroit back in the 40s and 50s. My grandparents use to tell me how beautiful the city was.
I was just browsing some videos of Highland Park, and came across yours. @2:06 you turned left onto California St. I grew up on that street. All those houses were filled when I was growing up. 80's - 90's. I left Michigan after college, everybody started leaving, older folks that took care of their homes died off, and its sad how it looks now. My mom owned her home, and we let it go (didn't make sense to keep paying taxes on a home that was empty, and all of us moved out of state), we said goodbye. Last I heard someone bought the house, but it looked bad in the video. Nice upload, brought back memories.
Used to have family there back in the day. Worked there and in Detroit as an EMT between 1989 and 1999. It was really bad then, and worse now. Nice to see some houses are still good. The old H.P. jail is gone. (Good thing, it was almost like a dungeon in there).
Highland Park WAS TOTALLY freaking Beautiful in it's HEY days ‼️. It's really disheartening how MAN CAN BE SO FREAKING DESTRUCTIVE ‼️ BUT AT THE SAME TIME WILL ARGUE ABOUT WHAT THEY DON'T HAVE ‼️ THEY HAVE NOT BECAUSE THEY WANT NOT. THERE'S A LOT OF BEAUTIFUL PLACES IN DETROIT MICHIGAN AND HIGHLAND PARK MICHIGAN. BUT THE VIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION MAKES PEOPLE AFRAID TO LIVE THERE ANYMORE ‼️ AND IT'S REALLY HORRIBLE AND VERY SAD.😭
Thats the neighborhoods I wish the government would focus on saving. That one could be brought back because its just on the verge of decay. Its too late for the ones that have blocks of abandoned, burned houses but its not too late for that place. Make the owners fix the ones that are abandoned or take them and sell them to someone who can afford to maintain it, like with a condition that they got to fix it up or they have to give give it back.
+mister bojangles Highland Park is a separate municipality, but in reality and actuality it is a part of the city, because it is located in the very inside of Detroit.
I wished some billionaires would come do to the neighborhood s if highland park and detroit what they did to downtown !! Just give the residents a chance to restore what once was the city of trees !! ❤
My Grandma, during WWII, lived at 113 Church Avenue, Highland Park, Michigan. Does that still exist? Would love to see a video of that street. This is something I only recently found out as our family is from Illinois.
Only thing we have in common .... Highland park is donut holed surrounded by Detroit , you may pass though HP traveling down Woodward ave south of 6 mile and north of Webb/ woodland and not know which is what !
MUCH BETTER SHAPE THAN CHICAGO...I, KNOW CHICAGO IS A LARGER CITY...BUT A MUCH LARGER MESS..ALONG WITH THE CRIME, ITS OF THE CHARTS. SO SADLY TERRIBLE!!!
The south and west side of Chicago have been bad for eons now. Detroit is actually worst, 60% of the population have left since the '60s when the decline of the auto industry began before going bust later is what created thousands of abandoned homes and hundreds of closed and abandoned businesses and factories.
What is happening now, is these old houses are being flipped, they used to sell at an inexpensive price and sometimes by auction. Now, they sell it torn up condition for $100,000 or more. People fix them up and a very high asking price is set of $200,000 or more. First time home buyers are cut out, they are rented out and fall back into ruin, I see it in every large, mid-size and small city or town I travel too. They think they'll obtain better owners or renters if buying and rental prices are high. Often, that isn't true.
LORI MITCHELL JONES Unfortunately anyone in their right mind wouldn’t buy in Highland Park! I lived there in the 60’s and early 70’s when the homes were still being taken care of. The taxes are outrageous and it’s a high crime area due to drugs..... We lived in a 11 room house that was beautiful but I would be afraid to even drive through there in broad daylight 😞😟
Everybody stuck inside.Nobody walking and if they do wonder outside while walking their shitting poodles they run in fear or turn their heads when another person is casually walking in their direction to avoid saying "Good morning".Fucked up people make a fucked up city.
What a racist comment If you think that I think you need to take a good look in the mirror, learn your history of Detroit it was the BIG 3 that left the city & people left the city No Jobs No people...it is sad with all that history in Detroit I’m really surprised that 2 of the sports team moved back into the city
Highland Park Michigan should be disincorporated city because it is about 90 percent of the decline between 1940 and 2020. Back in 1940, the population of Highland Park Michigan was more then 50,000, but today, the population is stand at about 7,000.
I recall seeing something not that long ago that apparently things in Highland Park, MI are so bad that the City of Detroit was uninterested in the idea of annexing it.
"Detroit's beautiful Highland Park homes" is an oxymoron. Highland Park is not a neighborhood - it's a city, with its own government and boundaries. Maybe a dozen houses are literally in both cities, as an invisible boundary cuts right through a plot of land.
I WISH YOU NONE KNOWING people would STOP Posting Highland Park as DETROIT PROPER these are TWO DIFFERENT CITY with TWO DIFFERENT GOVERNMENT BODIES Detroit IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR what goes on in HIGHLAND PARK and VISE VERSA
ranlive1 these were in an era when Detroit was a top 3 City in the world, not the U.S. these houses are now being restored, resold and Detroit is awakening again. Great to see, come check it out!
ranlive1 and ranlive1, I live in Grosse Pointe Park. We have a couple nice houses here, but attacking my opinion of HP based on where you think I may live is valueless.
Neighborhood? Not yet but alot of the same architects were used across the street from you. Bottom line is that the houses in the neighborhood are beautiful
As a10 year old boy in the 50s, I rode my bike all over Highland Park,it was a beautiful and safe city-great memories
Those beautiful homes are built to last by actual craftsmen. Just need some TLC.
That was a beautiful neighbourhood at one time
It sure was... until all the houses went rental and the owners moved to Southfield.
wow can u imagine fifty years back..
velvet mary I work in downtown Detroit alot for my job, and I say that every day. I wish I could have seen Detroit back in the 40s and 50s. My grandparents use to tell me how beautiful the city was.
Yes I can imagine it I was born in Highland Park General hospital and grew up in Detroit I remember it well
I was just browsing some videos of Highland Park, and came across yours. @2:06 you turned left onto California St. I grew up on that street. All those houses were filled when I was growing up. 80's - 90's. I left Michigan after college, everybody started leaving, older folks that took care of their homes died off, and its sad how it looks now. My mom owned her home, and we let it go (didn't make sense to keep paying taxes on a home that was empty, and all of us moved out of state), we said goodbye. Last I heard someone bought the house, but it looked bad in the video. Nice upload, brought back memories.
I bet I could buy one of those epic houses with the change in my pocket.
Used to have family there back in the day. Worked there and in Detroit as an EMT between 1989 and 1999. It was really bad then, and worse now. Nice to see some houses are still good. The old H.P. jail is gone. (Good thing, it was almost like a dungeon in there).
The first building with its Moorish influences was just amazing..thank you so much for sharing
Highland Park was a very beautiful neighborhood WOW things sure changed in 15years
Highland Park is a city, not a neighborhood.
Hiroshima is now gorgeous and detroit looks like it just got hit with incoming...pennies on the dolla
Holla holla.
This is not Detroit
Yes vary beautiful and keep what's original once gone not the same
I hear that someone around there owns a lawnmore!
Damn, trim those scrubs! Don't let Southfield show you up!
Amazing contrast between beautiful houses where ppl still live and it s normal to see an abandoned house next to each other
Highland Park WAS TOTALLY freaking Beautiful in it's HEY days ‼️. It's really disheartening how MAN CAN BE SO FREAKING DESTRUCTIVE ‼️ BUT AT THE SAME TIME WILL ARGUE ABOUT WHAT THEY DON'T HAVE ‼️ THEY HAVE NOT BECAUSE THEY WANT NOT. THERE'S A LOT OF BEAUTIFUL PLACES IN DETROIT MICHIGAN AND HIGHLAND PARK MICHIGAN. BUT THE VIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION MAKES PEOPLE AFRAID TO LIVE THERE ANYMORE ‼️ AND IT'S REALLY HORRIBLE AND VERY SAD.😭
Classic. That stone chimney - wow!
Hope you’re going to do more like this ; I subscribed in hopes that you are.
Can someone explain me what happened here???
Thats the neighborhoods I wish the government would focus on saving. That one could be brought back because its just on the verge of decay. Its too late for the ones that have blocks of abandoned, burned houses but its not too late for that place. Make the owners fix the ones that are abandoned or take them and sell them to someone who can afford to maintain it, like with a condition that they got to fix it up or they have to give give it back.
It's sad to see,how these once beautiful homes,have slowly become a victim of neglect and vandalism.At this rate B-E will be next
It's not Detroit's Highland Park. Highland Park is its own city separate from Detroit.
+mister bojangles Highland Park is a separate municipality, but in reality and actuality it is a part of the city, because it is located in the very inside of Detroit.
48laveo That still doesn't make it part of the city of Detroit. We don't claim it, it doesn't claim us.
mr bo..nobody wants to claim gritty Highland Park they can have it
+mister bojangles- The fuck does it matter? Two peas in the same pod.
+Interstate 20 I love when people not from Detroit speaks on Detroit. It doesn't matter where a city is located, it's still two separate cities.
I wish he would have named the streets. I grew up there but left in 1963.
..would anyone believe a lot of these homes had coal chutes that fed to the basement..lol
What was that first building the abandoned ONE with spray paint. Was it a school?
I was born there in 1946
I wished some billionaires would come do to the neighborhood s if highland park and detroit what they did to downtown !! Just give the residents a chance to restore what once was the city of trees !! ❤
Let’s end the crime and arson and make Detroit a better place!
HP is a tragedy
Looks like one of the neighborhoods THEY haven't gotten around to spoiling yet. What do you think that neighborhood looks like now in 2022?
My Grandma, during WWII, lived at 113 Church Avenue, Highland Park, Michigan. Does that still exist? Would love to see a video of that street. This is something I only recently found out as our family is from Illinois.
Yes it does
Newer house on the site. You can see it on Google maps.
@@michaelwhite2823 Thank you ! I’ll check it out.
You started off on Woodward at Glendale/McClean Streets?!!? Did you 🛑 stop at the BP Station for ⛽ gas too???
Detroit's Bueatiful Highland Park homes Highland Park is a Completely different City Inside Of Detroit
Some of the homes were boarded up.
Only thing we have in common .... Highland park is donut holed surrounded by Detroit , you may pass though HP traveling down Woodward ave south of 6 mile and north of Webb/ woodland and not know which is what !
MUCH BETTER SHAPE THAN CHICAGO...I, KNOW CHICAGO IS A LARGER CITY...BUT A MUCH LARGER MESS..ALONG WITH THE CRIME, ITS OF THE CHARTS. SO SADLY TERRIBLE!!!
The south and west side of Chicago have been bad for eons now. Detroit is actually worst, 60% of the population have left since the '60s when the decline of the auto industry began before going bust later is what created thousands of abandoned homes and hundreds of closed and abandoned businesses and factories.
Look like Rockford, IL.
So you can get views you title it that way. Do you do the same fur Hamtramck? Or Ferndale?
We have a Highland Park - totally surrounded by Dallas. Some houses there probably cost more than the entire city of HP in Michigan.
Was that an abandoned school at the beginning?
Yes
Tom Mc no the building at the beginning of the video was at one time a beautiful apartment building
sharon mullins no it used to be a pretty upscale apartment building
The best my gramps lives around there
What is happening now, is these old houses are being flipped, they used to sell at an inexpensive price and sometimes by auction. Now, they sell it torn up condition for $100,000 or more. People fix them up and a very high asking price is set of $200,000 or more. First time home buyers are cut out, they are rented out and fall back into ruin, I see it in every large, mid-size and small city or town I travel too. They think they'll obtain better owners or renters if buying and rental prices are high. Often, that isn't true.
LORI MITCHELL JONES Unfortunately anyone in their right mind wouldn’t buy in Highland Park!
I lived there in the 60’s and early 70’s when the homes were still being taken care of. The taxes are
outrageous and it’s a high crime area due to drugs..... We lived in a 11 room house that was beautiful
but I would be afraid to even drive through there in broad daylight 😞😟
LOOKS LIKE EAST LOS ANGELES. BIG OLD HOMES DECAYING
Learn to hold a camera still.
Ha highland Park il, is opposite of this hood.2 million houses the closer to the lake the more green they cost
Abel Villa would Margie Flora be a relative? Google that address and youll find a letter to her sent there in 1944! Her photo also.
They dont own a lawn mower....
No body in that neighborhood owns any manual labor equipment.
Land of opportunity.
Everybody stuck inside.Nobody walking and if they do wonder outside while walking their shitting poodles they run in fear or turn their heads when another person is casually walking in their direction to avoid saying "Good morning".Fucked up people make a fucked up city.
Where's Nicole Curtis? 👁️👁️
You move your video camera around to much
Africans being African. Nice job!
Tracey Settlemoir You’re an idiot.
What a racist comment
If you think that I think you need to take a good look in the mirror, learn your history of Detroit it was the BIG 3 that left the city & people left the city No Jobs No people...it is sad with all that history in Detroit I’m really surprised that 2 of the sports team moved back into the city
C-L HART It’s on the way back in a nice way.
Highland Park Michigan should be disincorporated city because it is about 90 percent of the decline between 1940 and 2020. Back in 1940, the population of Highland Park Michigan was more then 50,000, but today, the population is stand at about 7,000.
I recall seeing something not that long ago that apparently things in Highland Park, MI are so bad that the City of Detroit was uninterested in the idea of annexing it.
"Detroit's beautiful Highland Park homes" is an oxymoron.
Highland Park is not a neighborhood - it's a city, with its own government and boundaries.
Maybe a dozen houses are literally in both cities, as an invisible boundary cuts right through a plot of land.
That is so sad why would someone want to live there
I WISH YOU NONE KNOWING people would STOP Posting Highland Park as DETROIT PROPER these are TWO DIFFERENT CITY with TWO DIFFERENT GOVERNMENT BODIES Detroit IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR what goes on in HIGHLAND PARK and VISE VERSA
There is a lot house abandone and some is has been demolished what a waist
“Waste” you dummy! Learn English & how to write a sentence
Highland Park isn't a Neighborhood either
Waiting for millennials to gentrify this area
That title makes no sense
Top city in the country to live in the 1950s...Now a Socialist Paradise.
mike magic you are a moron
8 Mile ?
If you consider this a beautiful neighborhood, I'd hate to see where you live.
ranlive1 these were in an era when Detroit was a top 3 City in the world, not the U.S. these houses are now being restored, resold and Detroit is awakening again. Great to see, come check it out!
Even in the nice neighbourhoods in detroit there are lots of abandonned houses
ranlive1 and ranlive1, I live in Grosse Pointe Park. We have a couple nice houses here, but attacking my opinion of HP based on where you think I may live is valueless.
Neighborhood? Not yet but alot of the same architects were used across the street from you. Bottom line is that the houses in the neighborhood are beautiful
This neighborhood is 90+ percent white, right?
NO--94% of Highland Park is Black...
@@StevenTorrey he said this neighborhood, where the other 6% live