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Mr. Kris FREDERICK . Your family name from The Carmen . Live by ultly rd west side by i_75 & catwalk .hope to bless those in yours . Gordon Walker . Graham and Corbin area by the old ugly school on Corunna road
I was in Flint about 6 months ago and the thing that’s so striking about it, especially in the summer is how nature has basically reclaimed whole neighborhoods.
Seems like many GM vehicles are built outside the US. That's why I didn't buy a GM product three years ago. That and the bankruptcy in 2009 is still on my mind.
@@anneboban2002 I don't blame you. I have a Stellantis plant in my city (Belvidere IL) that makes the Jeep Cherokee. They've been giving us garbage and cutting production for decades. Now they're planning on moving the Cherokee to Mexico and idling our plant indefinitely. I'll never buy one of their products if they bone us.
I grew up on south side,Markham and Fenton. Down from McKinley Jr High. It also has been abandoned for years. Had a wonderful childhood here but moved in senior yr, late seventies things were going down fast. Nice and quiet here in Ovid😊
I live on the East side of Flint. It’s pretty rough. Especially in my eyes since I didn’t grow up in Flint or live here til a few years ago. When I was a kid I thought going to Flint was going to the Genesee Valley Mall. LOL You actually passed my house on your 6th video of Flint (east side). I do enjoy your videos but I had a few comments/corrections for you. The Dort Financial Center (formerly Perani Arena and before that the IMA)….my daughter works there. They have hockey games, but many other things too. Concerts, MMA, boxing, gun and knife shows, RV shows, Comic-Con’s, basketball, etc. They also host graduations for local high schools without a big enough venue. The Machine Shop on Dort Hwy isn’t a strip club. It’s a music venue. There are some pretty well known bands that play there. There actually used to be MORE strip clubs on Dort Hwy but thankfully those places have mostly closed down. Now the big business is marijuana dispensaries. Honestly that’s way better than strip clubs. The Rock on Dort Hwy used to be a church. I don’t think anything is there now though. The Dort Mall is pretty weird but there are a couple of stores there and a restaurant too. There are some quirky items on display in the mall as well. All in all Flint has some rough places but really isn’t the worst!! You just kinda know where not to go at night and/or when you are alone and you’re pretty good. LOL
You drove by the Machine Shop as you went down Dort Highway. You should have mentioned it. There are a lot of nationally known bands that perform there regularly. Also, you should gather up your courage and go down Dort Hwy. at night.
fun fact. before that building was the machine shop, it was a chinese resturant called "East Wind" it was my first job, as a dishwasher I worked in 1980 - 1981!!
When I was going to UM-F, I had a friend who lived in the Atherton Terrace area. I dropped her off at home a few times, and she always said, "Go back exactly as we came in, don't stop, don't look at anybody, just get out of here and I'll see you in class." This was back in the late 80's, and it was a scary place back then too. I think I white-knuckled it all the way home to Holly. As soon as I saw the buildings in the video, I knew exactly where that was. Not surprised it's a wasteland now.
Outrageous and pathetic. Great job on sharing what has happened here. I grew up all through this downfall and still live in Genesee County and can see the empty commercial buildings that line the streets.
The area around Flint Golf Club, Circle Drive, there’s some awesome homes. Lots of mid-century modern homes. Same with southwest side in Westgate Park.
1:45 hey man relax on the Firebirds/OHL diss, we love our firebirds 😂😂 I named my pet fish after Amadeus Lombardi, ffs. Jokes aside, thanks for doing what you do. Love your content. Thanks for noticing Flint.
Also BEST DORT HWY JOKE I’ve heard in a long time. It’s so true. Like, north of the Walmart by my house, it’s literally just bars, strip clubs, cluck heads, and burned out houses or closed businesses
I actually grew up in Burton and yeah I know this neighborhood well. Actually Dort highway has always been trashy but it wasn't as bad when I was a kid as it is in this video. Before Big lots moved across the street from Cortland center. It was located on Dort highway it was pretty nice. There was also when I was fairly Young serious surplus store was also in the dorma today the Dortmund well it's surprising if you can even get in the doors it's kind of a neat place to walk for a couple minutes cuz it is filled with a lot of antique signs and things of that sort. But I'm not even sure if there's one open store where you can buy anything. Oh and the door event center which is actually changed its name a few times it was the IMA event center when I was a kid and then for the longest time it's been the Prani Center this is where I would go and see the Shriners circus in the winter. You forgot to talk about Applegate Chevrolet. Really it's a pretty small car dealership but they had the catchiest most memorable jingle. "Peanuts popcorn Applegate and Chevrolet"
@@Babybugex yep I know the feeling well I live in Durand with my nieces and nephew and I'm happy that they live in a nice neighborhood but the same time my heart will always be in Flint
I have to say I enjoy your videos I like how your putting everything out here and making a video log of it. I just moved from Warren 9 mile & vandyke area. But we decided to move to the Lapeer area idk I enjoy the country setting a lot more then where I grew up the metro Detroit area. It makes NO sense at all whatsoever how 2 once Beautiful city’s are now the armpits of the country. So much corruption in our political system. Decades and decades of this kind of corruption completely destroyed what was once the mecca of the United States of America. How dose the state that invented motorized transportation end up like it is now. It is just very frustrating to me because I have always tried to be proud of my home state. All the history that’s taken place here and no body seems to really care about any of it.
General Motors, big business and nobody gives a rip. Some people say they care but, that is only if they get paid well enough to buy their B.S. Lots of investors move in on areas like vultures because it is cheap. The main problem is that they are here to ring out the last pennies and respect of poor and suppressed.
Thanks Chris I always look forward to every video that you download very entertaining good footage you're very talented my friend Flint looks very destitute the only nice place there was the golf course looking forward to more content thanks 💪👍
In 1972 Atherton Terrace was my first home when I was a newlywed. My husband was a student at General Motors Institute and co-opted at Fisher Body. A two-bedroom townhouse rented for $110 per mo. We lived there for 3 years. The development was sketchy and we often heard gunshots at night in the back units. We were oblivious to the possible dangers.
Me and my family lived at 2824 Atherton terrace in 1971 I went to Manley elementary I was 5 years old and can still remember alot of the people there we were like one of three white families that lived in the terrace back then we moved out in 1974.
I grew up in this area. In the 60, 70 and 80's it was a nice neighborhood. We lived in Burton at Dort and Atherton. Burton used to be Flint but they redid the lines and we became the city of Burton. When GM and Buick closed almost all plants this city went to hell. It's too bad.
I grew up about a mile from Atherton Terrace. My parents still live there. It's actually still a nice little neighborhood, but the property values in that whole area took a nosedive & never recovered. I moved away for many years, but now living in Grand Blanc.
I'm from Flint and just saw ur comment while watching this video..... Thought I'd say Whaàt-uup!! When I saw you commenting on video about my hometown....Cheers
in your last video, I made a comment about how impressed I was that despite overwhelming poverty the people Flint managed to keep their grass cut and the trash picked up... I take it all back.
Don Williamson an old mayor of Flint literally sent out dumpsters that people could use to clean up their yards with for free but barely anyone used them.
Growing up and living in flint for most of my life, I can't express my hatred for flint and Genesee county as a whole. I never understood the hometown pride that people have for flint
@@swully-ol4lx Born, raised, and live in the neighborhood around Freeman. Flint is a complete ghost town even compared to just 10 years ago. There's hardly anything left now.
While going down Dort Highway you saw a sign saying Rock and you asked "what exactly is a Rock"? Well the Rock is actually a Club known as PEACE OF THE ROCK. It was once located on the North End and moved there where it has been for many years.
Live in this area my self the past 7 yrs and u wanna know what is the worst part? Well I will tell u, even though they don't fix up the area out of state companies buy housing projects like apartments 😔 and they raise our Rent we are all going to end up on section 8 or homeless, and no one seems to even care that it's happening to us!
The Machine Shop is one of the coolest Rock venues in the country, I've played there many times. It is not a strip club, and there is nothing wrong with strip clubs either. Flint was an awesome city. I lived there and visited regularly before I moved to LA CA. There is a lot there I miss. The Dort Mall is super cool on the inside, tons of vintage stuff. They used to own the Dort Financial Arena too, which before that was the IMA sports arena. I headlined a show there.
Great video as per usual. One thing I've always wondered is when you drive through some of these mostly empty neighborhoods where you have 4 or 5 boarded up or burnt out or abandoned houses for every one with a family living in them how many of the empty homes have squatters or temporarily homeless people staying in them? Most of the houses look pretty unstable or not fit for habitation, but there are some that aren't quite that bad. Makes me wonder if there is a back entrance or window that people use to access them? I also wonder how many of them are used to dump bodies lol.
As for the squatters, there's some. It's not like every house but they're out there. They get used as dope houses sometimes too. Most of the burned abandoned ones are from people partying or making drugs
We live on the East side and there are LOTS of abandoned homes/buildings. Many empty vacant lots too. We see people going in and out of the houses on occasion but mostly they seem to be empty. That being said I’m not about to be rolling up on a house and going inside just because I think it’s empty. 😳 There have been several fires in vacant houses near where we live. I figure it this way…the more houses that get burned down, the less potential for “neighbors” we have!
@kirbyourenthusiasm What's that even like? I'm in a neighborhood where there are people on top of people so that would be weird for me to live in a area where there might be only a few occupied homes in a couple of blocks sized area. Must be kind of creepy at night?
@@mikemadunic7960 no not at all. It’s a little like living in the country honestly. We own 5 large city lots and our entire block is nearly empty (three structures behind our property and 4 to the west. So far as I can tell our house is the only one currently occupied. There is a commercial building too but the owner is rarely there.
We caught frogs in thread creak in 84 .. It would flood 2 or 3 times a year and be thread river. Lived in Burton, Atherton and Center area.. 6141 Nelson Ct.
I went to the elementary school across the street from the Dort Event Center from the fall of 1968 to the fall of 1972 before moving to Davison, it was known as the IMA Sports Arena when it first opened, so we got to watch it go up across the street......I also worked at the Arby's on Dort Highway......that sign for it has been like that forever......and I worked there in 1979......and car purchases done @ Applegate Chevrolet on Saginaw & Atherton......
Many nights and snowy nights walking down dort highway jus to get to my brothers house I love flint but it needs change also went to freeman right down The street when I was little
Fisher Body was the GM division that was responsable for body shells back before the 1980s. They began as an independent company (all the gm divisions did) and got purchased by gm to supply car bodies to the divisions. Thats the way it stayed till the 1980s when gm restructured everything and shuttered all those old plants in flint that michael moore cries about. They got rid of the fisher body name cuz it was redundant.
rockstar is in the workings of gta6 how have you been i live between marysville and port huron and frequent your videos when i want to feel like exploring the world virtually.
Chris, I have not been though Flint in several years, I actually expected the city to look worse than I have seen. The abandoned section eight housing project did not look that bad from the outside. I was surprised that there was glass in most of the windows. Your use of the "mean streets" hood music is a nice subtle polite way of letting people know the condition of the area without saying anything disrespectful. Parts of Flint look rough but overall, I think Detroit looks much worse than Flint. Growing up near the Red Zone in Detroit probably influenced me. You tell people the truth of how things are.
The Dort Financial Center used to be the IMA Auditorium and aside from being home to the Flint Generals Hockey Club, it did host many major concert events back in the 70s. It was used for Public Ice Skating, and more recently, multiple Beer & Wine tasting event and Auto and RV Shows. FYI - there was a Greta Van Fleet concert scheduled there a few months ago, but they cancelled it the day of the show! From the wording of the "apology" that GVF sent out, it was pretty clear their promoter hadn't done any investigation into whether the venue was suitable for such a large show.
@@joeytrimble1558 You're right. The Auditorium was downtown, And the Dort Financial one was called the IMA Sports Arena. The Auditorium was actually turned into the quickly defunct 6 Flags Autoworld, which I had totally forgotten about. Crazy times.
Just shocked I had no idea you were on here and I am thankful for that. Now I'm blowing your channel up as I fought for water rights after we started getting poisoned and met a whole bunch of people doing it!!! I was and still am fighting for our CITY and getting it fixed now I have something to show how amazing they say they our doing for us at City Council and Mayor's office!!!
@@jerryspencer5453It's my pleasure and honor. I went from a natural disaster and losing everything and having no water, power, food, and eventually they even allowed landlords too kick us out of our homes since we were in Martial Law and military enforcement on am island only 33 miles Long but much of the land in certain AREA'S were not built on due to the terrain. I met a Michigander in Galveston that loved it THERE and had his youngest brother not passed we would probably STILL be there. Arriving in Flint I swore it looked like a hurricane or tornado had ripped apart the CITY, sadly. The people are JUST like Galveston, Texas resilient and a lot stronger than most do not even realize because of the corruption STILL on going today. The money given for the water Crisis is unaccounted for and so many more fund's and grant's received are as well. Our water at THEIR "OFFICIAL" declaration of the water poisoned will be 9 YEAR'S in April and it is still not fixed. People are dying FROM CANCER in numbers I can still not grasp as I knew almost everyone that has died yet only moved here in 2011 and met delivering water, City Council Meetings, Camp Grounds where we stayed and did meal's for everyone, did interviews with foreign countries journalist asking about our experience and what we felt, did camp fires at night and as a group decided what we were going to do the next day too keep exposing and rallying TOGETHER for safe WATER 💦, and some of us organized events too get water, shoes, and other essentials to any one that asked without judgement. Rallied non stop and some of us even went to jail for nothing but them being able to shut down their town hall meeting held in a "church" I luckily was only man handled due to accidentally saying a curse word that wasn't planned just was passionate in my statement and the FACTS and it slipped out with an immediate apology yet her "mayor" body guard enjoyed bruising my arms by pushing me out of the area I was just at. The 6 people arrested happened Right after my incident where you could see him man handling another Lady who sadly has lost her husband also arrested that day from Cancer and this all was before vaccinations or COVID-19. The Mayor got herself a raise as has the current Mayor that makes more monthly than per median in a YEAR!! HE MAKES MORE THAN GOVERNOR'S ALMOST AS MUCH AS POTUS!! $174K A YEAR that happened during lockdown and city council members received pay increases as well again the Citizens did not or were not asked if or VOTED FOR this SALARY! Our water rate is the highest in the USA and the deadliest!! There is so much More I could make a movie about it all sadly nothing FOR THE PEOPLE POSITIVE! The Mayor's Wife IS IN THE SENATE SEAT the now Mayor use to HOLD! She wasn't a politician until he won the mayoral election!! Her position is to watch the mayor AND make sure the person is fulfilling the duty sworn to do!! That's not all she is VOTED to do or as a public servant sworn to do for the people of FLINT! I don't see her doing her sworn duty and I have pages of reasons or ignoring happening STILL. I pray and fight daily of way's to better our CITY and wisdom too figure out the best ways and improvements that would bring this CITY back to being a place that people would want to live and work. The crime I can think of so many ways to address it successfully as well as marketing too get FLINT back on the map!! But I can't do it ALONE and I know so many people willing to do whatever to better Flint for tomorrow. Investment is a huge plus here if only I had an investor. Kettering owns Half this town and it's not for just because they see what I do. The new addition they just built, the rode new on Dupont, and so much that I know could make a few American Dreams. BTW the roads paved new didn't have pipes replaced and the explosion I can say is probably because of pipes not being replaced, repaired, or a drug house police ignored like the two sex trafficking homes busted about 6 YEAR'S ago that I still see myself at other properties. I live about 5 house's FROM Kettering University that has awesome students as does the other colleges all that need things I know will make $$$$....This helping our CITY and making dreams and stopping cycle's for Good. God Bless You and All 🤟💯✝️🙏💯🤗💯🇺🇸💯✌️ Make Flint Better Again 2024, Teresa Rhea Farley in MOTT PARK neighborhood and invite the creater of these video's to talk and expose while empowering We The People with Love, Respect, and TRUTH
Thank you for your time your efforts to produce great work your videos,but i could be wrong beyi lived in the upper peninsula of Michigan periodically so maybe there wsd a concert at yhe Dort evenT center but the last concert was in 1985 or 1986:when MotlyCrue came to Flint and it was standing room onky in attendance,an awesome concert it was...but anyway, Peace and Blessings to you ALL 🙏👍💯♥️
Just a suggestion: when you show the stats like income, poverty rate etc., you show them in red which makes it impossible to see. You should show them in white and maybe contrast it with yellow font for the state stats.
Hey! I am a filmmaker from the Lapeer County area and wanted to reach out to you regarding your footage of Flint. I am working on a detective webseries that takes place in and around Flint starting next year and I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind if your video was used in different episodes in snippets? I’ll credit you at the end of each video as a thank you if you’re cool with me using it.
Chris, your vid really shows the hidden other side of society. To help cleanup this mess we as a country need more real job creation, its time for Unions, City Leaders, State Leaders, Management and the Feds to come together and learn to "play nice" with each other and put the American worker first. Happy New Year.....
Yep. Could'nt agree more Mike. Watching from Australia, our unions are fairly powerful & we get things done most of the time. I dont know how things work in the USA. But here in Australia we take the fight to all levels of Goverment in one hit. One thing i've learnerd is , strength in numbers. I know some people hate unions, but they dont realalise the benifits they get from being a member.
@@jetsons101 Hey Mike. I dont profess to know know much about American politics. My own Political system confuses me at the best of times. As a democratic society. Take care & vote with all boots on the ground.
Just before time marker 12 minutes and 22 seconds in the video you had mentioned that with this part of the city being separated you think that maybe the planners were drunk? I think maybe it's a little different, with a name like "Hemp" hill, That might explain a lot! 🤣🤣🤣
When I make videos on cities I look at google maps for hours before hand. I’ve become pretty good overtime at knowing what things are based on satellite views.
Half my fam is from/still lives in Flint, I’m currently nearer on the Grand Blanc/Burton side, probably shouldn’t announce my rough address on the internet but, whatever lol I ran a campaign for State Senate last year for the district, D27, man do we need someone who actually cares down here so badly
Flint is slowly transforming to an education town UMF and Kettering. . The blight is getting bulldozed. Several million has been recently earmarked for this. Give Flint a few decades. It will be much better.
yep in the 50s flint was booming and attracted all the Hollywood elites and famous people it was a great place to live and raise a family it's so sad that it turned out like it did.
There's some honestly beautiful places in Flint if you know where to go, and sometimes I feel as if we get a slightly worse wrap than deserved. That aside, it sounded like you actually care about people and didn't just come to see what hell looks like, so thanks for that. God bless
I grew up on Term and Lippincott. Also used to be a farmer jack before target was there. Used to watch shooting on the block weekly. Tony's market, awads, etc. Got shot at by a pimp on Dort when I was 17 about a block from machine shop.
Breaks my heart to drive by so many bandos, abandoned & dilapidated apartment buildings & homes. Flint used to be one of the richest states in the country. Then the water crisis happened & it's like the world just turned a cheek & left Flint to rot. Flint & the ppl who reside here are absolutely worth saving. El Cozumel on E Court St is so good. The Sloan Museum next to it is cool too. The strip club block on Dort is wild. So many businesses, clubs closed/abandoned, covered in overgrowth. Downtown Flint is absolutely coming up & it's awesome to explore. So many shops, fantastic restaurants & bars (Soggy Bottoms, Waygu Wednesday is the place to be). The Flint Farmers Market is great. It's kinda baffling the juxtaposition, crossing into Grand Blanc from Flint. Like an entirely different world.
Sad thing is that they put all of those buildings in front of the IMA (what Dort Federal Event Center used to be) and now most of the buildngs are closed.
I grew up n Flint I don't recall Atherton being so rough. The north side was the scary side of town. Most of those families were working, which you had to be to be on Section 8. Interesting
you can't just blame one entity. Sure, GM closing shop was a huge reason for the downturn, the question is: if they were making so much money WHY did they leave? It couldn't be that the union was demanding too much, could it? Workers were living pretty large on their wages, but it was never enough. They decided to go someplace where labor was cheaper. Manufacturing businesses won't go there because of the union reputation. Then there's the local government. What have they done to attract business to the city? What happens to all of the grant money they get for certain projects? They got millions to tear down that apartment complex, yet it's still standing, they got millions to fix the water problem, yet it isn't fixed. Instead of finding someone to blame, how about looking for a solution. My point is not to trash the union, they were a great idea, and did a lot for the workers. but they got too big for their own good, just like any organization when it gets too big, it becomes corrupt, they quit looking out for the workers long ago.
You actually filmed it on a nice summer day with leaves on the trees etc. You want to experience an even more depressing Flint film it on a grey, drizzly winter day. That would give your viewers a real sense of what it is like to live and/or work in Flint
I see that you had passed by Applegate Chevrolet; my father had a 1972 Chevelle that had been purchased there in 1972; I am surprised it's still on operation.
Another beautiful add to the Flint collection. It's saddening to see how little pride/cleanliness there was in certain areas. The less than half occupied complex had so much trash just strewn about the ground. Not unique to Flint but rather pathetic....
Born and raised in Flint Michigan father also. I’m Terry Dudley Douglas the founder of Teacher Appreciation Week. Teacher appreciation week was started in Flint Michigan in 1980. Flint Michigan was the first city in the world to show teachers a week of appreciation. All information concerning the founding years of teacher appreciation week can be verified in the main Library in the flint board of education books and the flint journal article’s. The national pta is lying about being the founder of Teacher Appreciation Week and has made up a entire history that is a entire lie. Flint Michigan did not have anything PTA’s in flint Michigan school systems. We are only known for bad things. Teacher appreciation week was sold to the national pta by dirty board of education members. One Dan Cady Dale Kilde and a few others. Teacher appreciation week is all over the world. At the time the national Pta stole teacher appreciation week the pta was going under and about to be nonexistenting. No one is allowed to make children believe lies in education for fame and Fortune. Do some research into teacher appreciation week you are there exploiting flint 22:46 for profit. The national pta has put a curse on the school system with their lies a six year old just shot his teacher. And my book will be out soon to expose the national PTA for its lies in education❤
The national pta was going to kill me for their take over of teacher appreciation week from Flint Michigan to keep me quiet from claiming founder of Teacher Appreciation Week. But I was pregnant by James Bracy a well known Flint board of education employee. So the Flint board of education just stop celebrating teachers appreciation week four years after three years of celebrating it. It took me years to find out that other states were were celebrating teachers appreciation week. A pta member from Ann Arbor Michigan Elaine who became the national PTA’s President in 1985 or 84 said she was the founder teachers appreciation week do some research make Flint know for something good because it was us that’s losing teachers first with the week of appreciation😊
I live on Dort Hwy and can't wait to move out with my girlfriend when I'm older it sucks. I constantly hear gunshots that I pretend that they're fireworks, I found 3 heroin needles and a used condom when I came from school. It sucks so bad that my girlfriend, despite how much she deeply misses me, doesn't feel safe coming over again because it reminds her of bad memories even tho she's not doing to good it either. 😒
I feel sorry for your entire generation across the country. Don't vote democrat they are NOT the party of the little guy. They are the party of " hold power no matter what".. Good luck young man.
Not everywhere in Michigan looks like this. Just a handful of cities really. Saginaw, Flint, Detroit, parts of Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Jackson, and a couple of Detroit's suburbs. Michigan has a lot of nice places.
Really depressing videos really. I live on New York between Franklin and Lewis which looks like a warzone as you know. But it's much safer than it was a few years ago. I think I saw some drone shots in there which is cool. I got into drones a few years ago and hate to say that I have some pretty expensive drones including the Angel Evo , DJI Spark and many more. But due to nothing around worth filming, they sit in my house unused. Quite a bummer really. Anyway keep up the good work and hit me up if you are in need of any drones for your filming, thanks.
It seems you get caught at every traffic light in Flint that's at a small side street...The Eldon Baker light is there because that was the campus of the original Baker College
I do have to say, you missed a lot of “good” stuff by not going further west on Hemphill. I drive it every day, there’s a huge abandoned school and one of the most derelict shopping centers I’ve ever seen on Fenton and Hemphill. Should’ve taken Fenton road north instead of Saginaw. That’s a real rough area there
Check out my video next Friday. I check out the South Flint Plaza, an abandoned school right by it (not sure if that's what you're referring to or not) and I go along the whole stretch of Fenton Rd through the city... and you're right... it looks bad.
Used to go ride my bike there all the time. Therexwas an arcade and before that a little ceasers with a full bar and small arcade. Used to go to the 5 & dime. Mccrorys? I'm only 44 and that sound old as heck. Jo Anns used to be there, pawn shop, sec of state, and of cpurse blockbuster video. Then i moved to kings lane right behind there. I went to school at mckinley middle school there too, walked from atherton & grand traverse. Cody on fenton rd, mckinley, then fswa.
@@kelliemishmish I’m a delivery driver in the area, kings lane is definitely a place I avoid when I can. Definitely feel a little uneasy when I go and I actually just did a delivery there last night. I’ve only lived here a couple years so it’s interesting to know what it was like before
@@Nik.No.K it was getting sketchy when we moved there, 1998-2000 lol but they had a security guard. We used to walk to the 7 11 at night no problems. I mean, there was bad stuff when i was a kid too, i was riding my bike and saw a guy get pulled out of his car at fenton and atherton and get beat up. It's like... things were crappy back then, but compared to now it was better. Not in a nostalgia way, just the businesses were there, it was a little cleaner. Not as much blight. Idk. You still paid attention to what was going on around you lol stranger danger!
To me, Flint is more DEPRESSING than the overall " Decline of Civilization " areas of Detroit. I never lived in Flint, but have been a resident of Southeastern Michigan ( Detroit all of 50 yearsexcept 6 between. Wyoming,MI, Inkster and Mt.Clemens.) and saying Detroit. I am talking Grand River un the west, Kelly rd. in the east to 8 mile in the north all the way to the river. That is my Detroit. Ask a person where they come from and they reply "Detroit"! Then you ask, " But where?" and they say Schoener and 11 mile. You tell them oh. You mean Warren! Then they realize you know exactly where the city is. Folks like living in a made-up reality. Am I a wealthy business guy retired?, or am I legally blind, living on disability struggling month to month? Well be honest, you are the guy on disability. Besides, my experiences make me beyond wealthy or rich.😉💯
Machine Shop is a rock n roll club on Dort Highway. I can hear the music from my house. Several strip clubs nearby, if you like that kind of thing. I do. Born and raised in Flint, l can honestly tell you, it's a good place to be FROM.
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I grew up here. Back in 70's it was not to bad. I moved south in the early 2000's. Sad how it is now.
The Machine Shop is a diamond in the rough
💙From Michigan
I've been to a lot of shows at the Shop, it's definitely a favorite of mine.
Live nextdoor to The Machine Shop. Rock every weekend.
Mr. Kris FREDERICK . Your family name from The Carmen . Live by ultly rd west side by i_75 & catwalk .hope to bless those in yours . Gordon Walker . Graham and Corbin area by the old ugly school on Corunna road
Opened with a band for an Electric Six little while back, actual best venue in Michigan
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I was in Flint about 6 months ago and the thing that’s so striking about it, especially in the summer is how nature has basically reclaimed whole neighborhoods.
It's called poverty
@@duckie0892 Right you are
Actually when the houses get torn down or are burned down it’s way better to see that green space than old run down crack houses.
@@duckie0892 it's called lazy and unmotivated locals.
Dang, Dort Hwy really does have it all! Weave beauty stores, liquor lotto stores, car rim stores, dollar general, and dance classes.😂👍
Lol from your not old school from Flint Michigan
I grew up on Mundy Township. It wasn't that far from Flint, but was nothing like Flint. When G.M. closed shop, Flint was finished.
Facts!!!
Seems like many GM vehicles are built outside the US. That's why I didn't buy a GM product three years ago. That and the bankruptcy in 2009 is still on my mind.
General Motors didn't close. They moved out of the country because of a stupid democratic bill that gave our work to Mexican children.
@@302Mustang13 I quit buying any GM product once they left Flint.
@@anneboban2002 I don't blame you. I have a Stellantis plant in my city (Belvidere IL) that makes the Jeep Cherokee. They've been giving us garbage and cutting production for decades. Now they're planning on moving the Cherokee to Mexico and idling our plant indefinitely. I'll never buy one of their products if they bone us.
I grew up on south side,Markham and Fenton. Down from McKinley Jr High. It also has been abandoned for years. Had a wonderful childhood here but moved in senior yr, late seventies things were going down fast. Nice and quiet here in Ovid😊
This is my drive to work every day. I love your videos!!!!
Street walker
My old HS stomping grounds in the 80’s, Things were a lot different on the south side 40 yrs ago great video Chris 💯
My dad worked @ Fisher 1, takes me on back Saginaw st actually goes to saginaw michigan lots of traffic lights n st name changes ☺️
I live on the East side of Flint. It’s pretty rough. Especially in my eyes since I didn’t grow up in Flint or live here til a few years ago. When I was a kid I thought going to Flint was going to the Genesee Valley Mall. LOL You actually passed my house on your 6th video of Flint (east side).
I do enjoy your videos but I had a few comments/corrections for you.
The Dort Financial Center (formerly Perani Arena and before that the IMA)….my daughter works there. They have hockey games, but many other things too. Concerts, MMA, boxing, gun and knife shows, RV shows, Comic-Con’s, basketball, etc. They also host graduations for local high schools without a big enough venue.
The Machine Shop on Dort Hwy isn’t a strip club. It’s a music venue. There are some pretty well known bands that play there.
There actually used to be MORE strip clubs on Dort Hwy but thankfully those places have mostly closed down. Now the big business is marijuana dispensaries. Honestly that’s way better than strip clubs.
The Rock on Dort Hwy used to be a church. I don’t think anything is there now though.
The Dort Mall is pretty weird but there are a couple of stores there and a restaurant too. There are some quirky items on display in the mall as well.
All in all Flint has some rough places but really isn’t the worst!! You just kinda know where not to go at night and/or when you are alone and you’re pretty good. LOL
Sitting in my big ass recliner with my Grey Goose & Orange Juice listening to this hood music and laughing my ass off.
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I love Chris hood music 2
You drove by the Machine Shop as you went down Dort Highway. You should have mentioned it. There are a lot of nationally known bands that perform there regularly. Also, you should gather up your courage and go down Dort Hwy. at night.
dort highway not even that bad i legit live by it and drive on it at mid night all the time you ah be good long as you mind your business
fun fact. before that building was the machine shop, it was a chinese resturant called "East Wind" it was my first job, as a dishwasher I worked in 1980 - 1981!!
The cruise through the Projects lol u need to hit all abandoned housing projects in each city u travel through 🤣the drone shot was awesome 👌🏽
When I was going to UM-F, I had a friend who lived in the Atherton Terrace area. I dropped her off at home a few times, and she always said, "Go back exactly as we came in, don't stop, don't look at anybody, just get out of here and I'll see you in class." This was back in the late 80's, and it was a scary place back then too. I think I white-knuckled it all the way home to Holly. As soon as I saw the buildings in the video, I knew exactly where that was. Not surprised it's a wasteland now.
The nickname for that place was call African Terrace. Any police calls they always sent in 2 patrols cars because of the bad elements there.
Really enjoyed video. Grew up in Flint. So sad to see how it has gone downhill. I attended Flint Technical High School. Long gone.
Outrageous and pathetic. Great job on sharing what has happened here. I grew up all through this downfall and still live in Genesee County and can see the empty commercial buildings that line the streets.
Left in 86 when things were getting bad, maybe 5 percent as bad as it looks now. So glad I escaped.
The area around Flint Golf Club, Circle Drive, there’s some awesome homes. Lots of mid-century modern homes. Same with southwest side in Westgate Park.
1:45 hey man relax on the Firebirds/OHL diss, we love our firebirds 😂😂 I named my pet fish after Amadeus Lombardi, ffs.
Jokes aside, thanks for doing what you do. Love your content.
Thanks for noticing Flint.
Also BEST DORT HWY JOKE I’ve heard in a long time. It’s so true. Like, north of the Walmart by my house, it’s literally just bars, strip clubs, cluck heads, and burned out houses or closed businesses
I actually grew up in Burton and yeah I know this neighborhood well. Actually Dort highway has always been trashy but it wasn't as bad when I was a kid as it is in this video. Before Big lots moved across the street from Cortland center. It was located on Dort highway it was pretty nice. There was also when I was fairly Young serious surplus store was also in the dorma today the Dortmund well it's surprising if you can even get in the doors it's kind of a neat place to walk for a couple minutes cuz it is filled with a lot of antique signs and things of that sort. But I'm not even sure if there's one open store where you can buy anything.
Oh and the door event center which is actually changed its name a few times it was the IMA event center when I was a kid and then for the longest time it's been the Prani Center this is where I would go and see the Shriners circus in the winter.
You forgot to talk about Applegate Chevrolet. Really it's a pretty small car dealership but they had the catchiest most memorable jingle. "Peanuts popcorn Applegate and Chevrolet"
Hot dogs, baseball, Applegate and Chevrolet is how I remember it ?? Multiple choruses?
@@jameswillingham5373 That is how I remember it.
Baseball, Hotdogs, Applegate, and Chevrolet.... Remember Flint Generals at the IMA?? God old days.
@@Babybugex yep I know the feeling well I live in Durand with my nieces and nephew and I'm happy that they live in a nice neighborhood but the same time my heart will always be in Flint
@@Babybugex Do you remember the jingle to courtland mall?
I have to say I enjoy your videos I like how your putting everything out here and making a video log of it. I just moved from Warren 9 mile & vandyke area. But we decided to move to the Lapeer area idk I enjoy the country setting a lot more then where I grew up the metro Detroit area. It makes NO sense at all whatsoever how 2 once Beautiful city’s are now the armpits of the country. So much corruption in our political system. Decades and decades of this kind of corruption completely destroyed what was once the mecca of the United States of America. How dose the state that invented motorized transportation end up like it is now. It is just very frustrating to me because I have always tried to be proud of my home state. All the history that’s taken place here and no body seems to really care about any of it.
People care, we’re here watching this video
@@Nik.No.K your right I just get to passionate about this issue. It upsets me because I most likely won’t see it fixed in my lifetime.
General Motors, big business and nobody gives a rip.
Some people say they care but, that is only if they get paid well enough to buy their B.S.
Lots of investors move in on areas like vultures because it is cheap. The main problem is that they are here to ring out the last pennies and respect of poor and suppressed.
@@Nik.No.K if you call watching this video caring we are in trouble. What have you done to help fix the problem.
Thanks Chris I always look forward to every video that you download very entertaining good footage you're very talented my friend Flint looks very destitute the only nice place there was the golf course looking forward to more content thanks 💪👍
I love my city. Just wish the ppl would take better care of it
Vote red
In 1972 Atherton Terrace was my first home when I was a newlywed. My husband was a student at General Motors Institute and co-opted at Fisher Body. A two-bedroom townhouse rented for $110 per mo. We lived there for 3 years. The development was sketchy and we often heard gunshots at night in the back units. We were oblivious to the possible dangers.
Dang that would be scary
In the 80s they used to refer to that back area as "Little Beirut".
Me and my family lived at 2824 Atherton terrace in 1971 I went to Manley elementary I was 5 years old and can still remember alot of the people there we were like one of three white families that lived in the terrace back then we moved out in 1974.
I grew up in this area. In the 60, 70 and 80's it was a nice neighborhood. We lived in Burton at Dort and Atherton. Burton used to be Flint but they redid the lines and we became the city of Burton. When GM and Buick closed almost all plants this city went to hell. It's too bad.
I grew up about a mile from Atherton Terrace. My parents still live there. It's actually still a nice little neighborhood, but the property values in that whole area took a nosedive & never recovered. I moved away for many years, but now living in Grand Blanc.
Always enjoyed your videos, Christ. Keep up the good work. Greetings from the UK. 👍
Hello Douglas , I visited UK a couple years back , Newcastle just before COVID hit.. loved it
I'm from Flint and just saw ur comment while watching this video..... Thought I'd say Whaàt-uup!! When I saw you commenting on video about my hometown....Cheers
The center originally was the IMA center, hosting The Flint Generals semi pro hockey team, it was also used for concerts
Before they was the generals the was the bulldogs before that the spirits before that the firebirds
LMAO the comment on the planners being Drunk
in your last video, I made a comment about how impressed I was that despite overwhelming poverty the people Flint managed to keep their grass cut and the trash picked up... I take it all back.
Don Williamson an old mayor of Flint literally sent out dumpsters that people could use to clean up their yards with for free but barely anyone used them.
Another great vid! I think you've set the standard for the genre. Keep 'em coming! 👍
Growing up and living in flint for most of my life, I can't express my hatred for flint and Genesee county as a whole. I never understood the hometown pride that people have for flint
So far I've recognized Dukes, Dort mall and Applegate. So glad Ive moved far away.
14:37 RIP Sicily's Pizza, easily the best pizza in Flint. It was closed permanently during COVID.
I live right behind Sicily pizza and yeah it's sad that it ended after all that time serving flint folks the best pizza around.
@@swully-ol4lx Born, raised, and live in the neighborhood around Freeman. Flint is a complete ghost town even compared to just 10 years ago. There's hardly anything left now.
Sicily rocked.
While going down Dort Highway you saw a sign saying Rock and you asked "what exactly is a Rock"? Well the Rock is actually a Club known as PEACE OF THE ROCK. It was once located on the North End and moved there where it has been for many years.
Haha yeah I knew that it wasn’t what I was making a joke about.
Dort Financial Center, formerly known as the Flint IMA....used to go there for a huge motorcycle swap meet every year. A long time ago.
Live in this area my self the past 7 yrs and u wanna know what is the worst part? Well I will tell u, even though they don't fix up the area out of state companies buy housing projects like apartments 😔 and they raise our Rent we are all going to end up on section 8 or homeless, and no one seems to even care that it's happening to us!
The Machine Shop is one of the coolest Rock venues in the country, I've played there many times. It is not a strip club, and there is nothing wrong with strip clubs either. Flint was an awesome city. I lived there and visited regularly before I moved to LA CA. There is a lot there I miss. The Dort Mall is super cool on the inside, tons of vintage stuff. They used to own the Dort Financial Arena too, which before that was the IMA sports arena. I headlined a show there.
Saw Seether there. It is, in fact, a great venue. Seether said it's their favorite 🖤
15:20 the chinese restaurant close to the underpass is absolutely amazing.
Great video as per usual. One thing I've always wondered is when you drive through some of these mostly empty neighborhoods where you have 4 or 5 boarded up or burnt out or abandoned houses for every one with a family living in them how many of the empty homes have squatters or temporarily homeless people staying in them? Most of the houses look pretty unstable or not fit for habitation, but there are some that aren't quite that bad. Makes me wonder if there is a back entrance or window that people use to access them? I also wonder how many of them are used to dump bodies lol.
As for the squatters, there's some. It's not like every house but they're out there. They get used as dope houses sometimes too. Most of the burned abandoned ones are from people partying or making drugs
We live on the East side and there are LOTS of abandoned homes/buildings. Many empty vacant lots too. We see people going in and out of the houses on occasion but mostly they seem to be empty. That being said I’m not about to be rolling up on a house and going inside just because I think it’s empty. 😳 There have been several fires in vacant houses near where we live. I figure it this way…the more houses that get burned down, the less potential for “neighbors” we have!
@kirbyourenthusiasm What's that even like? I'm in a neighborhood where there are people on top of people so that would be weird for me to live in a area where there might be only a few occupied homes in a couple of blocks sized area. Must be kind of creepy at night?
@@mikemadunic7960 no not at all. It’s a little like living in the country honestly. We own 5 large city lots and our entire block is nearly empty (three structures behind our property and 4 to the west. So far as I can tell our house is the only one currently occupied. There is a commercial building too but the owner is rarely there.
We caught frogs in thread creak in 84 .. It would flood 2 or 3 times a year and be thread river. Lived in Burton, Atherton and Center area.. 6141 Nelson Ct.
I went to the elementary school across the street from the Dort Event Center from the fall of 1968 to the fall of 1972 before moving to Davison, it was known as the IMA Sports Arena when it first opened, so we got to watch it go up across the street......I also worked at the Arby's on Dort Highway......that sign for it has been like that forever......and I worked there in 1979......and car purchases done @ Applegate Chevrolet on Saginaw & Atherton......
Many nights and snowy nights walking down dort highway jus to get to my brothers house I love flint but it needs change also went to freeman right down
The street when I was little
Fisher Body was the GM division that was responsable for body shells back before the 1980s. They began as an independent company (all the gm divisions did) and got purchased by gm to supply car bodies to the divisions. Thats the way it stayed till the 1980s when gm restructured everything and shuttered all those old plants in flint that michael moore cries about. They got rid of the fisher body name cuz it was redundant.
rockstar is in the workings of gta6 how have you been i live between marysville and port huron and frequent your videos when i want to feel like exploring the world virtually.
Chris, I have not been though Flint in several years, I actually expected the city to look worse than I have seen. The abandoned section eight housing project did not look that bad from the outside. I was surprised that there was glass in most of the windows. Your use of the "mean streets" hood music is a nice subtle polite way of letting people know the condition of the area without saying anything disrespectful. Parts of Flint look rough but overall, I think Detroit looks much worse than Flint. Growing up near the Red Zone in Detroit probably influenced me. You tell people the truth of how things are.
Center rd is so bad now. Bob Evans and Wallis are closed.
Machine shop on dort hwy is actually where rock bands play.
The Dort Financial Center used to be the IMA Auditorium and aside from being home to the Flint Generals Hockey Club, it did host many major concert events back in the 70s. It was used for Public Ice Skating, and more recently, multiple Beer & Wine tasting event and Auto and RV Shows. FYI - there was a Greta Van Fleet concert scheduled there a few months ago, but they cancelled it the day of the show! From the wording of the "apology" that GVF sent out, it was pretty clear their promoter hadn't done any investigation into whether the venue was suitable for such a large show.
For a short time was the Perani areana also
there used too be an ima downtown too right? was both ima's open at the same time? i get confused
@@kelliemishmish you're right. I forgot about the Perani days.
@@joeytrimble1558 You're right. The Auditorium was downtown, And the Dort Financial one was called the IMA Sports Arena. The Auditorium was actually turned into the quickly defunct 6 Flags Autoworld, which I had totally forgotten about. Crazy times.
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IMA auditorium downtown rocked many concerts back in the day. Attended a few in the mid 70’s.
Doing a video on Grand Blanc would be amazing
Soon
I worked on Dort Hwy, 2015-2018. There were very few Street Walkers. However, there was a homeless camp near the Elms Trailer Park that was condemned.
Just left this place,Leith and dort highway. Man I will never live in this hell hole again! Flint is so corrupt!
Just shocked I had no idea you were on here and I am thankful for that. Now I'm blowing your channel up as I fought for water rights after we started getting poisoned and met a whole bunch of people doing it!!! I was and still am fighting for our CITY and getting it fixed now I have something to show how amazing they say they our doing for us at City Council and Mayor's office!!!
Thank you, so much Teresa for what you do.
@@jerryspencer5453It's my pleasure and honor. I went from a natural disaster and losing everything and having no water, power, food, and eventually they even allowed landlords too kick us out of our homes since we were in Martial Law and military enforcement on am island only 33 miles Long but much of the land in certain AREA'S were not built on due to the terrain. I met a Michigander in Galveston that loved it THERE and had his youngest brother not passed we would probably STILL be there. Arriving in Flint I swore it looked like a hurricane or tornado had ripped apart the CITY, sadly. The people are JUST like Galveston, Texas resilient and a lot stronger than most do not even realize because of the corruption STILL on going today. The money given for the water Crisis is unaccounted for and so many more fund's and grant's received are as well. Our water at THEIR "OFFICIAL" declaration of the water poisoned will be 9 YEAR'S in April and it is still not fixed. People are dying FROM CANCER in numbers I can still not grasp as I knew almost everyone that has died yet only moved here in 2011 and met delivering water, City Council Meetings, Camp Grounds where we stayed and did meal's for everyone, did interviews with foreign countries journalist asking about our experience and what we felt, did camp fires at night and as a group decided what we were going to do the next day too keep exposing and rallying TOGETHER for safe WATER 💦, and some of us organized events too get water, shoes, and other essentials to any one that asked without judgement. Rallied non stop and some of us even went to jail for nothing but them being able to shut down their town hall meeting held in a "church" I luckily was only man handled due to accidentally saying a curse word that wasn't planned just was passionate in my statement and the FACTS and it slipped out with an immediate apology yet her "mayor" body guard enjoyed bruising my arms by pushing me out of the area I was just at. The 6 people arrested happened Right after my incident where you could see him man handling another Lady who sadly has lost her husband also arrested that day from Cancer and this all was before vaccinations or COVID-19. The Mayor got herself a raise as has the current Mayor that makes more monthly than per median in a YEAR!! HE MAKES MORE THAN GOVERNOR'S ALMOST AS MUCH AS POTUS!! $174K A YEAR that happened during lockdown and city council members received pay increases as well again the Citizens did not or were not asked if or VOTED FOR this SALARY! Our water rate is the highest in the USA and the deadliest!! There is so much More I could make a movie about it all sadly nothing FOR THE PEOPLE POSITIVE! The Mayor's Wife IS IN THE SENATE SEAT the now Mayor use to HOLD! She wasn't a politician until he won the mayoral election!! Her position is to watch the mayor AND make sure the person is fulfilling the duty sworn to do!! That's not all she is VOTED to do or as a public servant sworn to do for the people of FLINT! I don't see her doing her sworn duty and I have pages of reasons or ignoring happening STILL. I pray and fight daily of way's to better our CITY and wisdom too figure out the best ways and improvements that would bring this CITY back to being a place that people would want to live and work. The crime I can think of so many ways to address it successfully as well as marketing too get FLINT back on the map!! But I can't do it ALONE and I know so many people willing to do whatever to better Flint for tomorrow.
Investment is a huge plus here if only I had an investor. Kettering owns Half this town and it's not for just because they see what I do. The new addition they just built, the rode new on Dupont, and so much that I know could make a few American Dreams.
BTW the roads paved new didn't have pipes replaced and the explosion I can say is probably because of pipes not being replaced, repaired, or a drug house police ignored like the two sex trafficking homes busted about 6 YEAR'S ago that I still see myself at other properties. I live about 5 house's FROM Kettering University that has awesome students as does the other colleges all that need things I know will make $$$$....This helping our CITY and making dreams and stopping cycle's for Good. God Bless You and All 🤟💯✝️🙏💯🤗💯🇺🇸💯✌️ Make Flint Better Again 2024, Teresa Rhea Farley in MOTT PARK neighborhood and invite the creater of these video's to talk and expose while empowering We The People with Love, Respect, and TRUTH
@@teresafarley6255 you are a true crusader for truth and right. Bless you my sister.
That Chinese place by the Federal credit Union arena is pretty damn good
Thank you for your time your efforts to produce great work your videos,but i could be wrong beyi lived in the upper peninsula of Michigan periodically so maybe there wsd a concert at yhe Dort evenT center but the last concert was in 1985 or 1986:when MotlyCrue came to Flint and it was standing room onky in attendance,an awesome concert it was...but anyway, Peace and Blessings to you ALL 🙏👍💯♥️
Just a suggestion: when you show the stats like income, poverty rate etc., you show them in red which makes it impossible to see. You should show them in white and maybe contrast it with yellow font for the state stats.
Hey! I am a filmmaker from the Lapeer County area and wanted to reach out to you regarding your footage of Flint. I am working on a detective webseries that takes place in and around Flint starting next year and I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind if your video was used in different episodes in snippets? I’ll credit you at the end of each video as a thank you if you’re cool with me using it.
Chris, your vid really shows the hidden other side of society. To help cleanup this mess we as a country need more real job creation, its time for Unions, City Leaders, State Leaders, Management and the Feds to come together and learn to "play nice" with each other and put the American worker first. Happy New Year.....
Yep. Could'nt agree more Mike. Watching from Australia, our unions are fairly powerful & we get things done most of the time. I dont know how things work in the USA. But here in Australia we take the fight to all levels of Goverment in one hit. One thing i've learnerd is , strength in numbers. I know some people hate unions, but they dont realalise the benifits they get from being a member.
@@Dave.C937 First thing that needs to be done is get rid of joe biden. He is a boat anchor around the neck of America.....
@@jetsons101 Hey Mike. I dont profess to know know much about American politics. My own Political system confuses me at the best of times. As a democratic society. Take care & vote with all boots on the ground.
They literally built new housing for the people who lived here called Clark Commons.
@@midlifeandnailingit6342 Good start but people also need jobs to be independent and self-sufficient. Have a good day......
Just before time marker 12 minutes and 22 seconds in the video you had mentioned that with this part of the city being separated you think that maybe the planners were drunk?
I think maybe it's a little different, with a name like "Hemp" hill, That might explain a lot! 🤣🤣🤣
How do you find "goodies" like abandoned section 8 complexes? I can't imagine things like that are on any maps or "Best of Flint" pages.
When I make videos on cities I look at google maps for hours before hand. I’ve become pretty good overtime at knowing what things are based on satellite views.
I live in Flint my whole life mind your business take care of your business you’ll be fine and know how to protect yourself 🕺🏾
The Dort Mall is the site of the first drive-in theater in Flint - the Dort Drive-In opened in 1946.
Half my fam is from/still lives in Flint, I’m currently nearer on the Grand Blanc/Burton side, probably shouldn’t announce my rough address on the internet but, whatever lol I ran a campaign for State Senate last year for the district, D27, man do we need someone who actually cares down here so badly
Flint is slowly transforming to an education town UMF and Kettering. . The blight is getting bulldozed. Several million has been recently earmarked for this. Give Flint a few decades. It will be much better.
I hope so. That would be awesome to see
Part by college yes, but the further areas out won't. Example Beecher, mt Morris, etc even part of burtonn
60 years ago, Flint was one of the most desirable places to live in the U.S.A.
Yup
yep in the 50s flint was booming and attracted all the Hollywood elites and famous people it was a great place to live and raise a family it's so sad that it turned out like it did.
There's some honestly beautiful places in Flint if you know where to go, and sometimes I feel as if we get a slightly worse wrap than deserved. That aside, it sounded like you actually care about people and didn't just come to see what hell looks like, so thanks for that. God bless
They ruined detroit and turned many cities into dangerous hoods, drugs..poverty stricken
Yeah, after he said the beautiful houses around the golf course were nice for Flint standards!! 🙄
The Machine Shop isn't a strip club.
OMG you finally came to the hood I live in! 😂
How much is a paund of meth in flint ?
I grew up on Term and Lippincott. Also used to be a farmer jack before target was there. Used to watch shooting on the block weekly. Tony's market, awads, etc. Got shot at by a pimp on Dort when I was 17 about a block from machine shop.
some of those apartments off Atherton rd were called Atherton Terrace. people use to call it African Terrace. pretty rough area.
Breaks my heart to drive by so many bandos, abandoned & dilapidated apartment buildings & homes. Flint used to be one of the richest states in the country. Then the water crisis happened & it's like the world just turned a cheek & left Flint to rot. Flint & the ppl who reside here are absolutely worth saving. El Cozumel on E Court St is so good. The Sloan Museum next to it is cool too. The strip club block on Dort is wild. So many businesses, clubs closed/abandoned, covered in overgrowth. Downtown Flint is absolutely coming up & it's awesome to explore. So many shops, fantastic restaurants & bars (Soggy Bottoms, Waygu Wednesday is the place to be). The Flint Farmers Market is great. It's kinda baffling the juxtaposition, crossing into Grand Blanc from Flint. Like an entirely different world.
There's nothing in flint for anyone who has common sense to go see and do.
Truer words have never been said. It's about damn time GTA V comes out!
Sad thing is that they put all of those buildings in front of the IMA (what Dort Federal Event Center used to be) and now most of the buildngs are closed.
A GTA map consisting of Detroit and some surrounding suburbs would be fun lol.
Totally forgot about atherton east, i didnt even know it was abandoned..
Aye Atherton was no joke in the early 90s early 2000s my cousin lived there and my mom would rarely let me go.. and the it aint abandoned
This makes me sad I lived there thirty five yrs.Loved the people at GM still miss them and the great times we had..I may visit this yr.
The weather plays a role and nobody will dump money into a place that has no hope . No work there unless it is government.
I grew up n Flint I don't recall Atherton being so rough. The north side was the scary side of town. Most of those families were working, which you had to be to be on Section 8. Interesting
So so sad. All of the decay is General Motors fault. They made money on top of money, then rolled the machinery out the doors and jumped ship😏
you can't just blame one entity. Sure, GM closing shop was a huge reason for the downturn, the question is: if they were making so much money WHY did they leave? It couldn't be that the union was demanding too much, could it? Workers were living pretty large on their wages, but it was never enough. They decided to go someplace where labor was cheaper. Manufacturing businesses won't go there because of the union reputation. Then there's the local government. What have they done to attract business to the city? What happens to all of the grant money they get for certain projects? They got millions to tear down that apartment complex, yet it's still standing, they got millions to fix the water problem, yet it isn't fixed. Instead of finding someone to blame, how about looking for a solution. My point is not to trash the union, they were a great idea, and did a lot for the workers. but they got too big for their own good, just like any organization when it gets too big, it becomes corrupt, they quit looking out for the workers long ago.
When you lose half your sales to foreign competitors you don’t need as many factories.
Do the Westside sometime. I was born and raised and lived on west court st. Left in 1972 and never looked back.
Two more videos left. West side is the last one
You actually filmed it on a nice summer day with leaves on the trees etc. You want to experience an even more depressing Flint film it on a grey, drizzly winter day. That would give your viewers a real sense of what it is like to live and/or work in Flint
This popped up on my Google Home Screen and it’s actually so fun to see where I grew up at 🥹🙌🏽.
Who remembers southmoor sports mall on Hemphill and dort?!
Why did you use the accent you did, at the beginning of the video?
I see that you had passed by Applegate Chevrolet; my father had a 1972 Chevelle that had been purchased there in 1972; I am surprised it's still on operation.
Another beautiful add to the Flint collection. It's saddening to see how little pride/cleanliness there was in certain areas. The less than half occupied complex had so much trash just strewn about the ground. Not unique to Flint but rather pathetic....
Zoo animals don't clean their own cages.
Born and raised in Flint Michigan father also. I’m Terry Dudley Douglas the founder of Teacher Appreciation Week. Teacher appreciation week was started in Flint Michigan in 1980. Flint Michigan was the first city in the world to show teachers a week of appreciation. All information concerning the founding years of teacher appreciation week can be verified in the main Library in the flint board of education books and the flint journal article’s. The national pta is lying about being the founder of Teacher Appreciation Week and has made up a entire history that is a entire lie. Flint Michigan did not have anything PTA’s in flint Michigan school systems. We are only known for bad things. Teacher appreciation week was sold to the national pta by dirty board of education members. One Dan Cady Dale Kilde and a few others. Teacher appreciation week is all over the world. At the time the national Pta stole teacher appreciation week the pta was going under and about to be nonexistenting. No one is allowed to make children believe lies in education for fame and Fortune. Do some research into teacher appreciation week you are there exploiting flint 22:46 for profit. The national pta has put a curse on the school system with their lies a six year old just shot his teacher. And my book will be out soon to expose the national PTA for its lies in education❤
The national pta was going to kill me for their take over of teacher appreciation week from Flint Michigan to keep me quiet from claiming founder of Teacher Appreciation Week. But I was pregnant by James Bracy a well known Flint board of education employee. So the Flint board of education just stop celebrating teachers appreciation week four years after three years of celebrating it. It took me years to find out that other states were were celebrating teachers appreciation week. A pta member from Ann Arbor Michigan Elaine who became the national PTA’s President in 1985 or 84 said she was the founder teachers appreciation week do some research make Flint know for something good because it was us that’s losing teachers first with the week of appreciation😊
@@terrydudley4518 I believe you!
The Dort mall can stay open because it houses Perani's hockey world.
I live on Dort Hwy and can't wait to move out with my girlfriend when I'm older it sucks. I constantly hear gunshots that I pretend that they're fireworks, I found 3 heroin needles and a used condom when I came from school. It sucks so bad that my girlfriend, despite how much she deeply misses me, doesn't feel safe coming over again because it reminds her of bad memories even tho she's not doing to good it either. 😒
I feel sorry for your entire generation across the country. Don't vote democrat they are NOT the party of the little guy. They are the party of " hold power no matter what".. Good luck young man.
It used to be called the ima
Just got into vid, have to go to the food store...... Will finish later......
that's the thing downtown looks pretty neat and kinda retains it's old charm ...it's the surrounding flint that's like a dump
Born and raised here…flint for life…
Still live in flint just on the west side. But I used to live in this area, the regencys is where I used to stay. It's still awfu
Even on a nice sunny summer day this place looks depressing to me I can see why my great grandparents left Michigan and settled in West Virginia
Not everywhere in Michigan looks like this. Just a handful of cities really. Saginaw, Flint, Detroit, parts of Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Jackson, and a couple of Detroit's suburbs. Michigan has a lot of nice places.
Really depressing videos really. I live on New York between Franklin and Lewis which looks like a warzone as you know. But it's much safer than it was a few years ago. I think I saw some drone shots in there which is cool. I got into drones a few years ago and hate to say that I have some pretty expensive drones including the Angel Evo , DJI Spark and many more. But due to nothing around worth filming, they sit in my house unused. Quite a bummer really. Anyway keep up the good work and hit me up if you are in need of any drones for your filming, thanks.
I always complain about that light at Eldon Baker. I swear you can't pass through without stopping at it. Why is that light there?
It seems you get caught at every traffic light in Flint that's at a small side street...The Eldon Baker light is there because that was the campus of the original Baker College
@@danieljackett4193 ahh that makes sense. Thanks. They could've removed that light a long time ago.
You said golf so many times the youtube algorithm gave me ads for golf courses instead of grammarly and solar pannel scam adds 😂
You forgot the saying that "after 10 pm 7 out of 10 drivers on Dort Hwy are drunk."
I do have to say, you missed a lot of “good” stuff by not going further west on Hemphill. I drive it every day, there’s a huge abandoned school and one of the most derelict shopping centers I’ve ever seen on Fenton and Hemphill. Should’ve taken Fenton road north instead of Saginaw. That’s a real rough area there
Check out my video next Friday. I check out the South Flint Plaza, an abandoned school right by it (not sure if that's what you're referring to or not) and I go along the whole stretch of Fenton Rd through the city... and you're right... it looks bad.
Used to go ride my bike there all the time. Therexwas an arcade and before that a little ceasers with a full bar and small arcade. Used to go to the 5 & dime. Mccrorys? I'm only 44 and that sound old as heck. Jo Anns used to be there, pawn shop, sec of state, and of cpurse blockbuster video. Then i moved to kings lane right behind there. I went to school at mckinley middle school there too, walked from atherton & grand traverse. Cody on fenton rd, mckinley, then fswa.
@@ChrisHarden yeah that’s exactly what I’m talking about sweet!
@@kelliemishmish I’m a delivery driver in the area, kings lane is definitely a place I avoid when I can. Definitely feel a little uneasy when I go and I actually just did a delivery there last night. I’ve only lived here a couple years so it’s interesting to know what it was like before
@@Nik.No.K it was getting sketchy when we moved there, 1998-2000 lol but they had a security guard. We used to walk to the 7 11 at night no problems. I mean, there was bad stuff when i was a kid too, i was riding my bike and saw a guy get pulled out of his car at fenton and atherton and get beat up. It's like... things were crappy back then, but compared to now it was better. Not in a nostalgia way, just the businesses were there, it was a little cleaner. Not as much blight. Idk. You still paid attention to what was going on around you lol stranger danger!
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To me, Flint is more DEPRESSING than the overall " Decline of Civilization " areas of Detroit.
I never lived in Flint, but have been a resident of Southeastern Michigan ( Detroit all of 50 yearsexcept 6 between. Wyoming,MI, Inkster and Mt.Clemens.) and saying Detroit. I am talking Grand River un the west, Kelly rd. in the east to 8 mile in the north all the way to the river. That is my Detroit.
Ask a person where they come from and they reply "Detroit"! Then you ask, " But where?" and they say Schoener and 11 mile. You tell them oh. You mean Warren! Then they realize you know
exactly where the city is.
Folks like living in a made-up reality.
Am I a wealthy business guy retired?, or am I legally blind, living on disability struggling month to month?
Well be honest, you are the guy on disability.
Besides, my experiences make me beyond wealthy or rich.😉💯
The Machine Shop is a concert bar" just saying '
I was reading the definition of Dort highway off of urban dictionary. Those words about the machine shop didn’t come from me.
Machine Shop is a rock n roll club on Dort Highway. I can hear the music from my house.
Several strip clubs nearby, if you like that kind of thing. I do.
Born and raised in Flint, l can honestly tell you, it's a good place to be FROM.