DETROIT: A Drive Through The City's No-Go Zone - America’s Urban Disaster
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- We visit Detroit, Michigan. Does it deserve all the bad press? The city center is beautiful. Clean with awesome artwork. Vibrant and full of people. Just a few blocks out into the city tells a different story. Disintegrating homes and businesses fill the streets, and in many places nature seems to be reclaiming huge areas. We also visited Henry Ford's Museum Of American Innovation, one of the best we've ever been to.
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Detroit is an example of what the rest of America is becoming without a vibrant middle class. The rich and the poor.
Hunger Games will soon be a reality.
I’m not even from Detroit or the US but this makes me so sad. Those houses were once beautiful, loved homes. I feel bad for the people who have to watch their hometown turn into this.
Yeah. They done tore it up 😢
Unlike in other countries, certain parts of US cities (neighborhoods) gentrify. Once they reach their economical & cultural peak - people move out, allowing the houses to crumble. This would never happened in major EU cities.
@@elmono3939that’s cause they are smaller country’s
Don't be too sad because it's not like this throughout the city; only specific neighborhoods and it's more so blocks rather than a whole community. Detroit has some beautiful neighborhoods and communities but those rarely get shown.
@@victoriachantelle9897 Well put. Thank you!
My dad worked at General Motors most of his life. He started when I was 7 or 8 I don't remember exact age. Towards the end before his plant closed down I was in my lait 20s. After he worked there about five years our lifestyle changed we went from beat up furniture to really nice furniture along with a new color TV. Both my parents are dead but I have great memories of them from my childhood and what a great time we had together.
My dad worked at Ford Motors in Detroit but i have not been there for about 20 years.
I luv ❤️ The D.
Why would anyone with money want to live in Detroit?
@@Idelia412
You could buy a ten-room house in the Detroit area instead of a four-room house in any other city.
Another thing about Detroit is that in reality, only about 25% of people in the Detroit area are living in the City of Detroit. It likely has the largest city/suburb ratio of any metro area.
Also keep in mind that other metro areas have "invisible" area lines.
St. Louis has the Delmar Divide (which is said to be a dividing line, though I observed the population was pleasant and peaceful.
Chicago has some deeply depressed areas in the city proper, worse, some VERY depressed neighborhoods in the South side and the southern suburbs.
@@1L6E6VHF First off the weather in Detroit is cold. I don't like cold weather, and live outside of Phoenix. Detroit unfortunately has some pretty crummy run down areas as well which is not appealing let alone where I would want a family to live.
Born and raised in Michigan, metro detroit. Suburbanite. I’ll tell you’ve I’ve been all through out detroit and the most beautiful parts are where there’s the most damage. The history behind why. What happened and the come back is just why detroit is so great. So many people from the communities are building it back up.
What happened there? This footage is crazy.
@@kw5732 riots, police brutality watch the movie Detroit. It explains what happened. It’s sad actually. I cried. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t support what the people of detroit did to their own communities however. The reason behind it really fucks my soul up.
@@brooklyn983 I'll take a look. Thank You
WOW! Do I know THAT neighborhood. That was my grandmother's house at 20:16! My mom grew up in that house! There were two other houses between her house and Tuxedo to the left, which you passed a couple seconds earlier. They're gone now, it looks like whoever owns my grandmother's house bought the empty lots and put that driveway in. They've kept the place up nice, unlike just about everything else in that neighborhood. When I was a kid that lot at the corner of Nardin and Elmhurst was empty and there were a couple of billboards there. What a shocker to see her house on a video!
Thanks for posting THIS!!!!
Hope your family is doing well... everyone I have met from Detroit are all amazing people
I was born and raised in Detroit. From 1954-1968. Detroit was a beautiful place to grow up in. Until the riots...Those families who could get out, did just that. All through the years thereafter, I watched as Detroit was destroyed. The street that I grew up on is barren land now. Most of the houses are gone. You'd never know that families raised kids in a beautiful, wonderful neighborhood back in the day. Schools were top notch back then. We received a quality education. Most of us went to church back then. What happened? Well I could tell you but a lot of people would say that I was out of line speaking the truth. You're impressed with downtown Detroit? That's the only place that has been renovated. The only time people actually go there is usually for sporting events. Or sometimes a concert. Maybe a trip to the casinos. But not often. Safety is a major factor in that decision. Sadly, the suburbs are being affected by the same thing that brought Detroit to its knees. People can debate all day long about that statement but the proof is in the pudding. I'm sad and angry about what's happened to my hometown. In this case the old saying "You can never go home again" is a reality. All we have is our memories now.
I agree, I still live here and I can vouch 100,000,00% of it!
I'm sorry you've had experience that. We all carry something from our childhood that prevent us from returning home. For me and my siblings it was the passing of my mother. She was the last of all my aunt and uncles. When she was gone that meant we moved up the ladder.
Same where I grew up in Baton Rouge La.
Not sure going to church has much to do with anything. Czechia (Czech Republic) is the most atheist county in Europe & they don't have slums like this.
@@Pommy1957 these slums were created on purpose. Notice that these houses, once almost all single family homes, have been converted to 2, 3, 4 family homes (notice the doors). Mid 20th century planners zoned these areas as strictly multi family, and zoned other areas (much are still in high demand today) as single family zoning. They moved and divided up populations. These areas being shown are where they put the poor people who almost exclusively rented.
Detroit must have been amazing in the 50s and 60s. Thanks for the tour.
Troy, driving through the abandoned neighborhoods of Detroit is shocking. Many of these homes would easily cost $700,000 and up in other parts of the country, and of course if they were kept up. There are blocks and blocks of these huge houses, abandoned and disintegrating. It's easily one of the craziest things I've ever seen.
That is when white people lived there.
it was.. i grew up there
It was, since they changed the cars every year
In it's heyday, Detroit was called The Paris Of The West. Symphony orchestras, theaters, cathedrals, museums, culture......and look at it now. So sad.
Detroit was a great place to grow up. I still have fond memories.
My daughter and son in law lived there for a couple years. I never felt unsafe. And the buildings - the architecture is amazing. The area that is broken down is so sad. I actually would like to visit again. There is an AMAZING book store there.
King Books❤
When civil rights icon Rosa Parks house was broken into in 1994 she was robbed and assaulted - When Rosa Parks is treated like that there is NO HOPE FOR ANYONE ELSE. Life's too short and it's even shorter if you live in Detroit.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@user-fx1vh6jw1x Even downtown isn' t safe. One weekend last spring in 48 hours seven separate shootings took place in the downtown area.
@@ericw3229 Do you live in Detroit or visit it frequently?
Detroit is a gem, like a faded movie star. You can still see her past glory, but magnificent in her scars and wrinkles.
you can really feel the sad, soulless vibe when viewing all those broken down neighborhood homes.
it almost gives off some sort of a sentimental feel to it as well.
So many of those derelict homes would be so amazing to save. They are wonderful architecture. Love all of the older brick homes.
I agree. Those are million dollar houses in many parts of the US.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip I agree, but saving them is impossible in most cases. Way, waaaay too damaged.
@@chasethesky1 I have seen a million worse in other states Detroit overall is great
Yeah, just try to go gentrify those homes. And live in those neighborhoods after spending a few hundred thousand on repairs. No thanks.
Actually a concerted effort to save much of these. Especially Midtown/Brush Park. Even among the decay there are some gems worth keeping.
My mother's family were from Detroit. She grew up (in the 30s/40s) in a 2 story brick home similar to some you showed except it had a fully covered deep porch and more lawn. It was a beauty and my grandfather was proud of it and the neighborhood he lived in. In the early 60s my grandfather was part of 'white flight' and crankily moved into the suburbs. In 1973 my mother and I flew out to see him and he took us for a drive to see the house/neighborhood Mom grew up in. I had seen pictures and it was shocking how trashed the houses were after just a few years! It was dangerous too and the numerous young men in the streets made it clear we were not wanted. It made Mom cry to see how they had destroyed EVERYTHING.
Sad to see what happened in the present compared in the past! Just like watching "Back to the Future" with Michael J. Fox what will happen in the future of his childhood neighborhood. It became a reality today! I love that movie.
Detroit used to be beautiful when started coming visit my family in the 70s now it is scary. I made Detroit my home 1981 left came back 1988 husband from Detroit left 2003
They who ? You were the one who leave.
So the blacks forced you out of your home town.
@@OC1621. Them. You know..
Hello,
California native here. I grew up in San Diego, lived in Portland for 2 years, and then finally LA for 8 years.
Bought a home and moved to Detroit in 2022. Yes, it’s still not the safest city and it’s not quite what it was during its prime… but it’s heading in the right direction. Having only been here for 2 years, I can say that I’ve witnessed a lot of change and things are happening everyday that reflect its progress. I hear many people saying it will never be the same again and they’re right. I think Detroit is headed somewhere greater than it has ever been before. The spirit of the city and its people are palpable and contagious.
Detroit is a city of cycles, up and down but it’s the gear of America that keeps on grinding - always rising to the occasion to innovate and evolve from its mistakes.
The name Detroit has been maligned for far too long. However, success does not exist without failure and vice versa. To put things in perspective, today Detroit is out of bankruptcy, its Moody rating went up 2, and it is in the black.
I hope this inspires other cities in America like Oakland. It all starts with small steps! Pick up that trash!
Peace and love.
Whoa, Know a lotta people that moved FROM Detroit to California but never the other way around. What made you move from the West Coast to Detroit. I am from Detroit and every time I visit I say to myself, "Boy I'm glad I don't live here anymore!"
It's the tough on rioters that keeps Detroit progressing forward.
The RIVERFRONT IS AMAZING, SOON THE GORDIE HOWE BRIDGE WILL OPEN, I RIDE MY BIKE THERE
You hipsters do not understand the history and hard feelings. The city always will be remembered by boomers and gen xers as a "sheet hole".
@user-li4wf7cb1l enjoy your sheet hole. When you start a family you'll get it....
I've always enjoyed downtown Detroit during every visit I've made...even that day back in 2002 when I got my car impounded at the tunnel to Canada because I was 19 and didn't declare some alcohol I was smuggling in from Canada. I spent a few hours downtown Detroit that night waiting for a ride home so I explored a bit. This was when I discovered downtown Detroit has some absolutely AMAZING restaurants. So much has changed downtown since 2002 and it gets better each year. Detroit has always been a city that prospers, hits rough patches and it always finds a way to come back. That city has too much history and too much vibrant life to ever die. It will always be a city re-inventing itself and despite its struggles, its a beautiful city with a lot of beautiful people. I always meet some of the nicest locals in Detroit when I visit the city.
Thank you for sharing this. :)
We found the Biden voter...
Bet you don't try THAT again. I was warned about how thorough those border guys are and not to even say anything that might piss them off, as they might take it upon themselves to keep you there for hours.
Lived in Windsor for 40 years. I use to go to Detroit quite often. Fantastic place I thought. I had family members who lived both sides of the border, great sports, Tigers, Red Wings, great concerts...loved Detroit 👍
They burn the place down every Halloween
I was born in Detroit and I lived there as a child in the 50s and into the 60s, when it was a really nice place to live. In those days you COULD visit Canada in a rowboat! Because of the good-paying auto industry, Detroit had the largest percentage of single-family homes of any city in the US. The winters were brutal, though.
@@norwolf4765 There used to be a big movie theater in downtown called The World that showed only newsreels and documentaries. My sister and I used to take the bus downtown, by ourselves, to spend an afternoon there. She was eleven and I was nine! That's what Detroit was like in 1960.
@@norwolf4765 I lived on Cascade street near Joy rd & Grand River (think Grande Ballroom) from 1952 to 1960. Left Detroit, but never Michigan (except for Vietnam).
@@BlazingLaser
Until about 1967 (when Universal-International mothballed their newsreel division), there were movie theaters that presented newsreels exclusively.
What's the saddest thing is that many of those dilapidated homes are truly beautiful structures.
Winters were not that bad Detroit area 1963 to 1996 🙏
What a shame to see all those homes in total despair. As I was watching this I was thinking at one time families lived and loved in those homes. I wish some very wealthy contractor could come in tear down those decrypt homes save the ones that can be saved because I’m sure they have a lot of history, and start developing homes and businesses and have almost like a mom and pop environment to live in and to work in and to raise your children in.
If they were developed, it wouldn't result in anything that most can afford. Sorry to be cynical but that's what would happen.
People have to have a place to work.
They ruin the inside so bad..cheaper to raze them..because I had always wondering why not save then too
I totally agree with you. I was born and raised in the D. I Love my City. ❤
I was born and raised also in the city, but yet its fked! If I could afford to move out, I would and never go back. If you go through what I went through, you wouldn't even give it second thought.
My mother lived in the same house (in the Winship neighborhood) from 1939 until she passed away in 2009. She never regretted it and loved her neighbors. They always watched out for her. The only break-in came after her passing. My son was living there. It was his ex-girlfriend from Ferndale who broke in with her brothers. I've never had problems living or working in Detroit.
I went to winship middle school. 😊
I have alot of respect for you both. Instead of sitting at home and using wiki for city facts with some cool editing, you guys actually GO TO THE CITY YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT! Love it!
Right! I see videos all the time where they just pull pictures off the internet. Lazy! We actually go to these places. 👍😀
What I find more sad than the decrepit buildings are the empty lots, where houses used to be. I've heard some of them have plants/bushes/flowers, planted by the original owners, that still bloom and grow. Kind of like marking the gravesite of somebody's former home....
I think I'd much rather see empty lots , due to the potential they might come back some day! When you see a whole string of empty , & broken homes , with caved in roofs , NOT MANY investors are going to risk that. You have demo & removal costs on top of rebuilding. Just MHO.
@@doneown503 True, didn't think of it that way. It's all sad to see.
Yeah, I saw thousands of them. I never thought of it that way. You see perennials and you wonder when they were planted?, by whom they were planted?, where are those people now?, where are their descendants?, do they ever visit and reflect back........
Very nice comment!
I find the decrepit buildings more sad. To see the caved-in, burned-out shell of what was once someone's home is sad in a visceral way. An empty lot is just... empty.
This is just devastating for the US. We need to bring back a lot of our manufacturing and put people back to work. These homes could be cleaned up and the community could work together to rebuild it. That would put a lot of people back to work and make those homes, which could be affordable, to people working in the factories that benefit the US. Yes, the products being made here would be more expensive but taxes could be lower because there would be less people on assistance. It would be a hard road but it's a road we could drive and reach our destination.
The big corporations are the reason manufacturing declined. They realized they could build their products overseas for pennies on the dollar in China, Thailand, Mexico, etc., and not have to worry about benefits, regulations, safe working conditions, hours worked and more. It would cost them a fortune to come back to the USA. A LOT MORE. These greedy b@stards are the reason for the decline of the middle class. Back in the heyday of auto manufacturing, a "regular" guy could make a good living with good benefits working on the line. His wife didn't even have to work. That all stopped when American auto manufacturers had their lunches stolen by the Japanese because they continued to offer overweight, gas guzzling land yachts. You can blame the execs for those decisions, NOT THE UNIONS, who only built what they were told to build. All the innovation was in Japan, and now South Korea and Germany. The only area we excel in is giant trucks and SUVs, which are unsustainable in the long run, unless they convert it all to EV. The future of autos is not the internal combustion engine. American companies rested on their laurels and got lazy. At least our tech industry rules the world.
@Collen Flarity I would be willing to do it if I had that kind of money laying around. What's your idea? Wait until we have no jobs at all? You do know we import from westernized countries right?
Your comments are full of hope hard work and ideas, unfortunately governments don’t have common sense and good ideas, they care little for the country and the state it’s in. Doesn’t help that most are happy living as they are lazy, in squalor and on benefits.
Asian gentrification is coming soon to a hood near you.
@@MeadowDay, you are so right. They could, if they really wanted to, clean up those blighted neighborhoods, run out the drug dealers and gang bangers and take back their neighborhoods but when there are so many free government handouts to be had, the professional welfare parasites are just content to live in squalor, do their drugs and look for the next free deal to come along. When I think of Detroit, Chicago and parts of New York, this is what always comes to mind.
The Henry Ford museum was a really cool thing to see...thanks Spoda...
As a Londoner it’s amazing how much space each property has
You should see the rural areas its nothing for people to own a beautiful home on 15-20 acres its getting harder to acquire those types of properties though every year prices keep going up
Yes the cities in America have always been more spread out than the typical European city,, but seeing the empty property around the existing houses is astounding to me because almost all of those lots were occupied at one time...The thing is Londoners have far too much respect for their city and country to allow their major industrial areas to go the way of Detroit although when you look at Birmingham and Manchester it's easy to see how it's tending that way...
Same thing in Australia, though these days suburban house plots are smaller.
Us much more better than UK ....UK mostly only small areas
@@user-zc9ol1mn1t Keep your whole 9 yards and we’ll hold onto sentence structure.
Those houses are just beautiful, imagine normal people would live there, and those houses were well maintained, what a neighborhood it could have been...
It’s sad seeing all of those houses in horrible condition.😢
I was born in Detroit in 54, my parents had already beat feet to the suburbs. I worked in Detroit off and on but stayed away from the areas you show. I wish the city could afford to knock all that mess down.
What burb did you live in. I was born in 55 and lived in Inkster, which is now as bad as Detroit.
You two do such a great job. I've been watching a few of your productions a day for over a week now and I must confess, I'm hooked. I have learned much from your series. I like the way you present information with such nonchalant mannerism as though I'm right there with you. Thank you for all that you do.
Wow, thank you, Kenneth. :)
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip You're most welcome, my good man. Thank you for the honor of your personal reply. (salute)
I'm pleasantly surprised to see at least the downtown appears to be clean and even beautiful. It's very sad to see all of the boarded up and decaying cities. I hear some of the abandoned areas have been turned into urban farms that are helping with food deserts in neighborhoods without grocery stores. I hope we can bring industry back and reinvest in our cities. We all pay the price when companies relocate and manufacture overseas. Prices may be cheaper for it but at what cost to cities like Detroit. We're better than this.
I was pleasantly surprised as well. I was mentally prepared for it to be bad, but it was pretty damn nice and vibrant.
Democrats sent our industry overseas.. starting in the late 70s.. gave china all kinds of trade deals .. undercutting our industries
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip It would be great if they could agree to shrink the city. The Northern suburbs are really really beautiful, safe, and clean. It's just the area in between downtown and the northern suburbs.
@@wendymotogirl black people
Here from Canada the last 5 years Detroit get been better. We liked fly from Detroit to Europe. One year it was so bad to drive throw Detroit you couldn't better stop for stoplights. 😀 now I can laughing about, but what was a scared, glad that a big trucker drove for me. When you stopped for a stoplights they loted your car empty. Real sad
Such beautiful homes and streets..destroyed. Hard to imagine it, let alone see it. Saddens me greatly...😢😢😢
Wow very interesting. A lot of cool buildings downtown. I would have loved to have seen what the neighborhoods were like in the 40s, 50s.
These homes are still beautiful in their on way. Love to have seen them in their heyday. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍
I'd like to take a metal detector and go through the ruins of the nicer brick homes, I bet there's a lot of good stuff buried. Maybe rolls of cash in the walls too. Never know.
@Red River Al if it is, rats done chewed everything up pppp.
@Red River Al if it is, rats done chewed everything up pppp.
@Red River Al if it is, rats done chewed everything up pppp.
I wish you’d shown more of how beautiful Detroit is. We have our bad but we also have a lot of great going on.
Yeah where at? Live near me for a few days, you will think differently really quick.
“We have our bad but we also have a lot of great going on.”
We just made Times list of greatest places in the world, as someone born and raised in Detroit that was an honor to see. Like I said - we have our bad and good. I assume you’re an east sider if it’s that bad lol.
@@Omgitssuki nope the west side. The east side looks like farm land. One or two homes on each corner, the rest is vacant lots where houses use to be. Pretty sure the west side will look like that in the next 10 or so more years. Lol oh and just posted today a man was shot, and later died from gun shots on the east side. Just today! Look it up on fox news....
@@Omgitssuki I get what you’re saying, but whoever made up that list did just that. Made that noise up!
boring.
What an incredibly beautiful city! It is such a shame that so many areas have decayed like this. I hope that someday it will be the city it once was.
Im sorry to say,will never hapen.
And a city in the US is getting better. And you know why.
It needs to be shrunk, as far as the actual city of Detroit, there are far too few people living there. They could turn 75% of it into something else, farmland? tech businesses? whatever, but they need to condemn and raze large part of it first.
Unlikely to happen when a certain demographic is in control of large areas.
@@JustMe99999 why don't you just own your racism instead of trying to disguise it with vague language? Go ahead, use the n word. You know you want to. What a freaking coward.
I was born and raised in Detroit from 1957 to 1975 then spent 35 plus years in California from 1976 to 1995. Moved back to Detroit in 1995 to 2002, then back to Los Angeles in 2002 to 2018. Currently reside in Las Vegas, NV since April 2018. I have such fond memories of my childhood in Detroit and it breaks my heart to see how over the years Detroit has deteriorated to a shell of its glorious self. Would not trade my life in Detroit for nothing in the world. Much Love.
I've lived in Detroit for 11 years now and I have had zero issues 🤷
I live on a beautiful street with no vacant houses. The whole city isn't bombed out and vacant. There's still good people who live here and TONS of beautiful mansions
My dad was born in Detroit in 1934, it really is a shell of its former self. Growing up on the East side, they used to be able to go for ice cream at 11 at night and sit on the porch. My grandma had so many fond memories of growing up there herself. I remember of visiting Sacred Heart Seminary for classes and seeing and seeing a classy Rolls Royce in front of one of those crappy old houses. I thought that was odd.
My dad was born in Detroit in 1933. He scored the winning goal in Detroit high school hockey championship 1951. He is still alive and kicking, btw!
Not odd. Detroit has its fair share of dealers.
Interesting how nature has begun to reclaim some of those areas...
Is it? Fascinating.
No 💩.....
I'm born an raised in Detroit still here I was born in 1982 I'm 40 years old going on 41. There's so many nice looking neighborhoods and areas you could've shown. Why always show the run down areas. Detroit as plenty of nice looking neighborhoods even Mansions. Great video though.
Pretty cool how they've developed alleyways into boulevards with open restaurants.
He has trouble pronouncing names like Jacoby’s
The first half was very uplifting, then once you got further out, we see what we hear about. I pray that Detroit recovers. It seems to show signs of it, just not further out.
Honestly, I think Detroit is going to make a comeback. The people of Detroit are resilient and crafty. And with some solidarity I believe they will revive Detroit. Probably not back to the peak state it was once in but possibly better in ways no one would imagine. I'm proud to be a Michigander and have always had a love for our state in general. I think we can all learn something from Detroits citizens.
Yes we can how to not raise your children…
This looks like almost every major city in America . We gave manufacturing away to other countries . We killed the middle class American dream . We the people stand for ?
I was in Detroit in May if 2023 for the world Championships for robotics and as a Canadian I didn't find it scary. The people were incredibly nice and we walked around a lot even at night. I took my kids to the twelfth mall, Chrysler tour and Henry Ford museum. The civil rights section had a huge impact on my kids. As multiracial kids they were shocked and saddened by the thought of how people were treated for the color of their skin. I will definitely go back.
Lol just don't go to this area of Detroit
@@JeffyD58 I was in 7 and 8 mile I don't know why people think you can't go to certain places especially if you mind your own business. I have never had a problem in Detroit. We've been going for years. I'm even considering buying property there.
@@Mayhemsmom You do know Detroit is, and has been for a very long time, in the top ten of the most dangerous cities in America. You might want to take off those rose colored glasses, it may save your life. I had a friend, in his twenties, die when he was carjacked in Detroit. Good luck.
Try surviving here for a few weeks outside the " Green Zone" . Would you live in any of the areas shown in this video? In DeeToilet just going to a gas station can be a death sentence.
@@MayhemsmomOnly things around there are crack houses hookers and dingy Coney joints that serve thru bulletproof glass.Guess we know what you were up to😂😂😂😂😂
Was in Detroit a little over 10 years ago…stayed at the Ford Motors headquarters. Detroit was rundown at that time. Went over to Canada and it was gorgeous with all the mansions of the auto execs there.
Growing up on the doorstep of Detroit I am familiar with much of what you show. And I appreciate your courage. It makes me wonder if in your journeys have you ever been threatened or have you ever felt threatened?
I haven’t. 👍
Lived in Detroit in the late 70’s. Unions, poor management and foolish politicians got the control they wanted (leverage and money for free). Said then, it will turn into a sewer. Didn’t take long. Now, they need fewer police, to protect the blight.
So sad, technology took the jobs the unions said were irreplaceable. Feel so sorry for the many who get caught in the middle with no other options.
Very interesting. I like the way you show both sides of the coin. The museum might have added that Henry Ford was also an enthusiastic backer of Adolph Hitler and his policies. He provided much machinery for the German army. He was a great innovator, as well.
Ssshhh. The government does not like to have the American people know about that. Ford was also very anti semite and was partially responsible for persuading his butt licking buddy, Roosevelt, into refusing to allow the steamship St. Louis to dock in the US but forced it back out and into the hands of Nazi Germany. Hardly anyone survived, most being MURDERED in the death camps. Henry Ford was a real bastard of the first order. Many of the German military vehicles were built in Ford plants.
Interesting thing about the GM headquarters:
It was built by Ford, not as a headquarters, rather a very large campus to be used by many offices, of many companies.
The transfer to GM was a lot later.
I think that collection of buildings are among the most beautiful in the world.
The complex is called The Renaissance Center (or Ren Cen for short) and one of those towers is a hotel. The top of the round tower is a rotating restaurant.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip I lived in the Detroit area until I retired to TX. Wichita Falls has some of the dumpiest OCCUPIED houses I've ever seen! I can't believe people still live in them. At least in Detroit people knew when to get out of them 😄
@@redriveral2764
Interesting -
In the 1980s, I wanted to get out of Detroit because of its short summers. I thought of towns that were neither huge nor small.
I was curious about Wichita Falls, in particular.
Well, I did go in that direction- but only to a rural township north of Toledo, lol
@@Silverhaired59The Ren Cen is now GM headquarters. NOTHING remains of the original Renaissance Center. It’s all office space now.
The mood, colors, and bright light of spring over all this is just the best! And the architecture is so beautiful. Wonderful bigger trees too.. all the houses you drove by must have been such beautiful homes!
What a cool thing you're doing and sharing. Thank you.
There must be enough used brick in Detroit to built a four lane brick hi way around the world...maybe even twice.
Just where in Detroit is this area? Please visit and show the world what really nice neighhoods there are in this city where I live and love. I am so tired of my city being portrayed in this manner.
@@lorettaorme299 its way too late, it will never look great like it did when it was the 50s.
@@lorettaorme299 just a square mile of downtown Detroit...
Idea - Used brick processing and cleaning machine = All the old bricks can be use for rebuilding! Maybe wood too!
@lorettaorme299 your city is a dilapidated mess lol
Saddest sight imaginable. Once one of our great cities. Now a disaster.
Hiroshima looks better
People who don't visit Detroit always talking bad , plus Detroit got a lot of beautiful areas and homes, and every city gots bad areas. These mf's come to are Detroit and just shows the bad areas. Stop.
60 years ago
Uh Detroit is a big city and have alot of beautiful area's they just show you the slum so stop it
@@glw2 do you stay there?
Detroit can be saved! Our government ( both parties) would rather nation build then help our fellow Americans. Detroit, Gary, Indiana, Flint, Michigan were powerhouse cities not that long ago.
Breaks my heart to see all the big, beautiful homes in such disrepair and falling down. The brutal Winters aren't helping, I'm sure. The museum was fabulous! Thank you for showing us
I totally agree, Lora. Many of those houses would be $750,000 or more anywhere else (in good condition, of course).
those abandoned mansion size or not is of no value. you can buy them at auction for a $1. but it is just silly to buy them, if nobody wants to live in a crime infested neighborhood.
@@MBihon2000 who knows what Detroit will be like in 20 years could be a bitcoin like investment
@@MBihon2000 maybe the fact that Detroit is now 70 % black
people, so I understand. You don't need to say anything more really.
Lot's of gangs and drug dealers now control those streets. They should
call in the army, and clean up all the crime, and criminals, then you
could start to rebuild. Other than that, it will likely stay "as is."
There are some areas in the City of Detroit that are still upscale and beautifully preserved. Check out Indian Village (Seminole, Iroquois, and Burns between Mack and Jefferson) and Boston Blvd. (not far from where LS was filming). Here are houses that will sell for millions if they were anywhere else, but are bargains due to Detroit's financial situation and lack of services.
I grew up in Detroit, went to Wayne State University in the 70's and lived near campus. Loved every minute, even though wandering very far off campus was dangerous. One of the worst areas , one that looked like your tour, is now a historic district. There are many pockets of them throughout the city, renovated homes with strong community support. I've lived in Los Angeles since 1978, and visit Detroit yearly. The changes are amazing.
It was so bad you were speechless😂 I grew up about 20 miles northwest of Detroit in Pontiac. Both places were nice in the sixties and early to mid seventies. Everyone who wanted to work could at that time. You could get a job right out of high school, buy a house, raise a family, and send your kids to college, all with one job. Then the auto worker jobs left, partly due to company greed, some of the problem due to a few lazy union workers that spoiled it for everyone, and then there was the oil embargo coupled with smaller, cheaper, more fuel-efficient cars out of Japan. The area never recovered.
And corrupt politicians that ran the place. I remember when cavanaugh was mayor. Then Young
Windsorite Canadian here, I appreciate your take on how the wealth that kept these neighborhoods going just simply wasn't sustainable in the automotive industry. Too many comments blaming African Americans and minorities.
@grahamdolsen8507 Well there was this "riot" thing that happened. Riots really don't bring people together.
@@eeddieedwards3890 nice to be informed of that but I really don't give a rat's ass.
It is sad to see those big beautiful homes just falling apart.
I had so much fun in Detroit and in that alleyway over the Memorial Day weekend one year. Beautiful weather. Lots of people, lots of live music. It was an absolute blast. Detroit gets a bad rap but the downtown is so wonderful. 💜✨
You drive thru outside Detroit in the middle of the day chum, and even the trees look scared!!
Boating rules in the river are a little tricky. In general you can boat anywhere in the river if you don't anchor or stop at a dock.once in a while the coast guard will pick up a suspicious boat that drifts into American waters. Things were much more relaxed before 9/11. You could drive over to Canada and wouldn't even be asked for I'D. Just where you were going and for how long.
Thank you for leading in with the normal parts of the city.
The downtown is beautiful. It’s clean, walkable and vibrant - lots of people were walking around there. The Ford Museum is probably my favorite in the US so far.
Just so people know, this video missed 2 sculptures: Spirit of Detroit, Joe Louis fist and also some other things like: Heidlberg Project, Belle Isle, Riverwalk, DIA (home of the Diego Rivera Frescos), Science Center (with IMAX) and Detroit Historical Museum...If you take Woodward Avenue (the first mile of paved road in the country) down into Highland Park, you can also see the very sad, decaying National Historic landmark that is the factory where they built the model T using the first assembly line.
thank you Karen
Detroit is turning out a new EV called the "Mr. T" - it's a "T-top"!
Ahhh yesss the black power symbol at Jefferson and Woodward. The Heidelberg thing piles of piles like the video the dhows except with purple polka dots !
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This is just the third video of yours I've watched. The first two, it was always just streets upon streets of derelict places. Then we get to this one, and it was so random how there would be 1 to 3 still maintained structures scattered throughout 20 derelict ones. Kind of different from the other ones I have seen (Gary, IN & Cairo) where all the damaged & abandoned ones just all seem to be together, and the maintained ones seem to mostly be together. Wild seeing this.
There's a channel called The Shea Show about a guy who renovates houses in Detroit and he explains a lot of this.
Yes, the city has ben tearing down all the old, abandoned houses. Obviously, the houses still standing are lived in and kept up, but everything around them is now gone, and the people still there are happy about that as they were used as drug houses, etc. They are razing 3000 houses per year.
Don't What These Dudes... Detroit Haters
Love watching these videos, I'm from the UK and I can just imagine the place back in the days when the motor industry was thriving. These must have been beautiful houses , so much open space as well.
As a European who only knows the airport of Detroit (which by the way is probably the best hub airport in the US), I am shocked to see what parts of the city look like. I would not have guessed that.
What also puzzles me is how you see rows of decaying houses, but then there are pretty good looking cars parked between them. Where are the people driving these cars? They certainly don't live in houses that sure were once beautiful but now look like a good sneeze anywhere near would turn them into a pile of rubble.
Yes they do. Taxpayers are paying their rent, and buying their cars. They don’t work for anything, so they don’t appreciate anything, so they destroy everything. Even themselves.
I wish you idenified which neighborhoods/cross streets you visited.
I worked in Downtown Detroit for decades. Rule #1 - stay out of the neighborhoods after dark, Rule #2 - do not go to gas stations after dark.
Rule 3, don't ever go to Detroit.
Just don’t go on the Eastside lol
@@TheJeremie247
These days, there are good and bad neighborhoods on both sides.
@@1L6E6VHF exactly
I grew up on the east side in the 50s. Great memories of a family tradition and good neighbors, with different cultures and great food.
breathtaking homes, beverly hills eat your heart out
When I was in college I worked as a tour guide at greenfield village and Henry Ford museum. The TV changes were cool. Great video.
I live in SE Michigan and go to Detroit often for events. I just spent a week there for the Grand Prix. I had a great time and stayed in Mexican Village. All of the people I encountered were very friendly. Every city has blight and rough neighborhoods. Detroit is going to revive itself.
Much of the rot and decay you can not see, when you posted the downtown "drone" skyline section realize that only 25% of those buildings have people working in them, many are unusable due to theft of utilities (Wiring, pipe & plumbing fixtures)
This is why you see some new buildings being built
Most of the Detroit buildings are unoccupied, but still standing there. Very prohibitive rental cost and inadequate businesses to rent them.
You are showing us our country! Thank you!
I was born and raised in Detroit in 50,60 was great. It is a shame
I worked in Windsor for a few years and would go over to Detroit once in a while for a night out, or just drive around and do an apocalypse tour. Its crazy to see what was once a very rich city turn into the urban nightmare scape a lot of it is now. Those old houses look like they would have been magnificent back in the day. Still, there are some bright spots in the city.
I used to go to the Gardens in Windsor every Easter. I remember they had a RCAF Lancaster on display. Tunnel BBQ was a great place to eat. Fantastic Ribs.
It depends how and where you drive thru the city. If you start by the airport and take the roads south deep into the city and then head west you go from abject poverty to suburbs to country homes with land around them. I took a 30 mile tour and there was abject poverty to affluent areas further to the west. North of the airport are many destitute areas as well. Again depends on the trip.
I used to deliver for Sargent Appliance and often went to neighborhoods like this is in Detroit. Very often I would deliver 800lb fridges and ranges, 2 sets of laundry upstairs and down. Another full kitchen in the basement and not even get a tip from these rich bitches in the suburbs costing $50,000. Then we would deliver a $300 stove to a street with more burned out houses than livable. There would practically be the whole neighborhood waiting for us waiting for their Grandma to get a new stove and gave us white boys hugs and asked us to come back for dinner. Detroit is love not just death. P.S. I just can't, it's heartbreaking and bringing me literally right back to those same exact streets @15:00
that music at the beginning had me TURNT UP
Thank you for this candid view of Detroit. My parents and grandparents all lived there at one time not too far from downtown. I was born there but left when our parents packed us up in the mid 60's. I've never visited. My parents talked about the multiple generation families that lived in those houses....damn shame. The auto industry should do more to clean up the mess since they are the ones that drew all those people there.
Detroit is an interesting place. The downtown is really nice. Lots of people there. The suburbs are nice as well. And then you've got this huge swath of area in-between filled with huge houses that are literally disintegrating into the ground and being reclaimed by nature. It's not hard to understand what happened. 60 years ago Detroit had a population of 1.8 million. There's a little over 600,000 now. It's sad that so many jobs left the city.
Went to Detroit last summer. That city is making a huge comeback. I am an old white dude, but was treated like a family member where ever I went.
City was electric.
I am cheering for you Detroit.
Those homes were once beautiful. I have a pic of my father’s house that he grew up in. It was new and gorgeous. My father was born in 1918 in Detroit. My grandfather and great grandfather owned a butcher shop, Wesley and sons. I have a pic of the front of the store with a horse drawn carriage in front. They moved to Fort Worth, Texas in the late 50’s. I was born there in 1962. My grandmothers family is still there. I would love to go there. Thank you for this tour and the museum.
It is a stark warning to other cities, what can go south when your industry is swept away and what can happen without a point for existence. Rows of houses in areas and on blocks that people would die for are all in a state of decay. Perhaps the capitalist model is built on a foundation of disposability, that includes people and cities. How to rebuild, and create a sustainable ie long-term viable cityscape - requires a lot of thinking and a new not so capitalist focused model. Detroit is a fascinating city, with amazing industrial and cultural history, and a yet-to-be-determined future - the two books by Paul Clemens - Made in Detroit and Closing Down really give a feel for the working class life of the past.
Perfectly said.
I've had the opportunity to work in Detroit quite often over the past 10 or 12 years. It has a reputation, that to me at least, is undeserved. The downtown area is a lot of fun, with plenty of nightlife. And many of the rougher neighborhoods are directly the effect of "White Flight." When the car assembly plants moved away, crime increased, and many of the people moved away also. Hence the abandoned housing and Neighborhoods. Auto workers lived in these places. Many of these plants moved either overseas or to the non-union deep south. But, I'm happy to report, Detroit is making a remarkable comeback. It's a city well worth visiting.
It is bad but not that terrible as to safety as long as you are smart. Obviously have to watch yourself regardless of where you are. I ride my bicycle through these neighborhoods on a regular basis and have never had a problem. The bigger issue is the decay of these homes and the conditions that some people are forced (or choose) to live in. Certain areas that were "abandoned" will never see the density they once had and to provide city services such as police, fire, and mail to huge areas is not efficient or even possible on stretched budgets. The answer is to create areas of density but not easy to tell someone that they must move in order to receive them.
HI joe i'm Paul from the Uk , i was in the states last year and i couldnt believe my eyes at times i done a road trip with a friend we drove from Boston across to San Francisco then on down the coast road to LA , the things people see on TV about America is nothing like the real America , we went though down town Detroit i was so sad to see beautiful building just wasting away , if they were here in the UK they would be worth 2 million at least ,,, and as i drove across i see so much hardship,,,, i was glad to come home but will be back in a year or two ,,,,great vids
I love the "Pure Michigan" sign at the beginning. Pure poetry.
Wonderful video! The contrast between downtown Detroit and the urban decay in the suburban area you drove around was quite jarring. I know not all of Detroit suburbia is like that, but it is poignant to see nonetheless. To think those crumbling houses were once lived in by families who no doubt took pride in their homes and yards... Very sad.
I enjoyed your traipse around the Henry Ford museum. But of all the amazing things in there, I was most taken with that drawing of Washington done by a schoolgirl in 1800. I bet when she drew that, she never dreamed it would end up in a museum over 200 years later! The "Wienermobile" was a hoot 😁
Great comment, Markus. I thought the exact same thing when I saw the drawing!
Quick correction. The areas of old decimated neighborhoods are still inside the city of Detroit. The first part is the downtown area and then he drives around old neighborhoods.
The suburbs have some blight but they are mostly where people moved after leaving the city. The area of Detroit city proper is quite large and it was known for being one of the major cities with a spread out population and not primarily in dense housing developments.
Today the city population is 1/3 of its peak and the it is thinly spread out which makes the strain on services even more difficult to maintain manage efficiently.
@@ronsliwinski Thanks for the additional info Ron, cheers!
@@ronsliwinski Right, the city of Detroit is way too big to manage efficiently, with diminishing tax base. Detroit should give up part of it's surrounding town and cities, like downsizing a company therefore they can managed better within their current budget.
@@MBihon2000, it is all still Detroit, not surrounding towns that can be given away. Detroit is 144 sq. miles big. There are now urban farms and even an urban forest being planted within the city limits. Neighboring houses can buy the lots adjoining it where houses have been torn down for a token fee. Many do.
I was born and raised in Detroit, and I still think it’s a beautiful wonderful place! All the burned out buildings bring me a peace
I'm coming there soon to see it up close and in person.
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A lot of those areas you drove through don't have street lights anymore. Not a place for an outsider to be once the sun sets
Didn't know that!!
@@cherrysmart3500 not very often they get fresh meat driving by!
My hood for 30-years. Rough times for many of us. I'm still proud to say I'm from Detroit.
Born and raised and still live in Detroit. Thanks for this vid. You've shown me a few things that I didn't know existed.
Funny thing is, the bad areas you showed actually look really good now. You should've seen those same areas 15 years ago! OH BOY! Most of those empty lots had old houses or buildings on them that had burned completely down or fallen in or over , or just mounds of trash. Those areas look great now! 😅
Thanks for the vid!
I can't imagine the occupancy of those skyscrapers is anything but near empty. They are mostly empty shells. I left Michigan almost 20 years ago and thank my lucky stars I moved to Texas. But the drive around brought back memories of better times I enjoyed during the '60's.
actually no they're all occupied now . restored much like most of the buildings in downtown including the train station
And now ur sweating balls" 99 100s for wks on end!! Yuck
All I see are once beautiful large homes in disrepair, I can see the beauty of the house and craftmanship. Probably a very high-end neighborhood where those bigger houses are, just makes me think how grand it all was.
You're right.
Yeah 40 years ago.
Go in and fix one up and move in. You’ll be giving them a place to shop when your not home!
@@Mountainrock70 amen to that. Free shopping for all. Well said.....
Detroit was a big successful city back in the 40s,50, until mid 60s. After the riots of the 60s,70s white people have abandoned the city and moved to the suburb. The creation of the interstate highway system also gave way for the suburbanites to buy homes in the suburbs with newly built homes at more affordable prices, yet peaceful and quiet.
What's crazy about these pockets you showed is that there appears to be no rhyme or reason to where people are residing. Burnt out house, ruins of a house, Car parked in driveway, another burnt out house, dangerous-looking ruins, windowless house...
I'd understand if they were the less destroyed homes-and many if not most have had outside vandalism help reaching these apocalyptic states-but there are obviously people still or now living among this.
It cost the city $10,000- $20,000 to demolished and clean up abandoned houses. So, the money set aside for demolition is not enough to do the job completely. Also, there is no demand to build affordable single family homes in Detroit when there is no decent paying jobs available within the city limits.
Sometimes you get crackhead squatters move in to an abandoned house and the easiest way to rid them is to burn the house down
So many dreams detroyed. It's almost melancholic
You can tell those homes were once beautiful and some of them quite grand. Brick. Good bones. Such a shame. I live just outside of Flint and we have the same although much of downtown Flint is being revitalized.
I am a Detroit resident and it's not like they put in these videos
I remember when Detroit was boomin. It was actually a nice city at one time. It still had a small bad area but for the most part it was nice.
Does anyone remember the Christmas displays they used to have at Cobo hall many, many years ago. I grew up In AA and had family in Detroit. Loved to go there around Christmas to the department stores.
I Grew Up at 11721 Otsego between Elmhurst and Burlingame "My house was the one in the Middle of the block that Still looks Decent", 2 blocks off Dexter back in the 60's and 70's, I Cry when I see it now.
It’s sad what this city’s become. I no many from Detroit who are great people. I was raised in Oakland county but moved north 12 years ago after inheriting property there. I’m now in the poorest county in MI.