Highland Park, Michigan | What The Hell Happened?

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  • @EdSteelieEd
    @EdSteelieEd Рік тому +191

    Watching this made me ill. I did a lot of growing up in Highland Park from the late 50’s to the mid 70’s. HPHS class of 72. I delivered papers in these neighborhoods. I delivered papers in Highland Towers in the 1960’s and it was a beautiful building inside and out. Business brought me back in the late 90’s through 2010. I knew it was bad but I didn’t realize it was this bad! I have a lot of good memories of Highland Park and a few bad ones too! This is very sad!

  • @Crookedroadpodcast
    @Crookedroadpodcast Рік тому +101

    I grew up a few miles north of here up Woodward Ave. You did everything to avoid this area even in the '70's. But in the '60's I was ice skating with my parents at a park in Highland Park. The '67 riots changed everything.

  • @paulscottfilms
    @paulscottfilms Рік тому +13

    Well done Hoods and Hollers . Letting the scene speak for itself and not introducing an unnecessary commentary

  • @Acousticeg
    @Acousticeg Рік тому +332

    You may not want to believe it...but this is what's happening all across our country. Little by little this is a look into the future of us all.

  • @trackman174
    @trackman174 Рік тому +97

    I worked at Chrysler during the 70’s and Highland Park was a vibrant city. There were wonderful neighborhoods with some interesting local bars. We built some really great cars in the early 70’s until the government took things over and basically changed everything. I am very grateful to have had the chance to help build some of the most incredible cars to ever come out of Detroit.

  • @Thom_Yorky
    @Thom_Yorky Рік тому +41

    My parents lived in Highland Park in the 60's and 70's and it was a beautiful area. What a complete shame.

  • @johndesilets7060
    @johndesilets7060 Рік тому +20

    Amazing how you don't have to say a word, it all speaks for itself

  • @juliereavis9900
    @juliereavis9900 Рік тому +16

    My grandparents lived in Highland Park. My grandfather worked at Ford Motor Company where he suffered a back injury. There was no compensation at that time and he died a few years later probably from the treatment. We have pictures of him in a wheelchair. The house they lived in is gone now. Thank you very much for making this video slow so that we can take it all in.

  • @4knanapapa
    @4knanapapa Рік тому +44

    From the early 1900s to the mid 50s Highland park was considered a upscale neighborhood with fine homes, sad to see it today.

  • @JoJo-ie8sl
    @JoJo-ie8sl Рік тому +77

    I vaguely remember this area. My grandparents lived near-ish to here; I think one of my great-uncles worked at an auto factory in Highland. When the factories left, no jobs, no future.

    • @JoJo-ie8sl
      @JoJo-ie8sl Рік тому +21

      When Gramps died and we were looking to sell their house, there was a big story about Highland Park's unpaid electric bill. One of the power companies came in and was pulling up poles right outta the ground..

  • @smorgasbroad1132
    @smorgasbroad1132 Рік тому +150

    I wonder what types of crimes are being committed here. No stores to rob, few occupied homes to burglarize, few cars to steal. 🤷🏼

  • @williamstone4334
    @williamstone4334 Рік тому +60

    Think of how proud owners of these buildings were when they were new.

  • @davidskidmore6768
    @davidskidmore6768 Рік тому +67

    These videos are depressing and amazing at the same time. I would love to have seen these places in the good days.

  • @misterpolytech
    @misterpolytech Рік тому +16

    I can't watch any more...I remember Highland Park from back in the early 70's, when I was a kid. It was a really nice place to live back then.

  • @KWMc1952
    @KWMc1952 Рік тому +95

    You can tell this would have been a fine place to live at one time. Very sad.

  • @JeffFrmJoisey
    @JeffFrmJoisey Рік тому +10

    I worked at Chrysler in Highland Park 1978-79. The area was starting to become a bit “iffy” then but everything was intact. Seeing it now as a Post Apocalyptic Ghost Town is mind boggling.

  • @MrScotia
    @MrScotia Рік тому +71

    Really sad to see so many homes and impressive buildings go to ruin. The whole area looks dead apart from a few homes that are still occupied.

  • @universoinfinito7125
    @universoinfinito7125 Рік тому +51

    I don't know the United States. My question is: Is the United States really like this? Is there a future and opportunities in that country? What I see from these videos surprises me. Greetings from Spain

  • @eddiejones-fm7pr
    @eddiejones-fm7pr Рік тому +9

    I lived on the corner of McNichols and Log cabin on the corner Apartment on the first floor in 1980. It's shown just before the old Highland Pk. community college near the end of the video. That whole row of apartments were magnificent. I am now an orthopedic surgeon in a small town in Illinois. Memories live...

  • @drummerboy1390
    @drummerboy1390 Рік тому +41

    If someone described this to you, you’d think they were exaggerating.
    Then you see it with your own eyes.

  • @0annonymous
    @0annonymous Рік тому +43

    Here's what I found on Google:
    Highland Park's economy was for many years led by the Chrysler Corporation's headquarters and a Ford Motor Company tractor plant. However, by the early 1990s both had moved elsewhere, severely affecting the local economy and leading to population loss

  • @susanjacquier5358
    @susanjacquier5358 Рік тому +18

    This is so sad. I was going to ask what the building was at 1.52...but then more and more...too many to count. What a magnificent city this must have been once.

  • @lste
    @lste Рік тому +2

    Thanks for sharing. Without movies like yours we wouldnt know whats going on.

  • @danielsweeney6742
    @danielsweeney6742 Рік тому +19

    Highland Park in it’s hay day was a wealthy city. Until the money left it was a great place. There are still remnants of large mansions. Now parted out into apartments.

  • @AndrewLachowicz-r9i
    @AndrewLachowicz-r9i 8 днів тому

    These abandoned neighborhoods are fascinating to me. This hood maybe down now but there is lots of space and opportunities for urban renewal and the historic architecture is amazing. Michigan has the space and water 💦 to make stuff happen. It is a beautiful and fascinating place. Can’t wait to visit again!

  • @richardseifried7574
    @richardseifried7574 Рік тому +18

    Why do we have so many abandoned houses and so many homeless?

  • @dogmom2023
    @dogmom2023 Рік тому +65

    Sad and depressing to me. I bought a 5,000.00 1926 home to save it. The architecture and the art that went into building it makes it worth saving. Beautiful home going to garbage. God save Michigan.

  • @Rosetea405
    @Rosetea405 Рік тому +44

    So sad such beautiful homes, Ford and Chrysler outsourced for cheaper labor overseas and this is the outcome 😢

  • @irossYVR
    @irossYVR Рік тому

    Thanks!

  • @westentrance
    @westentrance Рік тому +8

    “The City of Trees” It was beautiful once, I remember it well.

  • @SunriseLAW
    @SunriseLAW Рік тому +20

    Don't know about 'now' but MIchigan had a most unusual Holloween tradition called "Hell Night" .. lots of people all over setting fire to abandoned buildings.

  • @somerandomvertebrate9262
    @somerandomvertebrate9262 Рік тому +25

    Imagine somebody from the early 20th century driving by and seeing this.

  • @chaseroberts3111
    @chaseroberts3111 Рік тому +11

    If there was film or even phots of this place in the 40's and 50's the contrast would be amazing. I do agree with many who have posted, this is the future for the rest of America

  • @ronz101
    @ronz101 Рік тому +30

    Even the church properties, mainstays in any community, are worn. Rust belt areas abound in the Northeast as you've pointed out in many videos.
    Abandoned properties are fodder for vandalism.
    Areas here in Baltimore are much the same sadly.

    • @hoodsnhollers
      @hoodsnhollers  Рік тому +13

      Baltimore is coming up very shortly! That was one of the worst places I've ever been to for sure.

  • @dogwithwigwamz.7320
    @dogwithwigwamz.7320 Рік тому +25

    I`m from England and have seen some rough and run-down places over here - but nothing quite like this. This was clearly a once impressive and prestigious place to live.
    Who`s next ? Where next ?

  • @onrycodger
    @onrycodger Рік тому +8

    As usual! Another fine video. They say it helps the channel to comment, Sooo, Thumbs up 👍

    • @hoodsnhollers
      @hoodsnhollers  Рік тому +4

      Thanks so much and yes comments and likes greatly help the channel!

  • @randylplampin1326
    @randylplampin1326 Рік тому +13

    3:17 When even the church is trashed you know there is a serious problem.

  • @stevengray932
    @stevengray932 Рік тому +15

    all the towns were built on indrusty now we can notice the problems we have no industry no jobs no people now everyone having to move for work and another overcrowded city all this area going to get lost at some point everyone cramed together in 1 place

  • @gregmijjares3725
    @gregmijjares3725 Рік тому +17

    This place looks like it's been put under an evil curse !

  • @danhays9769
    @danhays9769 Рік тому +2

    I find the content and quality of what you film fantastic. I've spent the last three days binge watching your videos. I really like the Detroit high rises being reclaimed by nature really cool. I even played a few at half speed since there is so much to see and it gives me more time to see everything. Great job! What kind of camera do you use?

    • @hoodsnhollers
      @hoodsnhollers  Рік тому +3

      Thanks so much for watching! 60fps makes everything look much faster even though I’m barely moving. Camera wise I experiment all the time but Sony a series work the best.

  • @cheskydivision
    @cheskydivision Рік тому +7

    The area started coming back in around 1990 , houses being rehabbed some new ones then by 93 you see these same house empty and burned. It was weird.

  • @jerrydemain2346
    @jerrydemain2346 Рік тому +3

    thank you for showing this to us!!

  • @1940limited
    @1940limited Рік тому +17

    Yes, is this really the US? I ask myself that question all the time.

  • @ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw
    @ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw Рік тому +1

    I was born in Highland Park in 1953 and to me- This is Heartbreaking.

  • @stevenredman1582
    @stevenredman1582 Рік тому +3

    My mom and her family lived at 22 Highland Ave in Highland Park. She graduated from HPHS in 1944 and the family immediately moved to Ohio. I found the old property on Google maps and of course, it's just an empty lot, now.

  • @kathleenszymanski199
    @kathleenszymanski199 Рік тому +2

    I grew up in Detroit in the 50’s and 60’s 70’s I remember visiting my relatives in Highland Park, shopping there with mom and dad. I remember taking my daughter to get her special shoes in Hamtramck, 2 of my children grew up in their early years off Woodward and 7 Mile. The old house is gone now but the memories remain. What has happened to these great cities? Sad so very sad.😢

    • @ericw3229
      @ericw3229 Рік тому +2

      Same here. Lived near Fenkell & Livernois later further west on Fenkell. My uncle lived in HP he was a cop there on Grove .My dad worked for Ex Cello in HP. Later I worked in the very same building for different company on Hamilton Ave. Our family shopped a lot in Downtown Highland Park

  • @mariancowles3042
    @mariancowles3042 Рік тому +5

    I wonder what possibly could have happened to this Once beautiful City and neighborhoods?

  • @josephbrands6303
    @josephbrands6303 Рік тому +14

    Imagine that, the liquor store was still open.

  • @tfoen7678
    @tfoen7678 Рік тому +9

    Great video and tour.
    This was once a community which fell due to the automotive and jobs leaving the area.
    The building might be renovated if the right company and funding are there to help make it a nice place...maybe.
    Hopefully there's progress in making it better than worse.

  • @howielisnoff
    @howielisnoff Рік тому +17

    Need to look at why sections of this nation have been abandoned. It’s not hard to figure out how an area, once vibrant, now is lost. These are great tragedies!

  • @katjawieloch6062
    @katjawieloch6062 Рік тому +32

    Disturbing! I wonder how those people feel who still live in this apocalyptic landscape.

  • @michelleburkholder2547
    @michelleburkholder2547 Рік тому +8

    While some cities are delapitated, others are simply unaffordable. What the hell happened indeed?

  • @Uniden1100
    @Uniden1100 Рік тому +15

    Well there is a story behind it. Highland Park was a beauiful city. I had two uncles and a grandma living there. They put the wrong person in there and crime went crazy. My uncle was the fire chief and had to close 2 fire stations because of no money. The only one left had to have a armed guard cause they had been rob on a run.

  • @charlesharnois3684
    @charlesharnois3684 Рік тому +3

    Jobs Leave, People Leave, This Area like So Many Others Will Never Recover! Level All Of It, And Let Nature Return.

  • @Heavy_Distortion
    @Heavy_Distortion Рік тому +7

    Taking us places many would never to dare enter.

  • @jayshaw63
    @jayshaw63 Рік тому +13

    On the upside, there is no shortage of affordable housing. And rush hour traffic is pretty light.

  • @Iconoclasher
    @Iconoclasher Рік тому +11

    It looks dystopian to see that nice house @ 7:37 with a new car in the driveway with the zombie apocalypse around it. 😮

  • @frankfreeman1444
    @frankfreeman1444 Рік тому +11

    The stores that sell cans of spray paint seem to still be doing well!

  • @JohnChalmers617
    @JohnChalmers617 Рік тому +5

    It almost makes you want to cry for what once was.

  • @Padoinky
    @Padoinky Рік тому +9

    Land is plentiful; people use to live near industries/ jobs; work has changed and thus industries and jobs have also; etc…. in fact, there are and have been ghost towns all over the nation, such that these abandoned places aren’t nothing new at all, just more of what has happened time and time again….

  • @vickisawyer7405
    @vickisawyer7405 Рік тому

    And here I am again, looking at all of those beautiful old trees and wondering what's going to happen to them...I watch the videos of the old, abandoned houses soon to be torn down and feel bad, but the trees are still alive and they will go too. My neighbor just cut down a tree that was close to 100 years old - they wanted more light, but to each his own. Thank you for the video.

  • @sandralee4143
    @sandralee4143 11 місяців тому +1

    This is heartbreaking.

  • @aheimdahl5201
    @aheimdahl5201 Рік тому +15

    Wow these buildings and houses look like they have been abandoned for a good 30 or 40 years

  • @jamesecroucher
    @jamesecroucher Рік тому +3

    What was that huge building at 2:24 once used for?

  • @Judy-oe8ug
    @Judy-oe8ug Рік тому +4

    Reminds me of the way Gary Indiana looks! From Eastern Kentucky

  • @ceejay960
    @ceejay960 Рік тому

    3:40 I bought many pieces of electronics at Highland Appliance in Grand Rapids MI. I wonder if this was the first one.

    • @sammyweed4771
      @sammyweed4771 Рік тому

      Lol my brother worked at one in the 70,s outside of Detroit. Downriver

  • @bobbyjohnson6355
    @bobbyjohnson6355 Рік тому +1

    Believe it or not, that run down dilapidated street with the boarded up businesses and burned out apartment buildings is Woodward Ave, where the Dream Cruise is held every year just a few miles north

  • @aparicioarguinarena4483
    @aparicioarguinarena4483 Рік тому +12

    I would love to explore the inside of those houses, they have so much history to tell

  • @elvinjonas5451
    @elvinjonas5451 Рік тому +2

    Highland Park has struggled for decades. I was once a Detroiter and passing through HP was always sad.

  • @KristNi
    @KristNi Рік тому +30

    Most people thought just Detroit looked like this. The entire country does if you ask me and this UA-camr.

  • @richardtrudeau7363
    @richardtrudeau7363 Рік тому +8

    When Chrysler HQ left it went down fast.

  • @karlthomas7363
    @karlthomas7363 10 місяців тому +1

    i grew up in highland park on elmhurst and hamilton.

  • @jparker59able
    @jparker59able Рік тому +3

    Very sad how a once thriving and beautiful city has come to this.

  • @quercusrubra777
    @quercusrubra777 Рік тому +4

    Once upon a time a great society . . . .

  • @hemlock68
    @hemlock68 11 місяців тому +1

    They made a film with danny glover here ten yrs ago about a huge lottery win. Ironic

  • @garylines5755
    @garylines5755 Рік тому +9

    Sad makes you wonder where all of the people went

  • @michaelanthonyvideos
    @michaelanthonyvideos Рік тому +4

    This is an improvement combo how it was in the 80’s.

  • @billobrien5140
    @billobrien5140 Рік тому +1

    Highland Appliance ( 3:38 ) went out of business as a chain in the mid 1990s IIRC. Nothing has been done with that building since. Rear projection TV at the curb 5:25 . No one can lift one of those things.

  • @richclay4209
    @richclay4209 Рік тому +8

    Many years ago parts of the south was headed in the same direction, until some figured it out. A lot of the industry that managed to survive moved south to the right to work states where the cost of doing business is sustainable.

  • @NicholasANappiNick
    @NicholasANappiNick Рік тому +4

    Makes Newark look like heaven 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @Intrix_Gaming
    @Intrix_Gaming Рік тому +4

    crazy how the forest is slowly retaking back what took from it.

    • @mikekemper9566
      @mikekemper9566 Рік тому +1

      Yes... 200yrs from now forest will reclaim land

  • @fjcrod
    @fjcrod Рік тому +2

    Not even Walt Kowalski could save Highland Park now.

  • @genekelly8467
    @genekelly8467 Рік тому +6

    Chrysler left its gigantic Highland Park factory-why didn't the city try to attract other car manufacturers?...like Hyundai, Toyota, BMW, VW, Honda, etc.-all these people built plants in other states--why would thet do this?

  • @tayzonday
    @tayzonday Рік тому +7

    Looks like a Fallout game

  • @gabrielpaulsmom
    @gabrielpaulsmom Рік тому +12

    the lack of traffic for a major city is very telling of its future. How much of this is caused by corruption in the government? I wonder if the city keeps track of the owners of those abandoned homes or anyone could just take it over and claim it as there own.

  • @Hasnanembong
    @Hasnanembong Рік тому

    America was so admired in the 70's and 80's. The houses were big, beautiful and luxurious to our Asian's eyes.
    How I dreamt to live in the US those days..

  • @pcs9518
    @pcs9518 Рік тому +2

    Factories closed and jobs left town you loose those and the people leave just like in old west ghost towns the gold and mining dried up and the people left allowing nature to reclaim the land

  • @jameslagesse1134
    @jameslagesse1134 Рік тому +1

    Highland, Mi is cool- where do I park tent/camper?

  • @KevinBarry-j8w
    @KevinBarry-j8w Рік тому +3

    The city where Ford had his first Model T factory

  • @sugarfree1894
    @sugarfree1894 Рік тому +1

    Must be strange to live there, amongst so much dereliction.

  • @unkindstyle_7
    @unkindstyle_7 10 місяців тому

    I grew up here on the north end # n.e.p. If you know you know . Harmon and brush , we even had a liquor store on the block , good times

  • @allsloppynojoe4011
    @allsloppynojoe4011 Рік тому +6

    It's basically Detroit. Not surprised

  • @burtwallace5909
    @burtwallace5909 Рік тому +1

    LORD BUDDA said " everything that has a beginning . has an ending . If you accept that . all will be well " [ That goes for the Passing of a Loved One as well ]

  • @randomhodgepodge8902
    @randomhodgepodge8902 Рік тому +1

    Beyond sad when most of it looks like it could be a movie set from The Walking Dead:(

  • @ericeverson5956
    @ericeverson5956 Рік тому +5

    When the money leaves, so do the people. Peace soon.

  • @1099670
    @1099670 Рік тому +1

    Some nice trees.

  • @billfrohberg3206
    @billfrohberg3206 Рік тому +1

    My grandfather went to work for Ford in HP, 1915. He'd be pretty sad to see this now.

  • @allenhanks7719
    @allenhanks7719 Рік тому +6

    Spray can paint store does well.

  • @ninaalceraz-gc4vh
    @ninaalceraz-gc4vh Рік тому +7

    No work no town.

  • @professorfoozle
    @professorfoozle Рік тому +11

    When I send these vids to people in poor Europian countries, they are dumbfounded at the decrepitude and degradation of Anglo-America. 70 years ago these were all beautiful, thriving, communities.

    • @JustAnAverageWoman69
      @JustAnAverageWoman69 Рік тому +10

      Everyone seems to think we're all rich over here in the USA. That couldn't be further from the truth.