My dad worked for the city of Cleveland in the 50's, 60's, 70's & into the 80's. He landed on Omaha Beach the morning of d-day & fought in the battle of the bulge. He went to work every day despite the perils of times such as the Hough riots. He had no fear of the city because he had been to hell already. Thanks Dad. You are a true hero.

Hard to believe today that Cleveland was the wealthiest city in the world in 1885.

@afridgetoofar1818

2 ай бұрын

Thank you, John Rockefeller

We came to Cleveland 65 years ago, and my family had applied for a visa. We waited 6 years my mother had work As soon as we came, our family was pround that we had the opportunity to be in Cleveland. I went to school. l had leard English before we arrived. I still have friends in Ohio

Yes, we'll tear down the slums of today, to make the slums of tomorrow...a never-ending cycle.

CLEVELAND didn’t MOVE OUT!!! The people and industry did!

I was 5 years old living there in 1962. It was still vibrant with industry (my father worked in the Flats and needed a junk car to take to work). This was the beginning of the downfall, but it was still an exciting place. Self proclaimed "Best Location in the Nation".

@user-ms5ed6kd2j

3 ай бұрын

Or Mistake on the Lake 😎

Cleveland is still managing to grow. A lot of money is vastly being poured into the city. It’s just not known by many people. Cleveland is actually thriving. I am a proud Clevelander.

@fragout9575

2 ай бұрын

I grew up in Cleveland too!! I became an architect and currently live in Arizona now, but miss Cleveland a lot! Glad to hear it's still thriving and making a comeback!! I'll forever be a Clevelander and a Die-hard Browns, Cavs and Indians (Guardians) fan as well!!! I'd love to be apart of the growth there, even if from afar!!

@thomasfx3190

22 күн бұрын

I just got here from Seattle 4 years ago and I like it fine!

That's Chet Huntley reporting. He was co-anchor, with David Brinkley, of NBC's nightly news program.

@WAL_DC-6B

22 күн бұрын

"Goodnight Chet," "Goodnight David," "and goodnight for NBC News."

@Nicksonian

22 күн бұрын

@@WAL_DC-6B Yes, exactly. Thanks for that memory. The Huntley-Brinkley Report surpassed Walter Cronkite in the ratings for much of the 1960s.

Same as the once great Chicago. Now just a good memory of the good days long gone.... So sad for so many large cities...

Another great American city decimated by deindustrialisation. Blame the greedy corporations who sent all these jobs overseas for what is happening there now.

@michaelkline884

10 ай бұрын

I agree I grew up at that time in far western Pennsylvania and my medium size town had two big steel mills one made only sheet metal for the auto industry and the trucks ran by my house day and night I got so used to it that I didn’t notice The other made seamless stainless steel pipes for nuclear reactors Bygone days forgotten

@johnp139

10 ай бұрын

You obviously didn’t grow up there when the air was ORANGE FROM ALL OF THE F’ING POLLUTION!!!!!

@user-ys5eo3eq2t

3 ай бұрын

The government set the industrial movement out of the USA into motion with evil GATT and NAFTA trade agreements.

@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107

Ай бұрын

Nah. Freeways and cars.

@thomasfx3190

22 күн бұрын

Again, nobody did anything TO Cleveland. Cleveland had to compete with Japanese and Korean steel and didn’t innovate to take it head on. So they rolled up their businesses, laid off their employees and half the town departed westwards.

Seems like a nice place to live and work!

@Ozama1221

7 ай бұрын

White majority then, and black majority now

@Umberto2

4 ай бұрын

@@Ozama1221white people are to blame for fleeing like cowards

We lived in Berea from 1950-1962. I arrived on September 9th, 1953. Those were the best years of my childhood. Our neighborhood of Oakdale, Elmwood and Westbridge Dr. was thriving and energetic. Block parties were held every Memorial Day and July 4th holidays. Over the Memorial Day holiday in 1962 we had a neighborhood track meet. Those times will always be treasured. I wish I could take a quantum leap back to those days.

My father started working in Erieview in 1964 when it opened. Eaton Corporation was a major tenant. My dad took me and my brother there...once. I remember running around the place on a Sunday.

@Umberto2

4 ай бұрын

Did you ever go to the top floor restaurant?

@Nicksonian

4 ай бұрын

@@Umberto2 Good question. I don’t think so. I remember my dad talking having lunch there regularly…martinis included…

This is the year I was born and My Birth Hometown!

@jefftis1

4 ай бұрын

Me too!

Longwood was originally the Severance estate in the 19th century…it then gave way to an orphanage and the neighborhood that is depicted here. This was replaced by the worst public housing project in Cleveland, and was just replace about ten years ago with a more modern style housing complex.

Little did they know what Garden Valley would become

One of the greatest cities ever. Solid peeps.

The old Columbian bench vise in the garage says Cleveland O MADE IN USA. on it

@Daledavispratt

10 ай бұрын

I have a lot of tools made in Cleveland, still doing their jobs to this day, long after the plants that made them went away. I'm in Ohio, and I avoid Youngstown and Cleveland like the plague.

@discodave4190

10 ай бұрын

@@DaledavisprattI live in Pittsburgh and have always enjoyed my trips for professional functions and personal reasons. Cleveland was the last place to which I traveled before the onset of the pandemic (to attend the Slovenian Festival and celebrate a friend's birthday). During the following year, I spent a day in Youngstown and had a great time.

@ktoth29

10 ай бұрын

I also have a Colombian vise…repainted it a few years back…looks like new.

@SputnickSpooner-jg5gi

5 ай бұрын

I have a 4" Columbia Vise that I use every week.

Still a large populace area. People just moved over the imaginary lines. The region could be considered over 3 mil. Add the tri-metro area and it could be considered at it over 5 mil. People running city exude much more intelligence than today. It is almost asinine in comparison. Although, some of these urban renewal plans proved just plain stupid. Putting streams under culverts, instead of restoring, preserving and incorporating them into green buffers, for example.

This was just a crummy commercial for Ovaltine - I mean Erie View! Lol 😂

I’m surprised that the river didn’t catch on fire 🔥!!!

This is just plain depressing.

“Industry Wasteland”? How could that POSSIBLY be a problem?!?

Yeah we still waiting

I wish that the Top of the Town was still in the Erieview Tower.

@Nicksonian

6 ай бұрын

My dad worked in Erieview. He talked about Top of the Town. That's probably where he and his coworkers had many of their three-martini lunches. But I never got to go there.

It would only get worse in Cleveland from here on out. Population as of 1960 was 876,000 (iwhich was a decrease from 1950) and it is now around 360,000 people.

@josephbingham1255

10 ай бұрын

It's the left's push for demographic change that's the cause behind it all.

@johnp139

10 ай бұрын

Rust belt

@grimtea1715

10 ай бұрын

@johnp139 Yeah Brother, it's sad to see what has ha00ened to so many other places. Crazy to think that Detroit used to be wealthy, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, etc used to be so much better

@josephbingham1255

10 ай бұрын

There is a video of Biden sitting next to a smiling Myorkas. Where Biden says "Someday most Americans will not look like me - and that's not a bad thing." Expect it to get worst unless someone strong enough to stand up to the left and deep state agenda. @@grimtea1715

@Dadsezso

10 ай бұрын

@@grimtea1715 Foreign trade destroyed it all.

what Cleveland school is/was that at 29:28?

I like how they in a roundabout way pointed to the problem 😂

I remember my parents driving me down Carnegie Avenue, from the Expressway through the Cleveland Clinic area, to see relatives in University Heights. That was a Scary area, back in the Seventies! Maybe it's a little less so at present, simply because most of the Slums are Gone. The housing actually seems Older, on Average, than Detroit, even though the City is technically Younger. I assume this is because the Steel, Oil (first used for Kerosene lamps) and Railroad Trusts predated the Automobile Industry. There are more Large multifamily homes, and apartment buildings.

@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107

Ай бұрын

Actually, Cleveland was the leading producer of automobiles until Ford

Cleveland was at its height back then. Sorry to see IRS decline since then.

Words can be said and arguments can be started..

@midnightrider7648

6 ай бұрын

Why not just say the TRUTH of why the inner city of Cleveland turned into a wasteland?

A great town, but the economic forces driving changes in a post WWII world were all beyond the cities control. This began a decline as the city peaked in the early 1950s and has not stopped as of today. The huge manufacturing base the city was home to has moved overseas, its workforce, largely unionized, provided hundred of thousands of jobs that supported many times that amount driving a prosperous middle class lifestyle, just disappeared in the 1970s and left the empty suit the town has become. The surrounding suburbs have thrived, despite the city issues, but not at a sustainable pace Cleveland provided itself. Today, 2024, the town and region is just treading water, waiting to change into something else, a process that has taken decades so far, and I am doubt it will get back to its past glory.

@Umberto2

4 ай бұрын

It will probably become a boomtown again at some point, but not for many decades with climate change and water resources dwindling in the Southwest and West

So let's put a freeway through those slums!

@johnp139

10 ай бұрын

Elevated

@Nicksonian

6 ай бұрын

That was done in every city across the US

@tomfields3682

5 ай бұрын

They also put freeways through nice neighborhood s which turned them into slums.

@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107

Ай бұрын

Yep, cars and freeways destroyed our cities.

Sadly, the PEOPLE, and the INDUSTRY left Cleveland, because of over-taxation, and the people of Cleveland, simply felt sorry for themselves, and didn't clean the place up. Nobody wants to live in a mess. Also, how often, did then-President, KENNEDY, visit CLEVELAND, the then-popular place, to live, and work. Also, we reaaly need to develope the lakefront, such as a LAKEFRONT-DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, proposed, by LAND STUDIOS, of CLEVELAND.

23:16

How could ANYONE think that SMOKING was actually SAFE?!?

Cleveland will be USA's first 15 minute city.

@discodave4190

10 ай бұрын

I live in Pittsburgh and am able to access most destinations within the city by automobile, walking, or public transit within 15 - 20 minutes. If Cleveand can do that - great!

@ktoth29

10 ай бұрын

15 minute city is just the latest buzzword form “we’re going to spend millions of dollars to make things worse”

@discodave4190

10 ай бұрын

@@ktoth29As I said, I already live in a "15-minute" city. No money was spent to acheive that specific designation. Stop making things up.

@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107

Ай бұрын

I advocate for the 15 minute pedestrian -centered model.

1:08..Iron or what? He never finished

@sirllamaiii9708

10 ай бұрын

Lol

@johnp139

10 ай бұрын

Iron AND PLENTY OF AIR POLLUTION!!!

“Slum free city”, HAAA!!!

We all love "progress." See what "progress" has gotten us? Progress is our most important product. Progress for people. We bring good things to life.

@johnp139

10 ай бұрын

At least the air is no longer orange from air pollution!!!!

@tomfields3682

5 ай бұрын

​@@johnp139But they didn't have to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Did the schedule call for air quality that was capable of actually being breathed?!? Obviously NOT!

He just patted the transparent mannequin on her butt.

По этому видео видно, что Америка в 60-тых уже обгоняла по развитию и уровню жизни почти все страны и СССР, в которой я родился. Но у нас при социализме жилье и квартиры давали людям бесплатно а в Америке дом нужно покупать за собственные деньги. Сейчас Америка сильно зависит от Китая, ведь многие американские производства перемещены в Китай. Получается США теперь зависит от Китая а Китай сильно зависит от США.

24:22

What in the hell happened?

@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107

Ай бұрын

Freeways. Cars. Suburbs. Exurbs.

All of the very BIG Metal-Working plants are gone. Just as Cleveland has a lot, of MICRO-BREWERIES? Use the same intuition, and know-how, and technology, to bring the world, MICRO-REFINERIES, and MICRO-FACTORIES.

@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107

Ай бұрын

There are plenty of micro factories..... that pay shit. And some of the big ones

Having grown up in the area and having left as soon as I could, I can tell you that Cleveland just has too many things working against it… The all but vanished industrial base, the racial tension and resentment that led to the white flight to name a few… And don’t forget that God-awful dreary winter that seems to go on for nine months… I can remember as a child, the entire month of June being wrecked by lousy weather… So in that sense, no matter what they do to improve it most likely won’t work… People have moved on, and for good reason, leaving their friends and relatives back there to defend it for the rest of their lives😂😂😂

@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107

Ай бұрын

Quitter

Cities are an outdated concept

"Cleveland. Dour, plain and boring. Just the kind of place I could find a story that didn't involve artillery. This is Edward R. Morrow reporting."

@johnp139

10 ай бұрын

What is “dour”????

@thomasgoodwin2648

10 ай бұрын

@@johnp139 dour adjective Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.Stern, harsh and forbidding.Unyielding and obstinate.

Gee, looks like Cleveland’s “urban renewal” was about as successful as … Baltimore’s. Americans are great at throwing money around for flashy quick fix Band Aid projects, not so good at addressing core root issues for long term results.

@Nicksonian

6 ай бұрын

I grew up in suburban Cleveland in the 1960s and '70s. I moved to Annapolis in 1986. I sold the house I grew up in when my mother died in 2017. While Cleveland and Baltimore are comparable, Ohio and Maryland are not. Ohio is swirling down the tubes and there's nothing that could ever get me to go back there.

@Roadtripmik

5 ай бұрын

Baltimore didnt do that much urban renewal all the buildings are still there, they really screwed up the upton neighborhood tho: that was thru blockbusting, redlining and greedy real estate tactics

@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107

Ай бұрын

Erieview is a ghost town surrounded by parking craters

Why is the Terminal Tower almost completely BLACK?!? Why didn’t anyone QUESTION THIS?!?

@mikemonett7071

10 ай бұрын

I was born in 1954 and grew up in Columbus, Ohio. I distinctly remember that all the white stone buildings and even many brick buildings were black in the late 50s and early 60s. It struck me as very depressing. I now know this was because coal as the main home heating source had just then phased out. It wasn't until perhaps the early 70s that most of these sooty building exteriors were finally sandblasted to their original brighter colors. I bet the sandblasting industry was probably HUGE in the 1960s.

Where are all of the blacks?

@larrybedouin2921

6 ай бұрын

On the east side duh!

@tomfields3682

5 ай бұрын

The city was still overwhelmingly while back then

@SputnickSpooner-jg5gi

5 ай бұрын

Blacks lived on the East side of the river. Whites on the West. Actually worked out well. No racial strife until the absolute lunacy of busing students was forced upon all the unwilling people.

@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107

Ай бұрын

Coming up your street! Head for the basement!

Democrats got hold of this city and into the crapper it went...and I mean fast! DemocRats controlled that city nonstop from the 40s to early 70s. Peeps began to see the damage from the mid late 60s to the early 70s and voted in a republican for 5 years to stabilize the community and damned if they didnt turn around and vote back in another democrat after the city was stabilized. The democrats went back and all was undone. Repub George V. Voinovich came in stabilized and made some real progress for 2 terms, then they voted dem again for the next 30 years creating a massive sh!thole of crime, and filth never seen before in that city.

@Nicksonian

6 ай бұрын

Turning this into a partisan tit-for-tat is a pointless comment. The issues surrounding urban decay are far more complicated than just that of politics and politicians. It has a lot more to do with economics and sociology. Voinovich was a good mayor, but he only delayed the inevitable. And certainly, the moderate Voinovich wouldn't belong to the extremist Republican party of today.

@matrox

6 ай бұрын

@@Nicksonian Thats exactly what the Dems are doing again...denying history so they now tear down statues as if history didn't happen.

@matrox

6 ай бұрын

@@Nicksonian DemocRATS the party created by slave holders....for...slave holders. The party of Jim Crow and who's members created the KKK.

@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107

Ай бұрын

Thank you for your feelings, Brunswick

@matrox

Ай бұрын

@@Nicksonian You are seriously brainwashed. Typical maker of excuses.

It’s hard to tell who is black or white in black&white videos, especially if the blacks don’t speak in a Jive accent.

@RETIREDAMATUER

10 ай бұрын

Are you blind

@pameladrake7547

8 ай бұрын

Pretty chocolate my complexion is beautiful sorry but we're Brown or chocolate

@Nicksonian

6 ай бұрын

No, just an idiot

@thomasfx3190

22 күн бұрын

Jesus really? Racist much?

Took God out of schools . Godlessness equals lawlessness.

@WAL_DC-6B

3 ай бұрын

So, for example, they took God out of Cleveland Catholic schools?

@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107

Ай бұрын

Lol. Yeah children were just wonderful in the old days. Even white children. No.prisond existed. Nobody ever got beat up. There were no gangs. I mean it was a fairy tale

@thomasfx3190

22 күн бұрын

That’s ridiculous. Taking Jesus out of public schools just means that the other half of the kids don’t have to feel less than while you Jesus types are loudly praying in math class.

In those days they didnt have blacks, its wasn't until greyhound buses started bringing them from africa in 1965.

@eilyjones6359

6 ай бұрын

What??!!

@kraigthornhill9166

6 ай бұрын

How stupid! Shows your ignorance!

@TV-yb6wk

5 ай бұрын

A greyhound across the Atlantic Ocean? Jesus Christ

@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107

Ай бұрын

Good trolling. I give it a 7

@GoldFinger34

Ай бұрын

@@TV-yb6wk😂😂😂

gone all gone 😪

The Garden Valley project. Wheres a time machine and a spare T-800 when you need one....

19:37