Man, some of these images look like something out of a post-war scene. This is heartbreaking from every angle. And I'm not even from the US

The size of these homes remind me of a home in the Pittsburgh area I spent 7th grade through graduation in. It was so old it had radiator heaters and a back and front stairwell, a foyer, and a cellar and three floors. Also had a front and back porch. It fit a family of 10 nicely. I imagine these homes were once inhabited by wealthy families. Total shame they were left to rot and overtaken by nature. 😢

@ronnieleemichael4973

Жыл бұрын

Actually many big houses were affordable to the middle class and even some below that at one time

@tinasan3870

Жыл бұрын

@@ronnieleemichael4973 Yes we have many of those beautiful old homes in Milwaukee WI. I haven't lived there for years, but the woodwork in some of those old homes was amazing !

These houses look amazing, I bet back in the day this was a thriving neighbourhood, imagine how these houses looked before they were left to rot seems such a shame when so many homeless in US.

@m42037

Жыл бұрын

Ya mate this isn't Europe, the rich only care about making money, they tear down old buildings not restore them like Europe does

I grew up in the Morningside area on Bedford, a couple blocks from Mack Ave in the 70's and 80's. I heard the area is being renovated and brought back to life. My old family home is a section 8 rental now still in shabby condition. Gutters hanging off the house, broke porch steps and curtains inside totally falling sideways. My great grandfather had it built, as he came from Ireland as an indentured servant. Maybe do some vids where people are trying to bring neighborhoods back (other than downtown which just looks gentrified). I miss my childhood there so much. It's sad to see the decay. Great job on what you're doing by the way!

Thank you for this kind of videos. No music, no commentary, just pure streets - get yourself exposes, get your own emotions and opinions. As if you were really there...

@hoodsnhollers

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching!

The many fates behind every front door makes me very sad. Greetings from Germany and all my love to the people in the USA

@Tony-mq5yo

11 ай бұрын

By the we way I had couple of friends from Germany and they were very nice

I'm a Michigander and have seen quite a few videos about the decaying areas of Detroit, but I don't remember seeing this area. It's pretty frightful. Thank you for the great video. I would have to have a very compelling reason to ever go to Detroit!

@hoodsnhollers

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching Rosie!

@1940limited

Жыл бұрын

It's hard to believe how nice these homes must have been at one time. People with good incomes had to have lived in them. To have your fortunes change so dramatically as to simply walk away from such beautiful homes is unimaginable. Imagine paying a visit to your old neighborhood or childhood home and finding this.

Frank interview a with people who left in the 60s and 70s would be interesting.

This... This is why I worry when my 48-year old son goes to concerts in or near Detroit. Yes, mom's still worry no matter how old our kids are! 😰

@l.salisbury1253

Жыл бұрын

Back-in-the-Day Detroit was was Rock N Roll capitol! MC5, Iggy & the Stooges and the original Alice Cooper Band all got their biggest starts in Detroit!

@77D777

Жыл бұрын

@@l.salisbury1253 good hip hop also come outta Detroit also good music in general

@sallysez

Жыл бұрын

There aren't any shows happening in this neighborhood. This is far from downtown, and the further you go the more the decline.

Man. No wonder my friend was avoiding some places when I visited him in Detroit. Creepy to see this

Looks and feels like the apocalypse

It's crazy to see that realtor sign @3:26

@1940limited

Жыл бұрын

Who the hell oud buy the place? I saw tww for sale signs. Evenfor $1 what would you do with it surrounded by so much urban decay? One house looked liek it was under renovation but surrounded by derelicts. I wish them good luck.

@l.salisbury1253

Жыл бұрын

And it's only slighter better than the one just before it...!

@DarlingNikki2

Жыл бұрын

I wonder how it's listed? Probably as a 'fixer-upper' that just needs some love and TLC and is in a 'quiet' neighborhood lol. Realtors and used car salespeople are cut from the same crooked cloth...

Wow! Those homes with the golden brick fronts and wooden sides really fascinated me for some reason. So many of those houses looked huge! I wish that one street in what looked like an industrial-type area had not been closed to traffic! Would LOVE to have seen that! This one was very interesting. Had you not told us you were in the Detroit area, I never would have guessed this location.

@hoodsnhollers

Жыл бұрын

You're right Bridget, those homes were HUGE! The whole time filming I was thinking about how they would have looked in the past. Had to be amazing. I've got a lot more uploads to come on this, I'll eventually cover the whole city at some point. It's one of a kind and even with it's bad areas I still love Detroit!

@rdmeenach

Жыл бұрын

The craftsmanship and woodworking skills probably still evident in most of those large old homes, banisters, stairways, built in cupboards, ceiling moldings etc. are artisan artwork, lost to time and decay. Just think of the thousands of square feet of maple flooring in those old mansions. Just rotting away, never to be seen or used again. All the old green and pink fixtures…. The grand parties held when people moved into these homes for the first time. It’s all so sad…..

@adrianimee8665

Жыл бұрын

Beautiful structures, so sad!

Wow. Oh this is just heartbreaking. All of these majestic and once beautiful homes, each of them echoing into the terrible silence the broken sounds of laughter stilled, and dreams so sweet and so so needed that they could not bear the pain that scraped the source of themselves from the sidewalks, the empty rooms, and from the many splintered hearts that died there in the cold embrace of something so evil, and so wrong that even though it has ceased to matter, it has not. Sorrow indefinable lays in uneasy rest here, and it shall never, no not ever, forget its loss. Its unimaginable loss. This video is breathtakingly beautiful in its unspeakable tragedy. Thanks for sharing.

The Automobile capital at one time. Unbelievable a major industria metro city turn into this... i remember CBS 60 minutes did a story on how many abandoned home and industrial buildings needing removed. 85,000 in total. And no funding to demolished

you know a place is messed up when even the garbage floating around is picked clean.

Detroit went from 1.8 million people in the 50s to now just 630,000 so you can imagine how empty the city is

Some of those houses would have possibilities. Unfortunately it would require a income. I've watched Detroit in decline for 45 years. Thank you.

bahkmut looks better than i expected...

watching all these videos on abandoned and bad cities makes me wonder what exactly is going on in this country that we aren't being told as usual. Detroit was at one time thriving. Auto production from the American automakers from ford to GMC to Packard ETC these video 's bring you into the reality of what's going on.

@missmoxie9188

Жыл бұрын

They moved manufacturing overseas That’s why

My big question is : if a city like Detroit, perhaps the number one industrial city in the history of USA, can go this bankrupt and abandoned...what about the rest of USA, Europe and the World in general ? Does make sense ?

Wow! I think this is the worst I have ever seen 😲

At one time, all these homes were someone's brand new dream home. It's so sad that with so many homeless and struggling, that these just sit there and rot.

Why are these beautiful houses empty? How did it come to be?

@massimookissed1023

Жыл бұрын

Detroit doesn't make cars anymore. No jobs, no people.

Wow! Even the trees are depressed.😊

Imagine what this place is like during the wee hours in the morning. Talking about creepy pasta.

Omg from England 🇬🇧 this is so upsetting to see 😮😢 Bless 🙌 🙏

@MsMercury

Жыл бұрын

It really is. It was once thriving and beautiful!

I really enjoy your channel. I like that it’s quiet so I can just enjoy the ride alone. I also live in the U.K. so this is something I wouldn’t ordinarily be able to see. Thank you so much for sharing 🙏🏻

@hoodsnhollers

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Jay for watching! It always amazes me to see where my subscribers are from, so cool!

The Walking Dead redux

Very bad. A cool vampire movie was filmed in a still-standing brick Victorian house somewhere in Detroit by an abandoned factory

@SpettroFamily

Жыл бұрын

more than one actually

@l.salisbury1253

Жыл бұрын

The whole area would be a GREAT place to film a Zombie movie...!!

Coming to Chicago soon.

Those big houses must have looked glorious at one point in time. I would have loved to see what they looked like on the inside back in the day!

I really enjoy seeing the architecture! Some of these places must have looked quite grand with their brick façades, porches & balconies. They look pretty big, 2 storeys & a lot of depth compared to the width of the frontage. Too expensive to repair I suppose

How could people allow their city to get this bad?

@1940limited

Жыл бұрын

Good question.

@michaelwhite2823

Жыл бұрын

They didn't they left.

It would be nice to see what this neighborhood looked like in 1955. Another world. Those are some deep big houses!...The 'For Sale' signs are a riot. Talk about being hopeful!

As always awesome content thanks for your time to do this video big fan of your channel

@hoodsnhollers

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching John!

Great great video as always.

@hoodsnhollers

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Mark!

Wow! This is a damn good video I wouldn’t dare go where you did

I live in Hazel Park, MI and occasionally cross into Detroit and see houses that look like they just took an airstrike. Even though I've watched countless vids explaining it, I still wonder how this happened

Thanks 👍 another great video I'm just so amazed there are that many vacant houses all around ,and where the hell did all the occupants go. Crazy eh. Cheers from Blissfield New Brunswick Canada

Now this is very disturbing to me 😔 thank you for these Amazing video I appreciated you Please be safe Love & Peace 👍🏾💯

Now adays if they didn't tell you it was Detroit you might think its a neighborhood from any big "sanctuary" city in America.

Thanks! I will watch this later. 😁 Busy getting ready for holiday. Happy "holiday" everyone.

@hoodsnhollers

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Linda! Happy Holidays!

@lindapietrasz8070

Жыл бұрын

​@@hoodsnhollers You're welcome! Same to you and yours!

@m42037

Жыл бұрын

What holiday St Paddy's day? Oh Easter 🎉🎊

I'd be scared driving through there

It looks like the set of a horror movie.

Where i live in north east England there was a large run down industrial site and a dirty river Tees. Lots of investment created houses, shopping centre, university, river barrage and sailing centre. The area was transformed. This is what Detroit needs. Investment, creativity and jobs to bring it back to life 🎉

Believe it or not it used to be much worse. My childhood home has been long gone.

It amazes me that folks torch perfectly decent homes, and then expect the state to give them everything - because they are 'poor'.

@88detour

Жыл бұрын

They torch them so squatters and other criminals can't use them. Their also structurally unsafe, the X painted on the houses indicates this.

Such beautiful homes & architecture just left to rot in the elements. Shame😞

Had you remained traveling East on Tuxedo, when you reached Linwood, you would have come to Central High School where I went to school in 1975!

Never seen a city patch their sidewalk repairs with asphalt. Maybe temporary patches like that. But we all know they will not fix those sidewalks with fresh concrete. Not even in ADA compliance for handicapped residents. Speaks volumes to why the housing is in disrepair. The City has just given up on its self.

Are there any for sale? Looks like a great spot for my family, just what we were looking for!

Have always wanted to go to detroit can't believe there's places like this in America

This is the hoodiest hood yet! I've heard that they've built up downtown again. Still... A sad sight. All of those once gorgeous homes now rotten and fugly. 😢

@williebeamish5879

Жыл бұрын

Stripped out too, I've heard from folks that have been inside them.

07:54 Land Shark 🦈

@hoodsnhollers

Жыл бұрын

LOL that land shark comes with the property for the price of $1!

@lindapietrasz8070

Жыл бұрын

​@@hoodsnhollers wow

What would this town look like if 40-50 years ago they stopped all the building out that they had to only use what was incorporated at that time they would have kept the woodlands for animal habitats in recreational activities

I lived in Detroit till I was about 10 years old back in the 70s. My dad worked at Ford motor company so we had a big beautiful house. All the houses were big and beautiful and my neighborhood was awesome. We played outside all day till the street lights came on. It’s so sad seeing it this way.

Chicago is next.

New sub here👍🤓 thanks for sharing

@hoodsnhollers

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the sub!

These homes @10 minutes in must have looked fabulous 50 years ago

How could any city allow this to happen? It's easy to see that once upon a time these houses were proud and stately. Economic decline is no excuse. Conscious decisions of many kinds made this possible. You don't get that kind of post-nuclear-war look overnight. The greatest country in the world. Yes, of course.

These used to be beautiful homes.

Is there a plan for these houses because I bet that if the city sells them dirt cheap and gets a bank to offer low interest home improvement loans, there would be enough interest to fix them.

@janeentumbao8690

Жыл бұрын

I think there is a program or two available. But.... Think about the opposition. Would you want to own property there that may be vandalized during the process of reconstruction or after it's done? Do you want to pay for seriously armed security 24/7? If it's an apartment building, who would you rent it out to? And would they want to live there? And would they keep their units up? And would you be in line with fair/affordable housing? That's a thing in Chicago where if you have a building that has so many units, x% has to be for lower income people or you'd have to pay some fee to sidestep that. I personally would love to do something like that for East Cleveland Ohio (where I'm from). But... I know the reality of dealing with certain areas and the people there and what may or may not be supported. He made a video in EC some time ago. If you haven't checked it out, do. It looks like a mini version of Detroit.

So sad

All that great architecture lost forever.

After watching this video, it became clear to me and to you that Detroit is a tale of two cities. While some have the luxury of beautiful, well-maintained homes and neighborhoods, others live in poverty in the shadows of those who have everything. Poverty in America is out of control, but what can we do to fix it? There has to be a better way to make sure everyone has a chance to live comfortably and safely.

Dang, when our family left there in 1989, it was not like this. I know cities have their ups and downs but this is unreal. Much of it looks like deliberate destruction. Not like it was just left untouched.

thank u for video

@hoodsnhollers

Жыл бұрын

thank you for watching!

Population started dropping in 1950. Rioting and crime escalated the exodus of business and people out to the suburbs. With its crime rate it will never recover. Do Highland Park next please.

@05HeritageSoftail

Жыл бұрын

Highland Park Illinois? Used to be upscale. I'm from Chicago

@michaelwhite2823

Жыл бұрын

@@05HeritageSoftail Oh no. Michigan. Next to Detroit.

@05HeritageSoftail

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelwhite2823 gotcha. I lived in Michigan for ten years in the 70's. Berrien county, southwest Michigan. Beautiful state. I've been out west for six years so I was surprised when I thought Highland Park Illinois

@hoodsnhollers

Жыл бұрын

I'll definitely cover that area in the future!

I’m in awe

I'm across the river...Thank God❤

Tragic, absolutely tragic 😥 😔

Check out the positive in the D! There's lots! Still blight like this because of the massive population loss from 1967 until 2013 bankruptcy.

I can't understand why they wasted water putting out some of those places. To me it looks like the area would be improved with them totally gone rather than the shells left standing

Having a home on a block like this has to be depressing

..what the silicon valley is today is what detroit was yesterday..the industrial age left behind the remnants of a workforce that moved the entire world..they were ill prepared for the shift to technology...no one could see it then..but it was inevitable..most of the workforce had a ton of kids who had no future..poverty brought desperation..desperation brought crime..bye bye detroit..in the 60's and 70's..it was the best ...I'm very proud to have been raised there..

With all that could be done and is ignored ......to say it's shameful with all that need so much help barely scratched the surface ......

But how can so many things,such big houses,be built at the same time?

So sad…….some really nice architecture lost forever.

Que lugar HORRÍVEL! Sem vida, sombrio. Deprimente.

Beautiful houses, I wish there was a way to do business there.

Yes

Great footage, without all the extra unfunny jokes, some people do in their videos.

I live in Cincinnati .We got a few bad areas but nothing like this place .I will say our city officials are doing all they can to improve the few bad spots .This is so sad .

Yay u made it to the D 💯 go highland Park too

WOW!! the near weat side was Bad bt the time of the 67 riots. I worked at a hospital in this Hood in the Eighties. I don't remember this level of abandonment back then. Looks likit was built from the 1910s to 1920s.

Lots of beautiful homes going to waste what a shame.

Tears for my once beautiful City.

Fico triste em saber que empresa tão importante pra uma cidade,quando vão embora acaba com o que está ao redor,,,sou de são Paulo,Brasil e fico triste vendo o que está acontecendo nos lugares,onde marcaram adolescentes ou até mesmo a infância,,,um abraço a todos.

Thts Sad

If you'll play "Bioshock - empty houses" on the back I bet it'll create very melancholic experience

Warum verkauft der Staat die Häuser nicht, um sie dann zu renovieren? Gibt es keine Nachfrage in diesem Gebiet?

Sweet Jesus, no wonder why there're so many homeless people around, 😢

@2:08 that house looked like the chainsaw massacre house lol.

Scott Steiner, professional wrestler and former WCW World Heavyweight Champion, has long been vocal about his hatred for his native city of Detroit, Michigan. The Michigan native, born and raised in Bay City, made his feelings towards Detroit known to the public in a 2011 interview with Slam! Wrestling. In the interview, Steiner expressed his disappointment in Detroit’s decline over the years. He blamed the city’s corruption and lack of leadership for its downfall. “I would never live in Detroit,” he said. “The city has gone downhill. It’s an embarrassment.” He continued his rant by talking about the crime and poverty that have plagued the city for years. “It’s a shame what’s happened to Detroit,” Steiner said. “It’s been so neglected and mismanaged that it’s a joke. It’s a shame to the state of Michigan.” Steiner’s disdain for Detroit has not gone unnoticed. The city has seen its fair share of responses to his negative comments. From angry letters to the editors of local newspapers, to public protests, Detroiters have made their feelings known. Despite the pushback, Steiner stands by his stance. “I have no love for Detroit,” he said in a later interview. “I’m a Michigan native and I love the state, but Detroit has been a continual disappointment.” It’s clear that Steiner’s opinion of Detroit won’t be changing anytime soon. While it’s unfortunate that a native son would have such negative feelings towards his hometown, it’s also important to remember that his comments come from a place of love. His criticism may be harsh, but it’s his way of hoping for a brighter future for Detroit.

@hoodsnhollers

Жыл бұрын

Steiner once told me if he was Mayor of Detroit the crime would instantly turn to zero simply out of fear for the Frankensteiner!

Dude rolled a STOP sign @ 4:08

Gotta love outsourcing

Some of those would be a nice remodel

I see on tv they have a great pawn shop in Detroit.

Be a cool set for an apocalyptic movie!