What grand lovely old ladies. Their architecture is historical. Abandoned, their insides are gutted by copper thieves and drug addicts. It hurts my heart to see the tragedy. Great documentation. You are one of the few who gets it and your videos speak for themselves. So refreshing that you aren't a shrill narcissist who makes videos about themselves, no matter what the subject. Keep up the great work. Subscribed

@RJ67.

5 жыл бұрын

Yea ...what she said

@ScorpioBornIn69

2 жыл бұрын

I can see that with copper thieves right now with copper prices at $4 a pound.

Being a fan of midwest Victorian and Craftsman architecture, a part of me dies watching this. All of those homes were lived in by very hard working people at one time. I highly recommend listening to Mama by Genesis while watching. Goes along well with it..

Detroit has some of the most beautiful houses and mansions. The houses built today are junk compared to these old houses. Per square foot, these old houses would cost 10 times more to build than the garbage they build today. Actually, these houses were built with old growth timber that is no longer available.

@normand5847

5 жыл бұрын

They're constructed out of brick.

@chicago773williams5

4 жыл бұрын

You right I live in a old house, the walls thick as ever.. new drywall like cotton candy walls.

@areyoujelton

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I live in a 50s ranch... it’s wonky in some places, but sturdy as fuck! The wood that was used is basically petrified now.

@sharronneedles6721

3 жыл бұрын

The housing crisis has made it even worse

@cub1009

2 жыл бұрын

New homes are far superior. Not all of them obviously. New homes have 6 inch walls and spray foam insulation. It costs down huge on heating and cooling costs. The new homes I have built are built way better than these old relics. These homes do a have a lot of charm to them. They are not as energy efficient.

I was born on one of those streets in 69. You have no idea how beautiful some of these neighborhoods were. No idea.

As a Detroiter born and raised this hurts my heart this is not the city I grew up in my memories are of when these homes were still lived in and loved

the radio talking about the record highs hit by the DOW while you showcased these homes... STUNNING!

@tagguh1

7 жыл бұрын

I thought that was quite ironic as well. ha.

@tonithompson9086

7 жыл бұрын

Just think Six TRILLION $$ dollars wasted in the middle east.

@theresamurphy8487

7 жыл бұрын

This is really heartbreaking , so very sad. It's a shame major corporations left I believe this is the result.

@forrestcreek1598

7 жыл бұрын

I know, I heard that on the radio in the video, too. Ironic isn't it? DOW Jones hits a record high while Detroit and so many other cities around the country suffer miserably. I don't think it's just the Demicrats that caused all this to happen. It was everyone in America who decided to get greedy and take everything away from all of us. The real unemployment rate is somewhere closer to 45-50% of the country that is out of work. They use a job index which only accounts for the highest white collar jobs and leaves everything else out. You have to be super educated and supper greedy to work in the USA anymore. That leave most of us at the bottom either unemployed or working jobs that don't make enough to pay the bills. I have been around a great number of years and this kind of world had never occurred to me when I was young and just beginning to think about what I wanted to do with my life. I see Trump as one of the cruelest and most evil people who could have been elected President. He has no interest in this country, he has interest in himself and how terribly selfish and foolish he can be. That's a tragedy. We need good leadership in this country to get us out of this garbage dump of a situation and refocus back on the American people no matter who you are, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, European, Christian, Jew, Bootist, it really doesn't matter. In truth, we took this country away from the native Americans and now the government doesn't even care about those who's roots go deeper in this land than any of us. Money, greed, ignorance, and selfishness are what got us where we are now.

@JungleYT

6 жыл бұрын

Amen, Forrest Creek... You nailed it!

I can understand an abandoned and empty home but WHY destroy them? Break all the windows and tear them apart? Its like if something is nice it must be taken apart piece by piece and destroyed. People go out of they way and destruct. That mindset is hard for me to understand.

@Joy.Sparks

7 жыл бұрын

Well people who had a bad past grow up angry. They are influenced by the ones around them who also had a bad past. They don't know how to deal with their anger and no one is willing to help them deal with it so they take anger out on what's around them. It's just common human nature and shouldn't be blamed on the color of someone's skin rather on what the community has come to due to people not wanting to help them.

@iamhuman1927

6 жыл бұрын

usually kids break out windows throwing rocks... and the insides get tore up for scrap metals

@doubtful100

6 жыл бұрын

Animals don't even do that to other dens or nests.

@melaniexoxo

6 жыл бұрын

Nature destroying something takes decades and intervention like broken windows, people destroying something takes months or a few years. If those houses were completely untouched, even after a decade all you'd likely see is some peeling paint, if that.

@tommyjones8490

6 жыл бұрын

Sixgun Symphony so your saying pussuns a cula bes like mold and rot on steroids?? Your right...

You can still see the former beauty in the ruins, pay attention

And you will never see the craftsmanship that went into building these homes ever again.

@normand5847

5 жыл бұрын

That level of craftsmanship still exists. Although, it is only used in multi-million dollar homes. Middle class will never again be able to afford homes like that.

@JMH702

4 жыл бұрын

Norman D the homes in Detroit actually sell for pretty low you’d be surprised

The amount of empty homes and destruction of them is mind blowing & sad

@motorcityman401

7 жыл бұрын

FLINT ain't any better Hon.

@silvana8246

7 жыл бұрын

and this is why u americans cant get it right. your all fighting with each other. get a life and job

@missprimrose4132

7 жыл бұрын

The corruption starts with the Board of Education and the Mayor and his cronies. All the $$ goes straight to those "special" peoples pockets. Not to mention the corrupt Unions played apart in the flight of the jobs. These peeps are greedy bastards. evil. Do a little history research on Detroit and you will see why it looks like it does today... Don't just blame the victims...

@nicolettaciccone1004

7 жыл бұрын

Miss Primrose Interesting information thank you. I bet it is very scary to walk down those streets and I bet there is not light in the night. God bless and protect everybody living in that crazy place.

@mikebloozeman3830

7 жыл бұрын

this is what happens when white people vacate and leave black people unsupervised

Gorgeous homes in their day...heartbreaking..:(

@michaelpreston233

6 жыл бұрын

White Flight took the work away and corruption top down made it worse. The Wealthy fucked the people over , wake up assholes.

@zochbuppet448

6 жыл бұрын

No responsibility ever. Its always some other colour/ some other type of people, rich people, etc.

@suzukisixk7

6 жыл бұрын

white flight = racist so not having access to white people is racist? we cannot live together period.

@richardeast3328

6 жыл бұрын

michael preston Assholes, yeah right.

@ryanreagan4134

6 жыл бұрын

lulsmokes I think Hiroshima is in better shape they decided to rebuild and take care of things and this neighborhood decided to drink 40 oz smoke crack and not work that's the difference

My great grandparents had a home similar to some of these homes on Detroits East Side in a beautiful tree lined neighborhood. It was a big two story tudor style house with beautiful woodwork and leaded glass windows and a huge front porch. I remember my grandma taking me up to Harper to Henry's drug store for sodas and candy and catching the bus to Hudsons downtown to see the Christmas display on their top floor, walking up to Chandler Park in the summer to go swimming in the pool and ice skating in the winter. When my great grandparents passed away my grandmother pretty much gave the house away to one of those places that was buying up all the houses and renting them out and collecting money off them until the renters just ran them down till they were no longer inhabitable. The house is gone now, torn down quite a few years ago..so sad!

Born and raised in Detroit. This breaks my heart. These houses were so well made, beautiful woodwork, lead glass windows etc. Just destroyed! No going back!

After a sting of boarded up and torn down houses, a house stood alone, well kept up outside, well maintained lawn and shrubs, that's what I call "pride".

awesome video, thanks for your hard work, those places must have been beautiful back years ago, cheers

@Tomb743

7 жыл бұрын

Moo Cow hard work, driving around 😅

Note that the little corner stores are all gone-closed and boarded up-no doubt no one will run one, since you will be robbed . This is really the problem-crime is rampant in these areas, so no one will invest anything in these areas.

@lilyblossom1240

6 жыл бұрын

but if you arrest the criminals they will scream racial profiling and cops being racist. smh. I would not want to be a cop there

@royhollins4787

6 жыл бұрын

Ad Mirer....says the OVERPRIVILEGED white girl

@amylynn4451

6 жыл бұрын

Roy Hollins idiot!!

@davidcruz418

6 жыл бұрын

The city is on a come back. If you know you history you'll know the US government is 100 % worst then Nazi Germany.

@nicolejoleneable

6 жыл бұрын

Roy Hollins Are You effing kidding me? I put a lot of time on this earth and seen it all..I’ve seen black communities go through beautiful neighborhoods like Locusts and strip everything and leave it to die! Never has there been a more racist group. Privilege? BLACK PPL WANT,EXPECT THE GOVERNMENT TO GIVE THEM EVERYTHING AND IF THEY DON’T THEY TAKE IT! BLM are demanding ONLY blacks get free housing,education,ect from ALL white Americans!And the worst part is they have no shame and will deny these traits until death.Its beyond pathetic..AND they run like pacts of animals.Giving a good argument for lower brain activity..Of course not all are this way but most.Or they have a sickening opinion like you.Too stupid to think for themselves.And MARK MY WORDS..If this this keeps up they won’t have to worry about hating whitey anymore bc ther will be a race war! And you might look around you and feel safe bc it being mostly black (pacts) But drive down those roads baby,look up those mountains bc they’ll be some mad ass,gun packing ppl that daughters were victimized and rapped ,robbed by a “pact” of black men like I was and you’ll know what being only 19% of the country feels like

When your cars are made in Japan, South Korea, Germany, or Mexico, what did you suppose would happen to Detroit? A lot of these neighborhoods were at one time good places to live for the working class industrial workers. But when the jobs disappeared, the socio-economic structure collapsed, along with the family structure. But some people at the top got rich by making these changes, they live elsewhere.

@ScorpioBornIn69

2 жыл бұрын

Foreign competition came in the 1960's as well as corrupt politicians that started the downfall of this once mighty auto industrialized city, not to mention the 1967 riots dealt this city a black eye on top of it.

@simp2234

2 жыл бұрын

That America dream

@miketype1each

2 жыл бұрын

I'm thinking it was the 1986 Camaro that almost wasn't built for the reason that the labor union claimed it was "too difficult to build". I reckon union thuggery had a hand in the demise of the once-powerful Detroit industrial scene.

@drmartin5062

Жыл бұрын

What's that have to do with treating your home like garbage and forgetting how to cut a lawn? Sounds like your argument means they have time in their hands.

@miketype1each

Жыл бұрын

@@drmartin5062 The people who had them built or moved in when brand new certainly kept the lawns mowed and etc. We know who they were. It isn't that way now. Someone else has moved in.

one of my best friends was a detroit native, who moved to socal in 1988. he refused to even visit his hometown because it was too heartbreaking to see the collapse. this was in the 90's, i can only imagine what he thinks of the place now....

I think you're doing a good thing by showing this on YT. People need to see how bad it is and how desperately Detroit needs help. The fact that this not a third world country but right here in America should wake people up.

@lilyblossom1240

6 жыл бұрын

I don't think you can help Detroit. it starts with the people. no business will want to move in if the crime is that bad.

@denniss618

6 жыл бұрын

It is like that because the business left. Detroit was built by the auto industry. Most of that is completely gone now. You have lots of buildings but nobody to live in them... It has nothing to do with politics or color.

@JBlank-zg3vc

6 жыл бұрын

Paul bro the city is GONE. It will never in our lifetimes be what it once was. Its better to just to move on than to hope for something that will NEVER happen again. The city is DEAD.

@robertalbonico3682

3 жыл бұрын

You can't help people that won't help themselves

@SidewaysBurnouts

Жыл бұрын

whats sad is the time of 1 dollar houses is over, check zillow, those burnt out houses are shown as 600 thousand dollar investor specials.

I am 52. When I was a kid Detroit was still booming. All this has happened in my lifetime, and it is hard to comprehend.

It's like Pripyat except there was no nuclear accident, people just up and left anyway.

@JBlank-zg3vc

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Its not a race issue tho. The automotive industry in Detroit is gone so there's no reason to live there. In the 1950's Detroit WAS the world center of the automotive industry. Thats gone.

@imnotapanther5248

6 жыл бұрын

Jason Bourne the irony of a white person saying this lmao these houses look like this because no one can afford to buy them, not because they were destroyed dumbass.

@randywilliams4325

6 жыл бұрын

Not going to comment on skin color.People go where the money is at .The American auto industry left to avoid paying union wages+ the retirement and health benefit packages that the workers got.

@randywilliams4325

6 жыл бұрын

Mikeel Kinzey I am white and yes I voted for Trump .I prefer not to get into an internet pissing match.I am sure the black folks moved in there after property prices dropped.If there were enough jobs there people still would be living there.

@EagleOne76

6 жыл бұрын

+zapfanzapfan. You think the people left for no reason?? They left due to something that's no less worse than a nuclear accident. If you disagree, then YOU live there.

Wow! When I think of slums I think of old areas with cheap, crappy ass houses but some of those are big beautiful homes. What's hard to believe is that when people couldn't afford to stay any longer they just had to walk away from homes like that. The nice White 80's Oldsmobile at 0:45 was the best kept thing in this video.

@Cynthia-fs4vi

6 жыл бұрын

They didn't walk away because they couldn't afford the homes. As told to me by a co-worker who was born and raised in a home like this, the whites were driven out during the riots of the 1960s. They packed what they could and ran ahead of an advancing mob of blacks and there was no reason to return. Home values dropped to almost nothing overnight. Nothing to come home to. Houses were ransacked, many were burned. The ones that were spared were immediately occupied by squatters and the original owners lost everything. Happened in South Africa as well.

@jameschampken770

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cynthia-fs4vi thats not really true. Yes the riots didn't help, and it deffinately encouraged thousands to leave the city, however white flight was already underway, people moving out of cities for the new suburban life, as this happened all across America. Also Detroit jobs were on the way out to foreign countries, the car industry was starting to decrease in Detroit fast, and continued to decrease for decades. Decades later even suburbs around Detroit started to decrease in population as jobs continue to decrease in and around Detroit. The population of Deteoit in 1950 was 1.8 million. 1960 it was 1.6 million. By 1970 it was 1.5 million. This shows that the riots did not actually lead to everyone in Detroit to abandon the city. Rather it was a constant evacuation of the city for decades. People wanting to move out, and no one wanting to move in. The population in 1980 was 1.2 million. In 1990 the population was 1 million. In 2000 the population was 951,270. In 2010 the population was 713, 777 and by 2019 the population was 670,031.

@jameschampken770

3 жыл бұрын

@Thomas Barrish St.Louis, Pittsburgh & Buffalo are a few other cities to name that were in similar situations. The industrial work force peaked in the 50s, but was already decreasing in jobs availability by the 60s to other foreign countries & other areas of the country. Some other cities managed to recover and find new types of jobs to replace the industrial ones, but ones as mentioned that were more heavily based on 1 particular industry just collapsed. Suburban growth was a double edged sword that crippled the inner cities. Suburban growth starting to take off in the 50s, new construction outside of the city. Larger land, quiet life style, and with the car culture also massive growth at the exact same time, you now could get from your peaceful suburban house to your inner city job almost as quickly as it use to take you from your city home to work. If the jobs never left, the cities would of managed to survive much better. It didnt help many black people came from the south to the north looking for more job opportunities which were already starting to decrease in inner cities for even white people. Racist had some impact, but it was 1 of many factors.

@jameschampken770

3 жыл бұрын

@Thomas Barrish NewYork City went through a large decline 60s-1993. Lost over 1 million people. But with originally 7.8 million in the first place, it still had 6.8 million. Eventually recovered, in 2020 it reached 8.4 million. It recovered, it was a different situation in many ways though. But black riots or black migration are not a single cause to create massive decline for white people, jobs availability is probably the number 1 factor to keep people in a city in the first place. NYC had massive banking industry to keep it going.

@JoeBrenn

2 жыл бұрын

Decades of central planning and over spending, starting with Cavanaugh, was what really signed Detroit's death warrant. Then riots and government graft and sleaze through the 70s, 80s, and 90s just tightened the hand on the neck.

Love your videos Charlie. I'm actually gonna be in downtown Detroit this saturday so i'm excited for that. Keep up the good work and stay safe!!

@CharlieBo313

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

@b.gonzalez5711

6 жыл бұрын

Cici Anderson ii

I grew up in Detroit in the 50s'. Had many big beautiful houses. Everyone in my neighborhood (Jefferson & Concord) south of Belle Isle bridge got along. Was a great city then.My parents moved us to the surburbs when I was 15. I didn't want to go but of course had to. It breaks my heart to see what has become.

Until I started watching these videos, I had no idea that Detroit, unlike Chicago and New York, had such extensive low density housing. In New York you see so many huge housing projects sometimes 10 or 20 floors high. Truly hard to believe what happened in Detroit going from about 1.9 million to under 700,000...

@SidewaysBurnouts

Жыл бұрын

the down side of allowing us companies to us chinese slave labor is an end to the living wage in manufacturing centers like the mid west, south chi, south LA, rust belt.

what a shame , those houses would of been beautiful back in the day..what a waste

@ninabean4857

7 жыл бұрын

that was just stupid response really....

@Woozie894

7 жыл бұрын

John R Native Americans got the united states go.back to Europe

looks like Berlin in 1945

@johnoakes3106

6 жыл бұрын

Yes but the Germans went to work, cleared the streets of rubble. Salvaged anything usable to make shelters. Went to work at any job they could find even if it meant working for the Americans, French and British. They got back on their feet. Does anyone see the people that wrecked Detroit building anything?

@theamericanpitbullterrier6063

4 жыл бұрын

#thanksjews

@lylecosmopolite

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnoakes3106 By 1960 or so, West Berline was rebuilt, clean and prosperous. Thanks to its market economy. East Berlin was rebuilt with cheap ugly concrete buildings, or was not rebuilt at all until the 1990s. Thanks to Soviet communism. A related stark contrast pervades the Korean peninsula.

@mcnoface8000

3 жыл бұрын

Berlin is mostly apartments

Thanks for your videos, I love them and keep the hard work up man. I'll always be here to enjoy the next set of videos be careful out there. - Sencerly your loyal subscriber

@CharlieBo313

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and subscribing.

Wow you can tell those houses used to be beautiful homes . So sad.

When night falls the Volatiles come out to feast.

Sad really

@r.pres.4121

7 жыл бұрын

It's disgusting!

@nilestol2345

6 жыл бұрын

+Digby Dooright ALMOST

@ryanjhenry2493

6 жыл бұрын

Todd Jones It's not 'run' by anyone. Your comment is ludicrous and shows how little you know about local government or politics. Stay in your lane.

@irenerhein1902

6 жыл бұрын

I don't understand why these houses are abandoned... windows broken...all overgrown... people are living in some... what made all the other people leave and why are the people there now not taking care of their homes ???

@DoubleDogDare54

6 жыл бұрын

They are black.

It's mind blowing seeing this kind of urban decay on such a massive scale. Surely this is unparalleled anywhere else in the world....

@socalpimp1974

6 жыл бұрын

You must have never left the USA......

@Novusod

6 жыл бұрын

Parts of New York City were like this in the 70s and 80s but 20 years of Republican leadership saved New York.

@hedgefundphil

3 жыл бұрын

diversity is our greatest strength

This city is a homeless guys dream. New crib errrrrrr night

@domino3023

6 жыл бұрын

Street walkers, too. Free place to set up shop.

@PowMusic

4 жыл бұрын

except it's freezing cold most of the year...

@avortinus6031

4 жыл бұрын

Cold and filled with rotting corpses.

@weinerherzog5925

3 жыл бұрын

Controlled by a proxy government. There are territories.

@OCC_Plumbing_and_Restorations

2 жыл бұрын

Someone would burn it down

Nice 1980 Olds Cutlass Calais at 0:45.

@matthewjohnson2853

6 жыл бұрын

Old 60's Mustang at 4:49:)

Back in its heyday it would of been a absolutely beautiful neighbourhood all the houses and gardens pristine.

Thanks for the video. We left SE Mich a few years ago. Enjoyable to watch the old area while listening to the WWJ broadcast.

This is where California is headed.

@tommytruth7595

6 жыл бұрын

The whole USA if more Democrats get in power in Washington.

@jeffhagerman7810

6 жыл бұрын

Tommy Truth they sold us out people now take our country back

@hdnttl8679

4 жыл бұрын

California has surpassed the UK to become the 5th largest economy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/04/california-economy-uk-fifth-largest

@matthewbrewbaker6072

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao it's literally getting more expensive to live there... what do you mean?

@DJSpinitClasasicBG

3 жыл бұрын

...or is

An automobile monoculture based on now-obsolete manufacturing methods ceased to be able to suppport a large population. The auto industry steadily consolidated and it was consolidating long before those areas were abandoned. There is no reason for manufacturers to build in the frozen hell of the Rust Belt when energy costs are much less elsewhere and they can buy a greenfield site in a state with no winter and no old infrastructure requiring very, very expensive demolition so most of them don't. Cities exist for economic reasons. If they diversify their business base they survive. If they don't, there is no reason to be there. All those homes are old and most of them were old in 1960. The solution is managed shrinkage to make the city fit reality.

I can not stop watching these videos of Detroit. I keep thinking about how huge those houses were and how dreamy they must have been back when. It’s crazy to see it come to this. I might have to belt out a verse of Whitney Houston’s didn’t we almost have it all.😝😉😬😔😏

Detroit population dropped 1.2 million from 1950-2017. The city population is currently declining by 5% every year.

@ScorpioBornIn69

6 жыл бұрын

That is why so many homes and businesses are abandoned. 60% of the city's population dropped, and over a million who have lived and runned businesses there have move away leaving them all empty and to rot and fall apart.

@JBlank-zg3vc

6 жыл бұрын

Much like New Orleans.

@Batman-wv5ng

6 жыл бұрын

Ricky O Who would leave there?

5 жыл бұрын

If you don't leave you will be murdered.

Graphics in Fallout 5 look amazing.

@511longoria7

6 жыл бұрын

This is all about greed , sending jobs over seas so rich people can have more stuff and vacations. No good paying jobs this is what happens and then top it off with racism. The companies want more money forget about people trying to provide for their families.

This is a great shot of South Africa, circa 2025, how did you do that, you got a time machine?

@Cynthia-fs4vi

6 жыл бұрын

I said the same thing in another comment upthread. South Africa is running out of water fast, with a majority black population. Imagine what that will be like for the whites who are stranded there. They'd better start trying to get out right now.

@kenyonmcclain560

5 жыл бұрын

@@Cynthia-fs4vi never should have came in the first place damn colonizers

Thanks for all the great videos! I'm from germany and i never thought that some parts of the US look like this. Really scary...

@Batman-wv5ng

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Berger If don't stop Muslim and blacks coming in you nice country same will happen .

@lettyguerra371

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Berger , it is scary, because liberalism created this problem. 2 English words that are scary Entitlement, and Victim. These 2 words caused the destruction of this once Great City!

What's ironic is how you will see here and there a block of decently maintained houses that people are obviously living in, surrounded by 10 blocks of rotting, empty shells. I don't know how the people in the decent houses can stay in that neighbourhood. Not a place to send your kids trick or treating. on Halloween. And from the toys outside looks like there are some kids there.

It's interesting to see how the abandonment of one or two houses spreads through the neighborhood. It doesn't seem to matter how good the housing stock was to begin with; good stock, bad stock, they're all abandoned.

In 1955 the dream looks like it just have been firmly entrenched, look at the public frontage what a glorious wide open place this had to be for everyone but riots and white flight put an end to that.

It's beautiful.All I need is my drafting tools, and the original plans and I'm set.The potential is overwhelming!

Thank You for this film...I keep waiting n pray that Detroit will rebound....

Democrats. Really, what do they have to lose? Vote Republican.

@Charles-hy6gp

3 жыл бұрын

It doesn't matter who votes, politicians are incompetent that have poor leadership. Atlanta for example didn´t have a republican mayor since 1879

Sad what these people have done to this city!!!!!

@RJ67.

5 жыл бұрын

Walk up to anyone on the streets here and ask them if they know who their Mayor is. These politicians need to only be paid on their job results. Name any other job where the boss is told what to do by the employees. this is American politics & it needs to be fixed, Actually, I think it is too late. I'm 51 years old I thought about a life in politics when I was 15 / 16 years old, However, I then thought all of these people are going to be put in jail or overrun by angry mobs and I wanted no part of that. Little did I know

@acommentator69

5 жыл бұрын

Blacks

@TheSecondWitness

2 жыл бұрын

Here is your proof that these degenerate liberals ruin everything.

Happiest !1of thé top 10 Moment in Detriot's history ! Je finally maître aux ! Motown insideout !

What a sad situation, it's enough to make one cry, All these once beautifull homes Thank you for allowing me to see this, your camera work is very good, youve captured scenes ive only heard about, I had no idea situations were this terrible.

This is terrible especially for the people still living there the value of their homes must be so low now they couldnt sell them if they wanted to. Are there any supermarkets still open with fresh food or just the convience stores?

@IKhanNot

7 жыл бұрын

Very few supermarkets exist north of the downtown core. Heck, you know it's bad when there isn't a Wal-Mart within Detroit's city limits. The nearest one is 12 miles outside of city limits.

@1940limited

7 жыл бұрын

I notice in these videos there's always a few home scattered about that are still lived in as people try to hang on, or, as you say, can't sell if they wanted to.

@ericbrett3095

7 жыл бұрын

As of a few years ago the last major grocer pulled out of Detroit so all that is left are convenience stores.

@1940limited

7 жыл бұрын

I'm sure they're worried about looting. There's no Wal-Mart, either. They'd rob the places blind.

@1940limited

7 жыл бұрын

And those are probably shop-lifted on a regular basis, too.

why is this place like this when there are 1000s of homeless. I'm from England and we never see this. wow so many beautiful homes going to waste

@chieftp

7 жыл бұрын

kinda hard to buy/maintain a house when you sit around drinking or smoking crack all day.

@Batman-wv5ng

6 жыл бұрын

badferrit badferrit If you don't stop blacks and Muslim coming to you country same thing will happen.

@jameschampken770

3 жыл бұрын

There isnt anywhere in England that has abandoned homes and destruction to this extent of Detroit, especially since they are often big, beautiful homes that have become ghettos, and the destruction is all over Detroit. But there is some rough looking, run down cities and towns in England. I've been to Birmingham many times, also a car auto industry city, there is lots of abandoned factories, abandoned shops, abandoned pubs and some abandoned homes & empty high rise concrete estates (government housing), you see it as you enter the city by trains, it's like a ring of depression surrounding the city centre. Liverpool has its shitty areas to, the Anfield neighbourhood around Liverpool FC had lots of abandoned homes, not sure if it has improved today or not as that was over 10 years ago since I last seen it, but they use to have rows of abandoned homes on some streets, with other streets having 1/3 or 1/2 the row houses being abandoned. Burnley ain't pretty looking either. I'm sure there is other cities & towns that arent pretty that I just havent seen.

Wow there are real houses made of stone, mansions. Hard to imagine that this can happen to a city in Germany.

good addition with the radio playing.

This is one of the end results of 50+ years of democratic monolithic rule in city hall.

@michaelpreston233

6 жыл бұрын

The RAY GUN Reign didn't help Detroit and the rest of the Country either, suck on that.

@animeshdas9842

6 жыл бұрын

Then how come americas poorest states are all republican? And richest states are all democrats.

@PDXMILO

6 жыл бұрын

Get out of here. It's called globalism. If automakers were still making most of their cars there, everything would be fine. You build a city around a couple major employers and then have those business's leave, this is what you're left with no matter democrats or republicans are in charge. Same thing with all the other rust belt areas where coal and steel employers have been replaced by imports and mechanization.

@mssedmebich1621

6 жыл бұрын

When you buy a new car and the CHECK ENGINE light comes on within a month of driving it off the lot you are not going to have repeat costumers for long. My dad took his 84 Chevrolet back to the dealer a dozen times trying to get that light to stay off and all they did was keep resetting the computer because they could not fix it. They even tried to fool him by removing the bulb from the dashboard. That was his last GM purchase.

@denniss618

6 жыл бұрын

Nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans. Nothing to do with the color of ones skin either. Detroit was thriving when the auto industry was huge there. As the industry slowed down and relocated to other parts of the country or failed the jobs dried up. You have a large thriving city that lost it's industry and you want to blame Democrats. Capitalism is a GOP/Republican thing. Capitalism failed in Detroit because they moved somewhere cheaper to build. Not rocket science but I guess you need to be smarter than a 4th grader to understand.

Maybe the Obama's can move in here and make a difference.

@taraerskine3954

4 жыл бұрын

79goldmaster1 oh yeah!!! that's what Detroit needs!!! it's so weird huge houses big neighborhoods but only about 8% population! even the squirrels said see yah!!

@DJSpinitClasasicBG

3 жыл бұрын

...then u woke up to find out it didn't happen wishful thinking Tho'

Videos are educational to someone like me who lives on an island in the Bahamas thanks Charlie Jah bless.

I was born and raised in Detroit, and it breaks my heart to see these homes decay. Truthfully, most of these homes are too large to maintain for the average individual. All across Michigan not just in Detroit larger homes are boarded up and left to rot. Why? The cost to restore these homes is staggering and the size is just not feasible for the average paycheck with a 30 hour week.

@elderassassin9673

6 жыл бұрын

Gloria Hanes I want to move there the houses look so nice I live in Florida born and raised the houses are to much here I can live in Detroit and live happy in a big house. My income is from online.

@elderassassin9673

6 жыл бұрын

Gloria Hanes but I have a question do you think I will be robbed if I go there if I move there.

@gloriahanes6490

6 жыл бұрын

Every city has issues, but Detroit has areas which are beautiful. I would plan a trip to Michigan and check out the area yourself. Michigan is very affordable and the winters are mild. I moved back from Arizona as I was homesick for my birth state. Arizona is now polluted, over populated and crowded, and way too expensive.

This city use to be one of the greatest in the country. So sad.

This is living proof what happens under a Liberal Progressive form of government rule~!!!! Yet they look but they don't see.

Let us bow our heads and remain silent to remember those who built and lived in these neighborhoods.

it's a shame that only a few houses here and there have been looked after but the rest are decaying. classic architecture from a bygone era !

Detroit rock city...

@lettyguerra371

6 жыл бұрын

Local Gambler , yes its ruined and the houses are all rubble and ROCKS!

This was 2 years ago. Have things improved any since then? I see some homes are still lived n and kept up.

@khalilt6508

4 жыл бұрын

This comment was 2 years ago but it’s improved sort of not really

@matildeschower4772

4 жыл бұрын

@@khalilt6508 I was about to ask so thank you for answering

I'm in southern Ontario and always wanted to see these houses in person. These houses built in the early 1910's- 1920's were built exactly when car manufacturing and Ford was taking off. Detroit was the same size or even bigger than Chicago. I think it was second after New York in population They are beautiful...and this dosnt even show some of the mini mansions of the time from the upper classes.

Wow. Some really nice houses.

In the Netherlands you'd pay more than a million euros for homes like these...

@dutch66

7 жыл бұрын

Well, that's outside of the Amsterdam, Utrecht and The Hague areas. Cause there it would be more like 1,5 million. And in Detroit, houses like that are just a pile of bricks declining in value as we speak. So sad...

@andrewperrin6135

6 жыл бұрын

You could buy one of these houses for less than $1000. I wonder how much it would cost to have it shipped overseas? Possible business opportunity?

who disliked this? lmao they must still live there

@Karmen2010

6 жыл бұрын

Clorox Bleach I did because this is one of the most depressing videos I have ever seen and I lived in a crappy trailer court for 3 years!

just beautiful. inspiring for the next iteration.

Charlie... This is so heart breaking. I really loved those 2-story bungalo's with the huge frony decks. How I wish more didnt see them the way I do. So sad my friend. So very sad.

ýo is there a possibility that you enter some of those abandoned houses? would be VERY intresting for ALOT of people.

@brandonellington1986

7 жыл бұрын

Flying look up detroit street watchers

@dalemcnamee2427

7 жыл бұрын

Flying, Charlie has a video of him entering a couple of the houses... It was dangerous in that he could have fallen through the floors as they are often rotted away or the ceiling falls in on him... Then, there's the danger of running into what I term a "feral, stray, human" inside one of them... The houses are stripped of copper plumbing and electrical wires and full of trash... It's nothing worth seeing...

@RADIUMGLASS

7 жыл бұрын

Well there are videos on here and when you see some of them or go inside you think of families having dinner, socializing, the ghosts of the past.

@dalemcnamee2427

7 жыл бұрын

ELECTRICCLOCK, I've often had "who used to live here" moments when I've watched Charlie's and other's similar videos...

@RADIUMGLASS

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah we think different than those who occupy today. I've wanted to do these videos for a long time but it's just too depressing.

Way to go, Democrats.

Thanks for uploading Charlie.

This is so terrible to see. All of these once beautiful and well kept up neighborhoods now decayed and in ruins. How could this happen to one of our great cities that when I lived there was the fifth largest in the country and was so proud of its accomplishments. I was born in Detroit and lived there until 1962. Never could I have imagined what would happen to the city I loved.

@duckie0892

Жыл бұрын

They ruin everything they touch 😒

It looks like Berlin after the Soviets bombed them off the face of the Earth.

@ufopulse

6 жыл бұрын

The Soviets did bomb Berlin, as did the allies.

@Cryptkeeper0311

6 жыл бұрын

gordon mathew: Berlin was captured by the Russians... They surrounded it and used far more explosive ordinance via artillery, bombs and mortars on that city than the rest of the allies combined... And left a good chunk of it in ruins for years. In fact 80% of the biggest battles of WW2 where the most people died was in the eastern front.

@Cryptkeeper0311

6 жыл бұрын

guess who: ....would you count Katyusha rockets as bombs? Lol. They had a crappy air force I agree but they made up for it with arty rockets and mortars.

@tommyjones8490

6 жыл бұрын

guess who here's a compound noun for you.....pussunaculacommunistalazyshitzendunkoffens that means "person of color communist lazy shit dumb asses" who destroy beautiful American cities. Fuck off.......

@ezrabrooks12

6 жыл бұрын

THE ARMY AIR FORCE AND THE RAF ARE THE ONES THAT BOMBED THE HELL OUT OF THE NAZI'S!!! LEARN YOUR HISTORY!!!

little Africa

Keep it up Charlie....These were top of the line homes. Nothing wrong with them. Look at the architecture. Heh you would love to hear what my grandparents would say now. They were the 1890s -1907 generation.

I drove through some of these areas a few years ago. Incredible to see this in person.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Detroit, the American city that looks like America engaged in a nuclear war 10-25 years ago, and lost.

@leonardpearlman4017

6 жыл бұрын

Oops. Maybe this is just a preview of our lives after WWIII! Roh-oh.

@thought-provokingvideos5464

4 жыл бұрын

What happened tho? Why is it like this?

@lylecosmopolite

4 жыл бұрын

@@thought-provokingvideos5464 Detroit's prosperity was based on factories related to the making of automobiles, factories built 1900-1929. When these plants reached their use-by date, they were abandoned and replaced by factories built elsewhere in the USA, or in northern Mexico, or in Japan & Korea. The reason was often the high wages negotiated by the UAW, and the fact that much of the USA is right to work country. In 1943, Detroit experienced a bad race riot. In 1967, it experienced the worse race riot in American history, which triggered a brutal exodus of Detroit's white residents. Everybody who could leave Detroit did so; hence Detroit's population today is about 1/3 of what it was in 1950. Detroit's white population shrank to about 60K. A majority of Detroit's population was made up of people on a monthly check from the government, or of people having neither jobs nor welfare. Lacking jobs and welfare, many Detroit residents turned to drugs and theft. Soon after the 1967 riot, Detroit became a crime infested hell. This led to a further population exodus. The number of abandoned houses and vacant lots soared. Many of Detroit's art deco skyscrapers have been abandoned since the 1980s. Normal economic life is not possible in a place like Detroit, where life and property are not secure. Detroit averages about 2 murders per day. Believe it or not, there are American cities that are even more violent than Detroit: St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans.

@lylecosmopolite

4 жыл бұрын

@@thought-provokingvideos5464 People were so desperate to flee Detroit's violence, drug addiction and property destruction, that they abandoned their homes and businesses. Abandoned real estate attracts vandals, arsonists, and copper-strippers. Soon houses fall apart and become completely unlivable. Blight spreads like a contagious disease.

You are looking at a failed municipality, gentle viewers.

Although low-density residential developments are still declining in Detroit, many larger developments, such as historic high-rises, apartments, mansions and skyscrapers, are actually being restored.

Someday I would like to see Detroit. I will add this to my bucket list. ❤️❤️❤️

Nice beautiful black communities lol

@salpalladino2202

6 жыл бұрын

Another Hebrew Israelite clown. Nice wizard outfits you guys have.

@eriet1

6 жыл бұрын

they could at least clean up there own yard like white people do

@tommytruth7595

6 жыл бұрын

Apparently they can't.

@nicolejoleneable

6 жыл бұрын

MASH MASH that’s what happens when the community becomes black..There’s the proof..What else does anyone want.Im sure the racist blacks will get pissed bc they’re DELUSIONAL BUT THERE IT IS PROOF POSITIVE

@oldgysgt

6 жыл бұрын

Nappy Hebrew; are you really Jewish, or are you just using a "catchy" name?

thank you builderberg, thank you president clinton, thank you democrats

@animeshdas9842

6 жыл бұрын

ceramictiletonight richest states in US are all democrat, poorest states in US are all republican. So you were saying?

@tommytruth7595

6 жыл бұрын

And you are full of sh--, Animesh Das.

@animeshdas9842

6 жыл бұрын

@Tommy Truth....trumpTURD triggered!!!!

Shame, people once took pride in all of those homes. Now it looks like very few get cared for. It amazes me that land was at such a premium in the city that these houses were built right on top of each other. It is nice to see some open space. Home owners should be able to buy vacant lots next to them from the city for a reasonable price and use the area for a garden, pool, or other out door activates.

Looks like Gary Indiana; West End Atlanta; Miami Florida; Philadelphia; Albuquerque NM. Several other cities too numerous to mention. Welcome to America.

makes me so sad

@larikipe940

6 жыл бұрын

Makes me so MAD!

Damn what a shit hole, Cali has notoriously bad ghettos up and down the state but none of our shit is burnt out and destroyed like that. I guess the price to live here gives people more incentive to care for their property? I can't say why really..

@andrewperrin6135

6 жыл бұрын

Give it 10 or 20 years. Once property values start to slide, if you can't fix the crime, this is what you get.

Detroit has so many beautiful old abandoned homes, and so many homeless people. It is a shame that someone couldn't be given the house before it deteriorates so badly. I really feel for the people who are still eying to maintain their house in a block of empty houses.

I am working on a documentary project as part of an educational seminar in Greece and would like to potentially use parts of this video as stock footage to flesh out its narrative, given it touches on immigration issues and Greeks living in America - am I free to do so or are there any copyright issues involved? I would appreciate any help you can give me.

Some of these homes could still be saved.

@tommytruth7595

6 жыл бұрын

Not worth it. You would have them broken into every day.

I escaped.

Thumbs up for you.

These majestic homes in Detroit just blow me away.

1:46 - damn, they aint giving up!

@dalemcnamee2427

7 жыл бұрын

Clorox Bleach, In most of the cases, people who own the homes have no where to go since their homes are virtually worthless... Also, some still have a sense of "neighborhood" and want to keep as much of that sense as they can... Another person to check out is Walter Gildersleeve on KZread and The Shea Show, especially his early videos ( 2008 and on ) where he's previewing houses for people trying to invest in rental homes in Detroit and some of the neighborhoods looked worse than Berlin and Dresden in WW II !

@dalemcnamee2427

7 жыл бұрын

Clorox Bleach, In most of the cases, people who own the homes have no where to go since their homes are virtually worthless... Also, some still have a sense of "neighborhood" and want to keep as much of that sense as they can... Another person to check out is Walter Gildersleeve on KZread and The Shea Show, especially his early videos ( 2008 and on ) where he's previewing houses for people trying to invest in rental homes in Detroit and some of the neighborhoods looked worse than Berlin and Dresden in WW II !

@MrJohnnyDistortion

7 жыл бұрын

+Dale McNamee Why would the home owners want to go somewhere else?

@dalemcnamee2427

7 жыл бұрын

MrJohnnyDistortion, Just look at the "neighborhood" ! Would you live on a street full of decrepit and decaying houses and "neighbors" that will rob and perhaps kill you ? Does the prospect of seeing these houses every day excite you ? Maybe you're thrilled with that, but most rational people aren't...

@bindardundat454

6 жыл бұрын

Creepy in daylight. Can’t imagine how scary at night!

I grew up on the east side. Was nice. Blame is on the blacks. No question.

@CvGodHand

6 жыл бұрын

Show me facts and not bias

@daviniasingleton9406

6 жыл бұрын

So did i my family and i moved to the south in1986 it is sad to see this, but i am glad to be away from this.

@dreamer6508

6 жыл бұрын

Was it not Bill Clinton a white president who signed NAFTA

@denniss618

6 жыл бұрын

Clinton signed it but Bush and the GOP Congress created NAFTA. Does it hurt to be stupid? It should.

@daviniasingleton9406

6 жыл бұрын

Detroit will not come back at least not in my life time

I don't understand this. Someone, at some point, paid a lot of money for these homes. Why didn't they take care of them? This neighborhood could be absolutely stunning, safe and clean!

@Cynthia-fs4vi

6 жыл бұрын

That is assuming everyone involved was on board. No single homeowner can renovate and motivate their surroundings all alone. No reason to spend thousands on a home that's surrounded by crack dens!

Welcome to Democrats in charge of cities!

@nateduggan3146

3 жыл бұрын

So what's the excuse for poor Southern, Republican states? If people had a brain they wouldn't vote either one of these corrupt criminal parties.

@robluck21

3 жыл бұрын

@@nateduggan3146 If you had not noticed the South only flipped Republican recently they had Democrats in control for over 100 years. That's why you had jim crow and the kkk and slavery. Keeping in mind that the First Republican President, Lincoln, freed the slaves the Democrats opposed that. The south also had no history of the large industry to lose, of any wealth to lose, as Detroit was rich and threw it all away.