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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

7 ай бұрын

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..

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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

Imagine that, the liquor store was still open.

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

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 ?

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

7 ай бұрын

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

Taking us places many would never to dare enter.

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

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

@hoodsnhollers

7 ай бұрын

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

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

@hoodsnhollers

7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching!

thank you for showing this to us!!

@hoodsnhollers

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

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

7 ай бұрын

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

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.

When Chrysler HQ left it went down fast.

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.

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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

7 ай бұрын

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.

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

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.

Sad makes you wonder where all of the people went

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Once upon a time a great society . . . .

No work no town.

The city where Ford had his first Model T factory

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

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.

Wow! Sad, but interesting to see. 👍

@hoodsnhollers

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

It's basically Detroit. Not surprised

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?

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.

Looks like a Fallout game

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

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..

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

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

@mikekemper9566

7 ай бұрын

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

Why is it that whenever an abandoned buildings are around, all the windows have to be bashed out and graffiti everywhere? Kind of disappointing to see mankind reduced to that.

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

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

It's like watching what happens when Humans vanish. Only it's all real.

great stuff

@hoodsnhollers

7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much John!

Seeing this makes me want to visit.

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 ]

Do a walk through of those abandoned apartments

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

Thanks!

@hoodsnhollers

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so very much!

Cities need industries.

This is heartbreaking.

I was born in Arte Centre hospital here. It was a vibrant wealthy Jewish community before it crumbled. God I got outta there fast.

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

All those houses would be $800,000 where I live.

Cheaper and plenty space to build elsewhere in the state, without the Detroit baggage.

Spray can paint store does well.

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

@sammyweed4771

7 ай бұрын

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