Detroit playlist: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gap2mLuLj6XJqLA.html Michigan playlist: kzread.info/dash/bejne/immom8OfkqitecY.html American Hoods playlist: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dqFsk9unh9m7o7A.html Intro: 0:00 - 1:00 New Center: 1:00 - 3:50 Fisher Building: 3:50 - 6:12 Virginia Park Historic District: 6:12 - 8:24 New Center Commons: 8:24 - 9:07 Economic Stats: 9:07 - 11:19 Milwaukee Junction: 11:19 - 15:29 Abandoned Fisher Body Plant 21: 15:29 - 19:21 Ford Piquette Plant: 19:21 - 20:48 Milwaukee Junction Again: 20:48 - 21:59 E Grand Blvd: 21:59 - 23:19 New Center Commons Again: 23:19 - 25:31 The Hood: 25:31 - 41:44 Boston-Edison and Arden Park: 41:44 - 51:08 Woodward Avenue: 51:08 - 55:07 ==================================================================== EVERYTHING THAT I USE IN THE FIELD: Main Camera: amzn.to/3iS4vvF Side Cameras: amzn.to/2WuCYIs Media Mod for Camera: amzn.to/3j7CMGF Lav Mic: amzn.to/3lsMkz9 Drone: amzn.to/3ITcKBV SD Cards: amzn.to/3C2co9O Camera Mounts: amzn.to/2UXVR6p Cables Required for Longer Recordings: amzn.to/3BYnr3Q Computer: amzn.to/3787b2j External Hard Drive: amzn.to/3lb23Tf WHAT I USE AT HOME: Computer: amzn.to/3rKIdiN Sound Mixer: amzn.to/3C15Ubx Microphone: amzn.to/2VaCjvo Microphone Accessories: amzn.to/3v7A35Z INTERACTIVE MAP that shows you all of the places that I've made videos on: (Doesn't always work on mobile devices. Will always work on PC.) www.google.com/maps/d/u/2/edit?hl=en&mid=1Lhzf04ocimPu-ROkg4cfXEYEvKMNnlI5&ll=43.06219876674538%2C-83.82163216337808&z=10 SOCIAL MEDIA & CONTACT INFO: Email: ChrisHardenYT@Gmail.com On Twitter: twitter.com/Chris_Harden55 On Instagram: instagram.com/c_harden7/?... On Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisHardenYT/ DISCLAIMER: Links included in this description might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. There is no additional charge to you. As an Amazon Associate I do earn a small commission on qualifying purchases. As always, thank you for supporting my channel!

Detroit is a beautiful city full of art, music, theaters, architecture and genuine, amazing people. Unfortunately it has been through a lot and others around the country only see the negatives of it. Here’s to hoping the future is better as the rebirth continues.

Never been to Detroit and I really need to take a Michigan vacation just to see the great state. That voice of Doom is hilarious!😂 Thanks for all the car facts Chris. I remember back in the 80's it was a thing to be able to own a Cadillac. Those "boats" were a superb ride. Gotta❤️that hood music. I can see why people bicycle on Arden Pk. Nice improvements in Detroit communities👍🏻

@ChrisHarden

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for all of your comments and kind words, Shelby! You're awesome.

Great video! To add to your point, despite Detroit being home to the Big 3, most of the Engineering/PD Centers are in Dearborn for Ford, Warren for GM, and Auburn Hills for Stellantis (FCA). Hopefully Ford's investment in the MCS campus in Corktown will bring some of the tech talent to Detroit.

Loved Detroit as a child, late 50's thru late 60's. Moved back in 1978 for a little while. Nothing like the history of Detroit. Proud and sad at the same time when thinking about the city. So many wonderful memories. Thanks, Chris for a wonderful video.

I am enjoying these, I grew up in the suburbs. Been up north for 50 years. When growing up, when we went into the city it was for a certain thing. Down the lodge back out on the lodge. I've been to many spots in the city, but I never just cruised around so I never got the sense of how huge the town was. I was thirteen when the riots occurred so at 16 I started driving and it didn't seem prudent to explore the city because things had changed. My brother was in the Michigan Guard, he spent a month active in the city and he said he was well treated by the residents.

Honestly think the 1920s was the peak of American residential architecture!!! I doubt the stuff being built in suburban phoenix or outer Dallas will age as gracefully.

Great video Chris. I'm really impressed by all those gorgeous homes and grand boulevards towards the end of the video. Just goes to prove that in its heyday, Detroit was a spectacular beautiful city. So sad that much of that beauty and grandeur has been lost to history. I've visited Detroit many times. So impressed by the way your videos show me areas I'd never ventured out to. Keep up the great work, Chris. As a huge fan of Detroit, I pray that one day, the grand lady will make a complete comeback.

I love the downtown area, specifically the Fisher Theater. I saw, " A Chrus Line", "Jesus Christ Superstar" and " My Fair Lady" there. It was such a beautiful theatre..Theater... I remember dressing up just to go there. Alot of fun

@ChrisHarden

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I’ve never been, but I’ve seen pictures and can only imagine. Been inside the building and on one of the higher floors for a job interview once. Making it a goal to go to the theatre one of these days.

Chris, thank you for another great video! I love all of your videos and especially the Detroit play list! I enjoyed the drone shots of the Fisher Building, Fisher Body Plant and the houses in Arden Park/Boston Edison. New Center feels like the original edge city from the 1920's. Thanks for the insights!

Cool story about the fisher plant: me and my buddies were biking around town on a Sunday, saw it and explored it. Even climbed to the top where we got amazing views. We probably saw about 40 people mostly adults all just exploring, most were from the suburbs.

Love your Detroit Documentaries.

Great videos! I always loved interesting 20th century buildings and Detroit has some of the best. Thanks for the tour.

I love watching all your vids. Detroit seems to be one of the toughest places to survive in. Hope that Detroit continues to improve and poverty, jobless, and crime levels decrease significantly. The poverty stricken and poorly educated citizens need to be embraced by the president himself, they deserve it. The water crisis in Flint is another major that requires immediate attention. I come from Scotland and it's painful to witness the once beautiful suburban real estate fall into near ruin. For all its flaws, I would still like to move there.

@manbtm1

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Actually it all depends where you live, in my downtown Detroit neighborhood, Lafayette Park surviving is very easy, it’s a lovely neighborhood, the income is very middle to upper income, there are thousands of people , it is nice of an area as you’re going to find in most cities downtown. As mentioned it all depends where you live , we are fortunate enough to live in an area where life is very pleasant. We walk to everything downtown and along the river front also which is great

Still living the series. I have one suggestion and it's for the people watching who don't have any sense of where the nicer parts of Detroit are: downtown, midtown, corktown, brush park. Is it possible to start the video on areas like this one off by giving more context for where they are exactly in relationship to the better areas? For example, if they saw midtown and then drove up woodward to this it would feel worse. But if they saw this same area coming from highland Park, they'd think it's much better. This helps drive home the sense of downtown and midtown being the seed and roots of the change that will slowly grow out into this area and the next near ones. Making people realize they can go enjoy and live there.

General Motors began buying and renovating the homes in the neighborhood near its headquarters in the late seventies, and the project continued into the eighties. It didn't do much to change the surrounding area, and many thought the project a failure. The housing and retail boom in the New Center and Midtown is much more recent.

i love these so much just sooooo much amazing information im learning its truly amazing much love chris!!

LOVE this video! My dad used to work at an Edison store in Highland Park. I would go downtown to Hudsons to see my eye doctor. Then to Sanders for a hot fudge sundae. Then on a streetcar to meet my Dad at work. My dad took me to Highland Park the day the old smokestacks were torn down at the Ford factory. There used to be a Sears, Montgomery Wards and a Federals at Grand River and Greenfield, among other stores. Wards was a tall building which intrigued me as a kid. Can you tour that area? We used to live around there. Thank you so very much for doing these vids. Lots of good memories.

@ChrisHarden

2 жыл бұрын

Yup! Already have the Grand River and Greenfield area filmed. Not sure when I’ll be able to have it uploaded but it’ll be uploaded eventually.

@twanohguy

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisHarden I used to fantasize about a house in the Boston Edison area and there was a peek of it in this video. It was on the SE corner of 2nd and, I think, Boston, red brick, 3 story and it still had a carriage house in back. And it still Does! It seems to me that Detroit has done a very good job of razing a lot of old buildings and houses. But, in this video, the remaining houses stood out. These places were huge! 2 1/2 or 3 stories, all brick! Even the neighborhood stores have interesting architectural elements to them - and the apartment blocks with bays window or arches, etc. There WAS a LOT of money in this town. I moved back to Michigan in July after 48 years in the Seattle area. Couldn't afford a good part of Detroit, so am in Saginaw. Another car town. But it's really nice. Here too, they have torn down the car factories. I had to ask someone if there WAS a factory here. Keep up the wonderful work!

Ahaha I had to come to this video to see my neighborhood, and right before you start to drive up 2nd to my street the hood music starts playing. Love it 😂

Well, Chris, I plan to arrive in Detroit by Amtrak, on a train from Chicago. What a pity there'll be no chance of you showing me the northern estates and partially gone suburbs... Thank you for such a detailed trip around the city.

Nothing yet about the Penobscot building it had a large round redlight atop it, used to pass it at night a lot going to the Fox Theatre and shopping at JL Hudson Department stores. Detroit in the mid 50's had National Grocery stores, one was on Warren Ave near Conner, and several other locations, A&P with Awrey's Bakery were very popular. And we took a tour of Twin Pines Dairy and Aunt Janes Pickle company.

No matter how you report Chris, Detroit is still a nice city

Great video sir great commentary 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

This is a really good and interesting video! But...the African-Americans migrating up from the South during the Great Migration of the early-mid twentieth century weren't enslaved prior to their migration and therefore did not come via the Underground Railroad. Slavery, and with it the Underground Railroad, ended in 1865.

Great job, Chris!! So informative, as usual!

Fisher Building: Originally planned to be three Towers, The main middle tower was to stand 882FT tall with the current building standing 428FT connected the right of it and a twin standing 428FT connected to the left of it. The project was put on hold due to the depression and was scaled back to what we see today. If the project was completed, it was to be the largest building in terms of square feet in the entire world. Dethroning The GM World Headquarters which held that title upon its completion in the early 1220’s.

Hey Chris…thanks for all the great videos and hard work you’ve put into them. It’s too bad the endless interruptions by commercials practically ruin them. It wasn’t like that before. Just saying. Anyhow thanks!

I live and work in the area and truly enjoy it

Good video!

That shark on the wall is badass!!!! That's straight talent. I've never been to Detroit, now I really want to visit and see the historical buildings

Detroit is still a Beautiful City, Better looking than say Baltimore, yuk, I haven't been home to Detroit in years I need to go to see how much has changed

Chris, I love your great programs and am a relatively new subscriber, but I want to clarify a few things regarding race regarding white flight. My Mom + and may GOD rest her soul + and I relocated to Chicago from San Francisco, CA during the 1950s. Being black and poor nobody laid out the Welcome Mat for us. We had a hard go. Eventually, we left the crime-ridden black neighborhood for 'greener pastures' aka white neighborhoods. To our surprise, 6 months after we moved in the areas became 100% black. No problem there however the crime and blight seemed to follow us. You can fill in the rest. What I'm saying is that black folks must stop blaming white people for all their problems. Blacks must clean up their own mess! Regarding Detroit, Chris, I hear ya.' Case in point when I was a kid working in a factory we had a white fellow working with our group. He was a really nice guy. One day he arrived for his shift only to have the timekeeper send him home as being unfit to work that day. His fiancée lived in Detroit. This was 1966 or '67. His white girlfriend was driving through a black neighborhood only to stop at a traffic light to have a mob of blacks drag her out of her car and beat the poor girl to death! Horrible! Detroit was a horrible place during the turbulent 1960s. I've only been to Motown twice. Each time the residents treated me royally to my surprise. Chris, if we as a country don't get it together our country is doomed! That's all.

Nice work.

Totally learned about the Piquette Plant and the Model T - nice!

You make great vids, thank you

About two years ago I heard there were concrete plans to refurbish and rework the Fisher Body Plant into living spaces with lower floor businesses. The building is huge, about 650 feet long, so the plans seem almost overly ambitious, even unrealistic. Detroit in general is notorious for sounding off about these huge renovation jobs which come to nothing. I remember about ten years ago, a former Detroiter who'd made good in Los Angeles (Greg Sasser?), had plans to restore the Lee Plaza "to its former grandeur". Those plans quietly died. Same with some folks from NYC who, about five or six years ago, announced plans to restore the huge Herman Kiefer hospital building. Those plans also bit the dust. Attempts at reusing the great old Kelvinator building, just the front office building section, or to incorporate it into the new building project, all failed. And now that I'm thinking about it, correct me if I'm wrong (I'm Detroit native..whose lived away for a few years) didn't Jeff Bezos the Clown destroy our old State Fair grounds infrastructure...in order to build one of his endless stores??? So, to quote Hillary the Killary Clinton.."WHAT HAPPENED?". Detroit desperately needs to attract suburban expatriots...or...the expats themselves, must help repopulate this town, clean it up, bring in their enterprises and skills, and get this place moving already. The native population simply can't do it alone. Everyone needs a boost. But first, completely do over the city and state governments...well that's never going to happen. R.I.P. Detroit. I'm glad I knew when I did.

Nearly every railroad that came to Detroit passed through Milwaukee Junction. Chesapeake & Ohio (Pere Marquette) from the west, Wabash Railroad, Detroit & Toledo Shore Line (Nickel Plate and Grand Trunk Western joint ownership),Grand Trunk Western, New York Central and just east is the Detroit River Railroad Tunnel. At Milwaukee Junction the Grand Trunk had a roundhouse, Car Shop and service facilities. I used to go there in the early 80's. I felt safe there (and shouldn't have) until they abandon the shops and tore every thing down. Another good spot for railroad action is in one of your other videos, Delray Junction. Not a good area, a dangerous place, so stay close to your car. Still a busy Industrial Area of Detroit. These places are proof that industry in Detroit is not dead.

You missed New Center Stamping. That's an old Fisher plant that's still in use. The stamp out the goods, fenders, tailgates, and other major chassis components for Ford and GM. I've been in there many times picking up parts. The company I work for assembles parts for GM from stamping out of NCS. That area really deserves it's own video.

Lot of work in this video

I used to carry around a pink aluminum baseball bat when I lived there 💁‍♀️

The assembly line was being used in the meat packing and cattle processing business. Carcasses were hung from hooks and moved through a line of stationary butchers responsible for processing certain parts. Henry got the idea from his local butcher

I really enjoyed this episode because of motor city history. I passed Fisher body plant all the time going down I94, it hasn't changed much in 30 years lol. Glad you didn't enter the structure with out a glock vaccine 😂. I follow urban explorer's who do that stuff daily. Would you ever consider teaming up with a urban explorer'team ? There knowledge on entry and safety combined with your expert editing and documentation would be cool, hell I'd even contribute to a patron for that, Well just a idea, think about it but act before the area's are redevelopment 😂😂😂😂🏁👍🤜🤛

@ChrisHarden

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t have any plans to go that route currently, but I’ll never say no to a good idea if you know what I mean. I still work a full-time job alongside this KZread thing. I would need a better camera for low light settings and other situations… but that would be fun.

It’s funny how you changed the music to hip hop once you got into the hood… I thought I was in Compton lmaoo 😂😂😭

It's too bad you can't do a segment on the Detroit Recreation Camp that used to be out between Brighton and Howell, specifically north of Grand River between Euler and Kellog roads . The land along with Euler lake were donated to the city back in the 30's to be used as a children's camp which it was until the 2000's. I was a camper there in 1967 and then worked as a counselor from 1976 through 1978. They were the best summers of my life. Unfortunately sometime in the 90's someone from Parks and Rec allowed anybody to get a job as a counselor meaning middle aged men were hired, not college kids as had traditionally been the case. Some of these people ended up doing drugs and having sex with campers so the State came in and shut it down. Later during Kwame's reign somebody from Parks and Rec sold it illegally to some Chaldean churches. So another jewel of Detroit is gone.

Thank You ! I Visit There Maybe Move There For Tech

BTW, a truly nice video, thanks. I really like you for your unabashed honesty. Is there any way to possibly curb the number and size of these murals that keep popping up on the sides of buildings all around the city? Do all people really want them? They seem to deter from the structures themselves. Usually they're slathered onto the back, or less visible walls of a building, those that aren't "for show". However, increasingly, they seems to be showing their faces, much larger than life, even on the fronts, or architectural facades of buildings. This practice is beginning to get out of hand. Even a brutalist style building (aka, "Brezhnev" style...1970's steel reinforced concrete) such as that huge, high-rise apartement building on Washington Boulevard is still the work of an architect and... has its place. The painting on that one just never ceases.

Out sourcing parts for vehicles done from The factories helped killed GM . This is a great video ; The death of Auto Plants oh well but still The GM plant was on Plymouth Rd in Livonia built cars and there were three factories around that area went on well past the 1980’s think 2000? ?Along wit the horse race trace and Oh the Chinese Restaurant across the street from GM that was cooking Cat lol they found cat body’s in the dumpster 200 of them probably some hanging up inside in back . Late seventies and eighties I heard Still the best videos I’ve seen for Detroit always will watch them

It appears you were close to Motown mogul Berry Gordy's former residence in Boston-Edison.

I love driving the urban ruins of Detroit. I try to imagine this once fine place but the spooky is better than going to Disney.

Detroit's original mass transit system of surface streetcars began in, I believe, the 1890s. It endured until April, 1956. At its height, the system had something like 528 miles of track..you could go anywhere! I wish that sometimes people would cite this fact. The knowledge that such an extensive system did exist makes imagining a new such system much more of a possible reality for the future. Probably much of the track is under layers of pavement. In any case, I never like subways, and they're also expensive. I absolutely detest elevated rails for all sorts of reasons (including that God awful concrete one way mess to nowhere, aka, the people mover). I do believe that surface streetcars are by fa the most economical to construct. Another point, cities with both subways and el trains usually have them only in the core downtown district anyway. Beyond downtown, everything becomes surface. So...how about it, billionaires!

I visited Detroit for the first time last October. I ran the Free Press Marathon and enjoyed the race and my time in the city. I stayed at Hotel Saint Regis. Even though I watched many videos on this channel before my trip I didn't appreciate how vacate Detroit appears in person. I still can't wrap my mind around it...where are all the people?

@manbtm1

Жыл бұрын

Glad you had a chance to visit during the marathon, actually there’s tons of people in the downtown areas in Midtown , brush park, my neighborhood in Lafayette Park is also very busy and along the riverfront. If you were staying at the hotel Saint Regis some of those areas are fairly busy but Some are not. If you take theSaint Regis area / New Center all the way down to the riverfront and drive through Midtown ,brush park ,Lafayette Park , Corktown you will see tons of people and residences, there’s also many high and low rise condominiums and apartments that have been gone up, many of the beautiful old high-rises have now been converted into apartments and condos downtown also. If you come back hope you enjoy more.

I can't believe you missed New Center stamping, on Hastings right near Fisher body. I believe it was the stamping plant in 8 mile.

You fly by thousands of beautiful, historic, well maintained homes with manicured lawns. Then if one building comes along with boarded up widows the video slows down and it's shown from 3 different angles... Drive gown Taylor or Pingree and you'll see mostly well kept homes. Gotta create a narrative though.

Omg thats so funny!!!! I actually seen an old lady carry a baseball bat while she was walking her dog in the CITY of TAMPA FLORIDA recently maybe its a new trend in big cities? LOL CRAZY!

@ChrisHarden

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure she was going for a try out with the Tampa Bay Rays.

@mr.j1hype261

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisHarden LOL yes we need all the help we can get!

What with so many traffic lights flashing red? If they're out shouldn't they flash yellow? Or can it be either?

Do Benton harbor mi.

AND a shoutout to the family dollar let’s goooooo

He drives down 2nd street passing my street, Virginia Park and titles that section of the video “the hood”. Cue the scary hip-hop beat, lol. I hate to tell you this but the first block of Virginia Park where you neglected to drive by is very nice. My house is worth $650k. Also, you should revisit the rest of the Historic District as the water main construction has now been completed. By the end of 2024 the road will be rebricked as well.

We rented an apartment for a month on John R. Nobody seemed to know how the street John R got named. Do you know?

@ChrisHarden

2 жыл бұрын

www.michiganradio.org/transportation/2015-10-25/who-is-john-r-and-why-is-there-a-street-in-detroit-named-after-him

Great video, I was wondering, does Detroit have any hills? It looks pretty flat.

@ChrisHarden

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. The city is flat as a pancake. You’ll see some hills in the suburbs to the north and west.

@keanuwick1082

2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't that flat naturally....alot of areas where rolling hills like in some of the burbs in Oakland County....areas like Wayne State for example. Areas were leveled though when these areas where developed.

Do Hamtramck!

"Street Name-Pallister!"

Just observations. The New Center looks like a real positive area. Notice the buildings are all high quality and not cheap rebuilds using inferior materials that will ghettoize in a decade. The areas around need to just be leveled with low cost clover planted to provide a buffer. All the leveling Detroit needs to do costs a ton of money the city doesn't have. Without even looking it up, I suspect 90% of the tax revenue needed comes from 10% of the residents. That infers that an overwhelming percentage of Detroiters are takers, not producers. Those rough areas will get worse as the older GM retirees die off with nothing but Govt program/pharmaceutical salesmen to replace them. I also suspect the Boston-Edison Historic District has it's own police/security force patrolling the neighborhood. They were smart installing those big speed bumps. That big bicycle group looked like schooling fish. Safety in numbers. They won't be building any mass transit into the nicer areas from bad areas. It's counter productive. To figure out the quality of an area is easy using the numbers. Start with a base number of 10. Subtract 1 for each sighting....nicer newer cars, pedestrians/bicycles out for purely exercise, nice yards and strong neighborhood organizations. Add 1 point for each.....dollar store, Metro Cell phone, combo liquor/lotto/check cashing store, 2 points added for graffiti painted on stores, abandoned cars, overgrown weeds, only one house on the entire block, 3 points if Govt Agency services are the biggest buildings. If you were taking the family out or planning on a move into, this chart will be very helpful.

@ChrisHarden

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always liked New Center/Milwaukee Junction. It’s likely that parts of Milwaukee Junction near Piquette won’t develop anytime soon due to the decades of industrial use in that area, but there have been some new buildings and renovations off of Milwaukee and Baltimore avenues.

Where in detroit do you live?

Comment for the algorithm, and what I'd wonder about the woman with a bat is what she had slipped into the waste band of her pants. I guess that's the point.

Dude, that squiggly visual effect with the pitched down vocal effect that you do to combat any potential naysayers is so wack! Other than that I dig your informative videos even though they seem kinda negative. I love seeing Detroit either way. Love that place.

@ChrisHarden

2 жыл бұрын

I won an Emmy with the troll voice dude. It’s not going away.

Another interesting video but I find the weird wobbly orange shots and the robotic voice a bit annoying! Glad you didn't go inside that building though, you made the right choice!

@ChrisHarden

11 ай бұрын

The weird wobbly orange shots?

Nothing like Detroit Hookers and Blow. I was raised on it. Wouldn't have it any other way. Nothing like The "D"!!!

i thought Seven Mile was more depressing. It was NEVER nice. Shitty little cinder block boxes with marginal hardscrabble businesses! At least Oakland once was nice.

You were no where near the hood😂

I like your videos, but the Great Migration occurred 60-70 years after slavery ended in America. So nobody was using the Underground Railroad in the Great Migration.

They should abandon those stupid traficlights and build roundabouts.

I Know that Area In Detroit The New Center cause I remember that place way back when I was Little growing up cause the new center building is right next to the McDonald's

I like it more and more