Abandoned McDonald's - Detroit, MI 

Probably because it’s in a really bad neighborhood with a lot of crime

That’s my old neighbor hood. So much has changed there… I use to go there as a kid from time to time. I’m long gone away from there now. Good old 313 off Linwood Street.

Bulletproof glass in a McD means they probably got robbed a lot. Omg, it's a good thing you didn't linger too long there bc when you were going around the back, it looked like there was some one with a white bag moving left towards the door, trying not to get seen in the dumping area. There probably was someone staying there. They may have gotten in from the roof. That could explain why that door was open and why all of that stuff that looks like personal stuff was in there. Be careful friend.

Hi Wallie, Welcome to Detroit! Just, recently and Burger King 🤴 and McDonald's have been Closing Restaurants Permanently in the inner city of Detroit. This, McDonald's location Dexter and Linwood,is in the lower Westside of Detroit. That's a rough area of Detroit. Besides, the inner city Fast Food Restaurants have Bullet Proof Windows, just like the Banks,have Bullet Proof Windows. I,even remember the 1967,Riots on Detroit's Lower Westside.

You know you in the hood when McDonald's has bulletproof windows

It’s really a rare sight to see an abandoned modernized mcdonalds

The franchise owner passed away unfortunately that’s why it’s closed

Yikes that’s sad when they have to install bulletproof glass on the counter. Detroit has so many abandoned places. I love it and I want to go back someday.

Wow! To have bulletproof glass windows at a fast-food restaurant must mean prior to that, they must have been getting robbed at least once a day or more.

Man that's probably one of the greatest McDonald's you've ever filmed Wally. That bulletproof glass freaked me out and I was watching from the comfort of my front room lol

There was a McDonald's on a cut through on my way to work that closed during COVID. It's in a bad area and about a month after they closed all the boards were ripped off (all windows and doors were boarded up originally) it's covered in graffiti. It looked so gutted, it was insane. I haven't driven past it recently but wouldn't be surprised if it was torn down or torched down at this point. It was really wild to see.

I saw that person hanging out in the dumpster area with the white bag and I'm glad you didn't run into any trouble there. That could've gone south in a hurry. Stay safe out there, man.

The bulletproof windows were also probably to protect employees from being hit by stuff thrown by angry customers along with bullets. This was a great video Wallie!

Don't let this be the only image about the city, it's amazing the rest of it

Wallie, if you have time while you’re in town, you should go to Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield Village in Dearborn if you haven’t been there before. It’s well worth the visit. :)

It’s pretty colorful for being in the same architecture as the draft gray boxes they usually renovate the old places into…

I been to that location before when it was still open my grandmas house is about a 15 min walk from there!!

Another amazing video with more humor. My favorite!

Davidson and Linwood--------------Theres another abandoned McDonalds very close to this one @Fenkell and Wyoming. Always wondered what happened. They would always be so busy, I mean busy, all times of day or night, so it wasn't the revenue. The area is dangerous.

I can see McDonalds abandoning a location where they are afraid of getting robbed every week. I remember hoing to a McDonalds in Detroit and the workers were behind bullet proof glass (or plexiglass, not sure), and they served your food by sliding it under the glass. Thats pretty sad

Love the videos. In Clio Michigan there's a big k with all the signs still up

Strange to see a box style abandoned

Any burgers left lol

Love your videos, you and many others have inspired me to go out and explore abandoned places, keep it up!!!!!!!!!

bulletproof glass in mcdonalds is how you know youre in the hood

Wow. Guessing high prices or nuisance property. With that glass I am thinking the worst. Ugh. Thanks for sharing . it also looks like someone is staying in there

Crazy stuff!

As always great video 👍

Great video Wallie! I’ve been around every part of Detroit and this area is definitely a little more sketch than other parts of the city. Glad you put this video together. Too bad to see locations like this become abandoned and then people losing their jobs. Just awful.

Great video man! 👍

Its like that EVERYWHERE in Detroit the whole city is dangerous

First time i've seen you do a video in Detroit. The king of abandoned homes and buildings. I heard that every burger king in detroit closed

A great video, Wallie! 👍👍👍👍

Somebody had a Huge Big Mac attack,,

Hey welcome to my city Wallie. You were literally right up the street from where I live

Linwood and Dexter 😂😂😂

Stay safe, thanks for the video

Awesome Wall

Too bad you weren't able to get in

Tried to scroll through all the comments to see if anyone said this or not, but the abandoned BK is actually a Checkers aka Rally’s here in Ohio.

A lot of stores have bullet proof glass in Detroit. What area was that, the crossroads? Depending on exactly where you were it might’ve been better or worse than you think. Most of the people in Detroit are great people just living their lives but the criminals give zero Fs and most of us don’t like tourists, it’s extremely common for people from the surrounding suburbs to drive through just to see the “bad areas” and nobody likes being looked down at. It sounds ridiculous unless you’ve experienced it.

It looks like homeless living there

Wow awesome McDonald's 👌

If there's one thing to know about a certain area: if the McDonald's closes, especially a newer one like this one, you gotta get outta there cuz it is not a safe area

That's crazy 🤪 with the windows u should try to do one about centrey mall

Another really good video! Must have been a bad neighborhood to have bullet proof glass! Sure is an a lot newer kind of Mcdonald's!

i cant believe they had to install bulletproof glass in a mcdonalds. thats something any ordinary bank would do but even the banks in my area dont have that kind of security. i cant imagine how many armed robberies had to have happened there!

Stay safe Wallie

Must of been in a really really bad area thanks for sharing

McDonald's Double quarter pounder with cheeseburger with fries and large drinks that be all.

I've been seeing where sheetz is apparently going to expand into the Detroit Michigan area

Funny how I came upon this video. A coworker and I was talking about how bad Davidson was( pot holes and lumps)before the 90s. Probably been around 15 years since I’ve been down Davidson.

Believe it or not I actually I like looks on that building, I know it is shoebox and it dose have very little character to that one, but colors to that dose look pretty nice, but sadly it had to close tho :(

That one is on Davidson and Linwood. only one I ever been to with bullet proof glass

A lot of fast food and coney islands etc. have bullet proof glass in certain areas of Detroit.

Oh WOW! I've never seen an abandoned shoebox McDonald's left abandoned before. That's actually nuts! So it's still possible for McDonald's to go out of business. Even in this day in age of food delivery apps.

Welcome to Detroit Rock City 🎸 !

Have you ever encountered anyone making a home in one of the abandoned buildings

Where in Detroit just curious. I grew up on the Eastside. They started doing bulletproof windows in 90s. I admit it’s sad. Love your videos ❤

there’s an abandoned churches chicken over there too 😅

Nice video! You know crime had something to so with it closing.

Still in good condition

It’s so weird to see a McDonald’s like that abandoned, And it was renovated around 2018. One of my local MickeyD’s actually has this look.

Wow. I've seen plenty of abandoned red roof McDonald's but never seen an abandoned futuristic one.

Fun video lol

that bullet proof glass is a joke a shooter could shoot through the counter just under the glass or through the wall if they wanted to.

Good video what did you think of Fairlane town center

Mount Clemens was famous in the 20s for the mineral baths

We live here. Welcome .. the news Stations tell us DETROIT is booming ! Crime is down...they say. It's because All THE APARTMENTS in the suburbs, where we live, are the new projects. THANKS OBUMMER !

Hopefully you enjoyed Michigan

You should explore the gas station across the street that’s my neighborhood mc donalds

That's Detroit for you abandoned places with people breaking into them 💯 nothing new around here

Hi Wallie, I have a backstory on what happened. My family knew the specific franchise owner personally. Lmk, if you want to hear? 🙂

Maybe the lease was up at that location mostly you find adonden Pizza Hut also along with Burger King

This is just detroit. I started exploring abandoned places for myself beccause of the content like this

there’s a newer style abandoned mcdonald’s in trenton michigan my friend told me about from down there that closed

Seen the exact same setup at White Castle on the Detroit\Redford border

2:53 I live in Detroit. Our post office has that glass with a big sign on the front door reminding everyone that is a felony to rob a post office with a firearm and is a 10 year sentence. Never saw that before in my life. You should not have left your car running or people inside it in that area. Car jack city.

If a franchise owner fails 3 health department inspections or if a crime (like selling drugs out of the drivethru) has been committed they lose their franchise and its more likely what happened here. keep in mind there are plenty of business in bad neighborhoods that stay open. I'll bet there is a Coney Island just down the street just killing it in sales. Wallie I think you need to get out of the suburbs more often???

If its anything like the one that used to be on waverly rd in lansing......they found 6 bodys in the freezer over night. In the early 2000s

alot of burger kings closed here in Detroit.overnight. Something about the owner's diaper got wet so he closed all of his Michigan stores. not sure

KMFDM simply the best

Back in the day, the only way a McDonald's would close is when the employees would try to unionize. Thanks Wallie! 👍

The franchise owner passed away…that’s why it closed and 4 others were closed as well

bullet proof glass, neighborhood I would want to live in , yeah right

I live near it and to be honest, the service was terrible. Several times they had no fries.

That is one of the ruf intersections in northwest Detroit Dexter and Davidson

The only reason I can think of that McDonald's closed that restaurant is its located in a very bad neighborhood. That happened many years ago to an Arby's restaurant in Youngstown, Ohio, on Market Street. Arby's on Market Street was located in a very bad area of the South side of Youngstown, so they closed it

Is it possible that location is the Greenfield and McNichiol (6 mile)

It looked like there was someone with a garbage bag in the trash area glad you didn’t go in stay safe

The exact area is Linwood & Davison

There’s bullet proof glass at White Castle on 8 mile and Sherwood on the Warren side.

Welcome to Detroit. There are multiple abandoned McDonald's, and Burger Kings. Just hope that wasn't the Murder Mac.

sheesh never seen anything like that before. Seems usa has some problems with robberies if its this bad...

The only way someone could get in would be the roof access

You going to Fairlane from way over there,you out the way

Need to go to the mammoth

I live in Michigan

You're In a shit hole area of detroit. I deliver to the restaurant across the street. It was abandoned because the franchise owner abandoned all of his stores😊

How didn’t you see that person in dumpster area was like 5 feet from ya lol