Detroit - 1951 

Yup, wow. It's slowly crawling back and diversifying itself into a 21st century economy after hollowing out since around 1951. Last year was the first year since the late 1950s where the population actually grew. It's coming back.

@@zyxwut321make sure you invest your life savings

@@zyxwut321you can keep copeing but it isn’t “coming back”

That was a great radio station. I remember the CKLW double album of songs from the 1960s my parents bought for me!

CKLW is a Canadian radio station.

@@billr8667 CKLW is right across the Detroit River from Detroit in Windsor Canada and used to advertise itself as a "metro Detroit" radio station. It was in fact the most listened to radio station in Detroit for many years making the ads geared towards local Detroiters.

@@jamesbranham2217 I remember winning $50.00 dollars back in the 1970’s from CKLW for being the 8th caller.

Diversification of the labor force is what caused Detoilet.

Yes, downtown Detroit is basically a “Potemkin Village.”

Until you remove the demographic that flooded that city in the late 50s, destroying it, Detroit continues to decline. That downtown stuff isn’t even lipstick on a pig. Black violence is what people associate with your city and for good reason.

Honestly, I liked downtown better when it wasn’t so nice. You could still have some fun down there without having to spend a ton of money.

WRONG

Yeah man most of them are.​@@alfredvalrie5541

Soon to be Cuba 2? Actually Cuba doesn't have a homeless problem, a housing affordability crisis, and unaffordable health care!

Everything has a beginning and end. Times are not the greatest today, good times will return at some point.

I remember Detroit in the 1950s. My grandparents lived there since the 1930s. I lived in Port Huron, about 70 miles north. I was just a youngster, but remember staying with my grandparents many times over a weekend or during the summers. My granddad worked as a machinist for GM and my grandma worked as a department manager for a large department store. They lived a block off of East Jefferson and I remember walking down Jefferson a few blocks with my grandpa to a drugstore where he would buy his newspaper and cigarettes, and sometimes we'd have a malted milk or sundae at the soda counter. It was a beautiful, vibrant city - safe enough to walk around downtown. I no longer live in Michigan. My folks moved to South Florida in 1959 so my dad could have year-round work; but we went back to Michigan just about every summer to visit friends and family. Eventually Detroit became unlivable for my grandparents and they moved up to Port Huron in the 1970s.

All the times you mention are before neoliberalism and imperialism. Nowadays citizens are paying the military to keep the enemy from destroying the American way of life, which was destroyed the moment people were persuaded it needed protecting. Also, most of American boom times were during and after WW2, when all major competitors were destroyed industrially, economically or both. There is no return to this golden age, unless the rest of the world is destroyed again.

I couldn't agree more sir!!! It's very sad how far the Country has deteriorated in a relatively short time!!!☹️😏😢

Heart disease affects the best of us.

It looks like the heart of American has suffered cardiac arrest.

It still is!

The Arsenal Of Democracy

Capitalism gave America open heart removal surgery. Jobs went South, then to Mexico and then China 😠😡🤬

Before America engaged in constant wars for profit that sucked up the people's tax dollars, no more new innovative infrustructure, no more paving the way into the next century. Just all war, war war for wealthy weapons manufacturing profiteers. It's an evil tragedy.

I don’t know if you still live around here. But, downtown Detroit has totally been transformed. It’s really nice. Tons and tons of new restaurants, shops and everything in between. It’s seriously impressive now. Thanks to our wonderful mayor who really loves Detroit. We have a brand new skyscraper 🏙️ too. Of course Detroit isn’t going to be the Detroit of 1951. But, it’s come a long way in the last 15 years.

@@tturner12341 That was an uplifting reply. Thank You! Questions > Do you live there? Is it gentrification? And is it getting expensive to live there (downtown) now?

@@niccoarcadia4179 I live about 10 minutes from downtown. But, I go there a lot for dinner, concerts and shopping. I’m not sure 🤔 how expensive it is to live downtown. But, I can tell you that prices have gone up a lot in the last few years. They’re turning a lot of the older buildings into lofts, apartments and condos. Gentrification some…But, not that much….compared to NYC.

It will. Just have faith.

It's on its way back and has been for years now. Start paying attention.

@@BIDENJOE2024 With one of Cheeto's super-duper FoxConn factories, no doubt (or maybe his infrastructure week!)

It's never gonna happen. It's full of Communist and Eternal victims.

@@tenorly listen. Trump our lord and savior Donald Christ Trump will rise

Motown left after the 67 riots, which is ironic because the people who made Motown - black people - destroyed that city and under a generation. Lie to me and say it wasn’t that .

or you'll lose your porch steps

Live,, and walk downtown, daily,,,, typically sounds like you do not get around much, its not 1980

Right downtown you obviously haven’t been there, very vibrant, where do you live? @@communistsaregross3165

Sir it’s 2024 not 1994 lol. Downtown Detroit is actually safe and it’s beautiful.

@@rbeck313 Where did all the black criminals go? I feel sorry for those (former) communities

The Hudson or Packard plant over on East Grand Boulevard had just shut down the year before. Bad omen...

@@user-uo7fw5bo1o bad omen in did.

So crazy how much can change in one lifetime

You can see neighboring suburbs evolve right now.

Make it happen man

Been living downtown for 16 years now in Detroit we love it. Great neighborhood great people and tons of things to do. It has improved enormously especially in the last five years.

Not to dismiss some real challenges, but there IS a lot to be optimistic about in Detroit, as anyone who actually spends time there knows well.

No, it won't. At its height, Detroit had about 1.8 million residents. Right now, it's lucky if it has 700k. It will never have that many residents ever again.

Nope, never. Most likely never in the whole America will this be again…

You should visit again. The downtown is beautiful and very safe :) it is so inspiring to see it coming back

​@@MaddieSmithYeah downtown is nice where the rich keep getting richer and the rest of the city keeps dealing drugs and shooting each other

The same thing that always happens to great nations - corrupt politicians.

@@sophroniamason2730Not politics, but economics.

@@jayhpaq No Politicians were part of it as well.

a certain demographic moved in.

Detroit downtowm and midtown are beautiful now, I live here, we are-so tired of uninformed suburbanites and rural-talking like its 1980

The one honest person here

You are preaching to a deaf crowd

She’s resurrecting. Great things coming.

Political justice says they government

Economic factors, a riot, the Reagan era and the loss of the Unions.

Racial justice agitators, riots, murder, looting, white flight, mayors like former union thug Coleman Young, party boy Kwame Kilpatrick and their corrupt city councils, globalism, Democrats generally, greedy leftist hypocrites. I know, some of these are redundancies. Endless union demands, bad planning and lack of market insight by the 'Big 3', Japanese automotive design and marketing superiority beginning in the mid to late 1970s. The influx of cocaine that the CIA was flying into Mena, AK under Clinton's gubernatorial protection, having it converted into crack and put on the street to further destroy urban black American populations and grow the prison industry... etc.

@@talleman1 YEP

@@talleman1 It was democrats as well who were part of the problem

Yep I sure know

It's the Communist and the eternal victims... The saint Floyd's of the world.

Until the Republicans took over. Reagan killed the middle class

Union greed destroyed Detroit.

No. The corrupt city government let it crumble. Once Coleman Young was elected in 1974 he made sure he and his cronies "got theirs" from the remaining white owned businesses and residents.

Me too.

Word

No, it is coming back.

You couldn't be more wrong about Detroit.

Lol..yeah 👀

Dementia Joe doesn't even know where Detroit is. 🙄