Even in some of those really bad neighborhoods, you can still see the occasional house with a cut lawn, new windows and a fresh coat of paint, some stubborn person or family still proud to live where they are or at least trying to make the best of it. It's both heartwarming and heartbreaking.
the saddest part is, is that the ghetto portion of this video use to look EXACTLY like the ‘rich’ part of this video 50 years ago ........................... absolutely astonishing if you really think about it
goldmovie to much I’m here from the government and I’m here to help!!!!!! Look at it now with your libs who make welfare as the main source of income and destroy families
@@McClellan71 Bernie isn't a god, Chris, only we can save us, and for a whole host of reasons this probably isn't going to happen, or, it certainly isn't going to happen in our lifetimes. I can only hope for future generations we evolve to a place where we understand *how* to save us...eliminating personal agendas which just get in the way, because it isn't out me, or you, we aren't singular entities. If there's one thing you can plan on, it's that none of this shit will change before you and I dissolve into dust.
This vid gives a glimpse of the former beauty of Detroit. Those abandoned homes were beautiful and well built. Large, with porches, tree lined streets. What a disaster....
I lived in Detroit for 20yrs, I worked for Chrysler. I had to move... SMH. My Brothers and Sisters would not let me live in peace. Always breaking in and stealing my stuff... GOD please Bless them, poverty will make you do things. Always I live in the country and I love it... I still live in Michigan but UP north. Thanks for the reminder... I lived in a NICE area. Haverhill north of Warren 4600 block. I don't want to live in a BIG city anymore.. TOO many people. Keep posting, GOD Bless YOU.
Niggas brought down Detroit. It USED to be Motor City. NOW it's ghetto slum. Call Code Enforcement on the ghetto. They will evict them! Drugs! That's what causes slums.
It's happening everywhere...I've had my whole life stolen down to family pictures personal clothing and so on... IDK what's happening in America but it ain't what it used to be
@@karlastaley8078 Where the heck do you live??? Who would steal someone's family pictures. That is insane!!! I've never had anything stolen from me in my life but I grew up in the suburbs. I have also lived in several cities and I have never experienced a break in there either. Thieves need to be wiped off the face of the earth!
I randomly clicked on this because it was in my feed. I moved away from the Detroit area about 15 years ago for school. It broke my heart to see what the city looks likes now. Side note: my family lived in Detroit until I was 12 then moved to Grosse Pointe Park (In the video right when you enter GPP, there is a little brick clock tower on the right hand side, that’s Pemberton! My street!) The Pointes are fantastic for raising a family and the schools are top notch BUT being Black in the Pointes was a lot back in the 90’s and 2000’s. Cops absolutely would follow me if I was walking around or rollerblading down the street and when I hit 16, I learned very quickly to cut through Detroit if I needed to go anywhere (like I-94). I had never been pulled over and NOT ticketed so much in my life. I know they were just checking the address on my license. They assumed anyone Black was from Detroit and thus suspect. If you really want to show people the division between GP and Detroit, make a right on Alter, heading towards the water. When I was there GP literally dug up the street and planted trees so people could not drive from Detroit into GP using side streets. Jefferson became the only way to head into GP. Then they put the GPP police station one block from Jefferson and Alter making it easier to patrol. I did a paper in college on the profilings GPP police engaged in at that border. The difference between the cities is crazy when driving but showing people Alter and then the next street over in GPP (Barrington I think) is something unimaginable. I’ve been to a lot of cities in the US and no where have I seen a place go from poor and destitute to $350k minimum houses in a single block like the Alter border of Detroit and GPP.
My cousins live in Grosse Pointe... You literally drive through the "hood" to get there and its shocking how you just go past one street and you are in a totally different place.
It used to be like that going from South Orange NJ (Million dollar plus homes) to Newark, NJ (Projects and boarded up housing etc) vice versa. However, I think Detroit is more severely dilapidated in several areas than Newark NJ at the present time. Never been to Detroit and thanks for sharing (interesting too), but I have seen similar (maybe less severe) on both coasts. Some examples, Paterson, NJ to Wayne, NJ with the latter being the wealthy town. Fairfield CT to Bridgeport, CT South San Bernardino, CA to North San Bernardino where all the poverty is in the valley and the money is in the hills. Back in the 70 s to 80 s The South Bronx used to have miles and miles of burned out buildings, but NYC has changed now. It is sad to see a potentially good city just deteriorate like that.
It might as well have been bombed in a war. The Bronx was once in as bad shape now it is pretty liveable with some really nice areas. Things can improve.
@@notnek202 hey man you can go back to the 1930s by yourself. I'm gonna stay here in 2020 where it doesn't fucking matter if you're black or not. You know what the former Soviet Union countries DID have? Communists. Communists who killed 10s of millions of their own people by starvation. You ignorant racist old fuck.
@Po Polsce na pewno. Próbowałem powiedzieć, że drogi w miasteczkach wiejskich (jak w Mołdawii) są w jakiś sposób w lepszym stanie niż te amerykańskie, mimo że Ameryka jest „supermocarstwem”, podczas gdy większość ludzi nigdy nie słyszała o Gruzji
@@Special_Agent_NSB yes, i'm under the impression that these streets were left in such bad repair to deter the wealthier residents from straying into the poorer areas and vice versa
Why do you even compare I live in one of the former soviet union country (Georgia) and we have pretty good streets, actually government reconstructs them in every 4 years so
Bro you're starting to get big I was chillin with my sisters boyfriend and he showed me one of your videos. I was like oh shit that's Charlie Bo. Keep doing your thing bro. I don't think you realize how entertaining you are....
slabbinonspokez z I can answer that (well partially). The answer is the Catholic Church. They did it for 100s of years to kids and they are so fucked up, now they are pedos.
@@CharlieBo313 I seen many of your vids and practically been all over the country. Ever think of going to Alaska sometime to either Fairbanks or Anchorage?
This was a good night my life with the fact is that for me to go out with you and I can make it in my car and I have no idea why they didn't want you to do that with the same thing ever since I have no clue what you baby I can do it for you to get me wrong but I can do with the fact you guys have any plansz
What would make these better is if in between the driving around the hood, the guy picks up different ho's walking the streets and gets a BJ either in the car or maybe inside the burned out houses. Is there a version like that out there?
Driving east down Jefferson is amazing and is one way to see the spectrum of Detroit in just a few miles. It’s part of my tour anytime someone from out of town visits. You have the bustle of downtown, then you go through some modest neighborhoods, then go into one of the most beautiful Detroit neighborhoods (Indian Village). You see the new homes in the marina district, the Chrysler plant, then that super depressed looking section of Jefferson, and then BAM! You’re in grosse pointe, one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. Your videos are great!
I use to live on Chelsea when I was a kid, me my mother and younger brother were the last white family in the neighborhood, we had to move due to bricks being thrown through our windows at night, itd sad how things can change so quickly
Kids playing outside, while the adults are barbequing in the backyard. Sleeping with the windows open and the doors unlocked. Then came the democrats and their corruption.
@@charleslloyd4253 you already know. Coming to a town near you. Dude I just watched a thing last night where Joe is using the military to fly and drop off illegal immigrants all over the country. Unbelievable simply unbelievable.
@@charleslloyd4253 while vets live in squalor. That’s right the most popular president in history. RU-vid has to manipulate the thumbs up thumbs down ratio to make it seem even. I seen one video where it had 36 likes and 2k dislikes. An hour later it was reversed. I couldn’t make this 💩up.
@@waltersobchak7275 Democrats say that people can not survive on less than $15 an hour. While the disabled veteran, senior citizen and disabled person. Lives on what would equal $4 to $7 an hour.
I have lived in Grosse Pointe Park most of my 35 years and I still have never gotten used to the Alter Road 'dividing line'. That last block on the lake side of Jefferson are million dollar homes w crack house duplexes on the other side of their backyard fences. Its an ever-present, invisible wall that slaps you in the face from both sides.
My hometown of Grosse Pointe Park. For those wondering, Grosse Pointe Park and Detroit have the widest gap of Median income per household for 2 cities that border one another in the entire United States. The relationship between the 2 communities has been rough, to put it best. For a recent example, look up Kerchavel Avenue Farmers Market
The Vanity Ballroom @ 5:26 . Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Louis Prima, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey and Cab Calloway, The MC5 and Iggy Pop all played there. Amazing.
Dale Gilchrist I’ve heard they are going to rehab the Vanity in the near future. There is some money going into the Jefferson/Chalmers area. They re-did Jefferson adding in the medians in the past couple of years. Detroit is odd in that unlike a lot of big cities I’ve been in it really doesn’t make good use of its waterfront property. Lots of industrial or run down buildings. It’s getting better but the Jefferson corridor from the Ren Cen to the Grosse Pointe boarder could/should be better utilized.
I've been a fan for awhile. I always enjoy that you have talk radio on. I don't think people have mentioned that but I find it interesting to hear the local news while you drive locally. Also, I always feel like I'm about to hear on the radio that a giant virus has spread or that a zombie apocalypse has started. It would go well with the urban decay. Great videos. Lots of footage to make people think.
Despite people trying to trash talk Michigan it is indeed a beautiful place to live. He drove be one of the houses my wife and I reside in just off of the water. I am very fortunate and blessed to live where I do. The people bad talking it are all the negative nancys that have nothing else better to do. Or blame the rich for their misfortunes.
So sad! So many homes and buildings gutted and demolished. Fucked up. We are losing our history, people and what made us a beautiful place to be. Shocking.
There's also a big difference between the Brightmoor and Rosedale Park neighborhoods on Detroit's west side. Brightmoor is full of run down and torn up houses with empty lots. Rosedale Park has nice looking homes that their owners appear to take lots of pride in, that are always well kept up.
Um not where i live either your in a pot hole hitting non surfaced sewers and surfaced sewers makes you drive curvy the whole time pa worst roads Ohio decent for north
This makes me want to visit Detroit. I liked the historical buildings and town before the suburbs and how it all lead to the suburbs and Lake. Nice smooth videos and easy to watch.
CharlieBo, I truly enjoy all of your videos and I think the ones you narrate are even better. Your video makes me feel so many emotions and I am drawn to them and can't even explain it to me!!
Both of us were born too late to see Lakeshore Drive before 1950, when the lots were dozens of acres, the ornate homes larger than 10,000 sq. ft., plenty of open space all around the house, and wrought iron fences (some of which were melted down to support the WW2 effort).
I am showing this to my friends over seas. They asked me how it could be so different, only a few block away. I sadly have to tell them, the difference is between people who don't care about their community, and people who do care.
It's not that simple. It's also larger houses that are being cared for by resident-owners rather than amateur landlords who collect the rent and don't reinvest in their units.
@@1L6E6VHF That may be a part of the problem. But its a community thing. I am a contractor in Detroit. I've had the aluminum siding ripped off the house, in the middle of the night. The neighbors said they didn't hear anything. You can't not hear that. I've never drove through gross pointe and seen someone throw an entire churches chicken bag out the window of their car. I see that once a week, here in Detroit. There are some of us who love this city, and you can see it here and there. Home owners cutting the grass on the vacant house next door. Then you come to the house, with trash all over the place, junk cars 5 deep in the drive way, and a garbage bag in place of the broken window. I think its a community issue, maybe even more personal issue, not sure.
Kind of scary you literally can do whatever you want and nobody would know i often think if one day they build up Detroit again how many bodies and other stuff will be recovered 😔😩.
The first time I rode down Jefferson I was 9 years old in 99 and i couldn’t believe it. My uncle lived in st Clair off Jefferson you drove by his old house by the way. That was the first time I truly grasped poverty. Thanks for the tour.
If i was a multi billionaire, i'd build new factories in Michigan and employ the people from Detroit and life would be better for them. Then I'd open businesses to serve the communities so that even more people would have jobs.
So many people think they have the answer to why Detroit looks this way but they haven't a clue! For one thing, it didn't happen overnight and no one thing is to blame because it took time and a long list of things that ultimately resulted in what you see in Detroit today. Guess what? The same thing that happened in Detroit is beginning to happen in the nearby suburbs of Detroit too!
It took them three years to destroy a house that we rented that we left in 1970 that was in Tip-Top condition and it took them six to eight years to destroy that whole street
What's even more amazing is that blocks can vary greatly in the same neighborhood with some streets being well kept and on the same block you have "hell" houses... It looks like the crisis "played leap frog" in the neighborhoods... As far as "redevelopment"... Why would any sane person want to move onto the "street" that wasn't too kind to your car's shocks and has become a dump ? BTW, I love the narration, Charlie !
I remember in the 80s driving through Detroit and it didn't look like that. Fascinating yet tragic at the same time. Hope in time, the city creates homes in that urban area. Bring life back in that area again....
Yeah I was right around the corner from you on Lakewood & E Vernor and it looks totally different. My block and my house looks the same but different people there now and some homes just vacant. Was a beautiful neighborhood back in 70s early 80s
I worked downtown and often drove down Jefferson to my house in Roseville, near Macomb Mall. The border line is stunning and sad. This route is so sad with so many homes gone. And, yeah, there are potholes that could house a family of four. :-( There are a couple of my favorite highlights along Jefferson -- the bridge to Belle Isle and the Water Works building -- awesome!
I used to live in this area. This RICH drive has always been there. That is the Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross neighborhood (and a few other famous people). That Mayor back in the late 70’s and up to about 5 years ago, really did a bad number on Detroit. Also the DICK MOVE by the Motor Companies, moving their plants to other countries in order to save a dime...that was pretty shitty! Shame on them!! I used to live in Warren, Sterling Heights, Mt. Clemens, St. Clair Shores....it has all gone a bit down hill in the past 20 years. Sure do miss White Castles but in the freezer section in the store, I swear the White Castle Burgers taste just like they did 20 years ago at 1 am in the morning after a night out partying. Hope someone will help Detroit come back to what it used to be and MORE! Politicians and business owners should be held accountable to the areas they are entrusted with. To abandon the whole city like that, with help from the dick head mayors who pilliaged the city....they should hve been held accountable. But they were NOT. Going forward, strict oversight needs to be done to prevent the thieves from ruining people’s lives. What the hell was the name of that Mayor in the 70’s? First black mayor I think he was called.. Took Detroit right into the crapper.
You're so right...The Big 3 is definitely responsible for a lot of this destruction closed and moved all those factories out of Detroit but still want you to purchase their vehicles ain't that a bitch...perfect example look at the city of Pontiac G.M. had 10 operating factories going at one point life was very comfortable for those people there 70's and throughout the 80's but by the end of the 80's it started but by the '00's it was over closed up tore down all those factories and moved out of state now Pontiac and Flint are suffering beyond belief...They HELL with G.M. I know this because I dated a lady from Pontiac and watch the destruction with my own eyes the devastation G.M. caused
I live in what you would call a "transition area", a block above its multi million dollar mansions, go two blocks south and its "welcome to shithole USA".
Not sure how I happened upon your video but, I found it very enjoyable! It's very sad to see homes of that nature in such disrepair. I can still see the Beauty in them..and would love to hear the stories behind them. "If walls could talk".. Thank you for posting the videos!
Once those empty blocks were full of homes-families, shops, parks. This is sickening. Thank you for filming. My grandparents were at 6 mile/Seymour and Chalmers.
This why u cant put Detroit in box its so spread out it has its bad spots good spots and magnificent spots so have someone sho you all of it i think this city is great"
I'm moving to Windsor soon - across the river from Detroit. I'll have to visit some of these lovely areas myself. We don't have slums like this in Canada. Cheap houses get bought up and fixed up.
Great to have internet and RU-vid to upload these to show everyone to with their own eyes and not having to go to these places in person like we had to do long ago.
They should probably tear down all of the abandoned structures in Detroit and give people the opportunity to buy the land to rebuild on the vacant land plots.
Once they find a way to get rid of the rif-raf (or however you spell it, lol) then for sure. 90% of those houses look straight up uninhabitable. When there's literally debris in the yards because they're falling apart THAT rapidly, might as well just put them out of their misery.
I think that school along Lakeview is the back end of Carstens Elementary, 2592 Coplin, which is the next block from Lakeview. Elementary schools were huge in the 1920s when there were at least 10 different car manufacturers and all the support industries like Borg Warner. Lots of workers = lots of kids!
Driven the same stretch of Jefferson a few months back. Lot of decay over the last 40 or so years on the Detroit side of Jefferson, so much different in 1975 than it is today. Some of my family has been in the Points, going back to the ~1720's.
My granddad live up there detroit. And we went up there for the 4th of july break week, and he showed us how bad the city is and i was in absolute shock that people were really living like that. I mean i just couldn’t believe what i was seeing with my bear eyes.
I grew up on Dickerson Ave. between E. Warren Ave. and Mack Ave. in the very late '40's to 1957. It was a great place to be a little boy but change was coming and the downward spiral was on the horizon yet I would have never thought it would fall so far that complete sections of good and decent housing would be left to just rot away, sad, sad and sad.
@@Imperial0666 At least they're still remaining in the U.S. when going to other states such as the southern states which has created more jobs and good paying ones that has created now boom towns.
Nice job with the narration. The videos where you're driving around at night with drug deals and crazy shit going on don't necessarily need it but it's perfect for one's like this.
I mean it really answers the question. All the income tax revenue that could save Detroit are seconds, literally seconds, away from Detroit's city lines. I mean it's amazing. What can Detroit do? I would say just turn places like that cruddy street into buffer green zones with forests but they can't afford to demolish those buildings... Glad you added some commentary.
Mayor Cavanagh instituted local & commuter taxes in the 60s. The middle class fled because it became cheaper for many to leave. In many cases it was a matter of literally moving a few streets over the the suburbs. Now there's just no incentive to move in. I knew some folks that lived just inside the border of Detroit. Each passing year saw more and more house go empty with no one moving in on their street. This was a nice street too. House next door was vacant for 2-3 years but you'd have guessed a decade or more. It's amazing how fast an unoccupied house crumbles.
failtolawl Income tax and wealth redistribution is what destroyed Detroit. Your solution would turn the entire state of Michigan into Detroit on a grand scale.
@random_username_2000 My "solution" is how literally every city in the western world functions. The wealthy and middle class income funds most of the infrastructure. It's called having a government.
@renge99O9 Yea but if you put forests it may increase property value and 'fool' buyers into purchasing land and houses near these really rich neighborhoods, whilst providing Detroit needed revenue.
These videos are interesting to me because they show reality-the part that the world chooses to ignore or deny, unless the media can catch a moment where something has happened to make those living in the ghetto look horrible & like animals. Many, not all, of the people in our ghettos have bigger, better & more caring hearts than most. God loves their hearts.
Pffft yeah sure thing lady. You obviously dont know what you're talking about. It's like that for a fucking reason. It didnt just happen over night outta the blue. The 13% demographic doing the 50% is what the problem is. Get your head out of your ass and just face the facts. When the town got darker things got shittier.
What did God ever do for the people of Detroit? Born and raised in Michigan for 38 years. There's no God in the f****** Hood. There's no God in downtown Detroit. If there was he would never allow his so-called children to live that way. Detroit and places like Detroit AR 100% proof If there is no God. And that your prayers are only away for you to feel like you're doing something while sitting on your ass
Not to come off one sided but it simply amazes me how Detroit Chicago and Indianapolis as well as most major cities the residents can and will allow the continued destruction of their neighborhoods and live within it and blame others. You mention gross point,mi and drive thru it. Funny part is all of the east side was like gross point .. it's the residents that allow it and continue to feed the monster that kills those cities.
Livin My Life there’s no more residents though that shit barren as fuck and if I lived there I ain’t gonna do anything about an abandoned house/lot that ain’t mine
Livin My Life actually, the city had started taking those abandoned houses down. Some people were cleaning the lots up for play areas and some folks were using the land for gardens. Most people are just trying to get by. Jobs are slowly coming back but none pay like they did before, so nobody has the money to do much about this stuff
Real estate cycles in Chicago. 60 years ago Lincoln Park was a run down neighborhood. Now it's one of the hottest neighborhoods with real estate prices out of sight. And Bronzeville has been making a slow comeback for 20 years, and is now attracting businesses and has a jazz and blues club scene. One thing you can't make is more real estate. That goes double for a city like Chicago which is on Lake Michigan, which limits the ability to spread our from downtown. Most of the hottest real estate is with a few miles of Lake Michigan.
It would be nice to do this drive on Jefferson in the summer - with a complete drive from Downtown Detroit to south of Selfridge ANGB in Harrison Township. Hell, I use to cycle on Lake Shore Drive about 20 years ago. It will definitely open up some eyes - especially when you hit the Wayne/Macomb County Border and Ford Mansion.
Used to drive this way for something to do back in the mid 90's. Was like night and day back then. The whole Jefferson drive to Selfridge is pretty eye opening back then.
Detroit seems different than the cities of the northeast in that it’s not a lot of rowhouses, projects or tenements. There are smaller vs. bigger one family houses for rich and poor, but the small ones were abandoned. Very unusual city
Charlie, am from NY and many sections here are like this. Long Island is the same. Good example is Garden City which borders Hempstead. Properties and values are night and day. Living in the area my entire life, I realized that you need a buffer like the Long Island Expressway (LIE) that physically separate areas. For that reason, I bought north of the LIE. What drives these differences is purely economic, as the area I live in is mixed community, but all professionals.
As a lifelong resident of SW Detroit, this video is accurate and depressing. I am not looking to place blame, but damn, it's bad. I would move but I love SW too much to go.
Used to live right outside of greektown but originally from Flint town. Its true Grosse point is ridiculous compared to the far south and far east sides. I worked in Greektown for damn near a year. Good work but some fucked up situations time to time. Havin to kick out homeless all day. I know every street you mentioned in this vid. I almost miss the D. It was an experience living down south
At 3:00; reminds me of the roads of Knoxville Tennessee 1995.. In 2021, Knoxville Tennessee has smooth and easy riding roads with excellent quality now..