The houses are amazing they were built by Craftsmen I've been in the same kind of style of house in Dayton OH and I can say they don't make houses like that anymore for blue collar workers.
@@lgee9027 I imagine they can't sell the house and don't have the resources to pick up and move. A lot of these are elderly people who paid off their house and thought they'd have a nice place to live out their remaining years. Now that's all gone and they're stuck. Just very sad.
Charlie, I remember some of this very well. Thanks for posting! The 3:06 point... used to be a drug store "Kay's" on the corner of Coplin and Harper (tall fence shown in vid). To the left - "Detroit United" was a restaurant called the Bavarian Inn ... next door to that was a 2 story brick building - my Grandfather's bar - "Joe's Bar" until 1971, when he passed away. Down the street from Joe's - record store, shoe repair etc etc.... A little further was a Wrigley grocery store ... across the street from the Harper Theater (Now Harpo's concert venue) I lived on Coplin, just on the other side of I-94. Across Harper from the drug store lot, used to be Dr's offices - the building with the blue stripe on top. Next to the Dr's offices - Detroit Casket Company. Where the school bus is sitting was "Bucks Service" ..Speeway 79 then Marathon, full service gas station. To the left of Buck's .. was a Big Boy drive-in restaurant. To the right of the drug store - barber, butcher shop, bakery....etc etc
I grew up on Wilshire, just East of Chalmers. I remember all these places. Loved hanging out with friends at Big Boy's restaurant during my teens. My old home, 14461 Wilshire, was burned down and bulldozed as were many others on the block. What a shame. This was a nice blue collar neighborhood back in the day. It is nearly unrecognizable today.
@@DanJ30 they are not from africa. History can be rewritten very quickly. Like I bet you didn't know christmas was illegal up into the 20th century. Reality is rigged. All part of the great divide and fall of our Babylon 🇺🇸
bought my 1st house @ E State Fair & Hayes in the early 90s... got out when they lifted the residency requirements for city workers- took less than 2 years for the once pretty little neighborhood to look like a war zone
I did a housesitting 4 my landlord approx 10 months (on E. St8 Fair btwn Hayes & Kelly). I know what u r referring 2; it's quite sad bc a LOT of these houses r very salvageable (especially the brick 1s). BTW, the purpose of the housesitting's 2 prevent theft of furnaces & Hot Water Tanks from recently renov8d houses 4 rental. Got paid decent $$$$$ 4 these housesittings.
Hey, Charlie, did you get a new camera? Your video is very clear and detailed. I was watching this full screen on my new 55" TV Santa brought. It was so realistic I had had to grab my nine and put it my lap, just in case. :-)
Charlie, your videos are great, thank you. I grew up not far from here and went to Wayne Elementary school. Got out in the late 1980's while this area was falling apart. Sad to see it look this way.
Once upon a time, there were Christmas mornings, birthday parties, babies brought home, sad times, happy times, etc...now, look what liberalism has done in its wake.
@CharlieBo313 My husband grew up in the early 70's on Kelly between 9 and Moross (sorry the spelling if wrong lol). I had never seen him so upset as I did the day we drove down and he couldn't recognize his, or his grandma's homes. His uncle also lived only a few blocks over.
Charlie can you do a video visiting Detroit legend esham’s old house and white boy ricks house, how about an all Detroit legends tour video series , that should bring in a lot views, see Jack Frost old house, icp, kid rock, awsome Dre, Swifty Mcvay, twiztid, the roc, j dilla, Eminem, Royce, lavel and abk’s hood, maybe even visit spots like the disc aka demo hut and hot hits records
Squish Stuff kid rock from Romeo mi not Detroit big difference Madonna Jack Frost etc not from Detroit more like metro Detroit (suburbs) !!! Jus claim Detroit sound better than sayn im from Rochester mi like Madonna !! Em spent most his life in warren mi ...
Squish Stuff What would that do? It's not about views of celebrities houses they left behind. It about the people that had to leave or stay for lack of resources. People must stop thinking that after home-grown celebrities make it out and become famous, they are coming back to do good form their old communities. Most of them once they make good they are out and will never look back.
I saw a documentary once about how dangerous it can be as a homeless person entering one of these homes for shelter. You never know what you'll encounter inside. From the outside they look empty.
It's so sad to see this, it doesn't need to be like this in a country like America, we have places like this in Manchester and Birmingham, in fact most major cities where I live in England have there rough parts. I just wish we could fix these areas and make them beautiful again. I feel for the people who live among the wrecked areas, it just doesn't need to be so. These are some of the strongest people in the world. You have to be to live among this. God bless em all.
Its truly sad to see how the place i was born and raised in has deteriorated into a unrecognized waste , messed up part about this shit it wasn't done by outsiders ...
meaning the surrounding residents themselves did the damage? I have never been raised in an area like this so I am just curious as what the dynamics were that deteriorates these what looked to be at one point lovely neighborhoods. Can you give some more insight? Its so sad to see this. BTW I am asking honestly out of curiosity, not with sarcasm😊
@@christophersansone510 Yes it was done by scrappers taking the aluminum sidings at first , you would ride past and see that in the early days of the 80s and as time progressed they started taking all the windows and gut the insides totally, Hot water tanks , furnaces, garage doors ... yes these houses was very nice and solid at one point , like i said no outsiders did this to our city , it was ate up inside out , the over all attitude of our neighborhood's was basically " FUCK IT IM LEAVING "instead of locking the area's down they let it happen then complain to the politicians down town ,, people here was very capable of protecting and preserving its community ... but instead this is the end result ... By the way i still live in Detroit city limits , westside Rosedale park ....
Trust me guys growing up here you get use to seeing this type of shit it's sad but you gotta keep moving tbh and i was gone talk about this when me and bro do our interview the city ain't been the same since the riot in the 60/70's then white flight happen then the city went to shit 💯 every time I go downtown I feel like I'm in a different world honestly smh but I love my city regardless and hopefully one day I can help make a change....
Charlie, great video man. Next time you're in Cali, head to the Bay Area, and check out East Palo Alto south of SF, The Tenderlion in SF, and West Oakland/Richmond in the East Bay. If you're in West Oakland around 32nd and San Pablo, you'd get some good interviews about Oakland. Hope all is well. Take care.
"Broken windows... Empty hallways... A pale dead moon in a sky streaked with gray... Human kindness is overflowing, and I think that it's going to rain today..." Randy Newman : " I Think That It's Going To Rain Today " song...
Damn this looks like a third world country I don't even know how people could even live there in that City hell no!!!! Love all your videos i don't comment but I always like all your videos much love always from Santa Cruz Beach California 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊💞💞💞💞👍
Letricia..this is the work of the democrats..they love keeping people down like this to be able to offer them "a better life if elected" and then don't follow thru with nothing more than crumbs to keep them down and out..It's a vicious cycle, but it works for the dems.
@@rantingrandy6924 You got that right. Dems like keeping people in poverty bc they want to be able to politicize entitlements and if they have people out of poverty no one wants their crumbs they are feeding to the poor any longer. The democrats thrive on this.
@Mr. Rich People in Russia want to build, create. Russia rises from its knees. America, on the contrary, wants to turn into a garbage can .And she turns all her allies into shit.
Russian here, Our economy is getting bad in recent 3 years. But to be fair, A lot of little cities was man-made city back to USSR, those places alone do not have enough conditions to be cities. some cities only for dig coals or mine irons. Now no one buy their coals or irons, their economy fall like a stone in water. But Russia now respect Private property, so no matter how hard the live is, local people include young people still choose to stay. They are still waiting for USSR style government to take care of them.. what a dream
The east side looks even worse than the southwest side. The thing is neighborhoods do cycle through ups and downs but you have to have something left to restore. These neighborhoods have been systematically plundered, burned and decimated . They can never truly be restored.
Why does it look like so many of them have been on fire before? Do squatters try to build fires in the fireplaces and the chimney stopped up or what’s the reasoning?
I believe about 20/30 years ago when Detroit went on the decline people burned down houses and businesses to obtain insurance money. However, now most houses are vacant, owned by the bank etc. So more recent fires are most likely accidental caused by squatters or due to shoddy illegal electric wiring.
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I want to visit my hometown so bad. I haven't been to the Dee since 2002 but when I see videos like this and hear what my family have to say about our neighborhood where we grew up at makes me sad and change my mind about coming. Tears rolls down so heavy knowing Detroit went down this bad. No matter what I'll always love Detroit. Detroit will always have a special place in my heart.
Damn. You can really tell how cute and lively these houses used to be. So much of the Midwest is like this now. Detroit, STL, Milwaukee, Chicago just to name the big ones
It's so sad to see well architectured Brick homes burnt or ravaged. Someone with a few coins could speculate by buying one of the more decent ones, picking them up with house mover services then placing them on a vacant parcel of land away from Detroit and flipping them for a decent profit. Especially those built in the 30's & 40's.
The thing with Detroit unlike other places across the country . Is the real estate . The architecture us beautiful . These properties must have been do beautiful. U grew yp in 3 decker cold water flats . I hope they revive these beautiful areas.....
Paris of the West to this. Great place to visit if you want to see abandonment, get carjacked, shot or killed. Glad I didn't live their for 17 years!! Good work boooiii.
Ive been through some hoods and I've never seen anything like Detroit. Hope to make it there soon to get some content.. Sorry for anyone who has to deal with this daily.
This town could be a nice place to live houses could be luxury homes, instead off building a wall invest money into these areas create Jobs am careers give these people trades they could use all over the world, America messed up
I'm from an old N.Y. hood and you know it's bad when the drug dealers won't even loop sneakers ( I been lookin' lol) across the lines in these hoods, I bet even the rats and roaches left! What I wanna know is where are all these folks now? Where did they go? Where could they go?
I always wondered why the city didn't tear them all down and I found out it's bc it cost 10k just to tear down one house. With that said WHAT IS THE CITY DOING WITH THE FUNDING FROM THE GOVERNMENT?
