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Exploring Detroit’s Largest Abandoned High School - Cooley High School - Documentary & Tour

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Today we are exploring and documenting the three-story, Mediterranean Revival-style facility also known as Cooley High School. It opened its doors in 1928. The school was named in honor of Thomas M. Cooley, a nineteenth-century jurist and former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Cooley was also a charter member, and first chairman, of the Federal Interstate Commerce Commission.
Due to budget constraints and declining enrollment, Cooley High School was closed at the end of the 2009-2010 academic year. On September 30, 2017, a fire severely damaged the auditorium and surrounding rooms. What's left is shocking.
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28 авг 2024

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@daviddavis744 Год назад

Imagine how nice that school was in its early days after being built with all the marble and architecture.

@dawnlaidler9070 Месяц назад

It was absolutely gorgeous especially our auditorium. I graduated from this school in 1984 when over 3000 kids attended. Some of the best times of my life took place in this school and we literally just had our 40th class reunion last weekend on July 13, 2024. It was an AWESOME weekend ♥️💃🏾💃🏾

@natenix5371 11 месяцев назад

I went to Cooley High school class of 1982. Great school beautiful memories no doubt.

@johnpeters482 Год назад

My mother attended this school (Class of 1964). Soon after she graduated, she moved to Austin to attend the University of Texas. I asked her why she chose to move so far from home and she said that even then it was obvious Detroit was on the downward trend. I'm not going to show this to her as I'm sure it would be extremely depressing. But, she will tell you Detroit was a great city in the 50's and early 60's. Thanks for posting.

@queenleo4457 Год назад

My father graduated in 1972 after that he joined the military

@AnthThom Год назад

Detroit’s STILL a great city.

@jecoboost7775 Год назад

⁠@@AnthThom in some ways but nowhere near as good as it used to be.

@inoxide5454 Год назад

not much of an alternative career choice, right? @@queenleo4457

@rhythmalchemyexp1045 8 месяцев назад

I left and attended University of Texas Austin. Still love Detroit dearly

@anndrothler320 Год назад

I am thankful I have my copies of the yearbook, the Cooley Castellan to remind me of the beautiful school and the wonderful friendships! It is so very sad to see the school destroyed! Proud 1958 graduate!

@m.p.1310 Год назад

I graduated from Cooley in 1957. It is sickening to see it now.

@detroitresearcher Месяц назад

I think that's the year my mother graduated.

@judithmroczka2733 9 месяцев назад

This school needs to be brought back to its glory! Graduated in59.

@leonardreid2911 Месяц назад

1984 Graduate! The biggest class in Cooley History! So many great memories in that school! Made me who I am today! Just celebrated our 40 year anniversary! ❤️🖤

@JohnCassity 4 дня назад

Love Cooley high school!

@mgh716 Год назад

This was interesting. From 1960 to 1964, when I was a toddler, my family lived a couple of blocks away from Cooley High School on Marlowe. I hadn't realized that back in the day it looked so impressive inside.

@Jakexploring Год назад

Awesome video man.

@JohnCassity Год назад

Thanks man!

@soupwifey Год назад

This is so interesting to me. I want to see Cooley HS in the days when it was new. I'll look for that video on RU-vid. I work at an Elementary school in Dallas Texas. I work in a very old school that was built in 1947 and opened in 1948. The kitchen is so tiny by today's standards. The dishwasher sinks are smaller than the cooking sheet pans of the more modern times. That's a very tricky way to wash them. It's interesting to do but I do it every Monday thru Friday. I do love my job. I'm glad I'm 95lbs and I can squeeze through tight spaces though my food cart doesn't fit in and out of the cafeterias very well. It's tricky and we can maneuver them with some creative wiggling of the carts. I'm trying to imagine how small people must have been in the 40s and 50s. The USA has an obesity problem since before I was born. Maybe the USA didn't have that problem in the 40s thru the 80s? I don't know. I wasn't born yet. I'm just guessing. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Note: I was once obese myself. No shame or hate will be tolerated.

@shukaastha1980 Год назад

What a beautiful architect Unbelievable story But it's really nice vlogs thanks for uploading Love from India. Well done😇😇

@parapoliticos52 4 месяца назад

Every teen school movie could have been filmed here. It reminds me many of them. A beautiful building. Why no repurpose a building instead of letting it rot?

@PinetopJackson2 Год назад

Awesome video John, great footage and jaw-dropping drone shots! (I gotta invest in a drone one of these days...)

@JohnCassity Год назад

Thank you!

@BluePhoenix2013 Год назад

@7:25 that's the media center the library is down the hall

@_The_Vacant_World_ Год назад

There’s a few of us that have been in this place multiple times a year and there’s always something different! Just like the abandoned mansions and prisons we’ve been too

@Teri-q4v Месяц назад

My Grandfather went to school there he was a Marine in WW2 gwada canal a real stand up Guy grew up in Rosedale Park rest in heaven Grandpa Stout xo

@JohnCassity 4 дня назад

Thanks for watching!

@BunnyGirl580 7 месяцев назад

I went to that school for my freshman year

@patriciasummers2974 Год назад

Class of 72 lot of memories

@karlu7754 Год назад

Been in there a few times, crazy to see the before and after photos, great upload!

@doxius6760 Год назад

are the doors unlocked or what how do you get in XD

@jonerboner5543 Год назад

@@doxius6760 there’s a window you get in only one way in and out and there’s security a lot but been there multiple times

@michaelgriffith203 Год назад

That is so cool and everything they had in the school for $750,000. That is a shame that they let go down hill

@LongListOfErrors Год назад

My dad graduated in 1959 Go Cardinals!

@samtrak1204 Год назад

Great tour through Motor City history. So sad to see the devastation and decline of Detroit, once the industrial capital of the world. Thanks for sharing.

@_The_Vacant_World_ Год назад

Detroit is building ALOT right now so there’s that!!

@dawnlaidler9070 Месяц назад

Detroit continues to build and renovate. Did you not see that we just did the NFL DRAFT for the world 🌎 and pull it off with top notch reviews♥️💃🏾💯

@samtrak1204 Месяц назад

@@dawnlaidler9070 I'll be in Detroit next week to see the beautifully restored Michigan Central Station which was my gateway to the "Promised Land" in 1954 when I was 9 years old.

@robertplayz6705 Год назад

That was professionally well done

@lisagraham2944 Год назад

I hope they catch who ever set the fire to the auditorium. Sad.

@davidclark3603 8 месяцев назад

I believe it has been demolished now? That was a good video!

@daniels8263 6 месяцев назад

It’s not I was just inside exploring today!

@dawnlaidler9070 Месяц назад

No it hasn’t. Many groups have been trying to buy it to renovate and make into an education/community center but DPSCD refuses to sell it anyone 🤷🏾‍♀️😏

@davidclark3603 Месяц назад

@@dawnlaidler9070 thank god for that! The news showed a level ground and remaining bulldozers!.!

@internationalbehavior5323 3 месяца назад

Me and my bestfriend were up in the arch towers and have a pic to prove, he passed away not long after💔

@ACTRIGHT-LOT 2 месяца назад

I actually live close to Cooley And I exploded that yesterday

@imamfproblem1320 5 месяцев назад

Im so jealous of whoever vot to play in that gym 😓 as a flint native ive always been fascinated with how much treasue we comsider trash

@brianbanks7685 Год назад

Wasn't their a movie made with the title cool high

@natenix5371 11 месяцев назад

Yes it's was the Cooley High in Chicago. The movie Cooley High was filmed.

@bridgetraveler7700 Год назад

It's super surprising to see how scrappers took most of the metal from the seats in the auditorium of Cooley High School but they couldn't get all of the metal out. Maybe in the future they might get all the metal out.

@lostvlog6857 Год назад

I got kicked out by 2 guys who said they worked for DPS last week just seconds after I arrived, motion senser cameras obviously and last year I wasn't alone in here, probably the same ones looking for me.

@DjSportsGirl86 Год назад

12:49 I took Physical Education class in 2003-2004 school year and the Physical Education teacher was Ms. Smith. She took us to the gym on the south wing side. The PE teacher said, "You and the another student have to go upstairs on the track." I probably mind been too scared to go upstairs on the track. I didn't want to go upstairs to walk on the track.

@karstencolbert6366 3 месяца назад

I live right near it

@govandals1983 Год назад

Is it easy access? I love this so much

@DjSportsGirl86 Год назад

8:07 I went to Cooley North for 6 years

@karstencolbert6366 3 месяца назад

That school is were my father had his first fight and that’s his highschool

@user-iy2bt6tq6u Год назад

I went there from 91 until 96

@williamwaitoa7306 8 месяцев назад

In other videos, burned seats are still in the auditorium.

@daniels8263 6 месяцев назад

There wasn’t any there when we looked today

@ZACHCUSICK Год назад

What’s the opening song you used?

@JohnCassity Год назад

Moonline by Cushy, thank you for watching!

@ZACHCUSICK Год назад

@@JohnCassity always man. Thanks for sharing the song!

@donie5780 9 месяцев назад

A lot of Detroit Public Schools had walls for dividers so they could divide the pool and room at the same time so Boys were on one side and girls on the other side. Both sides had a deep end. Us boys had to swim naked so the girls would find peek holes in the wall.

@dawnlaidler9070 Месяц назад

Had to swim naked. That just sounds so perverted as what swim teacher would even allow that. Our teachers were very professional so stop telling lies.

@donie5780 Месяц назад

@@dawnlaidler9070 it wasn’t the only school. Many area schools were like that. I still to this day don’t know why they had that policy. Weird. Makes me want to research why.

@donie5780 Месяц назад

@@dawnlaidler9070 I don’t see why you have to resort to name calling. It’s something I distinctly remember. Not something you forget.

@inoxide5454 Год назад

got this confused with the MotownPhiley one.