Is THIS the WORST City In America? Highland Park, Michigan 

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A few years ago an EF-4 tornado went through Highland Park. It did $5 million worth of improvements.

I tried to rent an apartment at Glendale and Hamilton back in 1985. I left a deposit; the next day the landlady called me to “come get( your) money, you don’t want to live here” o was a teenage single mother, a 100lb white girl, very naive. God bless that woman.

I was born in Highland Park in 1953. So sad to see the devastating shape it’s in. Breaks my heart.

People make death threats just because you filmed their city? There are some insane people out there. Keep up the good work.

Heartbreaking, especially at 26:33 when you focus in on the "Best Academy / Former Hospital" at Highland Street and 3rd Ave. That used to be an 800-bed convalescent hospital that was run for a number of years by my grandmother in the 1940's and 50's. If she were still with us, she'd be so sad to see the ruin it's turned into. My mom was born there. Really heartbreakiing.

Chris? If someone is upset with you about THE TRUTH, there's NO TRUTH in them! Keep doing what you are doing! ✌️

Henry Ford developed a significant portion of Highland Park. He made sure that homes were built that Ford executives could live in. You can see some of them at around the 14:04 mark. Ford was responsible for developing Oakman Boulevard, which runs from Hamilton Avenue all the way to Grand River. The homes on Oakman Boulevard were mansions.

Back when I was about 17, me and a few friends found the salt mine entrances in HP, and not knowing what they were, took interest. They look like subway entrances, and Detroit doesn’t have subways. I didn’t know about the gigantic network of salt mines beneath the city either. As we were about to enter, an old lady around 70 or so comes flying out of her house screaming at us about how we were going to die if we went in. We decided to take her advice and stayed out.

Hey chris- Gran Torino was filmed there also. Your little speech at the end was right on target. I enjoy all your videos.

Highland Park Memories. My roots in the Detroit area go back to the late 1800's. My Great Grandmother was a teenager living with her sister, mother and father in Chicago when the Great Chicago Fire happened in 1871. They all made it out safely, but when the fire was over their house was gone. So they packed up and moved to New York where a few years later she met and married my Great Grandfather. The two of them didn't like New York very much, so they traveled West looking for somewhere to start their new lives. When they got to Detroit they were both taken in by what they called a "most lovely city", which at the time it was, so they stayed. They bought a house on Bagley Avenue and raised their family, including my Grandfather. When he was a boy, Grandpa and his little friends used to play ball in the street. But sometimes the games were interrupted by a man they nicknamed "Crazy Henry" because Henry would come driving along in one of his latest inventions which was basically a four-wheel bicycle with a noisy gas motor attached. "Crazy Henry" would later go on to create the Ford Motor Company. Later after Grandpa married Grandma they lived for years in a flat on Second Avenue in beautiful Highland Park where my father was born and grew up. After Dad married Mom they chose to stay in Highland Park, so they eventually bought a nice two story house at 39 Monterey between Woodward and Second. This is the house where I was born and lived in until I was seven. The street had many trees and well kept middle-class houses, and was a nice safe place for a kid like me to make friends and play. One day when I was still a toddler in diapers, I slipped away unnoticed by my mother and headed off on an adventure. When I got to Second Avenue at the end of our block (which back then was a busy one way street), I watched as the cars starting slowing down and stopping. I remember thinking that was nice of them to stop for me, so I continued across Second and kept on going. Before I got too much farther, a neighbor recognized me and "rescued" me (although I didn't know I needed rescuing) and called my mom to come and get her wayward son. No wonder her hair started turning grey not long after! In kindergarten and first grade I attended Ferris Elementary school, just two short blocks away up Woodward Avenue to Cortland Street. It was a large and very nice school that even had an indoor swimming pool. Mom and dad had no problem with me walking alone to and from school. After all, this was Highland Park, a beautiful and safe place to live. I fondly remember the McGregor Public Library close by on Woodward, which was a beautiful building and an interesting place for people of all ages to spend some quality time. In 1958 my parents sold the house and we moved to the northern Detroit suburb of Pleasant Ridge where we lived until I was in college. It wasn't until many years later that I had the opportunity to drive down Monterey, and what I saw just broke my heart. This beautiful, clean, safe neighborhood where I started my life now quite literally looked like a war zone. I would love to think that someday Highland Park could return to its glory days, but until or unless some economic miracle happens, then I just don't see how. It's sad to say, but I'm afraid that eventually after people like me are gone who remember what a special place it once was, Highland Park may simply cease to exist. John Fox

I was born in Detroit in 1952, my father was a tool & die man for Dodge. He preferred Chrysler cars his whole life. We left Michigan when I was 6, but I did kindergarten there and have always been interested in the auto industry and Detroit. So this video is special for me. To top it off, my grandfather was a friend of Will Rodgers, and Will Rodgers was a friend of Henry Ford. So when Will was in town he'd go see Henry and take my grandfather. So my grandfather knew Henry Ford! 😊

I was a lifelong resident of Michigan, moving there in 11-50 and staying until 10-06. Also in the 80's we did a partnership with Grace Church as street ministers. There is nothing you said about the city that was in error. It wasn't as bad when we were there but that was 40 years ago. Thank you for your efforts and thank you for the update on the way the city has gone down. It saddens me.

I was born there. My mother was raped there as a teen in the late 1950’s. I was stolen as a baby out of a diner. It is so sad to see that kind of misery. If you are miserable get out. I put on a USMC uniform to escape my misery.

Over 40 years ago, my husband and I shared our first apartment in Highland Park. We lived on Elmhurst, just a few houses west of Woodward. We loved living there. We had good neighbors and had a lovely apartment. We finally left because of crime. I got beat up, after getting off a bus on Woodward. A man tried to steal my purse. We have fond memories of Highland Park. I enjoyed your video but like others, I am so sad to see what it has become. Thanks very much. Safe travels.

Thank-you for this video! Absolutely loved that you went through this city to show all the abandoned buildings. You made the work easier for people who would want to revive this city and bring back life to abandoned properties for the good of humanity. I see so much potential for this city this is a great opportunity for future humanitarian projects.

I grew up in the Flint area. Worked all over SE Michigan as an electrician. It always was amazing to me looking at these old buildings and houses, I could see how great this town used to be. Huge homes, really cool architecture, the birthplaces of modern America, now just rotting away. I feel the same about Michigan, definitely loyal to a fault. Four deployments with the Marines to four continents and 27 different countries, yet I couldn't wait to get back to Flint. Makes me wonder what I was thinking. Moved up north years ago, now live in Alpena. Love it up here. I just hope these towns can turn it around.

It’s always so bittersweet to see places that have fallen from their heyday. Seeing the rows of empty houses, forlorn yet still beautiful structures which once hosted the coursing energy of families and children, industry and hope for the future. Great vid bro.

Thanks for making this video. My grandmother lived in Highland Park, MI in the 50's and early 60's, when I was a child. I loved visiting her in the old duplex she rented (wish I could remember the street). My sister and I would spend some weekends with her, and we would all walk to Palmer Park and feed the ducks. Great memories of better times when people took pride in their neighborhood and watched out for their neighbors.

running redlights in Detroit is super common . the deeper you go the less laws the roads have

Some of the houses on these side streets are absolutely beautiful... still displaying the wealth the city once held.

I worked for Chrysler in HP from 88-91, and then would visit weekly from around ‘95-98 as we still had engine dynamometer labs still running there. It was a 💩 hole back then. A couple of Chrysler employees got murdered back then, one lady had a cinder block thrown through her windshield from an overpass, another had his convertible fire bombed as he pulled off the Davison onto Oakland Ave. A co-worker friend of mine was mugged and badly beaten as he made the mistake of stopping for gas there on his way home. Glad Chrysler moved out.

To make things worse, the city hasn't paid its water bill to the Great Lakes Water Authority in several years even though they've been collecting from the residents. Now GLWA wants to bill the rest of us for HP's irresponsible management.

I find your video very informative. Thank you for shooting it!

I spent a few years working for an ISP in this area recently and this is a wild stroll down memory lane for me. I had no Idea the city was down this bad financially to worst in nation levels, but at the same time it explains so much. I hope the city will rebound soon the people there are so genuine.

My daughter bought a house in Highland Park. I thought she was crazy but two yrs. later the house looks beautiful. Definitely looks out of place. If more people thought like her the city could make a come back. Instead of talking bad about it see what can be done to make it better. Be safe and God bless.

In 2004 my son was in a regional high school wrestling tournament at Highland Park High School. A gang fight broke out in the sachools parking lot and the tournament was locked down until the Wayne County Sheriff's Department arrived.

Being from very dry southern California, where any non-irrigated land is parched. I am amazed at how beautifully green all the trees and grass are.

This is one of the most interesting videos I've watched on RU-vid. Very thought-provoking. Thank you!

These surrounded cities need to be absorbed into Detroit ASAP. No need for the duplication of public services. Then, mass demolition needs to happen, just like in other parts of the Detroit Area (same for parts of Cleveland, northern St. Louis, E. St. Louis, and more. . Turn it all into park or farm land. Only when the blight is removed, can the potential be seen.

So glad to see that you did a video on HIghland Park. I was born in Highland Park and went to the community college. It's so sad to see the condition that it is in. I hope there is a comeback for this city. Thanks for all the history too!

thanks for your time and dedication. The information's that you are releasing are very important and need to get out there in order to be able to create solutions. thanks, and much love from Canada.!

Lived in HP in the 60's. I went to school there and graduated from the high school in 68. Sad to see the city like this. America has a problem with the truth these days

I lived in Detroit in the late 50's through the 00's - first living near 6-Mile (McNichols) and finally near 7-Mile (near Palmer Park). I took the bus every day - going to Cass Tech - going down Hamilton and I saw the devolution of that street over time. I remember going to the Sanders shop and getting hot-fudge sundaes there. I remember when going to the Howard Johnson's on Woodward on a Sunday after church was a VERY big deal. I remember going to the Red Barn Hamburger place for $0.25 burgers (who needed White Castle?!). I remember going to the Sears and then over to Cunningham's across the street from the Ford plant. I remember sneaking into the "Adult" section of the bookstore on the corner of Woodward and McNichols (before the whole thing became an adult store). And I remember driving down the Davidson Freeway to cut over to I-75. Those days were fading in the 70's, gone in the 80's and erased from the face of the earth in the 90's. At least I have my memories.

Thank you Craig for an enlightening video. I well remember the town and friends who came from there. It wounded me to see what became of it and hope my friends (from the 1950's) who remain are well. I cried more than a few tears watching this video. It is a warning for many, if not all, of us.

Thanks for this video. I grew up in Highland Park, MI. I lived on Tyler, Midland and Buena Vista and all were demolished. I went to Thompson and Barber. Highland Park High was built with no windows and still did not survive. God bless.

In the early 60s, my dad worked at one of the automobile factories in Detroit. He had a sister who lived in Highland Park and he would stay with her during the week. He hated Detroit and Highland Park so badly that he would leave work on Fridays and drive all the way home to Johnson City, TN. He would get home around 2 in the morning on Saturday and leave on Sunday afternoon to get back to work on Monday.

Reminds me of Gran Torino. (Edit) Just found out Gran Torino was filmed there! Wow!! In all honesty, you could have told me this was Pontiac or Gary, IN and I couldn't have proven you wrong. The rust belt took things hard in the 70's and 80's. The final death blow was Bill Clinton's 1993 signing of NAFTA.

The closed BEST Academy you show at 26:35 used to be Detroit Osteopathic Hospital. Both myself and my sister were born there in the early 60's when that area was still thriving and nice pre-riots. Wow what incredible blight. I left Michigan in the late-90's, but always informative to watch videos like this. Thanks for posting.

No matter how many times I see Detroit, either in person or on a video, it never fails to make to make my jaw drop seeing the amount of decline that has happened.

Great story. My dad was a native of Sault Ste Marie in the UP. Traveling up there from S Louisiana, we never got to the eastern part of Michigan. I don't condemn it, because I've seen what it did to neighborhoods and towns in the New Orleans area, but white flight leaves areas to a culture that can't sustain the style of living formerly found in those places. Highland Park is just one example, and it's a sad fact of life.

It's actually a really quiet spot with lots of urban farming going on. I recently bought a house off the landbank for $2000. Tax exempt for a year. Invest $10000 into the house and I'll be able to live in it and stop paying rent. Lots of my friends are doing the same. The area is honestly pretty prospective.

I played an AAU basketball tournament in spring 1996 in Highland Park. As we left my game we noticed we had a flat tire. We were obviously scared as we were sheltered suburbanites. A man came up to our car and said, "get out of here fast and try to reach the hospital." Am experience I'll always remember

being from the outer area of detroit and living my teenage years in those areas is crazy. literally grew up knowing to never stop at a red light in detroit at night. don’t talk to anyone you don’t know, i’m only 20 so this was recent years, my grandparents tell me of a different time 😕 so much crime in our great city now.

Great video, Impressive editing, I hope to see it get better as your channel grows

(21:25) Does anyone remember an appliance store called "Highland Appliance" ? The original store that the company started with ( *Highland* Park ) still sits vacant, boarded up and still has the Highland appliance name on the building on Woodward ave. THIS is how the city is doing.

Omg I remember going thru the HP delivering furniture about 7 years ago and it was bad then. Can't imagine what it is now.

PERFECT background music for this type of fascinating video. Thank for upping it!

HELLO Chris. I did enjoy this vlog; I worked within the automotive companies throughout Michigan in the 80s'and 90s. This video took a great deal of time, searching historical records. The Footer is nicely done, the updated ticker on each street you were traveling. Excellent Job, Mr. Harden. Bill from Columbus.

Another great video!! It is very relaxing to watch great quality driving videos and getting information about these places! Thumbs up! Thank you Chris!

Hey, Chris. Thank you for these type of informational videos. I really appreciate them because as a social worker, I imagine the types of infrastructure and investments that might help mitigate some of the problems and suffering among the folks who lives in these communities and improve their lives, and I would hope that city and state politicians are actively looking for these! My late dad attended Olivet College on a football scholarship many, many years ago, then earned his pharmacy degree from Ferris State College (now University). I've never visited Michigan, and I know these schools are way on the other (west) side of the state, but Michigan is still on my bucket list of places that I really want to visit one day. Thanks again, man. Liked and subscribed.

That was fantastic Chris...I have tears in my 80 year old eyes!

Chris thanks for taking me down memory lane. It is sad but I can see places I knew as a kid. I attended both Ferris Junior High and Cortland Elementary school in the early sixties. HP was so different then. It was actually beautiful with all the trees. I was also there during the riots which changed the city and started it’s downfall. Still, it was great seeing the town where I spent my youth while I am 3000 miles away. Keep up the good work. 🎊

Wow...sorry you have to deal with crazy people... I enjoy all of your videos and the info you provide. Thanks for doing what you do.

Good job! Love these videos

Born there, I lived on Pasadena, Highland, and Gerald . Thank you for showing me home. My mother was a nurse at DOH Hospital on Highland. Graduated 5th grade at H Ford Middle and was a Polar Bear.❤🎉😊 The Best of growing up as a kid.

The most depressing street in the US? I'm guessing you haven't been through Elderwood in East Cleveland yet. I lived in Cleveland almost 30 years ago when I went to trade school out there. Oh there's Camden here in my home state. That's a real gem. Yeah, not. Always enjoy your videos, I really hope you carry in some of these neighborhoods

My Grandparents live at 240.W. Davison, 3 houses away from Hamilton. When the freeway went through, according to my grandmother, dug a new basement, and moved the house back 100 feet. My father went to and graduated from Highland Park high in 1941. From the stories Highland Park was like Birmingham Michigan, high end suburb. My grandmother would want to drive by the old hose, but after a while my Dad would say"They tore it down." Now the property is part of the service drive. I try really hard to picture it as it once was.

Like my dad always says, 'they ain't making no more land'. All of these empty lots will eventually become valuable again. Cities eventually run out of space and gentrification is real - and it happens fast.

No death threats here!! I've enjoyed your videos for a good couple years! Thanks!! I used to travel quite extensively and it's fun to see all these places once again. My only favor if I had one would be to hear more of the music that starts on this vid at 23:12. I think that's what kept me coming back. Can you tell me what it is?? Anyway, thanks. Really liked watching one last night as you went past the Better Made factory, while I was munching on Better Made potato sticks. 🤣

Nicely done video! I am a little surprised that you did not show whatever is left of the old Chrysler campus on Oakland Ave. I worked there in the 1970's and was impressed by the contrasts of really nice houses and all the other stuff. Thanks for the good video.

I watch a lot of videos like this but I really like your honesty. You call it just the way it is and no sugar coating. Thanks Craig

Very interesting and well-done video. Great naration with informative facts. I grew up in Michigan and didn't know the history or current state of Highland Park. Thank you and keep up the good work!

This is what happens when a town is reliant on one Business for so many jobs. Great when business is good. A huge hit when Corporate Executives decide to move the business somewhere else to make more money. Its all about money. Very sad that the Politicians in the town could not attract other businesses to break that reliance on auto jobs. I remember the big company I worked for in a different state decided to make everything in Mexico for cheaper labor. It took 2 years & over 600 jobs gone out of this country. The factory buildings are now abandoned. Too large for other businesses to lease. Buildings are in Illinois. Worked there for 19 years in total. This video reminds me what happened to the company I worked for. The coworkers I knew back then. The town where its located has seen better days too. Between Mexico & China this country has sure lost its edge in manufacturing. You see what happened to the price of cars when the semi conductor plants were closed down overseas. We are too reliant on other countries now for key products. This is what happens when Corporations Buy Politicians. Politicians won't do what is best for our country. They will do what money tells them to do !

I have never been to Michigan but I thought you covered a lot of useful information. I wasn't offended and I already know Detroit and surrounding areas were in trouble. Great coverage of the city and the history. 💯

Few years ago, I noticed one of my neighbour's roof was rotting and it looks terrible. I tried to be a good neighbor and reminded them with a smile. In return, they looked at me with hate then I realized that they knew their roof was in bad shape but were embarrassed that I brought up the subject. Another year passed, one rainy day I overheard that they yelling at each other in their house. I can imagine that rain water must had been poured into their house from the roof. What you are showing in your video is real but people who live there are embarrassed.

Good job on your videos ! My dads family lived next to Detroit Airport....brought back alot of memories on the roads...

Very interesting and informative!!

The summer of 1993 My wife was invited to visit a friend from high school who happened to be visiting a relative that owned a house in HP. I can't remember the street of the home we stayed at. This neighbor hood seemed livable compared to some. And the homes were all brick and were nice but had seen better days. In short , we stayed one night and it was an interesting experience for 2 people from rural farm country of Ohio. I was very glad to leave the next day.

Good coverage, very sad what has happened to Highland Park. I lived there in the 50-60's My father (Vearl Johnson) was the Superintendent of the Highland Park Water Department. I was surprised that your video did not cover anything about the Water Department that they had. We use to live in a house that is on the property of the water department. Prior to living at the Water Department, we lived at 152 Candler Street. That house is still standing and occupied. Very sad what has happened to the city. I don't see any way this city will ever recover. Its been going on for to long and with no changes

Thank you for your videos and your honesty

Love your videos man. I am from the burbs of SouthWest Detroit and I enjoy all the information you share about the areas you drive through. Maybe one day Gentrification may move Highland Park in the right direction? Other then that happening IDK what will help that town.

Good job documenting what is happening in a once great city, thank you.

Thanks for your video Chris! So sad to see a town in such disrepair with so many abandoned buildings. I grew up in the Detroit area. Thanks for sharing!

I grew up in Highland Park at 32 Moss (the street around the corner from the Powerhouse Gym) from the age 3years old. Which is the first street in Highland Park to be labeled as the historic district. I remember the city having the best shopping (before Northland Mall was built), the best schools, the best jewelers and the cleanest and safest streets.

I appreciate the videos I'm from Detroit but I no longer live there and it really sadness me and make me want to cry literally when I see the decay of the Cities it's very sad to me it really tears me up inside I wish I had money to help the city and bring it back because it was so beautiful and my childhood years it was so beautiful like 20 years ago I'm not understanding what did everybody go where all the houses look like they've been on fire people are setting the fires the houses aren't burning themselves it's very sad and it's scary for the children who have to walk to school everyday I pray for the cities and wish someone could help them it's not all bad they're beautiful places in the cities but there's more decayed places in the cities pray for the city pray for the families pray for jobs thank you

Back in the '60s when I was young, I would go with my dad to Highland park from Southfield to go to the Sears parts warehouse to get parts for our garden tractor and anything else we bought from Sears that my dad fixed himself, back then everything was servicable, not throwaway as it is now.My dad worked nights so this could happen any day of the week as long as we were back by 4 pm for him to eat and get ready for work, where he made parts for cars. Anyways, Sears had parts for everything they sold. Then we went to Hamtramck, my birthplace and stopped at Atlas Bottling where my dad's uncle or some reletive on his side of the family owned. I would have the run of the place, get all the free pop I could drink, while the adults switched to speaking Polish telling dirty jokes or something so I couldn't understand what they were saying. All I know is that there was a whole lot of laughter going on as work there pretty much stopped when we walked in and everyone greeted my dad. Then we would stop at the bakery in Hamtramck and bring home all kinds of treats, bread along with Kowalski cold cuts. then go back home to Southfield where we moved to in 1955 in a house my dad built himself on 1 acre on a dead end gravel road with 80 acres of wooded land behind us, which is still there..

I'm from Highland Park, born and bred. Graduated in the early 1960's. My mother graduated from HPHS in 1933. My grandmother was one of the first residents of Highland Park and raised her children there. It's sad to see how Highland Park has lost its charm and unpaid water bills are just the beginning. Thanks for the video, but I didn't recognize much at all.

Grew up and raised in highland park by my great grandmother in Louise, some of the happiest memories there, however the crime was terrible.

Most of those abandoned houses and buildings are beautiful. It's a shame that the economy left this place behind.

"Highland Park is the poorest city in the country" Big sigh of relief from Gary, Indiana and East St. Louis, Illinois 😂

Your doing a fine job, bringing things to light.

Great video. I spent my first 34 years in HP, minus 4 military. I grew up on Tuxedo. I was hoping the video would have made it to my street so I could have seen my house. I left in 2010. It's sad to see how much worse the city looks. My HS is a vacant lot 😢. Anyway, thanks for the memories.

I really liked your video, so sad, thanks for sharing a part of history with us.

The conditions of the roads in Highland Park, remind me of Egypt, where i live

"But what happened in Highland Park for it to get to this point?" We all know what happened. Same thing that happens all over the country.

I'm not a highland park resident but when it comes to the water situation you can't blame the people, I have seen the news and the blame lies on the city...

My dad works for Chrysler.. as a young kid, I can remember us meeting my dad for lunch there. My dad now works at yes the headquarters in Aburn Hills. I myself have not been to Highland Park since a kid, and sadly, its downfall does not surprise me.

As a fellow Michigander, it breaks my heart to see such a great city (i.e. Detroit and its many suburbs) in the state they are in. How and why they are in that position are and continuing their decline, I am sure, are very simple questions with VERY complex answers. Well done video, and God Bless Detroit and the rest of Michigan...and of course the USA.

These are interesting videos. You put a lot of work in to them. Could you come up with some pictures of what it used to look light?

4:00 The high school mascot "Polar Bears" was from the US Army 85th division that participated in the AEF campaign in Russia in the summer of 1918. About 75% of the AEF Polar Bears stationed in Russia were from the Detroit area and the force was nicknamed "Detroit's Own" this included the 339th Infantry Regt. 337th Ambulance Corp. and the 310th Engineers. The last veteran of the Polar Bears died in 2003 at the age of 102.

Any city considered " bad" is a chocolate city. That is the unspoken reality no one wants to admit to. No, the streets and structures are not "bad". The inhabitants are what is bad.

I have lived in suburban Oakland County for my 27 years as a Michigander. I remember visiting Chrysler's Engineering Center when it was still operating in Highland Park. I am retired from the auto industry and still a big fan of it, even if its glory days were decades ago. In so many ways, this part of the country is still more livable and affordable than many other places. To me the only future Highland Park has is bankruptcy and annexation into Detroit, where it just might become part of the massive decades long effort to clear the unsalvageable rubble that is so much of the city, and prepare it for a new era.

Be careful driving through Highland Park. Sometimes the mutants stumble into the street.

That was a great tour , thanks

From Cleveland. Me and my gf went to the plaza with a dollar tree and Aldis sandwiched between a police mono station. The dollar store was boarded up and the workers pulled the 2x4 back like a 1920s speak easy to inform us " only 2 at a time because we keep getting robbed". First and only time I've seen a boarded up dollar store lol and I'm 44 years old.

My family moved there from rural New York in the early 30s 1989 my grandma was robbed twice in one day they moved she was the last white person on the street today out of 250 houses there might be 25 left and hers has been tore down sad I remember playing in the streets when I was younger there used to be really nice.

Highland Park does SUCK!!! WOW, I remember when I was a child of about 12 when there was once a small recreation center located on Hamilton just past Davison during the early 1970's where me and some of my friends used to go and play pool or air hockey. During the early to mid 1980's, I worked at Sears on Woodward and as a Security Officer at what used to be Jabar Security-Detective Agency which was located inside the BT HALL on Hamilton near 6 Mile Road. We worked with the Security at Highland Park Community College on Glendale Ave. Now it's just another decaying building!!! Also, before becoming a Security Officer, I was a parking lot attendant there for a short time! I heard a few other bad things about some of the Police Officers and drugs during 2018 that were mentioned on the news! 😢 Sad when you're supposed to lead by example! Gives Good Officers a Bad Name and residents as well as visitors passing through don't know who to trust!!! Nothing about Highland Park resembles the beautiful city that it used to be!!! I used to walk to Palmer Park as a child without a care or worry in the 🌎 World! But now, I try my best to AVOID going through there as much as possible. It SUCKS!!!

Hello Chris, I hope all is well with you and your family.. I just want to say, I really enjoy your video. About the reason for Detroit’s DOWNFALL. I was born and raised in Detroit in the early 50’s we left in 1967, 3 days before the Riot. I now live Tennessee for 55 years. Thanks for the video. Stay safe my RU-vid friend..

I lived as a toddler on Log Cabin Street in late 50's before my family moved to Redford Twp. in 1960. My dad worked at Sears on Woodward from the late 50's until 1967. My Aunt lived on Florence, I believe until the early 70's, and then moved to Ferndale. Thanks for the video.