Dude I’m so glad this is here. I worked at a boat repair shop 2011-2013 on Klenk Island. One of the weirdest and coolest little pockets of society in the whole US. We’d get boats in from the marinas all up the coast from Grosse pointe to the high mile roads, lift them up, sand the hulls/make repairs, lower them back in and then us youngsters would pilot the boats back to the marina. DJ Kuhn boat repair. Best memories.
Detroit's history is like every city, good days and bad. I grew up across the river in Canada but now live in Michigan permanently. I don't care what anyone says, I love Detroit. The museums are first rate, the events are first rate, and I think the people are as well. Being near water is so peaceful that everyday I sayI'm in heaven. Don't go knocking Detroit, it's beautiful here.
@@fastinradfordable heaven is a state of mind, not a place; a feeling about a particular location in time, not the actual location. heaven is subjective, not objective. one person's heaven is another person's dung heap, and vice versa. we are made to celebrate the differences, not ridicule and ruin them. as humans, as individuals, as members of one distinct group from another, we are called to this higher purpose. we are called as soon as we are born different from all other creatures that are born. and we are all born different. it is not an easy thing to do, celebrate the differences, but who said life would be easy? only a few through the ages have told us about this most difficult, yet most rewarding part of life; to embrace our differences with love, not scorn them with fear. @fastinradfordable what is your heaven? different from mine, i am sure and clearly different from @lizpeterson6719, but surely something that is a treasure, if not sacred to you.
Being from a family that sold their farm so Detroit could be built, I love this. I know Detroit had its bad times. My dad (who was a Detroit cop for 30 years, his dad was Canadian) talked about watching the city burn from his roof as a kid, and my mom remembered her uncle driving a tank down their street during the riots so the kids could play on it. My family were steel mill workers, auto workers, cops, truckers... my grandpa came here from Canada to help build buildings and bridges. But i was an otr trucker, all over the us and Canada, and no city has the spirit our city does. Closest I've found is New Orleans (which is another city full of art and music that people look at like it's garbage. Funny enough, they pretty much had the same settlers. Acadian French).
I could imagine what this was like circa 1930's. When some of those houses were new. Beautiful old "woodies" up and down the canals. Great tour! Thankyou.
@@austinpierce7313 I get the joke, but realistically you'd have to go back to pre turn of the century to find a low population of blacks in Detroit. Auto factories brought everyone to the city.
No one in Detroit really knew about this because it is basically right on the border of Southeast Detroit and Grosse Pointe Park. Awesome video! You definitely showed me something new!
What a resource! Clean up the downed trees, clean up the blight. Man these city kids could live in a kayaking paradise! What an overlooked opportunity. DNR bought Belle Isle. But making more sense to me would be Improving these canals and making this a navigable water trail, with bike paths, fishing piers for kids, etc. OMG! What a resource! If I were a billionaire, this is where I would sink my money! City kids need this ! Detroit needs this!
Every Detroit / Grosse Pointe Local knows about these canals and has been there because they are on the border of Detroit / Grosse Pointe on Lake St Clair. Its the suburbanites from the outer suburbs who dont know about this kayaking gem. There is also a eclectic restaurant on this canal too.
@@M.TTT.man you have no clue. Most kids in Detroit love swimming please stop talking about something you know nothing about. And kayaking is not available to most inner kids in any major city.
Wow… I grew up on 800 ASHLAND ST. And used to swim 🏊♀️ in this canal in the 90’s … they redid the sea wall on the altar road side due to the poor condition in 2006 but said FU to the home owners on the opposite side said it would be too much money 💵 they used to dump Raw sewage from gross point park right in that canal when it rained for decades until the CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT IN 1994 good to see a video like this… thank you 🙏🏿 brought back good memories of my life in DETROIT!!!!
My dad grew up near there 100 years ago. Coplin Ave near Essex. The neighborhood really declined in the 80s and was bulldozed in the 90s. Says he used to skate on those canals in winter as a kid. He moved to SoCal in the 50s where I was born
This is a fantastic, A+ grade document about a little-known slice of America. My parents both grew up in Detroit, and as a youngster in the 1960s and early 1970s, I made many visits there, but I have never heard of these canals. The sight of dilapidated, faded dreams and pockets of current activity spins up my imagination to how this must have looked in the city's peak years before the decline of the automobile industry. Please do more of these canal trips. I wish my parents were here today so I could show this video to them. Great job! Best Of RUclips material.
It was fun following along on Google Maps satellite view. For those who want to do so, the tan garage at the 0:10 mark appears to be 911 Ashland St, Detroit, MI 48215. The canal they start in is called Fox Creek. The bridge they play with at 19:30 can be found next to 14337 Harbor Island St.
That beautiful house at 878 Ashland, just after they cross under the Ashland St. bridge -- you can tell it was originally built by someone wealthy, with that garage specifically for a boat right on the edge of the creek. But now it is falling apart and the creek is eroding everything almost up to the house. According to Zillow, it was sold two years ago along with the house next-door at 862 as one unit, so I am hoping the person who purchased it is planning on renovating it and doing something about reinforcing the shoreline with the creek so the house doesn't fall apart.
@@TakenTook - I saw that house come on the market. Thought about taking a look at it but decided that I didn’t want to undertake the renovations. The bootlegger’s garage is really cool. (The boathouse attached to that house was alleged to have been used by rum runners during prohibition,)
THIS is a part of Detroit that many Detroitiers are clueless about. I live in that neighborhood, river side of Jefferson, west side of Alter Rd. Nice footage.
back in the day(65 yrs. ago) us kids fished in what we called fox creek.......a stones throw from Marshalls.........later on in the early 70's a bunch of us hippies rented the slate-roofed mini-mansion next to the Ashland bridge.......fishing all year.......skating parties and hockey in the winter.....weed always.....we had local bands playing in the huge dining room......$5 admission.......community kegs.........chaos..... Thanks again !
Thanks for sharing you passed by grandparents house Ashland St my father grew up there I live there 1968 -78. When it was nice & clean I learned to swim ice skate & fish on that canal I still live in Detroit metropolitan area & every once in awhile I go down to the foot of altar and fish. A lot of people don't know October 24th 1958 a British Vulcan military plane crashed on Ashland St down at the end my grandparents house was one that did not catch fire and is one of the original houses still standing
My dad was a detroit firefighter when that plane crashed.........my mom walked us over to Alter rd. ........it was bad........dad didn't talk too much about it........
I kayaked here with Missy Kinyon and Detroit Outpost several years ago. She loved this place. It was really special to kayak with her. I believe her family has kept Detroit Outpost alive and still do river tours.
Loved this . Day drinking while watching it on a bogus account and in Ohio and live on a lake . Dad worked in Detroit several years .Best wishes to all of you .
I bumped my prop and bent it, on an old chris craft back in the 70s over by Peche Island. I went back one of these canals, and found a guy that had a lift behind his house. He let me lift up the back of the boat and change my prop ( I always carried a spare) instead of having to do it under water. Great memory, thanks for posting
I have been down those before when fishing St. Clair. They ought to be worth MILLIONS given direct access to the lake via those canals. Over the 17 years we have fished, that area the last couple years has started to be reclaimed. The derelict marina by the ramp is now a very popular restaurant. The blocks leading into that area look much better and safer. It's great to see those homes starting to get refurbished and reclaimed!
Born and raised. It'd be wonderful if it all got cleaned up. But I find it very very interesting. I appreciate what you do. I'd really like to see more kind of brings back memories. Thank you.
thanks, saw my home town in a way I never have before. Go TIgers! I remember the Unlimited Hydros racing on the river for the Gold Cup, the sound of those Allisons/Merlins carried all over the city.
This brought back memories from about 50 years ago. Me and my best friend would head to either Alfred Brush Form Part or Riverfront-Lakewood Park nearly every weekend and nearly every other day during summer vacation (when school was out). I remember walking the trail along the Alter Road canal. We fished all the bridges along the way at one time or another, swam across the canal once or twice, but mostly just fished the canal and river at Riverfront for carp, bass, rock bass, perch, and walleye. I can't count the times we fell asleep under a giant oak/maple tree on the canal not far from the boat rental/bait store to be awaken by the sound of a big carp making the drag sing. I grew up there. Thanks for the memories.
My old stomping grounds. I grew up on the east side in the 70s and my dad always had a fishing boat here. He still does, and you passed it on your tour.
Use to stay on east lawn by the river and canals running in the back of people houses dirty water and fishing want no parts of it looks like swamp Land snakes rats etc I'm in melvindale Michigan now
I used to live there growing up thru high school. Right across the street from the Fischer Mansion. Fished those canals almost every day in the summers growing up.
I did not search for this video, but RUclips served it to me anyway because it knew it would scratch several overlapping itches of my interests (urban geography, history, urban exploration, unusual boating, etc). Cool stuff! update @ 19:30 : dudes rock
Wow...I'm back to being 12 years old, my dad taking me out to the dumping grounds to Perch fish. He rented a slip on Fox Creek for his '58 Lyman 19'...Thank You!
England refurbished their canal system and now it is aa way of life so many people to travel the canals. This could be so beautiful, it hurts to see the decay. Detroit was a beautiful city! Corruption ravaged it.
Great video I subbed! Good memories! Back in the mid-50s.school is out. Me, my buddies, and neighborhood girls, all of us aged 14 and 15 years old living in the six-mile rd. and Chalmers area. My Dad had an 18 foot Oldtown sponson canoe with a side mounted 1.7 Hp. Neptune Mighty Mite outboard motor. My Dad would drop us off at the end of Alter rd. on his way to work early in the morning with the canoe and all the food that the girls had made and would then pick us up on his way home after work. Wearing swimsuits all day and stopping at Tommy's boat rental for pop and snacks we explored every canal, then with the motor running and all six of us paddling (Yes, the canoe could handle that many 90-100 lb. girls easily) we would dodge any freighters coming and head for Peche Island. (We pronounced it peach island) We would swim off the small sand beaches for a while and then pick up the canoe and portage it across a bit of land into the canals of the island and explore there. (More private for some boy/girl fun up to a certain degree.) We also had some young friends who lived in the trailer park on the canal and had a boat and would join us at times. Would do this 3 or 4 times a month. (No computer screens and games, just pure fun and healthy trim tanned bodies!) Goodtimes!
Great Memories and OMG I forgot about Tommy's ! Use to love riding my bike there as I grew up in the Park on the border of Alter rd . They had the greatest selection of penny candy . Also went to Peche island and camped over night , maybe we crossed paths ? who knows . Also remember the mental hospital at Angel park and the scary stories we used to tell associated with it , Good Times . Reply
@@williamh192 Yep! We also rode our bikes there to go fishing. One time one of the girl's bike chain broke, so I rode her there and back on my bike's handlebars. LOL! No one told me about sore leg muscles, but I knew about them the next day! LOL!
@@rorymartin329 I wonder ..., If we ever crossed paths ? Maybe somebody needs to come up with a Fox Creek reunion from the mid 60's to mid 70's Lol After that , the late 70's was all about chicks ...chicks .....CHICKS !!!!! Lol
This is so cool! That was wild seeing that house structure building thing with like the door that went basically right up to the water. This is crazy. I've never seen this. I mean I know there's canals around. I'm basically everywhere in Michigan, rivers, little streams and stuff. But this is cool. Cool very very cool
I was able to locate where you exited on Google maps, then scrolled back through. That last extremely low bridge, the large boat just before that that looks like it was forgotten in the water years ago, on Google maps still looks in good shape. This was a fascinating ride along.
This now Michigander grew up on the canals in South Florida. I've been to Detroit a few times but I had no idea there are canals in Detroit. Thank you so much. I love learning things about my new home state. After 47 years of living in Florida, I never knew what freedom was until I moved to Michigan. 💙
@stevelane5023 I made the move in 2015. I've been back twice to help family and friends. Each time reinforced the difference. Florida has a huge oppression problem. Even the attitudes of law enforcement officers are totally different in Florida vs. Michigan. In Florida I was told I lived in paradise, in Michigan I know I do. 💯🤗
@@kathyd9324 I spent 12 yrs in Naples, Fl. Moved back to Wi 15 yrs ago. I actually spend quite a bit of time in the U.P. sledding during winters. I love the change of seasons but I do miss my canals in Florida. Thanks for sharing.
Hello from Alaska, Great Video... I've been a Fan of Detroit my whole Life. I literally Fought a myriad of corrupt laws to stop them from seizing and shredding Classic Cars.. I grew up in Florida and use to swim in the Canals with the Manatee and your video was a great reminder of those days and an eye opening perspective of the Canals of Detroit... I loved the Houses and Boats but kept wondering if there was an old Mustang or Challenger hiding around the corner.. Great Video...
Seawalls on private property. Each running 50k to north of 100k. Neglect?…yeah okay buddy. There are plenty of areas like what you’re talking about in Detroit and surrounding areas. This is just one stretch in a more lower income area with some money scattered in between.
a big part of the surrounding neighborhood is in ruins........burned out houses.......packs of wild dogs..........a few small areas will always be desirable as they're closer to the Detroit river........
Yall had me scared going under that low bridge @19:30 lol. Thanks for sharing these beautiful Gems in Detroit. I really appreciate this video. I hope I get to travel them one day soon.
I grew up in this neighbor hood ...my family lived in this old parish of St. Marten Depores. I attended the school and my family were parish members. Grandparents were two houses off of Jeffersson Ave. on 1044 Navahoe (demolished now )We lived at the corner address of 694 Drexel and Freud which was two blocks directly down from the church itself. The school, Convent, house on Drexel all demolished now. The church is a desanctihfied by the Catholic Diocese of Detroit and derilict yet the playground across the street with softball diamonds are still maintained by the City of Detroit. All my family on my mothers side as well as my immediate family grew up there. My personalmemoreis date back to 1955 thru 1964....when we moved away from the Jefferson /Chalmers area and ''canals ''.
About the only type of water craft that I didn’t see is an English narrow boat which were used on water ways like this for hundreds of years. This is an underutilized treasure that needs to be preserved and respected.
Unlike the canals in England, these don't really go anywhere. You should think of them as alleys behind the residences that give access to the Detroit River and from there the Great Lakes waterway. The whole of the canals presented in the video stretch about 14 city blocks. The entire canal grid depicted exits into the Detroit River through one of three ways a total of about 500 yards apart. The Detroit River is likely a bit much for narrowboats - it's a half to mile wide strait between Lake St Clair and Lake Erie separating Detroit from Windsor, Ontario with a strong current.
I wish the people who say,"clean it up" would define what "clean it up" is to them... I love the greenery and even the fallen trees because they contribute to the greenery... Some of the decay is charming... By cleaning up, I hope they mean cleaning up the man-made structures that probably aren't following any municipal codes... ? .
Back in the 50’s early 60’s we had an uncle that had a house with boathouse and Old wooden boat on that canal along Alter road. He would take the family out on the river once a year. Loved it!
Now wasn't that a fun little adventure!! Best vid I've seen on YT in months! I kinda felt a little like Huck Finn riding along with you!!! Very cool Guys!! Subbed!
Wow I didn't even know that was there! Not that I've lived in Metro Detroit for long but man what a place that could become once again. Even just cleaning up the debris would make it look better. So cool.
I had no idea Detroit had this ............ And you guys going under the bridge was hilarious! That's just like the stuff me and my friends do, lol ............. hanks for posting it.
Some of those with the houses going right to the water are crazy. I can picture Mobsters hanging out and escaping by the water. The nostalgia in this video is off the chain. So the city isn't required to maintain their canal walls. They should be required to do so like they are a city street. This is a form of transportation
I've been a Detroiter for over 70 yrs and didnt know of these canals!
It’s all there no planing needed just referb and that’s half the cost these days what an opportunity.
Me to never heard of it
Dude I’m so glad this is here. I worked at a boat repair shop 2011-2013 on Klenk Island. One of the weirdest and coolest little pockets of society in the whole US. We’d get boats in from the marinas all up the coast from Grosse pointe to the high mile roads, lift them up, sand the hulls/make repairs, lower them back in and then us youngsters would pilot the boats back to the marina. DJ Kuhn boat repair. Best memories.
@@OCShortsMan awesome! Thanks for sharing those memories.
Never knew Detroit had that. Very peaceful ride! Thanks
@269Mafia Most metro Detroiters have no idea the canals exist.
@269Mafia www.google.com/maps/place/Coriander+Kitchen+and+Farm/@42.3596112,-82.9373919,16z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8824d51927d07d59:0xce9b345191d9f4cf!8m2!3d42.3596112!4d-82.9322367!16s%2Fg%2F11jn5ms5w7?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
I live in Redford and I’m just finding this out for the first time.
@@mr.nightshade8465
There's a restaurant right on the canals called Coriander Kitchen. Looks cool
@@mr.nightshade8465 sterling heights and literally just learned this today and commented on it LOL
Detroit's history is like every city, good days and bad. I grew up across the river in Canada but now live in Michigan permanently. I don't care what anyone says, I love Detroit. The museums are first rate, the events are first rate, and I think the people are as well. Being near water is so peaceful that everyday I sayI'm in heaven. Don't go knocking Detroit, it's beautiful here.
Just because you say you’re in heaven, sorry,
But it doesn’t mean shit.
It’s toxic literally and figuratively.
Detroit has Soul. Not many cities can say that.
@@fastinradfordable How long have you lived in the city?
@@fastinradfordable heaven is a state of mind, not a place; a feeling about a particular location in time, not the actual location. heaven is subjective, not objective. one person's heaven is another person's dung heap, and vice versa. we are made to celebrate the differences, not ridicule and ruin them. as humans, as individuals, as members of one distinct group from another, we are called to this higher purpose. we are called as soon as we are born different from all other creatures that are born. and we are all born different. it is not an easy thing to do, celebrate the differences, but who said life would be easy? only a few through the ages have told us about this most difficult, yet most rewarding part of life; to embrace our differences with love, not scorn them with fear. @fastinradfordable what is your heaven? different from mine, i am sure and clearly different from @lizpeterson6719, but surely something that is a treasure, if not sacred to you.
Being from a family that sold their farm so Detroit could be built, I love this. I know Detroit had its bad times. My dad (who was a Detroit cop for 30 years, his dad was Canadian) talked about watching the city burn from his roof as a kid, and my mom remembered her uncle driving a tank down their street during the riots so the kids could play on it. My family were steel mill workers, auto workers, cops, truckers... my grandpa came here from Canada to help build buildings and bridges.
But i was an otr trucker, all over the us and Canada, and no city has the spirit our city does. Closest I've found is New Orleans (which is another city full of art and music that people look at like it's garbage. Funny enough, they pretty much had the same settlers. Acadian French).
I could imagine what this was like circa 1930's. When some of those houses were new. Beautiful old "woodies" up and down the canals. Great tour! Thankyou.
$$$$$$&$ and lots of it
*when it was whites only lol
@@austinpierce7313 I get the joke, but realistically you'd have to go back to pre turn of the century to find a low population of blacks in Detroit. Auto factories brought everyone to the city.
You might want to do some research on the 1930's haha, not exactly a good time for anything. But hey, we could be headed to worse, who knows.
You mean after the great depression of 1929? LOL
No one in Detroit really knew about this because it is basically right on the border of Southeast Detroit and Grosse Pointe Park. Awesome video! You definitely showed me something new!
It's been well known to Detroiters for many years.
I’ve always known about this haha. If you’re never near this area or in southwest you wouldn’t know.
hahahhahahahaha what bros not from here lmao vry well known
We know about this 😅
What a resource! Clean up the downed trees, clean up the blight. Man these city kids could live in a kayaking paradise! What an overlooked opportunity. DNR bought Belle Isle. But making more sense to me would be Improving these canals and making this a navigable water trail, with bike paths, fishing piers for kids, etc. OMG! What a resource! If I were a billionaire, this is where I would sink my money! City kids need this ! Detroit needs this!
The type of kid in Detroit isn't exactly what you'd call outdoorsy, let alone keen to be in or near the water
@@M.TTT. they would be if they had an opportunity
Every Detroit / Grosse Pointe Local knows about these canals and has been there because they are on the border of Detroit / Grosse Pointe on Lake St Clair. Its the suburbanites from the outer suburbs who dont know about this kayaking gem. There is also a eclectic restaurant on this canal too.
@@M.TTT.man you have no clue. Most kids in Detroit love swimming please stop talking about something you know nothing about. And kayaking is not available to most inner kids in any major city.
@ericperry72 actually I have a lot of clues, some would say they're huge clues. Enormous clues actually, yes
Wow… I grew up on 800 ASHLAND ST. And used to swim 🏊♀️ in this canal in the 90’s … they redid the sea wall on the altar road side due to the poor condition in 2006 but said FU to the home owners on the opposite side said it would be too much money 💵 they used to dump Raw sewage from gross point park right in that canal when it rained for decades until the CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT IN 1994 good to see a video like this… thank you 🙏🏿 brought back good memories of my life in DETROIT!!!!
Ypsi/EMU still dumps sewage in the Huron river when it rains it would smell so fucking bad I couldn’t go outside or open the windows
No wonder the walleye have warts now
My dad grew up near there 100 years ago. Coplin Ave near Essex. The neighborhood really declined in the 80s and was bulldozed in the 90s. Says he used to skate on those canals in winter as a kid. He moved to SoCal in the 50s where I was born
WoW!!I,m 57 Yrs Old &Grew Up In The Detroit &Did Not Know About This!!Real Nice!!
Why is this so beautiful and depressing at the same time 🫤
"and depressing"
The disrepair and stagnant waters.
This is a fantastic, A+ grade document about a little-known slice of America. My parents both grew up in Detroit, and as a youngster in the 1960s and early 1970s, I made many visits there, but I have never heard of these canals. The sight of dilapidated, faded dreams and pockets of current activity spins up my imagination to how this must have looked in the city's peak years before the decline of the automobile industry. Please do more of these canal trips. I wish my parents were here today so I could show this video to them. Great job! Best Of RUclips material.
Seriously wanna hang out with you guys!! I can show you some equally sketchy/cool tunnels (waterway and other way!🧐) up north!
It was fun following along on Google Maps satellite view. For those who want to do so, the tan garage at the 0:10 mark appears to be 911 Ashland St, Detroit, MI 48215. The canal they start in is called Fox Creek. The bridge they play with at 19:30 can be found next to 14337 Harbor Island St.
Thanks, I figured it was fox creek when I checked G earth- I've never been there so this was pretty cool to watch.
That beautiful house at 878 Ashland, just after they cross under the Ashland St. bridge -- you can tell it was originally built by someone wealthy, with that garage specifically for a boat right on the edge of the creek. But now it is falling apart and the creek is eroding everything almost up to the house. According to Zillow, it was sold two years ago along with the house next-door at 862 as one unit, so I am hoping the person who purchased it is planning on renovating it and doing something about reinforcing the shoreline with the creek so the house doesn't fall apart.
Ty, I was about to ask exactly where is this. This is beautiful. I bet 95%+ of us westsiders know nothing about these canals 😂😂😂😂
@@TakenTook - I saw that house come on the market. Thought about taking a look at it but decided that I didn’t want to undertake the renovations. The bootlegger’s garage is really cool. (The boathouse attached to that house was alleged to have been used by rum runners during prohibition,)
@@Vlad-from-USA -- And it makes perfect sense that it has a bootleggers garage. given it was built in the 1920s
Secret Detroit - thanks for sharing!
Who needs Venice....we have Detroit!!!
I have lived in the burbs of Detroit for 60 years, and I had no idea! What a very cool video! Thanks!
What a beauty!!! I didn’t know about those canals...now Detroit is even more interesting and fascinating!! Thank you
THIS is a part of Detroit that many Detroitiers are clueless about.
I live in that neighborhood, river side of Jefferson, west side of Alter Rd.
Nice footage.
East Alter Rd
I've been all over Detroit, but never seen this! Thanks for posting!
I’m a city girl but only ever saw the canals from land view. This was an experience, thanks for sharing!
You two took that low bridge with style, smiles & laughs.😊 Thanks for the tour.
back in the day(65 yrs. ago) us kids fished in what we called fox creek.......a stones throw from Marshalls.........later on in the early 70's a bunch of us hippies rented the slate-roofed mini-mansion next to the Ashland bridge.......fishing all year.......skating parties and hockey in the winter.....weed always.....we had local bands playing in the huge dining room......$5 admission.......community kegs.........chaos..... Thanks again !
Oh Jonny ! The memories you just gave me ! Thx Bro !
Sounds great!
No wonder it all went so bad
@@Uzeil21 scrotum
Sounds like big fun back then!!
Thanks for sharing you passed by grandparents house Ashland St my father grew up there I live there 1968 -78. When it was nice & clean I learned to swim ice skate & fish on that canal I still live in Detroit metropolitan area & every once in awhile I go down to the foot of altar and fish. A lot of people don't know October 24th 1958 a British Vulcan military plane crashed on Ashland St down at the end my grandparents house was one that did not catch fire and is one of the original houses still standing
My dad was a detroit firefighter when that plane crashed.........my mom walked us over to Alter rd. ........it was bad........dad didn't talk too much about it........
I am about to move to Ashland street. Which house was your grandparents?
I had never heard of this crash, thank you for the info.
I think the cockpit of the jet is still under somebodys house, they dug down but couldnt reach it.
Yup - i was not around for the crash but i remember reading about it. Grew up in Petoskey where the planes flew out of kinchlow.
fantastic tour! thanks. never knew they existed. nice work to the guy painting the old garage door.
I kayaked here with Missy Kinyon and Detroit Outpost several years ago. She loved this place. It was really special to kayak with her. I believe her family has kept Detroit Outpost alive and still do river tours.
Where did you put your tax on exactly!?
Where did you put your yac in?
Loved this . Day drinking while watching it on a bogus account and in Ohio and live on a lake . Dad worked in Detroit several years .Best wishes to all of you .
This is some cool footage! I’d love to see more like this !!
I love this video. Thank you for sharing
I bumped my prop and bent it, on an old chris craft back in the 70s over by Peche Island. I went back one of these canals, and found a guy that had a lift behind his house. He let me lift up the back of the boat and change my prop ( I always carried a spare) instead of having to do it under water. Great memory, thanks for posting
I kaayked to Peche Island a few years ago. Fun!
@@TheGreatOutdoorsyou should throw a line in there looks like a bass heaven but probably gets too cold up there for em
I live 500 miles north of Detroit and we have lots of bass. Largemouth and smallmouth.
I have been down those before when fishing St. Clair. They ought to be worth MILLIONS given direct access to the lake via those canals. Over the 17 years we have fished, that area the last couple years has started to be reclaimed. The derelict marina by the ramp is now a very popular restaurant. The blocks leading into that area look much better and safer. It's great to see those homes starting to get refurbished and reclaimed!
Wow, the good the bad and the ugly shown by this video. Very interesting community along the canals of Detroit. Thanks for sharing with everyone.
As a kid growing up near here I especially remember skating on the canals in the winter!
@@thomasjonker4489 awesome!
Born and raised. It'd be wonderful if it all got cleaned up. But I find it very very interesting. I appreciate what you do. I'd really like to see more kind of brings back memories. Thank you.
25 enjoyable minutes. Going into my Favorites file. Thanks for sharing .
thanks, saw my home town in a way I never have before. Go TIgers! I remember the Unlimited Hydros racing on the river for the Gold Cup, the sound of those Allisons/Merlins carried all over the city.
I was on the edge of my seat with that motor!!😂😂
Thank you so much for sharing this. This is my favorite part of Detroit.
Amazing video, thank you so much for posting.
You learn something new everyday thanks
Awesome! I taught in Troy, and had no idea these canals existed! I didn’t travel canals till visiting The Netherlands!
I've enjoyed watching! Thank YOU for the tour!
How fascinating, imagine growing up near such a booming city AND having a house with a little boat slip. Idyllic in my opinion
Michigan is one of the most beautiful states
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee....great ride thanx
This brought back memories from about 50 years ago. Me and my best friend would head to either Alfred Brush Form Part or Riverfront-Lakewood Park nearly every weekend and nearly every other day during summer vacation (when school was out). I remember walking the trail along the Alter Road canal. We fished all the bridges along the way at one time or another, swam across the canal once or twice, but mostly just fished the canal and river at Riverfront for carp, bass, rock bass, perch, and walleye. I can't count the times we fell asleep under a giant oak/maple tree on the canal not far from the boat rental/bait store to be awaken by the sound of a big carp making the drag sing. I grew up there. Thanks for the memories.
Thanks for sharing your stories. ❤
My old stomping grounds. I grew up on the east side in the 70s and my dad always had a fishing boat here.
He still does, and you passed it on your tour.
He passed two of my friends homes Nice homes....🤣
Use to stay on east lawn by the river and canals running in the back of people houses dirty water and fishing want no parts of it looks like swamp Land snakes rats etc I'm in melvindale Michigan now
Ps look like the creature from the black lagoon stay in the water
@@ronnieperdue2977 nature
I used to live there growing up thru high school. Right across the street from the Fischer Mansion. Fished those canals almost every day in the summers growing up.
Fantastic video, it was like cruising up there. Not talking, with just the motor was perfect. Well done.
I did not search for this video, but RUclips served it to me anyway because it knew it would scratch several overlapping itches of my interests (urban geography, history, urban exploration, unusual boating, etc). Cool stuff!
update @ 19:30 : dudes rock
Ditto
Man, ill bet back in the day that was something to see.
It really was but it was good to see it again i live 4 blocks north I haven't been back there in years
Still is.
Wow...I'm back to being 12 years old, my dad taking me out to the dumping grounds to Perch fish. He rented a slip on Fox Creek for his '58 Lyman 19'...Thank You!
England refurbished their canal system and now it is aa way of life so many people to travel the canals. This could be so beautiful, it hurts to see the decay. Detroit was a beautiful city! Corruption ravaged it.
Don't they call it "empowerment" now? Sounds better than corruption, or grift, or ....
This is amazing, very cool to have this in your backyard. 😮
Great video I subbed! Good memories! Back in the mid-50s.school is out. Me, my buddies, and neighborhood girls, all of us aged 14 and 15 years old living in the six-mile rd. and Chalmers area. My Dad had an 18 foot Oldtown sponson canoe with a side mounted 1.7 Hp. Neptune Mighty Mite outboard motor. My Dad would drop us off at the end of Alter rd. on his way to work early in the morning with the canoe and all the food that the girls had made and would then pick us up on his way home after work. Wearing swimsuits all day and stopping at Tommy's boat rental for pop and snacks we explored every canal, then with the motor running and all six of us paddling (Yes, the canoe could handle that many 90-100 lb. girls easily) we would dodge any freighters coming and head for Peche Island. (We pronounced it peach island) We would swim off the small sand beaches for a while and then pick up the canoe and portage it across a bit of land into the canals of the island and explore there. (More private for some boy/girl fun up to a certain degree.) We also had some young friends who lived in the trailer park on the canal and had a boat and would join us at times. Would do this 3 or 4 times a month. (No computer screens and games, just pure fun and healthy trim tanned bodies!) Goodtimes!
Great story. Thanks for sharing!
Great Memories and OMG I forgot about Tommy's ! Use to love riding my bike there as I grew up in the Park on the border of Alter rd . They had the greatest selection of penny candy . Also went to Peche island and camped over night , maybe we crossed paths ? who knows . Also remember the mental hospital at Angel park and the scary stories we used to tell associated with it , Good Times .
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@@williamh192 Yep! We also rode our bikes there to go fishing. One time one of the girl's bike chain broke, so I rode her there and back on my bike's handlebars. LOL! No one told me about sore leg muscles, but I knew about them the next day! LOL!
@@rorymartin329 I wonder ..., If we ever crossed paths ? Maybe somebody needs to come up with a Fox Creek reunion from the mid 60's to mid 70's Lol After that , the late 70's was all about chicks ...chicks .....CHICKS !!!!! Lol
@@williamh192 I'm as old as dirt! Try the mid 50's! LOL!
While you were starting under that low bridge, I realized I had sunk down in my chair as though I was on the boat with you. Very funny feeling.
This is so cool! That was wild seeing that house structure building thing with like the door that went basically right up to the water. This is crazy. I've never seen this. I mean I know there's canals around. I'm basically everywhere in Michigan, rivers, little streams and stuff. But this is cool. Cool very very cool
That’s a boathouse. Basically, a garage for your boat.
@ hmmm 🤔 interesting cool ! Thanks for sharing
I was able to locate where you exited on Google maps, then scrolled back through. That last extremely low bridge, the large boat just before that that looks like it was forgotten in the water years ago, on Google maps still looks in good shape. This was a fascinating ride along.
This now Michigander grew up on the canals in South Florida. I've been to Detroit a few times but I had no idea there are canals in Detroit. Thank you so much. I love learning things about my new home state. After 47 years of living in Florida, I never knew what freedom was until I moved to Michigan. 💙
Freedom? You must be retired. You’re in a much different political climate now. Good luck.
@stevelane5023 I made the move in 2015. I've been back twice to help family and friends. Each time reinforced the difference. Florida has a huge oppression problem. Even the attitudes of law enforcement officers are totally different in Florida vs. Michigan. In Florida I was told I lived in paradise, in Michigan I know I do. 💯🤗
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I spent 12 yrs in Naples, Fl. Moved back to Wi 15 yrs ago. I actually spend quite a bit of time in the U.P. sledding during winters. I love the change of seasons but I do miss my canals in Florida. Thanks for sharing.
@@kathyd9324 Michigan's a great state to live in. I've been here my entire life.
Alter rd and jefferson
Hello from Alaska,
Great Video... I've been a Fan of Detroit my whole Life. I literally Fought a myriad of corrupt laws to stop them from seizing and shredding Classic Cars..
I grew up in Florida and use to swim in the Canals with the Manatee and your video was a great reminder of those days and an eye opening perspective of the Canals of Detroit... I loved the Houses and Boats but kept wondering if there was an old Mustang or Challenger hiding around the corner..
Great Video...
That was wonderful.
The Limbo Bridge was the best.
Thanks for the boat ride, and very interesting video.
This was sooo beautiful back in the day! During the summer everyone hung out in the back lots ❤️
Who knew😳good video.👍🇺🇸❤️
Imagine if this was cleaned up and seawalls built where there are none.
Could really be impressive. Neglect on a grand scale.
Seawalls on private property. Each running 50k to north of 100k. Neglect?…yeah okay buddy. There are plenty of areas like what you’re talking about in Detroit and surrounding areas. This is just one stretch in a more lower income area with some money scattered in between.
a big part of the surrounding neighborhood is in ruins........burned out houses.......packs of wild dogs..........a few small areas will always be desirable as they're closer to the Detroit river........
Why sea walls ?
@@mansize6622 some are needed.....others not so much
@@mansize6622to prevent erosion. Those cattails were doing it naturally
When I was a Kid. I used to fish and catch the biggest Carp on the planet in those canals. We swam in it to.
Very Nice!
Yall had me scared going under that low bridge @19:30 lol. Thanks for sharing these beautiful Gems in Detroit. I really appreciate this video. I hope I get to travel them one day soon.
I grew up in this neighbor hood ...my family lived in this old parish of St. Marten Depores. I attended the school and my family were parish members. Grandparents were two houses off of Jeffersson Ave. on 1044 Navahoe (demolished now )We lived at the corner address of 694 Drexel and Freud which was two blocks directly down from the church itself. The school, Convent, house on Drexel all demolished now. The church is a desanctihfied by the Catholic Diocese of Detroit and derilict yet the playground across the street with softball diamonds are still maintained by the City of Detroit. All my family on my mothers side as well as my immediate family grew up there. My personalmemoreis date back to 1955 thru 1964....when we moved away from the Jefferson /Chalmers area and ''canals ''.
I grew up in a house along the canal in St Clair Shores. It was wonderful being so close to the water.
Thanks for posting. An entertaining 25 mins. Close call with the bridge.
Love it! I wish I had a boat so I could see this in person.
I'm not from around those parts, but I watched the whole video and enjoyed it!
Thanks for showing a side of Detroit that I haven't seen. Love from Chicago
About the only type of water craft that I didn’t see is an English narrow boat which were used on water ways like this for hundreds of years. This is an underutilized treasure that needs to be preserved and respected.
You mean drained to clean out the thousands of dead bodies on the bottom.
Unlike the canals in England, these don't really go anywhere. You should think of them as alleys behind the residences that give access to the Detroit River and from there the Great Lakes waterway. The whole of the canals presented in the video stretch about 14 city blocks. The entire canal grid depicted exits into the Detroit River through one of three ways a total of about 500 yards apart. The Detroit River is likely a bit much for narrowboats - it's a half to mile wide strait between Lake St Clair and Lake Erie separating Detroit from Windsor, Ontario with a strong current.
Very peaceful and Beautiful. The Bridge had me feeling a little nervous for your well-being, nice job navigating.
Such a cool video. I like how you just let it roll with very little commentary. Very immersive.
I'VE LIVED IN DETROIT ALL MY LIFE AND NEVER SEEN OR HEARD OF THIS BEFORE?????
Thanks for the tour - equal parts fun, fascinating, and creepy AF..
This is cool I've never seen this side of Detriot
Detroit is home. Use to live there. Live on West Michigan now.
I wish the people who say,"clean it up" would define what "clean it up" is to them... I love the greenery and even the fallen trees because they contribute to the greenery... Some of the decay is charming... By cleaning up, I hope they mean cleaning up the man-made structures that probably aren't following any municipal codes... ?
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You're right its clean and preserved as is .👍
Back in the 50’s early 60’s we had an uncle that had a house with boathouse and Old wooden boat on that canal along Alter road. He would take the family out on the river once a year. Loved it!
I live across the river in Windsor and my mind is blown. What an interesting area I was totally unaware of.
I knew there were a lot of boats on properties in Detroit, but I had no idea about the canals. Thanks for the video!
that was great ............ thanks
Awesome video. Thanks
Wow! That is very cool! What an asset! Amazing the home owners along there haven't got together and clean in up.
Looks like Bass fishing heaven
💯Sure Is!!!! ❤💎
Very interesting exploration of a little known area of Detroit.
Thanks for sharing! You got my Dad’s old house where he grew up.
Now wasn't that a fun little adventure!! Best vid I've seen on YT in months! I kinda felt a little like Huck Finn riding along with you!!! Very cool Guys!! Subbed!
@@allenwayne2033 what a great comment! Thank you!
Wow I didn't even know that was there! Not that I've lived in Metro Detroit for long but man what a place that could become once again. Even just cleaning up the debris would make it look better. So cool.
I had no idea Detroit had this ............ And you guys going under the bridge was hilarious! That's just like the stuff me and my friends do, lol ............. hanks for posting it.
The rolling shot of the Dad and his son at 8:00 was so pure
What a unique adventure!
Thanks for posting this video love this kind of stuff.
Wild, never knew this excited. Thx for sharing.
I grew up in Detroit and never knew about these. Look at the big old houses that area could be made beautiful with restored homes & cleaned canals
Get homeowners a special assessment to cover some costs.
Great video. Very cool sites.
Some of those with the houses going right to the water are crazy. I can picture Mobsters hanging out and escaping by the water. The nostalgia in this video is off the chain. So the city isn't required to maintain their canal walls. They should be required to do so like they are a city street. This is a form of transportation
Here in the UK, we have quite an extensive network of canals ,never realised you had something similar, subscribed and with you.