Detroit Born and Raised. The apartment at 3:20 is still standing. It's at the corner of Blaine and 2nd St. At the 3:50 mark you will see an Electric Vehicle on the right corner with its front facing the camera. That vehicle appears to be a Milburn Electric from the early 1920s. Also, at 1:08 there is a woman and child at a log cabin with an iron bell suspended by 3 wood poles. That cabin is still standing. It is at the southern end of Palmer Park just a few yards northwest of the man made pond that is there now.
I like the Edison style street lights in the neighboring city, Dearborn with bullet shaped lens. Also In Dearborn, they used the long bracket with two cables with an inverted "A" as of brace for support the cables.
People had so much more style back in the day. Even the kids had style. Now it's about t-shirts, backward baseball caps and blue jeans around your ankles.
I always felt bad that Detroit and the northern suburbs lost all their beautifully gracious hundreds years-old Elms, they were so fantastic. It would be really fun if these old films could tell us just where they are being taken, many of the building that were around into the Sixties are long gone.
Beautiful women. People dressed up back then. Sadly, it was a time of racism, lynchings and prohibition. I remember seeing a local news show in Detroit that mentioned that there were roughly 500 speakeasys or blind pig drinking and gambling rooms on Woodward Avenue alone back then.
But racism was not one of them, only by the heeds of 1941 was there riotings by false threats given on black and white people. Separated both sides and resulted in a big lunch out of 200 african americans, and 200 English americans.
I highly doubt there was a director, not much to direct, these are basically like home movies i guess you could say..Unless you consider, hey walk towards me direction, lol..
The Adults, and Children pictured in these pictures always wanted to look there best, and feel there best. Every day was a Sunday for them.. Good manners, and a warm hospitality from opening doors to the ladies, and strangers.
By 1930, Detroit had twice the population that it has today. Basically a European city. Not now. I left in 1982 and saw first hand what happened. Two things, the LBJ Great Society taking hold into it's second generation and the whites simply moved out.
I think you are historically correct in your European city analogy. I sat down with my wife’s grandmother a year ago and she was a new Detroit resident in the 1920’s having left Sicily for Detroit’s east side as a young child. She explained that the dominant languages were Sicilian, Italian, german, polish and Yiddish as well as English on Detroit’s east side. She went on to explain that if you had to do shopping that a working knowledge of all these languages was extremely helpful and that the ladies would group up to shop based on their strengths in certain languages to offset the linguistic weaknesses they may have in other languages. She went on to explain what an exciting time this was because you were being introduced to other cultures and how amazing it was as a Sicilian to be introduced to Jewish pumpernickel, German beer and pastries and polish butcher shops. I had no idea that at one time the Jewish community lived on Detroit’s east side.
Wow. Even back then the Detroit alleys looked as clean as the neighborhood street's. Now when you drive through Detroit with a large caliber handgun in your one hand, the alleys are impassable with all the street junk and garbage piled high in them. Today, all the nice street light, and building light fixtures have been ripped out by metal scrappers. Most if not all the nice apartments, buildings, and home's are long gone torn down because of being abandoned and being blight. Detroit used to be a shiny, clean town. The pride city of the Midwest. Now its just a big vacant s**t hole. The only "good" part of Detroit is the downtown area, owned by the rich multimillion dollar family's of Ford, Illitch, and Gilbert. Detroit city leaders should rename the downtown area as "FIG TOWN" Instead of "Downtown", or "The New Center Area". FIG for: Ford - Illitch - Gilbert.
I took a couple of snap shots of Lee Crest apartment bldg. Entrance today 5/5/24, but i can't figure out how to upload the pictures to this comment section. The Entrance faces south towards Blaine Street, but you can't get in through that entrance anymore. There is scaffolding up by the 5th floor repairing bricks, but quite frankly it doesn't look like anybody is living in the apartments on the south end. I'm sure there are tenants in the bldg. Because i used to pickup and drop there when i drove cab.
I had a 16 mm film in my dresser drawer for 40 years and had them convert it to CD. Since there were to signs etc in the start the person converting had no idea it was flipped. 1923 film.
I live in Southfield MI now. I was born at St. John’s Hospital in 1886. I’ve lived all over the country. From LA to Naples FLA. and I’ve always come home. Detroit was so nice in the 1920’s. This video brings back so many memories of when I was a kid on the East Side. Outer Dr and 6 mile. My neighborhood.
Detroit Born and Raised. The apartment at 3:20 is still standing. It's at the corner of Blaine and 2nd St. At the 3:50 mark you will see an Electric Vehicle on the right corner with its front facing the camera. That vehicle appears to be a Milburn Electric from the early 1920s. Also, at 1:08 there is a woman and child at a log cabin with an iron bell suspended by 3 wood poles. That cabin is still standing. It is at the southern end of Palmer Park just a few yards northwest of the man made pond that is there now.
I thought the landscape looked familiar for me in detroit for the 80s
My mom and dad lived in that apartment when they 1st came up from ala I 1950
What a beautiful time. This was a city that had it all. You wouldn't care to go to NY or LA because everything was here to live a comfortable life.
3:19 it's reversed . Lee Crest Apartments. I believe the film itself may be reversed.
Detroit born and raised “85”. SO MUCH is gone. I recognized a few things, but man such Beauty.
I like the Edison style street lights in the neighboring city, Dearborn with bullet shaped lens. Also In Dearborn, they used the long bracket with two cables with an inverted "A" as of brace for support the cables.
People had so much more style back in the day. Even the kids had style. Now it's about t-shirts, backward baseball caps and blue jeans around your ankles.
So does your mama.
I always felt bad that Detroit and the northern suburbs lost all their beautifully gracious hundreds years-old Elms, they were so fantastic.
It would be really fun if these old films could tell us just where they are being taken, many of the building that were around into the Sixties are long gone.
My great-grandparents from Ireland lived here in the 1920's and married here.
Beautiful women. People dressed up back then. Sadly, it was a time of racism, lynchings and prohibition. I remember seeing a local news show in Detroit that mentioned that there were roughly 500 speakeasys or blind pig drinking and gambling rooms on Woodward Avenue alone back then.
But racism was not one of them, only by the heeds of 1941 was there riotings by false threats given on black and white people. Separated both sides and resulted in a big lunch out of 200 african americans, and 200 English americans.
It is no worse than today. Identify polics aka racism is deeply imbedded throughout society.
The first few seconds are reversed. The Taxi sign wording is the clue.
It looks like the whole film is reversed.
The smog those days were ridiculous lol
Its in black and white, you can't tell anything from that. Could be fog, mist, or simply aperture of the composite camera.
That was called industry, something today's kids know nothing about
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Film is reversed.
that is some great footage.
The people in this video would be rolling in their graves if they knew what Detroit would end up in the next 50 to 90 years later.
It was surely a Great City to grow up in!! No one can ever take those times away from me! Thanks for the Memories
Are you 100 y o, dude? 😂
It's crazy driving past the Lee Crest Apts today. Now the entrance is street level. And definitely no doorman.
The Lee Crest Apartments is a flophouse now😔!!!
This is what freedom and prosperity looks like
FJB
It's lucky for us that someone had a movie camera and the thought to capture the time perfectly
hello, i am Australian and would like to thank you for this amazing footage. Do you know who filmed or directed it? cheers.
I highly doubt there was a director, not much to direct, these are basically like home movies i guess you could say..Unless you consider, hey walk towards me direction, lol..
Years late, but this was filmed by the Carey family themselves.
Damn i wish this vid had audio.
Detroit Cleveland Cincinnati. Has become the result of the good people leaving. Atlanta Baltimore so on.
The Adults, and Children pictured in these pictures always wanted to look there best, and feel there best. Every day was a Sunday for them.. Good manners, and a warm hospitality from opening doors to the ladies, and strangers.
My mom was born in Kalamazoo in 1921.
She would have been the perfect age to have been the inspiration for the 1942 Glenn Miller hit, "I Got A Gal in Kalamazoo".
I can't bear to watch it. Too beautiful. Too much lost. Cry for Detroit, what she has become.
She's coming back, don't sleep
The focus was more on people. This could have been anywhere.
@@Kawsaki naw homie. You can sleep lol
@@Kawsaki oh how adorable, you think its about restoration that made the city.
Rejoice for what’s still here.
That log cabin is inside Palmer park, crazy that the apt building is still stands 2018!
Detroit. Love .
By 1930, Detroit had twice the population that it has today. Basically a European city. Not now. I left in 1982 and saw first hand what happened. Two things, the LBJ Great Society taking hold into it's second generation and the whites simply moved out.
I think you are historically correct in your European city analogy. I sat down with my wife’s grandmother a year ago and she was a new Detroit resident in the 1920’s having left Sicily for Detroit’s east side as a young child. She explained that the dominant languages were Sicilian, Italian, german, polish and Yiddish as well as English on Detroit’s east side. She went on to explain that if you had to do shopping that a working knowledge of all these languages was extremely helpful and that the ladies would group up to shop based on their strengths in certain languages to offset the linguistic weaknesses they may have in other languages.
She went on to explain what an exciting time this was because you were being introduced to other cultures and how amazing it was as a Sicilian to be introduced to Jewish pumpernickel, German beer and pastries and polish butcher shops.
I had no idea that at one time the Jewish community lived on Detroit’s east side.
Thank you for sharing this story. @@craigtank4067
Just a sin what has happened. I recognize Palrmer Park.
Love these..what a treasure to have..thank you
Look like the video is on backwards including the signs which read backwards, and cars that are parked on the left side instead of the right side.
Wow. Even back then the Detroit alleys looked as clean as the neighborhood street's. Now when you drive through Detroit with a large caliber handgun in your one hand, the alleys are impassable with all the street junk and garbage piled high in them. Today, all the nice street light, and building light fixtures have been ripped out by metal scrappers. Most if not all the nice apartments, buildings, and home's are long gone torn down because of being abandoned and being blight. Detroit used to be a shiny, clean town. The pride city of the Midwest. Now its just a big vacant s**t hole. The only "good" part of Detroit is the downtown area, owned by the rich multimillion dollar family's of Ford, Illitch, and Gilbert. Detroit city leaders should rename the downtown area as "FIG TOWN" Instead of "Downtown", or "The New Center Area". FIG for: Ford - Illitch - Gilbert.
I took a couple of snap shots of Lee Crest apartment bldg. Entrance today 5/5/24, but i can't figure out how to upload the pictures to this comment section. The Entrance faces south towards Blaine Street, but you can't get in through that entrance anymore. There is scaffolding up by the 5th floor repairing bricks, but quite frankly it doesn't look like anybody is living in the apartments on the south end. I'm sure there are tenants in the bldg. Because i used to pickup and drop there when i drove cab.
People and children did a lot of walking, and smiling those days. As for now days you can't do that in fear that you may get shot at.
They didn’t have AC back then. I see windows open. Must of been hot in the summer.
The roads looked smooth thats for sure
and clean!
2:57
Nice footage!
I can see the weather is so Detroit. It’s never very nice. 😅
The girl at the beginning bares a striking resemblance to Maggie Gyllenhaal!
Yes she does! :-)
7:12
💜
Love it❤
So many of this type of old movie I see are shown backwards (evident by the numbers), and I have to wonder why?
I had a 16 mm film in my dresser drawer for 40 years and had them convert it to CD. Since there were to signs etc in the start the person converting had no idea it was flipped. 1923 film.
It would be nice if the video wasn't backwards. Still cool to see though. I downloaded it and reversed it.
Back in those days how would they be able to watch themselves pose in front of the movie 🎥 projector 📽?
wow...those were heady times there, just coming out of the ghastliness of Edwardian times and all
Playback at. 75 speed for added realism.
I would like to know where that neighborhood is at around the 10:00 minute mark, it looks like it could be 7 Mile John R?
From the 9:50-10:04 mark is Allen Road at Ecorse Road in Allen Park. I can't pinpoint the scenes just before it and just after it.
Wtf
Most of of this is filmed in the pointes.
Nope The Pointes almost resemble a once sparkling Detroit my friend 🥺
The road scene around the 9:50-10:04 mark is definitely in Allen Park.
I live in Southfield MI now. I was born at St. John’s Hospital in 1886. I’ve lived all over the country. From LA to Naples FLA. and I’ve always come home. Detroit was so nice in the 1920’s. This video brings back so many memories of when I was a kid on the East Side. Outer Dr and 6 mile. My neighborhood.