It was sad for me. I had a lot of good memories in that building. they don't build them like that anymore and by that I mean with oak and marble and that good stuff.
I remember going there as a kid at Christmas.. loved the elevator operators with their white gloves asking “What Floor “ and then pushing the buttons for you.. a very classy place
Having lived in Detroit from 1946-1963 (when I joined the Navy), I remember the downtown building well. Every Christmas the ground floor windows had holiday themes. I could always buy any toy I wanted in their well stocked inventory, including the Avalon Hill games. My family joined the "white stampede" after the 1967 race riots. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
My parents bought me my first desk lamp (?and Desk-I don't remember) there. A Tasco scope in around 1967. But that building had been abandoned for about fifteen years and before That, the folks shopping there weren't paying for the stuff.
The Compuware Building did not replace this. The Compuware building was build across Gratiot to the south. The parcel of land is still vacant, but an underground parking structure with steel beams to support a new structure were built in anticipation of a building. 12 years later and still no new building.
Detroit is not the only city suffering from old buildings being torn down. I live in a large city in the Midwest too and we have seen our share of "Civic Vandelism" in the name of progress. Many of the once beautiful old structures in our city where torn down and most became parking lots. Today, those parking lots are more valuable and they are building high rise structures on them. Nothing will ever compare to the grace and beauty that once filled our downtown streets long ago.
April 22, 2021 - The Phoenix is rising, courtesy of Dan Gilbert and his company, Bedrock Detroit. The four-floor basement is nearly complete and the elevator shafts for the lower section of the new building appear [to be] up to the sixth or seventh floor.
i know feck all about the history of detroit or the reasons behind this demolition, but it was a beautiful builing judging by photographs. shouldnt have been demolished imo.
That salvation army bell in front of Hudson in winter time, kresge across the street. McDonald's around the bend. Good memory about the whole down town.
I worked with my Daddy on preparing this building for implosion,and we watched from 50 FEET away when it was brought down!! First day of the job,we went into the basements to find all FOUR of them flooded,and my Daddy asked"What they expect US to do down here;SWIM?!?" Eventually all the water got pumped out and work began!! No elevators in the building since 1980 had me WALKING up 24 flights to my workstation every morning!! This building was HUGE!! More square footage of space than all four 39 story Ren Cen office towers COMBINED!!
+scootscootriot1020 There was nothing like seeing it happen LIVE from 100 feet away,where I had a pass to view it,since I worked placing the explosives into the support columns!!! Was washing dust outta my hair and off of my car for MONTHS!!
I guess-like Grucci Fireworks-their timing and setup is a secret. But I Know they drill holes in the concrete posts and put dynamite in. They also put ANFO or some other explosive under the base of the vertical supports, so they rocket upwards and break the horizontal connections. Copper Cutting charges are normally used on the girders after weakening them with blowtorches. You probably aren't allowed to tell me if they used Computer control or non-El demolition fuse.
Your video of this is mind blowing! It's a hell of a building to come down. I would love to see a explosive demolition in person! Thanks for sharing your video 👍👍👍👍
@Geo M.;I thought the SAME things as I walked throughout the floors,and even after DECADES of flooding in the buildings FOUR sub-basements,I noted that the building was still"SOLID"and probably would've stood another THIRTY years. When we first entered the building and looked at the basements they were all FULL of water,and so my Dad asked:"What they expect us to do down here;SWIM?!? I had to jackhammer all the concrete out of the steel,support beams,before the explosives were placed on them,because the building was designed to withstand an Air Raid bombing!! I found old"Yellowpages"from the FIFTIES inside!! Made a brick barbeque grill out of the bricks I took home with me!!
It had definitely become a dilapidated eyesore by the time it was imploded. Still sad though. Guess it was a case of a department store growing entirely too big and then finding itself in a completely obsolete location.
@JeffHendrie Just a microcosm to the decline of the American industrial economy. You are right, it's not terrorism that's hurting us the most, it's our own physical decline.
I'd love to see footage of an implosion run backwards, with the dust disappearing as the buildings "resurrect" themselves. Better yet a montage of them!
The comma key steps backward one frame at the time if you want to do it like that Jump to 6:43 hit k to pause then hold the comma key, works like a charm
Just out of curiosity, which building was this filmed from and what floor where you guys on? It was interesting to me that you were high enough up to get the full implosion on tape before you had to close the window. Very cool video! Sad to see the Hudson Dept Store get demolished though. Detroit’s always had a certain amount of complacency when it comes to demolishing important landmark buildings without making a strong effort to preserve what is. Was the building you shot this video now gone too? Thank you for for posting this video, it was fun to watch.
@JSneaker My mom WORKED in that building from 16, to around 34, how do you think I feel about that building being taken down? Who took it down, KWAMEE, who do I hate more than EVER for not restoring somthing WORTH restoring, KWAMEE. He DESERVES life in jail, and it took an ENTIRE YEAR for them to figure that out. TEAR DOWN FORD FIELD AND COMERICA PARK AND REBUILD HUDSOND AND TIGERS' STADIUM! Tigers' Stadium: 1901-2010, J.L. HUDSONS Building: 1903/1905-2006/7.
I rmbr ppl talkin about this but as a kid i gave no fcks. Now as an adult ertime i go downtown i look at that mt spot & think... Good video sir. Got Barry Sanders & musical timestamp
@JSneaker I drew a picture of Detroit showing progression of the city, from the 1800s, to 2010/2011, and in the 1800s section, it's nice, wagon ruts, and everything, old hotel, bank, etc., 1900s, not much, it's about a cm space, 1960s/70s section, Detroit turns to crappy, ghetto, with a police car chasing somthing/someone, 2010/2011 section, Christler/Ford Building (not sure of the name), and J.L. Hudsons erected again as it was in the 1920s. --
@chip88angel Abandoned buildings and abandoned houses that need to be ridden of and/or are hosts of drugs, rape, and violence are exactly what you get when you have property taxes.
the mayor wanted to charge a fee of $150,000 to press a button that destroys a great building? no wonder nobody offered to do it. Detroit needs all the money it can get, he could have at least settled for 20 dollars
This reminds me of the old Sears Tower in Philadelphia that was imploded. Both buildings had that beautiful tower and with renovation would be Million dollar condos in 2021. What a frigging WASTE 😡🤬
Cowboy Kody. Is that true? I was wondering if at one time the building had anything to do with the Hudson auto manufacturing company. It was a pretty big building for a department store.
Mark Linder: I wouldn't label it as outright false. As noted by the OP it is "his name". Both are named for the exact same man. Thanks should be given to the OP for pointing this out to people instead of a pedantic attack over semantics.
Very Very Sad!!! Detroit, once the "MECCA" of industry and social economic growth, wiped away in seconds. This is the result of NAFTA, the final nail in the coffin!!! I love Detroit and I love our country! We the people need to turn this bullshit around and "Make America Great Again'!
It's strange... although I have lived in Michigan for most of my life (I went to university in Indiana), I consider Chicago to be more "my city" than the D. I've only been in Detroit once... and have no desire to return.
Ive heard that b4. &besides a literal handful (tigers,wings,opera house, music hall, eastern mrkt) (&maybe that list is very scant) but point is there wasnt much to come for. Now with things changing it all seems so foreign
@@adriankepler5254 Maybe when this whole health thing is over, I wouldn't mind visiting some of Detroit's festivals (especially, the various food trucks and/or taco fests I have heard about). I'm sure if I visited at the right time, there would be some good experiences to be had.
U either dnt appreciate art. Or r not from detroit or both😝 He got the iconic Cadillac tower which deemed the gr8 Barry Sanders forever (now also gone😞), showed the landscape of what coty looked like at the time (better than still pics which are archived somewhere that public prolly cant go), several current era songs, i didnt recognize newscaster voice but im sure my parents would. I had nvr been inside ratherlong saw the foof of hudson bldg. Thus i thoroughly enjoyed start to finish
Robert Palmer: No, the sharp cracks of a controlled demolition *BEFORE* the building even begins to budge aren't mistaken for the continuous rumble *AS* the building falls, correct.
It was sad for me. I had a lot of good memories in that building. they don't build them like that anymore and by that I mean with oak and marble and that good stuff.
I remember going there as a kid at Christmas.. loved the elevator operators with their white gloves asking “What Floor “ and then pushing the buttons for you.. a very classy place
That was one, huge, amazing, beautiful building!! What a shame...
we wish that the building failed to collapse
@@titan9259 lol. Why or how wpuld that be possible?
Fun facts: it actually had a world record
There was nothing like Hudson's downtown at Christmas time as a child. Such great memories.
It was closed all myself & i was 13 when it was demolished
Having lived in Detroit from 1946-1963 (when I joined the Navy), I remember the downtown building well. Every Christmas the ground floor windows had holiday themes. I could always buy any toy I wanted in their well stocked inventory, including the Avalon Hill games. My family joined the "white stampede" after the 1967 race riots. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
My parents bought me my first desk lamp (?and Desk-I don't remember) there. A Tasco scope in around 1967. But that building had been abandoned for about fifteen years and before That, the folks shopping there weren't paying for the stuff.
I liked the way you panned around the city before the implosion. Thought-provoking - and rather heart-breaking.
The Compuware Building did not replace this. The Compuware building was build across Gratiot to the south. The parcel of land is still vacant, but an underground parking structure with steel beams to support a new structure were built in anticipation of a building. 12 years later and still no new building.
Detroit is not the only city suffering from old buildings being torn down. I live in a large city in the Midwest too and we have seen our share of "Civic Vandelism" in the name of progress. Many of the once beautiful old structures in our city where torn down and most became parking lots. Today, those parking lots are more valuable and they are building high rise structures on them. Nothing will ever compare to the grace and beauty that once filled our downtown streets long ago.
Atlantic City also destroyed its history in the 1970s
this demolition is so sad, all of these beautiful art deco buildings being brought down to have shitty glass and steel towers go up...#dreadful
Chris Ramsey Actually not Art Deco, the style is Romanesque
Actually this site is still empty, only parking lot and 5 feet tall bare columns
true, glass tower boxes all over America : (
you're right..40s stuff was like side effect of beautiful art deco
April 22, 2021 - The Phoenix is rising, courtesy of Dan Gilbert and his company, Bedrock Detroit. The four-floor basement is nearly complete and the elevator shafts for the lower section of the new building appear [to be] up to the sixth or seventh floor.
i know feck all about the history of detroit or the reasons behind this demolition, but it was a beautiful builing judging by photographs. shouldnt have been demolished imo.
That salvation army bell in front of Hudson in winter time, kresge across the street. McDonald's around the bend. Good memory about the whole down town.
Looks like they built 3 buildings on top of the original
I worked with my Daddy on preparing this building for implosion,and we watched from 50 FEET away when it was brought down!! First day of the job,we went into the basements to find all FOUR of them flooded,and my Daddy asked"What they expect US to do down here;SWIM?!?" Eventually all the water got pumped out and work began!! No elevators in the building since 1980 had me WALKING up 24 flights to my workstation every morning!! This building was HUGE!! More square footage of space than all four 39 story Ren Cen office towers COMBINED!!
Did they allow salvage before demo? ik they sold stuff before McKenzie HS was demolished
square footage musta been unbelievable
I was 11 years old when I saw this torn down it was sad ill never forget
Great shot guys. This was even better than the shots from CDI themselves.
+scootscootriot1020 There was nothing like seeing it happen LIVE from 100 feet away,where I had a pass to view it,since I worked placing the explosives into the support columns!!! Was washing dust outta my hair and off of my car for MONTHS!!
I guess-like Grucci Fireworks-their timing and setup is a secret. But I Know they drill holes in the concrete posts and put dynamite in. They also put ANFO or some other explosive under the base of the vertical supports, so they rocket upwards and break the horizontal connections. Copper Cutting charges are normally used on the girders after weakening them with blowtorches. You probably aren't allowed to tell me if they used Computer control or non-El demolition fuse.
PS: a LOT of Asbestos was probably released. And the People Mover track was damaged.
Your video of this is mind blowing! It's a hell of a building to come down. I would love to see a explosive demolition in person! Thanks for sharing your video 👍👍👍👍
Very intriguing almost like the aftermath smoke form was a thought for the new Hudson’s building design 🤔, nice!
Starts 06:16 Your welcome
A shame to see this building destroyed, but hey what a way to go!
Thanks for the upload.
Sad to see a historic building go down in less than a minute. They should of preserved it and modernized the interior.
@Geo M.;I thought the SAME things as I walked throughout the floors,and even after DECADES of flooding in the buildings FOUR sub-basements,I noted that the building was still"SOLID"and probably would've stood another THIRTY years. When we first entered the building and looked at the basements they were all FULL of water,and so my Dad asked:"What they expect us to do down here;SWIM?!? I had to jackhammer all the concrete out of the steel,support beams,before the explosives were placed on them,because the building was designed to withstand an Air Raid bombing!! I found old"Yellowpages"from the FIFTIES inside!! Made a brick barbeque grill out of the bricks I took home with me!!
Paul Donovan - you're amazing. What a tough job that must have been.
That would have been nice, but let's be honest. None of them would respect it. You would see it all ruined in 10 years anyway.
@Mark Linder you are correct!
Detroit has 1/3 the people it had in the 1950s. That sentiment might be all well and good in places that are thriving.
It had definitely become a dilapidated eyesore by the time it was imploded. Still sad though. Guess it was a case of a department store growing entirely too big and then finding itself in a completely obsolete location.
Its actually a really nice looking and huge building. Shame to see it go...
Charlotte Cauchefer-Dupré Hey Charlotte, I couldn't agree more! Too bad another company couldn't have bought it, a shame...
This is extremely sad, but Detroit is full of huge empty spaces in need of occupancy, and there is no way that this would ever have been full again.
WE WISH WHAT THE BUILDING WOULD FAIL TO COLLAPSE
The hudson building was a great building in detroit! Best place to go in detroit, not anymore.....
That implosion saw a very massive dust cloud!. From Joe. X
The building collapses from bottom right to top left as it disintegrates!. From Joe. X
@JeffHendrie Just a microcosm to the decline of the American industrial economy. You are right, it's not terrorism that's hurting us the most, it's our own physical decline.
I remember that day! I was working as a security officer at The Detroit Zoo!!! 😮😮😮😮😮
I remember my mother used to take my there to get my Easter dresses,purses,and hats
I remember Nancy Botwin used to go there where her mom worked and learn how to do Christmas ribbons before Nancy became a pot kingpin on Weeds.
I'd love to see footage of an implosion run backwards, with the dust disappearing as the buildings "resurrect" themselves.
Better yet a montage of them!
Make one.
The comma key steps backward one frame at the time if you want to do it like that
Jump to 6:43 hit k to pause then hold the comma key, works like a charm
Just out of curiosity, which building was this filmed from and what floor where you guys on? It was interesting to me that you were high enough up to get the full implosion on tape before you had to close the window. Very cool video! Sad to see the Hudson Dept Store get demolished though. Detroit’s always had a certain amount of complacency when it comes to demolishing important landmark buildings without making a strong effort to preserve what is. Was the building you shot this video now gone too? Thank you for for posting this video, it was fun to watch.
Looks like it was shot from the David Scott building, not sure though.
@JSneaker My mom WORKED in that building from 16, to around 34, how do you think I feel about that building being taken down? Who took it down, KWAMEE, who do I hate more than EVER for not restoring somthing WORTH restoring, KWAMEE. He DESERVES life in jail, and it took an ENTIRE YEAR for them to figure that out. TEAR DOWN FORD FIELD AND COMERICA PARK AND REBUILD HUDSOND AND TIGERS' STADIUM! Tigers' Stadium: 1901-2010, J.L. HUDSONS Building: 1903/1905-2006/7.
I went too Detroit once and it was closed and i never went back!!lol
How have I never seen this footage before?
I rmbr ppl talkin about this but as a kid i gave no fcks. Now as an adult ertime i go downtown i look at that mt spot & think... Good video sir. Got Barry Sanders & musical timestamp
Scroll forward to 6:16
That's a thumbs down for wasting six minutes. Just go to 6:15 and skip the shit at the beginning.
@JSneaker I drew a picture of Detroit showing progression of the city, from the 1800s, to 2010/2011, and in the 1800s section, it's nice, wagon ruts, and everything, old hotel, bank, etc., 1900s, not much, it's about a cm space, 1960s/70s section, Detroit turns to crappy, ghetto, with a police car chasing somthing/someone, 2010/2011 section, Christler/Ford Building (not sure of the name), and J.L. Hudsons erected again as it was in the 1920s. --
Are you in the Stott Tower?
6:15
Grounded-deadly cumulonimbus-nimbostratus-- or whatever yo call it type of dust cloud
Imploding gigantic buildings is negatively exciting,and also proves how greedy the people can be.Thanx 4 reading xD.
@chip88angel Abandoned buildings and abandoned houses that need to be ridden of and/or are hosts of drugs, rape, and violence are exactly what you get when you have property taxes.
the mayor wanted to charge a fee of $150,000 to press a button that destroys a great building? no wonder nobody offered to do it. Detroit needs all the money it can get, he could have at least settled for 20 dollars
I was there!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!LOL!!!
This reminds me of the old Sears Tower in Philadelphia that was imploded. Both buildings had that beautiful tower and with renovation would be Million dollar condos in 2021. What a frigging WASTE 😡🤬
that’s the same thing like cdi
Das einzige was hier explodiert ist der Sprengstoff ..den rest erledigt die Schwerkraft. hier implodiert nix :-)
The only important part is the last minute
6:53-7:53 Where the guy shuts the window, show's over?
Hudson Dept Store lent his name for the Hudson Motor Company
Cowboy Kody. Is that true? I was wondering if at one time the building had anything to do with the Hudson auto manufacturing company. It was a pretty big building for a department store.
Mark Linder: I wouldn't label it as outright false. As noted by the OP it is "his name". Both are named for the exact same man. Thanks should be given to the OP for pointing this out to people instead of a pedantic attack over semantics.
POR LA Dia Hudsons
DEMOLITION
How sad,what a shame.
Very Very Sad!!! Detroit, once the "MECCA" of industry and social economic growth, wiped away in seconds. This is the result of NAFTA, the final nail in the coffin!!! I love Detroit and I love our country! We the people need to turn this bullshit around and "Make America Great Again'!
Its not an implosion..its an explosion...look it up
😢😢😢
It's strange... although I have lived in Michigan for most of my life (I went to university in Indiana), I consider Chicago to be more "my city" than the D. I've only been in Detroit once... and have no desire to return.
Come again soon
Ive heard that b4. &besides a literal handful (tigers,wings,opera house, music hall, eastern mrkt) (&maybe that list is very scant) but point is there wasnt much to come for. Now with things changing it all seems so foreign
@@adriankepler5254 Maybe when this whole health thing is over, I wouldn't mind visiting some of Detroit's festivals (especially, the various food trucks and/or taco fests I have heard about). I'm sure if I visited at the right time, there would be some good experiences to be had.
@@LOUDsigh I have to admit... I am a Wings fan (not so much this season, but that's another story). I wouldn't mind catching a Wings game.
Skip to 6:00 - the first 5:59 is garbage.
Thank you. These are always the most useful comments on RUclips.
U either dnt appreciate art. Or r not from detroit or both😝 He got the iconic Cadillac tower which deemed the gr8 Barry Sanders forever (now also gone😞), showed the landscape of what coty looked like at the time (better than still pics which are archived somewhere that public prolly cant go), several current era songs, i didnt recognize newscaster voice but im sure my parents would. I had nvr been inside ratherlong saw the foof of hudson bldg. Thus i thoroughly enjoyed start to finish
Good video...next time lose the gangsta rap!!
Came down just like the Twin Towers on 911.
That's because you are a fucking idiot.
Notice the number of loud sharp explosions not heard at WTC?
HERE: As close as you could get. ruclips.net/video/4NzSxSUb0Kk/видео.html
Because giant buildings collapsing don't make any noises that might be mistaken for explosions.@@TS-qq7vr
Robert Palmer: No, the sharp cracks of a controlled demolition *BEFORE* the building even begins to budge aren't mistaken for the continuous rumble *AS* the building falls, correct.
Robert Palmer: 6:17 to 6:32 100s of sharp explosions in 15 seconds before the little 15?-story part starts to fall.
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Sad, so sad couldn’t someone have saved some of those great architectural elements. Can also do without the gibberish of those ignorant fools.
now they need to blow up rest of deetroit.
What the hell dude, no need for this. Please stop
Notice how he spelled detroit wrong
It would have been a nice video if not for that fucked up so called music.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz Wow!
Menomale che i video si possono mandare avanti......5 minuti inutili