Imaging losing tens or hundreds of thousands on something you spent years or decades paying on.. I think there are people there who think the market will eventually restore with new-development...
So glad I left Detroit. People Please do not have kids you cannot afford to provide for financially, mentally, or otherwise. Toxic people come from toxic environments.
i know i am from baltimore and yes absolutely we have plenty of abandoned homes but the nice single house neighborhoods like these are still really maintaIned
That's right, Ken. Why were thousands of homes- some owned by the working class, some the management class, some the wealthy-just abandoned? You can blame suburbanization after WW II, the race riot of '67, the feckless "leadership" of Coleman Young, the decline of industrial jobs in the car industry and you would be right. But a house by house study would be interesting.
Imagine this neighborhood in the mid 70's, a bunch of long haired kids cruising down the streets with 8 track players in their cars blasting Kiss, Black Sabbath and Frampton.
@@BiggestRedditor Looks like this is what happens when a slumlord buys up a bunch of nice houses, neglects maintenance, and doesn't thoroughly do checks on applicants before leasing to them.
In the 70s Detroit was very diverse. Motown had left for L.A. and it left traces of Disco as it was a craze. And Rock wise a big venue was the Grande Ballroom on the West Side, my aunt saw Zepplin play there.
@CrazySicily I said it looks worse, and I was in Bosnia in war period and still live in Bosnia. And I have seen a lot if destruction including my own house. You are taking things too literally.
You can't compare it to literal warzone Although its really a shithole that makes some of the worst post Soviet cities for example look like Disney land.
@CrazySicily I understand what you're saying here but when more people are dying from Gun violence in the streets of Chicago than in the war in Iraq thats kinda saying something as well.
City councils are pocketing the tax payers money while they should rebuild these condemned neighborhoods. It’s very sad that ppl just don’t give a fuck.
no, many of them have been abandoned for years if not decades. that's what happens when your city's population goes from millions to under 700,000. most of these houses (especially the timber ones) are unsalvagable and unremarkable architecturally. it costs money to demolish these. with fewer people living there, less taxpayer revenue, less money for stuff like this.
@detroit ghetto my 84 year old grandmother was never rich. 4 thugs broke into her house -Plymouth rd.-Hubbel area.Took affirmative action cops 4 hours to swing by.Quit buying& selling the kool ade. Was Rosa Parks rich ? Remember how she was treated ? 300-700 hundred people butchered each year in the D ysfunctional D ismal "D" - all rich people ?You know better.Everybody there would move to Oak Park Warren Southfield in a minute if they could.
@Dominus Vobiscum They had a Republican governor that poisoned them in Flint. So, they tried that, it got worse. But, to your point, they keep voting for corporate Dems who are really just right wing Republicans who are smart enough to act like they care as they sell out the working class and poor.
This is what happens when a city of a shade over 2 million loses around 1.3 million of its population in the last 52 years. Detroit, at the very least, population-wise, has been steady downhill since the 1967 riots. The people go, but all those houses & apartment buildings stay. What Charlie's showing here is not neglect so much as it's straight-up abandonment. In a city formerly built and laid out for 2 million, now there's "only" around 700,000-800,000 people left to fill all that space - not enough people left to fill all that's emptied and the result is tons of square miles of abandoned houses & apartment buildings. Entire neighborhoods - empty. I'm not going to try to speculate just why Detroit lost all those people, but it's a pretty safe bet that, when they left, all the streets and houses Charlie's showing here that were initially left behind were well maintained with cut & manicured lawns and, in more than a few cases, streets lined with lush trees. It's a damn shame, but what are you going to do when a city has that kind of mass exodus in such a relatively short period of time?
Before the blame is put on the "shade" of people it should probably follow the money. Who owns those homes? Who neglected to pay taxes on those homes? As an insurance agent I promise you, most of those abandoned homes are owned and unmaintained by people who live in other counties, or states.
@@lucillegoldenvintage1650I was lucky enough to break even on my 700sq. foot bungalow when i left in '76.I prepped it for sale.That was the last time a paint brush hit the side of the place.My ex in laws had a beautiful brick home in Rosedale Park,around the corner from Mercy College.They had 8- EIGHT cars stolen in less than 2 years They took a huge loss on the place & went to Livonia Rosedale Oldsmobile(like all the N.W. Detroit Car Dealers,now long gone) had a mechanic who did NOTHING but restore theft damage to cars.As you well know,the vast majority of financially responsible ppl.are in Southfield,Farmington,Eastpointe- wherever,just O U T over a million people opted to vote with their feet. Common Sense.Good luck if you invest there
@kevin weaver lies, the entire USA will never look like one neighborhood. No matter who is in the white house there will be poor people and rich people.
It's too bad the same video couldn't be compared with what neighborhood looked like fifty years ago. It was a nice middle class neighborhood. I visited this area in the late sixties it was far different.
Robert Wright The neighborhood Delray looked different back in the 1980s-90s but when Zug Island released those toxic gasses everyone started to move out and now it looks like a war zone hardly anyone living there anymore besides workers of zug island probably
This is a shame that the city governments allowed this to happen to detriot one of the most thriving cities in our country in the 40 the 50 and the 660.And still the government refuses to fix it. The federal government will not help at all. I have never been there at at all but i can tell those neighbors hoods were perfect and real nice at it one time and so was the homes now it looks like a war zone.
@@robertmartinez8576 this is what happens to industrial cities when labor unions get greedy and make production unprofitable and unsustainable. Instead of fair wages- the unions demand ridiculous unsustainable wages and concessions which in turn bankrupt the companies
So heartbreaking. It's obvious that these homes were very nice at one time in history. Families raised here :( I'm imagining the holidays with the homes lit up with the old 1960's large bulb outdoor lights and wreaths on the doors....so sad
What's real sad is growing up on the east side in the 1960s then going back today and not even be able to tell where your childhood home was located.....Unless you've lived it you'll never be able to explain the culture shock
Actually,it was a very fun place to grow up.Great music No one could touch us for rock "n Roll or Soul ,the people love to party,hard workers- hard partiers. Welfare Culture destroyed the place. The factories were simply outdated,many were built in the 1915-1930 boom,it was cheaper for GM to just walk away than to rebuild.I had friends and fam that worked at old Cadillac, Lynch Rd. Chrysler, GM Gear & Axle- all gone now.Also old plants Like Uniroyal, Budd Co, (auto suppliers) all long gone
I remember when my grandma still lived in Detroit. She lived on Stout, I believe off Fenkel (5 Mile) but don't remember the address exactly. House on one side was boarded up and house on the other had been burned with a moltav cocktail by an overzealous ex boyfriend (or maybe pimp? lol). I remember someone telling me how all the other houses had no siding because they'd strip it for the aluminum to sell. My grandma was mugged twice before she finally moved out to Dearborn Heights in a house she inherited. I always wonder if her old house is still standing today and never remember to ask the stepdad.
I grew up over there too. You should find out you can check the county records. It"ll be intrested to see how long she kept the property, collected rent, and not paid taxes on said property.
Christina Olson Why grandma and grandpa lived in Detroit from the mid 60s to early 70s they lived off of Fenkel they moved to Redford twp a year later after the riots
Seeing my old neighborhood, and one of the houses I grew up in brings tears to my eyes. However there were also great memories. Thanks for uploading ❤️
In 40% unemploymen tera of '80's-'90'sI drove a taxi Midnight shift 12 hours a night. Our garage was on 8 Mile.There is not a street I haven't been down Again tell the Truth 50% Functional Illiteracy,70% chronic Truants in the school- no one to blame but the residents for that.
@Dominus Vobiscum Unionism didn't have anything to do with it. Unions actually helped to build a middle class in this country. Before unions, they were literally bombing mine workers and poisoning them due to toxic work conditions. I wish some of you would actually take the time to study this history and stop listening to rich people who are trying to make many of you believe prison labor is the best option.
It would be interesting to have a study in which it could be found out when the individual houses were abandoned. These were working class, lower middle class homes at one time. People lived here with families.
you could look at Wayne County Tax site.see when Prop. Taxes last paid Add 3-4 years before the authorities eventually toss the ppl. out That'd give you a good guess.
Couldn’t imagine living in one of these houses with so many vacant ones next to me. So spooky😩 I’m super interested in this kind of thing though, I’m not sure why. But I would love to go explore lol
i was able to see a few 3:23 Phyllis St 3:54 East Davison 5:27 Nevada W and Charleston 10:03 W Hollywood Ave and John R St 10:25 Prairie St and Van Buren St 10:45 Julian St and Van Buren St 11:40 Valero Gas station at Livernois and Joy
Charlie ty for sharing this and telling us. Everything you do I know you have a love for that part of town and we all like to remember our childhood home your the best
Thay are usually ornate and quite often oak. I could see them going for quite a bit. It's the sort of thing a Yuppie might want to have refinished and placed in between their kitchen and dining room. They're also quite easy to remove.
It'll really all started when foreign competition and political corrupt came in the '60s and '70s and then greed and outsourcing in the '00s. Also what made an impact is making big gas-gulping SUVs and 4x4s and gas hitting $4.00+ a gallon. Still remembering what driving pass Ford, Chevy and Dodge dealerships and seeing row after row of big trucks and SUVs because very few were buying, even when they slashed prices as much as 75% off knowing they'll be paying a fortune for gas.
50 years of democ RAT party mismanagement. Understand-I know the republiCONS are equally crooked- but, you need the tug of war where the politicians dish the dirt vs. each other,& a different set of eyes inspects the financial books. I have friends who moved to MI from the old communist E. Europe areas- they are amazed & dismayed at the chaos. 70% of Detroit school "students" are chronically truant- that has zero to do with disinvestment
What makes these neighborhoods look even worse is the trash that's spread all around. Since there are so many arrests in this city for so many assorted crimes, wouldn't it make sense to use this prison labor force as a "Litter patrol" whose only purpose is to pick up the trash, papers, debris cardboard, junk appliances, tires and general filth on both to roads and in vacated properties?
That would just backfire. There are so many drug lords and prisoners and murderers who are in prison right now and so few cops in Detroit that the cops couldn't keep an eye on the prisoners. They would just escape. And even if the police did notice, all of them could have shape and there would be no way to stop all of them because there wouldn't be enough police. Also the drug lords and the locals would just mess the area up again. And I also doubt that the city has the funds to do such a thing. The city can't even afford a blowjob at this point.
I just want to say I love your videos and I grew up on a lot of these streets that you show and it's a damn shame that are beautiful Detroit is turned into this I love you to talk on these videos though great job bro
In the first part of your video, I grew in that neighborhood on Shields Street between McNichols and Davison....loved that area back in the day....way different look from when I was a kid....there were no abandon houses back in the 70's - 80's over there...so sadWhat do you use to record your video's?
Dudes a fed trying to get more info out you! Haha jp but be careful I just learned 60 percent of the ppl online are actually fake.! No joke look it up yourself!
They should declare this place a tourists major attraction! They should call it ‘the ghost town.’ Visit for £40. Its gonna be a rich place in 5 to 10 years.
What makes Detroit's blight more evident is that people don't realize that it is a city that's 140 sq miles. You could fit Manhattan, San Francisco, and Boston inside of Detroit, with room to spare. Once being the automotive capital of the world, after GM, Ford, and Chrysler systematically began their exodus (late '70's and early 80's) and moved jobs overseas, multitudes of people lost their homes...Detroit lost over 600,000 manufacturing jobs from 2000-2010, ALONE; then came the "great recession" of 2008 whereby there was a literal tidal wave of foreclosures. Every major city in this country has areas of blight and desolation, but its' more magnified in Detroit.....but she is, and will rise again.
The auto makers sought a more motivated ,more literate work force.Nissan, Honda, Mercedes,Hyundai,huge investments in USA. Where are all those plants?They chose to avoid corrupt backward Michigan,and go where businesses are welcomed,not extorted.
Whenever I watch one of your videos, I open up Google Earth 🌎 to see in their is any additional information I can find about the neighborhood. Chaldean Town is where you were at, correct?
Just to clarify, This neighborhood is not completely abandoned. People do live here but just not a whole lot and they are spread out. I don’t live in Detroit but I can see people actually live here.
I love the architecture of many of these old homes, it must have been beautiful at one time, I imagine on a summer night people sitting on their front porches, after dinner, lights on, kids playing on their bikes, lawn sprinklers, the smell of freshly mown grass. So sad.
Until I was 10 we lived in Detroit, those neighborhoods were so nice looking, I mean there were bad parts of town but most of it was nice, well kept middle class homes. we moved as part of the great white flight from the city to the burbs as my parents saw the doom heading our way.
MrWildbill47 You’d be surprised who frequents these types of neighborhoods... I’ll let you in on a little secret sadly they are majority white Opioid addicts. Yes very sad but junkies are going to be junkies
Those junkies had nothing to do with the neighborhoods being run down, that is a side effect of the deterioration. Sadly many of them were in pretty bad shape even before the car industry collapsed.
Damn Charlie, another good video. I just looked at the date though, 2019. Most of these houses are probably gone now. Neighborhoods left urban prairies 😔 What neighborhood was the Phyllis st section?
I remember some of those properties when they were really beautiful ...then hell breaks loose with some really scary people. Sad thing is that some people will answer the door to an abandoned looking house.
Exactly. The banks are cash rich af. The government is bought, then you mix class warfare along side the drug war with the military industrial complex and this is what you get.
I grew up in Detroit the loss of decent jobs and the housing crash killed it I moved away in early 2000's and when I went home to visit the old neighborhood only 6 houses still had people living them. It's so sad to see where you grew up turn into a ghost town.
They say the deer and turkeys out number residents now days. I was down there a while back and seen pheasants walking in abandoned yards. It’s incredible the wild life that’s taking over.
All these empty houses could solved some homelessness problems. Just in California. People just need a hand up. A demolition crew. People willing to put in some sweat equity. Than I is on...This is some good property. Unemployment, and not able to pay property taxes.😞 Blighted these communities.
You think anyone here is going to put in "sweat equity" when they won't even simply pick up the trash around their neighborhoods? A welfare check doesn't require any sweat.
Apparently the support columns must have had steel or other quickly salvageable material in them. Notice how many have been stolen. Abandoned homes don’t start their own fires and abandoned buildings don’t break their own windows.
The 1967 riot and a few years later, Coleman Young caused Detroit to go downhill. I can't imagine what Detroit looked like back in the day. When it looked beautiful and better.
First the '67 riots, then immediately following it foreign competition and political corruption in late '60s and 1970's. Then later came the greed and outsourcing in the '00s and the economic crash of '08.
Thing is, this kind of scenery is not just in spots, it is pandemic across Detroit. Southwest is better than most. There are fields where houses have been torn down. I can only wonder what this does to the psyche of the people living with these neighborhoods.
Detroit neighborhood is come back. A lot of abandoned houses are come down. Downtown Detroit is beautiful. I haven’t worked downtown over tens year and it look different. The neighborhood is next.
illegal tint it takes time & the right investors to invest in the city. What’s happening here spread across the country like wildfire. Do a little research. Did you know Detroit start the middle class in America. There’s parts of Detroit still beautiful and million dollar homes. A lot of Detroit don’t look like this. This what happened when drugs came to town and jobs were leaving. Everybody laughed at us and look what happened to everywhere else.
My Lord, I am from Detroit and have never seen anything like this, ever. Whole neighborhoods looking like baby Saigon... Something needs to be done about this, ASAP! 😧😔
"Thugs came to be" check the records yes Detroit had lots of black homeowners. But if you check the records there are 4 (1 black) major property owners in the city of Detroit. Ask them what happened, they surely collected rent. Did they pay property taxes is the question.
Imagine being the only homeowner left in a vacant neighborhood. It has to be the most eerie feeling to see ALL your neighbors have gone and you're the only one left behind for whatever reason. Even the dam trees have given up living! Amazing to see how the vegetation has taken over the roads and the sidewalks and even some of the streets are beginning to literally disappear. When will the devastated neighborhoods of Detroit bounce back? This is just too sad to look at. Homes that once cradled families and streets where children once played and laughed are now just burned out, bombed out, vacated wrecks of what was. I kind of feel like crying over it's demise right now.
many miles of copper electric wire have been stolen for scrap As have many of the pumps used to keep the freeways and streets dry during the frequent rain & snow melt. Result- floods and more chaos.
a few years ago, I saw several films of Robinwood that runs into Woodward, and in all these ruined and burned out homes there would be one that was clean and lived it, one closer to Woodward had a fenced perfect yard and a very clean older Cadillac in the driveway, they were still there the rest of the neighborhood is mostly gone and sadly their house is worth nothing , which is likely why they are still there
My girl & I just came back from Detroit this week, it was an experience. I'm originally from the DC area but we went there for a show at the Fox Theatre. I stayed at place off Trumball but did some sightseeing around the city, mostly 7 Mile & Fenkell places I hear rappers shout out. It was interesting, nonetheless.
What's real sad is growing up on the east side in the 1960s then going back today and not even be able to tell where your childhood home was located.....Unless you've lived it you'll never be able to explain the culture shock
Just imagine being that one homeowner that still lives there, Must be downright apocolyptic at night. Thanks Charlie, keep showin it
Obama sent a bunch of muslims to detroit and dear born to keep them company just before he left the white house.
Imaging losing tens or hundreds of thousands on something you spent years or decades paying on.. I think there are people there who think the market will eventually restore with new-development...
Can you imagine little old widow lady, still living in her life long home.
Walking her little poodle among unleashed pitt bulls?
@Ken Lompart i certainly would
@@johnschramm1880 She probably walks the poodle indoors.
So glad I left Detroit. People Please do not have kids you cannot afford to provide for financially, mentally, or otherwise. Toxic people come from toxic environments.
Hi Bianca, do you lived in Detroit?
@@Alessandro-jv2tc I lived in Detroit until I was 14 years old.
@@biancalord488
When you lived there, was the city very violent?
@@Alessandro-jv2tc no, the people. Inside my household and outside
@@biancalord488 I live in Brazil, in the my city too excist very case of the violency.
So many once beautiful homes.
i know right! some of them have such beautiful brick and porch work...
@@stephenhanrahan7638 the fact that they have probably been abandoned for decades but are still standing means they were wonderfully constructed!
And broken dreams
i know i am from baltimore and yes absolutely we have plenty of abandoned homes but the nice single house neighborhoods like these are still really maintaIned
That's right, Ken. Why were thousands of homes- some owned by the working class, some the management class, some the wealthy-just abandoned? You can blame suburbanization after WW II, the race riot of '67, the feckless "leadership" of Coleman Young, the decline of industrial jobs in the car industry and you would be right. But a house by house study would be interesting.
Imagine this neighborhood in the mid 70's, a bunch of long haired kids cruising down the streets with 8 track players in their cars blasting Kiss, Black Sabbath and Frampton.
@@BiggestRedditor Looks like this is what happens when a slumlord buys up a bunch of nice houses, neglects maintenance, and doesn't thoroughly do checks on applicants before leasing to them.
@@budredden818 yup, its rap music and not economics, and housing policies. You are very stupid sir.
yola nice name you fucking dope.
@@budredden818 negro is in spanish you asshole in english the word is black dumbass
In the 70s Detroit was very diverse. Motown had left for L.A. and it left traces of Disco as it was a craze. And Rock wise a big venue was the Grande Ballroom on the West Side, my aunt saw Zepplin play there.
This looks worse than Bosnia in 1995 after 4 years of hardcore civil war. I am from there and I have seen some destruction but this is another level.
@CrazySicily I said it looks worse, and I was in Bosnia in war period and still live in Bosnia. And I have seen a lot if destruction including my own house. You are taking things too literally.
@@Zglemb79 I get what you mean. To see this destruction in the US without war is criminal.
You can't compare it to literal warzone
Although its really a shithole that makes some of the worst post Soviet cities for example look like Disney land.
@CrazySicily I understand what you're saying here but when more people are dying from Gun violence in the streets of Chicago than in the war in Iraq thats kinda saying something as well.
@@kostam.1113 Disney land? Cmon now
Detroit council should be ashamed of themselves for allowing beautiful properties like those get into such a state.sick.
Exactly that's who fault it is too
City councils are pocketing the tax payers money while they should rebuild these condemned neighborhoods. It’s very sad that ppl just don’t give a fuck.
AGREE THERE.
geoff edwards it’s illegal to let the city of Detroit to become this just thank our former mayors for this shit
no, many of them have been abandoned for years if not decades. that's what happens when your city's population goes from millions to under 700,000. most of these houses (especially the timber ones) are unsalvagable and unremarkable architecturally. it costs money to demolish these. with fewer people living there, less taxpayer revenue, less money for stuff like this.
Looks like Syria after a raid must be creepy as hell living in the middle of that
Its not
Ive been their a million times
My neibors house is in the vid btw
@Ken Lompart 3:56
@detroit ghetto my 84 year old grandmother was never rich. 4 thugs broke into her house -Plymouth rd.-Hubbel area.Took affirmative action cops 4 hours to swing by.Quit buying& selling the kool ade. Was Rosa Parks rich ? Remember how she was treated ? 300-700 hundred people butchered each year in the D ysfunctional D ismal "D" - all rich people ?You know better.Everybody there would move to Oak Park Warren Southfield in a minute if they could.
This was painful to watch. Such devestation and despair. My hear goes out to those who had to leave, and those now stuck there. Detroit do better.
This video doesnt portray all of detroit. I have 2 houses on the east side and i love my homes. Detroit IS doing better.
@Dominus Vobiscum They had a Republican governor that poisoned them in Flint. So, they tried that, it got worse. But, to your point, they keep voting for corporate Dems who are really just right wing Republicans who are smart enough to act like they care as they sell out the working class and poor.
This is what happens when a city of a shade over 2 million loses around 1.3 million of its population in the last 52 years. Detroit, at the very least, population-wise, has been steady downhill since the 1967 riots. The people go, but all those houses & apartment buildings stay.
What Charlie's showing here is not neglect so much as it's straight-up abandonment. In a city formerly built and laid out for 2 million, now there's "only" around 700,000-800,000 people left to fill all that space - not enough people left to fill all that's emptied and the result is tons of square miles of abandoned houses & apartment buildings. Entire neighborhoods - empty. I'm not going to try to speculate just why Detroit lost all those people, but it's a pretty safe bet that, when they left, all the streets and houses Charlie's showing here that were initially left behind were well maintained with cut & manicured lawns and, in more than a few cases, streets lined with lush trees.
It's a damn shame, but what are you going to do when a city has that kind of mass exodus in such a relatively short period of time?
Before the blame is put on the "shade" of people it should probably follow the money. Who owns those homes? Who neglected to pay taxes on those homes? As an insurance agent I promise you, most of those abandoned homes are owned and unmaintained by people who live in other counties, or states.
@@lucillegoldenvintage1650I was lucky enough to break even on my 700sq. foot bungalow when i left in '76.I prepped it for sale.That was the last time a paint brush hit the side of the place.My ex in laws had a beautiful brick home in Rosedale Park,around the corner from Mercy College.They had 8- EIGHT cars stolen in less than 2 years They took a huge loss on the place & went to Livonia Rosedale Oldsmobile(like all the N.W. Detroit Car Dealers,now long gone) had a mechanic who did NOTHING but restore theft damage to cars.As you well know,the vast majority of financially responsible ppl.are in Southfield,Farmington,Eastpointe- wherever,just O U T over a million people opted to vote with their feet. Common Sense.Good luck if you invest there
@kevin weaver lies, the entire USA will never look like one neighborhood. No matter who is in the white house there will be poor people and rich people.
Also car manufacturing disappeared in the Rusty Belt. It's more economic buying it from China.
It's too bad the same video couldn't be compared with what neighborhood looked like fifty years ago. It was a nice middle class neighborhood. I visited this area in the late sixties it was far different.
Lol. U visited this area in the 60s?? How old are you?? Like 80
In the 90's and early 2000's it's was different everyone moved houses started getting burned down one by one
Robert Wright The neighborhood Delray looked different back in the 1980s-90s but when Zug Island released those toxic gasses everyone started to move out and now it looks like a war zone hardly anyone living there anymore besides workers of zug island probably
This is a shame that the city governments allowed this to happen to detriot one of the most thriving cities in our country in the 40 the 50 and the 660.And still the government refuses to fix it. The federal government will not help at all. I have never been there at at all but i can tell those neighbors hoods were perfect and real nice at it one time and so was the homes now it looks like a war zone.
@@robertmartinez8576 this is what happens to industrial cities when labor unions get greedy and make production unprofitable and unsustainable. Instead of fair wages- the unions demand ridiculous unsustainable wages and concessions which in turn bankrupt the companies
Eye-opening stuff as always. Somehow the late winter weather makes these places look especially forlorn.
Got to think after the coldest winter in years of how the ones still there still adapt.
I just found the opening street on Google Earth...you can't even see the houses with the overgrowth!
It’s all the dead trees
It's not any better in the spring, summer, and fall...
So heartbreaking. It's obvious that these homes were very nice at one time in history. Families raised here :( I'm imagining the holidays with the homes lit up with the old 1960's large bulb outdoor lights and wreaths on the doors....so sad
Yes they were nice when i was a kid in the 70's
Yes they were..3 floors with baths on all 3..full finished basements..you should see some of the wood work..
What's real sad is growing up on the east side in the 1960s then going back today and not even be able to tell where your childhood home was located.....Unless you've lived it you'll never be able to explain the culture shock
Actually,it was a very fun place to grow up.Great music No one could touch us for rock "n Roll or Soul ,the people love to party,hard workers- hard partiers. Welfare Culture destroyed the place. The factories were simply outdated,many were built in the 1915-1930 boom,it was cheaper for GM to just walk away than to rebuild.I had friends and fam that worked at old Cadillac, Lynch Rd. Chrysler, GM Gear & Axle- all gone now.Also old plants Like Uniroyal, Budd Co, (auto suppliers) all long gone
I remember when my grandma still lived in Detroit. She lived on Stout, I believe off Fenkel (5 Mile) but don't remember the address exactly. House on one side was boarded up and house on the other had been burned with a moltav cocktail by an overzealous ex boyfriend (or maybe pimp? lol). I remember someone telling me how all the other houses had no siding because they'd strip it for the aluminum to sell. My grandma was mugged twice before she finally moved out to Dearborn Heights in a house she inherited. I always wonder if her old house is still standing today and never remember to ask the stepdad.
Christina Olson you should definitely ask the family about the adress! of course if they would remember that
I grew up over there too. You should find out you can check the county records. It"ll be intrested to see how long she kept the property, collected rent, and not paid taxes on said property.
Christina Olson Why grandma and grandpa lived in Detroit from the mid 60s to early 70s they lived off of Fenkel they moved to Redford twp a year later after the riots
@Christina Olson ~ www.google.com.au/maps/place/Stout+St+%26+Fenkell+Ave,+Detroit,+MI+48223,+USA/@42.400604,-83.2437917,17z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x8824ca7a9be5bee1:0xa8f59a7ceaa2ffa2!2sStout+St+%26+Fenkell+Ave,+Detroit,+MI+48223,+USA!3b1!8m2!3d42.400604!4d-83.241603!3m4!1s0x8824ca7a9be5bee1:0xa8f59a7ceaa2ffa2!8m2!3d42.400604!4d-83.241603
I'm glad she moved Dearborn heights is a nice place to live. GL
Seeing my old neighborhood, and one of the houses I grew up in brings tears to my eyes. However there were also great memories. Thanks for uploading ❤️
Can I ask your opinion about Fetterman? You seem like a good person to ask.
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This is what all of America will look like if our jobs keep being shipped overseas! Detroit was once the proud Motor City. 💥💥
Thank capitalism
Illiterate fool...thank Democraps that rule Detroit !!
But they quit making good cars!! Japan comes in with great cars and less expensive.
@@merodriguez2870 name one black country that look like a 1st country. Don't tell me about African countries which were built by whites
@@RosvStudios Libya had the highest standard of living in Africa, before whites/ NATO/ USA got a hold of it in 2011.
I would love to see what these neighborhoods looked like when they were first developed. Sad.
Some web sites do s before and after of These neighborhoods. Google Abandoned Detroit.
Crazy. Ubelievable
Nice homes big homes.
This is THE WORST! I know I've said this several times before, but this video REALLY outdid itself!
In 40% unemploymen tera of '80's-'90'sI drove a taxi Midnight shift 12 hours a night. Our garage was on 8 Mile.There is not a street I haven't been down Again tell the Truth 50% Functional Illiteracy,70% chronic Truants in the school- no one to blame but the residents for that.
I wrote this original comment nearly a year ago. I still say it's the worst video of Detroit I've ever seen!
This goes to show you small business is always better business. When big business leave, everybody leaves. Gotta eat.
100%.
People need to own.
@Dominus Vobiscum Unionism didn't have anything to do with it. Unions actually helped to build a middle class in this country. Before unions, they were literally bombing mine workers and poisoning them due to toxic work conditions.
I wish some of you would actually take the time to study this history and stop listening to rich people who are trying to make many of you believe prison labor is the best option.
Nice work Charlie. It's especially great how you are shooting such video in a growing number of far flung urban areas all over the USA.
It would be interesting to have a study in which it could be found out when the individual houses were abandoned. These were working class, lower middle class homes at one time. People lived here with families.
Derek Leaberry, after 2008
you could look at Wayne County Tax site.see when Prop. Taxes last paid Add 3-4 years before the authorities eventually toss the ppl. out That'd give you a good guess.
Not only the houses, look at the roads, significantly decayed beyond repair, appear to have been abandoned as long as decades some of them.
Some of these abandoned streets look better than the streets in baycity.
Looks like a movie set from the walking dead. Sad :(
BRAINSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Rather setting a set the production should use this location. Must be interesting!
@@pemayangdon74 But that place is not safe, they may get their stuffs stolen or people hurt by local gangs
Lol😁
@Chuck illegal immigrants? In Detroit??? Really????
I highly appreciate this video CharlieBo313... Detroit has a special place in my heart!
Couldn’t imagine living in one of these houses with so many vacant ones next to me. So spooky😩 I’m super interested in this kind of thing though, I’m not sure why. But I would love to go explore lol
You not the only one though dead end blocks scares me
There's something living in each house, ranging from a single net to maybe an evil supernatural being 👽👻😈
Slow up at the street signs, dawg! Wanna see where u at.
i was able to see a few
3:23 Phyllis St
3:54 East Davison
5:27 Nevada W and Charleston
10:03 W Hollywood Ave and John R St
10:25 Prairie St and Van Buren St
10:45 Julian St and Van Buren St
11:40 Valero Gas station at Livernois and Joy
Thanks Mr. Charlie for the video! 😊
Charlie ty for sharing this and telling us. Everything you do I know you have a love for that part of town and we all like to remember our childhood home your the best
Looks like a big demand for porch posts. I knew the copper was stripped but how much is a porch post worth?
Mindokwin I was thinking the same thing. I noticed most houses had the 6x6 porch posts cut out...
Thay are usually ornate and quite often oak. I could see them going for quite a bit. It's the sort of thing a Yuppie might want to have refinished and placed in between their kitchen and dining room. They're also quite easy to remove.
This is depressing!😮
U pretty 🤤😍🤩💘😘🤤
Yes please play the radio it really adds to your videos
This is what happens when corporations ship jobs overseas. Sad.
It'll really all started when foreign competition and political corrupt came in the '60s and '70s and then greed and outsourcing in the '00s. Also what made an impact is making big gas-gulping SUVs and 4x4s and gas hitting $4.00+ a gallon. Still remembering what driving pass Ford, Chevy and Dodge dealerships and seeing row after row of big trucks and SUVs because very few were buying, even when they slashed prices as much as 75% off knowing they'll be paying a fortune for gas.
50 years of democ RAT party mismanagement. Understand-I know the republiCONS are equally crooked- but, you need the tug of war where the politicians dish the dirt vs. each other,& a different set of eyes inspects the financial books. I have friends who moved to MI from the old communist E. Europe areas- they are amazed & dismayed at the chaos. 70% of Detroit school "students" are chronically truant- that has zero to do with disinvestment
Cuz you in the States invited the japanese manufacturers who destroyed your auto industry
One way to avoid paying city taxes DESTROY THE PLACE AND LEAVE !!!!!!
What makes these neighborhoods look even worse is the trash that's spread all around. Since there are so many arrests in this city for so many assorted crimes, wouldn't it make sense to use this prison labor force as a "Litter patrol" whose only purpose is to pick up the trash, papers, debris cardboard, junk appliances, tires and general filth on both to roads and in vacated properties?
That would just backfire. There are so many drug lords and prisoners and murderers who are in prison right now and so few cops in Detroit that the cops couldn't keep an eye on the prisoners. They would just escape. And even if the police did notice, all of them could have shape and there would be no way to stop all of them because there wouldn't be enough police. Also the drug lords and the locals would just mess the area up again. And I also doubt that the city has the funds to do such a thing. The city can't even afford a blowjob at this point.
I just want to say I love your videos and I grew up on a lot of these streets that you show and it's a damn shame that are beautiful Detroit is turned into this I love you to talk on these videos though great job bro
All blk people and businesses should move to Detroit blk wall street 2019
No worries, the whites are already on it. They're revitalizing downtown as I type this comment.
Nature is taking over the rest of this dump.
This makes me so sad. These homes are beautiful, a lot of work was put into them.
In the first part of your video, I grew in that neighborhood on Shields Street between McNichols and Davison....loved that area back in the day....way different look from when I was a kid....there were no abandon houses back in the 70's - 80's over there...so sadWhat do you use to record your video's?
Dudes a fed trying to get more info out you! Haha jp but be careful I just learned 60 percent of the ppl online are actually fake.! No joke look it up yourself!
Tyler Sane you sound like a kid in elementary.
Why is it like that is it
Crime and violence
@Abcity Bring it this state
So what the present President doing about it
I grew up on Dwyer and six mile....
Love your work bro
i am Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, I'm shocked. I never imagined it in an American city.
They should declare this place a tourists major attraction!
They should call it ‘the ghost town.’
Visit for £40.
Its gonna be a rich place in 5 to 10 years.
The filming is excellent considering the condition of the roads etc. Nice job
imagine walking through that neighborhood at night, sheesh!
how about even walking through it in the day !
AK-47, Full riot gear just to head home after work or from the store.
Hack naw no pole light 😳dark black
Might not be bad.. nobody around.. kidding..
What makes Detroit's blight more evident is that people don't realize that it is a city that's 140 sq miles. You could fit Manhattan, San Francisco, and Boston inside of Detroit, with room to spare. Once being the automotive capital of the world, after GM, Ford, and Chrysler systematically began their exodus (late '70's and early 80's) and moved jobs overseas, multitudes of people lost their homes...Detroit lost over 600,000 manufacturing jobs from 2000-2010, ALONE; then came the "great recession" of 2008 whereby there was a literal tidal wave of foreclosures. Every major city in this country has areas of blight and desolation, but its' more magnified in Detroit.....but she is, and will rise again.
Vernors, Stroh's, Uniroyal ....
Detroit wont rise again unless asians or some other race populates it lol.
Wrong. ALL the miscreants whether "black," "white," "yellow" or "brown" are being eliminated by attrition.
The auto makers sought a more motivated ,more literate work force.Nissan, Honda, Mercedes,Hyundai,huge investments in USA. Where are all those plants?They chose to avoid corrupt backward Michigan,and go where businesses are welcomed,not extorted.
@@khaldounelbey3968 any one who can afford to rent a U-Haul left years ago.
Whenever I watch one of your videos, I open up Google Earth 🌎 to see in their is any additional information I can find about the neighborhood. Chaldean Town is where you were at, correct?
in the 50's it was Middle Class.
You could type this comment on every one of Charlie's videos lmao
Fed le Ground "Put your hands up for Dertoit! I love the city." 🎼 heck ! Socking to the core to watch it. Thank you for your job good Charlie!
There’s something bigger than what’s on the surface of why Detroit has been abandoned.....
Just to clarify, This neighborhood is not completely abandoned. People do live here but just not a whole lot and they are spread out. I don’t live in Detroit but I can see people actually live here.
...not even the grass wants to grow up there anymore. Damn, it's like whats leftover after a nuclear blast. Such a shame
Wow! Really crystal clear pictures! It is a shame that such a nice neighborhood has fallen like this.
I love the architecture of many of these old homes, it must have been beautiful at one time, I imagine on a summer night people sitting on their front porches, after dinner, lights on, kids playing on their bikes, lawn sprinklers, the smell of freshly mown grass. So sad.
Until I was 10 we lived in Detroit, those neighborhoods were so nice looking, I mean there were bad parts of town but most of it was nice, well kept middle class homes. we moved as part of the great white flight from the city to the burbs as my parents saw the doom heading our way.
MrWildbill47 You’d be surprised who frequents these types of neighborhoods... I’ll let you in on a little secret sadly they are majority white Opioid addicts. Yes very sad but junkies are going to be junkies
Those junkies had nothing to do with the neighborhoods being run down, that is a side effect of the deterioration. Sadly many of them were in pretty bad shape even before the car industry collapsed.
Next time put on radio Really been subscribed since 7K
I agree the news radio and the sometimes bizarre stories on it -"Water contaminated with sewage! " - really adds to it.
Maybe some gangsta rap...
So sad all this once beautyful houses and places. Thank you for the video.
“Let me guess your home?...It was.. and it was beautiful”
It looks like the aftermath of a tornado
ITS BEEN 15YRS SINCE I WAS THERE, IT STILL HASN’T CHANGED
Damn Charlie, another good video. I just looked at the date though, 2019. Most of these houses are probably gone now. Neighborhoods left urban prairies 😔
What neighborhood was the Phyllis st section?
I remember some of those properties when they were really beautiful ...then hell breaks loose with some really scary people. Sad thing is that some people will answer the door to an abandoned looking house.
ill be scared to go on this street at night
Kardi - At night?
Why there's nobody there 😂
I'd be scared in broad daylight!
The only way I would go down this street at night would be in a WW2 Sherman Tank!
We’re alive during a period of unprecedented surplus, yet thousands of American cities look exactly like this.
Exactly. The banks are cash rich af. The government is bought, then you mix class warfare along side the drug war with the military industrial complex and this is what you get.
Jews did
You can hear these houses screaming.
I grew up in Detroit the loss of decent jobs and the housing crash killed it I moved away in early 2000's and when I went home to visit the old neighborhood only 6 houses still had people living them. It's so sad to see where you grew up turn into a ghost town.
When I see these homes I try to visualize how wonderful it must have been when all these people were doing well. I must have been so great!
what state of desperation makes someone paint his pillars pink?
They say the deer and turkeys out number residents now days. I was down there a while back and seen pheasants walking in abandoned yards. It’s incredible the wild life that’s taking over.
I noticed that many of the homes have missing front posts on the porches. They must have some scrap value.
This seriously looks like downtown Berlin at the end of WWII. So sad.
😔
Berlin 2023 is worse, caused by muslims
All these empty houses could solved some homelessness problems. Just in California. People just need a hand up. A demolition crew. People willing to put in some sweat equity. Than I is on...This is some good property. Unemployment, and not able to pay property taxes.😞 Blighted these communities.
You think anyone here is going to put in "sweat equity" when they won't even simply pick up the trash around their neighborhoods? A welfare check doesn't require any sweat.
Besides, homeless people in Detroit don't even want to squat in those houses. It's too dangerous, because criminals hide dead bodies in them.
Apparently the support columns must have had steel or other quickly salvageable material in them. Notice how many have been stolen. Abandoned homes don’t start their own fires and abandoned buildings don’t break their own windows.
Pretty sad. How does this happen and where did everyone go? Thanks CharlieBo for sharing this.
The 1967 riot and a few years later, Coleman Young caused Detroit to go downhill. I can't imagine what Detroit looked like back in the day. When it looked beautiful and better.
First the '67 riots, then immediately following it foreign competition and political corruption in late '60s and 1970's. Then later came the greed and outsourcing in the '00s and the economic crash of '08.
Detroit looks the requiem of the South Bronx of the 1980s.
Cool video,Charlie.
Scenes of a horror movie. Would be lovely to see how those houses and community were when triving.
Thing is, this kind of scenery is not just in spots, it is pandemic across Detroit. Southwest is better than most. There are fields where houses have been torn down. I can only wonder what this does to the psyche of the people living with these neighborhoods.
Detroit neighborhood is come back. A lot of abandoned houses are come down. Downtown Detroit is beautiful. I haven’t worked downtown over tens year and it look different. The neighborhood is next.
What is your opinion about the proposed 45 cent gas tax increase?
Man, I hope so. This is the saddest state of a affairs I’ve ever seen and I live 5mins from Chester Pa
illegal tint it takes time & the right investors to invest in the city. What’s happening here spread across the country like wildfire. Do a little research. Did you know Detroit start the middle class in America. There’s parts of Detroit still beautiful and million dollar homes. A lot of Detroit don’t look like this. This what happened when drugs came to town and jobs were leaving. Everybody laughed at us and look what happened to everywhere else.
TLOMe Michigan has the highest insurance across America. No on the increase of gas.
My Lord, I am from Detroit and have never seen anything like this, ever. Whole neighborhoods looking like baby Saigon... Something needs to be done about this, ASAP! 😧😔
PTSD...it lives here in Detroit and can be seen on faces of children and our older folks.
Truly apocalyptic. What do you think this might look like in 20 years?
Ancient ruins
Rebuilt, Gentrified with a Whole Foods and Starbucks
@@kejuanlynette8531 your optimism is misplaced
@@jvelin9723 I find your's to be pessimistic, but you have the right to your opinion 🤷 good day
There was a time when these homes were loved. Thugs came to be, now you can see why it is all a waste of space
"Thugs came to be" check the records yes Detroit had lots of black homeowners. But if you check the records there are 4 (1 black) major property owners in the city of Detroit. Ask them what happened, they surely collected rent. Did they pay property taxes is the question.
Thank you!)))
Imagine being the only homeowner left in a vacant neighborhood. It has to be the most eerie feeling to see ALL your neighbors have gone and you're the only one left behind for whatever reason. Even the dam trees have given up living! Amazing to see how the vegetation has taken over the roads and the sidewalks and even some of the streets are beginning to literally disappear. When will the devastated neighborhoods of Detroit bounce back? This is just too sad to look at. Homes that once cradled families and streets where children once played and laughed are now just burned out, bombed out, vacated wrecks of what was. I kind of feel like crying over it's demise right now.
At 3:50 a Mercedes Limo with flags on it as if a diplomat was nearby??!!
A banana republic dictator was visiting.
Can a city like this ever make a comeback? I'm surprised the utility poles, power lines & street lights are intact. Sheesh.
yeah its gon take 20 years and more jobs
many miles of copper electric wire have been stolen for scrap As have many of the pumps used to keep the freeways and streets dry during the frequent rain & snow melt. Result- floods and more chaos.
a few years ago, I saw several films of Robinwood that runs into Woodward, and in all these ruined and burned out homes there would be one that was clean and lived it, one closer to Woodward had a fenced perfect yard and a very clean older Cadillac in the driveway, they were still there the rest of the neighborhood is mostly gone and sadly their house is worth nothing , which is likely why they are still there
My girl & I just came back from Detroit this week, it was an experience. I'm originally from the DC area but we went there for a show at the Fox Theatre. I stayed at place off Trumball but did some sightseeing around the city, mostly 7 Mile & Fenkell places I hear rappers shout out. It was interesting, nonetheless.
I could only imagine what it looks like during the night. 😱
the same but dark.
Cleveland is the same, nice houses gone to waste
Born in raised in Cleveland and the joke was always "at least were not Detroit"....
That joke didn't age well.
during winter 2004 I used to bike ride through there I get mark menza dragon ball gt vibes or invader zim vibes during spring 2004
00:36 even in the abandoned hoods the city still wastes money on upgrading the streetlights to LED when nobody even lives there to benefit from it.
im betting those old abandoned structures still have some valuable relics from the past inside them
Not copper pipes or wiring - maybe lost coins in the yard or human bones.
mostly scrapped out by the druggies.
Looks like you can drive how fast or slow you want because there is little to no traffic
You can everybody in the D does... move or get hit basically...I've avoided being hit so many times walking and driving
But there is a million pot holes so I don’t think u wanna drive fast
@@vitalsigns2679 2 scared to go out
I Wish I Could See The Name Of The Streets. Or At Least Call Them Out. That Would Be Great. Thank You For Sharing. 👍👌
What's real sad is growing up on the east side in the 1960s then going back today and not even be able to tell where your childhood home was located.....Unless you've lived it you'll never be able to explain the culture shock
I find this place very romantic and beautiful, especially at this part of the year. A bit melancholic and very charming. I like.
melancholic and dangerous
That Home improvement guy
on TV needs a job right now.
WOW l lived in Detroit from 1975-2015 . It was a BEAUTIFUL place in 70's and 80's. I left when a young 20 year old man was killed across from me.