Exploring Detroit's Largest Abandoned High School
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In this episode, we explore one of the largest abandoned schools in Detroit, Cooley High School. At its peak, the school had over 3,400 students enrolled. At the center of the school is a beautiful auditorium with amazing architectural details, but unfortunately suffered a fire in 2017.
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I graduated from this school in 1963. This was the most beautiful high school I have ever seen. The auditorium was absolutely beautiful and the library was my favorite place to be. I worked in the library for extra credit. The woodwork and artwork could never be duplicated. I was so proud to have gone to this high school and I did appreciate the beauty of this school at that time and can still remember what it looked like then. It’s so sad to see what it looks like now.
Debby Heidbreder What a beautiful school you went to! I am from sweden and we have nothing like this where i went to school!
@@Glitterflickan ain't it obvious this account is fake? 'Her' profile pic is painted and found off the internet. They joined a week ago too.
Debby Heidbreder it rivals my High School in Baltimore. The Institute of Norte Dame. I, fortunately, was well aware of the fabulous building we had. They have since removed the original features of the science lab for more “modern” features, which personally I think was a huge mistake! The old cabinets wooden cabinets had the original glass in them. The glass was rippled. The old thick slate topped work areas. I was extremely sad to see it was gone. Such is life nothing lasts forever. 🥺😊
Nice feeling better now today I am not usa I am Indian Kerala . I am watching Malayalam movie ranam that movie story is this Detroit war just waching ranam movie
Doombeanz I maybe she saw the video joined an account and not everyone takes a picture of her or himself. She needed an account to comment, and not Even you have a picture of yourself
Graduated from Cooley in 1993.......The auditorium was the BEST in the entire city.....Was as beautiful as the Fox Theater..... Breaks my heart to see it like this....But the Cardinal spirit will live forever
All things end. Clearly your education was insufficient.
@@simtrate3959 So explain what education has to do with someone liking a theatre?
@@simtrate3959 Clearly your sentence is not relevant. If you want to use English correctly stick to the point of your sentence instead of staying non-relevant information towards the comment.
In all honestly, what I'm actually saying is. Shut up.
Sad things like this happens because of the democrats and the people who give their votes to them
@@WarthDader74 I agree. Democratic Mis-management of political policies and socializing too many public services has given many people entitled personalities. Thus they loot vandalize and disregard anything they see fit.
The murals are painted over in the library. The ceiling had angelic murals too. I graduated in that auditorium and performed on that stage. It had beautiful lighting and red velvet seats. It was like a professional theatre. I learned how to swim in that pool at 8am. It was freezing outside, but really warm in the pool room. The gym had wood floors that shined like glass. Yes, the track was used for running, and yes, those things in the swim area were actually dryers. It was a beautiful school. We had no idea how lucky we were.
ur legit haha yt account since 2006 like daaaaaamn
Thank you for adding your recollections to this comment section. It’s wonderful that you experienced such a beautiful school as part of your formative years.
@Brent Gocavs A lot can happen in 30 plus years. I graduated in ‘88, and we were Cooley Cardinals. But I’m guessing the Bull has something to do with Jordan/Chicago Bulls. Could be wrong.
You are indeed lucky. Must be heartbreaking to see how the school is now...
@@juansalazar579 I thought it was longer.
I never went to this school, in fact, im just graduating this year, but i can imagine this building in full repair, full of students. I love old buildings like this, such amazing architecture, despite the damage inflicted by careless people
I did go here. It was beautiful.
good luck
I do too!!
I can picture this school turned into a fancy hotel or an art gallery. Maybe a history or science museum.
Ace of cups huh? Like 2 gals and one of them cups? I like that film. I like to eat my own faces while enjoying that film. Its grand. I have done my own film. It's called one guy, one cup, three buttholes and one large spoon to eat the caca with. Look for it and watch it with kids and your mother and father. It's very educational and you can learn to eat caca by viewing it. Try it because it's good. I have done it since 1 year old and I've only been sick for my entire life but AIDS and diarrhea isnt that bad.
10 years ago, people were going to class here. Crazy.
my school has it check it out its branksome hall asia
@Chris Krasniewski A lot.
Trevor Vaubel Ikr wow 😮
@@terminat1 YES, and "there", not "their". What has happened to my country.....?
NOTE: original comment to which this was directed has either been removed or edited
Yer mom went to class there
The auditorium is jaw dropping. You just don't see that in modern high schools.
well, support for the arts generally seems lacking these days.
there are some high school auditoriums that are just amazing. Look up P.S. duPont High School (now a middle school) auditorium
My church is actually an old school, not sure when it was built but it was open till probably the 90’s , my dad and a lot of my friends parents went there, and the auditorium looks similar .. it’s beautiful
You see those everywhere in Europe
@@MrJellyton A lot of people say that too many "frills' are being taught in schools/ Frills such as physical education and drama and art and kids need to only know the basics as their great grandparents were taught , reading writing and arithmetic. A lot of people say that several generations of kids turned out dumber because they were distracted with useless stuff like critical thinking.
As a Detroit Cooley High School student/musician (Trumpet & Cornet), I appreciate the LOVE and SUPPORT that my teachers, counselors, administrators and support staff gave each of us, as we attempted to navigate our way through our teenage years seeking out the skills and knowledge that would eventually lead many of us to successful careers in Metro-Detroit and around the world! Had it not been for my 4 years at Detroit Cooley High School, I'm pretty sure that my ability to push through obstacles, overcome adversity, and gain a burning desire to study and later become a Criminal Justice Practitioner and College Professor would not have happened (with as many rich memories, otherwise).
Detroit Cooley High School is NOT dead! It LIVES on in the spirits, lives, and memories of ALL who attended classes, the plays, concerts, sporting events, ceremonies, dances, parties, community courses, rallies, luncheons, special programs, fundraisers, and other events that help shape the lives of young people, and the community that it served.
The Detroit Cooley High School Cardinals (Red/Black/White) are VERY Special/Strong people who have ALWAYS been fierce competitors and will no doubt continue to do those positive things that help to shape the world that we live in!
Our building may be damaged, but our SPIRIT is EVERLASTING!
Sweet, Sweet, Red and Black that Sweet, Sweet Red, and Black!
I LOVE YOU Detroit Cooley High School!
Dr. Michael A. McMorris
When America starts rebuilding itself these next for 4 years with trump. I Pray the whole USA gets together to put back their cities and rebuild stuff such as this school. With a community of a few thousand, I can see it get done. America including Detroit will be strong once again the way it used to be when it was before crooked politicians sold out our country to china. We will see Detroit be back to its original powerhouse it once was. Godbless America. All things are possible with God.
@@yeahyeahboy4519 With trump?
@@yeahyeahboy4519 trump won't and can't do shit
@@yeahyeahboy4519 r/agedlikemilk
Why would you sign your name Dr. In the least professional platform possible?
My grandfather has only one entry about Detroit in his old journal. “The damn city make butt loads of cars, and half the people don’t have one. Tell my how that works. Damn Detroit.” It kinda cracks me up every time I read it.
Most people couldn't afford to maintain cars in Detroit. Roads were bad back in 70's. Outer Dr was so bad. The highway ramps were like moon craters. Notice all the Old Tire shops on every corner.
@@KilliansMom1
I dont remember tire shops at every corner back then but I do remember churches in every size in Detroit. Many of them are gone or abandoned as well...
I went to Cooley. Those were hair dryers in the locker room and they use to let you come swim at night on wednesdays to the public for free. Thanks for the memory.
kwame DontDance Fuck you’re Chevy Cruise your stupid ass microwave Handle and you’re life
kwame DontDance it was probably you huh
Detroit is in ruins, because fathers don't raise their kids right.
David Lafleche honestly 😂
Hair dryers in public schools?? That's so cool! Man, seems like schools were in their golden years during the 70s and 80s. I could only imagine..
That building was built to emphasize the best of education...To have the students perform have real dressing rooms...top notch respect for the arts...Such a shame....
Velvet Hammer 😞😞😞 exactly
Velvet Hammer as a ballerina, i’d do anything to be able to perform on that stage :(
No the greatest shame is the policymakers didn't provide for the theater program to be viable. If we wanted to do something, it was without funding the budget or a set aside theater teacher. Our teachers had to double as theater director on top of their 7-8 classes and the other extra curricular activities they helped out with. When I going there the teacher shortage was happening or shall I say over filled classrooms.
I’m honestly so jealous of the students who were able to attend this school and have the experience of graduating from here. Everything about this school is absolutely beautiful and enthralling
I've watched a lot of these videos about Detroit and one thing that really comes through is the pride that the city had in its schools. It's devastating seeing all that has been lost.
It’s quite sad how wasteful humans are.
I think that it’s better to just remove it entirely and leave something to remember it by rather than just let it stay there decaying. Removing it and leaving something in memory of it shows some care and respect, whereas leaving it to decay does not.
@@YeetZmeN Leave it. In a few centuries archeologists can dig it back up and think we were better than we were lol
White flight. Days of glorious America are over.
IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE
Elites have a plan
You guys missed an area in the new wing. There was an auto shop in there with about 8 garages. They would allow people in the community to come there and get their cars repaired so that us students could get hands on training in vehicle repair. My old auto shop teacher was Mr. Dallas. The coolest guy in the world. I had a lot of great memories there. I'm saddened every time I pass by the building.
DaddyDoSoWell everyone is saying they should have found guides to go through the building with them, you definitely sound like someone. What made you stay in Detroit if you don’t mind me asking?
Mr. Dallas was one of the coolest teachers at Cooley.
@@mariohenley149 Can I ask what it felt like to be there when you were there?
YOU WHERE SO LUCKY TO HAVE WENT HERE... BE PROUD.
the auto shop was great i went there year it opened and the metal shop was cool as well
i was even in the ROTC and yes we had a gun range and guns i would like to see that in today's age
i would be so cool to go back through the old school sometime we only lived 8 houses away when i was growing up
they should've abandoned my school instead of this masterpiece.
Ikr:( dis is dream shcool for me or atleast some bigger shcool because my shcool is really small but comfortable
I wish I was born when this shcool hasn't opened yet and was born near there
Imagine we have nothing like pool or pe class, science lab etc... and the sport Hall is like really small and dirty
Sasuke Uchiha mine has a very nice auditorium (which used to be a church or a place to pray, the walls are full of religious paintings and beautiful art. My school was a religious kind of thing in the early 1900’s so it is very old looking. It’s a nice high school!
@@makemecry6604 even by those standards, your school seems pretty nice. You should research schools in brazil...
JulCaos ohh yeah..
Imagine learning in such a breathtaking environment
Fr if my school looked like this I would’ve wanted to go everyday and learn. Absolutely beautiful.
At 15:40 imagine all the nervous kids with butterflies in their stomach that had that view right before going on stage to perform
And thats not your normal everyday high school auditorium. It's literally at least 4x the size of my high schools auditorium.
@@nickhoffman7448 its about the size of mine but mine was a generic early 2000s utilitarian style,meaning no style,just blah basic and plain. Elite private schools don't even build auditoriums like that anymore.
How do people see something so rare and beautiful and think “let me burn it” I feel so bad for the people that put blood sweat and tears into creating that..
They rolled in their graves that day.
Just the purest form of evil.
Definitely a sick minded and dangerous person
It was problaby some homless people tryin to keep warm and not knowing or thinking started a fire
@White Boy shut the fuck up, humans ruin everything, it doesn't matter about skin colour.
This looks like a school people pay 40k a year to go to.
Dollars and Philippine Peso
Not really.
People pay a lot for looks but it turns out you can read for free online and not be in debt. Imagine what this country would look like if people created new industries instead of paying for validation from an outdated conglomerate like the University industry? That's a world I want to see.
This was a public school not a private school. It was built at a time when people valued a good education.
@@debbyheidbreder5686 wasn't it built when school was actually useful because factory work was real? unfortunately education sucks now regardless and school has become mostly useless information.
This building needs to be listed, saved and restored as a National Monument. It is extraordinary.
@vrccb:
Who's going to pay for the restorations? Not only that, that whole neighborhood and the entire district has seen better days.
Something that gorgeous built for such a good purpose... it makes my heart hurt to see it crumbling like that. That LIBRARY, my God...
Holy f-THAT’S AN AUDITORIUM?! THAT’S LIKE A BROADWAY THEATER
My highschools auditorium is like that same size wdym
Rida khan bro, I’ve never seen a high school auditorium look like that, ever. You may be used to it but not everyone goes to a high school with an auditorium like that
@@grayvetrain yup my highschool is pretty famous in my city that's why
Rida khan good for you.....But I honestly don’t care
Rida khan what a pricky response😂
I graduated from this school and as a teen didnt realize how beautiful this school was!! Totally walked thru the metal detectors on auto pilot each day just to get an education. Never paid attention to the beauty before my eyes. Totally took it for granted and thought every HS auditorium looked like the Fox Theatre! I just wanted to make it home safe, have fun with friends and do my work. Lots of violence happened here during my time there however it is Filled with so many great memories that I will always cherish. Our school really was bomb!!! COOLEY CARDINALS 4 LIFE 🔥🔥🔥
Well damn, don't think much people here actually expected to find someone who graduated from here in the comments. I think we're all glad we did, though.
Just wanted to ask, how did it feel to see the school in this video?
As kids, we never really appreciate anything. I grew up in a very historically rich part of the US. Spent childhood field trips visiting places several hundred years old. Never really cared about the history, culture, or architecture until I moved out west which, comparably speaking, isn't nearly as historically deep.
Wow, it must've been so strange seeing everything abandoned like this, especially when you've seen it in use with people going about their everyday life.
Da Goddess,why did they close the school?
Please check out Thomas Jefferson High school in San Antonio Texas. It has the same Art Deco feel. It was built in 1932 and still stands today. It’s beautiful.
As a theatre student, I am amazed. This breaks my heart to see such a beautiful school with an incredible theater in shambles. I can only imagine what it was like to see the performances, to hear a pit orchestra from beneath the stage, and the way it must have looked when it was all lit up. I truly hope this school will be restored at some point. It's breathtaking.
This makes me so sad. That theater is jaw dropping. As a theater kid, I would have DIED to have a theater like that at my high school. And to have all of that completely destroyed must have been devastating. Geez.
I feel that. I was a techy. Did the lights and fall spots. This theater would have been an absolute joy to set for. I felt this one so hard. What a waste.
Imagine how épic it should be to practice your acting hère and you become the next Joker few years later
@Wes 76 exactly correct sir! The one's who destroyed this were probably oppressed victim's in life though. Lol. It's the white privileged who's at fault. Joke
Zoe Rose eh theater kids are assholes
@@magicman3163 Most of them are not at all.
The asshole who set the auditorium on fire should be imprisoned for a very very long time. How can people have so little respect for history and the work it took to make something that beautiful?
definitely a real big piece of shit scumbag
I doubt it was intentional
Alex Maybe
It could have been an accident, maybe by a homeless
bigsirenguy agree
That library made my heart beat with so much wonder and awe! Y'all I would be in the swim team, shooting range, go to every play, and study in that library! It would just be amazing if they could restore the Library, Auditorium and part of the classrooms as a community center.
The reason why the Fisher is so grandiose is that the Fisher brothers gave the architect, Albert Kahn, a blank check to make it as glorious as possible. It was meant to be a tribute to the city. The tower on top used to be covered in gold leaf until they covered it in tar during WWII. Now, it has a copper sheath.
...and true, the Fisher project was to have two towers flanking a taller tower. I have an old rendering of it. The whole project was going to be absolutely huge at the time. Even now, I'll visit the Fisher Building just to entertain myself over the amount of marbles and granites. Just stunning!
It’s sad how we just discard our past. The auditorium itself looks like a historical landmark.
Samesh Maharaj piss off, the US is made out of immigrants. It’s pathetic that there are people like yourself.
@Samesh Maharaj Mate, U.S. was found on the prospect of immigration. Bug off
Samesh Maharaj wtf idiot your an immigrant from Europe dumbhead
@Samesh Maharaj As an American myself, I can say no one skin color is more American than other. Fuck that line of thought. If you were born here, moved here, or became nationalized, you're an American. I don't care what you look like, nor do I care whether my race is dominant.
Once again, fuck that and fuck you.
@Samesh Maharaj that way of thinking is so sad that it is actually primitive, please work on yourself
Use to be a janitor there we tried to fix the place up the best we could but they still closed.
@kwame DontDance cost to much to fix wasn't in the budget.
@@georgeboggan9232 wasn't in the budget as the state and city continue to steal money
George Boggan I mean I don’t think I’d be able to get any work done in that place if I worked there 😂 I’d be staring at the architecture too much and get my ass fired
@Cliff Yablonski
Ur mom gay
@@georgeboggan9232 I think based on kwame's other posts he is suggesting the people were pigs and you had your hands full because of it... I don't agree but that was his intentions (I believe)
My Dad graduated from Cooley HS in 1930 and went on to the University of Michigan and Indiana University Medical School.
It was a beautiful school. We visited in 1956 and it was still a very active place.
Wow so your dad was rhe 2nd graduating class? I bet he has great photos.
@@ritaturner9906 I think most of those were lost when he moved to Indianapolis after he left U. Michigan in 1932.
Remember that the ‘30’s saw the country in a Depression. Dad was forced to leave Michigan when his Father died and he went to work to help support his mother and younger siblings. he picked up his education again at Indiana and graduated Medical school in ‘42, in time to serve as a physician on the Hospital Ship Hope in the Pacific Theater.
The library was my favorite. I can imagine how stunning it was back in the day. I would’ve definitely spent the majority of my time in that library!! Spectacular!!!
I don't think any city in the United States has declined as much as Detroit. It's very sad.
Hopefully it starts coming back soon. Detroit needs more jobs for the people on the outskirts
TeaSis Speak it into being and so it is a lovely thought indeed💕
Sad
The State of Michigan at the State-level has approximately $10.13 billion of the taxpayer's money it is not using, i. e. surpluses equal to $1,009 for every man, woman and child in Michigan or $4,034 for a family of 4. This does not include all the additional surpluses that exist in the school districts, cities, or counties in Michigan.
This is known as STEALING.
cafrman.com
It sure is... I can’t understand how a big school like this can go down :(
Idk why I’m so fascinated with dead highschools/malls/buildings. Maybe because all that life and the memories that were once made there and now it’s just set to ruin. Amazing and sad.
just like me
Also I think it fascinates some people because depending where you live, this isn't a thing. Where I'm from there are some abandoned places but not many. There's a shut down ammo/powder plant from ww2 that they recently started opening up to build new factory and warehouse space and demo'd some of the old rusted buildings. There's another area nearby that is old industrial buildings and it is spotty, some are unused, some are still in use, i'm not sure what the % is, but the area as a whole is hardly abandoned. Most buildings that aren't going to be used anymore are demolished if they are highly unlikely to be useful for any other purpose. We had one mall close probably 20 years ago, and it re-opened as a series of department stores and large chain stores not too long after. The interior of the mall was sectioned off and used for storage for the stores that now have their entries on the outside walls of the mall rather than the inside. Most abandoned houses eventually get purchased and flipped or leveled and the land sold off at a tax auction. It really never occurred to me until seeing videos like this on youtube that there could be uninhabited places like what there are out there. Whole uninhabited cities in china and abandoned military or industrial complexes that sprawl for dozens of acres. That stuff just hardly exists near me. That powder plant even before they started really opening it up, while it was still owned and maintained by the military, it had guard posts every so often up the highway and there were a few businesses that for whatever reason were operating inside of there and you had to stop in at a guard station to get inside. The only remotely cool place on the property was an abandoned neighborhood that was all homes which were built to house the families of military officers that were stationed at the plant to run it(civilians did almost all the labor, the military just oversaw it.) It was still technically inside of a restricted government facility with a guard post at the only entrance near the place, you'd have had to hike through the woods to get to it, and even still some people got caught trying to explore it. I've seen pictures and satellite photos, that's about it.
Me too
To me it's my fascination with the "end of the world" feeling. What would be left behind to represent the occupied spaces once held by humans. It's like stepping into an alien world only to imagine what it was like before. So many lives and stories unfolded there once. It just makes your imagination go wild. I would love to explore an abandoned world in another galaxy if I had the chance just to see the remnants of it, but these videos are the closest feeling to that desire.
Same here. If those walls could talk ..
This is one of the best abandoned school explorations I've watched. I don't know why I always love watching abandoned places and imagine how people once lived there.
THIS SCHOOL WAS SO NICE THEY SHOULD HAVE MADE IT INTO AN ART COLLEGE! i've never seen such detail for a city school before its really amazing and to think how proud it's students must have been going to such a great looking school!
you know, that school auditorium is kind of poetic in a way of Detroit as a whole, built to a marvelous grand scale that is the envy of things, then suffering disaster that leaves it a mere shadow of what it used to be.
That's the story of a lot of American cities. They once had their golden moment but fell into disrepair when hard times hit and we're left with only photos and people's stories of the way things used to be.
When he said that the school was considered the showpiece of the education system in Detroit, I thought that, unfortunately, it still kind of is. It just reflects a different, much sadder reality.
Who here drives an American car?
@@ReflectedMiles Exactly, he dances around the fact that "a fire broke out" rather than say "the ghetto ass locals burnt it down just for fun" like all the other abandoned buildings in Detroit. Think about the type of people to burn something like this down, think hard.
@@NameSpaceVoid Another comment said it was a photographer spinning steel wool, and another said he knew the people responsible as they bragged about it on stories and he reported them /shrug
Imagine being in the final class in the school. Just absolutely gigantic & gorgeous but almost completely empty besides you & several hundred other kids. Must’ve been really crazy.
Imagine being the first class
When I see this beautiful school, I wish I was 14 again and would go back to school. I would learn harder and would be better in sports and would not make the mistakes I have made in my life. Great Work of you Guys.
I graduated from Cooley, June 2010. It was still beautiful then and we were so sad to hear it was closing!
Also, as a graduate of Cooley. It is now sooooooooooo hard to freaking get your transcripts or copy of diploma or anything like that now that it's closed
Omg it so sad how the population of the school decreased :/ i would've honestly loved to go to that high school !
@@YourName-jm7lz *would've or would have
@@YourName-jm7lz wow sad. This place is so beautiful when my shcool is nothing compared to this and I can't believe 9 years ago when I had no idea what shcool was people went here
Your Name that’s so sad. Now it feels like the school was under appreciated. The architecture seems fitted for an arts school (maybe it was idk I’m not rlly paying attention).
@@YourName-jm7lz i went to Cooley. It was just your typical school in the ghetto. There were future criminals here and there were tons of amazing students also. I went for the 9th grade but then they closed down. This school was way better than any Detroit school i had gone to.
Costa Zambaras damn sounds like u talkin about a whole city epidemic not HS
IDEA: When you do one of these, try to find someone who went to that school as a guide.
Great idea!
So cool
honestly that would be amazing even if they just got someone local for every place it would make every video all the more entertaining and informative
And also have a r2d2 Droid. Please also include a woman with big bum in all the shots
@@ChicanoOne760 what?
Interesting that you mentioned the steel beams on the theater stage being melted and bent. Steel becomes pliable at about 2000F (meaning it can be bent or lose its ability to carry the load placed on it.) At 3000F steel become a molten hot liquid which one might see boiling in a steel mill. Steel is a strong material for construction, it’s only drawback being if it becomes to hot in a major fire, and collapse under the weight of the load it’s holding up in the building.
Like the WTC buildings...
We know over time there will be some decay but what is the most heart breaking is the vandalization and the fact someone ruined this building on purpose. Just why????
it's so weird how there's always one random chair somewhere, just "chilling" in every abandoned building.
It’s cause people put it there when they smoke, teenagers need somewhere to get high
How could they just let that school deteriorate? That should be a crime.
Revolves around money sadly. Why invest money into a closed school when it’s cheaper to utilize update or even build a new school when your city is shrinking to the population of a large town. To bring that school to modern standards with AC, heating and electrical would cost millions. That’s why my high school renovated itself over the course of 5 years. It was earlier to rip everything out and start fresh.
Something called “white flight”. When desegregation took place, whites fled the cities to the suburbs, taking their wealth with them. Detroit, along with many other large cities suffered greatly because of this. However, people have been returning, which is driving the price up again, known as “gentrification”.
If you ship out and automate millions of factory jobs what do you expect.
So many people left Detroit they did not have the student population for such a large building nor the tax dollars to pay the costs in maintaining the building. Imagine the heating costs alone.
Frogman Smith or because when the school became mostly black they didn’t care and in general education wasn’t valued
A similar thing happened to Cass Tech, my school in Detroit. Seven stories downtown. Used to be called the Factory. Luckily they built a new school on the site, but it will never be the same. I salute you Cooley and your alumni, as I grew up on the Northwest Side :)
Wow my dad was class of ‘79
'The Pickle Factory'
There were several other DPS Schools that were designed exactly like Cooley inside and out. Mumford, Pershing, Denby are almost identical and I'm sure many others are too
Just wondering are any of them in use today?
Yes, all but Cooley
...yes, Mumford. Even Mackenzie was beautiful. I was hoping that they would save that one. 😔
My mom went to Cooley. I still have her senior yearbook from 1941. I didn't know the theater was so ornate. The book's photos are entirely focused on people--lots of group photos of student clubs. They seemed to take the architectural splendors for granted. There were so many great buildings in Detroit; people saw this kind of beauty on a daily basis.
When white people lived there
Most of those Detroit Landmarks NOW DESTROYED........
Look at that library. Can only imagine what it looked like when the school was open, must've looked almost like the Harvard library. And the auditorium was so eloquent. How could the city of Detroit let this beautiful building go to waste like this?
I hate to say it because I know it makes it sound like I'm politicizing this but the truth is Detroit in general failed because of leftist administration and their innate policy of giving everything away. California is currently going through the same thing but it's interesting that cities run by right leaning administrations fare MUCH better. That said, I used to vote Democrat, and there was a time when they could do good things but today their ideology is a big mistake in this country. I will never vote Democrat again - EVER.
One word Democrat
@@greenrefrigerator You are so foolish, so of the nicest cities in the country are run by leftists. Something else changed in Detroit though.
@@jacksetter95 Among the largest cities in the country that are failing or HAVE failed, the one common element they all share is they have liberal administrations. Sorry if that "offends" you but it is what it is. The facts speak for themselves.
deadmanw@lk1ng to offer an alternative perspective it wasn’t leftist or democrats that destroyed Detroit. It was just globalisation. Countries like China could because of their ability to pay the workers less and many other reasons produce the same things as the city of detroit did but much cheaper. This may seem like a bad thing, but the chinese taking over manufacturing has benefited almost every american because of the cheaper goods and it gives us the abilitiy to specialize on things we do better.
I loved this school and I am glad that the Alumni are still close and loved the school still. Even though some heartless person burned the building it didn't stop us from loving this building. If I had the funds I would restore it. I miss the parades, games, dance class, talent shows, DECA competitions, the 2nd floor locker clews....this school and the teachers taught me a lot and made me want to learn.
Whenever I see abandoned schools like this I always wanna refurbish the schools and make them as great as they were before, just so more generations can enjoy it as much as the others did
So they can be burned again? Ever been to detroit ?
i always hate seeing abandoned places. it makes me sad to see “what once was” of something. like abandoned theme parks, water parks, schools, hospitals. it really makes me wonder how life was for the people there before it was abandoned
@@marshaarbi I don't think inhabitable means what you think it does
Oh my frend, if only you knew how deep the rabbit hole goes...
Same here. It makes me think of how people loved these places, made memories in them, maybe lived in or went there daily, made friends, etc, and how now all those memories, all the stories, all the care that went into the building is just gone, left in ruin without a second thought or any consideration of it’s importance to some of many people. It’s just sad. Same thing goes for lost/broken toys.
Don't hate it, accept it. It's a fact of life. Things come and go. Live and die. It's the natural order.
I'm from Detroit. This happened because Democrats regulated and taxed the city and the State of Michigan into the ground.
Bruh, I feel jealous of anyone who got to go to school there. The modern-day schools I went to absolutely could not compare to the work that went into the main building in this (and the last school I went to everyone complained of a mold problem in the locker room that's been there for ages). The people that took their time to shape that theater have all my respect for their craft.
Don’t feel jealous bro, my dad went to school and every story he told me involved murder from the time period of 1989-00. All three of his brothers shared similar stories. It just wasn’t safe from what I heard. Yes the school is beautiful without a doubt but idc how good a school look...if I hear niggas stuff guns, drugs, and etc in their lockers then I’m going somewhere else. Fenkell and hubell was in the top ten dangerous streets in Detroit
Back then when they didn't have nothing they could build edifices like that...and today with trillions of dollars around....everything is metal, dry wall, and something that is supposed to be plastic !!
Only been 15 years since i left there but auditorium was beautiful even in 2009
Detroit Public Schools, with the exception of Cass Tech and Renaissance, were gladiator schools from about 85 onward. The teachers were world class though. If you could survive the bullies, neighborhood crews and gangs you could get an education that was second to none.
However, it was a life and death situation. Children lost their lives for coats, sneakers, and all sorts of petty rivalries. Even some of the middle schools were turnt but the high schools were rough as any county jail in the country.
Thank you for shedding light on the city that was my home until 6 years ago. I love "PROPER PEOPLE" and the reels of your exploration. Keep the amazing content coming, as I Always enjoy your adventures.
If we had this in my village in Senegal west Africa we'd be very thankful. This school's architecture is golden.... some people just dont know how blessed they are. 😢
Lol meanwhile my high school was designed by a guy who specialized in building prisons
Haha yup mine too. There wasn't any windows in the classes either at my school
Dakota High School. Macomb County Michigan. Same thing
Tyler Marcus Fairview high school anyone?
Gpn?
ah yes enslaved learning
The pool could be divided in the middle, for boys at one end and girls at the other. Each had a diving area. No mixed classes when my mom went there in 1939.
I'm pretty boys we required to swim in the nude.
Not trying to be rude but is your mom still here? God bless
I wish you were able to visit Cass Technical High School in Detroit before its demolition ten years ago. Truly an architectural masterpiece, and I would love to be able to revisit it through your detailed videos.
My mother graduated from Cooley High School in 1964. I’m not going to show her this video because I am certain it will upset her. About two or three months after graduation, she moved to Austin to attend the University of Texas (her other alma mater 🤘🏻). I asked her why she chose to move so far away from Detroit. She said she had lived there for almost all of her life and wanted a change of scenery and even by the early 60’s the city was already in decline. A few years ago she attend a reunion. It was bittersweet. The school they had all attended was closed but she saw many classmates she hadn’t seen in decades. She has lived in Texas all this time but still has a lot of nostalgia for Detroit from the 50’s and early 60’s. She will tell you it was truly a great city back then. Thanks for sharing this video.
They really should build schools like this again... It would really inspire kids more
Wes 76 this is a very ignorant comment. The learning environment is of great importance and many of the countries leading in the international PISA testing scores put a great deal of effort into the learning environment and other factors such as being highly selective for who can be teachers.
They also actually show respect for schooling and the teaching profession, paying teachers the high salaries that such a vital role in the transmission of knowledge and culture to future generations really has in a healthy society.
It’s no wonder the USA is so fucked up right now.
The USA is putting kids in schools that look like prisons with metal detectors and massive locks on doors, cops all over, bag checks, etc.
And because of the low respect and salaries people can expect if they go into the teaching profession, way too many classrooms are being headed up by people who really have no business being teachers. If you look at GSS data on the USA - an alarming number of teachers do not know when asked if the earth revolves around the sun or the sun around the earth. That is fucked up!!!
It’s no wonder so many schools are having so many more issues with student apathy, discipline, and violence.
You’ve got kids in a glorified prison with teachers who don’t really have the ability to teach them. Scores went down. Would you expect any different?!?
So now we have the accountability movement which has preplanned curriculums that basically dictate how lessons should be taught because too many teachers are unable to do so on their own. But of course these lessons are usually dry and boring that takes any inquiry or creativity out of the teaching and learning process.
And do you know what education at its best should be?!? People inquiring and creating freely together. Think about it. When have you best learned in an educational environment - when you were sitting immobilized in a desk for hours on end, being told what you should know? Or asking questions and looking for answers?
We need learning environments that support this type of learning or we will continue to fall more and more behind other countries on such international tests.
You can throw all the money in the world at something but if you’re not throwing it in the right direction and if the underlying structure is unsound then the building will still fucking come down around itself.
That you think that the leaning environment has no effect on students emotionally and psychologically is really more of an issue. And the mentality demonstrated in your comment is part of the reason despite all the money and legislation nothing improves.
If the funding was there. I go to a new school, but it’s way smaller than an average high school, thanks Pasco!
ExtraOrdinary MUSIC... Kids nowadays need more than a fancy building to inspire them. How about two parents who love them and care for them. Two parents who expect their kids to be upstanding law abiding and decent people. I could go on and on. This building is just a reflection of the decay of humanity in general.
@LAFOLLETTER Racist fuck
ITzParadox It is kinda true. They’re loud, cause disruptions during class time, have stupid beefs and fights in school, they wanna act “hard” in school which makes them look like low iq imbeciles, make fun of anyone trying to make an effort in school. Should I keep going?
This video angered me. Buildings like this should be the standard! Beautiful, artistic and impressive. Attending such a place like Cooley High, I would have been proud to say I went there; This was my high school! I would have wanted to learn in such a place that is and feels like a place of knowledge. Schools now a day lack the essential aesthetics! Sad, cold, bland buildings that all look alike, with no color and no art. We need to revitalize this institutions before they are all gone!
I agree one hundred percent!
I absolutely agree! Nowadays the new trend will likely be glass walls apparently for new ‘modern’ schools, so cold. I badly wish it will go back to this eventually... We really can’t build the future without looking back at the past sometimes. Wouldn’t everyone prefer going to school at a Hogwarts-like building instead of a modern café? ;) That school was such a gem, it’s really sad.
Like everything else it's all about money the cause and downfall of society.
I'm angry too, but it's just too hard to replicate these ornate buildings because of the immense talent required. Stone masons, bronze workers, plasterers...all jobs that once required the skill of an artist, are virtually non existent in the current era (in the capacity they once were). We can't really be mad about this, especially when there's a literal skill shortage, and there's nobody to hire.
@49jubilee no, it was the manufacturing jobs went to over seas bidders. Bill Clinton trade agreement with countries like China killed our American culture.
If I would have enough money, I would buy the whole City Detroit, that's my dream and bring glorious buildings Back to live, bring back work and make Detroit attractive and safe again. With a safe job no one would like to be a criminal.
Make schooling free and it'll work. They made the price of everything too high and no one could afford anything so went elsewhere by the sounds...
@@xfirty2x already was, and that was always the problem. People don't value what they are given. Kater may as well try this with homeless people, the people are that way for a reason. Its why lottery winners tend to fall back to their level, if they didn't work for it, it wasn't meant for them.
Kater Morphis
If I would have enough money, I would buy the whole City Detroit, that's my dream and bring glorious buildings Back to live, bring back work and make Detroit attractive and safe again. With a safe job no one would like to be a criminal.
6 months ago
I like your idea Kater Morphis.
I've wanted that too.
Unfortunately alot of people don't want a safe job, they want the fast pay off of drug running and human trafficking. Too many Americans addicted to alcohol and drugs. Give all bad urges to Jesus to heal. People at all levels in on it helping ISIS/BLM takeover drug trade, I think for China+. Silent coup covid19, mail in ballots illegals voting multiple states, Dominion voting computer fraud, Chinese bought media. They will clear us all out with their viruses and vaccines to depopulate for them.
WAKE UP AMERICA!!! THINK GOD!!! Read Revelations, shine
A city on Hill
A beautiful dream indeed :)
The devil would still temp
What a timely recommendation. I have been mulling over many of these ideas for a couple of days, just in trying to work out my next steps, and how do deal with people during that process. Thanks for the clarity on explanation and inspiration to dig deeper.
I graduated from Cooley High in 1985. Was a beautiful school. FYI the banked track was for running, I ran many laps around it during gym class.
Thanks for answering that Jimmy, from fellow class of '85 (not Cooley)
Ya’Dad talk about a reunion all the people form that school seen this video. I wish my high school looked like that
Mumford High School also had a banked track so this was popular in many Detroit High Schools
I had one in my old high school that was banked as well. It was put in, in the 50s from what I remember. It was hella sick and I’m so sad that the new school doesn’t have one.
YOU WHERE SO LUCKY TO HAVE WENT HERE... BE PROUD.
Seeing old buildings neglected like this is so depressing to me. The amount of labor and craftsmanship involved in building a place like this is mind boggling by modern standards. All of the walls and ceilings are plaster and lath, meaning that someone had to first nail strips of 1 inch lath to every stud in the wall. Then the plasterer would come and apply the first layer of plaster, and then another and another, by hand, until a flat surface was achieved. Each and every window and door was crafted by hand, and each pane of glass hand glazed into place, the sashes of each and every window fitted into place with cords, pulleys, and counterweights. The wood likely came from old growth forests, and was of a far, far higher quality than anything we see in construction today. The masonry work was structural, unlike today's brick buildings where the bricks are a tacky veneer placed outside of cinder block, concrete, or wood framed construction. Buildings of this era made great use of natural light and ventilation, whereas today, we make use of fluorescent light, low ceilings, and air conditioning in buildings whose windows no longer open. When this place is torn down, all of this craftsmanship and material will end up in a landfill. Today, we build buildings out of plastic and foam to last 30-40 years, and then tear them down when they don't fit the fashion of their day. Back then, they built buildings using techniques that had been passed down through the generations, and they built them to last for generations. Sadly, today's generation is oblivious to this, and so in cities across America, we are destroying our heritage and replacing it with a new generation of "architecture", precision engineered to meet the bare minimums required by local code, using the cheapest (yet fanciest looking, or trendiest) materials available, as fast as possible. Detroit is a city that's a shell of it's former self economically. In other cities in America, we are experiencing great economic prosperity, and yet that prosperity is just as much of a threat to our architectural heritage as abandonment, as more and more beautiful, yet unprofitable buildings are destroyed to make way for ones that will turn a better short-term profit.
"Today's generation" you mean corporations that try to do everything for bare minimum expense? We know we're getting douped but we need affordable places to live, work, go to school. When my college put up prefab, cheap looking buildings everyone was disgusted but what say did we have?
I don't think 'todays generations' is a good way to put it. Always have companies strived to create cheaper, easier solutions to building and stuff.
Ratplague707 , life isn’t the same without beauty and art around. I remember moving to San Jose and it was so god awful ugly everywhere, yet even so every place has its own pecking order when it’s a planet removed from another. Buildings like this in their former state make life much more meaningful. Such a shame to see it end up like this. When cities are ugly, and some are sprawlingly so, I just find a place that’s nicer, with more of a country feel but close enough to jobs. Now I can drive through old CA country roads and get away from all of the crowds, find parking, have a view of mountains and shop in Spanish architecture with the same view. Locally it’s just as nice in a different way, we have everything but I can walk, bike or drive to it and we also have the same pretty architecture. In spite of the superior beauty, the people are much more casual, very unpretentious and it’s a better fit for the artistically inclined.
I know what you mean. The US is about the only country that doesn't cherish it's old buildings and either destroys them or lets them deteriorate like this beautiful structure. Can you imagine if they wanted to tear the Louvre in Paris down, or Big Ben in London? How much less our lives would be without those wonderful structures.
@@WouldntULikeToKnow. Truth! This comment should have 1k upvotes.
Over 1 million subscribers. Congratulations guys, you deserve everyone of them.
I am so hooked on your videos since I found this channel. The production and the history is awesome. That library was incredible! And the auditorium!
At last, people who know how to use cameras. Panning slowly so we can see what's there, and stopping long enough to grasp the scene instead of spinning around the rooms wildly. Nice work guys.
@Ralph Goober Anything better than Michael Bay techniques
Amen to that !! Half the stuff up here looks like the Zapruder film.
Yes most you tubers clearly are in it for their own enjoyment and could care less about their viewers. I hate it cause little kids are the viewers a lot of times and don't know the difference between professional, passionate, or just plain idiot content makers. I like telling my son who does and who doesn't deserve your time. Stop subscribing to people who can't even take the time to make their videos consistent and watchable. I'm sorry but home video makers shouldn't be getting any views and that's what most are.
My parents went to school here this is where they met I believe. I actually sung in the auditorium in a concert they were having. It was absolutely beautiful!
Wow
I graduated from there in 92
Rica's Game Cafe wow it must have been amazing to see it buzzing with people
It is refreshing to watch your videos You guys are so far ahead of your competition. You are intelligent, informed and have the upmost respect for the places you are visiting. Keep up the great work Guys!
Very informative video. Thank you guys for the hard work you put into documenting these places.
i graduated from Cooley in 1988. I thought the architecture was amazing then and it breaks my heart to see it vacant. My Mom still lives in the neighborhood, so i drive by it every day. so sad! C,O,O - L,E,Y Cooley, Cooley, Cooley High!
E.E.EAG.L.L.LES.EAG.LES.GOOOOO EAGLES - BRACKENRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL SAN ANTONIO TX
If u drive by it everyday..u must still live with your mom.😂
@@mr.president9100 Or they visit their mum every day.
@@duhh_rudddyyy651 omg that's the same cheer my school does!!!
@maemo move out!
My sister and I both went to Cooley 1969-1974 , It's a dam shame what has happened to the school, after watching this I had to go by my old house and to see the school, I was glad about one thing the didn't damage the old clock on the front of the school
I want that clock... Cooley Class of 82
Joe Harrington stupid question but when they said in the video about all the numbers that left the highschool and the city, what exactly happened to you and other classmates? Did everyone go to auto plants in other cities?
You went to a great school. Your memories will never leave you.. Sad how it's just fading away..
Was this a tuition based high school?
Karrionn Smith,public school
Thank you for showing the incredible Fisher! I work a block away and love taking a "walking lunch" and just staring at the building's interior. Ive been lucky enough to have seen several shows at the Fisher and it never disappoints 🧡
I would have absolutely loved to go to this school!!! Everything is just amazing and awestruck!!! The Architect of this building is just out right BEAUTIFUL!
They don't take time to build schools like they used to now they are design from a prison layout for safety I guess I went to a beautiful school in up state ny in pulaski build in 1880s huge marble walls and stares. Moved to Florida they all were prisons
Chubz Landers My high school was literally originally meant to be a woman’s prison but decided they wanted it to be a school.
@@coolpossumpossum9923 yup all schools are made that way now
I go to Mandarin High, one of the few open campuses left. To be honest, I feel like I'm the only one who really appreciates to beauty of the architecture. However, kids nowadays couldn't care less if their school looked like a prison, or looked like the one in the video
@@theredneckbuddha2763 yup as I said about my childhood school looking back at it. It was amazing but then it was a school that I didn't want to be at lol
@@theredneckbuddha2763 they probally would like it but it dosnt matter school is suposed to be a prison to make your life bland and desenstize you to life
Imagine the confidence in the future the people who built this must have had. They were building something for their posterity. To think only a couple of generations of their children could go there before they had to flee the city. Maybe this is part of the reason nothing beautiful is built any more.
Truth spoken. Everything is temporary now. We are so divided.
Very good point. A lightbulb went off in my head when I read your comment. That IS why things are built differently today. It's sad but reality
"Diversity" killed Detroit.... Great white flight.....
Mike D everything has always been temporary. Anything not lived in or used starts to fall apart unless someone maintains it.
@Ken MacDonald The subject goes far more in depth then that, but hey keep up the divisive comments!
So sad to see my school like this! I graduated from Cooley in 1958. I played in the band on that stage, and in the orchestra in the orchestra pit.
My Driver’s Education class was in a room under the stage. I swam on the swim team in that pool. One end of that pool came from the boy’s locker room, and one from the girl’s locker room. I feel fortunate to have attended Cooley. Those were 4 great years. Other schools in Detroit, like Pershing, were similar.
Thank you for showing us part of the past. It’s a shame that they could not have refurbished the entire auditorium and use it for the City as a Performance Art Center. I love how Respectful your team is to the property even though it’s trashed already. Great 👍🏼 video. Looking forward to seeing more videos of you guys.
I attended Cooley high from 2004-2007 its was a beautiful school at that time. Watching this makes me wanna cry.
Sames years I was in high school. I would have loved to have gone to this school.
At least you got to enjoy it. I went to highschool ten years after you did. My graduating class had 2k+ every time we went to a different class we we shoulder to shoulder with eachother. The building was crap. This building is still beautiful.
Was it a good high school considering it’s Detroit? I go to Holt HS and neighboring Lansing Everett, Sexton, Waverley, and Eastern are less than ideal schools
why was the track banked in the gym?
so it was over crowded but that's wasn't the buildings fault!
The burnt out auditorium seats fittingly looks like hundreds of tombstones, absolutely shameful.
Fucking animals
Wow. Absolutely beautiful. I’ve never seen such detail be put into any school. Not even a college.
This reminds me slightly of the old building my high school used to be at, though that building was only for a few hundred students with the modern addition, and there's a bit mildew inside, but otherwise the old part has survived well for around 120 years. Both of the sides of the school are closed, but there's a museum of our school's history in the basement of the older part, and we've got to go around the old part once too, and the library, although much smaller than the one in the video, is pretty similar, it's a spectacular scene. The museum was built there in honor of our school being the oldest Finnish-speaking high school in the whole Finland, and I think it's pretty damn amazing. I'm glad it's being protected, so people won't just go and destroy it.
Pretty sad - I graduated from Cooley High in 1967. I went back in the 1980s to get some school records for college. The kids at the time treated me like some celebrity :-)
I graduated from Cooley in 1981. I used to perform on that stage. Good times.
I had always hoped someone would do something to preserve and make use of the old girl.
Dan what was the track used for on the second floor above the bb courts ?
I'm curious when they stopped using the firing range?
As someone that was shot, I whole hearty think that they should teach gun safety like drivers ed, show the good & negative side. & the boot camp style physical ed class they had, maybe we can lower the obesity health issues we have today.
Very sad I envision it in all it's glory kids teachers beautiful sad very sad..
@@lightning95sc wish I were in as good school as you people were.
That stack is the boiler room of Cooley High. I sub as a Engineer there. I went in that building the day after the fire. I couldn't believe what I saw. There were kids playing in the gym as I went up to the second floor. That fire was purposely set!!!!!! The media wouldn't even put it on the news! That building would be unstable because the auditorium sits in the middle of that building. They were hoping the building would collapse. The plenums were fallout shelters back in the days They started stripping the windows off the buildings. All buildings like Cooley, Mumford, Cody, Mackenzie, Redford, Central, were built like that back in the day. I worked at all of them except Central High.
I work at Central right now-the first high school in Detroit. It is still operating, but now has an elementary, middle, and high school in it, plus a community clinic. It has a lovely auditorium, too.
Until I saw this I completely forgot we ran a "track meet" indoors on that banked track in the late 70s! How cool! Never would have thought about or remembered that if it weren't for this video. Thanks!
Thank you for another fab tour! This one was such an amazing property and I was all good watching until I saw the Library 📚... then I just couldn’t help but picture those beautiful bookcases with books 😞
can we bring back art deco? way better than modern
I agree!
Anything is better than modern.
Except maybe postmodern.
postmodern is cool
Art deco and mid century.. Very warm and personal
Make America Art Deco Again!
What makes your videos so good and stand out from the rest is you always give a little history about what you're exploring and add mood music that seems to fit the place you are exploring just right. It makes all the difference, Bravo you two, Bravo...
...for setting the Benchmark in URBEX documentaries and adventures. Thank you...
I agree! I am amazed they do not have more subs then they do.
730k subs is nothing to sneeze at, however I agree !
It makes me sad the "mainstream" don't see this quality content. I imagine on Netflix or similar it'd be a hit.
No question about it, These guys Set the benchmark in Urbex. I've watched at least a dozen other so called explorers they're all cheesy Bouncy camera work always zoomed in too close so you can't get any perspective so on so forth. These 2 definitely got their stuff together and it shows .
Definately. And their mood music is done right. Not during the entire thing, or too loud over talking. I love hearing the footsteps and ambient sounds clearly.
This high school was absolutely gorgeous!! That theater/auditorium was phenomenal ! WOW. Reminded me of the Fox theater. Plus, they had an actual shooting range in their school, that's crazy!! Very cool video! :D
This is the Highschool my father graduated from in 1957.
He passed away in February of 2020. I wish I could of found this video a few years ago before he got sick. I could of shared his insight with you on what was originally in these rooms and floors at Cooley Highschool.
‘This School closed in 2010 and they still have blackboards’ it’s 2019 and my school still has blackboards lol
your school probably still taught the lost fine art of thinking.
Kefentse Brown right
Faye De Koo I had White boards
Power plant wow your dumb
Detroit is poor, they used what they had.
This school is freaking beautiful, amazing. If I had the money I'd renovate it. Amazing!
@@YourName-jm7lz I don't think they literally mean they would invest the many millions of dollars it would take to renovate this building. Detroit has become a ghost town with a level of lawlessness rivalling the old west of 200 years ago. I think it's just the OP's way of expressing how nice this school was. I see a lot of people who talk that way, and while it can be a bit confusing, I mainly see younger people doing this but most don't mean it in a literal sense. I could be wrong here but that's how I interpreted it.
yeah likewise. Absolutely gorgeous place and deserves to be restored and preserved for future generations. Turn it into a museum possibly...
@@YourName-jm7lz Because they value this differently to you
@@greenrefrigerator Yeah, I think it means if they had essentially infinite money, renovating this would be one of the things they'd do.
Good luck!
That crunchy sound that happens when they walk around that school is so satisfying.
The part that starts at 06:19 is so beautiful the music and the huge legendary theater r both so majestic!!!
Thank you for not bashing on our City during your stay. Detroit has been through decade upon decade of corruption and thievery via Politicians. Detroit is currently on the rise but, we have a LONG way to go.
A rise? To where I'd like to know, it's also not just the politicians fault, the people of Detroit's fault just the same, i grew up not to far from there and lived a short time in the heart of Detroit, yes the car plants shut down, plants shut down and people left and the ones who stayed, didnt help it much, made it worse! I would be very SURPRISED if in my lifetime it gets back to what it once was and not a 💩hole waiting to fall in!
@@latinamarie80 I agree! Although, I think our current mayor is on the right track. You're right though...... The people who live in those neighborhoods need to start taking pride in their homes, neighborhoods, themselves. Pride of ownership. No one owes anyone, ANYTHING. If you want it, all you have to do is go get it. We live in the United States! There is no lack of opportunity, and there NEVER has been!
@@latinamarie80 you grew up not far from here huh?! Lol one of many people from the burbs who only came here for tiger and lions games. Bash as well as praise our city; only when it fits the conversation. Makes me really appreciate my fellow WHITE and MEXICAN friends who aren't afraid of our city and actually see the potential of what it's gonna be. Living and building side by side, one day at a time without talking down about the people (as a whole) trying to make it better.
@@DetroitWrecker666 thank you!
@@politelady123 Ya know, our City has come a LONG way in the last 5 and 10 years. It's changing people's attitudes, and the way people think about Detroit. That's a GOOD thing! There's a LOT of people living in the neighborhoods where, their homes look nice, even if there is burned out and abandoned homes on the same block. They NEVER gave up. And I think Never Giving Up, sums up our City as a whole! Like I said above. We're on the right track, we have a lot of work to do. But don't ever count out Detroit because, no matter what major City you live in, there's a Detroit guy who set up shop there, and is getting ready to bring it home!
This is wholeheartedly depressing..
Detroit died due to many factors, number one being leftist policies.
This was once a beautiful school.The architecture was something else esp the library, auditorium and pool,arches.Thanks for sharing.
Wow, what a beautiful school. That auditorium and library alone. Beautiful craftsmanship.