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Frayser as well as whitehaven were great places too live in the 40s 50s and 60s and 70s. It’s hard to believe a man could get a job ar Firestone or the international harvest plant and buy a new house,your wife didn’t have to work. Your wife could be a housewife and just raise the kids and take care of the house. All on one salary.

Priceless MidCentury footage and Commercial propaganda.

Worked on the dock at the old Firestone plant, loaded Cleo Wrap..x-mas paper into tractor trailers.. it's a long way from the front parking to that back dock..👻👻 some in the dark..😳 rough place in mid 80's.. 🙋🏽

In just 40 short years after this was filmed all this has been obliterated all these factories through the torn down or destroyed, shopping malls are nothing that resemble what you see, these neighborhoods are now unlivable... Thanks to forced busing forced integration and leftist Marxist in the city council's

Thanks for sharing Mr. Whitehead.

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I was born and raised in north Memphis in the 60s and I know that a lot of people will disagree and have a whole lot of negativity to add but I will say that we weren't rich or even wealthy. We lived in the projects and I'm sure had assistance from some sort of government funded agency. As the story goes with most people...we were poor but everyone else around us was poor so you didn't know that you were. My childhood was a good one with lots of safety in our neighborhood and people being very protective of the young and old. So no things weren't the way it sounds for people or color, I'm sure my parents experienced many things but my childhood was great and the best time of my life. I feel bad for the children growing up in Memphis and any other large Metropolitan city these days. I haven't lived in Memphis in over 30 years and when I do come home I am so very afraid and nervous due to the high crime rates there. I hope and pray things turn around for the city.

I had tow Cadillacs-----the first was A 1973 Coupe Deville ---black on back like this Brougham----the distinction was a quarter rear window which rolled up and down-----the second was a 1976 Deville----eggshell with a back quarter roof and interior which I customized with an special super fly grill and goddess hood ornament---I still possess the hood ornament today---the car also had a Lincoln bagel trunk ----and the door hadles were replaced by a push button which popped the doors open , and a crest which covered it...The cars were amazing...!

This is a real style! Big, black. Real car! Real thing!

1974 was the last year for the 472 engine. 1975 was when the 500 went into the RWD cars.

Probably should just bull doze Memphis it’s gone

Time of Great America 🇺🇲

What the heck happened to the golf course??

Sorry, but the narrative about settlers in Normandy post WWII fleeing the city doesn’t hold up in many cases. My mother grew up in Carsonville and Bel-Ridge and my father lived some of his childhood in Ferguson. They chose to live in Bel-Nor as they raised us kids because it was convenient to the city and beautiful. Granted, there wasn’t much diversity in Normandy until way later, but we took the bus downtown, shopped and worked in urban settings and opened up to the idea thst times they were a changin’. The kids of color at Normandy schools were just as prejudiced as we private school kids. It went both ways. Now, we all have to work all the harder to enhance every community in the region, promoting diversity and equalizing opportunity.

Your GREAT grandfather had one of these cars? How old are you dude? LOL My great grandfathers died in 1929, 1945 and 1965! I don't know when the 4th died. I have one of these cars only its the D'Elegance model.

What an absolutely beautiful classic Caddy!

Great choice Josh, I'm 66yrs old , back in 1970 when still at high school we moved some 12 miles from our old address. My high school was a special selective high for "clever" kids & I didn't want to change , all my friends were there. So each day I'd wander a mile down the hill & catch a bus , the Aussie franchisee for Nissan/Datsun & UD trucks used to drop his daughter off at the bus/rail interchange , she went to some expensive private school in Sydney city. He owned an identical 1969 Lincoln Conti' mk3 as the one in the French Connection , sable brown & a grey vinyl roof a wow car . After the may 1971 kids school holidays , he dropped the daughter off in his new car a 1971 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham in a san Mateo red metallic , a really rich red with a black interior. To me the roof made the car , it had really tall ultra curved side glass for the times , even by todays standards and it keeps the size of the car in perspective and balances beautifully its design even the way the central pillar leans just ever so slightly backwards adds an extra grace to the design , let alone the curved top edges of the window glass itself . I was determined I was going to have one as an adult out of the 6 years I like '72 & '74 , I have one of each , in September 2022 I will have owned my black '74 Talisman for 40 years , I bought it when I was 26. As an Aussie delivered car shipped here unfinished & completed as an RHD car in GM's Pagewood, Sydney plant. 102,700ks were on the odometre all those years ago as we went metric as a nation in '74 , now in March 2022 706,000ks on the odometre , so I have used it but it has been serviced to the absolute highest standards. It looks and drives as if it were new , and I mean new . My white '72 model I've owned 31 years now , bought from the husband of its elderly owner when she had passed away , it had a mere 19,000miles on it , now 31 years later it has 133,000 miles on it & in its Cotillion white and pale jade cloth , with jade green part leather & carpet. As long as we can source & buy petrol , I will keep driving them.

Crime was not an issue and Frayser was our Mayberry! A great era of the greatest generation of World War II and a great place to raise children! Folks black or white believed in God with safe neighborhoods, yes the injustices was wrong and we had to come together in basic human rights, with equal justice beyond 1968 for all, before that we had no government help, good work ethics, and involved in unpopular war, but look at Memphis now, what happened?

doesn't look like that anymore

By the way I had a 76 coupe Seville, triple gold . I miss it

That there is my FAVORITE Cadillac ever. The black 76 Fleetwood. Beautiful. A bigger white wall and a set of wire wheel covers,,it’ll be PRESTINE. . Jealous ,,, it’s a beautiful car!!!

I,ve only a 79 Coupe Deville with 425 eng. but it works. Good luck with this fantastic car.

Fantastic car. And You have the watchdog inside to avoid steeling it.

Missing the "Brougham" script.

Those were the days of the Great American Auto industry that has all gone down the toilet. I was a huge fan of Cadillac as a kid love the 1968 Fleetwood. Had a 1985 Cadillac Seville what a beauty white with black fake convertible roof black leather interior, but what a shitty engine. Had it for years. Now it’s all gone, pure crap. Cheers

Beautiful car, I just acquired a 73 Fleetwood with a little work it’ll be show room and a person has to love floating down the road in your living room on wheels

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last year for the big one, i like the rectangular headlights better than the round

I’m a proud owner of a 1972 Cadillac Eldorado coupe,since 2010……..but someday I’ll get one ‘75-‘76 fleetwood brougham

Hello, you have great taste. Very stately automobile.

I had one just like it. It was a d'elegance.

your buddy is keeping an eye on you :) As I recall 1973 was the first year they went to the single center door seam between the front and rear doors. Prior to that there was a strip of body filler between them.

I had a 74(if I'm remembering right) coupe deville. I believe it had a 472.

I remember as a little kid it was this particular model was the first car I became enamored with! Most other kids were down with Smokey and the Bandit’s Trans Am or the General Lee. Not me!😃

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The 500 cubic inch engine debuted in 1970 in the Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado (Coupe) as was labeled 8.2 litre; this Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty-Special and Fleetwood Brougham models were virtually the same 1971through this the final year of standard size: 1976. Increasingly stringent emissions requirements were met in part through lowering of the compression ratio and retarding valve timing and spark timing thus the 472 was dropped in lieu of improved technology larger displacement was used.wonderful Motorcars!

going to eat at morrison's cafeteria on Austin peay highway with my family or going to eat at Piccadilly cafeteria in east Memphis on mount Moriah road. going to each lunch with my dad and his co-workers at gridley's on Winchester road. eating breakfast with my dad at gridley's on Macon road cove on Saturday or Sunday morning. meeting my dad for lunch at whataburger on millbranch road. what happened to the city of Memphis and Shelby county. the same thing that happened to Detroit/Wayne county. the closing of IH and Firestone in Frayser really hurt that community BAD!

I love history. Thanks for this video, but I must say it is bitter sweet. While (White Folks) prosper during this time, Black People were being treated as 2nd and 3rd class citizens. We were denied those good paying jobs White Folks had because of the color of our skin. My mother and father, God bless there souls, were government workers, so me and my brother didn't grow up poor. Our folks had the money to shop where they please, but you White Folks wouldn't let them into you all stores. I got news for you, my parents didn't want to live around you White Folks, they just wanted to be able to live somewhere decent and have the same opportunities as you all did. My mother had a saying, " Why would I want to live or hang out with White Folks, we ain't got nothing in common." 9/28/2021

Most excellent! It's a beauty.

You left me wanting to hear more...bring on Part 2. Let's see what's powering that beautiful beast.

As a die hard pontiac guy I find the 75-76 fleetwoods to be the most classy of all cars I would love to have a triple black de elegance Yours is beautiful as well as the dog 👍👍🙏🙏

At the time, Memphis was larger than Atlanta and a growing area of the south.

I love the background music--makes the film even more nostalgic. I live about three miles from the Thomas St./North Memphis area shown, and it is good to see what once stood there: an entirely different world indeed.

Where did you get this? I Have a small page on Memphis and local history. “Memphis made history”. Kinda do historical places. Events. Scenes. Ect. Anything vintage or Memphis history any way. Really aimed at statistics and numberbs provided in post information. And as a twist correlate with what “Memphis made” had on the effect of the past.

love the video.my grandday work at LLOYD A FRY ROOFING FOR YEARS.

Make America great again. Memphis attracted young ambitious people from all over the South to fill the abundance of good jobs with great benefits. It’s so sad to see all of this mid century construction in derelict condition. The city has paid more than the price for generational sins of the past. The descendants of those hard working industrial workers fled the city and attempted to recreate utopia in Memphis edge cities East and South of the sprawling metropolis. This is certainly a unique area where city planning can be studied so that the whole region can once again thrive. The infrastructure is there. A temperate climate, access to distribution channels including the Mighty Mississippi River, schools with great potential, an ambitious labor market, great churches, and well planned neighborhoods in need of revitalization are the backbone of potential for Memphis. It still has the best water in the nation from an abundant buried aquifer. The problems that plague the city could dry up and blow away as the city redevelops viable business and industry giving its population hope and healing. Those who live in Memphis today have no concept of how this town provided families with the ability to live their American Dream.

The area's heyday. Looking pretty sad now around Thomas St.

Did this become Union Planters?

Terrific!