My home town, Port Huron, Michigan. Actually, I'd like to wind the clock back about another 30-40 years and start in the late 1800s when my great grandparents lived there. There is another TH-camr, Bob Davis, who has posted more than 200 videos on the history of Port Huron which I have watched many times over.
@@Chazd1949 your talking in newspeak, what you are trying to say is 1880s & 1890s, not 1800s. 1800s ran between 1800 to 1809. all of it was the 19th. century.
This is awesome! My grandfather lived in Detroit during the 1920s. He graduated from Wayne State and worked at the Detroit Free Press before and after serving in WW II. His name was Art Dorazio and he was buried at a Catholic cemetery in Detroit. A city is strongly defined by it’s people and it is very gratifying to see what a magnificent city Detroit was when my grandfather lived there. Thanks so much for posting this video!
@@johnthorpe8341 Detroit was certainly defined by immigrants--I grew up there with friends whose parents and grandparents came from Poland, Italy, Finland and Germany
My grandparents also were born about then. My grandfather in 1896 and my grandmother in 1905. My grandmother graduated high school in Ypsilanti about 1922 and went to work in retail sales after a year at Hillsdale College. I'm not sure how she and my grandfather met, but they were married in 1926 and both lived and worked in Detroit until they retired in the 1960s. I was born in Port Huron and spent some time in the summer with my grandparents in Detroit. It was a beautiful, thriving city back then in the 1950s.
Hi JM & Ch WD I was a 1970's and 80's kid and my Italian-American Grandmother was still living when I was a kid. She was Born in New Jersey, 1892 not far from the Tom Edison factories when he was still doing his inventions. She went to New York often and enjoyed Coney Island amusement park and beach. My Grandmother would be about 29 yrs old at this video time if it's 1921. My Grandmother liked this time period and before because most men tipped their hats to passing ladies walking by and even offered to walk you home in an unsafe neighborhood or area. This video is probably early twenties because most men are wearing straw hats at 4:19. Late 1920's they would be in mostly fedora hats-1926-1929. All the best.
My father started working as an engineer for GM in 1927 and his office was in the Fisher Building. I grew up as a boy in the 50s in Detroit and it was a wonderful city then. This film is quite something .
That was a great time to work at GM. I used to work at the Fisher Building as a supplier in 1993. I felt lucky to work in such a beautiful structure. Driving in each morning when still a bit dark, the GM sign would light up the whole area.
@@CinCee- 1919 - they let women vote. 1933 - confiscated all the Gold. 1963 - killed Kennedy. 1964 - Civil Rights Act. 1969 - Welfare state. 1972 - Off Gold Standard.
This was just spell-binding. I can just imagine my grandparents walking along those crowded streets during business hours as they lived and worked in Detroit during the time of this filming. Thank-you so much for creating this mesmerizing time-travel experience.
I agree! It’s like being there with my grandparents, ( mine lived in Sacramento, Ca) but having this in color brings a lot of details to how they lived……wish we could do time travel for a short period of time of course, and see our younger parents & grandparents……
@@keithbrown8814 Wow, what a great tribute to have that knowledge about your ancestor and share it here. Maybe repost it with his name to honor his memory.
As a life-long, and current, resident of Detroit, how fun it is to watch and try to recognize what's still standing, as well as see what we now consider old buildings just being built. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Every man wore a suit, most with ties, and a hat. Boys wore Knickers, shirt and tie, and a hat. Every woman wore a dress, coat and a hat. Amazing. Those Great Lakes steamers were pretty big ships. I guess they hauled a lot people around.
It was the great D&C Line, the largest Side Wheeler Passenger Ships made , lenght on the Greater Detroit and Greater Cleveland were just over 600 feet, the Art work inside the Ships Painting wood work were in par with Palaces in Europe, about a dozen boats, designed by a great Naval Architect . They started around 1872 closed in 1954.There are alot of pictures of those ships interiors on here, just look up Greater Detroit or Seaandbee Detroit and Cleveland Passenger service,they have music playing from that era.
There was pride in City and appearance. I know. I was there. Clothes do make a person. I never saw someone pitching their junk in the street when they had on ties, jackets, hats, and dresses. Sort of like being in an outdoor church setting. Just wasn't done.
Notice how everyone, even those from humble homes were dressed impeccably and to the best of their abilities, good & bad in any era yes, but here you get a sense of pride and mostly good nature genuine people walking by. Thank you for a portal into a different and prosperous time.
@@georgejetson1025 My friend George you and I know Detroit is in complete ruins today, just like a collapse 3rd world nation, it’ll probably take many decades before it resurrects, if it ever does.
Yes I noticed how nice everyone dressed. They took pride in their appearance and the atmosphere was definitely more welcoming. Today most cities people worry about violence
People my comment wasn’t about anything related to cultural and social changes since the 1920s. It was only about the car dependency and the sprawl that started then and ruined our cities.
Detroit was where the world's cars and trucks were made ...Greetings from Argentina, my farming grandpa owned one Ford 1910, then one Ford T 1927, then a Essex 1932...which lasted untill 1957, then back to.a Ford A 1932, the only thing which will go true black soil roads on rainy days or after.And also a Chevrolet 1938. Today they drive in the country, Toyotas Hilux, VW Amarok pick ups, or Korean 4 WD.
Gave there auto manufacturing away because they did not want certain people to have the jobs also of course for cheaper labor and also made it convenient for SOME PEOPLE to move out to the suburbs where others weren’t allowed taking the population business , tax base and later events that were all traditional held in Detroit and last but not least ALL the political representation in the state capital is now held by suburban communities with only ONE representative that lives within the city limits and she only represents one sliver of Detroit’s south west district ALL OTHERS ARE represented by outside influences for the most populous city in the state thanks DEMOCRATS they drew these district boundaries
People dress like absolute bums now. Even CEOs of companies come out in jeans and sweatshirts for quarterly earnings presentations. Hard to believe how society is going to hell these days.
3rd generation Detroiter. My parents loved Detroit in the 40's to the early 60's. 1967 riots destroyed this neighborhood and the city has recovered in some ways, but it's still pretty rough in many neighborhoods.
5th generation Detroiter here. The two civil disturbances in 1943 and 1967 played only a minor role in the decline of the city. Seeds were sown in the 1940s as war production caused a temporary boom but post-war auto manufacturing decentralized and the independents like Packard and Hudson, huge employers, declined and eventually consolidated or went out of business. Loss of the economic base in the 50s and 60s as the freeways were built caused further decline. The civil disturbance in 1967 came as the result of these factors, and decades of police-enforced segregation and oppression, not as a cause.
@@palepride7530 Keep telling yourself that. He is intractably correct. You think 2 riots could bring down and ENTIRE city on their own?? Sorry, but you can't blame black people for EVERYTHING, Einstein.
And when/if ( WHEN ) the WEF and the WHO get their way …. WE THINK ITS BAD NOW give it another 5 at the most ten years IF they aren’t stopped life as we know it is OVER
My great grandparents moved to Detroit to work as an accountant for Ford and an engineer. They moved back to the Appalachia’s in the 1940’s and in the 1970’s my parents moved there so I could have open heart surgery. So odd to not recognize parts of the city and know exactly what I’m looking at with some images. I always wished I could have seen it in its hay day. Thanks for sharing!
The skyscraper being built at 2.06 appears to be the Barium Tower, now known as the Cadillac Tower. According to Wikipedia the tower was built in 1927, which helps date the video.
Actually, the building going up in 2:07 is the first half of the First National Bank. This was begun in 1921 and finished in 1922. The second (identical) half of the building was begun in 1928 and finished in 1929. An aerial view shows off this building best, it's a huge zigzag! The Cadillac (Barlum) tower wasn't begun until 1926, finished 1927. When is was finished, it had (at forty stories) more floors than any other building in the world outside of NYC and Chicago (NYC had only six buildings with more than forty floors built prior to 1927, while Chicago had only one!). BTW, you'll notice at ~2:07 the gothic, knobby tall building just at the extreme left of the frame. That's the Cadillac Square building of 1918 (not to be confused with the similar but larger Cadillac Tower). In any case, the Cadillac Square bldg. was demolished by Mayor Coleman Young in 1976. Though vacant at the time, the building was structurally quite sound.
Thank you so much for posting this. My parents grew up in Detroit in the '20s, so these scenes enable me to see some of the environment that shaped their consciousness. It's a lot like I imagined. Industrious people with optimistic attitudes and energetic vibes. Despite its current problems, a lot of Detroiters are proud of their city.
@@paddyhalligan28 Oh FFS, what an idiotic thing to say. Detroit's decline was mostly due to changing economic dynamics and racism/white flight. You don't even know what Socialism is.
This entire scene makes me think of Bob Seger " Ramblin, gamblin man". This is so well done, from the sound details to the image editing. It's brilliant. I like the drone footage especially. haha!
I’m 53. What’s amazing to me is that someone 53 years old at that time had seen greater changes in their lifetime than I have. They would have been living in such a different world than the one they they grew up in.
From candle to electric light, from horse to telephone, not even the need of a car to go and talk to someone.Allthoug telephones were not yet in every home. And the airplane still out of reach for most, and soon the radio and with it, free music everywhere.. But there was still the nineteenth century in the way of living. Like we are today still a bit in the twentieth century in our way of thinking, eating, etc.
@@Joe-qw6il not really. with exception of internet and smartphone most of the things stayed the same, TV and cars just got more advanced but fundamentally they are the same thing. meanwhile people born in 1880, would never expect that they will live to see man being able to fly in 1920's and horses being obsolete.
Exactly. This was before the automobile lobby decided to coin the term "jaywalking" and forced everyone to stick to the sidewalk and crosswalks. In some suburbs they don't provide sidewalks or crosswalks, basically making it illegal to walk (you can walk on one side of the road facing traffic but you can't cross the road or any other road, and a Karen will call the cops on you regardless).
It's always interesting to me to view a world that existed when I didn't; and knowing that a future world will do the same. We participate in such a minuscule part of history; but each period is part of the story.
Wow, I remember visiting downtown Detroit about 15 years ago. On the "people mover" you could see all these magnificent buildings, nearly abandoned, but locked up, making one wonder what it must have been at one time. Thanks. This is a fantastic historical document.
Come back for a visit!! Most of what you saw downtown has been rebuilt, refurbished & occupied. Downtown looks great, clean & classy. Neighborhoods closer to downtown are slowly be rebuilt or demolished with new housing or refurbishment. Outlying areas are still in need of work. Thousands of decayed, demolished & burnt housing has been leveled. Some areas are still bad. Until folks take it upon themselves to clean up, not destroy & appreciate what housing they have, it will be, if not impossible, to restore certain areas.
Im just glad there were folks who thought ahead to do this stuff. Im sure they really didnt think we would be watching this in 2023 on our phones! While I really appreciate this time period its the ones from the late 40's early 50's....thru California neighborhoods...that fascinate me. Folks coming out of their homes,etc,in their 50' s outfits into their cars,etc. Awesome!!
before Detroit turned into a toilet look how clean it looks the clarity on these videos are amazing back then they couldn't have dreamed these videos could ever look like this.
we are in the perfect era to affect the right changes for generations to come using what we know from generations past...easy? no but its worth it...instant access to information and communication is something these people could only dream about! and we actually have it
Great if you were white, but not colored. Can't imagine a black man being able to walk the streets of Detroit alone without being harrased in early 1900s !
The people in this video largely built the modern world that we enjoy today. It would be wonderful if we could somehow better honor their hard work and sacrifices.
@@marin8862 Lots changed. We let women vote. They voted for welfare. They said it was okay to be fat. They said they were victims of Patriarchal oppression. Do the women in this video look oppressed to you? How did women eat for 10,000 generations? Men brought them food, that's how.
Amazing to think that the legendary Wyaat Earp was still living at this time. He would live till January. 13,1929. Plus, this is only 13-20 years after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid were doing their robberies if this is 1920/1921. It's fascinating: The United States was still called "The Great Frontier" all the way up to the late 1920's! Great upload.
a Michigander here myself living close to Detroit most of my life , if you could go back in time and tell those people back then what the city would be like ( a poop hole) in about 40 years, they wouldn't believe you. I grew up watching it go to poop in the 60s , the riots, unemployment. its a rotten city now. I don't even go there I drive around it. not safe.
Wow! You must have read my mind. I was just thinking about Detroit when you asked about other cities to include and here it is. Thanks for sharing another amazing video.
Thank you for posting these wonderful videos! Amazing to see the past and in such great quality and color! I live in the metro-Detroit area and it’s incredible to see how Detroit used to look!
Can you imagine determining the exact camera position locations and recreating the exact shots today? What a representation of society devolution that would be?
Are you certain of the age of this film? At time stamp 2:08 is the construction of the Dime building. This is a historical landmark. Construction was started in 1910 and completed by 1912. This leads me to believe that this film is not from the 1920’s, but I’m fact earlier. Such a wonderful journey back in time for us Detroiters. Thank you for sharing.
The first phase of The First National Bank Building was constructed at the foot of Woodward and Fort Street in 1924 and it was 25 stories tall. This is what I believe the picture at 2:08 is showing and not the Dime building.
this is the time i wish i was alive. sure there were struggles . but in my eyes .old man now. you can see the descency in all the people who lived there. everyone dressed in suits .zero trash on the streets people had pride in the community. breaks my heart to see what has become of our great cities . thanks nass this was a tough one to stomach .sad but true
I hear ya. It’s “tough to stomach” how societal values have devolved into what we see today. The only thing that brings me out of grieving over it is knowing that Christ’s reign on earth is coming (very soon, I believe). The Bible tells us what to expect life to look like just before the end of this Age, and boy are we seeing it. Thank God this world won’t continue as it is.
Thank you for posting this amazing video. My great grandparents and grand parents would have walked these streets at this time, at a later date I was born there.
What amazes me the most is how well dressed is the average pedestrian.....even kids look spiffy....you look at the average city walker today and for the most part, they are uniformly....slobs ..we have descended to a lower degree of civilized behavior at a breathtaking speed.....
Great video! My dad was born in 1919 and grew up in Detroit and graduated from Wayne State and was on the tennis team. I remember him telling how the street cars cost a nickel for the fare and he never had a nickel so he always just had to walk.😮
My first thought is when you compare how people dress to go out then, and what people look like on Woodward today dressed it’s totally embarrassing, now this isn’t just unique to Detroit, this is right across our whole country, we as a society have tanked so much, it shows really a lack of self-respect when people can’t dress decently when they’re out and about.
Man, I agree. I live in Jersey next door to New York and when I go to New York I am at least in a blazer and a nice pair of jeans. Not a shabby T- shirt and baggy pants. I agree, men lost the style of the 1920's to 1940's for sure! It's a pity!
My mother and her parents lived in Detroit at this time. My mother would occasionally recount how shocking it was for her to hear, for the first time, voices coming over her father's crystal set.
I'm glad someone took the trouble to make these movies with the equipment we had back then which was much more difficult to use than today. That it's been preserved is priceless. We didn't yet have sound in movies in the 20s.
Please, if you like the past, I suggest you do stop your continuous letting down of it and making it seem so primitive. It WASNT!!! Did you know we had color pictures in the 1920s, and the first sound films were far before even 1920. th-cam.com/video/Mz6XjifPKXk/w-d-xo.html I expect you to never judge a book by its cover.
I am totally appalled. I am 84 and grew up in Michigan. Worked in downtown Detroit as a teenager. We went to the theaters and window-shopped the big department stores at midnight. Later worked near the Fisher building and walked there every day. Boblo boat dancing. It was great. Never a thought it would one day be a total ruin. Breaks my heart to see what it has become. I no longer live in Michigan.
This was a nice glimpse into the past to where there is literally no on alive today to tell us about. Fascinating that literally every man and woman wore hats back the. Times sure have changed which is to be expected after 100 years. Well done. 👍👍
Nice to see everything standing and un-condemed what a beautiful time it must have been. Thank you for this, again nice to see my city from a better time. I am only a few minutes down the road from it and i do not even go see it today because it is such a mess.
Nass,Detroit, Just fabulous! 1920's Henry Ford literally ran the place with his automobiles! Haha. Plus Charlie Gehringer was Detroit Tigers second baseman 1926-1942. I have baseball encyclopedia that tells me this. Thanks for another great upload!
I got to know Detroit in 1971 as I had emigrated to Canada and got a job in Windsor. I was too shy and innocent to get around much but by that time you could see that Detroit had already gone to pot. But the Big Three were still healthy then.....
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in which city in the world do you want to live in 1920s???
California
@@Trey80898 😂😂😂
@@johna1761 he must be a twenty something.
in another 50 years California will be a city.
My home town, Port Huron, Michigan. Actually, I'd like to wind the clock back about another 30-40 years and start in the late 1800s when my great grandparents lived there. There is another TH-camr, Bob Davis, who has posted more than 200 videos on the history of Port Huron which I have watched many times over.
@@Chazd1949 your talking in newspeak, what you are trying to say is 1880s & 1890s, not 1800s. 1800s ran between 1800 to 1809. all of it was the 19th. century.
This is awesome! My grandfather lived in Detroit during the 1920s. He graduated from Wayne State and worked at the Detroit Free Press before and after serving in WW II. His name was Art Dorazio and he was buried at a Catholic cemetery in Detroit. A city is strongly defined by it’s people and it is very gratifying to see what a magnificent city Detroit was when my grandfather lived there. Thanks so much for posting this video!
NOW DAYS A CITY IS STONGLY DEFINED BY IMIGRATION
Detroit looked like a world class city when it was all white
@@johnthorpe8341LOL weren't the United States strongly defined by immigration from day one?
@@johnthorpe8341 Detroit was certainly defined by immigrants--I grew up there with friends whose parents and grandparents came from Poland, Italy, Finland and Germany
@@mk6022 inmigración negroide
Great video. My grandparents...all born 1898-1909 talked about Detroit being a wonderful city back in the day.
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My grandparents also were born about then. My grandfather in 1896 and my grandmother in 1905. My grandmother graduated high school in Ypsilanti about 1922 and went to work in retail sales after a year at Hillsdale College. I'm not sure how she and my grandfather met, but they were married in 1926 and both lived and worked in Detroit until they retired in the 1960s. I was born in Port Huron and spent some time in the summer with my grandparents in Detroit. It was a beautiful, thriving city back then in the 1950s.
Hi JM & Ch WD I was a 1970's and 80's kid and my Italian-American Grandmother was still living when I was a kid. She was Born in New Jersey, 1892 not far from the Tom Edison factories when he was still doing his inventions. She went to New York often and enjoyed Coney Island amusement park and beach. My Grandmother would be about 29 yrs old at this video time if it's 1921. My Grandmother liked this time period and before because most men tipped their hats to passing ladies walking by and even offered to walk you home in an unsafe neighborhood or area. This video is probably early twenties because most men are wearing straw hats at 4:19. Late 1920's they would be in mostly fedora hats-1926-1929. All the best.
Very clean. World class symphony. Yep.🇺🇸
@@Chazd1949 Yes, we need to regularly remind ourselves how nice it was - so it doesn't get trashed again.
My father started working as an engineer for GM in 1927 and his office was in the Fisher Building. I grew up as a boy in the 50s in Detroit and it was a wonderful city then. This film is quite something .
When about did you start to notice the down slide of the city?
@@CinCee- black people going to the north escaping racist south.
That was a great time to work at GM. I used to work at the Fisher Building as a supplier in 1993. I felt lucky to work in such a beautiful structure. Driving in each morning when still a bit dark, the GM sign would light up the whole area.
@@CinCee- when we got stronger with diversity
@@CinCee- 1919 - they let women vote. 1933 - confiscated all the Gold. 1963 - killed Kennedy. 1964 - Civil Rights Act. 1969 - Welfare state. 1972 - Off Gold Standard.
This was just spell-binding. I can just imagine my grandparents walking along those crowded streets during business hours as they lived and worked in Detroit during the time of this filming. Thank-you so much for creating this mesmerizing time-travel experience.
Thx ;))
I agree! It’s like being there with my grandparents, ( mine lived in Sacramento, Ca) but having this in color brings a lot of details to how they lived……wish we could do time travel for a short period of time of course, and see our younger parents & grandparents……
My great grandfather helped build the Penobscot Building shown near the end of the video...way back when Detroit was a real city!!!
@@keithbrown8814 Wow, what a great tribute to have that knowledge about your ancestor and share it here. Maybe repost it with his name to honor his memory.
As a life-long, and current, resident of Detroit, how fun it is to watch and try to recognize what's still standing, as well as see what we now consider old buildings just being built. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Me to
The gift of diversity.
Every man wore a suit, most with ties, and a hat. Boys wore Knickers, shirt and tie, and a hat. Every woman wore a dress, coat and a hat. Amazing.
Those Great Lakes steamers were pretty big ships. I guess they hauled a lot people around.
Those Detroit children grow to be part of the Greatest Generation.
@@mondtime42 Absolutely true.
It was the great D&C Line, the largest Side Wheeler Passenger Ships made , lenght on the Greater Detroit and Greater Cleveland were just over 600 feet, the Art work inside the Ships Painting wood work were in par with Palaces in Europe, about a dozen boats, designed by a great Naval Architect . They started around 1872 closed in 1954.There are alot of pictures of those ships interiors on here, just look up Greater Detroit or Seaandbee Detroit and Cleveland Passenger service,they have music playing from that era.
As opposed to what? Blue jeans and sneakers? That was the normal way of dressing before denim, sports jerseys and Nike kicks.
There was pride in City and appearance. I know. I was there. Clothes do make a person. I never saw someone pitching their junk in the street when they had on ties, jackets, hats, and dresses. Sort of like being in an outdoor church setting. Just wasn't done.
Notice how everyone, even those from humble homes were dressed impeccably and to the best of their abilities, good & bad in any era yes, but here you get a sense of pride and mostly good nature genuine people walking by.
Thank you for a portal into a different and prosperous time.
thank you very much
Just like the good folk of Detroit today ?
@@georgejetson1025 My friend George you and I know Detroit is in complete ruins today, just like a collapse 3rd world nation, it’ll probably take many decades before it resurrects, if it ever does.
@@georgejetson1025 The good folks of Detroit already have left it long ago.
Yes I noticed how nice everyone dressed. They took pride in their appearance and the atmosphere was definitely more welcoming. Today most cities people worry about violence
100 years ago the modern world was in it's infancy. It's incredible to watch it on film like this and feel like you're there.
Infancy stages in terms of technology, yes.
But it peaked in terms of its culture and has been on rapid decline ever since.
Everything sucks balls now. You could offer me 20k and I wouldn’t step foot in detroit.
People at that time were quite elegant in the way they dressed.
Indeed🔥
Sad to think most American cities were more livable 100 years ago.
Then we let women vote.
These days you park your car and hope it's still there when you return. I wonder why that is
People my comment wasn’t about anything related to cultural and social changes since the 1920s. It was only about the car dependency and the sprawl that started then and ruined our cities.
That many people in one place is always a recipe for disaster. Human history has shown that over and over and we never learn
@@jacobfamily4544 And yet European cities are far more livable than the car-dependent hellscape that is America
Detroit was one of the richest cities in the world. Crazy how everything turned out
Detroit was where the world's cars and trucks were made ...Greetings from Argentina, my farming grandpa owned one Ford 1910, then one Ford T 1927, then a Essex 1932...which lasted untill 1957, then back to.a Ford A 1932, the only thing which will go true black soil roads on rainy days or after.And also a Chevrolet 1938.
Today they drive in the country, Toyotas Hilux, VW Amarok pick ups, or Korean 4 WD.
Factories closed.
Simple as that.
Gave there auto manufacturing away because they did not want certain people to have the jobs also of course for cheaper labor and also made it convenient for SOME PEOPLE to move out to the suburbs where others weren’t allowed taking the population business , tax base and later events that were all traditional held in Detroit and last but not least ALL the political representation in the state capital is now held by suburban communities with only ONE representative that lives within the city limits and she only represents one sliver of Detroit’s south west district ALL OTHERS ARE represented by outside influences for the most populous city in the state thanks DEMOCRATS they drew these district boundaries
Detroit still has enclaves of the richest people in the USA, despite the working class core areas being open fields now in many cases.
It still is. They gona rebuild it
im amazed how thin everyone was and how nice they dressed
Today… a different story 😂
Because back then they lived in reality, today we live in a fantasy.
@@timstar28 humanity in general, has regressed to a form of childhood in adulthood ....mumy,mumy....I want !!
@@darioburatovich2240 Rule of law makes mutants . far left would get eaten by something they wouldn't exist naturally.
People dress like absolute bums now. Even CEOs of companies come out in jeans and sweatshirts for quarterly earnings presentations. Hard to believe how society is going to hell these days.
3rd generation Detroiter. My parents loved Detroit in the 40's to the early 60's. 1967 riots destroyed this neighborhood and the city has recovered in some ways, but it's still pretty rough in many neighborhoods.
Thank your parents for standing up for the city in 1967
5th generation Detroiter here. The two civil disturbances in 1943 and 1967 played only a minor role in the decline of the city. Seeds were sown in the 1940s as war production caused a temporary boom but post-war auto manufacturing decentralized and the independents like Packard and Hudson, huge employers, declined and eventually consolidated or went out of business. Loss of the economic base in the 50s and 60s as the freeways were built caused further decline. The civil disturbance in 1967 came as the result of these factors, and decades of police-enforced segregation and oppression, not as a cause.
@@ronporter4299minor role? 😆 you need to stop gas lighting
@@palepride7530 Keep telling yourself that. He is intractably correct. You think 2 riots could bring down and ENTIRE city on their own?? Sorry, but you can't blame black people for EVERYTHING, Einstein.
@@ronporter4299 You could NOT BE MORE RIGHT!!!
It's not just that we've lost this way of life it's that it's never coming back that hurts.
Great! The racism and male dominated is behind us.
And when/if ( WHEN ) the WEF and the WHO get their way …. WE THINK ITS BAD NOW give it another 5 at the most ten years IF they aren’t stopped life as we know it is OVER
@@brucebeamon5460 why are you like this you seem like that annoying person that brings politics into every conversation
Why is that?
That's true--you can never go back, as much as we might want to. The world moves forward.
My neck of the woods. I drive the tunnel bus from Windsor to Detroit and back daily. Awesome footage!
Greetings from Toronto :)
Grew up there and took the boat to Bob-Lo island as a kid...Was a very nice place to live...then.
5:14 That playground looks sick. Absolute deathtrap, just how I liked them.
My great grandparents moved to Detroit to work as an accountant for Ford and an engineer. They moved back to the Appalachia’s in the 1940’s and in the 1970’s my parents moved there so I could have open heart surgery. So odd to not recognize parts of the city and know exactly what I’m looking at with some images. I always wished I could have seen it in its hay day. Thanks for sharing!
Detroit has seen better days back then. The people made all the difference.
The skyscraper being built at 2.06 appears to be the Barium Tower, now known as the Cadillac Tower. According to Wikipedia the tower was built in 1927, which helps date the video.
thx
Actually I think it is the First National Building where I currently work, whichis across the street.
Actually, the building going up in 2:07 is the first half of the First National Bank. This was begun in 1921 and finished in 1922. The second (identical) half of the building was begun in 1928 and finished in 1929. An aerial view shows off this building best, it's a huge zigzag!
The Cadillac (Barlum) tower wasn't begun until 1926, finished 1927. When is was finished, it had (at forty stories) more floors than any other building in the world outside of NYC and Chicago (NYC had only six buildings with more than forty floors built prior to 1927, while Chicago had only one!).
BTW, you'll notice at ~2:07 the gothic, knobby tall building just at the extreme left of the frame. That's the Cadillac Square building of 1918 (not to be confused with the similar but larger Cadillac Tower). In any case, the Cadillac Square bldg. was demolished by Mayor Coleman Young in 1976. Though vacant at the time, the building was structurally quite sound.
I almost expected to see Buster Keaton doing a stunt in one of the scenes....
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Thank you so much for posting this. My parents grew up in Detroit in the '20s, so these scenes enable me to see some of the environment that shaped their consciousness. It's a lot like I imagined. Industrious people with optimistic attitudes and energetic vibes. Despite its current problems, a lot of Detroiters are proud of their city.
Detroit was such a beautiful city back then. Unbelievable to think it was the richest in the world
Motown. There is nothing that bit of socialism cant destroy.
@@paddyhalligan28 Oh FFS, what an idiotic thing to say. Detroit's decline was mostly due to changing economic dynamics and racism/white flight. You don't even know what Socialism is.
@@paddyhalligan28 what an insanely stupid comment lmfao.
you think socialism destroyed Detroit? 🤣
This entire scene makes me think of Bob Seger " Ramblin, gamblin man". This is so well done, from the sound details to the image editing. It's brilliant. I like the drone footage especially. haha!
I’m 53. What’s amazing to me is that someone 53 years old at that time had seen greater changes in their lifetime than I have. They would have been living in such a different world than the one they they grew up in.
I get what you’re saying, but I would venture to say that technologically there has been more change from when you were born (1969-1970) to today.
From candle to electric light, from horse to telephone, not even the need of a car to go and talk to someone.Allthoug telephones were not yet in every home.
And the airplane still out of reach for most, and soon the radio and with it, free music everywhere..
But there was still the nineteenth century in the way of living.
Like we are today still a bit in the twentieth century in our way of thinking, eating, etc.
@@Joe-qw6il ....pass me the phone book, I want to talk to you on the public phone.......😄....I haven't got your number in my agenda....
I wouldn't say that. The fact I'm posting this response on this platform is truth to that, among many other things.
@@Joe-qw6il not really. with exception of internet and smartphone most of the things stayed the same, TV and cars just got more advanced but fundamentally they are the same thing. meanwhile people born in 1880, would never expect that they will live to see man being able to fly in 1920's and horses being obsolete.
Wow, you did a great job with the restoration. The sound is especially good.
7:51 you can see the Penobscot and Guardian buildings. Both built in 1928.
The way they dressed was so classy, especially when compared to today.
The sound really helps to bring video alive.
yes!!! ;)
I’d have rather had that world than what we live in today.
But they didn't have diversity back then. They didn't have trannys and LGBQXYZ+
If it weren't for all of the animal cruelty
@@DanielDriftz So you know what people want ?? I would too, away from the human trash of today.
Some things are better today than they were back then but some things were better back then than they are today. It’s all a matter of perspective.
It amazes me how people would just cross the street no matter if a car, truck or even trolly was there. Thank you great video.
Exactly. These videos from the 20’s show how little people cared about safety.
Is virtually the same now. Try driving through some sections. Still happens
before fear and pussification
@@MarkNOTW Says the person who strapped a used diaper to her head for years over sniffles.
Exactly. This was before the automobile lobby decided to coin the term "jaywalking" and forced everyone to stick to the sidewalk and crosswalks. In some suburbs they don't provide sidewalks or crosswalks, basically making it illegal to walk (you can walk on one side of the road facing traffic but you can't cross the road or any other road, and a Karen will call the cops on you regardless).
It's always interesting to me to view a world that existed when I didn't; and knowing that a future world will do the same. We participate in such a minuscule part of history; but each period is part of the story.
Very deep, but well said.
Facts deep shit bro we next 😂
I can’t quite put my finger on the difference between Detroit then vs now. Quite a mystery.
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Ran exclusively by democrats since 1962. Not a coincidence.
It would be great to be there..... Those cars.... The people walking.... The way they dress .... This is extremely beautiful....
Enough to make Detroit natives CRY....it was such a beautiful place to live back then.
Wow, I remember visiting downtown Detroit about 15 years ago. On the "people mover" you could see all these magnificent buildings, nearly abandoned, but locked up, making one wonder what it must have been at one time. Thanks. This is a fantastic historical document.
Detroit is much improved from 15 years ago. Still a long way to go, but it's good to see as someone who lives in the city.
Detroit has progressed light years ahead in the last 15 years.. its an absolutely gorgeous city today.
Come back for a visit!! Most of what you saw downtown has been rebuilt, refurbished & occupied. Downtown looks great, clean & classy. Neighborhoods closer to downtown are slowly be rebuilt or demolished with new housing or refurbishment. Outlying areas are still in need of work. Thousands of decayed, demolished & burnt housing has been leveled. Some areas are still bad. Until folks take it upon themselves to clean up, not destroy & appreciate what housing they have, it will be, if not impossible, to restore certain areas.
Im just glad there were folks who thought ahead to do this stuff. Im sure they really didnt think we would be watching this in 2023 on our phones! While I really appreciate this time period its the ones from the late 40's early 50's....thru California neighborhoods...that fascinate me. Folks coming out of their homes,etc,in their 50' s outfits into their cars,etc. Awesome!!
So many of those buildings are still there. How great to see what Detroit was, especially as it is now being re-born and re-vitalized.
Lmao revitalized with what?
@@mplslawnguy3389 conmigo 😊😅😅😅
Revitalized with illegal aliens, homeless people and trans freaks?
@@mplslawnguy3389Dan Gilbert and Ford’s wallets
before Detroit turned into a toilet look how clean it looks the clarity on these videos are amazing back then they couldn't have dreamed these videos could ever look like this.
I was born in the wrong era... how we have fallen😢
Same
Ditto
we are in the perfect era to affect the right changes for generations to come using what we know from generations past...easy? no but its worth it...instant access to information and communication is something these people could only dream about! and we actually have it
Great if you were white, but not colored. Can't imagine a black man being able to walk the streets of Detroit alone without being harrased in early 1900s !
@@TheExotich1 facts
❤❤❤Oh my goodness, how vibrant! I could have mistaken this footage for New York if it wasn't for the title Detroit. Thank you!
Considering this film is over a hundred years old, the images are still quite sharp, nice video thank you.
Under a hundred, this is later 20’s
The people in this video largely built the modern world that we enjoy today. It would be wonderful if we could somehow better honor their hard work and sacrifices.
Half of society are parasites on the other half that continue to work
I'm glad these footages survived for us to see how bustling and gorgeous Detroit used to be
Its downtown is still bustling
@@Pomeray8 Hardly.
At that time, Detroit was called-"The City of Tomorrow " because of the expanding downtown and the growing automotive industry.
A clean, beautiful, thriving metropolitan city.... so much has changed.
only one thing has changed, the population
@@marin8862 Lots changed. We let women vote. They voted for welfare. They said it was okay to be fat. They said they were victims of Patriarchal oppression. Do the women in this video look oppressed to you? How did women eat for 10,000 generations? Men brought them food, that's how.
The unrest that occurred in 1967 was Detroit’s turning point. I think Detroit is currently on a rebound to a better future but it will take time.
Look a functioning society. Someone should make a side by side of the same views but in modern day. Betcha it looks wacked now
Lol you already know it does
Only 20yrs into the turn of the century. Wonder if there's any time travelers in this amazing film.😁 Absolutely magical! Thanks Nass! ❤
thank you so much
I'm a time traveler
Amazing to think that the legendary Wyaat Earp was still living at this time. He would live till January. 13,1929. Plus, this is only 13-20 years after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid were doing their robberies if this is 1920/1921. It's fascinating: The United States was still called "The Great Frontier" all the way up to the late 1920's! Great upload.
thank you so much
This been confirmed to be around 1927 based on the constructions.
What a beautiful world we used to have.
It's sad to think of what Detroit has become.
Not just Detroit, the whole nation. Thank a racist Demoncrat next time you see one.
a Michigander here myself living close to Detroit most of my life , if you could go back in time and tell those people back then what the city would be like ( a poop hole) in about 40 years, they wouldn't believe you. I grew up watching it go to poop in the 60s , the riots, unemployment. its a rotten city now. I don't even go there I drive around it. not safe.
That's what happens when Democrats run things😞 All the major cities that were once jewels are now shitholes under their reign 😒😒
Thanks to African Americans
Wow! You must have read my mind. I was just thinking about Detroit when you asked about other cities to include and here it is. Thanks for sharing another amazing video.
certainly looks better than now
Funny guy
Thank you for posting these wonderful videos! Amazing to see the past and in such great quality and color! I live in the metro-Detroit area and it’s incredible to see how Detroit used to look!
Can you imagine determining the exact camera position locations and recreating the exact shots today? What a representation of society devolution that would be?
It's simple what happened to Detroit... The people who innovated and worked left...or died
It's really not that simple. You need to do more research on that.
More credit to the exclusive control of democrats since 1962.
The sidewalks were absolutely gigantic
Great job on this. A little footage of everything.
I just subscribed. Because this is AMAZING!
In so many ways, it was a better time to be alive.
My Pop's was born on Sherman St, 1921, on the east side of Detroit.
Thanks for posting this.
What a wonderful city it was
It still is.. why are you talking about it in past tense. Have you been to downtown Detroit in the last 5-10 years?
Then we let women vote.
@@Helmuesi911 Detroit is one of the most dangerous cities in America now. Spare us your pro-welfare state crap.
Are you certain of the age of this film? At time stamp 2:08 is the construction of the Dime building. This is a historical landmark. Construction was started in 1910 and completed by 1912. This leads me to believe that this film is not from the 1920’s, but I’m fact earlier. Such a wonderful journey back in time for us Detroiters. Thank you for sharing.
The first phase of The First National Bank Building was constructed at the foot of Woodward and Fort Street in 1924 and it was 25 stories tall. This is what I believe the picture at 2:08 is showing and not the Dime building.
Loved this video. My grandpa was born in Detroit in 1927, it’s no wonder he was a car guy.
this is the time i wish i was alive. sure there were struggles . but in my eyes .old man now. you can see the descency in all the people who lived there. everyone dressed in suits .zero trash on the streets people had pride in the community. breaks my heart to see what has become of our great cities . thanks nass this was a tough one to stomach .sad but true
so true will ya let in 20 million illegals what think going to happen
thank you very much
I hear ya. It’s “tough to stomach” how societal values have devolved into what we see today. The only thing that brings me out of grieving over it is knowing that Christ’s reign on earth is coming (very soon, I believe). The Bible tells us what to expect life to look like just before the end of this Age, and boy are we seeing it. Thank God this world won’t continue as it is.
You can blame media plus overpopulation for devolving of behaviour.
@@outlander234 blame miss use of tax money
Thank you for posting this amazing video. My great grandparents and grand parents would have walked these streets at this time, at a later date I was born there.
this is a beautiful film. thank you
thank you very much
What amazes me the most is how well dressed is the average pedestrian.....even kids look spiffy....you look at the average city walker today and for the most part, they are uniformly....slobs ..we have descended to a lower degree of civilized behavior at a breathtaking speed.....
DETROIT WAS A GREAT IN 1920
So cool to see back in time over 100 years ago. It was nice back then unlike now.
It's easy to see where Detroit at one time was the wealthiest city in the U.S.
I watch these video’s and it saddens me. How as society we have lost respect for ourselves, elegance,
I am amazed how clean the streets look
Obviously the rest of the city has a long way to go, but downtown Detroit still has clean streets today
Great video nass, incredible footage, great work 👌👍😀
Thx! ;)
This is the closet we’ll ever get to time travel I suppose. It is cool and sad at the same time.
Great video! My dad was born in 1919 and grew up in Detroit and graduated from Wayne State and was on the tennis team. I remember him telling how the street cars cost a nickel for the fare and he never had a nickel so he always just had to walk.😮
Interesting time. Almost all the men and women cover their heads and all the cars look alike. I love this video. Thank you for posting.
thank you
Fascinating!
Thank you for posting this!
Sad to think how a city has fallen
The world has fallen
This film is truly a gift. Thanks for sharing and posting.
Lets add in some diversity and see what happens
My first thought is when you compare how people dress to go out then, and what people look like on Woodward today dressed it’s totally embarrassing, now this isn’t just unique to Detroit, this is right across our whole country, we as a society have tanked so much, it shows really a lack of self-respect when people can’t dress decently when they’re out and about.
Man, I agree. I live in Jersey next door to New York and when I go to New York I am at least in a blazer and a nice pair of jeans. Not a shabby T- shirt and baggy pants. I agree, men lost the style of the 1920's to 1940's for sure! It's a pity!
I disagree I like dressing casually. The neck tie is the stupidest invention ever. You have probably seen me on some 'People of Walmart' videos.
Drugatics on the streets, lesbians, and smokers do the job of dropping the society level.
@@sonnycorleone3251”jeans and a blazer” oh no…
@@cgeorge6786so you’re fine with being a slob?
My mother and her parents lived in Detroit at this time. My mother would occasionally recount how shocking it was for her to hear, for the first time, voices coming over her father's crystal set.
Nass never ceases to amaze me, one doesn't see these every day!
Thanks Nass! 🤠👍 🇺🇸
Thank you very much for your support sir, it really means a lot to us, God bless you
Back when everyone pulled his own weight and was proud. No government hand outs.
Detroit Detroit man oh man if only you knew what was only probably 42 yrs away from happening. The country has certainly turned into a wasteland
This is a really cool video. Most of these places are still around. Love the colors
When people and cities had class and self-respect.
I'm glad someone took the trouble to make these movies with the equipment we had back then which was much more difficult to use than today. That it's been preserved is priceless. We didn't yet have sound in movies in the 20s.
Please, if you like the past, I suggest you do stop your continuous letting down of it and making it seem so primitive. It WASNT!!! Did you know we had color pictures in the 1920s, and the first sound films were far before even 1920.
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I expect you to never judge a book by its cover.
The Motor City Miracle. These folks would be appalled by what has happened to that once great city!🙏🇺🇸
And specifically with the help of YOUR GOVERNMENT and the mind set of the particular group of people and the business folks making the decisions
@@brucebeamon5460 yes, socialist Dems 🤢
I am totally appalled. I am 84 and grew up in Michigan. Worked in downtown Detroit as a teenager. We went to the theaters and window-shopped the big department stores at midnight. Later worked near the
Fisher building and walked there every day. Boblo boat dancing. It was great. Never a thought it would one day be a total ruin. Breaks my heart to see what it has become. I no longer live in Michigan.
@@ramongonzalez2112you mean Jews and blacks
We almost seen a killing by auto at 1:59. WOW. Incredible work on this video.
thank you
That didn't change did it
Thank you for another time travel presentation. But why are there no joggers or people walking around in torn clothing?
Thx ;)
They're dressed as dignified, self respecting humans, not cretins.
Every one of these men had a job and every woman had a job or was a housewife with a husband....
The Foley editing is remarkable.
This was a nice glimpse into the past to where there is literally no on alive today to tell us about. Fascinating that literally every man and woman wore hats back the. Times sure have changed which is to be expected after 100 years. Well done. 👍👍
Nice to see everything standing and un-condemed what a beautiful time it must have been. Thank you for this, again nice to see my city from a better time. I am only a few minutes down the road from it and i do not even go see it today because it is such a mess.
Nass,Detroit, Just fabulous! 1920's Henry Ford literally ran the place with his automobiles! Haha. Plus Charlie Gehringer was Detroit Tigers second baseman 1926-1942. I have baseball encyclopedia that tells me this. Thanks for another great upload!
Thx! ;))
Actually, Henry avoided setting up shop in Detroit proper, for many of the same reasons some would today.
احب هذه القناة أنها تعيد بنا للزمن الجميل للأشياء المفقودة التي تمنينا لو عشناها وكنا في ذاك الزمان
I got to know Detroit in 1971 as I had emigrated to Canada and got a job in Windsor. I was too shy and innocent to get around much but by that time you could see that Detroit had already gone to pot. But the Big Three were still healthy then.....