Detroit: Living in Ghost Town
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มิ.ย. 2023
- This city, where formerly General Motors, Ford and Chrysler employed almost every citizen, was declared bankrupt in 2013. The car industry moved away to low-wage countries and over a million citizens left the city: ‘Motown’ became ‘Ghost town’.
In this environment of decay, a few diehards stubbornly keep running their business; one of them is barber Roberto (73), who used to be the hairstylist of many Motown artists. In his barber shop the old spirit is still alive: soul music blares from his jukebox and his customers, mostly above 70 years old, swear by the glam Chuck Berry hairdo.
Barber Shop Detroit tells the story of nostalgia and pride against a background of economic recession. How the past can help endure the present. Or like a customer explains: ‘If you take care of your hair, your hair will take care of you’.
Barber Shop Episode 3 - Detroit / USA
Director: Luc Vrydaghs
Producer: Emmy Oost
Production: Cassette for timescapes - บันเทิง
As a 71 year old white man l enjoyed the hell out of this video, miss the good old days of Motown ( 4 tops, Marvin Gaye, Teddy Pendergrass and so many more, truly blessed to live during this time
God bless you 🙏🏼
As a 261 year old vampire I'm just glad to be living in the sewer! Daylight can't touch me!!!
@@bluu_ice6554you bit my sister you savage
What does your age, gender and race have to do with anything here?
Alternative facts? Teddy Pendergrass is from Philadelphia not Detroit.
I live in Detroit suburbs but I worked all over Detroit and I know all these places shown. What a great doc man. This is better then most stuff on TV.
I do respect the elders here totally right about the young generation
Every word they said was right but they are as dumb as a bag of rocks!
I would watch countless seasons of this 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
These dudes got so much knowledge and insight to the city. These are the ones that should be running the city.
Don't be silly!
The last thing Detroit needs are under-educated _amateurs_ running the city.
Much praise to the filmmaker for making such an outstanding documentary on my hometown.
“I’ll be the last one to cut off the lights and lock the door.” That’s heavy
I hope Detroit RECOVERS.
I wish this was longer. What pulls at my heart string is around minute 23. Those two ladies sleeping while the men are just as chipper as can be. Reminds me of my grandmother. Everytime we went to the beauty parlor she would fall asleep under the dryer and I knew that was the most peaceful sleep she would ever get because once she left the shop it was back to catching the bus to work, taking care of elderly people. Catching the bus back home to a house full of her grandchildren while our parents worked. Trying to keep us inside from the outside. She was the first African American on her block in the 50s but by the 80s white flight happened and crack ruined the neighborhood. The cost of the home back in the 50s was 6000 and she sold it for 200k about 5 years ago. They have gentrified the neighborhood and now a house for 1.5 million sits on what use to be her lot.
I absolutely loved this. It was definitely very nostalgic and hit close to home (literally since I live about 50min from the D). I love how they're continuing to do their part of keeping up the community. May they continue to prosper
I’m not from Detroit, but I could just imagine sitting in barbershop there in the 70’s or early 80’s. Just listening to the older “playaz” talking about what’s going down. The “D” just has amazing an vibe to it…
You ain't gotta go there back in the 70s and 80s you can still go there today and get that same experience from my friend I promise you it aint changed much love
7 Mile and Schoenherr. My hood!
Love these Old heads.
I worked in Detroit for 8 months on a renovation project and I loved the City of MOTOWN.
gotta cherish the older generation of black folk while they're here...love them
This was a great documentary!
I couldn't stop until it was over! So good, yet sad, but hopeful of the future at the same time.
I love this store about life and family.
Thas Pastor Donald he never stops preaching..my sons mentor/father we love you Pastor❤️❤️
This is Style Central they still Getting it Detroit’s Excellence we stay fresh
I drove through Detroit years ago and it was devastating. Sad it hasn’t changed after all these years.
Changed into what? Grow up!
Hello and good day to you ladies and gentlemen watching this video...saying hello from Melrose Park Illinois 🇺🇸 USA today is Thursday June 29th 2023😍
I really enjoyed this documentary and it touched my heart🩷 I am from Detroit and this brings back so many memories from my city. Who ever made this did a beautiful job and I would love to see more of these videos‼️ 👏🏾👏🏾
I just went in Roberto's a few months ago the guy that owns it is my cousin's dad turn this on instantly recognized the place lol
THIS IS GOLD!!
You are amazing people sir❤🎉
I’m probably about the same age as these older men. The older generation hated our music, clothing styles, and hair. That’s why I am not bothered by these things that the younger generation do. Our generation was the counter culture, so the older generation was extremely disapproving.
right? all this swirling madness going on is par for the course. i was born in 70 and literally remember everything since 4/19/74 and how every decade somebody was all up in arms about something. it never changes . . . 23 Skidoo!!
Awesome Documentary 💪🏾🔥
Great documentary about my former hometown, Detroit!😉👍🏾👊🏾
I worked with The Legendary Mr. James Brown, Michael Jackson, Ron Banks, The Dramatics; and Many others. Definitely knew "Fletcher Sawyer" whose Family Business was located in Toledo, Ohio!👊🏼😎💯
Gratitude.
Ps "And where I lived
It was house, field, field
Field, field, house
Abandoned house, field, field" - Danny Brown
Beautiful people
✨ 💈.. my cuzzin T.C use to cut our hair over by prairie st. Back in day .. I’m from Detroit Michigan also . I miss it there and those times .. I would go from NY to MI every year split between my parents . I kept telling my Ny fam about the grass and lawns out there 😂
Damn this was good, nothing but pure wisdom!
Thank you for this video. I love you Detroit
This was definitely good, sad to see the neighborhood like that, but loved the owner who said he would be the last to go, reminds me of the movie Sugar Hill, when the dad said I ain't leaving Harlem, I am Harlem.💜💯💪🏾
Great content Detroit will rise again from South Africa 🇿🇦🇿🇦
This is beautiful! Love it!
I had no idea men wore perms like that in Detroit but then again Malcom X wore a ‘conk’ and they called him Detroit Red
BRAVO!
Im a barber as well as a documentarian.
Great showing!
Loved this ❤
man, i haven't been to a black barber shop in 30 plus years since moving to rural america. shout out to the old Harry's Afro Hut in Bmore! i remember my dad taking me there and the owner himself cutting his hair, how every topic under the sun would be discussed, and then some if no women were around. no matter how little you were the barbers always treated you like a gentleman and never talked down to you. i really, really miss those times.
I'm white and my dad didn't play. Belts an switches 😮
He taught me how to be responsible for my actions and be staying busy making money
i think ethnicity doesn't matter when it comes to getting the belt, if you are of a certain age. the 80's were the end of the mainstream acceptance of whippings. a lot of the late boomers were teens and young adults during the 60's and 70's, so they started raising their kids with a new "kinder gentler" philosophy. . . unfortunately, my late boomer parents did not get that memo.
Bravo !!! More this could be a mini series
Awesome documentary
I really liked this... We Love Detroit.
good documentary.
I can smell the scene between 8:13-9:00 😂😂 og colognes be on point 😆 🤣
Shout out to the D.Spent lots of time in Flint, Detroit & Pontiac in the 80's. Caddies was always the car of choice.
Amazing work!!!
That’s my neighborhood dope this was good
I'm not going to tell him to sit in the corner, I'm gonna whoop his ass ! 😂😂
That's my dad reincarnated. 🤣
Great video!!!
Nice documentary
Fascinating.
These old Heads putting perms an waves 🌊 in they still getting they’re hair done
The OGs . Much respect
I learned something new about the source of the blight in Detroit.
Always gotta show love to the OG’S💯
I'm a 79 year old white guy. I was born and raised in Detroit. Moved out of the city at 50 years old, due to the crime. The riots of 1967 had a devastating effect on the town. I still love Detroit, and try to feel optimistic about a comeback.
Ótimo vídeo ❤
I know Larry. I knew him and his brother Loyd! Good sharp brothers. 20 some years ago I lived over there on the Eastside a block away from his original shop
I can't figure out if this video was filmed in 90's (but they don't dress like the 90's.....but finger wave is the 90's) or was this filmed in the early 2000's......(I think I saw a girl on a cell phone).
The black Cadillac in the beginning is a DTS, it came out in 2006.
I love old Cadillacs too..
Disfrute mucho de este Video muy destacado de verda
My sister is in the video!! 🎉🎉🎉
THEY GOT ME ON HERE GETTING MY HAIR DONE 😂
I Love these Men it's like going back in time to the good old day's the only thing that I want to happen before I die is that The Black People and the White People become Friends because we are all Children from our Lord RESPECT 🙏
Unfortunately for Blk Folks, we never had any "Good Old Days". 🤬
I LOVE MY CITY AND MY CAREER!!!!!!!!!!
This is awesome! ❤
Good to see Larry still doing is waves i see guys in the streets and i asked who did your hair?(Larry)
U know his work!
A legend! ❤
Nice documentary
ICE CUBE AINT GOT NOTHING ON THIS BARBERSHOP 💈 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Nice work. ✝️☮️💟😇
❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤God bless you sir 🙏
Those men are keepin it fried, dyed, and laid to the side! Old school.
Michigan has a lot of real ghost towns. I lived in one of them. Detroit is NOT a ghost town. A real ghost town has no open stores, schools, anything. The guy that said its too many opportunities here is right.
60's vibe
👍👌👏 2) I knew that Detroit became a problematic city. But I definitely didn't know how bad it got.
There’s enough pennies in there to buy you some more cents 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I want to go there and get me some finger waves!!
🔥🔥🔥
Tina! and Bessie! Knocked! the Fluff Out!.
black people have a great sense of humour
Naw, y'all ain't fooling me, this a pimp documentary diguised as a barbershop doc!!!!!!!!!
i was expecting to see shea from the Shea show to walk in to get his hair did
"Everything they do ugly" 😂😂😂
It is a shame what this community did to destroy what once was.
That's what some people will have you think. Detroit is booming.
Im not from Detroit yet have been there dozens of times and spent many days working there and visiting family. Im a few months from 60 and two things really caught my attention. 1st was when they were in the shop comparing the older generation to the latest and one brother said that one if the things that degraded the community was the law that said "you cant whip your children." I've never seen nor heard of such law. I've researched it and it does not exist in any state in the U.S., This is beyond me why people have fallen for this lie, rumor, propaganda, social engineering, brainwashing, indoctrination or whatever you'd like to label it without questioning its validity.
2nd was when they were talking about the younger barber having his vehicle broken into and joking that it was the older patron getting his hair processed. He mentioned that he no longer lives that life and takes his mother to church every Sunday. Then the camera panned to whom i believe was Roberto (shop owner) and he said; " come give me a kiss." I thought this was a documentary about old skool Detroit players, new skool fools and the differences, that shyt through me for a loop.
cps will take your kids away for spanking so its true
I actually like Detroit, if it made enough sense I wouldn’t mind moving there! But they got to clean up the b.s
I think the vehicles manufactured really hurt.
REAL DETROIT PLAYERS
I'm asking this question because i DO KNOW .... WHO OWNS ALL THE LIQUOR STORES??? AND ALSO THE SUPER MARKETS???
Arabs 😂
People who live in Dearborn, MI.
(((((Jevvs))))).....
Bet a lot of these guys remember GOLDEN WORLD records.
Used to live right next door... on the Number Streets
And this is the EastSide they still Looking 👀 Good and u know us west siders always LookGood. 👀
Detroit is far from being a ghost town , i just moved back from Houston 2yrs ago and it's more populated than the year I left. a lot of white folks found their comfort zone and even foreigners made they way into the city, it amazed me because it's still the same vibe but it changed at the same time
Black is Beautiful
What happen why this house are empty 😕 sir
They went to india to see ram mandir
rent is cheap and payments for services in non taxable cash. Probably still getting social security too. Life is good
Omg!😱😱
A house cost $500 in Detroit..
no hell no