However, by showing the unseemly and unattractive side of America, Charliebo 313 is persona non-grata. Poverty, urban blight, and things of this nature are taboo subjects and unwelcome by Western audiences. America has to always be portrayed as the land of youth, vigor, expansionist economic development , endless achievement and wonderment. Urban decay is a problem that has existed throughout the history of mankind and it is irremediable, however, I like to see the places that are unseen nonetheless. This also demonstrates the power of the internet, people can see the blemishes of a society. I find balance in watching these videos. You realize that life is a constant cycle of destruction and renewal, and you get to see this. America though, is a country that can never grow up, it's always eternally youthful and vigorous and not subject to the ravages of time. Little homage is paid to history in this country, only the present and future are what matter. And , IMHO, a lot of foreigners immigrate here because they are attracted to the utopic illusion of eternal youthfulness and vigor that this country readily provides. And utopia is always just around the corner. For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. Henry A. Kissinger
What always amazes me in your videos and those of other TH-cam posters of Detroit is how one block can radically differ from another... One that is well kept, while the next one is totally abandoned with rotting houses... I'm also amazed when I see well kept houses with rotting houses next door to them... The sad thing is that these rotted houses were once beautiful, solid homes...
Yeah I go to college in Detroit and the area my university is in is pretty safe and nice and kept well but then if you walk just one or two miles away from the campus area you'll be getting into the shady parts of Detroit
When you turned onto Hazelridge from Chalmers, the 2nd house past the blue & white house was my parents house. We moved there in 1973. My dad sold the house in 2006. 3 months after he moved someone stole the awning for scrap. It used to be a great neighborhood.
I've never heard so many crickets in a city in my entire life. It's more fields and forest now than an actual urban area. Wow. Talk about life after humans.
+NyandUsaPolitics no it's actually true. Grosse Point borders Detroit and in some areas it goes from houses like these in the video to giant 7k sq foot houses worth close to a million, all within the same mile. Sad but true.
I knew that city from east, west, north and south growing up! Just breaks my heart! Had to learn to survive when I lived there and now! Man, just sad! sad!
@@africanlipplateandbonenose3223 That's why we all need to support President Trump. He's been preaching the evils of globalism and bad trade deals that outsource our jobs for years.
Fascinating videos. Thanks for taking the time to post them and yes, narrated versions are much more engaging. I have never been to Detroit but it's difficult to believe that it's in the United States.
I will say this much more. I had no idea that Detroit's layout was so good! Really well-designed grid, good city planning. I really like the street names also for some reason. Damn but that city must really have been something in its heyday. I can just imagine what the folks from that era would have thought if they were told it would be like this in a few decades.
There's No One Left the neighborhood where my grandfather grew up was full of nice houses where all the people worked in the auto industry. now it is full of gangs, drugs and crime. he lived there until it started to go down hill. I have driven through there with him and he is very sad when he sees how the people have destroyed the old neighborhood.
todd krager my mother would cry if she could see what was left of the house she was born and raised in off of John R and 7 Mile. I was raised in the same house and it breaks my heart...
Keep doing what you do CharliBo313, your narration was good, even your work without narration was good also. I enjoyed hearing you mention about where you played basketball, it gave other angle to your narration if you get me. I am from England so to see Detroit from a local none national media angle was refreshing and real...
I like the narration, brother. Please keep making these videos! I am fascinated by them. I live in MA, but I really do want to visit Detroit. I can see many positives within this community- there are some BRIGHT spots.
I worked 30 years for AT&T in this area and watched it go down hill, also I was born and raised in this area, lived here from 1956 till 1981 last worked here in 2009 , you should have seen it when it was a nice area it was beautiful, now I want to cry 😢
Cool video! I always find myself straining to see the street signs, trying to figure out just where they are. I did some sewer cleaning for a company on Chalmers and 7 Mile, (way back in the last century) and lived briefly at Chalmers and Warren. There were no open fields or empty areas then. Hope to see more narration, and have you considered captioning?
Not for EVERYBODY Sir! So glad you enjoyed your privelage though Sir.
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@@mumuseer87 There are A LOT of beautiful, hard-working people who still live there, just a lot of historical discrimination and socio-economic injustice that has taken place.
Love the way the blocks were so different, with abandoned homes on one & very nice homes on the next with people living in them. I vote for the narration, but only when you feel like talking. The talking kind of fills in the gaps where some of us may miss the finer points. Anyway you look at this, it is a crime to see neighborhoods go down like this. Thank you, Sir. Peace.
my friends family lived behind that fire station, and my grandparents live on Chelsea and Park Drive near Dickerson, I used to live on Waltham Avenue between 6 & 7 mile!
Funny, I lived on Goulburn between 6 & 7. Actually, I lived on the corner house of Goulburn and East McNichols. Directly behind the bakery and Kubish Sausage. In fact, I became a fireman in Detroit, and served many tours of duty at that fire station, Engine 50, Ladder 23, Chief 9. Small world.
Good video, I can remember Detroit in the 50’s, vibrant and safe, no empty ground with grass growing just solid houses or business, a total shame what has happened, will be another 100yrs to ever look like it’s coming back!!!!!!
CharlieBo313 I watch your videos. I am from NY and I like trying to put together some of the places you take me in Detroit. Great video's and you narrating makes it even better. P/S I have seen that blue house before. The one after the hooker. LOL.
Thank you, sir. The narration is great. As a Police Officer at #15 PCT, a long time ago, I knew that area like the back of my hand, and, interacted with many fine people. Your tour with narration reminds me of so much, and, how it used to be. Keep up the good work and keep posting with as much narration as possible.
Your nice, clear voice adds a lot to these videos. I also really enjoyed your video on the different dialects around the country. I couldn't understand a word of the neighborhoods in the South. Pennsylvania and New York were easily understood. I bet The Discovery Channel would be interested.
I like the narrations too. Some of your videos pan past the street signs so quickly that it's hard to see. I had to leave a few years ago for my job but like videos i can watch that bring back memories. BTW, i watched a video yesterday and the guy was so confused how to pronounce Gratiot. Lol. WWJ in the background is awesome too.
Narration is great, it's good to hear someone who has knowledge of the areas, and can share personal experiences or stories. Hopefully this is a step forward for your channel.
I vote you should narrate too. I grew up in Detroit but on the northwest side. I love knowing the streets you are on. Thanks. If you don't narrate if you focus on the street signs that would help.
I'm fascinated by Detroit. I am an aerial photographer, and I'd love to spend a week there. Charlie, what kind of gimbal setup do you have for your camera? The video looks really good.
The old tie the camera around the rear view mirror with the strap and use the mirror as a gimbal lol. My Sony video camera was stolen, this is a Canon G1X but it also takes good HD video too.
Oh yeah that "lady" be workin' da streets,y'all...good ole De-troit, reppin` what democRATS do to cities, states, and countries....look, listen and learn if you except the USA to have a better future than the one it's going downhill to !
Charlie i would like to see another video with narration after Dexter area...i would like to see area next to Livernois between Chicago and Joy Rd...that area was worst Detroit neighborhood and in top 5 worst in Amreica for (if im right) 3 years in a row...i think it would be interesting content for your upcoming videos...you could even throw in short clip of that night time incident at Joy road liquor store witch is right next to that area so people that are not familiar with what type of things are happening i worst areas of Amreica can see
Great video. We watch your videos from time to time and must applaud you on the raw insights which they offer. Your narrations could be seen as an added information, to most, but your videos without narrations are just as good, allowing us to reach our own conclusions.
Detroit is very flat. The few Hills in Detroit Proper are artificial, made from rubble gathered when excavating for construction. I lived a mile from Balduck Hill. It was only about 40' high when I was young (early seventies) and has subsided to about 25' (8m). What is true about Detroit is that there is a real gradual grade over the whole city. The northwest city proper is more than 100' (30m) above the Detroit River. An arc of higher terrain runs from the Irish Hills in Lenawee County (70 miles/115km southwest of Detroit) northward, veering east into Livingston and Oakland Counties thence eastward to a point just west of Romeo in Macomb County, all land east of there being flat. In the days before the mass-proliferation of powerful, inexpensive orange sodium lamps, People would go to Stony Creek Metropark, 26mi (40km) north of Downtown Detroit, to see the fireworks display in July, through binoculars.
First off, I would like to thank you for all your videos. As a skinny, middle-class, white Australian male it absolutely blows my mind the amount of shit I'd be in if I imagine myself in half the places you drive down.. The unfortunate decline of Detroit completely fascinates me, it's almost like a third-world country it seems in some places. But I guess it's easy feel a sense of amusement watching a video when I'm so far removed from the reality.. You may not be the biggest channel on TH-cam, but you're one of the only ones that I watch every single upload. Keep up the good work. Cheers from Australia! Ps. I prefer the narration.
Your fact are messed up, it was Maserati Rick & The Bestfriends who use to bodyguard Thomas Hearns... Thomas Hearns was from the Eastside and he's known Rick throughout his childhood...
lol dude im from the eastside, and I have seen the same doc you're talking he was body guarded by Maserati Rick... what's the name of the doc that you're talking about?
I'm from the eastside too. I don't know the name of the documentary, but it's the one where they interview that guy on the front porch of that abandoned house who was a former member of YBI. He talks about it.
Charlie do more of these narrated videos....And thanks for touring my old neighborhood...It brought back many memories (Houston, Whittier and Kelly)...
They are mostly cheaper and many people or their relatives are employed at the big 3 so they get additional discounts. Also Detroit and the surrounding area have always supported American manufactured cars because the are has a lot of stake in the success of the Big 3. I never realized that till I went other places and saw so many foreign cars like California, NY areas.
I love your videos man. Puts everything into perspective to me. Idk what you’re goal is or what you try to accomplish with these videos but if that’s it you certainly succeed with me. I love the narration also. Great work you do sir
I like it much better when you speak, letting us know which streets you are traveling. With so many homes burned, it is sometimes difficult to know where you are, without narration. I enjoy your videos. I miss Detroit.
To add to my comment, the block Amazing Foods Supermarket is located belonged on the block belonging to my Grandfather, Edmund Rivard, from the early 1900's to his death in 1948. It was first a general store, and then a grocery store. My Grandmother sold the block shortly his passing, and it was first Fisher Pontiac, then Maxey Lincoln-Mercury. I believe the block was purchased in the 1990's and a supermarket constructed. I think it is ironic the block transitioned back to a market after 50 years or so as car dealerships. My Mother's family, Rivard, and other related families go back to the early 1700's in this neighborhood, Warren (the Tech Center area) and Grosse Pointe (the Hill).
It was innovation and manufacturing that created these wonderful cities. We as a society have to invest in science and engineering, here in this country, to revitalize these communities. Then the workers need to hold rights on their own productions, not some billionaire who will use is to create the economy of tomorrow and then send it across the planet just to line their pockets with billions. We can do this, it's within our power to determine our countries destiny. We can no longer rely on those in power to change our fate. We must do it ourselves
they would probably think you are from suburbs and that you wanna buy drugs so they would approach you trying to sell...some others might try to rob you...but the thing is this...people live normal life there so you can too by just not dwelling in unknown and unsafe areas...by not staring...basicly acting normal and minding your own buisness
Nice video man. I think it is very interesting seeing the different parts of this city. Seems surreal how blighted some of these areas are. Keep up the nice vids man!
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Arem Krotov Not true I have friends in Russia and the houses are very poor not even a fence, only Putin lives like king, you guys should protest do not let this rich man steals more from you, my friends can not even decorate their house or buy new furniture and they mostly eat potatoes, that means us italian are not better we are struggling too like everybody else, peace bro.✌
Charlie...where your video ended, if you'd have turned left, went 3 blocks and turned right and went 1 1/2 blocks you would be where I was born and raised. Also, if you would have turned left instead of right onto Wayburn, the 3rd house up was where my aunt lived. Also when you where stopped at the light at Kelly and Hayes, if you'd turned left on to the side street (Craft) you'd have been on the block where a guy who's been one of my best friends for 60 years lived. It was really cool to see the old neighborhood (even if it's a bit rundown) as it's been about 30 years since the last time I was there. I liked the narration too.
50 years ago you had clean people living in these neighborhoods who took care of and had pride in their homes. Today it's honestly resembling a jungle. Nature is taking over and human life has disappeared. Generations of hard work gone.
Hi Charlie ! I enjoyed the narration and the street info... I hope that you can do more in the future ! This is a good argument for eminent domain to get control of the vacant wrecks and proceed as quickly as the city can to demolish them... And that brings up a few issues... The costs have doubled due to corruption ( the old formula for figuring the costs was based on square footage (( L x W)) and then the formula was changed to cubic feet (( L x W x H ))... H= Height )... And it takes several different contractors to demolish a house due to asbestos, etc. Then, there's the fact that there are anywhere from 60-80,000 abandoned homes and buildings to demolish...
It's amazing how nice the architecture is. You can tell a lot of the destroyed houses were really nice at one point. This is what happens when industry goes to Mexico and Canada and the shitty government hands people section 8 money.
What came first though? The loss of jobs or black migration from the South. Everybody just assumes the jobs just packed up and left. Maybe it got to expensive to do business there with all the crime and drug use. Hard to find good workers maybe? I saw a special on a Ford factory in Mexico and how hard they work and the pride they take in their work. The wages are only a part of the equation. When Clinton passed NAFTA through in the 90's , these were still good neighborhoods. Only took one generation(20 yrs) to turn to shit.
I spent many days on HW as a young girl, by Kelly. My first apartment 19000 Chalmers. My grandparents home 14674 Seymour. Mom grad from Denby. Another era, so sorry it's gone.
lived in flint for a spell in the early 2000 s and god dammm it had to be worse than anything ive seen in los angeles ….gun shots daily and fights morning to night ….. but what really makes it the worst is the abandoned runned down housing projects houses and shops all torn up and overgrown vegetation everywhere sucks for everyone any race or creed
Detroit used to be VERY RACIST, well that's most of America and American cities. America was actually founded and literally built on that, it's the foundation.
From a life long, west side, Detroit resident, this is like going into a foreign country to me. West of Woodward Avenue and east of Woodward never met! (g) They just aren't, either remodeling, or tearing down these abandon homes, fast enough in the city. Knocking down the unlivable houses, at least would allow grass and trees to take their places.
I believe there is a combination of reasons. Arsonists, insurance jobs and maybe even "Hired People" to do this in specific areas to drive people out. Sad, sad, sad...
I've been watching the rioting all over the US. Made me wonder if those cities will look like Detroit in a few years from now. There had to be more to this than just the car manufacturers left.
the house I was born in and the first house I bought are just fields now it's like Detroit is erasing history of people's lives soon Detroit Will be the farming capital of Michigan lol
well then maybe you should move back what should They do just leave the abandon houses sitting there to rot and I don't understand all the people are against having farms in Detroit God forbid people have fresh vegetables to eat. Detroit needs to to diversify for too long it's depended on the automotive industry.
I'm not from Detroit and don't know much about it, but I'd say you do a great job with the narration. Talking about the different neighborhoods definitely helps people from out of town understand Detroit.
It would be weird as fuck being the last remaining home owner on some of these abandoned blocks.
I vote you should do more narration! It makes these videos even better, you do a good job
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Same lol
Omg it looks like the walkin dead new session
However, by showing the unseemly and unattractive side of America, Charliebo 313 is persona non-grata. Poverty, urban blight, and things of this nature are taboo subjects and unwelcome by Western audiences. America has to always be portrayed as the land of youth, vigor, expansionist economic development , endless achievement and wonderment.
Urban decay is a problem that has existed throughout the history of mankind and it is irremediable, however, I like to see the places that are unseen nonetheless.
This also demonstrates the power of the internet, people can see the blemishes of a society. I find balance in watching these videos. You realize that life is a constant cycle of destruction and renewal, and you get to see this. America though, is a country that can never grow up, it's always eternally youthful and vigorous and not subject to the ravages of time. Little homage is paid to history in this country, only the present and future are what matter.
And , IMHO, a lot of foreigners immigrate here because they are attracted to the utopic illusion of eternal youthfulness and vigor that this country readily provides. And utopia is always just around the corner.
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
Henry A. Kissinger
Right on
You're doing something good, man. Keep up the good work. More people need to see what's going on every day in Detroit and other American cities.
I would rent only if CharlieBoo patrols, hourly.
What always amazes me in your videos and those of other TH-cam posters of Detroit is how one block can radically differ from another...
One that is well kept, while the next one is totally abandoned with rotting houses...
I'm also amazed when I see well kept houses with rotting houses next door to them...
The sad thing is that these rotted houses were once beautiful, solid homes...
Homes for sale in Detroit at a median listing price of $64900!
Yeah I go to college in Detroit and the area my university is in is pretty safe and nice and kept well but then if you walk just one or two miles away from the campus area you'll be getting into the shady parts of Detroit
This is awesome! Please, do more with narration!
Love the narration- gives a lot more context to the situation. Keep up the good work!
there's something very good about you doing this I'm not sure what it is yet keep it up
it is a shame what happened to Detroit. In some places you can own the only occupied house on a city block.
When you turned onto Hazelridge from Chalmers, the 2nd house past the blue & white house was my parents house. We moved there in 1973. My dad sold the house in 2006. 3 months after he moved someone stole the awning for scrap. It used to be a great neighborhood.
lordofthefools89 what the hell happen here?
lordofthefools89 they looked like nice homes at one time
Definitely man. These houses are gorgeous. It honestly makes me sad seeing them in this state.
The one at around 3;58 ?
i386: I seriously doubt those people couldn't even afford the down payment on a free lunch.
I've never heard so many crickets in a city in my entire life. It's more fields and forest now than an actual urban area.
Wow. Talk about life after humans.
Tae Kim stupidest comment I ever seen on TH-cam 🏆
Detroit crazy there's places where half million dollar homes are one block over from crack houses!!!
+NyandUsaPolitics no it's actually true. Grosse Point borders Detroit and in some areas it goes from houses like these in the video to giant 7k sq foot houses worth close to a million, all within the same mile. Sad but true.
same down in Austin....right across from the projects...lol
All of detroit doesn’t look like this the block I grew up on has never looked like this
Charlie Ledet its like that most cities except Seattle. Seattle dont really have alot of ghettos
That's not unusual at all. North Shore on Oahu is really bad about that. I see it in Thomasville NC all the time.
I knew that city from east, west, north and south growing up! Just breaks my heart! Had to learn to survive when I lived there and now! Man, just sad! sad!
Me too, its hard to watch these video's, but I'm glad he does them. I would dare go to those places today.
Grew up in that neighborhood; whole different world now!
breaks my heart too... my great grandparents, grandparents, my mom and dad (chalmers st.), all were born and lived in that part of Detroit.
@LAFOLLETTER As a general rule? And there is absolutely NO HISTORICAL context for that hate AT ALL, lol.
@@lkern6238 Did historical discrimination and socio-economic injustice break your heart too?
What a waste. Some of those homes are large and beautiful.
Yeah... that kinda made me feel sick to my stomach.
You should have seen it when it was all houses, busy vital area into the 80s.
Thats what Im sayin too....Like why? How? I dont get it at all ...... theres SOOOOO many...Im speechless
immigration and globalism does this. It is spreading. Mass poverty in the name of the almighty dollar at the expense of human lives.
@@africanlipplateandbonenose3223 That's why we all need to support President Trump. He's been preaching the evils of globalism and bad trade deals that outsource our jobs for years.
Fascinating videos. Thanks for taking the time to post them and yes, narrated versions are much more engaging. I have never been to Detroit but it's difficult to believe that it's in the United States.
I enjoyed the narration, thank you.
Thanks for watching.
I will say this much more. I had no idea that Detroit's layout was so good! Really well-designed grid, good city planning. I really like the street names also for some reason. Damn but that city must really have been something in its heyday. I can just imagine what the folks from that era would have thought if they were told it would be like this in a few decades.
I live on the eastside
There's No One Left the neighborhood where my grandfather grew up was full of nice houses where all the people worked in the auto industry. now it is full of gangs, drugs and crime. he lived there until it started to go down hill. I have driven through there with him and he is very sad when he sees how the people have destroyed the old neighborhood.
+todd krager same
todd krager my mother would cry if she could see what was left of the house she was born and raised in off of John R and 7 Mile. I was raised in the same house and it breaks my heart...
There's No One Left i agree good city layout
Good work with the commentary.
Thanks/
Keep doing what you do CharliBo313, your narration was good, even your work without narration was good also. I enjoyed hearing you mention about where you played basketball, it gave other angle to your narration if you get me. I am from England so to see Detroit from a local none national media angle was refreshing and real...
I like the narration, brother.
Please keep making these videos! I am fascinated by them.
I live in MA, but I really do want to visit Detroit. I can see many positives within this community- there are some BRIGHT spots.
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I worked 30 years for AT&T in this area and watched it go down hill, also I was born and raised in this area, lived here from 1956 till 1981 last worked here in 2009 , you should have seen it when it was a nice area it was beautiful, now I want to cry 😢
Cool video! I always find myself straining to see the street signs, trying to figure out just where they are. I did some sewer cleaning for a company on Chalmers and 7 Mile, (way back in the last century) and lived briefly at Chalmers and Warren. There were no open fields or empty areas then. Hope to see more narration, and have you considered captioning?
Thanks for doing these, helps my homesickness. From 8 and John R.
klompsauce I grew up at 7 Mile and John R. Married an east sider tho. He grew up in the same area Charlie was filming.
I lived off 8 mile & John R near Keating and Andover in the mid 70's.
Keating and Andover are now fentanyl junkie squatter land. Its pretty much a whole corner of the city with nothing but addicts and dealers
The narration is excellent!!!!
Detroit is a very green city.
Detroit is a very black city!
Detroit is @very dead city
It has to as a lot of homes n hoods are abandoned
Future of USA :) Wery black and green. Like Afrika.
It's a dam shame what happened to Detroit. It was the best place to grow up in in the 60's!
vin mar According to my father and countless old news media I've watched. Detroit has been on a downward spiral since the 60s. Are they wrong?
Lol yeah @downward spiral to say the very LEAST!?!...
Democrats
Not for EVERYBODY Sir! So glad you enjoyed your privelage though Sir.
@@mumuseer87 There are A LOT of beautiful, hard-working people who still live there, just a lot of historical discrimination and socio-economic injustice that has taken place.
Love the way the blocks were so different, with abandoned homes on one & very nice homes on the next with people living in them. I vote for the narration, but only when you feel like talking. The talking kind of fills in the gaps where some of us may miss the finer points. Anyway you look at this, it is a crime to see neighborhoods go down like this. Thank you,
Sir. Peace.
my friends family lived behind that fire station, and my grandparents live on Chelsea and Park Drive near Dickerson, I used to live on Waltham Avenue between 6 & 7 mile!
Funny, I lived on Goulburn between 6 & 7. Actually, I lived on the corner house of Goulburn and East McNichols. Directly behind the bakery and Kubish Sausage. In fact, I became a fireman in Detroit, and served many tours of duty at that fire station, Engine 50, Ladder 23, Chief 9. Small world.
My family used to live near the firehouse on Alma Street between Laurel & Grover.
@@foreverstricken did you happen to know the Maddox family - father Joseph, mother Joyce, daughter Michelle, and son Shawn?
Good video, I can remember Detroit in the 50’s, vibrant and safe, no empty ground with grass growing just solid houses or business, a total shame what has happened, will be another 100yrs to ever look like it’s coming back!!!!!!
CharlieBo313 I watch your videos. I am from NY and I like trying to put together some of the places you take me in Detroit. Great video's and you narrating makes it even better. P/S I have seen that blue house before. The one after the hooker. LOL.
Thanks for watching.
Thank you, sir. The narration is great. As a Police Officer at #15 PCT, a long time ago, I knew that area like the back of my hand, and, interacted with many fine people. Your tour with narration reminds me of so much, and, how it used to be. Keep up the good work and keep posting with as much narration as possible.
Love trying to follow your routes in Google street view.
Your nice, clear voice adds a lot to these videos. I also really enjoyed your video on the different dialects around the country. I couldn't understand a word of the neighborhoods in the South. Pennsylvania and New York were easily understood. I bet The Discovery Channel would be interested.
u were close to my old block. Mapleridge n chalmers.
Thank you for doing these videos. It's sad to see but you don't get to see this side of America on international TV. Stay safe out there!
Why do black people walk and gather in the streets rather than sidewalks?
Pizza Man so they can walk as a group
"black people" if you were walking down those streets you wouldn't want to be close to the houses
It was never like that in the 70's!
Pizza Man Lived around there for a year on that nicer street or close. Glad it was a temp roommate situation.
Waiting for an easy target, or someone walking alone, sidewalk too small so gather in street.
Detroit is my hometown and I'm so happy that you telling us where you are because I haven't been home since the 80s thank you
Cleveland and Detroit look very similar with the neighborhood layout design.
@Bill Williams
In the northeastern US, and in Europe, houses followed streams, ridges or railroad tracks.
Throw in Memphis side by side looking like Detroit.
Thanks for doing these videos, they're really interesting for those of us who will likely never get to see Detroit in person.
lol that corner house on Hazelridge and Celestine to be exact!!!
New Year's Eve 1995 I played in Detroit with The Dramatics. Being from the west coast "It was like another planet".
I like the narrations too. Some of your videos pan past the street signs so quickly that it's hard to see. I had to leave a few years ago for my job but like videos i can watch that bring back memories.
BTW, i watched a video yesterday and the guy was so confused how to pronounce Gratiot. Lol.
WWJ in the background is awesome too.
Narration is great, it's good to hear someone who has knowledge of the areas, and can share personal experiences or stories. Hopefully this is a step forward for your channel.
2:01 was actually gorgeous and has so much potential..what a shame :o(
I vote you should narrate too. I grew up in Detroit but on the northwest side. I love knowing the streets you are on. Thanks. If you don't narrate if you focus on the street signs that would help.
I'm fascinated by Detroit. I am an aerial photographer, and I'd love to spend a week there. Charlie, what kind of gimbal setup do you have for your camera? The video looks really good.
The old tie the camera around the rear view mirror with the strap and use the mirror as a gimbal lol. My Sony video camera was stolen, this is a Canon G1X but it also takes good HD video too.
CharlieBo313 😂😂😂
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I love your videos. especially when you explain why things are they way there are. people like to know.
The homes in Detroit were some of the best well built homes! Surburb homes are not built as well! So sad!
Jacqueline Canary-Parks yet the homes are vandalized/burnt. the homes is completely destroyed
Jacqueline Canary-Parks do you live in a trailer park?
built to last
Just to show how good the materials were, the dilapidated homes are still standing through all 4 seasons without windows.
Are you dumb or are you just stupid?
thanks for the ride i enjoy little things like this. simple ,
"she works here too, I guess"
jeff mceachern that was my favorite pet 🤣
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Oh yeah that "lady" be workin' da streets,y'all...good ole De-troit, reppin` what democRATS do to cities, states, and countries....look, listen and learn if you except the USA to have a better future than the one it's going downhill to !
Good to hear your voice Charlie, subscriber from England!
Charlie i would like to see another video with narration after Dexter area...i would like to see area next to Livernois between Chicago and Joy Rd...that area was worst Detroit neighborhood and in top 5 worst in Amreica for (if im right) 3 years in a row...i think it would be interesting content for your upcoming videos...you could even throw in short clip of that night time incident at Joy road liquor store witch is right next to that area so people that are not familiar with what type of things are happening i worst areas of Amreica can see
Great video. We watch your videos from time to time and must applaud you on the raw insights which they offer. Your narrations could be seen as an added information, to most, but your videos without narrations are just as good, allowing us to reach our own conclusions.
Damn, I don't think there is a single hill in Detroit.
moto1p1 wrong
moto1p1 not on the east side. A couple of hills on the west side.
Not till you get to Mt. Clemens.
I thought the same thing
Detroit is very flat. The few Hills in Detroit Proper are artificial, made from rubble gathered when excavating for construction.
I lived a mile from Balduck Hill. It was only about 40' high when I was young (early seventies) and has subsided to about 25' (8m).
What is true about Detroit is that there is a real gradual grade over the whole city.
The northwest city proper is more than 100' (30m) above the Detroit River.
An arc of higher terrain runs from the Irish Hills in Lenawee County (70 miles/115km southwest of Detroit) northward, veering east into Livingston and Oakland Counties thence eastward to a point just west of Romeo in Macomb County, all land east of there being flat.
In the days before the mass-proliferation of powerful, inexpensive orange sodium lamps,
People would go to Stony Creek Metropark, 26mi (40km) north of Downtown Detroit, to see the fireworks display in July, through binoculars.
First off, I would like to thank you for all your videos.
As a skinny, middle-class, white Australian male it absolutely blows my mind the amount of shit I'd be in if I imagine myself in half the places you drive down..
The unfortunate decline of Detroit completely fascinates me, it's almost like a third-world country it seems in some places.
But I guess it's easy feel a sense of amusement watching a video when I'm so far removed from the reality..
You may not be the biggest channel on TH-cam, but you're one of the only ones that I watch every single upload.
Keep up the good work.
Cheers from Australia!
Ps. I prefer the narration.
Your fact are messed up, it was Maserati Rick & The Bestfriends who use to bodyguard Thomas Hearns... Thomas Hearns was from the Eastside and he's known Rick throughout his childhood...
No you're wrong, it was YBI. There is a documentary on TH-cam about YBI where they talk about that.
lol dude im from the eastside, and I have seen the same doc you're talking he was body guarded by Maserati Rick... what's the name of the doc that you're talking about?
I'm from the eastside too. I don't know the name of the documentary, but it's the one where they interview that guy on the front porch of that abandoned house who was a former member of YBI. He talks about it.
you gotta rewatch that documentry, it is Rollin & it another one called Maserati Rick you need to watch also...
I will try to find and rewatch it today.
Charlie do more of these narrated videos....And thanks for touring my old neighborhood...It brought back many memories (Houston, Whittier and Kelly)...
if you know some of the history of the houses or businesses you pass put that in the narration too
I will try to add more of that in the next one I narrate.
Thank You For Your Great Narration To This Video, Dear! God Bless You! The Irish Rose From Akron, Ohio! ☘️🌹
I noticed there are hardly any foreign vehicles. Are American cars cheaper since they are assembled there?
They are mostly cheaper and many people or their relatives are employed at the big 3 so they get additional discounts. Also Detroit and the surrounding area have always supported American manufactured cars because the are has a lot of stake in the success of the Big 3. I never realized that till I went other places and saw so many foreign cars like California, NY areas.
You get the teased in Detroit for driving a honda or Toyota.
Keith Mcintosh If you are a union member you best not be caught driving a foreign car. Just sayin’...
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I love your videos man. Puts everything into perspective to me. Idk what you’re goal is or what you try to accomplish with these videos but if that’s it you certainly succeed with me. I love the narration also. Great work you do sir
I like it much better when you speak, letting us know which streets you are traveling. With so many homes burned, it is sometimes difficult to know where you are, without narration.
I enjoy your videos. I miss Detroit.
At first he wasn't saying nothing but just driving around, I don't think he like to narrate much but at least saying the Street Names are helpful.
Narration is excellent. It’s always best to tell the story.
Good job with the narration. Makes the video much more interesting.
To add to my comment, the block Amazing Foods Supermarket is located belonged on the block belonging to my Grandfather, Edmund Rivard, from the early 1900's to his death in 1948. It was first a general store, and then a grocery store. My Grandmother sold the block shortly his passing, and it was first Fisher Pontiac, then Maxey Lincoln-Mercury. I believe the block was purchased in the 1990's and a supermarket constructed. I think it is ironic the block transitioned back to a market after 50 years or so as car dealerships. My Mother's family, Rivard, and other related families go back to the early 1700's in this neighborhood, Warren (the Tech Center area) and Grosse Pointe (the Hill).
Loved the narration! Guy that listens to his viewers. Thanks man
Thanks for watching.
It was innovation and manufacturing that created these wonderful cities. We as a society have to invest in science and engineering, here in this country, to revitalize these communities. Then the workers need to hold rights on their own productions, not some billionaire who will use is to create the economy of tomorrow and then send it across the planet just to line their pockets with billions.
We can do this, it's within our power to determine our countries destiny. We can no longer rely on those in power to change our fate.
We must do it ourselves
I watch all your videos and I appreciate you doing this one!!!
Seeing all that grass and trees, detroid east side has a lot of potential.
Nice video, especially with the narration. What would happen to me if I'd go there as a tourist? I'm a white guy from Germany.
they would probably think you are from suburbs and that you wanna buy drugs so they would approach you trying to sell...some others might try to rob you...but the thing is this...people live normal life there so you can too by just not dwelling in unknown and unsafe areas...by not staring...basicly acting normal and minding your own buisness
Nothing, you would be fine. Just take normal precautions like never get gas at night in the city;
+CharlieBo313 so there are no white people living in this aeras?
jarrad2000 nothing that couldn't happen where ur at now
Das ist verboten!!
Nice video man. I think it is very interesting seeing the different parts of this city. Seems surreal how blighted some of these areas are. Keep up the nice vids man!
in your home almost none to not fenced. In Russia, each house has a private fence.
each house in the entire country? i dont think so
Reaux Malice All, but only private. If you do not believe me look at Google maps images. www.google.ru/maps/@54.9167157,37.3691133,3a,60y,238.34h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spFGHcBWLT01IPrpIsMATPw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
In Russia, fence jumps you!!!
Arem Krotov Not true I have friends in Russia and the houses are very poor not even a fence, only Putin lives like king, you guys should protest do not let this rich man steals more from you, my friends can not even decorate their house or buy new furniture and they mostly eat potatoes, that means us italian are not better we are struggling too like everybody else, peace bro.✌
ok you wanna cookie ? nobody really cares .
Charlie...where your video ended, if you'd have turned left, went 3 blocks and turned right and went 1 1/2 blocks you would be where I was born and raised. Also, if you would have turned left instead of right onto Wayburn, the 3rd house up was where my aunt lived. Also when you where stopped at the light at Kelly and Hayes, if you'd turned left on to the side street (Craft) you'd have been on the block where a guy who's been one of my best friends for 60 years lived. It was really cool to see the old neighborhood (even if it's a bit rundown) as it's been about 30 years since the last time I was there. I liked the narration too.
50 years ago you had clean people living in these neighborhoods who took care of and had pride in their homes. Today it's honestly resembling a jungle. Nature is taking over and human life has disappeared. Generations of hard work gone.
Thanks for the video man. People of this country need to open their eyes.
what car u drivin g
Hi Charlie !
I enjoyed the narration and the street info... I hope that you can do more in the future !
This is a good argument for eminent domain to get control of the vacant wrecks and proceed as quickly as the city can to demolish them...
And that brings up a few issues... The costs have doubled due to corruption ( the old formula for figuring the costs was based on square footage (( L x W)) and then the formula was changed to cubic feet (( L x W x H ))... H= Height )... And it takes several different contractors to demolish a house due to asbestos, etc.
Then, there's the fact that there are anywhere from 60-80,000 abandoned homes and buildings to demolish...
It's amazing how nice the architecture is. You can tell a lot of the destroyed houses were really nice at one point. This is what happens when industry goes to Mexico and Canada and the shitty government hands people section 8 money.
What came first though? The loss of jobs or black migration from the South. Everybody just assumes the jobs just packed up and left. Maybe it got to expensive to do business there with all the crime and drug use. Hard to find good workers maybe? I saw a special on a Ford factory in Mexico and how hard they work and the pride they take in their work. The wages are only a part of the equation. When Clinton passed NAFTA through in the 90's , these were still good neighborhoods. Only took one generation(20 yrs) to turn to shit.
I spent many days on HW as a young girl, by Kelly.
My first apartment 19000 Chalmers. My grandparents home 14674 Seymour. Mom grad from Denby. Another era, so sorry it's gone.
I dig the commentary can we see your face next!?😍
I don't believe that would be in the best interest of his safety.
+kuhataparunks You are right 😔
A face isn't needed, since that's not we what want to see.
+jay lay oh I wanted to see;)
Never meet your heroes.
lived in flint for a spell in the early 2000 s and god dammm it had to be worse than anything ive seen in los angeles ….gun shots daily and fights morning to night ….. but what really makes it the worst is the abandoned runned down housing projects houses and shops all torn up and overgrown vegetation everywhere sucks for everyone any race or creed
Detroit was everything A blue collar paradise
Detroit used to be VERY RACIST, well that's most of America and American cities. America was actually founded and literally built on that, it's the foundation.
From a life long, west side, Detroit resident, this is like going into a foreign country to me. West of Woodward Avenue and east of Woodward never met! (g) They just aren't, either remodeling, or tearing down these abandon homes, fast enough in the city. Knocking down the unlivable houses, at least would allow grass and trees to take their places.
You don't see those houses no more so much art....
Keep commentary coming. It's sad to me I grew up on the east side and hate to see what has happened to my city. I hope it makes it all the way back
I notice some of the boarded up houses have X's on them. Is that a tag, or something "official"?
Makes sense. Thanks. It's like another planet, compared to where I am (outback Australia).
Houses with X on them getting torn down. City workers go through houses to see if it can be repaired if not X for demolition.
I like these videos, I get to travel and not leave home 🏡😊
Me personally I really enjoyed hearing you talk as you roll through these streets😘
He didn't at first I don't think he like to, just the street names would be enough for me.
Great Narration , Thank you ,, Looking forward to more of your Videos
Damn! Thomas Hearns mention. Exceptional boxer. IMO, I wanted him to kick Leonards ass in those days. Anyone remember Marvin Hagler?
Home sweet home. I like the narration
Do people set these houses on fire, on purpose? If so, why?
Chillness to get money I believe
Like from, insurance or something?
Unemployed Idiots who are bored to death
I believe there is a combination of reasons. Arsonists, insurance jobs and maybe even "Hired People" to do this in specific areas to drive people out. Sad, sad, sad...
Great Video Really enjoyed the Ride along Do more im in Indiana .
WWJ 950
I've been watching the rioting all over the US. Made me wonder if those cities will look like Detroit in a few years from now. There had to be more to this than just the car manufacturers left.
the house I was born in and the first house I bought are just fields now it's like Detroit is erasing history of people's lives soon Detroit Will be the farming capital of Michigan lol
well then maybe you should move back what should They do just leave the abandon houses sitting there to rot and I don't understand all the people are against having farms in Detroit God forbid people have fresh vegetables to eat. Detroit needs to to diversify for too long it's depended on the automotive industry.
Exactly, same here with the houses I grew up in. Now the junior high and high school is closed down, boarded up and about to be demolished.
I love watching your videos of neighbourhoods there, I’m from the United Kingdom
I'm not from Detroit and don't know much about it, but I'd say you do a great job with the narration. Talking about the different neighborhoods definitely helps people from out of town understand Detroit.
I like the narration too. Thanks.
nice voice I will listen again
Thanks, I hate how I sound though lol.
+CharlieBo313 you sound alright to me
CharlieBo313 I'm in Grosse Pointe now
That one block went to war with all the other blocks around it. And won!