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Both of my parents grew up in Beecher in the 1950's. Their parents built homes there during the Depression. My grandmother's home on East Downey Avenue is seen at the 9:28 mark. I have not been to Beecher since 1991, when my grandmother died. I grew up with stories about the 1953 tornado, which destroyed parts of the high school. Interesting note, if the tornado would have hit a week earlier, June 1, 1953, it would have hit during graduation ceremonies and the death toll would have been much higher, including my mother's entire family, who were at the ceremony. Excellent video. It brought back a lot of memories of my childhood.
This video makes me Sad. The memories of all the Good Times I had growing up, I was raised in Beecher, I left in 1988. One thing not mentioned in this video is the Pride of the people who Live/ lived here. We used to come together every year ( Covid stopped it) at the old High School and have a “Tailgate Party“. NO Violence, just LOVE! I LOVE Beecher, it will Forever be a part of me!
Yup, I lived there too. I graduated in 1970 and was in the 1st graduating class to us that new auditorium. Yup, I also attended that school on Detroit street that is gone.
The grey, overcast sky just seems to do the Beecher video the right touch. The kids raised here are tough and the lucky ones find basketball as an outlet. Despite the area and the cards seemingly stacked against them, the kids get great coaches and mentors to help them succeed in life. God love those men and women who come back and give and help those who need it. Another great video, Chris!
I was born in Flint, raised in Swartz Creek, friends in Beecher and lived a few years in Grand Blanc. Now I’m Arkansas. I’m so sad about the ruins of Flint and the area.
I was raised in Beecher we owned our home on carpenter and Detroit st ..I got family that still own homes there...and they're well kept nice homes...my best memories are in Beecher...it was so much better years ago but my heart will always be there...❤️
Both of my parents were in the Beecher Tornado. Listening to them describe it, it was horrifying. They went to different schools, but both lost friends in the tornado
@2:21 used to be a Kmart (closed in 1992) Between it and the high school used to be a Kroger. (With the round roof) at the next corner behind the store used to be a "Yankee store" @5:10 used to be a McDonald's.
That doesn’t tell you how the people are. Look at all of the mess that comes from so called good neighborhoods. Mass School shooters and a bunch of racist wacked out people,
Beecher was one of our rivals in high school. Full of grit and strength. Seems like a wasteland now. It looks even worse than Flint actually. But it wasn't back in the day. Great video! You covered all the high points of this decimated community.
I was a baby when the Beecher Tornado hit and have no memory of it. We lived in Flint Twp at the time. As late as the ‘60’s and early ‘70’s you could drive along Coldwater Rd in Mt Morris Twp and Beecher district and see the remains of mangled trees and slabs of where houses and buildings used to be. Interestingly, I have family in Joplin MO where an EF 5 tornado killed 158. My cousins house suffered significant damage and the house my uncle lived in before he died a few years before was destroyed. None of my family was hurt.
That resulted in the "Tornado Warning Siren" that consistently woke me out of slumber during tests.. never needed it the many years I lived there but that didn't stop the testing
@@its_shonda_b_3158 People talk about “duck and cover “ drills in the 50’s and 60’s. I have no memory of those. We did have numerous tornado drills at school. We have the occasional tornado in the area but they are usually weak EV 0 or 1’s. That EF 3 that hit Gaylord last year was pretty unusual.
@@opal92nwf Not that I know of but a resident of the area may know more, I just live a few miles from where it first touched down. Houses and businesses have long been replaced and downed trees removed and new ones have grown tall. There may be some remnants that locals know about in out of the way areas. I visited family in Joplin in 2019 and the rebuilding was well underway then. The main damage I saw were trees missing branches and empty lots where houses once were.
Wow! My Mom taught in Beecher community schools for 31 years. I moved away from Flint in 2010. This video makes me sad. Some of the places you drove by used to be thriving 😩.
At first I thought that you were right. I can see the confusion. So in 2007 the fujita scale replaced the old F-5 with an EF-5. (EF stands for enhanced fujita.) since the Joplin tornado hit in 2011, that tornado was an EF-5, not an F-5. And that one did cause over 100 deaths. I probably wouldn’t of listed that as a fact if I caught that before hand to avoid confusion… even though it technically still is a fact. More reason to not always trust local media outlets when they say that an event that happened in their area was “the best” or “the biggest” or “the worst.” My sources were local media articles and an undated article from the National weather service, so the later one could’ve been published before 2011, or they could’ve just been assuming that most people that read that already knew about the fujita scale changes.
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WHOA !! i was born that Weekend Of the Tornados 🌪🌩 - but down in Detroit 'Guess you can see how that has influenced me . . . AND it reveals just how frikkin' OLD i am 🦕
I use to live in Beecher when I was younger. When to middle school there. Lived there from 1995-1998. Beecher was nicer back in day. It really was. But now. Omg! I don't know want happen to it. The house and neighborhood we use live in there looks a mess now. I guess times we live in.
Thanks Chris. It will take a couple more generations for Beecher to recover. I have a couple of good friends who grew up and graduated from Beecher in the 70s. Both are in west Michigan, but both would have contributed greatly to the community if there had been something to stay there for.
I doubt that Beecher (and many smaller communities like it) will even exist a few generations from now. I can't see many younger people wanting to stay there. Why would they? There's nothing there anymore.
Bedroom community for Buick city and turnstead back in the hay day . This place and all of south East Michigan was an absolute BOOMTOWN but one day GM slammed it's briefcase shut and left town. Recently the said bringing in 2 billion . And Buick town has a buyer so things are looking up.
I grew up in Beecher, that are was an absolute best Neighborhood to grow up in, once They built I-475 it divided the who Communities. The Saginaw st. Was the Miller Rd. Back then. It make me sick to my stomach seeing a place that once Boasted 7000 Students in 1976. Beecher is a Metropolitan Water District with is divided right down the middle west of Saginaw st. Is Mt. Morris Twp. And East of Saginaw st. Is Genesee Twp. So it’s still a Metropolitan Water District. The very last one in Michigan. They have their own elections they also have the Power to Create theirOwn City by itself.
I was Summit Junior High class of 81. I had a lot of fun growing up in that area. I am currently living in Lake Havasu Arizona oh, what a world of difference. To my high-school sweetheart Susan Hopkins if you're out there hello.
I'm surprised that was even mentioned (flintstone) "always 4life" I grew up in beecher lived there early 70s to late 80s. Only the tough survived . I witnessed so much I still think of it often . I also lived on dort hwy by the old contos bar that was another craze place to live . I remember all of the gang wars when they built the catwalk crossing over the 475 I even remember them building that. we use to ride dirtbikes when it was still a dirt path being constructed..
Born and raised on the east side of Flint on Arizona ave. just east of Western rd., not so bad here yet but sad to see the city the way it is and with no new jobs that pay well there's no hope for the future.
I miss these small three homes road towns.. as the only resident I elect myself to mayor and as a mayor I appoint myself to the chief of police and as the chief of police I'm throwing a big party for myself. :)
Wow, the weather really set the table for this tour. Grey and cloudy... Seems that is the best metafor for this sad little community. As for the crime stats I always wonder if as the population goes down the criminals just figure the pickings are getting a lot less profitable. Thanks for spending your cyber Monday riding around Beecher, Michigan and then going back on Groundhog day for the brief "snow day" intermission.. 😉
Beecher will always be a part of Mount Morris township.Number one raising the farm 🚜 industry and agriculture plus the hunting! Hello from away from home you'll find more action in the countryside of things!
Beecher folks have never known how to act! But my biggest surprise of this clip was no mention of the Ternstedt/Fisher Body plant. It in itself carried Beecher piggyback for years.
Come on now, let's be factual, Beecher was a great place years ago, and it's a lot of great people whom came from Beecher, but just like the rest of the area....those that could leave moved, those who couldn't afford to move stayed. Would you say the folks in Clio never knew how to act....after all the kids at Beecher have never been accused of throwing rocks over the expressway killing an innocent man.
Correction. Genesee Co saw a growth from 1980-1990, 1990-2000. It wasn't till 2000-2010, 2010-2020 it had a decline and obviously from 1970- 1980 also decline.
I live in Flint Michigan, moved from Burton and now live very close to Beecher but you should come check out “the peoples church” at garland and 2nd Avenue. It’s right across the street from the U of M campus and is horrible. The church is trying a “only help” attitude, which would be great but the homeless drug addicts take total advantage. People are OD’ng and dying from fentanyl and crack. And I (and sadly my children) literally watch it out my bedroom window 24/7. The people who own the church live in Grand Blanc. So they have no clue what actually goes on here all of the time and it is beyond horrible.
I know Beecher and Flint are depressed and declining. But to be honest, even the more prosperous Detroit suburbs are such classic, depressing, examples of strip commercial. The National Automobile Slum. But hey…lots of free parking. And those massive signs make it easy to find your way in between texting on your phone!
@@Lukie2131 And that is great. My comment was actually focused on how awful American suburban strips are. Not really just Detroit. most midwestern highway strip suburbia is awful. However, I have read that one of Detroit’s challenges is how blah it’s suburban arterials are. Six lane highways with no landscaping and gaudy signs. Even in nicer burbs. West Coast and Texas and some New England suburbs are just more attractive, so elites prefer those regions. Of course, the Grosse Pointes are nice, they were built before the East Motoring Above All era.
Most of your Detroit area videos typically show block after block of post WW2 homes, aka "mid-century modern", abandoned and run down. How sad to see so many communities that were established and thriving during my lifetime, now discarded like roadside trash. Maybe they should all be flattened and reverted back to farmland. There will always be a market for food.
The houses in this town currently on Zillow are shockingly cheap for mid century ranches. I like the snow trick you did there. Poor town seems cursed. 🤷🏻♂️
Wonder what a nicer home with three bedrooms, two baths and 2-3 car garage goes for. Sad that people worked their entire lives to see their investment go down the drain and stuck there because they can't afford to move and get decent home for today's average prices. No reason to fix it up if there are no jobs and nobody wants to move there.
I left Beecher in 2016 yes I went to Beecher High School Carl Banks is my cousin my brother still live in Beecher Michigan some of my cousins but I left it back in September 2016 it is sad nowadays I live in Flint Township close Genesee Valley Shopping Center not too far from Swartz Creek close to Flushing Michigan
Jesus! What a depressing looking place. Has that same Cairo, Illinois feeling to it. If I was a young person living in Beecher I'd definitely be looking to get out.
Back in the day it looked much different. The main drag Saginaw St was all junkyards and salvage yards on the westside (Beecher side). All the streets running N off Carpenter and W off Saginaw were dirt roads but full of houses anywhere from early 1900 to 1950's style. It was a rough town then. We had run ins with kids from those neighborhoods in the area that became Northwestern and Powers High Schools. It was a couple square miles of woods, fields and gravel pits that we encountered them. Want to see what the locals looked like? Look up Beecher High School on Classmates for the late 60's and early 70's. They look straight out of the 50s. Beecher was all white and now Beecher is all Black and redecorated to fit the theme.
Dude you don’t have a clue what Beecher was back then the Junk yards are on Dort Hwy. and are still there today. There has never been one junk yard in Beecher in the 52 years I have been there.
Well, that's white flight for you. Things get abandoned and the people left are the non-whites who have to fight over the scraps that are left when those white folks take the jobs and opportunities with them.
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Because it is not Beecher Michigan. It is “Beecher” a Metropolitan District that consist of Flint, Michigan and Mt. Morris, Michigan. Anyone can do a TH-cam video even if it’s not all facts. Check mailing all addresses have Flint, Michigan or Mt. Morris township for city & state.
@@dhen6701 Many places in the USA have more than one name. Often, especially in rural areas, there may be a township that covers 36 square miles, though, within the township, whilst informal areas - names of parts of a township- are known to locals in their township. One example of this is Bedford Township, Michigan. It has a definite boundary. It is about 33 miles in coverage (would have been a straight 36 Sq. Mile if it weren't cut off by Toledo, Ohio). Within the same township, the post offices have their own names,
Beecher is not a good neighborhood. Had family lived there. So bad that their own county pawns them off to Genesee County. Which makes it hard to get help for the people's who live in Beecher.
I haven't been over there in a good 10 years. It truly looks much better than it did then. Very nice to see so so many abandoned buildings are gone. Some more clean up and might be a nice place again.
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Great video. Just curious why you didn't include a video on Fenton Michigan. Thanks for this video. Loved it.
Both of my parents grew up in Beecher in the 1950's. Their parents built homes there during the Depression. My grandmother's home on East Downey Avenue is seen at the 9:28 mark. I have not been to Beecher since 1991, when my grandmother died. I grew up with stories about the 1953 tornado, which destroyed parts of the high school. Interesting note, if the tornado would have hit a week earlier, June 1, 1953, it would have hit during graduation ceremonies and the death toll would have been much higher, including my mother's entire family, who were at the ceremony. Excellent video. It brought back a lot of memories of my childhood.
This video makes me Sad. The memories of all the Good Times I had growing up, I was raised in Beecher, I left in 1988. One thing not mentioned in this video is the Pride of the people who Live/ lived here. We used to come together every year ( Covid stopped it) at the old High School and have a “Tailgate Party“. NO Violence, just LOVE! I LOVE Beecher, it will Forever be a part of me!
Yup, I lived there too. I graduated in 1970 and was in the 1st graduating class to us that new auditorium. Yup, I also attended that school on Detroit street that is gone.
The grey, overcast sky just seems to do the Beecher video the right touch. The kids raised here are tough and the lucky ones find basketball as an outlet. Despite the area and the cards seemingly stacked against them, the kids get great coaches and mentors to help them succeed in life. God love those men and women who come back and give and help those who need it. Another great video, Chris!
It's still my community welcome to buctown
I was born in Flint, raised in Swartz Creek, friends in Beecher and lived a few years in Grand Blanc. Now I’m Arkansas. I’m so sad about the ruins of Flint and the area.
I was raised in Beecher we owned our home on carpenter and Detroit st ..I got family that still own homes there...and they're well kept nice homes...my best memories are in Beecher...it was so much better years ago but my heart will always be there...❤️
Both of my parents were in the Beecher Tornado. Listening to them describe it, it was horrifying. They went to different schools, but both lost friends in the tornado
@2:21 used to be a Kmart (closed in 1992) Between it and the high school used to be a Kroger. (With the round roof) at the next corner behind the store used to be a "Yankee store" @5:10 used to be a McDonald's.
Do you know if there are any visible remnants from the 1953 tornado to this day?
Unless you lived there or grew up there….don’t make assumptions on how the people in this community is.
We don't have to assume it, we can see it with our own eyes. It sadly is a mess.
That doesn’t tell you how the people are. Look at all of the mess that comes from so called good neighborhoods. Mass School shooters and a bunch of racist wacked out people,
Is? Thats poor grammar.
Beecher is very run down but the people have so much pride in their community. I go the Romas and Great Giant and that’s it. 🤷🏾♀️
Beecher was one of our rivals in high school. Full of grit and strength. Seems like a wasteland now. It looks even worse than Flint actually. But it wasn't back in the day. Great video! You covered all the high points of this decimated community.
I was a baby when the Beecher Tornado hit and have no memory of it. We lived in Flint Twp at the time. As late as the ‘60’s and early ‘70’s you could drive along Coldwater Rd in Mt Morris Twp and Beecher district and see the remains of mangled trees and slabs of where houses and buildings used to be.
Interestingly, I have family in Joplin MO where an EF 5 tornado killed 158. My cousins house suffered significant damage and the house my uncle lived in before he died a few years before was destroyed. None of my family was hurt.
That resulted in the "Tornado Warning Siren" that consistently woke me out of slumber during tests.. never needed it the many years I lived there but that didn't stop the testing
@@its_shonda_b_3158 People talk about “duck and cover “ drills in the 50’s and 60’s. I have no memory of those. We did have numerous tornado drills at school. We have the occasional tornado in the area but they are usually weak EV 0 or 1’s. That EF 3 that hit Gaylord last year was pretty unusual.
Do you know if there are any visible remnants from the 1953 tornado to this day?
@@opal92nwf Not that I know of but a resident of the area may know more, I just live a few miles from where it first touched down. Houses and businesses have long been replaced and downed trees removed and new ones have grown tall. There may be some remnants that locals know about in out of the way areas.
I visited family in Joplin in 2019 and the rebuilding was well underway then. The main damage I saw were trees missing branches and empty lots where houses once were.
Wow! My Mom taught in Beecher community schools for 31 years. I moved away from Flint in 2010. This video makes me sad. Some of the places you drove by used to be thriving 😩.
Where?
I’m from Saginaw and used to go to church in downtown flint. Beecher was a mess in the early 2000s and it’s gotten even worse since then
I was trying to count the Buicks in the driveways. I would bet Michigan has more Buicks per driveway than any other state.
Haha probably right
Should check out Grosse Isle one day. Or Harsens island!! Thanks Chris for the great videos
One day! Thanks for watching
You rode past our bait and tackle shop without acknowledging us. 😂We were hoping to receive some air time for our business. Jk good video
I used to live there, went to daily, was a nice place in mid 60s!
So did I. We lived on flamingo dr! Was very nice then!
Thanks Chris cz this is where I started , Takes me on back, Was a cz different place 40 plus yrs ago
I remember when I left in 1996 it was getting bad then
It should be noted that the Beecher tornado has since been eclipsed recently by a more deadly tornado in Joplin, Missouri.
At first I thought that you were right. I can see the confusion.
So in 2007 the fujita scale replaced the old F-5 with an EF-5. (EF stands for enhanced fujita.) since the Joplin tornado hit in 2011, that tornado was an EF-5, not an F-5. And that one did cause over 100 deaths. I probably wouldn’t of listed that as a fact if I caught that before hand to avoid confusion… even though it technically still is a fact.
More reason to not always trust local media outlets when they say that an event that happened in their area was “the best” or “the biggest” or “the worst.”
My sources were local media articles and an undated article from the National weather service, so the later one could’ve been published before 2011, or they could’ve just been assuming that most people that read that already knew about the fujita scale changes.
Can't figure why I'm not getting notified of your newest videos! Guess I'll have to drop in on your channel daily!
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WHOA !! i was born that Weekend Of the Tornados 🌪🌩 - but down in Detroit
'Guess you can see how that has influenced me . . . AND it reveals just how frikkin' OLD i am 🦕
I use to live in Beecher when I was younger. When to middle school there. Lived there from 1995-1998. Beecher was nicer back in day. It really was. But now. Omg! I don't know want happen to it. The house and neighborhood we use live in there looks a mess now. I guess times we live in.
Thanks Chris. It will take a couple more generations for Beecher to recover.
I have a couple of good friends who grew up and graduated from Beecher in the 70s. Both are in west Michigan, but both would have contributed greatly to the community if there had been something to stay there for.
I doubt that Beecher (and many smaller communities like it) will even exist a few generations from now. I can't see many younger people wanting to stay there. Why would they? There's nothing there anymore.
IT'S too far gone.
Bedroom community for Buick city and turnstead back in the hay day . This place and all of south East Michigan was an absolute BOOMTOWN but one day GM slammed it's briefcase shut and left town. Recently the said bringing in 2 billion . And Buick town has a buyer so things are looking up.
I went to Beecher school when I was there it was great
Those streets look so rough, the potholes are everywhere.
Pure Michigan roads
You passed both of my homes and me in my work truck at the corner of neff and Coldwater..Ritch Brothers Construction
How do you stabilize the picture driving on those bumping roads in Michigan?
Beecher Beer and Wine is the only building that has remained over the past 35 yrs
It would be good to hear that Roma Pizza is still open. I ate lots of them back in the day
No my grandad's shop mcgees collision, 60 years
2012 Beecher graduate here
I feel for Beecher! I was about 18 miles south! Bad deal for them. 14:17
Honestly, why would anyone still want to live in such a place of despair? Not a peaceful life at all.
It really is peaceful, it’s quiet you have a lot of trees you have fresh air and clean water 😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂 and good family so I count that as peaceful.
One correction would be that the 2011 Joplin MO tornado took the place of the last EF5 tornado to cause over 100 deaths.
I grew up in Beecher, that are was an absolute best Neighborhood to grow up in, once They built I-475 it divided the who Communities. The Saginaw st. Was the Miller Rd. Back then. It make me sick to my stomach seeing a place that once Boasted 7000 Students in 1976. Beecher is a Metropolitan Water District with is divided right down the middle west of Saginaw st. Is Mt. Morris Twp. And East of Saginaw st. Is Genesee Twp. So it’s still a Metropolitan Water District. The very last one in Michigan. They have their own elections they also have the Power to Create theirOwn City by itself.
I used to live right there on dwagiac
Beecher highschool look a hell of a lot like a prison
Very familiar with Dowagiac. I know the clown that burnt down the Sunoco station. He was trying to steal copper.
I was Summit Junior High class of 81. I had a lot of fun growing up in that area. I am currently living in Lake Havasu Arizona oh, what a world of difference. To my high-school sweetheart Susan Hopkins if you're out there hello.
Wow I used to live on flamingo dr. Just in front of that high school!
Flintstone for life
I'm surprised that was even mentioned (flintstone) "always 4life" I grew up in beecher lived there early 70s to late 80s. Only the tough survived . I witnessed so much I still think of it often . I also lived on dort hwy by the old contos bar that was another craze place to live . I remember all of the gang wars when they built the catwalk crossing over the 475 I even remember them building that. we use to ride dirtbikes when it was still a dirt path being constructed..
educational- how bad Detroit and suburbs gone downhill big time
Born and raised on the east side of Flint on Arizona ave. just east of Western rd., not so bad here yet but sad to see the city the way it is and with no new jobs that pay well there's no hope for the future.
I miss these small three homes road towns.. as the only resident I elect myself to mayor and as a mayor I appoint myself to the chief of police and as the chief of police I'm throwing a big party for myself. :)
We got it Chris
Wow, the weather really set the table for this tour. Grey and cloudy... Seems that is the best metafor for this sad little community. As for the crime stats I always wonder if as the population goes down the criminals just figure the pickings are getting a lot less profitable. Thanks for spending your cyber Monday riding around Beecher, Michigan and then going back on Groundhog day for the brief "snow day" intermission.. 😉
Gray and cloudy = Michigan alll winter 😩
You've clearly never been to Michigan
I love how these types of videos are always filmed on overcast days in the winter.
You've clearly never been to Michigan it's always overcast
May 22, 2011 Joplin EF5 tornado, the tornado killed 158 people. Corey
Its amazing how the Flint area was such an economic powerhouse back in the 50'-70s to what its become now . Sad
Hey Chris
Hi Triple Head!
Beecher will always be a part of Mount Morris township.Number one raising the farm 🚜 industry and agriculture plus the hunting! Hello from away from home you'll find more action in the countryside of things!
Very sad. It seems the only operating businesses on the drive were gas stations, fast food, and auto parts.
Lol, you forgot all the boost stores
After doing this video I think you'll need new suspension. Man, these are the worst roads I've ever seen! Excellent video as always.
such a sad town, on a lighter note love the canned laughter lol.
Beecher folks have never known how to act! But my biggest surprise of this clip was no mention of the Ternstedt/Fisher Body plant. It in itself carried Beecher piggyback for years.
Come on now, let's be factual, Beecher was a great place years ago, and it's a lot of great people whom came from Beecher, but just like the rest of the area....those that could leave moved, those who couldn't afford to move stayed. Would you say the folks in Clio never knew how to act....after all the kids at Beecher have never been accused of throwing rocks over the expressway killing an innocent man.
Correction. Genesee Co saw a growth from 1980-1990, 1990-2000. It wasn't till 2000-2010, 2010-2020 it had a decline and obviously from 1970- 1980 also decline.
The population info for Genesee County on the graphic in the video is correct.
I live in Flint Michigan, moved from Burton and now live very close to Beecher but you should come check out “the peoples church” at garland and 2nd Avenue. It’s right across the street from the U of M campus and is horrible. The church is trying a “only help” attitude, which would be great but the homeless drug addicts take total advantage. People are OD’ng and dying from fentanyl and crack. And I (and sadly my children) literally watch it out my bedroom window 24/7. The people who own the church live in Grand Blanc. So they have no clue what actually goes on here all of the time and it is beyond horrible.
Back in 1963 we lived on Detroit Street until the riots in 1968.
My dad bought a gun that year, fearing that the Detroit riots would migrate up here. My mom made him get rid of the gun.
@@Lorrainecats my dad bought a shotgun from Montgomery Wards
They say once upon a time, nature tried to do Beecher a favor, but the residents didn't listen. 🌪️
I lived near downtown Flint then moved to the Beecher area for high school in 1970. Everywhere I lived is now a ghetto.
Loving that theme music sounds like Scarface a lil bit
I know Beecher and Flint are depressed and declining. But to be honest, even the more prosperous Detroit suburbs are such classic, depressing, examples of strip commercial. The National Automobile Slum. But hey…lots of free parking. And those massive signs make it easy to find your way in between texting on your phone!
What are you talking about Detroit is on the rise especially Downtown. Every state in America has towns/Cities like this.
@@Lukie2131 And that is great. My comment was actually focused on how awful American suburban strips are. Not really just Detroit. most midwestern highway strip suburbia is awful. However, I have read that one of Detroit’s challenges is how blah it’s suburban arterials are. Six lane highways with no landscaping and gaudy signs. Even in nicer burbs. West Coast and Texas and some New England suburbs are just more attractive, so elites prefer those regions. Of course, the Grosse Pointes are nice, they were built before the East Motoring Above All era.
Most of your Detroit area videos typically show block after block of post WW2 homes, aka "mid-century modern", abandoned and run down. How sad to see so many communities that were established and thriving during my lifetime, now discarded like roadside trash. Maybe they should all be flattened and reverted back to farmland. There will always be a market for food.
I wish you'd give the street names that you're driving on.
The houses in this town currently on Zillow are shockingly cheap for mid century ranches. I like the snow trick you did there. Poor town seems cursed. 🤷🏻♂️
Wonder what a nicer home with three bedrooms, two baths and 2-3 car garage goes for. Sad that people worked their entire lives to see their investment go down the drain and stuck there because they can't afford to move and get decent home for today's average prices. No reason to fix it up if there are no jobs and nobody wants to move there.
Why you didn't talk about Dailey elementary school
My wife used to live on Bundy in that area......
I left Beecher in 2016 yes I went to Beecher High School Carl Banks is my cousin my brother still live in Beecher Michigan some of my cousins but I left it back in September 2016 it is sad nowadays I live in Flint Township close Genesee Valley Shopping Center not too far from Swartz Creek close to Flushing Michigan
Now I just need lunch
How you ride through Cranbrook but not the villa 🗣️👀🥊
Beecher is not a city it is a school district u don’t call other school areas by the school name their is no mailing address for Beecher Michigan
I never called Beecher a city. I called Beecher a census designated place, or a CDP, because that’s what it is.
Oh my! There’s my house! I went to those schools. I worked at that Burger King.
Jesus! What a depressing looking place. Has that same Cairo, Illinois feeling to it. If I was a young person living in Beecher I'd definitely be looking to get out.
OR Gary, Anderson,, Kokomo, and S Bend, Indiana.
Back in the day it looked much different. The main drag Saginaw St was all junkyards and salvage yards on the westside (Beecher side). All the streets running N off Carpenter and W off Saginaw were dirt roads but full of houses anywhere from early 1900 to 1950's style. It was a rough town then. We had run ins with kids from those neighborhoods in the area that became Northwestern and Powers High Schools. It was a couple square miles of woods, fields and gravel pits that we encountered them. Want to see what the locals looked like? Look up Beecher High School on Classmates for the late 60's and early 70's. They look straight out of the 50s. Beecher was all white and now Beecher is all Black and redecorated to fit the theme.
Dude you don’t have a clue what Beecher was back then the Junk yards are on Dort Hwy. and are still there today. There has never been one junk yard in Beecher in the 52 years I have been there.
Well, that's white flight for you. Things get abandoned and the people left are the non-whites who have to fight over the scraps that are left when those white folks take the jobs and opportunities with them.
Wow! This reminds me of the post apocalyptic world at the beginning of Terminator with the soundtrack from Stranger Things.
You're videos are kinda pixelated. It's hard to see everything.
Hit the settings on the bottom and select a better resolution to watch the video. If you have slow Wi-Fi or slow cellphone data you’re not always able to.
@@ChrisHarden Ok. Thanks for letting me know. Btw, I love your videos a lot!
@@empressvogt Thanks, and no problem!
Some good ass rappers come outta Beecher for real
I live in the great state of Michigan and I have never ever heard of Beecher MI
It isn't really that big, and there aren't any particular places that have notoriety.
I never heard it referred to as a town, just a district that was part of Flint.
Where you lived, under a rock? If you lived in Flint, you've heard of Beecher...
Because it is not Beecher Michigan. It is “Beecher” a Metropolitan District that consist of Flint, Michigan and Mt. Morris, Michigan. Anyone can do a TH-cam video even if it’s not all facts. Check mailing all addresses have Flint, Michigan or Mt. Morris township for city & state.
@@dhen6701
Many places in the USA have more than one name.
Often, especially in rural areas, there may be a township that covers 36 square miles, though, within the township, whilst informal areas - names of parts of a township- are known to locals in their township.
One example of this is Bedford Township, Michigan.
It has a definite boundary. It is about 33 miles in coverage (would have been a straight 36 Sq. Mile if it weren't cut off by Toledo, Ohio).
Within the same township, the post offices have their own names,
you could also argue that they're all the same
it's alright to show the not so fell off areas. we need to reflect back sometimes.
Oh so Flint ain't depressing?💯
This is a depressing town.
Forgot to mention the millionaire’s that come from there from making music. I’m one of them. 🅱️🅱️🅱️🅱️🅱️
Beecher is not a good neighborhood. Had family lived there. So bad that their own county pawns them off to Genesee County. Which makes it hard to get help for the people's who live in Beecher.
🤣 You really need to take the word Suburb out from in front of the word Beecher because it's no Suburb I'm just saying. 😜
Could any town be more depressing than Flint.
THAT MY TOWN MT MORRIS
If you like abandoned stuff, Beecher Is where it's at!
I actually can remember how Beached used to look.
Beached Records
I haven't been over there in a good 10 years. It truly looks much better than it did then. Very nice to see so so many abandoned buildings are gone. Some more clean up and might be a nice place again.
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Looks like the rest of USA. I’ve lived in several states, all the same.
You ever call the meat market in Beecher? They answer the phone "Beecher Meat"
Failed millage increase and plant closures. Does it every time.
Flint in its entirety is depressing.
Sadly agree.
I'm from Flint, we call them BEECHER CREATURES , it's just an extension of the north end of Flint
There is no such thing as Beecher Michigan it's flint and mount Morris township
Never coming back a dirty nasty place.
BEECHER is home of some of the BEST pro athletes! Carl Banks MSU Spartans stand out and Beecher/MSU Coach Courtney Hawkins!!! Go GREEN!! Monte Morris NBA great!
I don’t know about… the best… haha but yes the list is impressive.
Most high schools don’t have a list like Beecher’s when it comes to athletes.
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