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Liberals are immune to reality: The challenge that liberals have with reality is that it confuses them. When life does not match their ideology, they begin to blame other people, the system, and of course conservatives. The liberal worldview is incompatible with people who still have hopes, dreams and desires to make a better life for themselves and their offspring. Hence, liberals get angry when their odd-notioned theories are not embraced or, more likely, rejected. [ ] In their mind, anyone who disagrees must be mentally inferior or defective. The possibility that they might be wrong is never considered. Facts, history and common-sense are mere inconveniences to cities true believers. They make their own reality! the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them. "he refuses to face reality"
Honestly, this place is a hell hole. Those dopes deserve it the way they all voted or the corruption was allowed. You're too positive. Do you live here?
Yes! Also Chris could make a rest stop at the Ford house in Grosse Pointe Shores. It’s such an awesome spot! You can walk around the beautiful grounds and they even have a restaurant!
My parents are both from Roseville, and my grandmother never lived more than three blocks off Gratiot. My dad worked at Suzie Q back in the 60's, so that landmark is deeply ingrained in my psyche. This was a fun trip through my personal history, having spent much of my youth around Gratiot. Back in 2018, they had flash floods, and I got stuck on Gratiot around 5 mile when the water came up over my tires. The odd thing was, I didn't panic because I just kept saying, "You're on Gratiot, you can't get lost at this point."
I so love your Michigan videos. I'm 74 now and living in Texas since 2015. Before that I grew up in Brightmoor and Redford Twp. in Detroit and lived in SE Michigan my whole life. I miss Michigan so much and your videos bring back so many memories. The drive down Gratiot really tugged at my heart strings. I used to shop at the Macomb mall and was glad to see it is still open. Your Brightmoor video broke my heart.
Hi, I'm 68 and have been in Texas since 2018. Grew up in Redford Township and lived in various west side locales. I look back at 64 years of Michigan fondly but I'm on a new adventure now. I'll finish my life here and be buried in Texas soil and to me, that is pure heaven! God bless.
I hope you dopes don't vote like you all did in Michigan. I live in Texas. I ain't no RINO, but I'm sick of our taxes creeping up. I knew a lot of people from Michigan.
The strip from Gratiot and Harrington at 9:19 to Adelaide at 28:14 is where I've spent most of my life and probably will continue to. Great video, it should be preserved for years!
What always sticks with me the times I'm up in this area is that even today, the vast majority of the vehicles on the roads here are American brands. You don't really see that in other major American cities.
The people who work for the auto companies and those in the UAW drive what they build, so to speak. My ex worked for Ford for decades and even now I only go with Ford. Of course my Ford was built in Spain but what the heck!
Glad you said that ! Growing up the "motor capital" i was shocked to see the foreign iron my "fellow" Americans drove ... it was like a slap in the face 💥👊
Growing up here, this American-made bias seemed normal until I traveled elsewhere. I was amazed at how few American cars are on Southern California roads.
This video hit home. Grew up in Warren. Back in the days of cruising Gratiot. From 9 mile to 13 mile. A lot has changed down that whole road since last driven. But glad to see many things are still around. Thanks for the video. Saved me gas doing this same drive. lol
To be honest, driving south on Gratiot from 8 Mile in your video looks a lot better than when I was a teacher in the city. I taught just east of Gratiot between Forest and Mack for 19 years from 1979-1998. I saw it go downhill quickly. I had three interim positions and then finished with 3 years in a charter school north of Eastern Market, just east of I-75. I often drove down Chene street south from I-94, as featured in another of your videos. I do enjoy your videos; keep up the good work!
Chris thanks again for an amazing ride in Detroit. I was so happy to see that the Better Made potato chip factory was still there on Gratiot Ave. Back in the early 1970’s my grandmother lived directly across the street on Gratiot and not only could I see the factory but we could smell the aroma of those wonder freshly made chips. It was an amazing time. Unfortunately her two story apartment building has been torn down as has many buildings in that area. It was a different time but I loved it. Thanks for the memories. 🎉🙏
Better Made is alive and well. Detroit is commonly called the motor city, but that is not it’s only claim to fame. I don’t think we still hold these, but at one point we were #1 in potato 🥔 chip production (we had five potato chip companies and we were #1 in peanut 🥜 butter. We were #2 in beer 🍺 (behind Milwaukee) and #2 in radios 📻 (behind Chicago)
I wish he started in Port Huron and drove it end-to-end. I grew up in a house on Gratiot Rd in St. Clair Twp. My mom still lives there, and my sister lives next door. I've been driving this road my entire life.
I was going to but that day started with me filming I-94 from AA to Port Huron, then Port Huron, then all the towns along the St. Clair a river heading south and finishing with New Baltimore, so I just ended up heading west from there and decided to start it in New Haven.
Your video quality is insane! I feel like I'm on the hood of the car. And the music is the same chill-type music I play when I'm joy riding. Can't wait to visit these areas in my ride!
A race on Gratiot. Imagine that. Yes, they know. You race from light to light. Sometimes all 4 lanes participate. Macomb Mall was the place to go long before Lakeside Mall ever opened. Suzie Q Fish & Chips. A frequent stop on Sundays after church. Glad to see they saved the original tower. It's weird seeing Chesterfield Township and Clinton Township so built up and populated. Nothing like back when I grew up in the area. Warren.
The only street I remember having to race from light to light was on Damn Dyke...I mean Van Dyke. Through Warren and Sterling Heights. You had to be first at the light, then floor it to four-over-the-limit and hold it, and then you would BARELY make it through the next light. Get one Prius in your way, and your commute time home could be as much as doubled once you factored in all the extra lights you'd have to stop at.
@@emichaelgannon No Prius to get in the way back in my day. Van Dyke, Gratiot, Woodward, Telegraph, and 8 Mile Rd too. 696 was the Autobahn until they figured out what law enforcement agency had jurisdiction.
Wish they had those turn arounds here in Illinois. I think those are a good idea to keep traffic flowing. Thanks for the tour Chris! Hope we have more Nostalgia radio coming soon👍🏻
@@ChrisHarden Hope u hit St. Augustine, beautiful town, horrible traffic. Thanks for this 'cruising Gratiot' video. Grew up in Roseville (12 and Little Mack)
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I just comment on your outer drive in Detroit video.As I lived there.Also work and live all around Gratiot from Chesterfield to Downtown Detroit.Live in SC now.But I rode along with you this trip noticing the new and the old.thank you.
I was absolutely transfixed by this video. I have driven this stretch of Gratiot many, many times. For about a half year I lived in Chesterfield Township and worked two full time jobs - one in Mt. Clemens, about a mile west of downtown, and afternoon shift at a meat processing plant in Eastern market. Suggestion: how about Van Dyke from Romeo to where it ends at Gratiot in Detroit?
@@ChrisHarden that would be great. I live in downtown Warren, between city hall and Walmart, immediately east of the GM tech center. What else would be nice would be to mention the major roads that you cross so people who have not been in the area for a while might know better where they are. Things are in a constant state of stagnation, deterioration and renewal. I have lived out here all my life and I have seen it first hand.
I lived in Mt. Clemens from 71-84. On weekends we cruised Gratiot, people showing off their cars just like in ‘American Graffiti’. Parking lots along the road had cars parked with their hoods up and people bragging about their cars. It was a great time to be a teenager and young adult.
Pretty accurate assessment of Chesterfield. But 45 minutes to Metro Airport? Yeah, maybe if you were drag racing all the way there like those cars in the intro.
Old US Route 25 ran along Gratiot from Downtown Detroit to Chesterfield, where it followed MI-29 to Port Huron where it continued along MI-25 to it's then-Northern Terminus at Port Austin, MI.....US 25 in Michigan and Ohio was decommissioned in September, 1973......
You might want to mention in your notes that Fort Street and Gratiot Avenue used to make up US 25 in Detroit, way back in the day before the Interstate Highways were built.....
My Dad lives in New Haven! His place was one of the very first houses there from around 1870, if memory serves me correctly. Pretty quiet there. There used to be a bar cafe and also a proper bar, but I think they closed a decade or so ago. A few nice but deserted houses too...
West of Gratiot and north of 24 are exurbs- dirt roads, almost zero crime, a mix of working farms and private homes, and all within a 5-minute drive of nearly every big box retailer in the region. We're 1 mile past the bus line from Detroit and have excellent access to freeways and major roads, and we're almost equal distance to the Wayne county airport and Bishop Flint.
I really like your vids, found your channel about 3 weeks ago and the vids are like visual ASMR for me. :) How about a similar vid on Mich Ave, going west to east from about the same distance (26-ish miles or 45 mins?) from metro airport? Another idea...bike riding in Detroit bike lanes, showing how full of debris they are and need to be cleaned (I saw a bike on the back of your car in one vid). :) We ride from Downey Brewery (in Dearborn) every Tues, roll out about 6pm, would love to ride with you. Keep up the good work!
I grew up in what was then Buick City. Enjoy your videos especially the ones in Michigan. I have been to a few other place you have been too. Now I live in the Philippines.
I grew up in Royal Oak 1951 to 1965. I enjoy seeing how parts of the Detroit area have changed since then. Because of my employment during that time, I traveled through many neighborhoods. I saw your trip from Chicago to Detroit, but you used I-94 which is a boring route I've travelled many times. I would suggest that you show the current route of US-12 aka Chicago Road. It is much more scenic and an easy drive. It is also a historic highway. The route, which began in Detroit as Michigan Avenue continued west southwesterly through Ypsilanti, Saline, the Irish Hills (where I now live on US-12), Jonesville, Coldwater, and Sturgis, into Cass Co where it ends at the Indiana State Line.
Aww...On the left your passing my trailer camp Parkway :) Now your heading to my job spot at Mount Clemens City Hall ( on your left again) for over 28 years 😁 Mount Clemens is a Nice-Walkable Town ☺ No One has ever messed with me---Actually people are very polite in Mt. Clemens !! I have been riding my bike back and forth to work as long as I have worked there :)
grew up on 7th and Gratiot/ fairport ave in the late 50's remember the soda fountain on corner across from school. So many good memories...teeley's,rippet,brusca's anyone out there?
That New County Building was the site of the Medea Hotel.....A Great Hotel back in the day of Sulfur Baths---aka "Bath City" Mt.Clemens was known for :)
I'm relatively new to the channel, but enjoy seeing the sites and hearing you give us the history along the way. Good YT voice. It's weird, but that music by Flic (Shazamed it) is almost hypnotizing. You're not including any submliminal messaging in there, are you? (JK)
I lived my first 5 years of my life in the 205 in the late 80s- early 90s. The white building that you zoomed on south of 7 mile I lived half a block down. The house is of course no longer there.
All right you made. Yesterday..any ways it's Michigan..all our roads is jacked .no matter were you go.. I think it has a lot to do with our landscape that being surrounded by great lakes our land mass is constantly shifting and moving.
Detroit really is a spacious city, the skyline didn't appear until like 27 mins plus and seemed super far away when it did. That's how a lot of southern cities are too.
What do you do when you get to Detroit ?? Turn around and go back ??? Did you ever go by the trailer park in east Detroit where Marshall Mathers roamed the ground OR his new digs in Royal Forest in Clinton Twp ?? Need a code to get into though.....Have an old family friend who used to pitch for Toronto Blue Jays back in the day who lives there also....His name is Pat Hentgen. He manages some other team now..... One of my Xs old family friends.
Driven down this street many times. It's not a street that I would want to walk down or be on at night, but during the day it's not really as bad as people say it is. Yes when you get into the residential areas (on the side streets), things can get sketchy but each major city has streets like this. Overall, I'd say that I've been in places that felt less safe to me (for example, Harlem north of Manhatten NYC). Now I will say that I have had no real reason to stop anywhere on Gratiot avenue anywhere near downtown or the suburbs (have stopped a few times, but it's not on a regular basis and it was for quick things like gas, snacks, etc, but I don't purposely hang around the area outside of my car either). Again, I feel during the day it's not as bad, but at night (which I've never been here at night) I can imagine it could be quite sketchy. Heck, going through parts of Philly along the river to me felt worse than Gratiot Avenue. Again, not a place I'd want to be during the night/dark hours, but if I'm driving around during the day, no real issues that I've had or seen first hand.
Anyone else keeping any eye on how many red lights he goes through ??? LOL at least 1 or 2 here... Thanks for vids, I will never get a chance to travel and if I did, this would be one of the last places I would travel to (a lot more tourist traps that I would like to see), It's interesting to see and see what chains are out there....
I miss Detroit. I am an ex Greyhound driver and Gratiot was a key road for Us...on the hood side unfortunately. That was a route to the garage and also a detour when the highway was backed up. They put us up in The Shorecrest Hotel and a few others in that general area.
Gratiot was 2-lane dirt road for many, many years and didn't split until they put in the Circuit Court via 1970 !! Hall Rd was the same ....a 2-lane highway for many, many years !!!
Hello Chris, I hope your family and you are doing well. I don’t know how long you have lived in Detroit. But I wondering if you are familiar with Oakland Avenue. I left Detroit back in 1967. So I been away for a very long time. I really wish you would travel down Oakland x that’s where I lived before we left Detroit. Thanks and please stay safe..
Fun fact, why is there a large Jewish cemetery in Roseville, of all places? Well, back in the day Jewish leaders thought the populace would eventually migrate up Gratiot towards the northeast. Nope, the Jews actually followed Woodward Avenue to the northwest. Oops! In any event the cemetery is well maintained and still in use today.
Still waiting for ya to drive thru my little neighborhood. Have come close but… well on google earth ny ole neighborhood has missing houses but the plots are nicely grassed over and we’ll kept. My ole elenentary school Coolidge is a bombed out shell. Our Lady Gate of Heaven catholic school church is still there but no longer a church and across the street my Brooks jr high which was new when I was there is now something else. Don’t remember how to get to Cody high school which would have been my HS so don’t know if it’s still there. My ok’d house was there up to 2yrs ago and now finally is now abandoned and deteriorating so the comeback is stalling 11300 st Mary’s . Story goes when it was built in 1930 it was the only house in a 30 sq mile area.
Cody is still there,w Chicago just west of Southfield...st Suzanne is still there...my house is barely still standing...half the streets look like farm land ,houses burned out and or torn down... disgusting...
I work for National Coney Island just not the gratiot store. Also live at 13 and gratiot and the homeless people living under the overpass for 94 and all of the motels in Roseville for the past 3 years has increased a remarkably noticeable pace and I already want to move and the 711 isn’t even 24 hours anymore because of this issue because it’s a warm place to ask for money or a cigarette at. I honestly can’t stand gratiot in it’s entirety. Potholes, Trashy and Mt Clemens is the best part of this road only for the historical buildings but I wouldn’t suggest living there either but a nice downtown area with a popular night life scene
Sure did turn sugar to doo doo going south on Gratiot across 8 mile. A missed opportunity you didn't see a gang of ATV marauders playing Mad Max fury road doing wheelies in the middle of Gratiot.
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Liberals are immune to reality: The challenge that liberals have with reality is that it confuses them. When life does not match their ideology, they begin to blame other people, the system, and of course conservatives.
The liberal worldview is incompatible with people who still have hopes, dreams and desires to make a better life for themselves and their offspring. Hence, liberals get angry when their odd-notioned theories are not embraced or, more likely, rejected.
[ ] In their mind, anyone who disagrees must be mentally inferior or defective. The possibility that they might be wrong is never considered. Facts, history and common-sense are mere inconveniences to cities true believers. They make their own reality! the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.
"he refuses to face reality"
Honestly, this place is a hell hole. Those dopes deserve it the way they all voted or the corruption was allowed. You're too positive. Do you live here?
Nice video. Jefferson Ave. would be a nice video going from Mt. Clemens thru the Grosse Points into Detroit.
Yes! Also Chris could make a rest stop at the Ford house in Grosse Pointe Shores. It’s such an awesome spot! You can walk around the beautiful grounds and they even have a restaurant!
A video of the entire length of Jefferson Ave would be good
I want to see that too. This is so much fun and educational
My parents are both from Roseville, and my grandmother never lived more than three blocks off Gratiot. My dad worked at Suzie Q back in the 60's, so that landmark is deeply ingrained in my psyche. This was a fun trip through my personal history, having spent much of my youth around Gratiot. Back in 2018, they had flash floods, and I got stuck on Gratiot around 5 mile when the water came up over my tires. The odd thing was, I didn't panic because I just kept saying, "You're on Gratiot, you can't get lost at this point."
I so love your Michigan videos. I'm 74 now and living in Texas since 2015. Before that I grew up in Brightmoor and Redford Twp. in Detroit and lived in SE Michigan my whole life. I miss Michigan so much and your videos bring back so many memories. The drive down Gratiot really tugged at my heart strings. I used to shop at the Macomb mall and was glad to see it is still open. Your Brightmoor video broke my heart.
I’m 53 and also started out in Brightmoor and grew up in Redford Twp. ... Currently loving my life in Farmington.❤️
Hi, I'm 68 and have been in Texas since 2018. Grew up in Redford Township and lived in various west side locales. I look back at 64 years of Michigan fondly but I'm on a new adventure now. I'll finish my life here and be buried in Texas soil and to me, that is pure heaven! God bless.
I hope you dopes don't vote like you all did in Michigan. I live in Texas. I ain't no RINO, but I'm sick of our taxes creeping up. I knew a lot of people from Michigan.
The strip from Gratiot and Harrington at 9:19 to Adelaide at 28:14 is where I've spent most of my life and probably will continue to. Great video, it should be preserved for years!
Gratiot started as a military supply road from fort Detroit to fort Gratiot (port huron). It was put in before the railroad.
it was called Gratiot plank rd.
What always sticks with me the times I'm up in this area is that even today, the vast majority of the vehicles on the roads here are American brands. You don't really see that in other major American cities.
The people who work for the auto companies and those in the UAW drive what they build, so to speak. My ex worked for Ford for decades and even now I only go with Ford. Of course my Ford was built in Spain but what the heck!
Glad you said that ! Growing up the "motor capital" i was shocked to see the foreign iron my "fellow" Americans drove ... it was like a slap in the face 💥👊
and no light rail/subway etc - detroit sucks for getting around
@@howardsmith2727 It only sucks if you don’t work and use public transportation.
Growing up here, this American-made bias seemed normal until I traveled elsewhere. I was amazed at how few American cars are on Southern California roads.
Great videos. I grew up in the Flint area. I find myself bobbing my head to your music!
This video hit home. Grew up in Warren. Back in the days of cruising Gratiot. From 9 mile to 13 mile. A lot has changed down that whole road since last driven. But glad to see many things are still around. Thanks for the video. Saved me gas doing this same drive. lol
Warren here also
remember the impromptu "car shows " at Korvettes dept store parking lot at 15 mi ./ Gratiot ? ( it think )
You have such good quality videos. Detroit fascinates me for some reason.
Great job, Chris! You are insanely hilarious in your commentary! Keep up the good work!
To be honest, driving south on Gratiot from 8 Mile in your video looks a lot better than when I was a teacher in the city. I taught just east of Gratiot between Forest and Mack for 19 years from 1979-1998. I saw it go downhill quickly. I had three interim positions and then finished with 3 years in a charter school north of Eastern Market, just east of I-75. I often drove down Chene street south from I-94, as featured in another of your videos. I do enjoy your videos; keep up the good work!
What schools you taught at. Only School on I went to was Williams Elementary ( Mt. Elliott)but for strange reason they torn it down.
❤ Enjoyed as always THANKS Chris!
Chris thanks again for an amazing ride in Detroit. I was so happy to see that the Better Made potato chip factory was still there on Gratiot Ave. Back in the early 1970’s my grandmother lived directly across the street on Gratiot and not only could I see the factory but we could smell the aroma of those wonder freshly made chips. It was an amazing time. Unfortunately her two story apartment building has been torn down as has many buildings in that area. It was a different time but I loved it. Thanks for the memories. 🎉🙏
Do you want to move back there
@@dalonodell460 I’m afraid not. I’ve lived in California for 37 years. But I do have many great memories. 😎
Better Made is alive and well. Detroit is commonly called the motor city, but that is not it’s only claim to fame. I don’t think we still hold these, but at one point we were #1 in potato 🥔 chip production (we had five potato chip companies and we were #1 in peanut 🥜 butter. We were #2 in beer 🍺 (behind Milwaukee) and #2 in radios 📻 (behind Chicago)
I wish he started in Port Huron and drove it end-to-end. I grew up in a house on Gratiot Rd in St. Clair Twp. My mom still lives there, and my sister lives next door. I've been driving this road my entire life.
I was going to but that day started with me filming I-94 from AA to Port Huron, then Port Huron, then all the towns along the St. Clair a river heading south and finishing with New Baltimore, so I just ended up heading west from there and decided to start it in New Haven.
@@ChrisHarden That's some real dedication. Thanks for the videos.
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Your video quality is insane! I feel like I'm on the hood of the car. And the music is the same chill-type music I play when I'm joy riding. Can't wait to visit these areas in my ride!
In Detroit, Gratiot is to the Eastside what Grand River is to the Westside.
Yep
Grand river is worst
@@brianalex2193 Worst for what?
Facts
Or Michigan Avenue.
Great rebuild out there by the and beyond. Thanks man its a nice ride to port Huron too...
A race on Gratiot. Imagine that. Yes, they know. You race from light to light. Sometimes all 4 lanes participate. Macomb Mall was the place to go long before Lakeside Mall ever opened.
Suzie Q Fish & Chips. A frequent stop on Sundays after church. Glad to see they saved the original tower.
It's weird seeing Chesterfield Township and Clinton Township so built up and populated. Nothing like back when I grew up in the area. Warren.
Don't forget Travis grill
I also like stopping at Galaxy Arcade back in the day.
The only street I remember having to race from light to light was on Damn Dyke...I mean Van Dyke. Through Warren and Sterling Heights. You had to be first at the light, then floor it to four-over-the-limit and hold it, and then you would BARELY make it through the next light. Get one Prius in your way, and your commute time home could be as much as doubled once you factored in all the extra lights you'd have to stop at.
@@emichaelgannon No Prius to get in the way back in my day. Van Dyke, Gratiot, Woodward, Telegraph, and 8 Mile Rd too. 696 was the Autobahn until they figured out what law enforcement agency had jurisdiction.
@@lavapix I moved out of the state in 2001. I'm glad I don't have to deal with 696 - OR Van Dyke - anymore!!
I didn't know the lights were timed like that on Gratiot--Yet another reason these videos are awesome!!
I thoroughly enjoyed this. thank you for making this video.
Your videos are a trip down memory lane, or rather they would be, except so much is changed.
I live in Atlanta Georgia and being away 20 years you should do a cruise down Woodward ave.
Wish they had those turn arounds here in Illinois. I think those are a good idea to keep traffic flowing. Thanks for the tour Chris! Hope we have more Nostalgia radio coming soon👍🏻
Those are known as Michigan Lefts. They are mostly only on the busier streets. New Jersey has them also
Nostalgia Tours Radio will be touring in Florida this weekend. Get your Mountain Dew ready.
I totally agree! They're much safer than the round -abouts they're putting up around out place in Illinois.
@@ChrisHarden Hope u hit St. Augustine, beautiful town, horrible traffic. Thanks for this 'cruising Gratiot' video. Grew up in Roseville (12 and Little Mack)
@@bobmackay3414 I miss those!! Mostly all traffic circles here....ugh!😬
Downtown Detroit is and will always be my favorite place to go to
Mountain dew drinking Hill Jack , love your sense of humor
There are many dashcam type of youtube channels, but you are different your content is jam packed with very interesting details,statistics etc .im surprised you are not a million subscribers TH-camr. Ppl wake up and make sure you subscribe
Thanks, long way to go but hopefully I can get there one day!
Great video. I hadn't been on that drive in a long time.
Ive said it before but i love your videos man, especially your Detroit and surrounding areas ones. Keep it up bro!
I just comment on your outer drive in Detroit video.As I lived there.Also work and live all around Gratiot from Chesterfield to Downtown Detroit.Live in SC now.But I rode along with you this trip noticing the new and the old.thank you.
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Great video sir 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I’m originally from East Detroit, thanks for the trip down memory lane
I was absolutely transfixed by this video. I have driven this stretch of Gratiot many, many times. For about a half year I lived in Chesterfield Township and worked two full time jobs - one in Mt. Clemens, about a mile west of downtown, and afternoon shift at a meat processing plant in Eastern market.
Suggestion: how about Van Dyke from Romeo to where it ends at Gratiot in Detroit?
I’m probably going to do a video on Van Dyke from the top of the thumb to where it ends in Detroit.
@@ChrisHarden that would be great. I live in downtown Warren, between city hall and Walmart, immediately east of the GM tech center.
What else would be nice would be to mention the major roads that you cross so people who have not been in the area for a while might know better where they are. Things are in a constant state of stagnation, deterioration and renewal. I have lived out here all my life and I have seen it first hand.
20:08 That drum sample is from Get Out of My Life Woman by George Semper
Really good video I've been up and down Gratiot. Great street that tells a lot of good and bad stories. I've like to see you do hall road.
I lived in Mt. Clemens from 71-84. On weekends we cruised Gratiot, people showing off their cars just like in ‘American Graffiti’. Parking lots along the road had cars parked with their hoods up and people bragging about their cars. It was a great time to be a teenager and young adult.
who here cruised Gratiot as a teenager? From 14 mile and turn at 10 mile.
I miss continental lanes
Good old days, hundreds of cars cruising Gratiot summer times, especially at night.
the Gratiot drive in was cool in the late 80s
Was raised off of 16 mile and gratiot. Thanks for the memories ❤
Pretty accurate assessment of Chesterfield. But 45 minutes to Metro Airport? Yeah, maybe if you were drag racing all the way there like those cars in the intro.
Ha. That’s what google maps said when I looked.
Pretty sweet I've been driving up-and-down this road my whole life
Old US Route 25 ran along Gratiot from Downtown Detroit to Chesterfield, where it followed MI-29 to Port Huron where it continued along MI-25 to it's then-Northern Terminus at Port Austin, MI.....US 25 in Michigan and Ohio was decommissioned in September, 1973......
You might want to mention in your notes that Fort Street and Gratiot Avenue used to make up US 25 in Detroit, way back in the day before the Interstate Highways were built.....
My Dad lives in New Haven! His place was one of the very first houses there from around 1870, if memory serves me correctly. Pretty quiet there. There used to be a bar cafe and also a proper bar, but I think they closed a decade or so ago. A few nice but deserted houses too...
I love your "driving through the Hood" music. I made it my ringtone
West of Gratiot and north of 24 are exurbs- dirt roads, almost zero crime, a mix of working farms and private homes, and all within a 5-minute drive of nearly every big box retailer in the region. We're 1 mile past the bus line from Detroit and have excellent access to freeways and major roads, and we're almost equal distance to the Wayne county airport and Bishop Flint.
Use to Drag Race Gratiot from 7mile to Metro Parkway Light to Light in the 80's Summer Saturdays were Fun in the D!
Used to run it in the 70s 69 Road Runner!
I really like your vids, found your channel about 3 weeks ago and the vids are like visual ASMR for me. :) How about a similar vid on Mich Ave, going west to east from about the same distance (26-ish miles or 45 mins?) from metro airport? Another idea...bike riding in Detroit bike lanes, showing how full of debris they are and need to be cleaned (I saw a bike on the back of your car in one vid). :) We ride from Downey Brewery (in Dearborn) every Tues, roll out about 6pm, would love to ride with you. Keep up the good work!
I lived in Roseville and then in the 48205 zip code. This video took me down memory lane.
Interesting fact about the mile roads. Racine County WI has a similar system.
We lived off Gratiot near 6 mile. You could go Anywhere in the city for a quarter and 5 cents if you transfer.
Born there in 67 lived 8th or lower tii 10 moved to Fraser Mi sad to see this😳😪in Ky now love it. Still have my memories here.
I grew up in what was then Buick City. Enjoy your videos especially the ones in Michigan. I have been to a few other place you have been too. Now I live in the Philippines.
I grew up in Royal Oak 1951 to 1965. I enjoy seeing how parts of the Detroit area have changed since then. Because of my employment during that time, I traveled through many neighborhoods. I saw your trip from Chicago to Detroit, but you used I-94 which is a boring route I've travelled many times. I would suggest that you show the current route of US-12 aka Chicago Road. It is much more scenic and an easy drive. It is also a historic highway. The route, which began in Detroit as Michigan Avenue continued west southwesterly through Ypsilanti, Saline, the Irish Hills (where I now live on US-12), Jonesville, Coldwater, and Sturgis, into Cass Co where it ends at the Indiana State Line.
Aww...On the left your passing my trailer camp Parkway :) Now your heading to my job spot at Mount Clemens City Hall ( on your left again) for over 28 years 😁 Mount Clemens is a Nice-Walkable Town ☺ No One has ever messed with me---Actually people are very polite in Mt. Clemens !! I have been riding my bike back and forth to work as long as I have worked there :)
For anyone who looks at it and still wonders 🤔... it's GRASH ut Ave. You're welcome. It's French.
No... The French would pronounce it grasho
@@1982kinger Dude, it IS a French surname. And this is America...this is Michigan...and this is DEE troit. WE pronounce it GRASH ut.
@@smooch2955 grashit
Grash-it, not Grash-ut.
Just gross will do
grew up on 7th and Gratiot/ fairport ave in the late 50's remember the soda fountain on corner across from school. So many good memories...teeley's,rippet,brusca's anyone out there?
You in my hood now I don’t even go there off Cheney near downtown! I love outta state now
That New County Building was the site of the Medea Hotel.....A Great Hotel back in the day of Sulfur Baths---aka "Bath City" Mt.Clemens was known for :)
I'm relatively new to the channel, but enjoy seeing the sites and hearing you give us the history along the way. Good YT voice. It's weird, but that music by Flic (Shazamed it) is almost hypnotizing. You're not including any submliminal messaging in there, are you? (JK)
City Hall still has the beautiful woodwork from the Hotel saved on the walls of the City Managers office.!!!
drove this route hundreds of times when I lived in memphis. and worked in southfield.
Actually, driving exactly twice the speed limit usually keeps you in sync with the green lights.
We need a Van Dyke cruise!
I travel this almost everyday!!
nice video!
I lived my first 5 years of my life in the 205 in the late 80s- early 90s. The white building that you zoomed on south of 7 mile I lived half a block down. The house is of course no longer there.
Gratiot ends in Marysville as it then becomes Military which lead to the fort, Gratiot in Port Huron.
All right you made. Yesterday..any ways it's Michigan..all our roads is jacked .no matter were you go.. I think it has a lot to do with our landscape that being surrounded by great lakes our land mass is constantly shifting and moving.
Great video! Am I crazy that I would like to see you travel Gratiot in the opposite direction, Detroit to Port Huron?
Detroit really is a spacious city, the skyline didn't appear until like 27 mins plus and seemed super far away when it did. That's how a lot of southern cities are too.
Here in Wisconsin the roads are covered with tar, peagravel, or asphalt for patches. No new roads or reoaves til absolutely necessary
What do you do when you get to Detroit ?? Turn around and go back ??? Did you ever go by the trailer park in east Detroit where Marshall Mathers roamed the ground OR his new digs in Royal Forest in Clinton Twp ?? Need a code to get into though.....Have an old family friend who used to pitch for Toronto Blue Jays back in the day who lives there also....His name is Pat Hentgen. He manages some other team now..... One of my Xs old family friends.
He didn't live in a trailer park.
He lived in a single family home.
Setting the play in a trailer park made it "more grungy".
4:17 i can tell this was last year as the trees just to the right are now a construction site.
Shoot. I take Gratiot SB beginning @ 16 Mile road down to Harper & 94 to get to work.
I had no idea how "dangerous" this is considered.
Driven down this street many times. It's not a street that I would want to walk down or be on at night, but during the day it's not really as bad as people say it is. Yes when you get into the residential areas (on the side streets), things can get sketchy but each major city has streets like this. Overall, I'd say that I've been in places that felt less safe to me (for example, Harlem north of Manhatten NYC). Now I will say that I have had no real reason to stop anywhere on Gratiot avenue anywhere near downtown or the suburbs (have stopped a few times, but it's not on a regular basis and it was for quick things like gas, snacks, etc, but I don't purposely hang around the area outside of my car either). Again, I feel during the day it's not as bad, but at night (which I've never been here at night) I can imagine it could be quite sketchy. Heck, going through parts of Philly along the river to me felt worse than Gratiot Avenue. Again, not a place I'd want to be during the night/dark hours, but if I'm driving around during the day, no real issues that I've had or seen first hand.
My Italian people are all up Gratiot 🇮🇹🇺🇸
Anyone else keeping any eye on how many red lights he goes through ??? LOL at least 1 or 2 here...
Thanks for vids, I will never get a chance to travel and if I did, this would be one of the last places I would travel to (a lot more tourist traps that I would like to see), It's interesting to see and see what chains are out there....
I miss Detroit. I am an ex Greyhound driver and Gratiot was a key road for Us...on the hood side unfortunately. That was a route to the garage and also a detour when the highway was backed up. They put us up in The Shorecrest Hotel and a few others in that general area.
Gratiot was 2-lane dirt road for many, many years and didn't split until they put in the Circuit Court via 1970 !! Hall Rd was the same ....a 2-lane highway for many, many years !!!
Hello Chris, I hope your family and you are doing well. I don’t know how long you have lived in Detroit. But I wondering if you are familiar with Oakland Avenue. I left Detroit back in 1967. So I been away for a very long time. I really wish you would travel down Oakland x that’s where I lived before we left Detroit. Thanks and please stay safe..
Roseville City Hall and Police Department on the right at 15:09
Fun fact, why is there a large Jewish cemetery in Roseville, of all places? Well, back in the day Jewish leaders thought the populace would eventually migrate up Gratiot towards the northeast. Nope, the Jews actually followed Woodward Avenue to the northwest. Oops! In any event the cemetery is well maintained and still in use today.
I sometimes refer it as the "Thank You" Avenue
Why?
@@ChrisHarden think of the word “Gratiot”. Doesn’t it sound like the Spanish word for “Thank You”(Gracias)?
It's generally true, if you have seen one American town/city, you have seen them all.
McDonalds, gas stations and Walmarts everywhere you look.
The 2seasons joke was funny 😂
Me and my X used to cruise Woodward past 8 Mile.....Didn't seem as bad back in the 80's as Gratiot 🤔
Still waiting for ya to drive thru my little neighborhood. Have come close but… well on google earth ny ole neighborhood has missing houses but the plots are nicely grassed over and we’ll kept. My ole elenentary school Coolidge is a bombed out shell. Our Lady Gate of Heaven catholic school church is still there but no longer a church and across the street my Brooks jr high which was new when I was there is now something else. Don’t remember how to get to Cody high school which would have been my HS so don’t know if it’s still there. My ok’d house was there up to 2yrs ago and now finally is now abandoned and deteriorating so the comeback is stalling 11300 st Mary’s . Story goes when it was built in 1930 it was the only house in a 30 sq mile area.
Maybe I'll end up driving through, I still have 14 videos to upload to finish off the Detroit series.
Cody is still there,w Chicago just west of Southfield...st Suzanne is still there...my house is barely still standing...half the streets look like farm land ,houses burned out and or torn down... disgusting...
I am from warrendale
Brooks and messenger were built at same time....thx for your great videos
Sorry...it's Lessenger
little vague on neighborhood statistics but very enjoyable 😉
How you mention Faygo but not the Better Made factory
I work for National Coney Island just not the gratiot store. Also live at 13 and gratiot and the homeless people living under the overpass for 94 and all of the motels in Roseville for the past 3 years has increased a remarkably noticeable pace and I already want to move and the 711 isn’t even 24 hours anymore because of this issue because it’s a warm place to ask for money or a cigarette at. I honestly can’t stand gratiot in it’s entirety. Potholes, Trashy and Mt Clemens is the best part of this road only for the historical buildings but I wouldn’t suggest living there either but a nice downtown area with a popular night life scene
Sure did turn sugar to doo doo going south on Gratiot across 8 mile. A missed opportunity you didn't see a gang of ATV marauders playing Mad Max fury road doing wheelies in the middle of Gratiot.
What happen to motown music
Gratiot starts at the border of Marysville and Port Huron, not New Haven
Ecorse resident here.... AMA
Good race commentary. Also: 25:10 lol.
25:08 Running the red!
Nice video I drive this route every day Metro parkway to mack
Do Jefferson from Gross Pointe to Detroit
The part of Oakland, that is in the intercity.
This was a very nice video. But you missed one of detroit history. the Better Made chip factory.
In 1969-70 they had a Sear's on Gratiot