@@arky5610 No with the republicans from under Nixon administration Detroit and many cities with massive black population underwent racist policies through the Department of Housing and Urban development as well as drug policies that put black people in disadvantages with drugs pouring into their communities, rent controls driving white people out of mixed neighborhoods, police brutality destroying black families deteriorated the civil structure of Detroit and many inner cities of major cities. Not to mention many companies were also responsible for taking those racist policies in putting black in disadvantages as part of the republican plan.
@@AnjumulHaque wrong the democrats has been in charge of Detroit for over 50 years, the g, o p had nothing to do with Detroit or other democrat run cities, detroit democrats, st louis ,democrats, philly, democrats baltimore, democrats newark n j, democrats new york city democrats, atlanta democrats memphis, democrats ,los angles, democrats san francisco ,democrats portland democrats, seattle, democrats, minneapolis ,democrats, little rock, democrats, oakland, democrats, you get the drift, all of them crap hole cities are run by democrats, where there is drugs, gangs, no jobs, crime ,school dropouts, welfare ,food stamps, the democrat politicians only come to them democrat run cities every election asking for their vote ,and the sheep keeps on voting for the same democrats every election, and getting the same results from these democrat politicians ,you get what you vote for, another reason a lot of people are getting out of democrat run states and cities and moving to red states, nice try though ,have a bless day
@SEAN PETAIA I'm not in the photos, and I'm not dead (yet) but I remember well living near Detroit and visiting my grandparents there often throughout the 1950s and 1960s. During the 1950s, they lived off of East Jefferson and Alter Road ran along the back of their apartment building. I remember walking down Jefferson to a nearby drugstore with my grand dad so he could buy a newspaper and cigarettes. It was a great city back then. He worked for GM and my grand mother worked at the big Himelhoch's department store.
It's a different world because the people who lived in Detroit changed. Remarkeable how nobody notices how if you walk around Detroit today, you don't see many white people...
This takes me back home. Getting dressed up to go shopping downtown at Hudson's, Crowley's and buying candy and cakes at Sanders. Women in dresses, heels, hats and nylons; men in shirts, slacks, blazers or jackets, and most of us wore hats. There were still plenty of cars left from the 1930s into the 50s. As bad as race relations were, people in general seemed more polite and well mannered than today. Detroit was shaded with canopy of tall Dutch Elm trees. And local TV was great; Soupy Sales, Woodrow the Woodsman, Milky, the Twin Pines Dairy Clown, and of course Bozo, with his magician sidekick-Mr. Houdini -across the river from CKLW TV/Channel 9 in Windsor. Man I miss those days.
OMG David, it could have been me writing those words. I was born in Clawson in 61 and remember all those great things you talked about. I was even on Bozo’s show in around 66 (I think). Life will never be like that again, but I pray Detroit will make a comeback.
I always wondered what Detroit was like when my grandma was going to nursing school there in the 50s and raising a family with my grandpa there in the 60s. Thanks so much for this time capsule!
Life before "Cultural Enrichment" aren't we glad those evil days are gone???????, Today we enjoy: Decadence, Bankruptcy, Corruption , Drugs and all the best stuff Cultural Enrichment brings.
@Eddie T Well, too much diversity causes issues. The strongest nations in the world are the most homogeneous. Norway, Japan, South Korea, etc. And its really not because of race perse, but rather culture. People are more content when everyone has things in common with one and other. How can you have a nation of competing tribes with nothing in common? How does that work? It doesn't work, or at least, it doesn't work very well. Just the reality, dude. Doesn't mean either that it's all bad and there are no benefits of diversity. There surely are.
@@fm-9129 Japan, Korea, Norway? the strongest nations in the world? BWUUUUAHAHAHAHA!!!! Son, they all got they butts whooped in '45 by the most DIVERSE nation on the planet!!! Sit down son. 😆😆😆
Americans had class then... they even dressed better in those days. These days they just so large, either with extra small clothing or shapeless shabby garments. Their cars where cool though.
the cars were really nice back then but they were very dangerous in an accident unlike the modern ugly plastic cars, since religion had more control at that time people wore less revealing clothes and no short skirts or jeans
@@bruceburns1672 Detroit City income tax 1964. That was the turning point from an expanding city to a contracting ity. Within 2 years business had begun to leave. That city income tax (6%) is in addition to State tax (4.3%) and Federal Tax. That's a huge amount EXTRA and it drove business and employees with options (disproportionately white) out. Some secondary factors are in play (Zoning, "Hell Upon Detroit" housing scandal) but the City income tax is the predominant one. NO major business would decide to add 6% to gross costs if they could avoid it... by literally going anywhere else in that state.
From what I see, I don't believe Detroit has even 650k more like half, 325k.And half of those aligeable to vote. Census Bureau just as corrupt as rest of the deep state.
This City Really Has A History because this city was beautiful back then because everyone made an honest living back then because people could afford almost everything including an automobile & a house everyone can call home a place where families were raised , meals are shared & people can retire & grow old but today Detroit has seen better days since violence came there & businesses & people had long ago moved away .
@@JTKAMI ; Well, actually it was great because it was able to offer opportunity for a vast amount of people that did not normally have such chances. Everything in life rolls along, though that is not so readily evident from a younger perspective. Opportunities have changed and been lost, who's responsibility is it to plan for such things.
I remember going to Hudson with my mother and father looking at the Christmas displays. Bob-lo in the summer also the Detroit Zoo. When the zoo had the chimpanzee show. Picnics with the family at Belle- Isle💜
I always enjoy seeing the "Top Of The Flame" building. It was very ahead of its time aesthetically. Same architect who designed WTC. Same design, essentially, just on a much smaller scale.
Brings back a lot of memories. I lived there from '67 to '74. Saw many a Thanksgiving Parade down Woodward Ave. It's a shame what they did to the city.
I have faith though that Detroit will bounce back. Most likely it will never be as big as it was before, but the Downtown and Cass Corridor are showing signs of life.
Quit smoking weed, quit drinking alcohol laced drinks, quit snorting and swallowing drugs, and sticking needles in your veins and eyes. Detroit will NEVER come back to what it used to be on this video. The citizens that lived in the 12th and Bethune Street neighborhood took permanent care of that in the summer of 1967. Only a-holes and dumbass's would burn down their own home's and businesses to show the world how mad they were for the Detroit Police to raid a blind pig. Welp, these mindless and highly ignorant street trash got what they wanted. A city wide ghetto.Miles and miles of empty city blocks of weeds, trash, and a few dead bodies thrown in. There aren't even stray dogs walking around Detroit anymore.Very few homeless hang out in the weed infested fields of the "D." anymore.(The letter "D" means DEAD). No matter what, the Detroit Wizard of Oz mayor Mike Duggan sez, standing on plastic milk crates to reach the microphone tells you. Detroit AIN'T coming back. NEVER WILL. The city is reverting back to what it once was before Cadillac docked his Viking ship at the foot of Woodward Ave. RIBBON FARMS. That's what Detroit used to look like. Ribbon Farms. Every day of every year, Detroit is growing into larger empty fields of FARMLAND. Except where the 3 multimillionaire families bought buildings at yard sale prices in the downtown area ONLY. Those families of Ford, Gilbert, and Illitch. Skid Row around The Masonic Temple was flushed out by the Illitch family. Poor people can't live there in Detroit anymore. Just dumb people who LOVE to pay rent and outrageous outer space high property taxes and very high car insurance. Crappy police, fire, and ambulance service. Non-existant garbage pick-up. And hourly gun shootings throughout the hoods of Detroit. People are dying just getting some pop and chips. Buying a package of twinkees in Detroit could end your life. Who? Who? Who? In their right mind wants to live in a toilet bowl city like that? Where life is flushed down just for walking on the sidewalk? Just for looking at someone sideways? Watch and reminisce videos like this about Detroit. Those were the good old days of the "D."
Yeah, I grew up in Detroit in the 50's and 60's and remember it well...the good and the bad like the riots and how it affected my neighborhood and the white flight that resulted.
A huge contributor to the decline and fall of Detroit was the mass exodus of the car manufacturers. All the ancillary industries and businesses began to close up shop and the economy fell. Political corruption set in and Detroit crumbled into decay. I have some insight. I grew up there.
Just like every other city in America the Democrats had a lot to do with it along with the quality of American automobiles in the middle 70s and early 80s.
Yes, to some extent. The Great Society, as well-meaning as it was, has proven itself to be a massive failure because it addressed symptoms of poverty but not the root causes. Fatherlessness has skyrocketed since then, especially in black communities, and poverty rates haven't changed much if at all. In the case of Detroit, the greed and political corruption of the UAW had a lot to do with it as well. They kept demanding more pay and benefits for their workers even though they were already had some of the best pay and pensions in the entire auto industry. The Big 3 would give them an inch, and they would take a mile. Eventually, it became too expensive for the Big 3 to keep the jobs there, so they moved them out.
what's the story on the planes photo(1:44) the p-80 (facing away) was retired in the late 50s but the 102(facing camera) not until mid 60s at the earliest?
Boy you can see how the demographics have changed used to be a thriving area now the diverse people are there and 3/4 of the city is ether burned out destroyed by thieves and scrappers or being demolished I have a friend that lives there hopes to sell out to the city and leave .
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath its a joke about the way democrats say they want to see more black people, well they got em. The city itself isnt diverse but the suburbs are.
I remember seeing the Hudson Dept. Store , the eastern market , the central train station and the highland park ford plant while visiting in 1963 when I was a young boy. Are they still there?
The Hudson Dept. Store was demolished in the late 90s, Michigan Central Station is being restored by the the Ford Motor Company, The Higland Park Ford Plant might be turned into a museum, The Eastern Market is still there and is thriving.
Belle Isle, the Boblo Boat, Hudson's and Sanders! United Artist and Fox theater!.Tigers stadium! Bettermade, Vernors and Faygo!. Then came the sixties! Remember don't go past 8 Mile! It was great while it lasted!
These would be really great with an explanation on the pictures, before I understand what I am looking at the picture has moved on, maps really help expand the understanding too.
Not really... That's just a cope. The people who made up Detroit changed. You would see so many whites in the inner city from the 1950s footage. Compare that to today...
I'm from Brazil and I like to know more about social issues. Something that I've been notice is almost every white neighborhood after become a black neighborhood everything seems ruin. Crime rate goes high, the environment is more heavy, people are more depressed, the city become less attractive to others people and becoming cheap buy home in those areas.
What happens is whites will try to keep other cultures out by any means and when that fails they move and take all the resources with them causing the city to callapse. When that happens poverty strikes the poor become stressed depressed and desperate for survival. And instead of the government helping they give us drugs. Yes the CIA flooded black neighborhoods with crack in the 70s and 80s. This is a fact and is on record. Drugs guns alcohol stores on every corner but no businesses or schools. And years of that you get what Detroit is today and same for every big poor city.
Now if you want to know what happens when the whites move back I can tell you 🤣🤣🤣 they just move back. No matter how dangerous the area is. They will walk at 3am with headphone. Then next thing you know a Starbucks is being built then rent skyrockets so the ppls that live there can't afford to live there anymore then the city condems whole apartment complexes due to code violations forcing the blacks on the streets little by little then they are either arrested or hauled away somewhere else. 🤷🏿
and i grew up in the 60's with a drunk dad that was top car salemen in the entire region and his family, me and my 2 brothers and mom were on welfare and without a car most times. He would bring home a corvair and tell my mom she could have it if we cleaned it up so we scrubbed it and he would then sell it from underneath us, he did this several times.
When you label corruption with a political label, you forget it is people who vote them in office. If people stayed instead of moving away and fought for their neighborhoods it might have been better than just blaming others. My 2 cents worth.
Why stay after the factories close? People with money left while those who didn't stayed and voted Dem to make the city what it is today. Detroit was destroyed deliberately by "capitalists" who wanted to send its factories overseas, not by the voting pool. You can't comply your way out of tyranny or vote your way past injustice.
Learn proper punctuation, definitions, and grammar before you try to insult the city of Detroit. You sound stupid. Yes Detroit was inhabitable in the 50s and 60s just like you wrote! 😂🤔
Looked like a great place until you know who took over. They have done such a wonderful job creating the Detoilet! Happens with other places they touch too! Shitcago.
Believe what you want, but once Quantavious and Quanisha took hold, Detroit was lost. Like LA, Boston, Atlanta, and the rest of our “urban” cities. Shame, just a darn shame what they’ve done.
Some thing people over look with little insight to manufacturing . Such as the politically motivated who comment here. Fact after WWII The USA was the only good place to get equipment to rebuild,. Then the Japanese and Germans had to build modern factories with all updated machinery . While the USA still had a lot of machines dating back to who knows when as far back as before 1900 with multi level plants that were a nightmare for moving materials from floor to floor or building to building
![Detroit, Michigan 1930s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/U2_8gqrLfHo/mqdefault.jpg)
At one time Detroit had the reputation of being the most prosperous city in the USA,if not the world.🗽💰👍
You can thank the UAW for changing all that.
@@hotwax9376 and the democrats
@@arky5610 No with the republicans from under Nixon administration Detroit and many cities with massive black population underwent racist policies through the Department of Housing and Urban development as well as drug policies that put black people in disadvantages with drugs pouring into their communities, rent controls driving white people out of mixed neighborhoods, police brutality destroying black families deteriorated the civil structure of Detroit and many inner cities of major cities. Not to mention many companies were also responsible for taking those racist policies in putting black in disadvantages as part of the republican plan.
@@AnjumulHaque wrong the democrats has been in charge of Detroit for over 50 years, the g, o p had nothing to do with Detroit or other democrat run cities, detroit democrats, st louis ,democrats, philly, democrats baltimore, democrats newark n j, democrats new york city democrats, atlanta democrats memphis, democrats ,los angles, democrats san francisco ,democrats portland democrats, seattle, democrats, minneapolis ,democrats, little rock, democrats, oakland, democrats, you get the drift, all of them crap hole cities are run by democrats, where there is drugs, gangs, no jobs, crime ,school dropouts, welfare ,food stamps, the democrat politicians only come to them democrat run cities every election asking for their vote ,and the sheep keeps on voting for the same democrats every election, and getting the same results from these democrat politicians ,you get what you vote for, another reason a lot of people are getting out of democrat run states and cities and moving to red states, nice try though ,have a bless day
@SEAN PETAIA I'm not in the photos, and I'm not dead (yet) but I remember well living near Detroit and visiting my grandparents there often throughout the 1950s and 1960s. During the 1950s, they lived off of East Jefferson and Alter Road ran along the back of their apartment building. I remember walking down Jefferson to a nearby drugstore with my grand dad so he could buy a newspaper and cigarettes. It was a great city back then. He worked for GM and my grand mother worked at the big Himelhoch's department store.
Most of these people would be rolling in their graves if they saw what Detroit would become 50/60 years later. It's like another world.
Very true
I Agree.... Very sad.
What if they were all cremated?
If they had supported equality instead of redlining and pulling industry out of the city because a black wanted equality. Naw that wasn't the reason.
It's a different world because the people who lived in Detroit changed. Remarkeable how nobody notices how if you walk around Detroit today, you don't see many white people...
This takes me back home. Getting dressed up to go shopping downtown at Hudson's, Crowley's and buying candy and cakes at Sanders. Women in dresses, heels, hats and nylons; men in shirts, slacks, blazers or jackets, and most of us wore hats. There were still plenty of cars left from the 1930s into the 50s. As bad as race relations were, people in general seemed more polite and well mannered than today. Detroit was shaded with canopy of tall Dutch Elm trees.
And local TV was great; Soupy Sales, Woodrow the Woodsman, Milky, the Twin Pines Dairy Clown, and of course Bozo, with his magician sidekick-Mr. Houdini -across the river from CKLW TV/Channel 9 in Windsor. Man I miss those days.
OMG David, it could have been me writing those words. I was born in Clawson in 61 and remember all those great things you talked about. I was even on Bozo’s show in around 66 (I think). Life will never be like that again, but I pray Detroit will make a comeback.
Dearborn 1950
People knew their place back then
They were polite and well mannered to other white people you mean? Because there was literally a whole riot back in the 60s bro
@@jj-eo7bj They dont even know their gender today.
I always wondered what Detroit was like when my grandma was going to nursing school there in the 50s and raising a family with my grandpa there in the 60s. Thanks so much for this time capsule!
Life before "Cultural Enrichment" aren't we glad those evil days are gone???????, Today we enjoy: Decadence, Bankruptcy, Corruption , Drugs and all the best stuff Cultural Enrichment brings.
Lol, you mean life before globalization
@@brennansawyer8688 either way
life before China stole the jobs life before jim crow was abolished life before polio was eradicated so much to love
@Eddie T Well, too much diversity causes issues. The strongest nations in the world are the most homogeneous. Norway, Japan, South Korea, etc. And its really not because of race perse, but rather culture. People are more content when everyone has things in common with one and other. How can you have a nation of competing tribes with nothing in common? How does that work? It doesn't work, or at least, it doesn't work very well. Just the reality, dude. Doesn't mean either that it's all bad and there are no benefits of diversity. There surely are.
@@fm-9129 Japan, Korea, Norway? the strongest nations in the world? BWUUUUAHAHAHAHA!!!! Son, they all got they butts whooped in '45 by the most DIVERSE nation on the planet!!! Sit down son. 😆😆😆
DET used to be something. Never has a city descended into chaos quicker or longer...
Americans had class then... they even dressed better in those days.
These days they just so large, either with extra small clothing or shapeless shabby garments.
Their cars where cool though.
Food drugs computer ☠️
the cars were really nice back then but they were very dangerous in an accident unlike the modern ugly plastic cars, since religion had more control at that time people wore less revealing clothes and no short skirts or jeans
That's the time and place where I grew up! Haven't been back in 50 years!
A great place to be FROM!
Yep. Me too.
Before America sent all its manufacturing to China and when Americans purchased American made and owned products .
That's not what killed Detroit.
Detroit was shot and killed in 1964 by a Democrat mayor.
@@darthkek1953 I understand what you are talking about .
@@bruceburns1672 Detroit City income tax 1964. That was the turning point from an expanding city to a contracting ity. Within 2 years business had begun to leave. That city income tax (6%) is in addition to State tax (4.3%) and Federal Tax. That's a huge amount EXTRA and it drove business and employees with options (disproportionately white) out.
Some secondary factors are in play (Zoning, "Hell Upon Detroit" housing scandal) but the City income tax is the predominant one. NO major business would decide to add 6% to gross costs if they could avoid it... by literally going anywhere else in that state.
@@darthkek1953 Same story in New York....Tax after tax.
Which eventually would cause COVID.
Classy and timeless. ♥️
2,000,000 to 650,000 people is crazy
From what I see, I don't believe Detroit has even 650k more like half, 325k.And half of those aligeable to vote. Census Bureau just as corrupt as rest of the deep state.
@@joyceleadbetter2600the census bureau is one of the govt agencies I trust lol.
This City Really Has A History because this city was beautiful back then because everyone made an honest living back then because people could afford almost everything including an automobile & a house everyone can call home a place where families were raised , meals are shared & people can retire & grow old but today Detroit has seen better days since violence came there & businesses & people had long ago moved away .
Think you forgot it was not GREAT for EVERYONE.
@@JTKAMI ; Well, actually it was great because it was able to offer opportunity for a vast amount of people that did not normally have such chances. Everything in life rolls along, though that is not so readily evident from a younger perspective. Opportunities have changed and been lost, who's responsibility is it to plan for such things.
I remember going to Hudson with my mother and father looking at the Christmas displays. Bob-lo in the summer also the Detroit Zoo. When the zoo had the chimpanzee show. Picnics with the family at Belle- Isle💜
I always enjoy seeing the "Top Of The Flame" building. It was very ahead of its time aesthetically. Same architect who designed WTC. Same design, essentially, just on a much smaller scale.
Wow ALL the THRONGS of PEOPLE ON THE STREETS DownTOWN ! That probably was just a regular day !
And Detroit was number one in the world of automobiles.
Now Beijing China is.
The Motor City.
@@lindamazzella1295 no worries
Brings back a lot of memories. I lived there from '67 to '74. Saw many a Thanksgiving Parade down Woodward Ave. It's a shame what they did to the city.
That's what happens when you elect democrats. Vote blue get scr*wed
Detroit was huge!
Lol Detroit is like the Mines of Moria. Beautiful back then now enter at your own risk.
Don't forget, it was the dwarves' lust for wealth that made them dig too deep and awaken what Gandalf called "an ancient evil".
Those cars are gorgeous
Born in 50s. Grew up in 60s. Unbelievable times
The home of GM Ford and Chrysler,Motown records , the pistons, lions , Eminem ect ! and its sad how Detroit is today.
I have faith though that Detroit will bounce back. Most likely it will never be as big as it was before, but the Downtown and Cass Corridor are showing signs of life.
Midtown, Brush Park, Corktown and pretty soon Indian Village will all be back ... Detroit becoming the modern city of all!!! 💪
And Bob Seger.
@@stevenmaginnis1965 Bob is from Ann Arbor
@@kblopp Close enough.
Now Detroit is all color
Yes it is
You clearly have not been to Detroit in decades. It is a multi-cultural paradise. Gentrification has taken hold of the city.
The days that were! At the end of the video I seen SAM'S my Mom worked at that store for years. Brings back good memories ❤️
When America was great! so sad to see the way Detroit and many other cities have spiralled down too.
Compare Detroit today to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
@@skipperrussell2025 Take a look at ancient Egypt while your at it. In 2300 years nobody fixed it up. There's hope yet for the D.
@@Gravyballs2011 You suck at logic.
Home sweet home! Heavy sigh. Not going back.
This makes me sad because I got to watch it die from 1982 till 2010.
The fatal shot was fired into the heart of Detroit in 1964.
It just took you a while to notice.
@@darthkek1953 what was that? Not everybody remembers 1964.
@@ericvantassell6809 I'm guessing Taxation but also the race riots poured fuel on that fire
just like the entire country did , and biden finished it off
@@ericvantassell6809 when Kennedy turned them loose on society
Detroit was a beautiful city and can be again the idea of America is still the best light of hope for the world.God bless
Quit smoking weed, quit drinking alcohol laced drinks, quit snorting and swallowing drugs, and sticking needles in your veins and eyes. Detroit will NEVER come back to what it used to be on this video. The citizens that lived in the 12th and Bethune Street neighborhood took permanent care of that in the summer of 1967. Only a-holes and dumbass's would burn down their own home's and businesses to show the world how mad they were for the Detroit Police to raid a blind pig.
Welp, these mindless and highly ignorant street trash got what they wanted. A city wide ghetto.Miles and miles of empty city blocks of weeds, trash, and a few dead bodies thrown in. There aren't even stray dogs walking around Detroit anymore.Very few homeless hang out in the weed infested fields of the "D." anymore.(The letter "D" means DEAD). No matter what, the Detroit Wizard of Oz mayor Mike Duggan sez, standing on plastic milk crates to reach the microphone tells you. Detroit AIN'T coming back. NEVER WILL. The city is reverting back to what it once was before Cadillac docked his Viking ship at the foot of Woodward Ave. RIBBON FARMS. That's what Detroit used to look like. Ribbon Farms. Every day of every year, Detroit is growing into larger empty fields of FARMLAND. Except where the 3 multimillionaire families bought buildings at yard sale prices in the downtown area ONLY.
Those families of Ford, Gilbert, and Illitch. Skid Row around The Masonic Temple was flushed out by the Illitch family. Poor people can't live there in Detroit anymore. Just dumb people who LOVE to pay rent and outrageous outer space high property taxes and very high car insurance. Crappy police, fire, and ambulance service. Non-existant garbage pick-up. And hourly gun shootings throughout the hoods of Detroit. People are dying just getting some pop and chips. Buying a package of twinkees in Detroit could end your life. Who? Who? Who? In their right mind wants to live in a toilet bowl city like that? Where life is flushed down just for walking on the sidewalk?
Just for looking at someone sideways? Watch and reminisce videos like this about Detroit. Those were the good old days of the "D."
When the largest employers are casinos and city government
Wow. Clean and no graffiti.
Yeah, I grew up in Detroit in the 50's and 60's and remember it well...the good and the bad like the riots and how it affected my neighborhood and the white flight that resulted.
Getroit was a great place when it was white.
My man!
This must be back when most had pride in their community, their family and themselves.
The last GOP Mayor was 1962 ....Demokrats destroy every place they run ...!
where did it all go wrong.....probably have LBJ to thank for most of it
A huge contributor to the decline and fall of Detroit was the mass exodus of the car manufacturers. All the ancillary industries and businesses began to close up shop and the economy fell. Political corruption set in and Detroit crumbled into decay. I have some insight. I grew up there.
Just like every other city in America the Democrats had a lot to do with it along with the quality of American automobiles in the middle 70s and early 80s.
Yes, to some extent. The Great Society, as well-meaning as it was, has proven itself to be a massive failure because it addressed symptoms of poverty but not the root causes. Fatherlessness has skyrocketed since then, especially in black communities, and poverty rates haven't changed much if at all.
In the case of Detroit, the greed and political corruption of the UAW had a lot to do with it as well. They kept demanding more pay and benefits for their workers even though they were already had some of the best pay and pensions in the entire auto industry. The Big 3 would give them an inch, and they would take a mile. Eventually, it became too expensive for the Big 3 to keep the jobs there, so they moved them out.
LBJ was a no good for nothing diabolical criminal.
The world before we became slobs who don't care anymore.
That's odd, looks more like the Japanese city of Hiroshima today and Detroit of today looks more like Hiroshima in mid August of 1945.
Before White Flight.
Before Detroit became Kinshasa...
Its the background music that got me.
Model city for the WORLD
Not for the Europeans
what's the story on the planes photo(1:44) the p-80 (facing away) was retired in the late 50s but the 102(facing camera) not until mid 60s at the earliest?
Detroit looks so different now it’s crazy
I love those cars from that time ...special from half way 50's till about 63....but hey ....my taste.
Those were the days great days normal days!!!!!
Boy you can see how the demographics have changed used to be a thriving area now the diverse people are there and 3/4 of the city is ether burned out destroyed by thieves and scrappers or being demolished I have a friend that lives there hopes to sell out to the city and leave .
Detroit is 85% black. How is that "diverse"?
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath its a joke about the way democrats say they want to see more black people, well they got em. The city itself isnt diverse but the suburbs are.
Demographics are destiny. Western and Northern European nations are going to learn this the hard way if they don't learn from history.
The pics are in color and the people are white.
At 2:02 the site where the RenCen now sits. I can remember it just barely.
Nice to to the Belle Isle Zoo.
Was a great city where I grew up
It's still beautiful
I remember seeing the Hudson Dept. Store , the eastern market , the central train station and the highland park ford plant while visiting in 1963 when I was a young boy. Are they still there?
The Hudson Dept. Store was demolished in the late 90s, Michigan Central Station is being restored by the the Ford Motor Company, The Higland Park Ford Plant might be turned into a museum, The Eastern Market is still there and is thriving.
That sounds great to me. I would like to go back up there and visit Greenfield Village and the Ford Museum.
Detroit may get back on track again. Something has started, people at high places say. Stay positive.
Belle Isle, the Boblo Boat, Hudson's and Sanders! United Artist and Fox theater!.Tigers stadium! Bettermade, Vernors and Faygo!. Then came the sixties! Remember don't go past 8 Mile! It was great while it lasted!
These would be really great with an explanation on the pictures, before I understand what I am looking at the picture has moved on, maps really help expand the understanding too.
Was 1:38 taken in Dearborn? All those Fords...
Nice
Drs. Z. Ziller (Curly), X. Zeller (Larry), and Y. Zoller ...
Thin America, in shape.
Before the times of fast food joints around every corner
The Motor City...People had pride and worked hard...
I like the music
Golden era for the american cars
High quality camera for the time
The people so smartly dressed.
I grew up in Rochester
The Arab oil embargo in 1973 started the decline of Detroit's auto industry. It all went downhill from that point.
Not really... That's just a cope. The people who made up Detroit changed. You would see so many whites in the inner city from the 1950s footage. Compare that to today...
Just before the "dream" turned into a nightmare.
I'm from Brazil and I like to know more about social issues. Something that I've been notice is almost every white neighborhood after become a black neighborhood everything seems ruin. Crime rate goes high, the environment is more heavy, people are more depressed, the city become less attractive to others people and becoming cheap buy home in those areas.
This is exactly what happens everywhere in the world. Same thing with South Africa after apartheid was ended
What happens is whites will try to keep other cultures out by any means and when that fails they move and take all the resources with them causing the city to callapse. When that happens poverty strikes the poor become stressed depressed and desperate for survival. And instead of the government helping they give us drugs. Yes the CIA flooded black neighborhoods with crack in the 70s and 80s. This is a fact and is on record. Drugs guns alcohol stores on every corner but no businesses or schools. And years of that you get what Detroit is today and same for every big poor city.
Now if you want to know what happens when the whites move back I can tell you 🤣🤣🤣 they just move back. No matter how dangerous the area is. They will walk at 3am with headphone. Then next thing you know a Starbucks is being built then rent skyrockets so the ppls that live there can't afford to live there anymore then the city condems whole apartment complexes due to code violations forcing the blacks on the streets little by little then they are either arrested or hauled away somewhere else. 🤷🏿
@@quantae7Now you got Hispanics taking over America lol
Before mayor Coleman Young destroyed the city.
Coleman Young didn’t destroy Detroit. His people did, but the destruction was already done before they could put him in office.
Nice video, but what's up with that music?
No kidding. That music is gay
@@alcoholic2412 Beyond gay
Love the music.
Timothy Reuscher Yep. The music kinda sucks, inappropriate.
Ha ha, the last picture had a Volkswagen in it!
As cheap as gas was back then, some people still wanted to drive economical cars.
The city was not ghetto back then.Now i wouldn't go there if you payed me.
Democrats and blacks destroyed that city
Went 1983 to get brother it was SICKENING!.
and i grew up in the 60's with a drunk dad that was top car salemen in the entire region and his family, me and my 2 brothers and mom were on welfare and without a car most times. He would bring home a corvair and tell my mom she could have it if we cleaned it up so we scrubbed it and he would then sell it from underneath us, he did this several times.
When you label corruption with a political label, you forget it is people who vote them in office. If people stayed instead of moving away and fought for their neighborhoods it might have been better than just blaming others. My 2 cents worth.
Why stay after the factories close? People with money left while those who didn't stayed and voted Dem to make the city what it is today. Detroit was destroyed deliberately by "capitalists" who wanted to send its factories overseas, not by the voting pool. You can't comply your way out of tyranny or vote your way past injustice.
Distorted Partridge Family music.
Barely a mention of Hudson's ,Kern's or Crowley's and no showing of the old GM building...disappointing.
Compare Detroit today to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now compare them to today.
No bomb in Detroit. What could ever have caused it??
Can’t believe detroit was inhabitable once
Number one city in the world at one time. Sigh.
Yeah, before the dems/lefties came and Eff'd everything up.
Learn proper punctuation, definitions, and grammar before you try to insult the city of Detroit. You sound stupid. Yes Detroit was inhabitable in the 50s and 60s just like you wrote! 😂🤔
Freedom
falam do esquerdismo mas a cidade do lado canadense continuou wasp canada red e mesmo assim nao decaiu como detroit dna ne
Nice photos but the music is annoyingly bad. Should have used old Motown music or some other period music.
And now Alabama is the new Detroit with all our many billions of dollars in the auto industry! I hope we don't wind up like they did.
The blatant RACISM in these comments, whew. I truly pray for y’all..
We will reclaim our cities O/ ✋🏻
Actualmente a Detriot, se lo cargó detroit!
Looked like a great place until you know who took over. They have done such a wonderful job creating the Detoilet! Happens with other places they touch too! Shitcago.
Some of the pictures look like they were taken today
Detroit used to be Detroit not destroyed ...
Believe what you want, but once Quantavious and Quanisha took hold, Detroit was lost. Like LA, Boston, Atlanta, and the rest of our “urban” cities. Shame, just a darn shame what they’ve done.
And we all know who was responsible for the decline?
Lafayette we let you down
Pure Meeeeeeeeeccccchhhhhheeeegggan
What happened? How did it change to trash?
From the best it got to the worst.
The 50s and 60s were the heyday of America, its been down hill ever since..
Today it is basically a war zone maybe even worse than the Warzone
These look like colorized or tinted black and white pictures, I'm sorry to tell you.
Some thing people over look with little insight to manufacturing . Such as the politically motivated who comment here. Fact after WWII The USA was the only good place to get equipment to rebuild,. Then the Japanese and Germans had to build modern factories with all updated machinery . While the USA still had a lot of machines dating back to who knows when as far back as before 1900 with multi level plants that were a nightmare for moving materials from floor to floor or building to building
This would have been an interesting video had it not been for the horrendous music. Perhaps Motown?
Best part of video is the great background music.
Heartbreaking.