Audio slideshow: the grandeur and decay of Detroit’s Boston-Edison neighbourhood

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10 жыл бұрын

Nick Kohler takes readers inside the homes of the city’s captains of industry

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@MichaelJohnson-pk5sq 6 жыл бұрын

I could tell you stories of grandeur and horror about the beautiful homes of Detroit. My friend owns the home behind the Henry Ford home. Mr Ford was friends with Thomas Edison and built a home for him directly across the street from his own. He used glazed white brick for the build, and when Edison was presented with it, said, "It looks like a toilet!" Off the side of the Ford mansion to the west, (to the left in the picture), is a park which was once his yard. Nearby is a house Michael Jackson once lived in, with the remains of a mini railroad in the back yard. The Ford mansion is only a few blocks from a beautiful Catholic cathedral. The bells echo through the neighborhood.

@Batman-wv5ng 6 жыл бұрын

Beautiful homes l would love to buy one and restore it .

@clarkewi 6 жыл бұрын

The bones of those old houses are still good.

@54dwr 6 жыл бұрын

The house with yellow shutters....I was all through it with the owner, a school administrator trying to renovate while living in a trailer in the back yard with his wife. Place was stuffed with their belongings, almost no room to work. Wife got murdered, husband took the rap (I personally don't think he did it, probably just convenient to close the case). House sitting there ever since. Been through the stone porch house too (with the guys in the front yard) and some of the others. Spent 35 years in Detroit. No more.

@Itsaboutthewaterlife 6 жыл бұрын

Dang

@CC2755 6 жыл бұрын

The giggling girl is annoying.

@heru-deshet359 6 жыл бұрын

Make you wonder what he's doing to her, lol.

@micheleellis4074 6 жыл бұрын

That's a very frustrated giggle. It's not cute and innocent.

@geoffreyselvage1673 6 жыл бұрын

Clearly done by people outside of Detroit...

@chaosdemonwolf1 6 жыл бұрын

Clearly done by people outside of this planet

@bjvanrootselaar458 6 жыл бұрын

Geez Buddy spit it out.

@hapaboy0808 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah seriously, almost borderline stuttering!

@chaosdemonwolf1 6 жыл бұрын

The beginning shot with the homes in the back round looked pretty cool. The crappy white car parked in the foreground was not

@1940limited 6 жыл бұрын

I hope he writes better than he speaks.

@lorispain1 6 жыл бұрын

American homes seem to be so dark iinside, lots of wood..

@dbcooper692 6 жыл бұрын

how about in your country

@Kass0007 6 жыл бұрын

Poor poor speaker......

@aaronchandler2380 7 жыл бұрын

I wonder if any of them homes could be dismantled and moved to somewhere nice?

@RADIUMGLASS 7 жыл бұрын

It's possible. It can be done.

@CC2755 6 жыл бұрын

They are solid brick and would crumble,

@heru-deshet359 6 жыл бұрын

With enough money, yes.

@heru-deshet359 6 жыл бұрын

Actually, no. Complete historical buildings have been dismantled right down to the individual bricks and reassembled elsewhere. Everything is numbered to ease in reconstruction.

@Itsaboutthewaterlife 6 жыл бұрын

Heru , , , don't you mean, " Actually, yes , , , "

@marywegrzyn497 6 жыл бұрын

Nice video, except the loud giggling was so annoying n rude while the Man was trying to explain things n share his Awesome Historical facts. I could not watch the whole video regretfully due to the female's giggling, laughing n chiming in constantly. What a shame. It ruined a nive video. Please stop all the noises next time, thx