well, support for the arts generally seems lacking these days.

there are some high school auditoriums that are just amazing. Look up P.S. duPont High School (now a middle school) auditorium

My church is actually an old school, not sure when it was built but it was open till probably the 90’s , my dad and a lot of my friends parents went there, and the auditorium looks similar .. it’s beautiful

You see those everywhere in Europe

@@MrJellyton A lot of people say that too many "frills' are being taught in schools/ Frills such as physical education and drama and art and kids need to only know the basics as their great grandparents were taught , reading writing and arithmetic. A lot of people say that several generations of kids turned out dumber because they were distracted with useless stuff like critical thinking.

Debby Heidbreder What a beautiful school you went to! I am from sweden and we have nothing like this where i went to school!

@@Glitterflickan ain't it obvious this account is fake? 'Her' profile pic is painted and found off the internet. They joined a week ago too.

Debby Heidbreder it rivals my High School in Baltimore. The Institute of Norte Dame. I, fortunately, was well aware of the fabulous building we had. They have since removed the original features of the science lab for more “modern” features, which personally I think was a huge mistake! The old cabinets wooden cabinets had the original glass in them. The glass was rippled. The old thick slate topped work areas. I was extremely sad to see it was gone. Such is life nothing lasts forever. 🥺😊

Nice feeling better now today I am not usa I am Indian Kerala . I am watching Malayalam movie ranam that movie story is this Detroit war just waching ranam movie

Doombeanz I maybe she saw the video joined an account and not everyone takes a picture of her or himself. She needed an account to comment, and not Even you have a picture of yourself

ur legit haha yt account since 2006 like daaaaaamn

Thank you for adding your recollections to this comment section. It’s wonderful that you experienced such a beautiful school as part of your formative years.

@Brent Gocavs A lot can happen in 30 plus years. I graduated in ‘88, and we were Cooley Cardinals. But I’m guessing the Bull has something to do with Jordan/Chicago Bulls. Could be wrong.

You are indeed lucky. Must be heartbreaking to see how the school is now...

@@juansalazar579 I thought it was longer.

Most people couldn't afford to maintain cars in Detroit. Roads were bad back in 70's. Outer Dr was so bad. The highway ramps were like moon craters. Notice all the Old Tire shops on every corner.

@@KilliansMom1 I dont remember tire shops at every corner back then but I do remember churches in every size in Detroit. Many of them are gone or abandoned as well...

All things end. Clearly your education was insufficient.

@@simtrate3959 So explain what education has to do with someone liking a theatre?

@@simtrate3959 Clearly your sentence is not relevant. If you want to use English correctly stick to the point of your sentence instead of staying non-relevant information towards the comment. In all honestly, what I'm actually saying is. Shut up.

Sad things like this happens because of the democrats and the people who give their votes to them

@@WarthDader74 I agree. Democratic Mis-management of political policies and socializing too many public services has given many people entitled personalities. Thus they loot vandalize and disregard anything they see fit.

my school has it check it out its branksome hall asia

@Chris Krasniewski A lot.

Trevor Vaubel Ikr wow 😮

@@terminat1 YES, and "there", not "their". What has happened to my country.....? NOTE: original comment to which this was directed has either been removed or edited

Yer mom went to class there

I did go here. It was beautiful.

good luck

I do too!!

I can picture this school turned into a fancy hotel or an art gallery. Maybe a history or science museum.

Ace of cups huh? Like 2 gals and one of them cups? I like that film. I like to eat my own faces while enjoying that film. Its grand. I have done my own film. It's called one guy, one cup, three buttholes and one large spoon to eat the caca with. Look for it and watch it with kids and your mother and father. It's very educational and you can learn to eat caca by viewing it. Try it because it's good. I have done it since 1 year old and I've only been sick for my entire life but AIDS and diarrhea isnt that bad.

When America starts rebuilding itself these next for 4 years with trump. I Pray the whole USA gets together to put back their cities and rebuild stuff such as this school. With a community of a few thousand, I can see it get done. America including Detroit will be strong once again the way it used to be when it was before crooked politicians sold out our country to china. We will see Detroit be back to its original powerhouse it once was. Godbless America. All things are possible with God.

@@yeahyeahboy4519 With trump?

@@yeahyeahboy4519 trump won't and can't do shit

@@yeahyeahboy4519 r/agedlikemilk

Why would you sign your name Dr. In the least professional platform possible?

kwame DontDance Fuck you’re Chevy Cruise your stupid ass microwave Handle and you’re life

kwame DontDance it was probably you huh

Detroit is in ruins, because fathers don't raise their kids right.

David Lafleche honestly 😂

Hair dryers in public schools?? That's so cool! Man, seems like schools were in their golden years during the 70s and 80s. I could only imagine..

definitely a real big piece of shit scumbag

I doubt it was intentional

Alex Maybe

It could have been an accident, maybe by a homeless

bigsirenguy agree

And thats not your normal everyday high school auditorium. It's literally at least 4x the size of my high schools auditorium.

@@nickhoffman7448 its about the size of mine but mine was a generic early 2000s utilitarian style,meaning no style,just blah basic and plain. Elite private schools don't even build auditoriums like that anymore.

I've watched a lot of these videos about Detroit and one thing that really comes through is the pride that the city had in its schools. It's devastating seeing all that has been lost.

Velvet Hammer as a ballerina, i’d do anything to be able to perform on that stage :(

No the greatest shame is the policymakers didn't provide for the theater program to be viable. If we wanted to do something, it was without funding the budget or a set aside theater teacher. Our teachers had to double as theater director on top of their 7-8 classes and the other extra curricular activities they helped out with. When I going there the teacher shortage was happening or shall I say over filled classrooms.

Dollars and Philippine Peso

Not really.

People pay a lot for looks but it turns out you can read for free online and not be in debt. Imagine what this country would look like if people created new industries instead of paying for validation from an outdated conglomerate like the University industry? That's a world I want to see.

This was a public school not a private school. It was built at a time when people valued a good education.

@@debbyheidbreder5686 wasn't it built when school was actually useful because factory work was real? unfortunately education sucks now regardless and school has become mostly useless information.

I think that it’s better to just remove it entirely and leave something to remember it by rather than just let it stay there decaying. Removing it and leaving something in memory of it shows some care and respect, whereas leaving it to decay does not.

@@YeetZmeN Leave it. In a few centuries archeologists can dig it back up and think we were better than we were lol

White flight. Days of glorious America are over.

IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE

Elites have a plan

Fr if my school looked like this I would’ve wanted to go everyday and learn. Absolutely beautiful.

Ikr:( dis is dream shcool for me or atleast some bigger shcool because my shcool is really small but comfortable I wish I was born when this shcool hasn't opened yet and was born near there

Imagine we have nothing like pool or pe class, science lab etc... and the sport Hall is like really small and dirty

Sasuke Uchiha mine has a very nice auditorium (which used to be a church or a place to pray, the walls are full of religious paintings and beautiful art. My school was a religious kind of thing in the early 1900’s so it is very old looking. It’s a nice high school!

@@makemecry6604 even by those standards, your school seems pretty nice. You should research schools in brazil...

JulCaos ohh yeah..

My highschools auditorium is like that same size wdym

Rida khan bro, I’ve never seen a high school auditorium look like that, ever. You may be used to it but not everyone goes to a high school with an auditorium like that

@@grayvetrain yup my highschool is pretty famous in my city that's why

Rida khan good for you.....But I honestly don’t care

Rida khan what a pricky response😂

@vrccb: Who's going to pay for the restorations? Not only that, that whole neighborhood and the entire district has seen better days.

DaddyDoSoWell everyone is saying they should have found guides to go through the building with them, you definitely sound like someone. What made you stay in Detroit if you don’t mind me asking?

Mr. Dallas was one of the coolest teachers at Cooley.

@@mariohenley149 Can I ask what it felt like to be there when you were there?

YOU WHERE SO LUCKY TO HAVE WENT HERE... BE PROUD.

the auto shop was great i went there year it opened and the metal shop was cool as well i was even in the ROTC and yes we had a gun range and guns i would like to see that in today's age i would be so cool to go back through the old school sometime we only lived 8 houses away when i was growing up

They rolled in their graves that day.

Just the purest form of evil.

Definitely a sick minded and dangerous person

It was problaby some homless people tryin to keep warm and not knowing or thinking started a fire

@White Boy shut the fuck up, humans ruin everything, it doesn't matter about skin colour.

Haha yup mine too. There wasn't any windows in the classes either at my school

Dakota High School. Macomb County Michigan. Same thing

Tyler Marcus Fairview high school anyone?

Gpn?

ah yes enslaved learning

Great idea!

So cool

honestly that would be amazing even if they just got someone local for every place it would make every video all the more entertaining and informative

And also have a r2d2 Droid. Please also include a woman with big bum in all the shots

@@ChicanoOne760 what?

...and true, the Fisher project was to have two towers flanking a taller tower. I have an old rendering of it. The whole project was going to be absolutely huge at the time. Even now, I'll visit the Fisher Building just to entertain myself over the amount of marbles and granites. Just stunning!

Samesh Maharaj piss off, the US is made out of immigrants. It’s pathetic that there are people like yourself.

@Samesh Maharaj Mate, U.S. was found on the prospect of immigration. Bug off

Samesh Maharaj wtf idiot your an immigrant from Europe dumbhead

@Samesh Maharaj As an American myself, I can say no one skin color is more American than other. Fuck that line of thought. If you were born here, moved here, or became nationalized, you're an American. I don't care what you look like, nor do I care whether my race is dominant. Once again, fuck that and fuck you.

@Samesh Maharaj that way of thinking is so sad that it is actually primitive, please work on yourself

I feel that. I was a techy. Did the lights and fall spots. This theater would have been an absolute joy to set for. I felt this one so hard. What a waste.

Imagine how épic it should be to practice your acting hère and you become the next Joker few years later

@Wes 76 exactly correct sir! The one's who destroyed this were probably oppressed victim's in life though. Lol. It's the white privileged who's at fault. Joke

Zoe Rose eh theater kids are assholes

@@magicman3163 Most of them are not at all.

Wow so your dad was rhe 2nd graduating class? I bet he has great photos.

@@ritaturner9906 I think most of those were lost when he moved to Indianapolis after he left U. Michigan in 1932.

Remember that the ‘30’s saw the country in a Depression. Dad was forced to leave Michigan when his Father died and he went to work to help support his mother and younger siblings. he picked up his education again at Indiana and graduated Medical school in ‘42, in time to serve as a physician on the Hospital Ship Hope in the Pacific Theater.

Imagine being the first class

Hopefully it starts coming back soon. Detroit needs more jobs for the people on the outskirts

TeaSis Speak it into being and so it is a lovely thought indeed💕

Sad

The State of Michigan at the State-level has approximately $10.13 billion of the taxpayer's money it is not using, i. e. surpluses equal to $1,009 for every man, woman and child in Michigan or $4,034 for a family of 4. This does not include all the additional surpluses that exist in the school districts, cities, or counties in Michigan. This is known as STEALING. cafrman.com

It sure is... I can’t understand how a big school like this can go down :(

Well damn, don't think much people here actually expected to find someone who graduated from here in the comments. I think we're all glad we did, though.

Just wanted to ask, how did it feel to see the school in this video?

As kids, we never really appreciate anything. I grew up in a very historically rich part of the US. Spent childhood field trips visiting places several hundred years old. Never really cared about the history, culture, or architecture until I moved out west which, comparably speaking, isn't nearly as historically deep.

Wow, it must've been so strange seeing everything abandoned like this, especially when you've seen it in use with people going about their everyday life.

Da Goddess,why did they close the school?

just like me

Also I think it fascinates some people because depending where you live, this isn't a thing. Where I'm from there are some abandoned places but not many. There's a shut down ammo/powder plant from ww2 that they recently started opening up to build new factory and warehouse space and demo'd some of the old rusted buildings. There's another area nearby that is old industrial buildings and it is spotty, some are unused, some are still in use, i'm not sure what the % is, but the area as a whole is hardly abandoned. Most buildings that aren't going to be used anymore are demolished if they are highly unlikely to be useful for any other purpose. We had one mall close probably 20 years ago, and it re-opened as a series of department stores and large chain stores not too long after. The interior of the mall was sectioned off and used for storage for the stores that now have their entries on the outside walls of the mall rather than the inside. Most abandoned houses eventually get purchased and flipped or leveled and the land sold off at a tax auction. It really never occurred to me until seeing videos like this on youtube that there could be uninhabited places like what there are out there. Whole uninhabited cities in china and abandoned military or industrial complexes that sprawl for dozens of acres. That stuff just hardly exists near me. That powder plant even before they started really opening it up, while it was still owned and maintained by the military, it had guard posts every so often up the highway and there were a few businesses that for whatever reason were operating inside of there and you had to stop in at a guard station to get inside. The only remotely cool place on the property was an abandoned neighborhood that was all homes which were built to house the families of military officers that were stationed at the plant to run it(civilians did almost all the labor, the military just oversaw it.) It was still technically inside of a restricted government facility with a guard post at the only entrance near the place, you'd have had to hike through the woods to get to it, and even still some people got caught trying to explore it. I've seen pictures and satellite photos, that's about it.

Me too

To me it's my fascination with the "end of the world" feeling. What would be left behind to represent the occupied spaces once held by humans. It's like stepping into an alien world only to imagine what it was like before. So many lives and stories unfolded there once. It just makes your imagination go wild. I would love to explore an abandoned world in another galaxy if I had the chance just to see the remnants of it, but these videos are the closest feeling to that desire.

Same here. If those walls could talk ..

That's the story of a lot of American cities. They once had their golden moment but fell into disrepair when hard times hit and we're left with only photos and people's stories of the way things used to be.

When he said that the school was considered the showpiece of the education system in Detroit, I thought that, unfortunately, it still kind of is. It just reflects a different, much sadder reality.

Who here drives an American car?

@@ReflectedMiles Exactly, he dances around the fact that "a fire broke out" rather than say "the ghetto ass locals burnt it down just for fun" like all the other abandoned buildings in Detroit. Think about the type of people to burn something like this down, think hard.

@@NameSpaceVoid Another comment said it was a photographer spinning steel wool, and another said he knew the people responsible as they bragged about it on stories and he reported them /shrug

@kwame DontDance cost to much to fix wasn't in the budget.

@@georgeboggan9232 wasn't in the budget as the state and city continue to steal money

George Boggan I mean I don’t think I’d be able to get any work done in that place if I worked there 😂 I’d be staring at the architecture too much and get my ass fired

@Cliff Yablonski Ur mom gay

@@georgeboggan9232 I think based on kwame's other posts he is suggesting the people were pigs and you had your hands full because of it... I don't agree but that was his intentions (I believe)

Wow my dad was class of ‘79

'The Pickle Factory'

It’s cause people put it there when they smoke, teenagers need somewhere to get high

Wes 76 this is a very ignorant comment. The learning environment is of great importance and many of the countries leading in the international PISA testing scores put a great deal of effort into the learning environment and other factors such as being highly selective for who can be teachers. They also actually show respect for schooling and the teaching profession, paying teachers the high salaries that such a vital role in the transmission of knowledge and culture to future generations really has in a healthy society. It’s no wonder the USA is so fucked up right now. The USA is putting kids in schools that look like prisons with metal detectors and massive locks on doors, cops all over, bag checks, etc. And because of the low respect and salaries people can expect if they go into the teaching profession, way too many classrooms are being headed up by people who really have no business being teachers. If you look at GSS data on the USA - an alarming number of teachers do not know when asked if the earth revolves around the sun or the sun around the earth. That is fucked up!!! It’s no wonder so many schools are having so many more issues with student apathy, discipline, and violence. You’ve got kids in a glorified prison with teachers who don’t really have the ability to teach them. Scores went down. Would you expect any different?!? So now we have the accountability movement which has preplanned curriculums that basically dictate how lessons should be taught because too many teachers are unable to do so on their own. But of course these lessons are usually dry and boring that takes any inquiry or creativity out of the teaching and learning process. And do you know what education at its best should be?!? People inquiring and creating freely together. Think about it. When have you best learned in an educational environment - when you were sitting immobilized in a desk for hours on end, being told what you should know? Or asking questions and looking for answers? We need learning environments that support this type of learning or we will continue to fall more and more behind other countries on such international tests. You can throw all the money in the world at something but if you’re not throwing it in the right direction and if the underlying structure is unsound then the building will still fucking come down around itself. That you think that the leaning environment has no effect on students emotionally and psychologically is really more of an issue. And the mentality demonstrated in your comment is part of the reason despite all the money and legislation nothing improves.

If the funding was there. I go to a new school, but it’s way smaller than an average high school, thanks Pasco!

ExtraOrdinary MUSIC... Kids nowadays need more than a fancy building to inspire them. How about two parents who love them and care for them. Two parents who expect their kids to be upstanding law abiding and decent people. I could go on and on. This building is just a reflection of the decay of humanity in general.

@LAFOLLETTER Racist fuck

ITzParadox It is kinda true. They’re loud, cause disruptions during class time, have stupid beefs and fights in school, they wanna act “hard” in school which makes them look like low iq imbeciles, make fun of anyone trying to make an effort in school. Should I keep going?

Just wondering are any of them in use today?

Yes, all but Cooley

...yes, Mumford. Even Mackenzie was beautiful. I was hoping that they would save that one. 😔

Like the WTC buildings...

When white people lived there

Most of those Detroit Landmarks NOW DESTROYED........

@@marshaarbi I don't think inhabitable means what you think it does

Oh my frend, if only you knew how deep the rabbit hole goes...

Same here. It makes me think of how people loved these places, made memories in them, maybe lived in or went there daily, made friends, etc, and how now all those memories, all the stories, all the care that went into the building is just gone, left in ruin without a second thought or any consideration of it’s importance to some of many people. It’s just sad. Same thing goes for lost/broken toys.

Don't hate it, accept it. It's a fact of life. Things come and go. Live and die. It's the natural order.

I'm from Detroit. This happened because Democrats regulated and taxed the city and the State of Michigan into the ground.

Make schooling free and it'll work. They made the price of everything too high and no one could afford anything so went elsewhere by the sounds...

@@xfirty2x already was, and that was always the problem. People don't value what they are given. Kater may as well try this with homeless people, the people are that way for a reason. Its why lottery winners tend to fall back to their level, if they didn't work for it, it wasn't meant for them.

Kater Morphis If I would have enough money, I would buy the whole City Detroit, that's my dream and bring glorious buildings Back to live, bring back work and make Detroit attractive and safe again. With a safe job no one would like to be a criminal. 6 months ago I like your idea Kater Morphis. I've wanted that too. Unfortunately alot of people don't want a safe job, they want the fast pay off of drug running and human trafficking. Too many Americans addicted to alcohol and drugs. Give all bad urges to Jesus to heal. People at all levels in on it helping ISIS/BLM takeover drug trade, I think for China+. Silent coup covid19, mail in ballots illegals voting multiple states, Dominion voting computer fraud, Chinese bought media. They will clear us all out with their viruses and vaccines to depopulate for them. WAKE UP AMERICA!!! THINK GOD!!! Read Revelations, shine A city on Hill

A beautiful dream indeed :)

The devil would still temp

@@YourName-jm7lz *would've or would have

@@YourName-jm7lz wow sad. This place is so beautiful when my shcool is nothing compared to this and I can't believe 9 years ago when I had no idea what shcool was people went here

Your Name that’s so sad. Now it feels like the school was under appreciated. The architecture seems fitted for an arts school (maybe it was idk I’m not rlly paying attention).

@@YourName-jm7lz i went to Cooley. It was just your typical school in the ghetto. There were future criminals here and there were tons of amazing students also. I went for the 9th grade but then they closed down. This school was way better than any Detroit school i had gone to.

Costa Zambaras damn sounds like u talkin about a whole city epidemic not HS

I hate to say it because I know it makes it sound like I'm politicizing this but the truth is Detroit in general failed because of leftist administration and their innate policy of giving everything away. California is currently going through the same thing but it's interesting that cities run by right leaning administrations fare MUCH better. That said, I used to vote Democrat, and there was a time when they could do good things but today their ideology is a big mistake in this country. I will never vote Democrat again - EVER.

One word Democrat

@@greenrefrigerator You are so foolish, so of the nicest cities in the country are run by leftists. Something else changed in Detroit though.

@@jacksetter95 Among the largest cities in the country that are failing or HAVE failed, the one common element they all share is they have liberal administrations. Sorry if that "offends" you but it is what it is. The facts speak for themselves.

deadmanw@lk1ng to offer an alternative perspective it wasn’t leftist or democrats that destroyed Detroit. It was just globalisation. Countries like China could because of their ability to pay the workers less and many other reasons produce the same things as the city of detroit did but much cheaper. This may seem like a bad thing, but the chinese taking over manufacturing has benefited almost every american because of the cheaper goods and it gives us the abilitiy to specialize on things we do better.

Also, as a graduate of Cooley. It is now sooooooooooo hard to freaking get your transcripts or copy of diploma or anything like that now that it's closed

@Ralph Goober Anything better than Michael Bay techniques

Amen to that !! Half the stuff up here looks like the Zapruder film.

Yes most you tubers clearly are in it for their own enjoyment and could care less about their viewers. I hate it cause little kids are the viewers a lot of times and don't know the difference between professional, passionate, or just plain idiot content makers. I like telling my son who does and who doesn't deserve your time. Stop subscribing to people who can't even take the time to make their videos consistent and watchable. I'm sorry but home video makers shouldn't be getting any views and that's what most are.

I agree one hundred percent!

I absolutely agree! Nowadays the new trend will likely be glass walls apparently for new ‘modern’ schools, so cold. I badly wish it will go back to this eventually... We really can’t build the future without looking back at the past sometimes. Wouldn’t everyone prefer going to school at a Hogwarts-like building instead of a modern café? ;) That school was such a gem, it’s really sad.

Like everything else it's all about money the cause and downfall of society.

I'm angry too, but it's just too hard to replicate these ornate buildings because of the immense talent required. Stone masons, bronze workers, plasterers...all jobs that once required the skill of an artist, are virtually non existent in the current era (in the capacity they once were). We can't really be mad about this, especially when there's a literal skill shortage, and there's nobody to hire.

@49jubilee no, it was the manufacturing jobs went to over seas bidders. Bill Clinton trade agreement with countries like China killed our American culture.

So they can be burned again? Ever been to detroit ?

Revolves around money sadly. Why invest money into a closed school when it’s cheaper to utilize update or even build a new school when your city is shrinking to the population of a large town. To bring that school to modern standards with AC, heating and electrical would cost millions. That’s why my high school renovated itself over the course of 5 years. It was earlier to rip everything out and start fresh.

Something called “white flight”. When desegregation took place, whites fled the cities to the suburbs, taking their wealth with them. Detroit, along with many other large cities suffered greatly because of this. However, people have been returning, which is driving the price up again, known as “gentrification”.

If you ship out and automate millions of factory jobs what do you expect.

So many people left Detroit they did not have the student population for such a large building nor the tax dollars to pay the costs in maintaining the building. Imagine the heating costs alone.

Frogman Smith or because when the school became mostly black they didn’t care and in general education wasn’t valued

"Today's generation" you mean corporations that try to do everything for bare minimum expense? We know we're getting douped but we need affordable places to live, work, go to school. When my college put up prefab, cheap looking buildings everyone was disgusted but what say did we have?

I don't think 'todays generations' is a good way to put it. Always have companies strived to create cheaper, easier solutions to building and stuff.

Ratplague707 , life isn’t the same without beauty and art around. I remember moving to San Jose and it was so god awful ugly everywhere, yet even so every place has its own pecking order when it’s a planet removed from another. Buildings like this in their former state make life much more meaningful. Such a shame to see it end up like this. When cities are ugly, and some are sprawlingly so, I just find a place that’s nicer, with more of a country feel but close enough to jobs. Now I can drive through old CA country roads and get away from all of the crowds, find parking, have a view of mountains and shop in Spanish architecture with the same view. Locally it’s just as nice in a different way, we have everything but I can walk, bike or drive to it and we also have the same pretty architecture. In spite of the superior beauty, the people are much more casual, very unpretentious and it’s a better fit for the artistically inclined.

I know what you mean. The US is about the only country that doesn't cherish it's old buildings and either destroys them or lets them deteriorate like this beautiful structure. Can you imagine if they wanted to tear the Louvre in Paris down, or Big Ben in London? How much less our lives would be without those wonderful structures.

@@WouldntULikeToKnow. Truth! This comment should have 1k upvotes.

Fucking animals

Thanks for answering that Jimmy, from fellow class of '85 (not Cooley)

Ya’Dad talk about a reunion all the people form that school seen this video. I wish my high school looked like that

Mumford High School also had a banked track so this was popular in many Detroit High Schools

I had one in my old high school that was banked as well. It was put in, in the 50s from what I remember. It was hella sick and I’m so sad that the new school doesn’t have one.

YOU WHERE SO LUCKY TO HAVE WENT HERE... BE PROUD.

Don’t feel jealous bro, my dad went to school and every story he told me involved murder from the time period of 1989-00. All three of his brothers shared similar stories. It just wasn’t safe from what I heard. Yes the school is beautiful without a doubt but idc how good a school look...if I hear niggas stuff guns, drugs, and etc in their lockers then I’m going somewhere else. Fenkell and hubell was in the top ten dangerous streets in Detroit

Back then when they didn't have nothing they could build edifices like that...and today with trillions of dollars around....everything is metal, dry wall, and something that is supposed to be plastic !!

Only been 15 years since i left there but auditorium was beautiful even in 2009

Detroit Public Schools, with the exception of Cass Tech and Renaissance, were gladiator schools from about 85 onward. The teachers were world class though. If you could survive the bullies, neighborhood crews and gangs you could get an education that was second to none. However, it was a life and death situation. Children lost their lives for coats, sneakers, and all sorts of petty rivalries. Even some of the middle schools were turnt but the high schools were rough as any county jail in the country.

E.E.EAG.L.L.LES.EAG.LES.GOOOOO EAGLES - BRACKENRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL SAN ANTONIO TX

If u drive by it everyday..u must still live with your mom.😂

@@mr.president9100 Or they visit their mum every day.

@@duhh_rudddyyy651 omg that's the same cheer my school does!!!

@maemo move out!

your school probably still taught the lost fine art of thinking.

Kefentse Brown right

Faye De Koo I had White boards

Power plant wow your dumb

Detroit is poor, they used what they had.

I want that clock... Cooley Class of 82

Joe Harrington stupid question but when they said in the video about all the numbers that left the highschool and the city, what exactly happened to you and other classmates? Did everyone go to auto plants in other cities?

You went to a great school. Your memories will never leave you.. Sad how it's just fading away..

Was this a tuition based high school?

Karrionn Smith,public school

Wow

I graduated from there in 92

Rica's Game Cafe wow it must have been amazing to see it buzzing with people

I'm pretty boys we required to swim in the nude.

Not trying to be rude but is your mom still here? God bless

I work at Central right now-the first high school in Detroit. It is still operating, but now has an elementary, middle, and high school in it, plus a community clinic. It has a lovely auditorium, too.

welcome to Detroit 🤷🏽‍♂️

Man you have no idea. I graduated from there in 92. It was beautiful. Life was so fast that it was taken for granted. We didn't have a class on architecture or the history of our or Detroit. There are so many factors. Just know that Detroit was set up to decline over time. People were in such a survival mentality that it was all about right now money and not preservation. The schools population was a little over 3,000 my senior year. In 89 there was change in my middle school or I would have been at Cooley my freshman year.

I went to a junior high that looked similar to this school (on a smaller scale of course). Our auditorium was massive and beautifully built. Its hands down my favorite school I’ve ever went to. Even considering how young I was, I remember still being so appreciative of its history. I was in the last 7th grade class to ever go there. It’s been abandoned since. Still breaks my heart to drive past it

Sames years I was in high school. I would have loved to have gone to this school.

At least you got to enjoy it. I went to highschool ten years after you did. My graduating class had 2k+ every time we went to a different class we we shoulder to shoulder with eachother. The building was crap. This building is still beautiful.

Was it a good high school considering it’s Detroit? I go to Holt HS and neighboring Lansing Everett, Sexton, Waverley, and Eastern are less than ideal schools

why was the track banked in the gym?

so it was over crowded but that's wasn't the buildings fault!

I graduated from Cooley in 1981. I used to perform on that stage. Good times. I had always hoped someone would do something to preserve and make use of the old girl.

Dan what was the track used for on the second floor above the bb courts ?

I'm curious when they stopped using the firing range? As someone that was shot, I whole hearty think that they should teach gun safety like drivers ed, show the good & negative side. & the boot camp style physical ed class they had, maybe we can lower the obesity health issues we have today.

Very sad I envision it in all it's glory kids teachers beautiful sad very sad..

@@lightning95sc wish I were in as good school as you people were.

Yes it's a nice school but the old famous school in Little Rock looks a whole a lot better .

Ya a school with a shooting range is definitely the best school ever I love it wish every school in america had a shooting range in it definitely make them a lot safer

dady dad some schools still have shooting teams. Skeet, sporting clays, etc.

A rise? To where I'd like to know, it's also not just the politicians fault, the people of Detroit's fault just the same, i grew up not to far from there and lived a short time in the heart of Detroit, yes the car plants shut down, plants shut down and people left and the ones who stayed, didnt help it much, made it worse! I would be very SURPRISED if in my lifetime it gets back to what it once was and not a 💩hole waiting to fall in!

@@latinamarie80 I agree! Although, I think our current mayor is on the right track. You're right though...... The people who live in those neighborhoods need to start taking pride in their homes, neighborhoods, themselves. Pride of ownership. No one owes anyone, ANYTHING. If you want it, all you have to do is go get it. We live in the United States! There is no lack of opportunity, and there NEVER has been!

@@latinamarie80 you grew up not far from here huh?! Lol one of many people from the burbs who only came here for tiger and lions games. Bash as well as praise our city; only when it fits the conversation. Makes me really appreciate my fellow WHITE and MEXICAN friends who aren't afraid of our city and actually see the potential of what it's gonna be. Living and building side by side, one day at a time without talking down about the people (as a whole) trying to make it better.

@@DetroitWrecker666 thank you!

@@politelady123 Ya know, our City has come a LONG way in the last 5 and 10 years. It's changing people's attitudes, and the way people think about Detroit. That's a GOOD thing! There's a LOT of people living in the neighborhoods where, their homes look nice, even if there is burned out and abandoned homes on the same block. They NEVER gave up. And I think Never Giving Up, sums up our City as a whole! Like I said above. We're on the right track, we have a lot of work to do. But don't ever count out Detroit because, no matter what major City you live in, there's a Detroit guy who set up shop there, and is getting ready to bring it home!

Truth spoken. Everything is temporary now. We are so divided.

Very good point. A lightbulb went off in my head when I read your comment. That IS why things are built differently today. It's sad but reality

"Diversity" killed Detroit.... Great white flight.....

Mike D everything has always been temporary. Anything not lived in or used starts to fall apart unless someone maintains it.

@Ken MacDonald The subject goes far more in depth then that, but hey keep up the divisive comments!

Detroit died due to many factors, number one being leftist policies.

I'm with you. I loved the look of that library as well. Can't imagine how nice it would have been back in the day with the original flooring and wall details.

Ikr it looks like a really old British library

That Library was awesome. The image on the wall they kept passing over was of Thomas McIntire Cooley. The man for whom the school is named. That divider in the pool wasn't originally there. We used to have swim the whole pool.

R3 T106 FA It looks like a university library.

Yeah It was called the Martin Luther King library