Gary, Indiana

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decayingmidwest

6 ай бұрын

Пікірлер: 16 000

@ThePandaAgenda 5 ай бұрын

“crystal clear water inside a pool” bruh that chlorine concentration must be off the charts

@angelalmaguer311 5 ай бұрын

No bacteria shall ever grow

@Witchy-Wonderland 5 ай бұрын

Honestly I thought they probably just pay the bill to keep the pump running. Running water contains much less disease 🦠 than still green water Which is less problematic down the line..

@joaquinrivesgambin8413 5 ай бұрын

Green algae just dosen't grow in the dark, no light for photosynthesis.

@NecramoniumVideo 5 ай бұрын

After all those years there is no chlorine at all in that pool. All broken down already.

@Blandyman 5 ай бұрын

@@NecramoniumVideo Chlorine is broken down by sunlight exposure. Green algae just dosen't grow in the dark, no light for photosynthesis. This combination of factors lead him to comment on the pool water.

@soba. 5 ай бұрын

It's crazy seeing the books left on the desk. Like a perfect snapshot of the very last time someone sat there before the classroom was abandoned forever.

@kantetoast 5 ай бұрын

I wondered about that… was it like one point they all said „ok it‘s 12:00 now… everyone abandon pls.“ and the 2 sitting front row thought the pencil case and books were just uncomfoartable when abandoning? 😅

@bredoslow8166 5 ай бұрын

@@kantetoastsame, my best guess is that there was either a natural disaster or the building was built incorrectly and had to be evacuated

@warpedgenius5182 5 ай бұрын

so weird like looking into the past just left their open like they just disappeared or walked off kinda sad youd expect a school to be filled with laughter little kids and full of life not dead like that

@cleansent 5 ай бұрын

My first thought as well

@danshakuimo 5 ай бұрын

Bro didn't even bother closing his book

@audreysmith6923 3 ай бұрын

It’s hard to believe that once upon a time , the Jackson 5 came from Gary, Indiana and it was prosperous

@supaxlvztr 3 ай бұрын

White flight, and many businesses left when blacks came to work in Gary. Then drugs and guns made their way into broken black communities, that already lacked resources, red lining laws still played a heavy factor on their ability to find success in a place that was once thriving. There’s a history lesson here. When you treat people like animals, I suppose some will. But on the other hand, some of my best friends are from Gary, and they’re very humble people, and will help you even when they’re struggling themselves.

@booboo8577 3 ай бұрын

Richard Pryor too I think.

@AlwzMason-bf9nj 3 ай бұрын

@@supaxlvztrblacks ruin everything

@stejer211 3 ай бұрын

@@booboo8577 Nope. Peoria, Illinois says Wikipedia.

@booboo8577 3 ай бұрын

@@stejer211 Ah that's right. I knew it was in that area.

@zacharyhoover7806 4 ай бұрын

I live in a neighboring town and Gary still has a lot of people in it. There's a lot abandoned and boarded up but it's not close to being completely abandoned. It's still one of the most dangerous places. You can drive through it without issues just do it during the day.

@Algimantaz 3 ай бұрын

Does it have any working grocery stores?

@americaneden3090 3 ай бұрын

Alot have closed @@Algimantaz

@BearsFootballGuy 3 ай бұрын

Ya i lived in miller for a year and would go downtown quite often. Ive never had a problem. You can definitely tell there should be a lot more people living there but now that the steel mill was sold, jobs might be cut and population might fall

@tinkerbell2882 3 ай бұрын

Enough space to build homes for the homless the world is big enough people come n go we only live approx 100 years let the less fortune get help n homes the earth is big enough for everyone im tired of seen all these empty spaces n people living in the streets government do ur job u tax us so use the money wisely or let us control you

@dutchmansmine9053 3 ай бұрын

@@tinkerbell2882 Homeless people could just move in and build their own society. Nothing really stopping them.

@unclesam326 5 ай бұрын

I’m a pilot that makes flights out of a nearby town, and let me say, EVERY night flight I took passing by Gary, I’d see police cruisers with their lights on.

@melissabeal7720 5 ай бұрын

AFTER being abandoned??? 🤔

@holly452 5 ай бұрын

@@melissabeal7720 the city is ALMOST abandoned homie

@stevencarlsen3419 5 ай бұрын

Yeah it's not abandoned. I had a buddy who just moved to Gary a few months back. Why? Who knows.

@Raumes513 5 ай бұрын

@@melissabeal7720 more like the vast majority of people left because Gary is a violent shithole 🤣

@unclesam326 5 ай бұрын

abandoned doesn't mean nobody lives there bud, it means the government and many companies gave up on the upkeep of most businesses and facilities there. still plenty of people, mostly poor, that live there.@@melissabeal7720

@AnthonyKing-yk4tn 5 ай бұрын

If you're brave, I recommend you drive through the completely abandoned neighborhoods of Gary that use to house huge homes. It gives a great glimpse into what Earth would look like if we disappeared with nature taking over our buildings.

@user-hu8mb5jw5w 5 ай бұрын

Or just voted Democrat again 😅

@MarkW1210 5 ай бұрын

@@user-hu8mb5jw5wholy shit you sound uneducated. Enjoy your repub party that's falling apart right now and does nothing to help the country grow

@Anzio_VR 5 ай бұрын

@@user-hu8mb5jw5wnobody wants your politics

@seva7500 5 ай бұрын

@@user-hu8mb5jw5wopen ur mouth wide lil bro, don’t know if it’ll fit.

@mazystarr 5 ай бұрын

@@seva7500 What a compelling statement, you must be a democratic political scholar! Harvard? Stanford?

@patriciagreen3392 3 ай бұрын

My Dad grew up there and he and his father worked at the steel mills. Grandma passed away in the 80s and they sold his childhood house. Lots of memories of chasing rabbits from my grandma's patriot garden, main Street the pharmacist gave us lollipops, and sliding down the firehouse pole! Wish it never had changed.

@sleepysombre4307 2 ай бұрын

LMAO BRO DIED

@BroD814 2 ай бұрын

@@sleepysombre4307 no one needed you to chime in lil bro 😐

@MochaZilla 25 күн бұрын

@@sleepysombre4307whos bro

@danicaersland3686 3 ай бұрын

For anyone wondering, the song is Acid Rain by Lorn

@Idiot72 3 ай бұрын

this song make my ears bleed I am not joking my ears are bleeding but not becouse of this song

@Draj2233 3 ай бұрын

The comment I needed but didn't even think it! Thanks😂

@NachoCheeseHotCake 3 ай бұрын

Slowed/reverbed version

@ediehuffman1010 2 ай бұрын

Thanks I was wondering

@sleepysombre4307 2 ай бұрын

trash

@LentarnMale 5 ай бұрын

Fun fact: Gary, Indiana was one of Rockstar’s biggest inspirations when making Carcer City in Manhunt.

@daynechastant 5 ай бұрын

And I remember intro adventures for the original VAMPIRE: The Masquerade were set in Gary.

@luichinplaystation610 5 ай бұрын

when rockstar had talented people

@RizzSpecktaGadget 5 ай бұрын

Manhunt was intense .. used to give me nightmares. Manhunt and Half life 2 are the only games that really got me good at night lol 😂

@phalspar 5 ай бұрын

@@daynechastantI just downloaded bloodlines, is Manhunt good too?

@daynechastant 5 ай бұрын

@@phalspar Never played MANHUNT, but it was certainly...unsettling to watch.

@ryanpongracz8051 5 ай бұрын

The crazy thing is, there is so much value sitting there.

@josephlilley9249 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, but who owns everything in the town? Does the government own the whole town or do individuals own it and it's a bunch of different properties split up? If the government owns it all, I'd bet my left nut they won't ever do shit with it and refuse to sell it to any citizens.

@briansmith8730 5 ай бұрын

@@josephlilley9249 why would the government own a town? That’s not how government works in America. The government doesn’t own any towns or cities.

@DarenMiller-qj7bu 5 ай бұрын

@@briansmith8730idk about that. WE don't own shit, the banks do.

@mikellewis2346 5 ай бұрын

Thats what im thinking. So much could be refurbished an reused to build so many homeless people holmes an make jobs doing the whole job from teardown to rebuilds. I cant understand it.

@joewearsadroolbib7347 5 ай бұрын

The Democratic Party crushed Gary Indiana with their policies.

@valeriehoward7847 3 ай бұрын

My dad was born there in the 1930’s when it was thriving and everyone worked for the steel mills. My aunt who is 90 this year is still alive but live in another state. She remembered it well… thank you

@robbiewilson9675 4 ай бұрын

The open books in the classroom indicate that the students had to leave in a hurry and never came back, or that some other urban explorer came and goofed around (probs the latter)

@johnnyzeee5215 5 ай бұрын

In the 1930's, the US Steel plant at Gary was considered the finest in the world. Russian authorities traveled there to see it, and built an exact copy, in their city of Magnitogorsk.

@RaptorFromWeegee 5 ай бұрын

Lived there for a time back in the 60s. I was very young and remember very little. Stayed with Uncle who worked at the US Steel plant. So much changed. Gee, I wonder what happened to the place? I get that union-strangled steel companies couldn;t compete anymore. But why didn't new people wanna live there? Like artists or the elderly? And who wrote all that graffitti? And whys it scary? If the populations so low now should crime also be low? I just don't understand.

@sink009 5 ай бұрын

@@RaptorFromWeegeeAs a US Steel employee who works at Gary Works, the plant’s still going strong. Granted, it’s nothing compared to what it was back before the 80’s, but all the main facilities are still pumping out millions of tons of steel coils annually.

@rileyjdavies 5 ай бұрын

It was the largest, not the finest.

@johnnyzeee5215 5 ай бұрын

@@rileyjdavies Was both. People wouldn't have traveled thousands of miles to see, and eventually copy it, if it wasn't held in the highest regard.

@kyleplatter8954 5 ай бұрын

Makes sense the soviets couldn’t make their own designs so made an inferior import of western designs… a tale as old as time.

@andrewstevenson2375 5 ай бұрын

I grew up in Southern Indiana and was always told that you don’t even stop at stop signs in Gary because someone will more than likely carjack you.

@hashbrown4781 5 ай бұрын

Grew up just outside of Indy and was told the same thing. Was told cops don't want you to stop, they have enough on their plates.

@GG69BLIN 5 ай бұрын

Like San Fran now

@vhaddad5249 5 ай бұрын

⁠@@GG69BLINThat’s a lot of bull. Been going to S.F. every summer for decades. The Tenderloin section is very hard-hit, but I just don’t go there, nor would I go out late at night there or any large US city unless it’s like door to door to the opera via Lyft. Most of S.F. is still very beautiful; big problem with large offices closing due to post pandemic style remote from home work styles. Two days ago the major met with Republican leaders about modifying proposition 47 which became the key 😮 to grab and go store theft.

@hashbrown4781 5 ай бұрын

@@vhaddad5249 With your decades of experience, would you say things have gotten better, worse, or remained relatively the same? Also, this has a lot to do with perspective. You have been going into the city for a long time, thus feel much more comfortable going there than someone who has only been there a few times or never at all. To say San Francisco is one of the safest cities would be deplorable and plain wrong, but that is mainly because if you cram enough humans together you're bound to have more than a few bad apples.

@Therealreplay89 5 ай бұрын

Cap.

@ericbumbles4145 3 ай бұрын

I remember Rob and Laura Petrie (Dick Van Dyke Show) singing about Gary Indiana In The Morning....ANYONE ELSE? or am really that old?

@Q8Claire 2 ай бұрын

I'm old but my first thought when he said Gary, Indiana was the old movie The Music Man. Such a vast difference in the city then and now.

@johncolosimo1863 5 ай бұрын

I got detoured through Gary once. The place looks like something out of a post-apocalypse movie.

@M0butu 5 ай бұрын

In my definition Gary IS post-apocalyptic.

@dan_elfrl 5 ай бұрын

true i live close to there so i past by it all the time

@apelandplays2586 5 ай бұрын

I was born in Gary

@johncolosimo1863 5 ай бұрын

@@apelandplays2586 I'm so sorry.

@EbenezerScrooge1 5 ай бұрын

It looks like kiddy kingdom in Fallout 4

@Moaks077 5 ай бұрын

That tagged up half dilapidated church would go so hard as an album cover

@dabtican4953 5 ай бұрын

It wouldn't beat Aske by Burzum

@IloveJesus777j77 5 ай бұрын

Have faith in Jesus alone to be saved and repent. @@dabtican4953

@GBEWgw2 5 ай бұрын

that would make such a basic bitch album cover yea

@SamuraiFanoCat 5 ай бұрын

The Devil Wears Prada - Z2 album cover goes hard as well

@milesbbop9563 5 ай бұрын

it's a cliche at this point.

@alexanderhartigan9977 4 ай бұрын

I truly believe Gary is a place to buy property...in 20-30 years, this place is going to be revitalized given its proximity to Chicago, Merrillville, Highways, Airports, major universities, a massive body of fresh water, Michigan, etc

@ADG.Est.1988 3 ай бұрын

I was thinking the exact same.

@Felipe_099 3 ай бұрын

Buena idea 🗿 🤑

@Prometheus833 3 ай бұрын

Especially when the east coast starts sinking beneath the waves. Gary will be beach front property.

@jb9dog 3 ай бұрын

No...God no

@sobasically2299 3 ай бұрын

@@Prometheus833you would just be next lmao

@johnparnell3427 5 ай бұрын

My bro, grew up there. Showed me 4 healed bullet wounds. Said every one was a stray bullet that he survived. Craziness

@bobs8005 5 ай бұрын

That’s actually insane that there’s that much shooting to get hit 4 different times and it wasn’t aimed at you…I need to move there

@Captain_Cinnamon 5 ай бұрын

Now you know what happens when only the police can enforce. The local people must be part of it

@liveyourlifeb4end 5 ай бұрын

Naaahhh he was being targeted! 🤣🤣🤣

@kofing123 5 ай бұрын

Me and my brother grew up laying on the floor seeing dudes getting chased and shot at with almost no street lights around and no cops in sight

@johnparnell3427 5 ай бұрын

@kofing123 That's some shitty shit right there

@mrgoetz3424 5 ай бұрын

I do tons of work in Gary. Environmental work on closing buildings or the steel mill there. And it’s kinda sad to see the state of it. You could tell that city was something special at one point

@sephidude123 5 ай бұрын

I wonder what the socio-economic status of the city was and the trends that led to its eventual downfall. Was it once a rich and prosperous production center until white people had to work next to POC and fled? Did this eventually lead to all the rich businesses on one half of the tracks while an entire other half of the city was left to fester? Did poor funding for education based entirely on tax income of an area lead to rapid brain-drain of the region, driving tax income further down and public schools had to close enmasse? The further we look into the rabbitholes of america's cities, the more it becomes undeniable that our hatred for others unlike us has ruined our country and left it to rot from within.

@wildblueeverything9160 5 ай бұрын

do ur research and get back to me@@sephidude123

@michaelscott-joynt3215 5 ай бұрын

It's more than kinda sad, especially given how much of this country is rotting away. It's even sadder, as many foreign countries are on the rise, how most Americans continue to assume superiority in all ways, and that other countries are and always will be inferior, and they keep supporting wars and never march against their leaders, never demanding an end to the self-destruction.

@therealshino4607 5 ай бұрын

@@sephidude123 If I remember correctly the steel mills had a large layoff and that was the beginning of the end

@sarazah3897 5 ай бұрын

@@sephidude123Not everything is about race ffs. Literally nothing in this short mentions anything about a cause or racial anything and yet here you go having to make this somehow about people allegedly hating other people. It’s tired.

@angrytedtalks 4 ай бұрын

Way back in 1962, Ron Howard (Richie Cunningham from Happy Days, Apollo 13 director) was in "The Music Man" musical singing "Gary Indiana", set in this town. My, how things have changed.

@Lightingcap 3 ай бұрын

Not that it matters, but Music Man isn’t set in Gary. It’s set in River City, Iowa. Harold Hill teaches Winthrop the song “Gary, Indiana”.

@carlabamford9154 3 ай бұрын

I can’t get that song out of my head now. Gary INdiana..

@sherm_92 3 ай бұрын

After 15 years i finally understand Gary's Fallout 3 easter egg

@lifeisbutamoment 5 ай бұрын

I lived in Gary from 2004-9, heard gunshots out the window almost every night, house getting burgled over and over again, family finally saved up enough to leave

@Slapdasho 4 ай бұрын

Can you tell me more about Gary?

@CornbreadFish 4 ай бұрын

@@Slapdasho Google

@Slapdasho 4 ай бұрын

@@CornbreadFish i wanna hear from someone who has experienced

@CornbreadFish 4 ай бұрын

@@Slapdasho Oh

@dg_yorick6814 4 ай бұрын

@Slapdasho city hall was boarded up at one point and every restaurant & convenience store was drive-thru only. Barbed wire fences and bulletproof glass on everything. A lot of the buildings are overgrown like that scene in I Am Legend

@ParodyKnaveBob 5 ай бұрын

"There's no one there to bother you." Except the murderers.

@AleMedinna 4 ай бұрын

Until there is

@willwebb7112 4 ай бұрын

Majority of the murderers are dead or in jail now. Us normal people in Gary just mind our business

@SteelRhinoXpress 4 ай бұрын

@@willwebb7112 or moved to Chicago 😅

@wesspect 4 ай бұрын

most people don’t bother you, but the ones that do *really* bother you

@cdramafpv 2 ай бұрын

@@willwebb7112 would it be safe to come there and fly a drone?

@georganna7200 4 ай бұрын

The movie The Music Man featured a song dedicated to Gary, Indiana. How years change a city.

@picassotamarin 3 ай бұрын

So glad you brought this up. I can still hear Dick Van Dyke singing “Gary, Indiana my home sweet home”

@georganna7200 3 ай бұрын

@picassotamarin haha! Not Louisiana, Paris France, New York or Rome! Gary Indiana... I was in my high school musical of Music Man, 1975!! 🤣

@Vivacemalt 3 ай бұрын

Years don't change a city; decisions do.

@kb42208 3 ай бұрын

@@georganna7200my high school did The Music Man last year, I got to join in!

@anne-marieshaffer6241 4 ай бұрын

I grew up 9 miles from Gary. Never went there after dark. But I used to hang out at the outdoor pools in the summer. It was like $1 to swim and it was always packed.

@richcox6427 5 ай бұрын

Before the steel mills shut down, Gary was a prosperous city. As a young boy in the 1950’s, Mom and I would shop the stores in the downtown area. Also, we’d ride the South Shore Line into the Chicago Loop. The city was clean and safe. It saddens me to see aerial and street views of the rundown neighborhoods.

@CrystalClear1500 5 ай бұрын

@@julivictoria4501black Americans moved in, and it all went to 💩

@gary9689 5 ай бұрын

@@CrystalClear1500 alright racist its a bit more than black people, the main factor is the factories the city relied on shutting down causing the city to go broke, black people had nothing to do with it

@thanos7753 5 ай бұрын

The city is 80% Black. Thats crazy high, this is what cities like Gary end up as when % too high.

@gary9689 5 ай бұрын

@@thanos7753 ever stop to think maybe that happened after the city had gone to shit and the majorit of the people who are in poverty are not white and this is the only place they could afford to live?

@CrystalClear1500 5 ай бұрын

@@thanos7753 Agreed 💯

@kula7465 5 ай бұрын

My grandparents lived in Indiana, when I would visit them as a kid we would sometimes drive through Gary going to different places. My Grandpa would not stop at stop signs or lights in Gary, he would just blown through every intersection. Later I found out it’s because one of his friends was carjacked and murdered at a stop-sign in Gary.

@RocioRodriguez-yk7lr 5 ай бұрын

🥺😮😢

@twig2950 5 ай бұрын

I don't doubt that at all. My dad was with his friend going thru Gary and he ignored the rule of not stopping and they shot his car up, thank God nobody was hit. My dad reported a person getting shot. And the cop went around the corner, sat there a few minutes, and came back and told my dad he didn't see anything. The blocks are segregated by race.

@systemspecchecker 5 ай бұрын

I had a cop pull up next to me in Baltimore and tell me not to stop at this stop sign or the next 3, he told me make a right at the end and go through the light if it's clear and get out of there. I had Florida plates and ended up in the wrong neighborhood, wont ever go back to that city.

@johns9652 5 ай бұрын

My mother grew up in South Bend, they're not that far apart. The way she described it, it was a great place to grow up. There were lots of "Hoosiers". Yes, my mother was German. When my parents had a spat, my father would call her a "Sour Kraut". To the person commenting on their experience in Baltimore, there are places one should just not go. My wife is from there. We used to go to the Inner Harbor to see fireworks shows and stuff, wouldn't dare go now. A few years ago Baltimore was in national headlines for roving bands of young men playing the "knockout game". The goal is to try to one-hit somebody so they wind up out cold, these groups would wander around looking for likely victims, and surprise them with a sneak punch as hard as they could.

@tiffanypersaud3518 5 ай бұрын

Oh…

@SullyDunn 3 ай бұрын

Fun fact: Michael Jackson went to school as a kid in Gary Indiana until the Jackson 5 got so big he had to leave. I know because my grandmother apparently was one of his teachers. Pretty cool

@rdred8693 Ай бұрын

It's cool, but he def had a horrible childhood. I don't think he did those bad things either.

@ThisIsJ.Nicole 3 ай бұрын

Remember, the Jacksons are from here. Don't mess with the Jacksons. They from the hood and people forget that.😅

@cactusbound 5 ай бұрын

My parents used to shop for groceries in Gary because they didn’t tax food. We only lived a few miles inside the Illinois border. That church was once a beautiful cathedral. So sad 😞

@Nick-zw1zw 5 ай бұрын

There's places that tax groceries? 😮

@flopsweat 5 ай бұрын

@Nick-zw1zw CHICAGO TAXES THE OXYGEN

@ttp513 5 ай бұрын

@@flopsweatspecifically Cook County. Taxes are wild in Cook.

@nicolasjamo 5 ай бұрын

@@Nick-zw1zw Yeah and it feels wrong. I would get it if prepackaged stuff and junk food like soda or ice cream were taxed but no, some states tax all groceries.

@cliffp73 5 ай бұрын

Don’t pay taxes and this ends up happening

@JensenPalmer 5 ай бұрын

It adds a sad twist to the lyrics from the Music Man: "Gary Indiana Not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York, or Rome, but Gary, Indiana Gary, Indiana Gary Indiana My home sweet home"

@natalieford3238 5 ай бұрын

That's exactly what went through my head

@ginahill503 5 ай бұрын

Yep. Same.

@mariarivera1340 5 ай бұрын

Same especially since my father grew up there and I just showed him this and wow

@-mushroomqueen-8433 5 ай бұрын

I watched this movie growing up and.. wow, just wow. It’s weird knowing this place was even real to begin with

@StevenMainini 5 ай бұрын

We need Harold Hill to bring the city back to life 😂

@teresaloss1012 3 ай бұрын

Wow my mother lived there 😮. Glad she moved out!

@user-dq3xw9cv3e 3 ай бұрын

Indigenous Western peoples need to reclaim our cities and acknowledge that cultures aren't equal.

@DarkLotuzx 5 ай бұрын

My step-dad used to do long haul trucking, he stopped at a stoplight in this city. A cop pulled up to him and told him if he valued his life to keep driving until he was out of town even if lights went red or he passed stop signs. Pretty bad when even a cop tells you to break the law just to survive

@twig2950 5 ай бұрын

I believe that 100%. My dad and girlfriend have a lot of stories about Gary. I would never attempt to enter.

@siriusness7505 5 ай бұрын

Same thing happened to me when I got lost, in Compton, back In the late 80's. Fun times.

@twig2950 5 ай бұрын

@siriusness7505 that's a scary place to be too. And Compton like 3 times the size of Gary if im imagining right

@thomaspierce9374 5 ай бұрын

That’s society’s fault. People raised that murder, robbery, assault, is ok or a right of passage. Change the upbringing, change society, change the town.

@JeanJean1 5 ай бұрын

@@twig2950the city of Compton is only like 10 square miles. Not a big place at all.

@nicpadilla9836 3 ай бұрын

As a construction guy Im always amazed there are not more reclaim businesses tearing down and recovering materials.

@user-rz6qp6xh6u 3 ай бұрын

It's old not good enough people are very wistful this is now the throw away generation buy new every 4 to 10 years this is not the sears an Montgomery words generation repair it an save it so we don't fill the landfillds up

@nicpadilla9836 3 ай бұрын

@user-rz6qp6xh6u No kidding. I'm in Iowa now but grew up in Cali. I miss the garage/estate sales. I'm guessing my dad has saved 250-500k over his life by buying so much of our stuff from them.

@landonharris3875 3 ай бұрын

@user-rz6qp6xh6u You should really use punctuation.

@wernerbeinhart2320 4 ай бұрын

That track goes so hard with the theme of the short

@UseYourEarsBro 3 ай бұрын

Yeah one of the best tunes ever Lorn - Acid rain

@devonbobby8618 5 ай бұрын

As someone who lives by Gary I can confirm it is 100% not abandoned and only a portion of it is

@gregallnatt2486 5 ай бұрын

Well, he did say ALMOST completely abandoned, didn't he?

@IOLEVIOI 5 ай бұрын

@@gregallnatt2486 "almost completely" and "only a portion" sound pretty different, so they are still probably contradictory statements

@ejacobson1 5 ай бұрын

Was about to comment something similar. And I never lived there, just drove through a few times. F*** these crappy videos.

@sherimorgan7107 5 ай бұрын

I was going to say the same thing. It's not "almost completely abandoned"

@michaelmonstar4276 5 ай бұрын

@@gregallnatt2486It has 69K people in it… They’re just sensationalists.

@mr.random5125 5 ай бұрын

My brother went to that school, he left the school around 2004 and the school went abandoned in 2007, its really fascinating to see the pool like that

@papayafun7226 5 ай бұрын

What was the reason for abandoning? Sorry, I am not familiar with Gary Indiana. I am not from the US.

@PearlCradle 5 ай бұрын

@@papayafun7226 To quote a quick Wiki search: "Gary's decline was brought on by reduced employment in the steel industry overall, which caused U.S. Steel to lay off many workers from the Gary area. The U.S. Steel Gary Works employed over 30,000 in 1970, declined to just 6,000 by 1990, and further declined to 5,100 in August 2015."

@invertexyz 5 ай бұрын

@@papayafun7226Lack of population and economic growth. Not enough new kids to justify maintaining a huge school like that.

@lgnoramaLama 5 ай бұрын

and then I remember Tschernobyl and the whole city of Prypjat 😢

@buckbucker8020 5 ай бұрын

@@papayafun7226 Ghetto thugs running hardworking people out of the area, mostly.

@lindsayrichards229 2 ай бұрын

It’s amazing to me that the city of Indiana that one of the most famous musical families in the world grew up in is almost completely abandoned how sad is that

@R_E_G Ай бұрын

I live pretty close to Gary and it is seriously no joke. Whenever we pass there when I was little I had to go under my seat we tried to avoid it as much as possible but sometimes we couldn’t it’s such a shame for what has happened to Gary. 😢

@UnholyFatherGothJesus 5 ай бұрын

What im hearing is gary indiana is the perfect spot for apocalypse photography 😂

@anthonypettit3713 5 ай бұрын

Not if you want to keep your camera

@ronnie8317 5 ай бұрын

I think Gary actually is apocalyptic...

@pearljohnson4365 5 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, the rest of the US will look like that soon due to the current Governing Arrangements. So sad...

@tommacgregor9311 5 ай бұрын

I read that as apocalypse pornography 😢

@UnholyFatherGothJesus 5 ай бұрын

@@tommacgregor9311 I mean if that's what you're into I'm sure you could do that too 🤣

@xxdontpanicxx2056 5 ай бұрын

If that’s running water from a water company, someone’s going to have a hell of a water bill

@SaneSloane 5 ай бұрын

Taxpayers. It's on school grounds, means it's all federally funded.

@Witchy-Wonderland 5 ай бұрын

Like I commented elsewhere- that’s probably a choice. Paying a small water pump bill monthly to keep the water moving so an even BIGGER problem of green diseased stagnant water 🦠 doesn’t happen, kinda makes sense..

@K.J.Ray421 5 ай бұрын

@@Witchy-Wonderland Exactly. It's not running water, just a pump circulating the pool water. Hell, if a few people cleaned it out and filled it you could have a pool party rave and no one would know.

@aikaterinimoschou9437 5 ай бұрын

@@Witchy-WonderlandCan't it be drained?

@Witchy-Wonderland 5 ай бұрын

@@aikaterinimoschou9437 believe it or not, that actually costs a lot of money too… that’s why “abandoned pools” are such a _thing_

@TashySoku 3 ай бұрын

It would be a perfect setup for a zombie apocalypse type of movie

@LogicAtItsFinest 4 ай бұрын

Most of these buildings look like people left all at the same time.

@theoptimisticskeptic 5 ай бұрын

Gary, IN was also one of the vampire capitals in Vampire the Masquerade when it originally came out in the early 90s.

@silverrider99 5 ай бұрын

Wait what?

@jimbrown6709 5 ай бұрын

exactly what i was reminded of and i thought "Wait, is that the same Gary?"

@thievingcthulhu8632 5 ай бұрын

so dope

@natalieford3238 5 ай бұрын

True lol

@user-ob3gy3zo6y 5 ай бұрын

Darn Sabbat….

@SoulSoundMuisc 5 ай бұрын

I used to drive truck for a living. When I was a trainee, we had to pass through Gary, headed to a site. I made to stop at a stop sign and my trainer at the time told me "Go! Go! Go!" and then told me, "If you stop again, I'll throw you out this cab! Do NOT stop! For anything!"

@byrdmanar15 5 ай бұрын

🧢

@davidroads419 5 ай бұрын

Lol!

@ericojonx 5 ай бұрын

If not wake up. This is our future. Just saw vid about Atlanta being taken over by criminals, "squaters". What were typical middle class neighborhoods.

@skalawatz 5 ай бұрын

Capricorn

@overthehill9415 5 ай бұрын

If a pedestrian stopped in the road in Gary, drivers just pressed the gas pedal. Any local knew you accelerate there. Never stop. Dad did remodeling on houses near the police department. Gangs would be shooting at the police.

@reallue 3 ай бұрын

I live in Highland, IN. It's 2 towns over from Gary. Havta drive thru Gary regularly. I was working for a supervisor, as a supervisor, knocking on doors to set up free estimates. A guy in a pickup truck was kinda harassing a girl on my crew. I could tell she was uncomfortable, so I started jogging over to her. We found out later that that was a serial killer that had abducted quite a few women, hiding their remains in the abandoned houses in Gary. He was caught soon after that. I can't really tell the full story or my comment will get removed. But I saved her life that day. He screeched his tires booking it outa there. Her & I both just had this rly strong, rly creepy feeling after being around a SK while he was mid-Hunt

@kristinalimone9743 3 ай бұрын

“There’s no one there to bother you” Gary: I’m the murder capitol

@rosalierosierose 5 ай бұрын

Me and my family drove through Gary Indiana while vacationing to the dunes. We wanted to visit Michael Jackson’s childhood home. It was the only well kept piece of property in the entire city. It’s definitely the scariest most sketchy place I’ve ever been to

@K3M5R1 5 ай бұрын

I live here and it's very shadey. But it's not like it used to be.

@rosalierosierose 5 ай бұрын

@@K3M5R1 man your one tough nut.

@bispsmith9236 5 ай бұрын

I mean it’s way better now than the 90s due to the fact that most people just left.

@rosalierosierose 5 ай бұрын

@@bispsmith9236 very true. It’s practically a ghost town

@James-uu7rd 4 ай бұрын

You glazing

@Kawzyy_ 5 ай бұрын

Fun fact: Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana

@jaysco5257 5 ай бұрын

So was Richard Pryor

@knockknock1246 5 ай бұрын

Richard Pryor was too.? Hm. Never knew. Tony Zale was.

@Panzottero 5 ай бұрын

Theo von too

@nottheoriginalhandle 5 ай бұрын

And Freddie Gibbs

@CamaroCorvetteChevrolet 5 ай бұрын

He’s not wrong

@deniscastaneda397 4 ай бұрын

If you got trap in Scary Gary at least you have Crystal clear water to drink 😂

@johnmoffi2899 3 ай бұрын

All the scrap metal and valuables just laying around wow

@drophammer776 5 ай бұрын

In the mid 90's, few friends and I would hit the abandoned factories, similar shown in video. Those illegal Trance Raves you only found out because the wind blew a neon flyer that stopped by your feet. Admission was a can of food.

@gfloflo 5 ай бұрын

My brother told me about these raves. Used to have to wait on a radio station after midnight for the password. Y’all started something amazin

@webguy8497 5 ай бұрын

Wtf are you saying

@milesbismarck 5 ай бұрын

I wish with all my soul I could go to one of those

@Marshall1q. 5 ай бұрын

@@webguy8497night raves

@gabesandoval9409 5 ай бұрын

What are y’all talking about?

@LimeonCandy 5 ай бұрын

Somebody needs to make a horror survival game based on this city

@thepoleontheroad 5 ай бұрын

Hell yeah, almost like the Call of Duty Chernobyl mission, but in America and maybe starring Ashly Burch and Travis Willingham as the main characters

@erikvaldes4293 5 ай бұрын

Not exactly horror but I think Manhunt’s city was inspired by Gary

@pedropimenta896 5 ай бұрын

Like Fallout but better

@TEAMDUCKZ 4 ай бұрын

You got it

@napalm_lipbalm86 4 ай бұрын

That would be epic!!

@afredheath Ай бұрын

I love Gary I drive through there all the time

@joydeathsyth2236 Ай бұрын

I use to live in Gary,lN in the bad parts and i thank God because he was watching over me and my siblings i lived there about 5-7 years ago and i am 17 now.

@Jixsurez 5 ай бұрын

My coworker, who is around my dad's age, is from Gary, and it's always fascinating to hear stories from him about how insane it all was.

@BetterWhenUnmastered 5 ай бұрын

what happened to it did he ever say?

@BrandonZickefoose2014 5 ай бұрын

Curious here, too.

@flamingwolf8753 5 ай бұрын

@tm-yv4xf there is tons of work in gary. You make it sound like everyone's there is going through a depression or something. And the mills are booming

@MilwaukeeF40C 5 ай бұрын

The towns further south in Lake County are thriving. Gary's problem is political. Someone with money should buy whole sections of the town, get enough people living there to flip the government in one election. Redevelop the whole mess.

@bigtonithegreatjamboni9850 5 ай бұрын

The town had just never been the same since the coven arrived

@austinteiflingman1345 5 ай бұрын

It will never not be weird to me that my first time ever hearing about Gary, Indiana was the Music Man

@seeddub3536 5 ай бұрын

Plot twist: the kid singing the song is a pyschopath murderer and that's why the town is abandoned now

@ThomasTheAlphaAndOmega8509 5 ай бұрын

This is the second time hearing about Gary, Indiana. Just like you, I only ever heard of the place from The Music Man.

@marthaprecklersmith1036 5 ай бұрын

🎉 me too!

@Fooma777 5 ай бұрын

Not Louisiana Paris France New York or Rome?

@AnnieMorgan87 5 ай бұрын

Same

@Kurohitsuji365 3 ай бұрын

I don’t live in America nor I have plans to, but to know that that city has or had “certain political leaning” tells me A LOT. Hope more people open their own eyes to that.

@user-rz6qp6xh6u 3 ай бұрын

What most of these kids don't see is what this was. Soon a lot of other big cities will soon look like this as people will not stay in these places for long

@mizzpipedream 3 ай бұрын

I dont get it

@duetoronomy 2 ай бұрын

@@mizzpipedream he means it was run by democrats.

@TheStorm45 Ай бұрын

Yeah, this is how we will look back on New York in 20 years. And other democratically run cities. Unreal people still go along w this nonsense.

@rdred8693 Ай бұрын

@@mizzpipedream Democrats ruin everything

@Davidc9356 3 ай бұрын

I knew a guy from there,he always said it was a rough city ,it looks like a scene from Fallout.

@dmoore8595 5 ай бұрын

I lived in Gary, back in 2001 for just about a year. The trucking company I worked for, had a terminal near there. But the downtown area was a ghost town then. There's a performance theater that still says "Jackson Five Tonight." I actually lived in a nicer area east Gary, near Miller and the Lake dunes. Could walk to the lakefront. What happened to Gary is purely economic: Most of the steel plants that thrived during the first half of the 20th century, closed back in the early 80s. The steel mills were the heart of prosperity. Same as Detroit, when the auto plants started closing. Motor City is all but extinct. 😔

@copperry4381 5 ай бұрын

Detroit is the motor city and is fine and well

@tavinacharlton9309 5 ай бұрын

Wow..

@robynthebank919 5 ай бұрын

Detroiter here. We're not extinct. 700k people here. Get it right. We just don't care about the automobile industry and cars anymore

@Michelle.1952 5 ай бұрын

@@wretch6224 because all you see is race, you can't comprehend anything else. When jobs leave, ppl leave.

@christophercoleman6596 5 ай бұрын

It was dying long before the 80's. Our political leaders of BOTH parties have been shipping jobs overseas for a long time. Soon ALL of the US will look like this!

@Herbiethekatuser-sy3wf1jc8l 6 ай бұрын

The students who went to those schools must be heartbroken to see what happened to them.

@wentzm123 6 ай бұрын

They’re the ones who broke it tf

@xCeL46 6 ай бұрын

@@wentzm123no it was invasive blacks i lived there.

@darrinthorpe9292 6 ай бұрын

I don't think any kids ever went to school there.

@lolitarouge 6 ай бұрын

Maybe it is about what they did or what could have happened to them? May have nothing to do with heartbreak.

@Herbiethekatuser-sy3wf1jc8l 6 ай бұрын

Gary was a vibrant city now it’s a smaller Detroit. Abandoned buildings end up vandalized and fall apart over time. I’m old I call teens kids.

@juliashenandoah3965 3 ай бұрын

Ah the dream vacation of every urbex fan! A tent, a camera, and a week of time to explore everything.

@waspwrap1235 8 күн бұрын

“no one there to bother you” until somebody tries to rob you

@huuamai8151 5 ай бұрын

Man, even these ghosts have an indoor pool in their high school. When i was in highschool, the best we had was a puddle when it rained in the middle of january.

@lordjaashin 5 ай бұрын

gottagive billions of taxpayers dollars to Israel instead of using it to develop American infrastructure. get your priorities straight, America

@huuamai8151 5 ай бұрын

@lordjaashin _maaaaan_ ... ghosts get to have all the fun. They don't gotta worry but nothin'.

@bluewhye8832 5 ай бұрын

@@lordjaashinLol. Pools is infrastructure. We need to help the world.

@MrCGross2012 5 ай бұрын

Road trip from Chicago to NYC. 1AM stopped in Gary, at a rest station to change diapers and stretch legs. We,re visibly Orthodox. Man comes out quickly from bathroom, covered in dirt, tells us to leave immediately, as these parts are “unsafe for families like yours”. Never before have I heard something so ominous.

@palan99 5 ай бұрын

Careful guys he’s about to start digging tunnels

@ToroRojo83 5 ай бұрын

From Chicago…? & you stopped in Gary to rest…? How often did you stop on this trip lol

@sudilos1172 5 ай бұрын

No, He just CAME out of a tunnel that he had already dug. @@palan99

@jota7000 5 ай бұрын

As the commemters have shown the same ignorance below, they thought you were jewish lmao

@sabian5290 5 ай бұрын

@@ToroRojo83well it does say to change diapers. They prolly had other kids and you know how they get on roadtrips

@That1trapshooter 4 ай бұрын

“Mostly abandoned” Also Gary: *population of 69,000*

@user-rz6qp6xh6u 3 ай бұрын

Far cry from the millions right

@That1trapshooter 3 ай бұрын

@@user-rz6qp6xh6u true

@Nick-mx3pb 2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 truth 🤙

@user-et1zq8rf4e 4 ай бұрын

i'm guess the last spark of light of here is the fact that Michael Jackson is from Gary, Indiana.

@duetoronomy 2 ай бұрын

This sux. Abandoned buildings hit different for those of us who have battled homelessness💔

@HandsomeBlackMusle 5 ай бұрын

Imagine if the only resident left is a guy name Gary

@samuelgalvan5096 5 ай бұрын

And his friend Bob

@ryzekiv7147 5 ай бұрын

“Gaaarrrryyyy…!”

@derekv275 5 ай бұрын

The Gary!😂

@agreat8745 5 ай бұрын

And he's squatting on the corner of MLK Blvd.

@kandriccharles7905 5 ай бұрын

Song?

@Jermaine4545 5 ай бұрын

I still live in Gary today born and raised and all of this is true I still drive pass the elementary schools I’ve attended just bring back memories 😢

@richardruss30 5 ай бұрын

Wtf happened to Gary? What made it boom, then bust?

@JaMorantBiggerArm 5 ай бұрын

What happened bro why is it like this now?

@talesdemidioful 5 ай бұрын

@@JaMorantBiggerArm the same thing that happened to africa

@Jermaine4545 5 ай бұрын

@@JaMorantBiggerArm no cap Gary was filled with white people back in the 50s and 60s until a new mayor came in a black mayor (no racism) but when I came in as mayor there was pretty much no rules he ran the city with little care. It cause a lot of people to leave and it’s one of reasons why Gary is so broken down now. Most mayors after that couldn’t upkeep the city.

@Dre_Key 5 ай бұрын

@@Jermaine4545 oh yeah? How long was he in office? 30 years?

@Rracer300zx 5 ай бұрын

The trucking company I used to drive for has a terminal there. This is what happens when you ship manufacturing jobs over seas. Gary had huge steel and manufacturing industries 60-70 yeas ago. Same with Detroit Camden NJ and so many other places I've been to. It's so sad.

@hometowncook6970 5 ай бұрын

Reagan's trickle down/offshoring job

@brianbadonde9039 5 ай бұрын

Regan was a glove puppet. Wake up

@pacer2310 5 ай бұрын

Yeah. The companies constantly bitch about their tax rate (despite them being fairly lower, especially when compared to great depression / new deal taxation). They should be hit with punitive tariffs for doing so, but we've given this country to these business oligarchs.

@Allthemotioninwhite 5 ай бұрын

Bro, the steel industry hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s still here…

@Rracer300zx 5 ай бұрын

@@Allthemotioninwhite Not like it was 60 years ago

@bominshorde1979 2 ай бұрын

Fun Fact: Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana.

@Opnwindo 2 ай бұрын

Back in the 60s and 70s we could smell Gary Indiana in Jackson Michigan

@johnnykiehn1872 5 ай бұрын

My mom and I had to stop for gas once in Gary while looking at colleges in the area. Went by 3 abandoned stations before finding one we could stop at. Everyone inside knew we were from out of town, and the lady behind the counter suggested we “quickly get our gas and go”.

@IAmThaVisionary 5 ай бұрын

Why do you think that is

@steelcelt5939 5 ай бұрын

I think we all know why that is.

@IAmThaVisionary 5 ай бұрын

@@steelcelt5939 cause of how dangerous it is? If it's deserted then why would someone be afraid to be there

@johnnykiehn1872 5 ай бұрын

@@IAmThaVisionary did you not see the video? crime is insanely high in Gary and out of towners are easy targets

@philmickelsonscalves7585 5 ай бұрын

@@steelcelt5939white

@TheMrBertzy 5 ай бұрын

"almost completely abandoned" My man, like 70,000 people still live there. It's the 9th biggest city in the state of Indiana

@DotDotDot0272 5 ай бұрын

The ninth biggest city in the state... HAS ONLY 70K PEOPLE?

@averynelson1186 5 ай бұрын

I'm sure that compared to the size of the city and how many people used to live there, that's piddly

@skipads5141 5 ай бұрын

Compared to the 180,000 who were there.

@ricknerinfantry 5 ай бұрын

Compared to fernly Nevada? That's a hell of a lot of people. Bustling metropolis. Absolutely crowded. A sardine can . Gary is packed to the brim. Just cuz a few buildings are abandoned. Go to a military Installation. You'll find a dozen abandoned buildings on every military base.

@xRawGunr- 5 ай бұрын

He said almost completely abandoned. lol chill out

@DarkMatter2525 3 ай бұрын

I grew up in Chicago and remember visiting Gary a few times, back when it was inhabited. I had no idea it's a ghost town now. Wild.

@mary1412 3 ай бұрын

This is actually INSANE that they just left a whole ass town like this. Someone needs to buy it and do a whole Shitt’s creek type thing. Holy crap. So weird!!!

@LisaMT1218 5 ай бұрын

Great place to shoot a post-apocalyptic movie.

@EEEEEEEE 5 ай бұрын

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@lowandodor1150 5 ай бұрын

Pre apocalyptic is more like it.

@CorvoFG 5 ай бұрын

I think the new Fallout series was made there. They didn’t have to do much as it already has ghouls and mutants.

@senordataanalyst460 5 ай бұрын

Thought the same thing when I saw parts of Mexico

@theonlymeaning 5 ай бұрын

we must not say or write what we believe caused this horror

@eliflori8839 5 ай бұрын

I grew up there in the 70’s and 80’s and it was rough back then. I’m still sad to see it in this condition. Music man will have it live on forevermore in our memory’s of once a beloved city.

@tonimedlen5371 5 ай бұрын

I’m Australian and that’s how I know about Gary Indiana. Sung by Ron Howard as a child.

@t81773 5 ай бұрын

Why was it rough? What led it to abandonment?

@mariatheresabulos765 2 ай бұрын

Broski really found irl weird core spaces☠️

@sleeper_man 3 ай бұрын

Imagine the amount of work and effort whoever put into that Murcielago replica just for it to be left behind in this abandoned city

@TheGoodandBadJuju 5 ай бұрын

Wow… I used to live in Gary when I was younger for a few years. Never would have thought it would end up like this… A lot of good memories.

@miguelgonzalezjr167 5 ай бұрын

GI was my stomping grounds for many years Born and raised 3rd and Monroe Till we moved to Glen park Bailey Jr high El dub high school Yeah, good times

@leneberle208 5 ай бұрын

@@miguelgonzalezjr167bad area now

@troyrager1352 5 ай бұрын

Gary's been like this since the 80s though

@screamityeah 5 ай бұрын

Michael Jackson is from there too

@chriswinter8511 5 ай бұрын

Gary are you ok?, Gary are ok? are you ok Gary? @@screamityeah

@ericoberle8405 5 ай бұрын

When the steel mills shutdown it devastated the entire area. I used to live in East Chicago, Indiana

@user-kl9ew8yc3o 5 ай бұрын

My mom was born in Michigan city, 1937. I went to elementary school there. When my step dad died,we lost everything and ended up in Mississippi. The schools we great. The stuff you hear about,? It just wasn't happening. They tried to fix up that area - it was a total disaster. No one wanted to work. Gary was just another place devastated by the steel industry being given to China I guess. I don't understand why these places are abandoned like they are. 😢

@angiedillman7963 5 ай бұрын

I was born in Chicago, and have many friends from Gary, what a shame..

@BEAUTYnIQ 5 ай бұрын

Carter started this and when Clinton sold us out to China it sealed the deal.. cut off our oil production too so we bought it from arabs instead of drilling our own.. barry hussein furthered this action, and went soft on crime (rampant by then in gary) by appointing liberal judges to the dist courts (to his chagrin, he couldnt for the Supreme Court because no vacancies, this is whyndems threatened to 'stack' the supreme court in 2O2O) so criminal bahavior flourished (you can even tell by the pics) and the murder rate has been high for decades, even before the nuts/bolts/steel company pulled out.. lastly, the 13% is predominantly what lives in gary, indiana.. its the birthplace of michael jackson.

@JM_Solo 5 ай бұрын

East Chicago was the real murder capital.

@killerb720 5 ай бұрын

So when our politicians sold out to China and Brazil for steel, everything fell to shit, it’s SAD!

@elliee219 2 ай бұрын

For some reason seeing the abandoned schools made me sad- like there is something about thinking about all the normal days and classes that were there. Just sitting in class learning history not knowing in a few years it’s all going to be abandoned.

@JSauer21 5 ай бұрын

A concert in that auditorium would be crazy

@WarningStrangerDanger 5 ай бұрын

Talk about bringing the house down

@_gold_eye_2656 5 ай бұрын

This is the kind of place you’d film a zombie apocalypse movie at.

@1990sDialUpWeb 4 ай бұрын

I wrote a zombie film with intentions to film here, it’s just a matter of how safe that is and permissions, and neither have been easy

@moon47underground 4 ай бұрын

@@1990sDialUpWebyou got discord? Wouldn't mind helping in a project like that.

@HeftyDan 4 ай бұрын

This looks like it could be the setting for a new Dead Rising game. If it ever happens.

@david7384 4 ай бұрын

Basketball Americans, worse than a zombie apocalypse 😂

@jermelhorsley6018 4 ай бұрын

Not at all mfer.

@Icequeen89x 3 ай бұрын

Idk why but abandoned pools freak me out so bad.

@codybennett244 3 ай бұрын

Lmao bro that shot of the pool looked like the last thing you'd ever see 😂

@melotone3305 5 ай бұрын

The build quality to most of these pre-1960s buildings is tough and many of the interiors were so high quality and handsome that it would astound people in 2024. Nobody wants to pay for that quality anymore. Especially for the extraordinary brick buildings.

@wesKEVQJ 5 ай бұрын

I watched a show that said Gary has more freeze thaw cycles than almost anywhere and it wrecks buildings when they aren't heated.

@kokoniqueful 5 ай бұрын

I think people would pay for quality if corporate builders weren’t demanding our life’s earnings just for basic plywood houses that can’t even withstand a strong storm.

@BadJellyman100 5 ай бұрын

If the corpos kept jobs here people could still afford nice things. Greed has destroyed America

@RicondaRacing 5 ай бұрын

Nobody has the money to pay for that quality anymore after hyperinflation

@mmmmscrumptious433 5 ай бұрын

@kokoniqueful Brick houses would fall down just the same when met with a tornado, there's also the climate to consider. Not everything is malicious dude houses everywhere are built different for a reason

@carlruth5692 5 ай бұрын

Gary, Indiana was once known as one of the most polluted cities in the United States. When approaching Gary, Indiana on the interstate, you knew you were getting close because the sky would start changing to a hazy yellow. It's so sad that they let their city fall apart like this.

@davidroads419 5 ай бұрын

Lol! America destroyed all the industry, Gary was just one of many victims. You don't remember looking across Lake Michigan from anywhere south of The Loop and seeing the orange-brown horizon and smelling the coke from the mills? I do. I used to build railroad tank cars in East Chicago and Gary was a bit worse than a very large area, but not much.

@thetruthnothingbutthetruth1 5 ай бұрын

Who is to say the government wasn't pumping some sort of chemical into the air that makes people violent as an experiment?

@jeffreynapisa122 5 ай бұрын

It used to be nice,when people cared about their community.....empty schools and churches....2 very important institutions empty....that speaks volumes.

@masonwagner768 5 ай бұрын

Houston, Texas is the same way. I didn’t notice when I lived there, but if you drive around the belt line towards the coast you can see a slight yellow haze from all the oil refineries in the area. Kinda scary

@larsonfamilyhouse 5 ай бұрын

No one to fill them. Can’t have students and teachers in dilapidated dangerous buildings @@jeffreynapisa122

@beeeeeeeeeeeeeans 3 ай бұрын

Says Gary Indiana me: Michael Jackson

@Joshua-bb7hj 5 ай бұрын

The desks still sitting in the classrooms but extremely worn down and damaged give the feeling of something happening other than it simply being abandoned. Obviously nothing did but it's really cool how places like this get the imagination working.

@AM-bf9tb 5 ай бұрын

Diversity happened.

@BerrryMaid 5 ай бұрын

@@AM-bf9tbyou’re a loser 😊

@grovegirlforever 5 ай бұрын

@@AM-bf9tb Really? 🤨🙄

@AM-bf9tb 5 ай бұрын

@grovegirlforever compare Hiroshima 50 years after being nuked vs Gary 50 years after the Civil Rights Act. What has been the more destructive force?

@imjustaguy2003 5 ай бұрын

@@AM-bf9tb Japan and the US invested money into Hiroshima’s rebuild. For Gary, the US unfortunately invested their money elsewhere. I wouldn’t make this a race thing.

@sandradavis1590 4 ай бұрын

I grew up in Gary, Indiana. This was in the 1960's and it was a wonderful place to live! I remember going downtown to Sears and watch a movie at the Palace theater. It's makes me very sad to hear this.😢

@dorothymuir8557 4 ай бұрын

I took a train from Maryland to Munster in 1981, and instead of going all the way in to Chicago I got off at Gary. It’s so sad to think about what has happened to it since.

@blaine4754 4 ай бұрын

You boomers got to experience everything great about america before you ruined it with blacks and immigrants.

@mary1412 3 ай бұрын

I bet it’s so sad to see it like this! This is awful. I’ve never seen a town abandoned like that in America. So crazy.

@sandradavis1590 3 ай бұрын

It really sucks to see your hometown desolate and destroyed. The streets I roamed are now scary.

@Leonicles 3 ай бұрын

Those high schools are beautiful. I've never seen (outside of tv) schools with an Olympic-sized swimming pool, surrounded by bleachers. It must've been great to grow up there

@rf4341 3 ай бұрын

Indiana in a whole is something out of Florida.

@Pix6lbits 4 ай бұрын

You’re telling me about some free real estate with no annoying neighbors

@clarencereel 5 ай бұрын

6 years ago i used to go explore a highschool in gary. There was a homeless man that lived there he was very nice and welcoming. I spent easily 30-40 hours exploring that place and never found the cafeteria. While you are in there you feel like your on another planet and time makes absolutely no sense. It snowed every time i went even in may. Some of the best times of my life.

@matthewcrawford7518 5 ай бұрын

Yeah no anytime I explore an area like that I tend to find a homeless person and give them a warm blanket and a sandwich also don't bring my wallet except my ID

@clarencereel 5 ай бұрын

@matthewcrawford7518 I should have brought him an extra blanket. He was really nice with no signs of drug use. He said he was a truck driver and his truck was down the road, but he was there every time we went. The last time we went, he pointed it out that we had probably not found the cafeteria and wanted us to check out the boiler room but wouldn't go with us. We passed it while we were leaving, but we got a weird feeling and decided not to. After that, I had a kid and we never went back. It was called lew Wallace High School

@enochdarkk7871 5 ай бұрын

Bodies. Thats what was in the boiler room. Bodies.

@PrinceAmir24 5 ай бұрын

@@clarencereellew wallace is no more. They tore it down. Probably for the best because it was abandoned but the school carried alot of history. It was opened in 1929 i believe.

@nuss86 5 ай бұрын

Weirdest comment ever

@johnnyzeee5215 5 ай бұрын

Also known as the hometown of the famous musical family, the Jacksons. The house they grew up in can be seen on Jackson Boulevard.

@maximus1811 5 ай бұрын

I guess my memory is failing me, I remembered that Michael Jackson was born there while going to Jehovah's witnesses Kingdom Hall. JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IS A CULT, and full of Pervs and Pedophiles. I actually know because I escaped them and became a law enforcement officer that imprisoned several of them from same Congregation in Texas! I was 16 year old girl that was too smart when two Elders tried to Rape me! I still love his music.

@trows3y99 5 ай бұрын

And Freddie Gibbs!!