Grand Rapids, Michigan

Grand Rapids, Michigan - 1989

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Жыл бұрын

Driving around downtown Grand Rapids and surrounding areas in January of 1989
I did make one mistake with the streets, College Ave should actually be Coit Ave... whoops!
Originally filmed on VHS by ‪@HeRoeters‬
Digitally converted using: www.amazon.com/dp/B07V9JNRZY/

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@Direction1Love 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this!! It’s crazy to see what Grand Rapids looked like 34 years ago. So much has changed! If you have more tapes, please share them. It’s so nostalgic ☺️

@joeanes1015 Жыл бұрын

So much has changed…… Loved seeing this!!! Please if possible I wanna see more!!! Born and raised GR since 1978

@kejuansallad7322 Жыл бұрын

How was the people back then harder to deal with and more crazy then now days???

@rowanbixler4700 Жыл бұрын

Wow! It's crazy to see how far GR has come!

@Bradmobile0157 Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you kept the tape. Cool video man, trip down "memory lane" lol.

@QueenCraftsChannel Жыл бұрын

Born and raised in Grand Rapids. The rent prices were so cheap back then. The city has come along ways but I loved the simplicity of the 80’s and 90’s.

@dxix4546 Жыл бұрын

Please post more of old GR!

@1987tvfreak 10 ай бұрын

7:46 He said Alpine and Leonard was the NE part of GR. It's NW. :)

@MrMonastic Жыл бұрын

This was awesome! I can't believe how young the Rainbow Music guys looked. They got a lot of my money in 1989!

@codyjohnson1982 11 ай бұрын

Remember believe in music on Fulton and fuller? I could be wrong. Been a long time?

@LaurasLastDitch Жыл бұрын

As I watched this video, about 8 minutes in I started to feel like I was going to vomit. I thought I was getting sick, then I realized it was because the video was giving me motion sickness. I couldn't watch the rest. Yet, I really appreciate that this was posted.

@Roetorooter Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was thinking about adding video stabilization to it in Davinci, but I wasn't sure how it was going to affect the quality :\ I'm sorry to hear you had issues

@Sam-xq8lo Ай бұрын

Seeing the massive hill now known as Medical Mile for having the massive inner city colleges and hospitals on its banks, utterly and completely empty was mind boggling to me.

@ciccone39 Жыл бұрын

The old Grand Center. Home of the Autorama!

@davidm4160 10 ай бұрын

I remember when Campau's Trading Post was down on the east side of the Grand, and the Indians would come all the way from Spring Lake to trade furs and staples and such. PS. Thanks for posting this cool video. I was born in GR in 1962, been here my whole life. "West Side is the Best Side"

@MsLally5 Жыл бұрын

Loved this video! I drove all those roads, had those headphones and banked and Old Kent. I miss old G.R!!!

@ritabug43 Жыл бұрын

THANK U IM FROM GR MICHIGAN LIVES IN LAS VEGAS THANK U I CAN APPRECIATE THIS ❤

@s10mods Жыл бұрын

To drive down Alpine with only that much traffic lol. I was 9 in 89 and remember a lot of that.

@DHudelson Жыл бұрын

Sad that Rainbow closed. Bought a couple guitars there.

@troypeterson7943 Жыл бұрын

How cool is this! I went to Rainbow, played at Cleo's and Alpine Lounge many times

@TheVCRTimeMachine Ай бұрын

22:24 Proper use of the name MEIJER'S. A true Michigander

@codyjohnson1982 11 ай бұрын

I wonder if anyone here remembers the fun factory at the mall

@NegativeYoutube 2 ай бұрын

And later that night, they went to Top of the Rock.

@AndrewMinch-hk2og Жыл бұрын

I was born in 1989. This is so cool to see. Also from Sparta!

@foodculture6355 Жыл бұрын

Great video! Some parts look exactly the same and other parts look foreign to me.

@jeffshaught 24 күн бұрын

At 6:47 this is Coit Ave not College Ave. College is a few blocks to the east.

@nathansmith5331 Жыл бұрын

Wow crazy video thank you. I remember when they tore down that building and built the Walgreens the first time. Grew up on Leonard/Alpine

@ParisblueCos Жыл бұрын

This was before the tall, glass, angled roof part of the Amway Grand went up???

@BmHenry Жыл бұрын

This is so awesome!!!

@charlieg5529 7 ай бұрын

I’m glad the road quality improved over the years

@xhevymettalzx Жыл бұрын

I'm in my Rainbow Music sweatshirt smiling hard at the shop tour part :)

@chilldon26 Жыл бұрын

Wow no varnum or bridgewater place

@wendy7848 9 ай бұрын

Thank you.... The good old days..

@thoughtful1233 9 ай бұрын

Crazy to see how much of it looks the same... and what's missing.

@igorthunderstorm475 Жыл бұрын

I miss Rainbow!

@brandonhamilton833 7 ай бұрын

I miss this city. So cool to see it as it was late 80s!

@darbylarsen9547 7 ай бұрын

Top of the Rock out on Alpine. So many good memories coming of age in the 80s.

@darbylarsen9547 7 ай бұрын

Rainbow Music financed our amps, pay by the week. Way before the credit score.

@Michfan4life Жыл бұрын

So this guy has a cracked windshield, huge fuzzy dice, is smoking, recording video with probably a not very small camera and then also driving. I don't know if this is impressive or scary as hell.

@alexangus7052 Жыл бұрын

well I’m impressed

@superhappyfuntimeshow Жыл бұрын

you realize this video was taken in 1989 and that he posted it this week? He has survived 30 years since this video, his choices were obviously sound

@SamM-gl9zc Жыл бұрын

It was last century, when we didn't live in fear of Everything

@snaggletut Жыл бұрын

they didnt give a fuck back then

@Roetorooter Жыл бұрын

@@superhappyfuntimeshow It definitely wasn't me that was filming this, but my dad.... but the point still stands, he's still surviving to this day!

@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia Жыл бұрын

Too bad you didn't show more of the nice downtown

@scottrowsey292 11 ай бұрын

2:40-2:41 vacant lot back then where currently Van Andel Arena is at.

@rb98769 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Do you have other old videos of the Grand Rapids area?

@Roetorooter Жыл бұрын

I digitized some of my grandfather's old VHS tapes as well, but the only outdoor shot of the GR area is looking west on Page street off of Plainfield back in 1993 :\

@tomjames2569 Жыл бұрын

Great iPhone video!!!! Ugh!!!! Lol. Jk. Awesome. Appreciate any more videos of this.

@abemanzur6985 Ай бұрын

Dude was a vlogger before it was a thing 😂

@codyjohnson1982 11 ай бұрын

Or if anyone remembers Mackies place with the train in the food plaza

@DJRMXD 9 ай бұрын

What no Mr Fables stop for a burger and a nickel for your kids to put in the toy machine?

@Michael-hb4wc 25 күн бұрын

And those onion rings 🤤🤤🤤

@codyjohnson1982 11 ай бұрын

I was in eastern elementary probably while this was shot 😮

@MUCKFOOT⁶⁶⁶ Ай бұрын

back in 89 people used to drive and film with VHS camera. in 2024 people drive with cell phones (wimps)

@Roguefoxx Жыл бұрын

The good old days

@TL-tk2mo Жыл бұрын

I was 12 years old in 1989 and downtown was our old stomping grounds back in the day. There was simply nothing to DO downtown back then, regardless of age. We would usually just annoy the adults by skateboarding and/or smoking weed and cigarettes non stop, because that was the only thing to do lol :)

@dpomper1 Жыл бұрын

OK, cool watch being a West Sider and frequenter of Rainbow. I have to ask why were you driving around filming with what I'm assuming was a pretty big VHS camera?

@SamM-gl9zc Жыл бұрын

Good video, but Michigan turns into Bridge, not Pearl! 😂

@codyjohnson1982 11 ай бұрын

I remember rainbow music! It was on division over by a Mr fable!

@drwisdom1 9 ай бұрын

Mr. Fables was the best hamburger chain ever. Even better than Five Guys. "Drop a ring."

@oledcrt Жыл бұрын

Did you apply some noise reduction filter to the audio track or was it like that on the tape?

@Roetorooter Жыл бұрын

No noise reduction at all, were you hearing something strange in the video?

@oledcrt Жыл бұрын

@@Roetorooter The audio is turned down completely when the level is below a certain threshold. You can hear it distinctly when they’re talking inside the music store; the background noise in the store is audible when people are speaking, but when they aren’t it’s dead silent. It’s probably just the way the camera was set up, I was just curious.