Images of Detroit - 1937-1949

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11 жыл бұрын

The selected clips in this vintage movie are from my father's collection of 8mm home movies taken during the period 1937 through 1949. The scenes shown in Detroit include locations on 14th Street in west Detroit, Fort Street in downtown Detroit, Indiana Street in northwest Detroit, Bramford Street in northeast Detroit, the Belle Isle Children's zoo, the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, and several other unidentified locations. Also included are clips of my parents and my sister, grandparents and other family members and friends. I hope you enjoy a unique view of the City of Detroit during some better times.
To see some of the locations in this video as they are today you can view using Google maps:
14th Street, Detroit
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Indiana Street, Detroit
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Bramford Street, Detroit
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Detroit Children's Zoo, Belle Isle, Detroit
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Music by Liona Boyd.

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@snowmountain2007 10 ай бұрын

When the white flight hits, everything is completely lost forever. Sad but true.

@Randetroit 4 ай бұрын

Can't black folks maintain what the whites left behind? Apparently not! Racist? No! Their generally broken family lifestyle? Obviously, yes!

@edwardzamorski3711 16 күн бұрын

So true I seen it happen in my lifetime

@KENZOSTAX 4 жыл бұрын

i’m from Detroit (i was born in 1999 btw) i am so addicted to watching these videos because i love to see my city in its prime. i have hope for my city, Downtown is beautiful and there’s a lot of things to do. Abandoned buildings are being flushed out and reconstructed, no matter what anyone says i know my city is beautiful. don’t forget about us, we’re trying 💛

@djking8740 2 жыл бұрын

Swear midtown looks so nice they are building the city back up

@pablotupone4190 2 жыл бұрын

The city is coming back but it will take time to be like in the 50s....but it s on the way ....the first step should be not lose population anymore.

@tomsampson8084 2 жыл бұрын

I was born in Detroit in 1960. It is nice to be reminded of good times. Detroit has so many problems to address that it is going to be a difficult journey to restore the neighborhoods. I am talking about the century old infrastructure that needs to be replaced, taxes that are too high, and insurance rates that should be considered criminal. With housing prices soaring I believe young people would like to come to Detroit. I'm an old person who wishes I could return. Just for the record I am not a maga idiot. I realize these clips just show a white Detroit.

@theoddbox Жыл бұрын

Some of the most beautiful architecture I've ever seen..

@Comical531 Жыл бұрын

Wow. It’s funny you said that you are addicted to these type of video clips from back in the day in Detroit Michigan. I myself was born and raised in Detroit Michigan in 1962. I am so addicted as well to see what was going on back in the days when Detroit was in his prime. There’s so many older people, white and black, and I ask series of questions pertaining to Detroit. My father, (Co-Worker)’s. And just on my elderly friends, which was my mother, Friends and so on. There are certain places in Detroit once I see a video clip of it from the 50s or 30s I would go and drive to that location and reminisce. I asked my father years ago and some of my ex- coworkers when I was working for Beaumont Hospital. I said, what happened to Detroit? They all speak highly of Detroit back in the days before there was a Motown, they told me a riot took place in 1967. Well, I was five years old. The story that I have received was, they did not put money back into the city after the rain yet. Misappropriating funds and so on. I still love Detroit, I love the history that comes with it and the knowledge. I just thought I would piggyback on your comment about Detroit because I feel the same way. Take care.

@ammettacarrillo1752 9 жыл бұрын

This was a great city...

@moon-cf2vw 5 жыл бұрын

Ammetta Carrillo and will be

@HalisIstanbullu 6 жыл бұрын

I'm old enough to remember the very tail end of the glory days of the old Detroit in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Crossing over into Detroit, I remember the throngs of people, the vitality, the life, the vigour and the energy. In my lifetime, I have watched that once beautiful city do a complete 180 for the worst and I sometimes wonder whether my memories are real or whether I dreamt it all? By the way, at this very moment fifty years ago, that beautiful, old Detroit was in the fourth of the seven days that would be her death knell. Make no mistake, this Detroit will NEVER, but NEVER, return to the way she once was. I miss that beautiful, beautiful old Detroit terribly. RIP.

@deloresyoung7590 6 жыл бұрын

HalisIstanbullu m

@diannehallman8062 8 ай бұрын

I was there when Detroit burned. 67 riots. I was 17. Now I am 73 and I can still it as clearly as that 17 year old saw it. Horror struck!

@edwardzamorski3711 16 күн бұрын

I seen the same thing in my lifetime. I'm from Wyandotte close to Detroit

@61caddyfins 2 жыл бұрын

I was born in Detroit. One thing I miss is when you’d talk to people and they always had a relative who worked at, Chrysler, Ford, Cadillac or General Motors . It was a given .

@annefisher693 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this. My grandparents are at the new year celebration! Your family must have known them. I almost fell off my chair when I saw them. This made my day!

@lawrencedaniels555 16 күн бұрын

So your grandparents lived in those restricted and segregated neighborhoods?

@victoriamayo5774 8 жыл бұрын

Images of Detroit they are quite precious thank you

@generatrix999 9 жыл бұрын

My aunt described Detroit as the Paris of the west in the 40's. She came from Paris to Detroit in 45'

@PaulRentz 8 жыл бұрын

generatrix999 Actually Detroit became known as the 'Paris of the Midwest' well over 100 years ago. Belle Isle can show you some reasons why (from years ago- it lost its appeal from the late 60s until just recently- drugs, homelessness, safety concerns)- a few photos from years ago, my family's. flic.kr/s/aHsjETFoZb

@davidspeaks5879 8 жыл бұрын

+generatrix999 At this rate of how things are changing in France, spiraling downwards... One day the "modern" Paris, will become the "modern" Detroit. Also it's history will be for nought, and slowly forgotten. Just like the formally famous city of Detroit. Almost like a sad ironic twist to a poem.

@RiDeRbMx67 6 жыл бұрын

no it will never be france is not america and thanks for that !

@sixmile2360 6 жыл бұрын

Paul Rentz Have you been to Belle Isle lately. State runs it now. Looks incredible.

@lommalos 5 жыл бұрын

@@davidspeaks5879 idiot

@tyson1fan487 5 жыл бұрын

My grandpa was born in 1912 and he always said he lived in the best of times he grew up in Detroit and saw it all he finally moved out of the city in the 80s to the suburbs but I loved hearing about Detroit and seeing his pictures it's sad how bad Detroit is today. Some areas look like a 3rd world country or a zombie apocalypse and to see how beautiful it was once is just amazing

@joshmarauder Жыл бұрын

Sad the people who was around in the 40s and 50s are all old if not dead by now i would love to talk to some of those people

@west4057 9 ай бұрын

thats what happens when the b-l-ack-s move in.

@vtorialyn 8 жыл бұрын

I miss the old days, when things were much more simple, and the family unit was strong.

@Sagardesbjj 8 жыл бұрын

+Victoria Salek are you parents moved from Poland ?

@vtorialyn 8 жыл бұрын

Reinhard Gehlen No, why do you say that? My mom is from Detroit.

@Sagardesbjj 8 жыл бұрын

Victoria Salek because you have polish sound surname and many of polish imigrants lived in Detroit in 30's....

@vtorialyn 8 жыл бұрын

Reinhard Gehlen Ahh I see. Actually, it is my married name, and my husband is part Polish :)

@Sagardesbjj 8 жыл бұрын

Victoria Salek hehe so i was partly right ;) greetings from Poland

@melodymontana5370 6 жыл бұрын

Wow...this made me cry

@lizlocher3612 2 жыл бұрын

Seeing this made my night I am 65 yrs old n I am remember the houses n streets n the wooden 2 seater swings n the roller skates with the key that went attached to your shoes n Belle Isle n the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak. What a blast from the greatest of pasts!!!! Thank you for posting!!!!!

@starxlr7863 8 жыл бұрын

God I wish much of Detroit still looked like this here!!!!! It is so sad to see so many empty plots of land where there use to be countless historic houses and nice neighborhoods.

@nevittwoods1730 5 жыл бұрын

lawnmowers and 12 gauge days

@Morehills840 10 жыл бұрын

Everyone dressed nice back in those days.

@19LondBuch72 7 жыл бұрын

It was nice and white !

@sherry4914 6 жыл бұрын

America has gotten too casual. People go out in their pajamas now. It's as if they have lost pride in themselves.

@im_amil 6 жыл бұрын

Alan Boyd white? There's nothing wrong with black people. The city wasn't brought down because of one race

@robertallen231 6 жыл бұрын

..anything goes values of today ruined everything..

@Godfirst986 3 жыл бұрын

@@19LondBuch72 wow, and 16 people liked your comment that shows that the racism spirit is strong and alive working till this day. You acting like it's something wrong with black people or people of color moving in a neighborhood. I'm gonna pray for you

@tintinhickey5869 7 жыл бұрын

As Detroit goes, so goes the nation. Detroit was the most prosperous city in the WORLD at one time.

@daffyduckfan4478 3 жыл бұрын

Blame the government for pumping drugs throughout the city.

@slavrenz88 2 жыл бұрын

It was. Then all the white people decided that they didn't want to live near anyone who wasn't white, so they all left. Very sad indeed.

@mrs.hancock4124 2 жыл бұрын

@@slavrenz88 If they hadn’t had justiciable reasons for being forced to flee THEIR OWN COMMUNITY, Detroit would still be a beautiful, thriving city.

@slavrenz88 2 жыл бұрын

@@mrs.hancock4124 their reasons were that they didn't want to live next to a black person. Are you saying that's justified? Once that mentality took hold for a few decades, then yes the city really went downhill fast. But that was decades after this video.

@slavrenz88 2 жыл бұрын

@@daffyduckfan4478 lol, thanks for reminding me that all sorts of wackjob conspiracy theorists are alive and well on the internet.

@callingallhandsondeck 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, for sharing. The images of the areas today broke my heart. My dad would always say $1.00 can buy you a bar of soap. Never a reason to be dirty. $5.00 can buy you a gallon of paint. Never a reason to live in a place that looks like a shack. You'd be surprised at what a little paint will do. Why doesn't some people not have any pride in themselves to take care of things? At least at the minimum?

@slavrenz88 2 жыл бұрын

Because generations of black people living in Detroit had the rug pulled out from under them by white families like this, who couldn't bear the thought of living next to someone whose skin was a different color. They took their money, and the jobs, out of the city. Now there are tens of thousands of households in the city who, yes, cannot afford $5 for a can of paint

@normanalvarez5751 2 жыл бұрын

@@slavrenz88 I wonder why

@slavrenz88 2 жыл бұрын

@@normanalvarez5751 decades of systemic racism and a hollowed out middle class in the city. And sheer private sector greed in some cases... After all, people here are forced to pay $300+ per month for car insurance.

@earthsucks9555 2 жыл бұрын

Such nonsense Victim malarkey

@earthsucks9555 2 жыл бұрын

SouthWest Detroit disagrees with your hogwash

@stillrob420 8 жыл бұрын

And it was called the American Dream....sigh

@christinekangas8031 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a native Detroiter (born in 1949). I love seeing these videos of how my city used to be.

@LuckyMe6336 Жыл бұрын

Wow. My grandfather built a home on Bramford Street (20199) in 1947 or so. I had spent a lot of my childhood on that street. The clip of this street brought back a flood of memories. Grandparents had to move out around 1975/1980 because of crime and threats, sad.

@lawrencedaniels555 16 күн бұрын

Was your grandfather a war veteran? You also said they moved out because of crime and threats. Who threatened them? Your grandparents likely were victims of block busting that was done by banks and realtors. They used scare tactics to get whites to sell their homes then would turn around and sell the house to blacks who were living in overcrowded slums for 2 or 3 times as much as what they paid.

@Autismawareness911 9 жыл бұрын

This is great to see the time when people cared and took pride in their homes. It makes me sad to See what had happened to These homes & locations that your family had such great memories in. I don't even have ties to detroit but have seen whats happened and it's heartbreaking,

@surferbri5346 Жыл бұрын

Whites built it Blacks destroyed it Rinse and repeat.....

@lawrencedaniels555 16 күн бұрын

Do you know why it happened?

@joelex7966 Жыл бұрын

How can a city and a country change so much in just a couple of generations. Detroit was a very blue collar city yet everyone dressed elegantly and conducted themselves with respectability.

@mustange550 8 жыл бұрын

Back in the day everyone lived in Detroit. My Dad came here from Italy in the late 60's, himself, his parents, a sister and brother lived in Detroit. He said really there was no where else to live the burbs have not even been established well enough. Heck he used to go hunting at 14 Mile and John R which for those who don't know now is full of shopping centers and offices....I remember when he told me they had to leave Detroit though they did not want to, because the crime was getting so bad and people were vandalizing the houses around him. it is really sad

@tedcarter1030 6 жыл бұрын

They said the same thing about Italians circa 1900. Read Iacocca's book the WASPs made fun of the pizza that he brought to school for lunch. His mom told him to ignore them. The rest is history.

@lawrencedaniels555 16 күн бұрын

When did your dad leave Detroit?

@DanKBudzer 9 жыл бұрын

I have some 16mm footage from that same era, there's boat races off Belle Isle, boxing at the Detroit House of Corrections, U of M football, the 1946 Thanksgiving parade on Kercheval and a bunch of family stuff. Thanks for sharing, you have a lot of good stuff there.

@PRODUCEDBYKEV 2 жыл бұрын

These are the days my great grandmother would tell us about. She came here in 1933. My mom was born here in this era.

@firefightergoggie 5 жыл бұрын

So sad. I looked at Indiana Street on Google maps and looked at the street view. It's a shit hole now lined with abandoned, vandalized houses and overgrown vacant lots. Looking at this and seeing the history of the good people that used to live there makes my heart ache. Amazing how certain people in that city worked so hard to destroy it.

@lawrencedaniels555 16 күн бұрын

I don't think you really understand. You're judging from afar without understanding what happened and why.

@ericbennett2296 4 жыл бұрын

My mom would have been 88 today, so these films make me want to cry. She grew up on the west side and always claimed a delightful childhood.

@lawrencedaniels555 16 күн бұрын

Did your mom raise you in Detroit?

@gloriahanes3843 10 жыл бұрын

Many remember Detroit as "Little Italy" where street after street held family members ... nieces, uncles, aunts, 2nd cousins, all related and with one common bond to help one another. We were a close knit family unit and many worked at the Ford factory. I can remember at the age of 8 going about three blocks in each direction to visit with all my relations. I never starved and I never went without when I was near family.

@imliz100 8 жыл бұрын

There were many different ethnicities in the city. Polish and German were also large communities as well as others. This video was really beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I loved the music you put to it.

@22fordfx49 6 жыл бұрын

Gloria Hanes All that is quite sad to look back upon and see what it is today. Lets learn from the past however because democrats have been running Detroit since the 50s with their high taxes and big labor union buddies.

@lawrencedaniels555 16 күн бұрын

I wonder how whites were able to get these houses and jobs getting off the boat from Europe when the black people were already in America and couldn't get access to education, jobs or housing.

@houstonrailfanTX 10 жыл бұрын

Sad to see what Detroit turned into and it's not getting better it's only spreading and will be hitting a city near you

@jameslepage4745 5 жыл бұрын

It has arrived.

@ShayTezTvEntertainment 5 жыл бұрын

HoustonRailFan ™ it’s even worst today omg

@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736 4 жыл бұрын

Dean Toma you think an influx of faddish hipsters indicates that the city in on the rise? Just because downtown to cork town is build up doesn’t mean the city is improving. The east side , especially on McNichols, is a WAR ZONE.

@c313g9 4 жыл бұрын

@Legacy Mann if people raised there kids right that wouldnt happen plus who tf asked

@OldNewsNewNews 3 жыл бұрын

They use call Detroit, Murder Capital Of The World, It Should Be Murder Capital Of Baby Killings, Stop Killing Our Children Who Can't Play Safely In There Own Front Yard, Is This A Gang Initiation, Killing Children, Or What!!! Mothers Listen Closely Your Children Need A Safe Place To Play, Remember FRONT YARDS ARE DANGEROUS FOR YOUR CHILDREN'S HEALTH 🙌

@troygier991 3 жыл бұрын

I can remember my Grandmother and Grandfather telling me that DETROIT was a beautiful city. B.in 1903 and 1908.

@55Ariz 8 жыл бұрын

I have watched the videos on you tube like the Shae show that show Detroit today. Burned out abandoned homes. I always think to myself 'I wonder what it looked like 50-60 years ago. So that is what it was like! Wowwww! I cant believe it went from that to what it is now!

@cle-chi 5 жыл бұрын

i like the shea show also hes trying to bring some of the homes back to nice conditions again

@pooter5961 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for sharing. I especially enjoyed the little girl on the roller skates. Now that brought back some fond memories.

@raybon7939 8 жыл бұрын

Video speaks for itself.

@Latbirget 8 жыл бұрын

0.38 - Look at 14637 Indiana Street on Googlemaps - that's the property in the background!

@mikcollmi 8 жыл бұрын

+KatyandJoemac - Look at 14818 Indiana Ave. on Googlemaps. That's the property in the background.

@klmbaby6 7 жыл бұрын

Wow..do your parents know they raised someone racist like yourself?

@Latbirget 7 жыл бұрын

Hi - just reported the ignorant comment.

@Latbirget 7 жыл бұрын

From R1 Bayside. You Tube removed it so it's not clear what I'm talking about.

@roychefets2905 6 жыл бұрын

KatyandJoemac... at one point as a child, my family lived very close to there.

@RS-ft7nv 5 жыл бұрын

I work in Detroit, I drive by indian village, its so beautiful I can only imagine how the rest looked

@kathy2trips 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your films of my hometown in its glory days. I really miss those wonderful times growing up in the city I loved.

@leedummett6054 8 жыл бұрын

incredible to see Detroit back then in the 1930s, 40s. we are used to black and white images most of the time, so to see it in colour is awesome. it makes it so real.

@capt.obvious4487 4 жыл бұрын

You can just see on there faces how good it is to live in America and how happy they are to be there.

@maggieoakley9020 4 жыл бұрын

Big Baller The American Dream which everyone envied so much!

@Ghoosier 3 жыл бұрын

I noticed that right away too. Sad to realize the contrast of then to now

@josephsierzengaIV Жыл бұрын

At this point in time Detroit was the 4th Largest US City and still growing… topping out at 2M residence in the City limits around 1955. Only NY,Chicago and Philadelphia were had more residents!

@roychefets6961 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful pictures. That period covered my childhood in Detroit.

@rosemaryrossier7409 7 жыл бұрын

thankyou for sharing your family videos im 43 years old born and raised till age of 14 on southwest side i loved seeing the belle isle zoo brought back alot of great and wonderful childhood memories forme so i say thank you from the bottom of my heart i loved a minute of video and again thank u for shaaring and god bless

@camerondall4257 2 жыл бұрын

The footage shows how far our country has fallen since then. So sad.

@pigpenpigpen1968 10 жыл бұрын

I didnt move to Detroit till the 90s. Wish I could have seen it back then. Thanks for sharing this footage.

@rickgraham786 7 жыл бұрын

A very beautiful video that I watch often. History is fascinating!

@324wonder 9 жыл бұрын

the music is wonderful. thank you

@andrewyoung2796 2 жыл бұрын

Unforgivable. What they have done to the motor City

@tristanhanser2136 Жыл бұрын

Who is they?

@Shayna422 7 жыл бұрын

My Dad grew up in Delray. My Mom was born in Pittsburgh before moving to Delray. (It was THE Hungarian section of Detroit.) They were married in 1936 in a church on the corner of Vanderbilt & ? (if anyone knows what church it was, plz, let me know ) My Dad established his Optical firm, Dobrik Opticians, first in River Rouge and then, on the corner of W. Fort St. & Campbell, above Cunningham's Drug Store, where he remained for over 50+ yrs. I remember, before the riots, what a wonderful city Detroit was. And, I am so happy to finally see the city growing again. I'm VERY proud to be a Hungarian American who remembers what a Great city Detroit was AND, will be again!!! #GoDetroit! #GoHungarians! ❤

@RSAhokejfan 2 жыл бұрын

Hajra Magyarok. Greetings from Poland

@alandcurtis 9 жыл бұрын

Great video. Thanks so much for sharing. It was a honor to watch it.

@marlon2k9 10 жыл бұрын

I was always told that the neighborhood I grew up in was nothing but open land. The view of Bramford Street is exactly what I imagined it to be.

@bibjoe8492 5 жыл бұрын

it would be nice to see a video of how the streets looked like in the past compared to the present

@1912fld 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing these personal movies. Great shots. An era long gone.

@douglasbenson5911 6 жыл бұрын

Great job thank you for posting!

@dondressel4802 5 жыл бұрын

I’d like to see these streets now

@normanalvarez5751 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty much all destroyed

@Mr.Perry33 Жыл бұрын

Abandoned

@cudaus1 9 жыл бұрын

Great! I loved it. The film is in great shape after all of those years.

@onlyoneamong300 11 ай бұрын

Outstanding! What made it successful to me is that nothing was sugar coated: everything was shown as it was from normal people's perspective where the middle class and the working class go about their business unpretentiously! While looking at the children being so happy it suddenly stroke me that the very beginning of the video happened before WWII, at a time when people were free from war traumas! But the most pleasent part of the video was that beautifully tender guitar piece! It put me totally at ease and made feel piece and joy! What is the title to it and who is the composer? I'd be immensely appreciated! Thanks very much for sharing such great, historical video!

@lyricalaska 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing these! Wonderful memories!!

@wrotenwasp 7 жыл бұрын

How sad to see what's become of Detroit.

@naomibedwell3930 5 жыл бұрын

Such a shame, my Grandmother born in 1919( now deceased) grew up in Detroit, the house her Father built for her Mother became a drug house, when my Mom tried to tell her what happened to Detroit and that house, she refused to believe it. Her Father owned a bakery from the early 20s into the late 1940s.

@lakeshiamcgee3385 8 жыл бұрын

"Oh my" only if life in today's world could be like it was back then .

@MegaBOBCAT11 7 жыл бұрын

Lakeshia McGee , you wouldn't like what would have to be done segregation would have to be reinstated all the blacks would have to leave Detroit the whites would all have to move back in it will be wonderful for whites but terrible for minorities

@DrSmith-so2dl 4 жыл бұрын

For who?

@aprilsims8309 3 жыл бұрын

@@MegaBOBCAT11 that’s why the city failed cus the white ppl left

@sweetlove5740 3 жыл бұрын

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@blow-your-mind3011 7 жыл бұрын

Very interesting video, thank you. Hope, better times will come again to Detroit.

@janetmichigander 3 ай бұрын

My grandfather worked at Detroit Edison back in the day. He named some streets after his family. Donald, Jean, Fern and their last name of Ruby. My mom (Fern) and I found them back in the late '60's or early '70's but I haven't been able to locate them since.

@dannyleo4791 10 жыл бұрын

Detroit was a beautiful city!! What the hell happened!!!???

@Nomis2779 9 жыл бұрын

***** LoL.

@Lenovo-xp5nc 9 жыл бұрын

Bcoz of the evil Capitalism

@lauramurphy4199 8 жыл бұрын

***** Detroit will be beautiful again.. Lots of new business have opened up in downtown Detroit as well as 77 new Restaurants.. There have been some major renovations i} the Opera House as well as the a famous Hotel that has been compleated... The real estate market has been going up & recently just completed the River walk Project... Check on you tube for the Video... Detroit the Comeback City....

@cooldog60 8 жыл бұрын

+Laura Murphy It has nothing to do with business. Get rid of the crime. The rest will take care of it's self.

@hardays3122 8 жыл бұрын

+Laura Murphy downtown might make a small comeback but the neighborhoods surrounding Detroit are ruined and gone forever . To much damage now . How on earth could you find enough white people who would even remotely consider moving back into a war zone .

@lynnthomas3720 3 жыл бұрын

Love this about Detroit! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

@Autismawareness911 9 жыл бұрын

Let me add you have a beautiful family with class and style bless them

@MrLuckytrucker21 8 жыл бұрын

it was before the riots, and white flight from the city.

@saralopez3335 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, also before the globalism and the flight of all the factories from Detroit to south east asia. Rush belt they call, is not only the riots, don't lie.

@northvilletunnels 3 жыл бұрын

There was a pretty big riot in 1943.

@mrs.hancock4124 2 жыл бұрын

@@saralopez3335 The city was destroyed by the forced displacement of the founders, the original occupants who’d built the communities, infrastructure and city. They were driven from their homes by the hundreds of thousands of African Americans who’d migrated in from the South (the Great Migration) & flooded other peoples long ago established communities.

@randysnewbiebluesrockguita7782 6 жыл бұрын

What a shame that a once beautiful city has been reduced to a pile of rubbish and crime. Half or more of the neighborhood's that used to stand are no longer there, only vacant lot's full of burned out houses. I lived in the city as a kid and where I lived now you can't even go in the place without getting robbed.

@randysnewbiebluesrockguita7782 2 жыл бұрын

@A2Z Real Estate Services Everyone has a hard life or at least some hardship in it no matter what situation you happen to be in. My life is no different than anyone other's. I don't like to fear being robbed in my own neighborhood and the crime is out of hand these day's almost like it was back in the early 90's in Detroit. Who wants to live like that and it's not a matter of how anyone's life has gone so far no one should have to live that way .

@roychefets2905 6 жыл бұрын

Wonderful pictures. I was a child in Detroit during this period.

@dianedickinson708 3 жыл бұрын

I can relate to everything in those clips. Those were good times.

@tbac6308 4 жыл бұрын

New subscriber!!! Love these throw backs

@musicfan6575 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful Music.

@fritzrue 10 жыл бұрын

A beautiful piece showing Detroit was not always such a sad place. You and your father have done us all a great favour sharing this wonderful footage from a better time. Oh yes, and Al Gore too for inventing the internet!!!

@candymaticdodge5214 6 жыл бұрын

What a WONDERFUL collection of memories from a lovely family!! I encourage everyone to look at the Google maps link's as they simply transport you into the movies and another time. Very interactive!! SUPERB EXPERIENCE!!!! Very lucky to have had these personal films shared by this KZfaqr. Thank you so much!! I watched them all several times, which I never do!! One question; does the man who took the films appear in any of them?

@jasminerose3454 10 жыл бұрын

this is beautiful.....

@GrazsPlace 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this.

@duckgirl21 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing! My great grandfather was an Italian immigrant to the east side of Detroit in about 1915. I looked up both areas in this film and it’s so sad. Now just gone. My grandparents said how nice Detroit used to be and I got to see it from your videos. Also my grandpa met my grandma when she walked off a Detroit streetcar about 1937. Who knows it may be the one in the video!

@bdokey2 8 жыл бұрын

In the late 40's my Dad's uncle owned a house on Ford Street between 14th and LaSalle near to these images. My newlywed parents rented the upstairs flat there until Nov 1951 when they bought a brand new house "way out" in Redford Township.

@nameofthepen 10 жыл бұрын

Lovely video.

@sess122 Жыл бұрын

Anyone notice what's missing in ALL of these clips? Yeah, me too.

@cody4916 Жыл бұрын

It was a city populated with over 90% ethnic Europeans at this time. Some from Poland, Germany, France etc. ("Detroit" is french for strait) Now less than 10% of the population is made up of ethnic Europeans

@davidlasanen7690 6 жыл бұрын

I was born & raised in Detroit in 1941 It was a good city back then. I'm so glad I moved to Ft Lauderdale in 1976 and never regretted it. What a shit hole now. My best move was retiring in Medellin Colombia. Great people.

@tedcarter1030 6 жыл бұрын

lol Do you wear a vest daily. Place has highest murder rate in the world.

@AM-bk9ei 2 жыл бұрын

Strange to see people respecting each other and maintaining their property in Detroit.

@wankerplutonium6671 8 жыл бұрын

Love this.

@cliffmoher1096 4 жыл бұрын

The children in this video, if they are alive at all, are now in their late 70s to mid-to-late 80s. The adults have been dead for decades. The lives they lived and the world they knew, people living peacefully and prosperously, safely; securely and simply, has died or is finally dying with them. That saddens me greatly. I wish I had been alive then. I'd happily trade my iPhone for a family unit as seemingly solid as the ones depicted here.

@glenncheatham1320 9 ай бұрын

Not one man with his pants hanging down and showing his butt? Amazing.

@susanmurphy4547 Жыл бұрын

Really nice video

@krissyward5089 3 жыл бұрын

I wish more people could see this

@sinnerstatee 9 ай бұрын

Beautiful City

@AngelaBuyck 3 жыл бұрын

Yup my aunts cousins live there in Poland Irish Greek town. Very sad now

@turnerflick9979 2 жыл бұрын

Before the dark times

@dancolonna6590 6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely incredible, area was still wasn't fully suburbanized

@timbuckxxi9690 Жыл бұрын

If MOM was still alive I'd be watching this with her and She would be narrating this..She was born in Detroit in 1930..Lived in Detroit then Dearborn..🌹

@arniezc 3 жыл бұрын

mikcollmi 20201216 A few questions: Was this 10 min video all from a single reel or multiple reels? Did you enter all the text labels yourself? Who added the music, you or the digitizing service? Did you do any other editing? Thanks so much for sharing this video. It was great to look back. :)

@LiChoiFungfan 10 жыл бұрын

Good stuff.

@paleocon777 Жыл бұрын

Isn't it weird seeing Detroit a safe city? What changed?

@erdingtown 5 жыл бұрын

I was eight years old in 1949 and lived in detroit

@msuebentley 6 жыл бұрын

Hey, I used to play classical guitar, is the music a Carcassi Study? I grew up in Detroit and ended up buying a guitar and studying at Joe Fava's store/school at 15 and woodard.