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Copper canyon was on the other side of rouge park. It was called that because 75% of residents were police officer’s and other city workers pre 2000. Also Warrendale is 48228. West Warren is exit 8 on Southfield fwy.

Chris, you are correct, that empty space on Minock Street was where the Samuel Dixon Elementary school once stood.

It was called Copper Canyon because it was heavily area lived Police & Fireman families Lived. This was my scout car area, that 16 pct. D.P.D.

I remember this area as mostly farm land in the 1950s. I use to ride my bike down Joy Road to Rouge Park.

I don't live in Michigan but I'm a lifelong detroit enthusiast

I don't know anyone from Detroit or even Michigan. I have no plans or even desire to travel there. But, here I am. Your channel is addictive! Thank you for all the work you put into it.

Chris your narration of these videos are excellent

Great episode. Glad you mentioned the abandoned building removal program, it explains a lot of the empty lots. Sad that "unintended consequences" like the municipal workers ruling, can completely ruin a nice little middle class community like this one. The Detroit series has been very educational. Enjoy the second channel content ad well.. Happy Weekend 😊

"Copper Canyon" Because a whole bunch of cops lived around there and it sounded better then "Pig Canyon" or Fuzzy Canyon"

Considering many of those subdivisions were built 80+ years ago, the ones that are well maintained and groomed are in really good condition. Here in New Zealand we had a huge post WW2 building boom and styles are remarkably similar to these homes, so similar it’s like they came out of the same IKEA box.

Your Detroit series made me realize I had driven nearly every street in Detroit back in the 70s and 80s. Having worked out of Dearborn Hgts I traveled to this area often. Van Buren used to be so bad there were no smooth areas of road back then. Cat nap on Faust.

I briefly lived off Warren Avenue in Dearborn around 1990. I drove through Warrendale quite a few times to access the Southfield Freeway, and it seemed like a nice neighborhood back them. Of course, that was over 30 years ago.

Good vid. Live around here. The farther north you go from Warren Ave the worse it gets as far as crime goes. You will hear multiple gun shots through out the night in the summer. After Colman Young in the 80s the area really started to decline. By the 90s the blight really kicked off. Its a block by block thing. This particular area can be pretty bad in certain areas but it is cheap to live here and the closer to Dearborn the better. Its alright for singles or couples starting out if they buy/rent south of Tireman and east of Sothfield but the schools are horrible and are in really bad areas so not good for families. Joy Road, murder row, is particularly bad. The middle eastern immigrants have definitely been a small boon to the area by investing in small businesses but there is no real nite life. You can just travel down Eest Warren for food or go to West Dearborn for bars and restaurants. Rouge Park does have a small field that is maintained and used for model airplanes.

It looks actually pretty nice to me. So green. Its so weird to me that the cars don't have license plates on the front.

Holy shit ... Switch the beat up. The remix down Joy Rd at the end has me cracking tf up Chris. If I was debating to check out any more of your videos, this has helped me decide fo sho hahaha.

I like the way you show the good as well as the bad!

@ 13:50, there was a school there. Even when I was growing up in that neighborhood, that school was in decline. Thanks for the run down memory lane--great channel

It's crazy I used to live in that neighborhood back in 2010 and even went to the Dixon school I graduated from there the year it closed down. Once scrappers got ahold of it I knew the whole building would eventually be gone 😭. Definitely a great video and a trip down memory lane🥲

Copper Canyon was really over by 5 mile and telegraph. When Detroit Pol lice and Fire Depts. used to require "Detroit Residence" Copper Canyon came to fame because it was one of the most safest, say up scale neighborhoods for Police and Fire servents to have a Detroit address in. Copper Canyon is more like across the Rough River from Brightmoore.

Hey Chris, What up doe ? Nice videos bro. Thanks for sharing your videos with us

You just passed Vista Maria. A Catholic "reform school" started for pregnant girls in the 1950s but eventually became a school/ say "holding tank" for all kinds of Catholic girl criminals or say, girls who's family wanted their daughters to reform in some way. In the 70s we used to climb the fence at night and sneak up to the dorm windows etc etc.

I appreciate when you reference the zip code(s) that correlate to each neighborhood.

16:02 yellow house on NE corner of Stahelin was my house in high school. Door was gone in Sept 2022. Walked thru quickly. Stripped out and left quickly after finding mattress upstairs.

you should do a video of fenton michigan, it’s on the outskirts of flint and it’s a nice place, it would be nice to show people that it’s not all bad

Don't forget "the Warrendale Currier" a local newspaper printed just for Warrendale residents. Went out of circulation around late 1956s.

Lessenger middle school, where my brother and I attended 8th grade (now Dixon) in 1979, is at 23:46, 23:08, and 23:23. Near the end, at 26:45, on the right you can see the old Dairy Queen at the corner of Joy & Stahelin (one block north of our old house) just past that is Tony's Auto where we used to catch the city bus to get to Renaissance High.

Thanks!

Copper Canyon came from the era when the city mandated all employees had to reside within the corporate city limits and a lot of Police and Firefighters resided at edge of those limits. Copper as in Police...

I grew up at 6900 Auburn st, originally apart of Dbn Hgts sold to Detroit with stipulations, that were pretty much racist AF! Auburn had a different street name (can’t remember the name) Detroit didn’t adhere to the stipulations. I went to George Washington Carver elementary. Had amazing teachers from 2nd to the beginning of 7th grade. My sister and I lived with our dad until mother decided to lie to FOC to get custody. Detroit will forever hold my heart! My aunt/godmother still lives on Auburn next door to my childhood home, and her son lives across the street from her.

Some streets are pretty much intact while others nearby are abandoned urban prairie. Seems so random!

I was wondering when you'd do my hood lol

Reposting since the link to flicker caused the previous one to be deleted: The abandoned lot you filmed at Tireman and Minock was an elementary school called Samuel B Dixon school, closed in 2010 and demolished in 2017. It looks like the charter school on Trinity that you also filmed decided to start using the Dixon name.

This is where I am from. Warrendale.... i lived on Brace... 4 houses from Paul.

A note: When you correctly showed a map of the 48228 Zip Code, you accidentally said "48224" (East English Village, the easternmost Detroit neighborhood, where I grew up). I later moved to a house in 48239, a smaller neighborhood tucked in between Rouge Park with Dearborn being directly south.

I used to live in Warrendale. Glad I moved to Toledo

Warrendale might not be as nice as it was in the 80s and 90s, but it still looks pretty good here.

So many parks

it's so much potential. What is really holding the people back? is it cost and they just don't want to be bothered? The auto industry has been gone it can't still be that.

You ever going to do Windsor?

Does anyone know the name of the Detroit neighborhood for 18600 Joseph Compu? Thanks

Chris do they have neighborhood watch groups in the various neighborhoods in and around Detroit.

Lots of ghost towns in Upper Michigan with buildings still standing. The town I live in once had a hotel, store, school, church. Now there is nothing.

Devils night is urban renewal. Theyre helping clear out all the blight.

Glad u quickly maneuvered around the white vehicle at Greenview & Belton. Idk what the hell he's doing there with no stop/yield and its those little everyday scenarios that u must be prepared for.

That's what happened to Mount Clemens when the Residential requirements were lifted for Employees and Others .

Have you ever considered Mount Clemens vs. Clinton Twp or Harrison Twp or Fraser ??? They all used to be Mount Clemens back in the day :)

Looks like a blue collar community. I can understand the city workers flight to the burbs. Other major cities ex:Chicago, NY make residency for cops and firemen a must. You get most of the employees living on the outskirts of the cities.

Love right here 5:05

it looks nice to me

Warrendale is beautiful comparing to your footage video of Dort Hwy.

If its in the video I rode my bike there or walked it all and then some. Would i do the same thing today? Maybe if i wasn't 40 and a licensed driver because its still not all that bad. Much like ANYWHERE u go in any hood, any city, there are just certain blocks to avoid.

If you ever do a video outside michigian. Check out the infamous Gary, Indiana. It's straight hell abandon and falling apart people sparsely their. I thought was prob 2nd worst place saw. 1st was prob east st Louis Illinois (otheside of st Louis don't want you see). More spread out, but it was way more abandoned then gary/spread out loy more cover lot more land I think. Just felt like all homes and streets were even in a worse condition i don't know how that's possible. And saw shit ton of streets, just go into straight abandon forest roads/neighborhoods. Terms of all ghettos been in usa. Those 2 are far the worst. Prob safer though given drop of people, but they feel so amoneos.

Back in the 90s Warren was a place u didn't get car jacked at lunch! Now u don't go there!

missed the whole south end of Warrendale...Warren to Ford

Don’t look that bad

I grew up here in the late 90s and 2000s on abington its a war zone now I would never go back

Back in the 60s human beings lived there!

Everyone from that neighborhood knows that the REAL Warrendale residents zipcode was 48239..... the rest were wannabe zoners....... thats what we called ourselves... Zoners

Wow terrible. Grew up there.

That was Dixon school. I went there

My cousin lived on Grandmont in the early 90's. Was still half decent then.

My grandpa live in the neighborhood