Deep in Detroit West Side Hoods

[@A1914look]

I grew up in one of the area shown and in the 70's and 80's full of businesses and homes that people tried to keep up. So sad to see the communities destroyed. All the abandoned brick homes. Heartbreaking!

[@Mexishark909]

I been watching nonstop Ukraine war videos and this neighborhood doesn't look that different from a warzone. It even has the burnt out houses

[@ARWest-bp4yb]

I was thinking the exact same thing. Such a shame to think that it was once a thriving community.

[@Ichifate]

@@ARWest-bp4yb a lot of black communities were, but after either angry white mobs tearing down their community, or the heroine or crack epidemics, many lower income black communities have been turned into warzones.

[@ARWest-bp4yb]

@@Ichifate So true.

[@A1914look]

Some of the areas feel like you're actually in a war zone. Except the fighting is among community members.

[@SVGIN]

Detroit ain't all that bad .....nobody never is outside lol

[@Tiberius291]

What a shame, looks like it was a cozy neighborhood back in it's heyday.

[@drpoundsign]

Some of those areas had stately homes, owned by automobile executives and other professionals. I'm a suburban Detroiter, but he was cruising the Barton/Macfarlane hood. I recognized some of the street names, like Glendale, LaSalle and Wetherby. A lot of it was built between 1910-1930, when Detroit quadrupled in population, spurred by factory jobs. Livernois/Tireman/Grand River form a right triangle, and used to be the only place on the West Side where African Americans could live. Even Twelfth Street (Ground Zero of the '67 Riot) was White and Jewish before 1947, but had changed in less than a Decade, due to blockbusting Real Estate practices (but, also, the Demolition of housing in Black Bottom and Paradise Valley.) The Skid Row section of Michigan Avenue was also knocked down in the Fifties, and the refugees from these places ended up in new areas-which also became Slums. As in other cities, White Flight began after WW2, with freeway construction and VHA loans for returning Veterans, which caused the growth of the Suburbs. The Recessions of the 70s and 80s really put more nails in.

[@DAB901]

What I always noticed about Detroit is the majority of these videos, it’s a ghost town in the daytime. Barely see anyone walking or driving around or even standing around. Then night time comes around and groups of 30-40 people on each block just hanging out and cars everywhere. It’s like people are vampires out there. Weird apocalypse type vibes.

[@mikethebike2456]

🏍️ Easier to hide when gunfire erupts.

[@DAB901]

@@mikethebike2456 True but also easier to get ambushed and killed at night on a sneak attack.

[@laellewis7787]

its cuz everyone has to work in the daytime

[@lynetterice8413]

@@chrisdacrisis4670 🤷🏾‍♀️welp!!

[@billyumbraskey8135]

"people" its just an eclectic mix of americana around here, eh??? LMAO

[@meganhigley8838]

I like the neon twins at 2:13 lol.

[@julienbee3467]

Is it for their job or they chose it ?

[@meganhigley8838]

@@julienbee3467 I think they chose it because it looks like a sweatsuit.

[@julienbee3467]

@@meganhigley8838 i love it anyway. But I wouldn't to go out like this

[@davidellis5141]

Over 50 years of neglect caused this.

[@Hanover-ek4jy]

And corrupt politicians!

[@daledeem676]

Lol right...........

[@Hanover-ek4jy]

@@daledeem676 starting with Coleman Young -Kwame Kilpatrick!

[@daledeem676]

What happen to flint Saginaw Lansing Grand rapids

[@bnwo]

From the former residents

[@paultsmith7631]

Man, when the steel mills and auto plants were up and running this was a beautiful area with all the fabulous brick homes. Breaks my heart to see this....

[@darylelee3166]

Amazed at the beauty of some of those homes

[@Discipleofyeshuahamaschiach]

The structure is better than these modern homes !

[@taraerskine3954]

So true

[@Zeppelin927]

Something about seeing all those old houses in such bad shape makes me sad. The old saying "if those walls could talk" so many Christmases, Thanksgivings, Birthday parties....

[@drpoundsign]

Detroit's population peaked at around 1.8 million, but is currently about 600k. When the census data come in, it's probably less than that.

[@ONEWHOKNOWS.]

Wow, that's insane! People like to say Detroit is coming back, but the hood never well and still isn't. That's sad. Need more economic development.

[@r.j.dunnill1465]

I suspect it's finally on the upswing.

[@drpoundsign]

@@r.j.dunnill1465 But...that seems to mostly be true in Downtown and Midtown.

[@kew9164]

@@drpoundsign At least it’s a start.

[@Eman1900O]

Crazy how big many of those houses are/were

[@lackedpuppet9022]

I think some of them had multiple units. So like an upstairs and downstairs apartment.

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

They are 2 family flats.

[@totsmini3105]

You're still doing a Terrific job taking video of all these neighborhoods!! - Great perspective of the Real America!!... although, it is a sad sight🥺☹

[@patriot4757]

Thanks for the ride in the 313

[@mulagudda2697]

That first hood reminded me of Lynch Mobb right here in south east dc which is Woodland Terrace

[@craiggillett5985]

@3.38 - good to see many of these old homes being restored and maintained

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

Thanks for noticing! That is actually going on citywide.

[@ZombolicBand]

So this is where hopes and dreams die

[@sarahjane8949]

💖💖 Charlie 💖💖

[@Chosen1Crown]

How did Detroit housing get this damn bad ..??? That shit is on a whole other level

[@Hanover-ek4jy]

Corrupt politicians!

[@sarahjane8949]

Auto industry collapsed making so many unemployed also the civil war riots lots of people left Detroit :(

[@blast4me754]

Like in most major cities when white people move out of a certain area this other group moves in and things go straight to hell.

[@Chosen1Crown]

@@blast4me754 come on bro with the racist shh .. Y’all racist troll don’t have anything better to do but troll racist comments on the internet

[@tam6148]

@@blast4me754 I totally agree with that

[@dionysus1016]

It reminds me of the Special's "Ghost Town". Detroit West 2030 no-go zone. Detroit West 2040 OMG.

[@dionysus1016]

@@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback Happy that there is civic pride regarding downtown, that is why I said Detroit West, not Detroit, so there was no confusion.

[@mikesawyer4707]

These homes must have been real eye catchers in there day. Ten or twelve rooms at least.

[@stephanyryans5428]

It breaks my heart to see what the west side of Detroit has become

[@fredtillman3050]

Not all the west side is like this, and unlike other cities you can travel the whole city, it's no " don't go over there, it's gang violence" areas in the city.

[@billyumbraskey8135]

is this like when a crowd is "run over by a car"???

[@fredtillman3050]

@MannyP exactly, when I was at the airport in LA I asked a guy is my clothes ok? He said "yeah, your neutral, you got on black".

[@boxingmma.]

Some Big beautiful house's just so delapadated

[@saiunagringa8746]

Watching these videos I feel like I'm living like a king here in Brazil 😰

[@gnoblegrecords5192]

frfr do you see all the abandoned mansions!!!!

[@pepperwithmeow7115]

Ok I live in Poland.I dont understand how those hoods are so empty.why so many houses are empty,demolished?Where are those people who lived there?

[@fordprefect80]

What's with the bright fluorescent track suits around 2:20? I almost went blind.

[@joachimlindemann415]

Where does Tim Taylor live?😀

[@djsipp4743]

This looks like Ukraine 🧐 this is America huh

[@ProductOfCookCounty7963]

Yes

[@awadramy1]

0:21 what was that dude doing squatting down ? he gets up quick as you approach and looks back

[@juliemccrea5481]

I wondered the same thing.

[@ayeedubbz8936]

i stay near warrendale

[@lynetterice8413]

It’s getting a little rough over there too

[@lynetterice8413]

@@chrisdacrisis4670 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 say no to drugs fr

[@adventures223]

Hey charley can you do a video in gary Indiana

[@adventures223]

My fault i see you already did one in gary how about Washington DC i think you're videos are the best you get out and talk to people and ask about the area

[@RonaldDregan]

Man everyone wants to compare the D to Ukraine and all that shit but Detroit is beautiful. Detroit stand up. Everyone from the D is real

[@aimeekrieg9932]

This is so true. Real people, true people who have lived life

[@jimmcgaugh2519]

Beautiful homes, 50-years ago!

[@Blakesedit]

cars out front of those houses at 2:33 ... people still live in those houses? one of them is boarded up and half burnt ...wtf:(

[@drpoundsign]

Some have long since been repurposed into Heroin "shooting galleries" and crack houses.

[@kathhamilton1803]

Love this man, I'feel like I'm in a Limo

[@kellyschellenberger-foster682]

Were large families common back in the day? The houses are all huge

[@Slim900]

Would love to buy and restore one of these

[@drpoundsign]

Most are too far gone. If it's burned, or the roof has otherwise failed and there's massive water damage, along with mold and vermin, it's next to impossible. Some Victorians HAVE been restored in Woodbridge, Midtown, and Brush Park. These aren't Victorians anyhow, for the most part. Some old apartments have also been gut-renovated in the Lower Cass Corridor (now called "Midtown.") If it's solid concrete construction, you can demolish the interior and rebuild. Plus, you first have to Gentrify the whole neighborhood. I don't see that happening in Barton McFarland East (depicted in this video) or West (area between Wyoming and Livernois Avenue.) This is a Dangerous neighborhood, and I refuse to live where I have to "lock and load."

[@mikethebike2456]

🏍️ Save up a dollar and you probably can.

[@Newfieguy]

As you watch the video take notice to how many vehicles are banged up or wrecked. I spent some time in Detroit and it’s a occurring theme everywhere except for the downtown and well to do areas.

[@drpoundsign]

The East Side is Bad, too. Poletown East has a lot of abandonment and vacant lots. Around 6 Mile/Hoover was "Cooper Canyon." So named because Police, and other City workers, used to have residency requirements, and many chose to live there. When that changed, they followed the stampede out of Detroit, and the area quickly went downhill. The Hood near the Old State Fair-mostly built after WW2-is also bombed out. Eminem made "Eight Mile" twenty years ago, but, Really, the areas immediately North of the city limit (the South sides of Southfield and Warren, for example) are not that much different than those South of it. A Much starker divide exists on Chalmers Avenue, which divides Detroit from the tony Gross Pointes. That's like the contrast between Christian and Muslim Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. (I'm not Lebanese.)

[@lynetterice8413]

Heck yeah it’s hit over there too💔💔🤦🏾‍♀️🥴

[@alfrednawrocki8061]

I grew up on the Westside of Detroit. Intervale, Kentucky area.

[@mahayanaconfidential6452]

It's the West side ain't it? Ask about the gang we're Detroit's most dangerous. Go and ask 12 they Gon say we armed and dangerous. Fuck being careful lil nigga stay dangerous. -Bandgang Lonnie bands

[@dweebsmasher]

This place looks raw as fuck man.

[@tam6148]

Big beautiful houses left in the hands of the people who have historically destroyed every place they live

[@Chosen1Crown]

Who are those people, can u be more Specific ????

[@Peter.Sky.Walker]

People who have been historically destroyed?

[@Chosen1Crown]

Interesting... I Facebook that exact user name who made this statement and her stupid statement correlates with her Facebook profile .. 40+ yr old white women working at McDonald’s.. The way things look , you’ll not living much better your self .. smh

[@TylerDurden-ls7lk]

That blame game ignorant attitude and not helping your fellow human beings find an out is what destroys communities. Not passing judgement. All I ask is try to see further and get in tune.

[@Slim900]

@@Chosen1Crown gotta be referring to her European ancestors who fucked up the earth lol

[@EveryDayMatters2Me]

Do you stop at stop signs?😎

[@marentruelsen3166]

So strange to see a maintained home thrown in here and there surrounded by dilapidated ones. People really do hang on to hope.

[@NiPsTeR48]

Look like a lotta fixer-uppers.

[@broskibear9666]

How were you able to do a driving tour in Ukraine after bombing and missile strikes?

[@drpoundsign]

LOL. You know, I saw History Channel footage of Kiev during WW II, after both the Nazis and Soviet troops (scorched Earth policy) got through with it. I said to myself: "I recognize the Cross Bronx Expressway, but where's Yankee Stadium??"

[@kevingadson9315]

@2.18 dude look like one of those kids cautious green signs lol

[@Xstr3ngthz]

Go up to a random group of people in the hood and say what y’all doing on my block

[@josephigboeli20000]

People never outside in Detroit videos

[@AuroraBoarder1]

At night, they are.

[@steveec9704]

These homes need to be on the registered national historical society

[@Tony-rl2fr]

"aww, ain't that America... little pink houses, for you and me"

[@morganweller1491]

WTF this is crazy but then you see like three Bentleys parked next to like a crack house WTF

[@jimmythegentconway8690]

I still don't know why i love to see this but i do

[@fasillimerick7394]

In Iraq people were taking sledgehammers to reinforced concrete in order to take the rebar and sell it. These poor people look like that is the next step, because there is no way there's any copper left in those abandoned houses.

[@hhoversonhh]

Are these houses so dilapidated that they couldn't be moved and refurbished somewhere else?

[@alfrednawrocki8061]

What streets are you on?

[@michaelmutton3379]

This is what happens when big corporate America bails out and leaves the people of this country for foreign land.

[@billyumbraskey8135]

except when everything is working, its still the evil corporations fault when "some" people arent making it... lmfao interesting.

[@bobbbobb4663]

Believe it or not, the exodus from Detroit began in the 40’s when industry started relocating to the suburbs. The politicians did nothing to replace the lost industries and 70 plus years later, this is the result.

[@billyumbraskey8135]

@@bobbbobb4663 oh right of course. Gangbanging came from suburbs forming in the 40s lmao

[@bobbbobb4663]

@@billyumbraskey8135 I won’t try to help you understand history so feel free to make up your own facts and look ignorant. Glty.

[@josuesantanadiaz3135]

i live in southwest detroit for 3 years this city is really dangerous for me

[@lynetterice8413]

🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@juliemccrea5481]

Not familiar with the West side, but it looks just as depressing as the East side. I don't know why I enjoy watching your videos, but I do. Maybe I'm hoping the areas will improve in the future. So ironic that housing inventory is so limited right now & you've got all of this uninhabitable area.

[@kevinkant6817]

Please Putin invade Detroit

[@sarahjane8949]

Kevin Your surname is spelt wrong sure it should start with a C 😊

[@mikethebike2456]

🏍️ You don't invade scorched earth. You leave it behind.

[@Ravens-ft2hn]

You add bicycles 🚲 at night...it would look like North Winnipeg Man 🇨🇦

[@aaronerskine3401]

too bad new homes are built with the same quality and workmanship. please share more

[@youdontcare1872]

the whole D look like a junkyard lol

[@kayjoe7237]

I am sure that the wireless carriers see these area and be like "Nah we aint putting no 5g coverage there"

[@nijalcampbell1408]

I wonder how many tires my guy has to change from running over all that BS what not

[@keywanshirazi]

What happened here why are the houses are so destroyed and the streets also it looks like a Desaster

[@willdill4987]

I AM SICK AND TIRED of those speed bumps.

[@marythomas8027]

C add n you talk in the video. Thanks😊

[@katherinespencer2633]

It’s so sad to see that the west side is so totally obligated.

[@Hannah-lq2ps]

This is what happened to the middle class when politicians got kickbacks from other countries to send industry over seas. Negotiations with Unions and businesses required too much hard work for local governments. Easier to create poverty, sanctuary cities and blame capitalism. No I'm not a Reagan fan nor Clinton who signed NAFTA.

[@SnapszDuhh]

No reason why they can’t tear all the abandoned homes down. My Gosh. Smh.

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

The city must have the title of the property to tear it down.

[@mikethebike2456]

@@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback 🏍️ So who usually owns 'em ? Old white guys who made a mistake and taking the deed to their grave ?

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

@@mikethebike2456 Yes, probate is a big reason, among many!

[@bobbbobb4663]

Even if the city had the legal authority, demolition isn’t free.

[@SadAD.]

Kalay turady?Tec kolicteri zhaksy.😂😫😬🙊?

[@caleb8796]

Looks like Augusta GA hoods.

[@billyumbraskey8135]

what happened, here?

[@SDE90]

white flight

[@AnObservantTraveller74]

The collapse of the auto industry, riots, and corrupt politicians.

[@billyumbraskey8135]

@@AnObservantTraveller74 lol.

[@meadowdream9144]

The CIA flooded all the cities with crack in the 80's.

[@billyumbraskey8135]

@@meadowdream9144 i dont understand what this means. was crack a lot worse in some places than others? if so, why? if its all cities, all cities arent like this. there are slums, sure, but its not this scale and not this bad in most. also, crack cant use itself.

[@mikechapman2083]

Warren Ave

[@mikesawyer4707]

Just noticed the church. Very sad.

[@MySkinnydip]

You can tell there are no Jones’s living here!

[@daledeem676]

Those damn politicians they got it in for Detroit flint Saginaw Lansing Grand rapids did i forget any.. they must love Birmingham cuz all their 130 year old homes look new still .. I'm confused 🤔

[@fdre3wsd]

that's bleak

[@search4truth104]

Doesn't look much different than ukraine

[@andarilhoblackpillimortal4579]

Andarilho.

[@danfurtado9158]

this is what happens when rich people sell good jobs to the lowest bidders overseas. it doesn't just effect whites it effects everyone who lives in these citites. Not that long ago all these midwest industrial cities were the place to be, due to greed alot of places look like this

[@polockdan1]

Sad.

[@marciaprezioso7054]

My God!

[@FrankEiche]

I didn't imagine North Korea that bad!

[@4672-m9f]

homes like this ,properly taken care,will last a long ,long time, me homeless

[@MazichMusic]

It's sad to think that these streets were once lined with pretty hones and community institutions. No more.

[@sharonschuetzler6698]

But notice some of the fat rides? In a burnt out Hood... Was born in the D in The 60's... Been there, done that ... Thanks

[@rolandoborges4936]

Who destroyed that neighborhood?

[@alfrednawrocki8061]

The people on welfare and the Mayor's of Detroit.

[@meadowdream9144]

The CIA

[@michaeltelford4312]

Very city go down win people move out

[@jerrydavis3548]

Hey charlie you stay in Detroit to much come to charlotte some times to many video on Detroit

[@TheBluesmanBlue]

CharlieBo the west side of Detroit looks like the Russian Ukraine war was held there 😄

[@craiggillett5985]

Love it

[@shahmcdonald]

they need robocop

[@ВикторНарваткин-ц8ч]

о Боже мой СПАСИ АМЕРИКУ🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@paolopili5734]

👍

[@sureyyadogan8184]

Üzgünüm

[@marentruelsen3166]

These Detroit videos are the saddest shit. This country really let Detroit down and it's a shame.

[@Riseabove22]

My god, looks like a war zone.