DETROIT The Fabulous Fifties

In the 1950's Detroit was booming with business, industry and people of all kinds, filling the streets. It really was "The Good Ol' Days". I ask only that the viewer enjoy the videos, NO racial remarks, slurs or bad vibes. If you can't have fun, then do not post. Now that's out of the way...Enjoy Motown as it was sixty years ago.

[@djsandvig1]

Ok then….I’m an old man, born at Ford hospital in 1948 . I went to Detroit public schools and graduated from Pershing in 1966. My childhood was absolutely idyllic. We were firmly blue collar, church going, law abiding and civically proud.Every school I ever went to was racially diverse. As a 12 year old I could ride my bike to Briggs Stadium unmolested…..indeed anywhere I chose to go. There are so many reasons that Detroit went off the rails, it would be impossible to catalog them in less than a multi-volume scholarly study…..even then. I can tell you that of the 5 houses in different neighborhoods that I lived in NOT ONE survives today nor do the neighborhoods in any meaningful way. CRIME drove my parents out of their forever home in 1978 and broke their hearts. I know I’m not unique, kids in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philly ,Baltimore , D.C. Seattle and countless others had very similar histories. I can now spend my twilight years reminiscing on the wonderful life I was afforded by being raised in Detroit by amazing parents in a safe , caring, civil society……and we had the BEST music, BEST cars, BEST hair of any epoch.

[@Crazycatlady1836]

@Daniel Therman the USA has not collapsed. The USA has communities of individuals who don't care about morals, values, work ethic, family structure, education or community. When neighborhoods like Detroit end up in the hands of those people, this is what you get.

[@jillfoley6834]

Yeah

[@sdcoinshooter]

Pretty close to you Dennis, born at Beaumont hospital in Royal Oak, grew up in Clawson. It breaks my hear to see what has happened to a city with so much heart.

[@rockabillylaker]

I can sum it up in 2 words: Liberal Politicians.

[@shanegodman1251]

Lucky man!

[@Trace7173]

My mother was born and grew up in Detroit during the 1950's. In her last 3 years of life, my mother had dementia but she never forgot her memories of Detroit. It was the one subject she could still talk to us about. I have a very faint memory of Detroit and the last time we were there was in 1971.. Miss you mom & dad!

[@Zardoz4441]

After six decades it still resonates as an unforgettable age! Prosperous, elegant, fantastic music. Absolutely unforgettable. The Golden Age of the US lifestyle...

[@Zardoz4441]

@@petesaria-hf1xh Thank you for this recommendation!

[@loralarose9615]

6 decades of democrat s

[@guynorth3277]

@@loralarose9615 ; Stupid comment, and you really have no idea of the political paradigm!

[@TheGiggler333]

“Oh boy, I sure do love living in Detroit, the wealthiest city in the world. With some of the best cars in the world being manufactured here at a surprisingly low cost, I sure do hope nothing bad happens during the late 60s that would completely change our cities image forever” - Average Detroit Resident, 1955

[@TravisGilbert]

What happened in the 60s?

[@pg8835]

@@TravisGilbert b l a c k s took over large sectors of urban cities during the great migration and destroyed most of them like chicago

[@poetcomic1]

@@TravisGilbert The Detroit black riots were SO destructive that the city never recovered at all.

[@christinabontioti4753]

@@TravisGilbert Detroit's racial tensions peaked - I highly recommend VICE's Abandoned episode on Detroit

[@TravisGilbert]

@@christinabontioti4753 I’ll give it a watch

[@1JuliusStreicher]

50 years ago today: the last full day of that beautiful, old Detroit. RIP.

[@trc3675]

Oh, how I would love to be able to go back in time to walk these streets, eat at the restaurants, see a ball game, see my old neighborhood and mingle! Thank you

[@LukeLovesRose]

Tell everyone to reject all forms of Communist subversion including feminism and "diversity""

[@tomjoad6270]

@@LukeLovesRose Amen Brother !!! AMERICA first and always !!! 💯🇺🇸🦅🗽⚔️👍

[@GSquid92]

The elephant cowboys vs the hippy donkeys

[@mobetta2092]

I'd visit Hastings Street to experience what I recall my father, uncle, aunts, and others reminiscing amongst themselves about.

[@manbtm1]

Oh my gosh, you still can, its beautiful downtown, I live here, I do what you described constantly, this afternoon to be exact

[@Daniel-js2dk]

The 50's, where you could say you were from Detroit and be proud to say it.

[@FaveORitt]

Woken Matt Hardy Motor City!

[@willybarbosa6116]

Fave O. Ritt stop being a punk and say that word if you finna say it y’all to weak to be in a city like that anyways

[@FaveORitt]

Willy Barbosa What???

[@victoriarios8623]

Woken Matt Hardy yup

[@NLT-pm4sq]

My Leg You can still say your from detroit and be proud of it, Detroit goes harder than any other city in the country.

[@carolynleblanc3748]

Even though I live in Windsor, we were always going shopping in downtown Detroit. Great Memories.

[@bluecrow3534]

Back in 1974 my new bride and I had honeymooned at the unfortunately now vanished riverside Windsor Holiday Inn, and the nighttime view of downtown Detroit from there had really been quite spectacular. Then, one could quite easily go back and forth across the border for any reason at all. But, now they seemingly have us all locked down like prisoners withing our respective countries and it basically sucks!

[@HJKelley47]

I was often driving into Windsor and up to Toronto. No passport was needed. The two cities went back and forth across the bridge or under the tunnel. Great memories here as well.

[@BabySonicGT]

@@bluecrow3534 nice

[@nordicwarrior2176]

That's the point of going downtown. Do shopping, take care of legal matters, pay bills etc. Now everything is spread all over the place.

[@HalisIstanbullu]

I saw Detroit at the very tail end of her glory days in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I remember the people, the energy, the vitality. But now, seeing that city, I wonder whether my memories were really only a dream? Seeing this video then, and seeing Detroit now, this video appears as though a piece of Hollywood fiction. In my lifetime, I have seen Detroit do a complete 180 for the worst. Some have commented on what a lovely piece of nostalgia this is and a glimpse into yesteryear. I can't agree; this video only intensifies today's pain.

[@tennforever]

I wasn't trying to cause anyone "pain"...only to show how it was in better times. Period. If I wanted to cause pain, I would have added images of Detroit as it is now. Slums, drugggies, hoe's, killings for no reasons, etc. The downtown looks nice when across the river in Windsor. I lived in Detroit just before it turned "sour"...I want the good days back too. But, if it's not to be, then we have this to remember how it used to be. And IF it returns, it's gonna take the people who live there to WANT to "clean up their act".

[@gtas321]

If you want the good old Detroit back then go and create it. It needs a new industry because the motor city is dated and dead. Tech is where it's at now.

[@HalisIstanbullu]

And on that note, fifty years ago right at this very moment, that beautiful old Detroit was experiencing the fourth of the seven days that would be her death knell. Regrettably, I don't need to see any videos anywhere to see the complete mess Detroit is today: I see it within a few minutes of each and every time I cross over into that city.

[@matthewrhodes4385]

Detroit is the result of white supremacy. Simple as that!

[@micheleellis8666]

Matthew Rhodes Well, the truth is, is that even blacks in general had more class back then. It has nothing to do with white supremacy. What is "white" anyway? Even the music had class. Nat King Cole's song " Unforgetable" was a very beautiful song sung by a black man.

[@Happyッ-r4q]

One of the reasons why I'm building a time machine.

[@mobetta2092]

I often think of Back to The Future and wonder how horrific would it be to get stuck in the past. If that happened our only remedy would be to live long enough in the past we're stuck in to meet meet the younger version of ourself and warn to never travel in a time machine. If our younger self follows that warning, we should be instantaneously zapped back to present day...if we remain in the past, we'll know we ignored ourselves which is why we're still stuck.

[@genebigs1749]

If Only!

[@darthjarjarbinks8953]

I wish time machines were real, but I would probably move around rather than solely stay in the 50s. Thing is, what would you do once the fifties are over? It wouldn’t make much sense to just go back to the early fifties and start all over again, at least in my opinion.

[@sdcoinshooter]

Take me with you

[@Happyッ-r4q]

@@sdcoinshooter ok I will take you with me as long as you promise not to f up the timeline 🙂

[@michaelsheedy]

I remember going to Hudsons in the late 50's with my parents and the streets were packed with people even later at night. After the riots, Hudson's closed at 5PM and the streets were deserted at night.

[@harrissyed1417]

Detroit of today: A shell of it's former glory. Detroit of the pre-1960s past: A wonderful, vibrant city to live in.

[@HJKelley47]

Yes it was a dynamic city to grow up in!! If Detroit was like the Detroit of old, I would live the rest of my life there (despite the cold winters - LOL)

[@harrissyed1417]

@@HJKelley47 Other cities also are pretty terrible nowadays but were wonderous, bright communities to live in even if they weren't perfect such as Baltimore or East St. Louis.

[@yedon68]

I can remember riding the bus downtown to see a 50 cent movie.... My first apt there was $12.50 cents a week---completely furnished w/ WW2 furniture...amazing radio, post-war as well...The year was 1965..! BTW it was not fancy but for a kid of 19 it was fine!

[@JoeKaye-hn5dt]

I can remember riding 3 public busses to school downtown (Cass Tech, a public HS, 8 floors, 36 curriculums!) starting at age 13 1/2 (1962). It was totally dreamy. By 14 1/2 we'd stop into that Kwikee Donuts after school and have coffee and maybe a ciggie if my friend had some. Nobody cared. Nobody bothered you. Those were the days.

[@bighands69]

That exact same apartment using standard inflation should be about $75 but that should be in every city today but it is not. Over regulation and welfare has created the whole mess.

[@UnknownFork]

You don't understand economics

[@Ben-vk4us]

I can remember going to a small movie theater called the Perrien. It was on Chene near Forest. Went on Saturday for 9 cents. Had double feature, cartoons, serials and world news. I think the news was Pathe. A small coke was a nickel and so was a bag of New Era chips. My favorite. That was a long time ago.

[@kylejunior4686]

I remember a Mexican albino litterly gettin beating up by a boomer trump supporter good times

[@Skarfp]

I'm crying because this is how I remember my birthplace. It's now a bombed out war zone filled with nothing but crime and violence.

[@victoriarose7904]

What a time to be alive! I wish there were a place that replicated this era so people could trip back in time and enjoy it.

[@DmytroDoblevych]

Eventually, with VR goggles.

[@k3kboi665]

@@DmytroDoblevych can you feel gas costing 22cents a gallon whit a 5 dollar and hour minimum wage whit vr?

[@1912fld]

Thanks for posting. I only wish I could put myself back in time to wander the streets when Detroit was really something. What a shame what this country has become.

[@queenjah2106]

This country has been full of shit.

[@Happyッ-r4q]

@@queenjah2106 Yeah because of the people that were in it and are still in it till this day.

[@Suzuha_Amane]

play LA Noire if u want to relive that time

[@christopherherrera921]

This is amazing! Its awesome seeing these black and white images come to life.

[@tommytruth7595]

Yes, the difference between the Detroit of today and back then is literally black and White.

[@salm6331]

Good one

[@hihowareyou6122]

@Damien Williams racist

[@Mr.White10-65]

That Firestone sign and the Ford dealer signs are worth huge amounts of money now. This is "Motor City".

[@steveodonoghue2772]

i would have love to be in my early twenties back then. i was born in 73. missed a golden era. Decent music, decent women, proper cars.

[@ID13Football]

shame. how far detroit, and America as a whole has fallen. just an 18 year old who wishes he lived in the 50s.

[@livelyhood2963]

And I m just an Indian who is living in its best periods so far😂😂...

[@coupleofbeers31]

This comment has aged VERY well. Look at the US now....way worse than even 2 years ago.

[@bp5439]

Especially in 2020

[@Modestasgailius]

Crazy how things can turn upside down so quickly tho

[@TheGreatWesternTrendkill]

@AZ Hawk "only".. hmm okay. Few points: 1) 80-90% were white back then. So you are saying for 80-90% of people it was great. Well hey that's a huge majority! 2) Regarding minorities back then: How good is it for black people now in detroit? Much better? Since blacks are the vast majority now this leads to -> 3) Would you say that the average person has it better in detroit now? Adjusted for era of course because living standards & technology usually rise over time 4) Were there black people anywhere in the world at that precise point in time who experienced significantly better conditions? I'd argue detroit blacks enjoyed being in the upper 10% if not 1% of all black people in the world at that time in terms of living standards despite the issues.

[@masterspin7796]

People that got to grow up in this era are the luckiest in the history of mankind...

[@LukeLovesRose]

That was a great time. But THIS time was the best: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mISXe4ueZ5eMeaM

[@tn18977]

I'm 40 and America has been on the decline my entire life

[@masterspin7796]

@@tn18977 Im 61.. I started to see the decline around the tail end of the 80's...

[@derrickclark5510]

Facts!!!

[@LukeLovesRose]

We can thank the Frankfurt school of brainwashing or Cultural Marxism for the decline in values and disciplines. BUT we can blame their affiliates, Communists running our science and industry for destroy American industries, because our workers "COST TOO MUCH" when these same Communists are running the FED.

[@Eddieheli]

Put your hands up for detroit! I love the city!

[@rabadooda]

Put your hands up! Put your hands up! Put your hands up for Detroit!

[@subversivereality3908]

Put your hands up..now slowly put your hands on your head...kneel down...you have the right to remain silent...

[@Uaarkson]

A lot of stuff in this video is still there today, and a LOT of it has been beautifully renovated. Detroit still has one of the finest downtowns in the Midwest.

[@creeper2054]

Ok...but who goes there?

[@carlbentley80]

@@creeper2054 I went there for a 5 day holiday a couple of years ago, loved it.

[@bronkawitz]

Sadly, this video shows Detroit just on the verge of it's downfall. One factor which killed the city are the interstate freeways that carved the city center to pieces , destroying whole neighbourhoods in the process. Another is the lack of a viable rapid transit system which would have kept populations living closer to the urban core. Effective rapid transit creates a vibrant downtown along with desirable living areas on the periphery as seen in San Francisco, Boston, New York and most cities in Europe. But the federal government in the mid 50's put unlimited money towards roads and highways. No thought to mass transit. Easy access by freeways to sprawling and lifeless cookie cutter suburbs killed the city. This city is now just basically a parking lot for suburbanites to come into town to either work or watch a game or concert and then leave again.

[@jimclay9540]

The city relied too much on the auto industry. Thats what started everything.

[@Ms_Charlotte_S]

@Damien Williams .. You are disgusting.

[@Grubovic]

Well put

[@edwardzamorski3711]

Your right

[@marcelmoulin3335]

What an excellent comment! I am fortunate to live in a beautiful city in the Netherlands. Unlike the Americans, the Dutch did not destroy their cities by building motorways everywhere.

[@2nemobob]

I'm sure it's really a stab in the heart to Detroiters to see what has happened since this.

[@shayheard1466]

@latrell porter stfu racist pos

[@bigfellamike1913]

@@shayheard1466 how is it racist?

[@keithdukes5990]

@@bigfellamike1913 that's who has destroyed Detroit! Like they're destroying America!!!

[@TheSecondWitness]

Degenerate liberals ruin everything.

[@surferbri5346]

People shouldn't be surprised, around this time people voted for change, and they got it, all we get are the memories

[@manbtm1]

I have lived downtown for 16 years now, We love it, lots to do, great neighbors, its very nice once again thankfully

[@l.thegirl2581]

I'd be interested to know, where are the livable areas in downtown? I saw some condos go up around HFH and over on Trumbull, but in my view it would have required a fancy futuristic laser security around the entire home perimeter to even consider buying. And then there's the problem of where to buy your stuff! What's livable?

[@edyram22]

As a heavy car guy, i like all those classics cruising by. Where did those vehicles end up, I wish to know.

[@manfredmann2766]

Cuba

[@shrek19yearsago78]

They ended up in cars disposal

[@wb6162]

My black coworker is from Detroit. His Dad worked for GM and his Mom who is still alive has worked for one of the Motown radio stations for over 60 years! She still lives in the same house and like Clint Eastwood's home in Gran Torino it's as nice as it was in the 50's in a bad neighborhood. The local hoods don't mess with her.

[@dennyoconnor8680]

Born in Detroit in 1939. I remember the end of WWII - what a block party that was and I got to stay up late.. Relatives all over the city and suburbs. I can't stand to go near downtown Detroit any more. It's like going into one of the Iraq or Syria cities.

[@elizabethtalalemotu8405]

Denny O'Connor must be disappointing to see what America is like now...do you miss how things used to be?

[@rodrigok2913]

He was born in 1939...maybe, I don't know, but...

[@lewinski8147]

Its messed up that the city used to be so beautiful like this and now im 15 living in a crime/drug invested city. Girl, i was born in the wrong decade lol.

[@lewinski8147]

@Slomofogo I'm not understanding the correlation of my comment and your question. Why does it matter ?

[@Happyッ-r4q]

I was born in the wrong decade too wish I was born in the 50's the only problem I'd have to deal with is racism.

[@CruzyMopar]

Wow, These little excerpts from the past are fantastic and Nat King Cole singing that wonderful tune coincides with the era. What a wonderful time to have lived in, Those 50s. Im from New Zealand and i loved those early days. I am enjoying what you have posted. Cheers James

[@hankaustin7091]

Fabulous music for a fabulous video! Thank you tennforever, it was grand seeing wonderful old Detroit again after all these years!

[@stevenquinn4641]

A beautiful homage to yesteryear

[@rosswalters9194]

My mom and me ( I was 6 years old in summertime 1958) took the bus from Roslyn Rd and Mack Ave (Grosse Pointe Woods) all the way to Downtown Detroit to shop and eat lunch). Mom didn't have a car but the house walls were closing in on her. We ate at the lunch counter of Cunningham Drugs then stopped by a Sanders store for Hot Fudge Sundaes. What a wonderful world we lived in back then.

[@Losttouchjs]

Before White Flight 🕊️ What a beautiful city.

[@utexasnurse]

I lived in Detroit several years ago and loved it there. I wish I could've seen it when it was booming like in this video!

[@jacobolson6145]

Really wish Detroit was still this nice :(

[@manbtm1]

Have you not been to Detroit lately? The downtown and midtown are absolutely beautiful. There was over $8 billion of investment that has gone in in the last five years, look up walking tours of downtown Detroit on KZbin, you will see it, the proof is in the pudding ,it’s nothing like it was 20 years ago.

[@jacobolson6145]

@@manbtm1 yeah I go down there a lot more just wish it were still a big bustling

[@misterhot9163]

@@manbtm1I was there only last year, and there was a Whole Foods near downtown. Enough said. 😂

[@Michorida]

@@manbtm1it may be better than 20 years ago but it’s still trash as of now😂

[@manbtm1]

@@Michorida so where exactly do you live?? , I live in downtown Detroit, it is certainly not trash by any means ,nor is my resudence/ neighborhood….don’t make conclusions when you don’t see it or live it

[@jacobtennyson9213]

Detroit was a marvel city at the time.

[@rmartin7558]

I love the Qwikee Donut Shop sign! The hand dunks the donut! 1:00

[@markfortin421]

My first job...ever...Quikee Donuts, Woodward & Grand River. Took the Plymouth Rd. bus from the suburbs, transferred at Oakman to the Grand River bus, got off at Woodward. I was 15 and loved every day for the whole summer. Never scared, walked around downtown just to look at everything. 1961

[@hrcutz]

My Home. I will always love the D. It’s so making a comeback! It so nice downtown❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@JDintheDMV]

This gave me chills seeing the good ol' days of America (Detroit in this case) when people were happy in a clean city, had jobs and came home to a family to feed. Hard working people in a prosperous city. Now I can't even drive my Dodge Journey through there without avoiding couches, mattresses and some dude on crack nocking my window for the last crumpled newport menthol cigarette.

[@josecuneoperinetti8155]

Julian Davis white america my friend...white america:)

[@dennymcfastlane8530]

When Detroit was called...The Paris of the Midwest. In 1965, Detroit was voted as the Most Promising City in the United States.

[@meltedicecreamsandwich]

It was called "Paris of the West" not Midwest. The term "Midwest" wasn't even used back in the 50s.

[@dennymcfastlane8530]

@@meltedicecreamsandwich The term 'Midwest' was first coined in the 1880's as Midwesterner. By the early 1900's, it's slang--Midwest was starting to be used. As far as Detroit is concerned, i've heard both, 'Paris of the West' & 'Paris of the Midwest'.

[@meltedicecreamsandwich]

@@dennymcfastlane8530 It wasn't called the Midwest in the census though

[@__-py6qn]

Make America Great Again

[@itzpro5951]

_ _ Make Detroit great again*** The whole focus of this video is only and only on Detroit

[@cheezysheen2984]

Ahem* Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit... it goes on and on

[@tonybuglione3516]

A collage of scenes from different years that seem to range from the early to mid 50s. great to see them.

[@salemdesigns65]

Qwikee donuts!!!! I used to LOVE that sign. Oh boy ❤

[@putinslavaukraine]

My heart is broken 😢🇺🇸

[@EPA18]

How can you NOT make racial remarks? Plain and simple - black crime killed Detroit, along with Democratic Party leadership that gave out ridiculous sums of entitlements to these people.

[@ulrichlehnhardt4293]

Is the Democratic Party responsable that huge residential areas with malls, shopping centers and cinema complexes were built outside the cities? People don't want to take a bus to shop downtown or go to a restaurant anymore. They want to drive to a mall, eat at a food court and watch movies in big cinema centers which were built somewhere on a field. It is these white people who built this stuff, sold this stuff and became millionaires who are responsable for the decline of cities all over the world. As well as the white sheep (called clients) who bought the stuff... apart from NYC there aren't any cities left in the US (and even some New Yorkers drive to New Jersey to shop in malls). They were not ruined by black people as some think, they were ruined by white people who wanted to make money. That's capitalism, that's all!

[@meltedicecreamsandwich]

Detroit started declining in the mid 50's...when it was majority white.

[@meltedicecreamsandwich]

And it wasn't because of blacks. Sure the riot sped it up but it wasn't the cause fool.

[@meltedicecreamsandwich]

Rottinghere Didn't say that at all but ok.

[@allahuakbar3445]

Rottinghere yeah no he didn't

[@tarnsand440]

Everyone is well dressed. I love this era. People took pride in their personal appearance home yards cars city et al.

[@manuelcarbo282]

Fantastic video, Beatiful Video. La musica muy bonita, muy bien realizados, mucha sensiblidad ,que bonita ciudad se merece todo lo mejor del mundo para sus habitantes, fuerza y coraje amigos. Pongan más videos son maravillosos, I love Detroit.

[@Celluloidwatcher]

I had extended relatives who lived in Detroit from the late 40's to the early 90's, including the nice period highlighted in the video. Everyone but one relative left that area. Three relatives and an in-law have passed on. But they saw a once mighty industrial powerhouse sink to the depths of despair. One relative was a robbery victim twice. The 1967 riots destroyed the innocence and trust that Detroit once had. How sad. Even if it's rebuilt, it still won't be the same city as before.

[@esteban1487]

Started its slide in the 60s. After the riots it has since become unrecognizable.

[@Jo_Wardy]

I was born in Australia and live in Australia. But my grandmother I believe lived and worked in Detroit for Ford I believe. But was born in Flint Michigan and lived there as a child. She also drove a 1950s ford fairlaine I think during the late 50s and 60s I think when she moved to California.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

Look at that impressive skyline@ 5:58

[@camerondall4257]

No one, and I mean NO ONE, can say that things are better now. Most US cities were "working" cities, meaning that things mostly worked in them. Today I can't think of one thing that actually "works" in the US. Everything is dysfunctional today, all thanks to the politicians, greed, and the lack of caring from our citizens. Look at all those factories turning out goods for the consumers - all gone now. I can't believe the US society will exist as we know it in a few years. Sure, there were problems back then, but not like today. You have to appreciate that someone back then had the foresight to film all this.

[@joelex7966]

What a great time and place to be alive.

[@CrystalClearWith8BE]

Detroit was a booming city, I mean look what happened there and even the car population and in the middle of the previous century, it started to become violent and dangerous due to high crime rate and mostly abandoned businesses. And throughout many years, Detroit became the most dangerous city in the US. I think some settlements, towns and cities in the Great Lakes like Detroit (most in the US and some in Canada) are dangerous except the Greater Toronto Area looks mostly fine and is like the safest metro area in the Great Lakes.

[@Oliveras1943]

Thank you Detroit for givivg us Nolan Strong and the Diablos and their great song “The Wind”. From Martin in Harlem New York.

[@markrocovich2234]

Downtown Detroit..Hudson's...Kinsel's Drugs...Kern's Dept. Store...and, you could buy a Hammond organ at Grinnell's, or buy a Wurlitzer 2 blocks over...then drive up Woodward to Greenfield's for dinner...

[@scottmann4093]

It's ironic that as Americans we yearn for this nostalgia but at the same time way too many of us have abandoned our home town / city in the good old rust belt. Be it Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo, Buffalo, Flint, etc....

[@HighlightLenny]

Only time I’ve seen a bunch of people walking downtown like that was at the NFL draft this year. It looks like a ghost town sometimes throughout the day now.

[@ericbivins8014]

Not one piece of litter on the streets. Wow

[@carlos.a.vcarvajal6119]

Beautiful places....... thanks for sharing....

[@JNYC-gb1pp]

Similar changes currently going on in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Paris, Berlin, Melbourne, Malmo, Johannesburg, Zimbabwe - just to name a few. But no connection, right?

[@WallopInn]

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[@michaelpetrovich5353]

@@WallopInn are those joggers? 😁

[@WallopInn]

@@michaelpetrovich5353 Yes

[@michaelpetrovich5353]

@@WallopInn he he he. Nice 😁

[@apriljasso9731]

Look at how beautiful and healthy and handsome and clean everyone & everything is 🥰🥰🥰🥰 what a promising time... too bad things took a turn..

[@roninzero12]

But where are my diverse ghetto homies?

[@nealfry2230]

" I'll Always Love 💘you Hayden Panettiere " " In All Honesty," Neal Patrick Fry from Detroit, Michigan USA.

[@chrisallen7911]

Safe wide streets, beautiful architecture, hard working class of people, well dressed and mannered.....ohh yeah that was before the Demoncrats took over...

[@LukeLovesRose]

They're called Marxists

[@alinbaraiac1543]

You should come visit Downtown today, Detroit is the comeback City, you’ll be very impressed. Come on a sunny day, you’ll get to see it’s very very beautiful. And a lot of history still preserved. :)

[@Alksey_]

Golden times

[@donnalittle1964]

One beautiful city to be proud of.

[@seanofdetroit5806]

Thank you!

[@nbarrett259]

Before hip hop , drugs,,gangs, low lifes ..ratcheting,,

[@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010]

N BARRETT right. Just a bunch of alcoholics. 🍺 😐 weed heads. 💨 back then.

[@shrek19yearsago78]

Thats better then whats now

[@EduardoSalamanca1960]

There were gangs to in the 50s. It was the Italian Mafia but at least they dressed nicely and talked professionally.

[@Unit45464]

Hopefully Trump can bring this era back!

[@nomorepc2431]

We don't want to live in the 50s. We want better.

[@tennforever]

I know what you mean...I lived it. Yes, we want better, but want back decency, morals, individual responsibilities, the work ethic...all demonized by the left. 2017 will bring it back.

[@jacobtennyson9213]

Dan Gilbert is bringing it back.

[@carl_yung]

it didn't really have anything to do with political affiliation, to be honest. maybe, a political party took the blame for not fixing/handling what happened to this city. but that's aside the point, it has nothing to do with politics. the truth is human nature destroyed Detroit. a business can't run forever, because eventually the market will lose interest in a certain specified business and look elsewhere. if everyone has a laptop, no one will buy laptops. Detroit was an automotive city; its entire existence depended on people who were excited by the trend of buying cars, post world war II. and after the gas price crises in the 70's, Detroit was on an irreversible path to failure. people bought their cheap/gas efficient cars from foreign countries. what really happened was people just weren't buying as much cars after the 50's and 60's, because everyone already had a car. in a way, cities that build up that fast are doomed to fail. urban sprawl also pulled people away from the downtown region.

[@carl_yung]

so name ONE market America is totally into, that will pull people specifically into Detroit again. I don't see that happening when many other cities in America are developing with strong industries. Detroit I think shifted its priorities to working the mechanics of the surrounding areas nowadays; too expensive to totally revitalize downtown the way it was in the good ole' days. unless Detroit shifts its market and focus to match what people in America are looking for right now, Detroit will never be like this again. its not politics; its human nature.

[@brianploszay7202]

Detroit is... actually making a comeback of sorts. Mostly in the downtown area. The old abandoned train station is being rehabbed now.

[@2guns908]

Brian Ploszay Yea .. I heard it’s being populated by Mexicans

[@seanofdetroit5806]

No, no Mexicans... just Detroiters. Those who are filled with the ever so holy Spirit of Detroit are just called Detroiters. We are amongst the ones who will rebuild this world on fire.

[@itzpro5951]

@@2guns908 Just Detroiters. Mexicans do not want to live in Detroit or anywhere in the US

[@leeleea4164]

@@seanofdetroit5806 thank you for your can- do spirit and dedication to this still beautiful city

[@brianploszay7202]

@Damien Williams I am counting investment dollars, not race. I do think the Mexican population is growing, which is a side note. A healthy future probably would probably require diversity.

[@SuperDeucen]

I always wondered what it was like for the people in the dark ages who lived amongst the ruins of rome after it fell. I assume it’s exactly what living in Detroit feels like now.

[@andrewfrantz5502]

Detroit is definitely a better city to vacation in AND it beats New York City.

[@terrylynn9984]

First part of the video taken where the trains are and the weights by the Detroit River that shows the skyline of Detroit, is actually taken where I live in Windsor Ontario. The trains are gone and it's now parkland but the weights by the river still remain and when I was 15 in 1987 i sat on them to watch the Detroit Windsor Fire works, at the time the railroad tracks and trains were still there.

[@RyanPente.]

Crazy to think that this used to be the richest city in America at its peak

[@enriqueolague7221]

Ah, a time where you could have shit in Detroit

[@Saltymen]

Nothing last forever that’s why you can enjoy it until it last

[@poppetrurazvan3900]

Tnank you, "Getty Images", for this!😀

[@TheAMBULOCETUS]

Today Detroit beez Wakanda!

[@2guns908]

TheAMBULOCETUS It’s turning into Tijuana Mexicans are moving in but are actually rehabilitating messed up homes

[@itzpro5951]

@@2guns908 Mexicans do not want to live in the US. Real Mexicans will always support their country over another

[@PaoNyiajNtsuab]

Detroit used to be so beautiful. As soon as it hit the late 50s and early 60s, it start to become ghetto. I get that people have pride in Detroit, when it is known for abandon buildings, high crimes, drugs, gangs, pimps and prostitutes. Sad to see a once beautiful city to how it happened right now.

[@alberte.3059]

Then came food stamps and section 8...

[@allahuakbar3445]

Albert E. Then came your mom

[@remsoyl900]

And the 90% that are still there are on the welfare . And housing .

[@charlieproctor6533]

And black mayers

[@roychefets6961]

Charlie Proctor..Dude, you are such a moron that you can't even spell the simple word "mayor".

[@kyatri9496]

white people always think you guys own every damn thing. The down town area is booming you mother fuckers. And I got your hakey ass mayor 😂😂😂

[@Giovanni-mj9uj]

What a lovely City. I sure hope it doesn't become over reliant on a single industry

[@tdunph4250]

Ahhhh, :) when Nat King Cole came on I thought I was in heaven. It looked like a nice late spring/early summer day that's for sure!!

[@raagtop363]

Great choice of music. How'd you pull that off with all of KZbin's restrictions? Nice video allowing me to look back to when I was just a kid.

[@derrylbrooks6541]

Bruh it dam near looked like New York we have distinctive look and I'm proud to say I'm from the 313

[@TheDtown2006]

Lord please use your powers to make that city great again please

[@tobygoodguy4032]

As these shots show, Detroit was pulsing so much in that era that it was highlighted in episodes of Mad Men when the boys were out to 'capture a big American car company'.

[@moodypet8837]

Yep and my father in law worked at Darcy as a VP in advertising in the 60s.

[@mobetta2092]

Enjoy the present day because in 70yrs people will look at old footage of us and fantasize about being back in the year 2021

[@paulappelle6338]

What a beautiful city it was and Gee I wonder who messed it up, it was beautiful already and someone came in and did this to Detroit, well I lived here all my life and I know what happened so do the Detroiters

[@LukeLovesRose]

The greatest liars and destroyers in history used all of the George Floyds of history to destroy Detroit

[@spacerazer]

Then the block busters came.

[@vgyhhtyhujh6500]

What is the earliest year that abandoned homes started to become more noticeable? Before the 67 riot? Immediately after the 67 riot? Early 70s? Does anyone know?

[@Superstrike_11]

What is the first song that plays? I can't even shazam it, that's how niche it is.

[@officialpurifiedbeats]

Look at how much life there was

[@MichaelCasey1988]

unbelievable

[@tramsay]

Really makes you think

[@tennforever]

Not too difficult to understand...Too many crooked politicians and they robbed the city blind. They say you can't take it with you, Coleman Young did. Him and jail bird, Kwaume Kilpatrick both.

[@ronalddamp3634]

As a brit i found this video profoundly moving and so sad..why did US government not help??..Ron brit..ps american cars are..or maybe were..GREAT..God bless the US....from the UK..x

[@thornimation5492]

00:48 - Start of the song 'Unforgettable' by Nat King Cole

[@bulgingbattery2050]

What a shame that this once-beautiful city went to shit.