Detroit : then and now - 1

[@maximumcaffeine6003]

It's shocking to see large industrial buildings, some that take up several blocks, completely disappear and nature reclaim the land. Those buildings, and the jobs that meant so much to the people of that time totally wiped off the map. It's surreal.

[@Joedirt3349]

Life after people. Shockingly surreal series

[@surferbri5346]

Life is long and in the end, it's only with yourself

[@cardphins68]

It really is a crying shame to see the entire aftermath. These were once decent and steady Jobs that were the Ticket to the Middle Class. It's highly unlikely these jobs just migrated across town ☹.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@KristianK9755]

@@surferbri5346 absolutely true!!!

[@sky173]

Great video. The folks who built all this would be rolling in their grave if they saw what it looks like today. Thanks for taking us down memory lane.

[@KristianK9755]

Thank you for watching.

[@loosescrews8106]

Agreed!!!

[@fresatx]

No city can survive Tre'vone'de and Big Keisha taking over.. None has yet anyway. Two cities in Japan survived NUCLEAR BOMBS but T and BK would take em down for the full count!

[@gxlorp]

Well, by that logic all architects will be rolling in there Graves in thousands of years when it all crumbles. No they will not roll in their grave. They already let go of everything

[@goodboyringo9716]

Right, no one cares about the American history. The way I feel is .... This isn't America anymore.

[@michpatriot9097]

A whole lot of effort went into the angles and obtaining the correct heights of the after shots to make this really spectacular, I bet it took a whole lot of ingenuity and a bit of bravery too. Thanks and hope you continue to do this work in and around the metro area. Ill bet Flint would be a treasure trove as well..

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@antonfarquar8799]

so sad particularly the Highland Park scenes - you showed what once was an industry that not only produced transportation but works of art as well - automobiles today are nothing but monotony . Thank you for a job well done !!!

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@dennissullivan2954]

Agree 1000per cent.

[@catherineleigh9000]

The best now and then I’ve ever seen!! The denigration of our cities is tragic.

[@KristianK9755]

It is a true tragedy... Thanks for watching.

[@philchristmas4071]

You don't keep up with our cities much do you? Detroit is make a huge comeback. You really should look at all the new construction and preservation projects in Detroit over the last 5 years. You should look at cities like Nashville, Austin, Miami, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Houston, Dallas, New York, Orlando, Tampa, Minneapolis, Philadelphia and many more. They are all growing with beautiful new construction projects. Even Chicago has many new projects underway.

[@conradquilliam6076]

Makes you realize.... we are going backwards, not forward

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@LukeLovesRose]

But the enemy will have you believe that we're making real social progress. They'll have you believe that weve progressed so much that weve gone to the moon

[@Golfing422]

Regressives.

[@reinereine1896]

Yeah our culture has reached a dead end street. Heartbreaking to watch.

[@beastboi3137]

Exactly 💯

[@sergiomessina2037]

This video should be the standard for side-by-side photographic comparisons. Outstanding job! It is sad to see but the truth of Detroit withering away is an old story that's been going on since I was a little boy back in the 1960s. The industry moved from a centralized area (Detroit) to now different parts of our country.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@DabShinobi]

Wow I've lived in Detroit all my life this is a beautiful video

[@kevinhochradel7090]

Great video. All of these old plant buildings would be over 100 yo if still around. What manufacturers would still be using them? They were obsolete and abandoned. Of course they were torn down. There was never going to be a another use for the giant Ford or Packard plants.

[@river4837]

Amazing before and after. Huge amount of time and effort and talent went into this. Wish my Dad was alive to see this.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@odysseusthesojourner4401]

Great video! What a shame to lose these pieces of history. Just one suggestion. Consider adding the name and address to each slide. Some sites I know but there are some that I don’t. Thx

[@gobjohns]

As a filmmaker I am beyond impressed at how this was presented the simplicity of it and how the wipes allowed you to really take In the differences..amazing how shots of buildings can actually be moving ! Lol

[@KristianK9755]

All the genial things are simple. Thanks for watching!

[@JHobartMusic72]

I grew up in Detroit. (I’m 50 now and still live in MI) This is just sad. Even where I grew up, looks like an old WW2 bombing zone that never got cleaned up and all around there, I couldn’t even drive there during the day and be sure to make it back again alive. Whoever made this did one fkin awesome job. It’s just unbelievable.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@adammiller2246]

It is sad to see these buildings that are no longer there or left abandoned. You don't have to be super smart to understand how Detroit went to hell. The video was well made, the eriee music was perfect. I enjoyed it!

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching.

[@tomsampson8084]

Just for a minute pretend I am not "super smart" and tell me how Detroit "went to hell"?

[@natsumehyuuga6004]

@@tomsampson8084 yeah I want to know too lol

[@euphoriajade8671]

@@tomsampson8084 I wanna know to

[@CoIoneIPanic]

I'm not super smart but I'm smart enough to know the reasons why Detroit went to "hell" are complex and varied enough that even a doctoral dissertation can't adequately cover the whole thing. Ask me how I know.

[@timothykeith1367]

By the 1920s many of the wealthiest families had already left Detroit for sprawling estates outside the city. The wealthy class still maintained positions in civic institutions, but just as once prominent church congregations moved out of the city, the people of vision had less and less of a stake in the affairs of the common resident. It was a matter of time before the middle class professional class would follow the wealthy. Increasing the administration of the city was left to people lacking in urban skills, poor choices were made. Some politicians used their influence for corruption, but few watchdogs were looking over their shoulders. The riots of 1967 had a catastrophic impact on property values. When families saw their neighborhoods being devalued, they saw little risk in abandoning the city. A city needs to attract the brightest and most ambitious, it needs an ethical police force, well run schools, when it lacks these things, the poorest and vulnerable will fall prey to the short sighted. Most of Detroit's riverfront was dominated by industry. Chicago's wealthy lived in lakeside luxury dwellings, they all didn't pack up and leave because the city planners had preserved a beautiful place for them. Detroit's riverfront was filled with smoke and rusting industrial sites. A city must attract and keep the brightest and most ambitious, Detroit failed to do that.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching.

[@NoahBodze]

Chicago didn’t get blacks like Detroit did, stupid. You’ve done nothing but pontifical sophistry to avoid the actual truth.

[@JohnAdams-lw5wh]

And to lay the law down to.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

Many of the wealthy did stay in the city. They lived in Palmer park, Palmer Woods, Boston Edison, Arden Park, Jefferson Avenue and Indian village. Jefferson avenue had many luxury apartments and the Whittier Hotel on the river had millionaires such as the Stroh family living in in the apartment building which connected to the hotel. I should also mention the area on the river known as Gray Haven

[@myd0gr3x]

the idea that a City government, or any other government, has a valid "vision" for planning the future is absurd... government is nothing more than a gang of robbers, rapists, and pillagers seeking to enrich themselves at the expense of all others; government cannot produce it can only confiscate; it makes back-room deals picking winners and losers enforcing its edicts at the barrel of a gun... these pictures evidence the corruption, factories abandoned and then constructed miles away, even overseas, because of a better government deal; and why not abandon, after all, a billion $$$ had already been pocketed, the CEO and the worker will not suffer $0.01 of the abandonment, and the government Actors have also filled their pockets... this is world wide prostitution of people by government teamed to corporations, they poison the land and move on to poison more and more... why doesn't Detroit (or any other for-profit municipality) repair the destruction? because it can't, municipalities DO NOT PRODUCE, and they will not allow (at the barrel of a gun) any man or woman to move onto abandoned property without great expense (bribery)... the people acting as government act as though they are the Master of ALL they see within the "boundaries" of "their" for profit municipal corporation... the CONstitution was a bankster take over of the several States, and Detroit is just one of the pieces of evidence... see RebelMadMan. o r g

[@bhazel69]

Great video

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching.

[@k9momma1]

My home tpwn, I'm 76 so saw most of the before, sad to see the after. Thank you, great picture's, great memories

[@ondago2]

Incredible. Lived in the region my entire life. I know many of the looks but even the ones i did is never seen perfectly matched to what was there as it was. I get the time, skill and effort to find and adjust but more likely to to each site and perfectly match up perspective for the now picture. Thank you

[@KristianK9755]

Thank you for watching.

[@CoIoneIPanic]

A superior collage, stunning actually. And Also hilarious- those men with their signs protesting the building. The building says OK I Will Go Away Now.

[@jeffschueler1182]

Simply mesmerizing, I watched this twice. The production values are very good and the music is haunting and lovely.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@conorgilles81]

Fantastic job lining up the new photos with the old ones. I have seen a lot of "then and now" collections, and none of them have the angles lined up as well as these. Such a shame, so many nice buildings turned into parking lots, or into vacant lots. As bad as the abandoned buildings look, at least they're still standing.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@DatGuy960]

Did ya notice the Ren-Cen was in both tje old and new shots? Lol!

[@DatGuy960]

Still good to see. I worked in a few of the old power plants. Would be cool to see them when they were completed and before they were demo'd.

[@travelingman484]

We gave away the store. Between cheap labor overseas purchasing corrupt unions and very corrupt politicians as we are seeing today are decimating this country. Sad state of affairs.

[@billhosko7723]

Bet you did not pay more for your computer than you needed to. Start your own business and pay TOP $ for labor and administration. Bet most would be like you and pay the least for the most.

[@bigstuff52]

people keep saying that and nothing changes..Course voting for the dems and the republicans will assure that it continues that was..

[@Speeddemon3]

What an incredible video! Seamlessly done! I could watch videos like this all day!

[@KristianK9755]

Me too! Thanks for watching.

[@loosescrews8106]

Yes!!! I was disapointed when it ended. I was enjoying it so much!

[@goutvols103]

Except at 6:32, the GM Renaissance Center went back in time. :-)

[@joshmarauder]

Respect to whom put this master peace together

[@schallrd1]

Excellent presentation.

[@davidphenix901]

I really love seeing the Uniroyal tire plant at the very end of that video. that building that my dad worked all his life is long gone and so is he.😢

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@REPSDirect]

@@KristianK9755 I worked there, too, and fortunately still here..

[@Alstanbery]

i prefer looking at an abandoned building than a parking lot. Even if the building is empty and rotting its still cool piece of history back when buildings still had architecture

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching.

[@johnkaczinski468]

Never saw the slide feature in before and after photos. Love it!

[@lincbond442]

Excellent job of matching up the angles and heights just right. I find these old images fascinating and I always like to see what buildings still exist.

[@Not_You_2]

Very well done

[@loosescrews8106]

I second that!

[@TruBluYahoo]

There used to be a channel called "time travel " on KZbin that had cool videos like this with the horizontal swipe.. love this. This is the only one I've seen in years.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@abelpavel9674]

In 1987 I moved to the States, from Romania. I knew Detroit from some post cards. I was fascinated. I remember the downtown in pictures! Amazing and incredible!! Things are changing rapidly! I consider myself a Detroit Guy! Exceptional video! Good job!! 👍👍

[@KristianK9755]

Multamn fain de vizionare. De unde din Romania ai plecat?

[@abelpavel9674]

@@KristianK9755 Ultima reședință in Reșița! 😂👍

[@KristianK9755]

@@abelpavel9674 io-s clujean de la inceput pana in prezent,dat ma retrag la munte in 3-4 ani.

[@eriksmith6873]

This is an amazing video -- I recognize how hard it is to match vantage points, camera angles and lens distortion in "then and now" photos. I also love the way the image cuts back to the original for a second time before moving on. It makes the difference between then and now all the more stunning. Hope to see more of Detroit here -- from the looks of it, I'm not sure I would want to vacation there.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@stime6472]

It is great to see what we once had and sad to think of what we are now.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@ManuelFlores-uq3bh]

Even the music is scary and depressing great video!

[@RADIUMGLASS]

Love your work and this is coming from someone whose great grandparents were living in the city 150 years ago 👍

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching.

[@williamanderson9315]

Thank you for doing this video. Great job!!!!

[@KristianK9755]

Thank you for watching.

[@mikerafone4736]

Well worth watching great work

[@lindaspinner72]

Heartbreaking. I weep for my old hometown.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@novass8610]

Very cool!

[@russmode]

This brought tears to my eyes, and why my heart will always be in Detroit. This video is like our lives, our time being mighty and strong, and someday when we are gone, a distant memory. Thank you for this video.

[@KristianK9755]

Thank YOU for watching. 👍👍

[@deadringer2349]

Amazing content. 👏👏👏

[@trueword247]

Great job! I especially like you how you bring the pics back and forth so the viewer can look for things that might still be there!

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@rorykeenan3069]

The automotive companies gave up on us, I work automotive in metro detroit and I will say downtown detroit has done a complete 360 it is a mostly safe & fun downtown now. The outskirts of the city are rough tho.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@lgannawa]

I would gladly pay more for products that were manufactured in the US, to see these industries come back and employing even just a few hundred people would be so wonderful.

[@dannydaw59]

The Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango are still made in Detroit.

[@blackamore1826]

Born in 1955 things have changed a lot not only the structures and things that I have seen but the people yes the people their beliefs and thoughts are a lot different from back in the days when I was young?

[@KristianK9755]

Yes they are. Thanks for watching.

[@milla698]

Great job. It just show you how times have changed and not necessarily for the better. You've done a great job with this and I would love to see more thank you I'll be watching

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching.

[@lifecloud2]

This is a great video! I love stuff like this. I know approximately where these places are/were but it would be great to include addresses or a map or something to show more specifically where they were located.

[@delang65]

Great video excellent job

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@dadurweird]

Nice work on the comparisons. Would be nice to see captions, thanx.

[@kevinc764]

What a brilliant before and after slide show, I like the replay back again. Please! keep making content like this.

[@KristianK9755]

THank you for the good words and thank you for watching!

[@markproulx1472]

Terrific job on matching the scaling.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching.

[@paramerika]

Fantastic video, thank you so much for your beautiful work. It is very sad to see the 'today' version of the city... that being said, I for one want to believe that the city of Detroit will come back again. Maybe not to its full glory of what it once was, but most certainly far better than what it has become today. Cheers

[@KristianK9755]

Thank you for watching!

[@davemilligan1171]

This has to be the most incredible way to present a then and now perspective...very well done. Subbed and gave ya a like..

[@KristianK9755]

I have a few more videos about this theme on my channel. Thanks for watching!

[@davemilligan1171]

@@KristianK9755 I am definately going to watch them.

[@KristianK9755]

@@davemilligan1171 be my guest! Thank you,again!

[@DmytroDoblevych]

Shoutout for matching the visuals perfectly, especially the one at 1:33

[@cardphins68]

Really cool video and thank you for posting this.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@earlwashington8104]

Indeed, great video presentation. Precision to a tee!

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@cliffweinan3907]

Awesome KK, appreciate your historic picture research and effort to take a modern picture in same location and frame size. My Mom was a 1940's Rosie Riveter in Detroit. We determine she had a job with Hudson Motors, that was subcontracted to make bomber wings for Curtis Wright. Your Hudson building picture is likely where she worked and the first time I ever seen it. Thanks !

[@CD318]

Fantastic video--well done!

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@josephagnello9335]

EXCELLENCE !!!!! THANK YOU FOR A GREAT -- WELL THOUGHT OUT- VIDEO ; before and after !!!!!

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@bobratynski9346]

Very well done and nicely thought out. Detroit went from the stove making center in the 19th century to the car producing center in the 20th century and created a fairly good life for those employed in the auto industry. Maybe, you wouldn't get rich but at least you had a shot at fulfilling the American Dream---work hard, save a little,maybe get a house, and provide a good future for your kids. The dangers of a "one industry" economy.

[@billhosko7723]

Good grief. You Karens ALWAYS have such foresight. Pfft

[@stevenikitas8170]

A unique video. Good job....

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@johnd.1849]

Brilliant video, thank you for sharing. The images bring tears to your eyes. Anthony Bourdain, who had literally traveled to all ends of the earth, said that outside of Chernobyl he had never seen such devastation. Very sad…the death of a great city and the American Dream.

[@booiedeus8539]

Love it👍👍great job

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@laskartrece]

This is the heart of USA and Industrialization. Cars are a metaphor of the classic American culture. The death of Detroit, Flint, etc. is the beginning of human surplus. Amazing moment when Moore asked Roger, in Roger and me, if he did not feel bad about closing the factories destroying the legendary automobile culture, and Roger answer, No, because business are business...

[@4knanapapa]

My parents moved to Detroit in the thirties from Clare County, for a job my dad got a job a Chevrolet, the storys thay told of the magnificence of Detroit were astounding, the best of everything was to be had in the 30s 40s and 50s.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@sdcoinshooter]

Such beautiful homes, buildings, a vibrant city; what a shame it has become.

[@REPSDirect]

That last shot is the Uniroyal Tire factory on East Jefferson where I worked the afternoon shift while taking morning classes at Wayne State University, and I'll never forget the sign over the front gate: "The Work in this Plant is Hard, Hot and Heavy."

[@KristianK9755]

Good memories,i hope. Thanks for watching!

[@CaseyBleu]

The way you did this video was beautiful, and so sad.. The history lost from destroying some of these buildings...

[@KristianK9755]

A friend of mine help me edit and made this video. Thanks for watching.

[@tripprawlings9284]

excellent alignment.

[@royhall6367]

Beautiful. What were the buildings though? Where are/were they?

[@richruksenas5992]

A lot of these shots are of the Packard plant.

[@clarkbar8509]

Well done!

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@johncanetta6708]

What an interacting way to make a presentation!

[@sergei6572]

Блестящая работа! 👍Но очень печально это видеть.

[@oldskoolbrawler]

Fantastic work! I’ve subbed and looking at your videos, I’m guessing you’re from Detroit? I am as well and I love the city, as sad as it is now.

[@KristianK9755]

I'm from Transylvania,Romania. Thanks for watching.

[@Joedirt3349]

Whoa...

[@EmilyTienne]

There must be software that puts your camera’s lens precisely where it needs to be. Wow, what precision!

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@blonderaider4281]

Great video. Thank you for making it.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching.

[@Mark-oy1wv]

Sad video but at the same time something great. Those ugly factories that used to be on the river are now gone and some great things have replaced them, like the Riverwalk. There’s a lot of positive things going on in Detroit over the last 10 years

[@justajanitor7606]

The people who built these absolute monuments would be ticked to see them gone.

[@robertcramer8707]

Your second before and after is incorrect. The old photo is the other side of Woodward Avenue, and the administration building to the left (slightly closer to the street) is actually still there... but I did really enjoy this look overall, especially the last one of the former stove works/uniroyal site from Belle Isle Bridge.

[@KristianK9755]

I'm not perfect,i try to do my best. Thanks for watching.

[@TaylorOlson-hn6ti]

I wish there was a list of what and where some of these shots were taken

[@KristianK9755]

If you keep in mind that I'm European and not American and I did this by searching on Google, you'll understand why I couldn't do more. But anyway, thanks for watching.

[@nancylawrence8491]

Excellent

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching.

[@DatGuy960]

Lol! That last pic had the Ren-Cen in both old and new!!!😅😂😅😂😅😂 The Rec-Cen is old but not THAT old. Bwahahahaha!

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching

[@qolspony]

The current pictures looks like we went back in time. It goes to show you that time has nothing to do with progress. It often means regressing into a dark period.

[@KristianK9755]

True. Thanks for watching.

[@qolspony]

@@KristianK9755 it's not something I take pleasure in seeing. Really SAD!

[@susannpatton2893]

Very heartrenching to see what was once the home of General Motors drop Detroit and Flint like hot potatoes, left the economy in despair and decimated. These photos of during the hey day and what shells are left or completely gone are proof of the words.

[@HalisIstanbullu]

I have to honestly say, in my own opinion, the empty lot is far better than the decaying building.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@rob57ert]

Thank you very much.

[@KristianK9755]

Thank you for watching.

[@ronaldgmarklin]

Not a criticism but suggestion. I like to know the dates of the older photos. And some of them are hard to identify which buildings they are. But you really have done a wonderful job. Keep it up.

[@labeef1953]

So sad; and the music was perfect.😟😟

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@johnschnellbach986]

I was surprised that any of them still existed. I knew the original Ford plant still is there, as well as the Packard plant. I was pleasantly surprised to see the Hudson plant still there. I also checked and saw the Clark Ave Cadillac plant where my Eldorado was built is now gone

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching.

[@illyrian4life]

Amazing video. Sad how Detroit went down hill.

[@leaturk11]

nice job

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching.

[@frankpalermo3882]

Clever photography

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@brentpringle6928]

Do anybody know what building that was at 6:01

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching

[@river4837]

Full circle, back to earth. Can you imagine the majority of Detroit becoming farm land again? Someone with smarts and money could make this happen.

[@Joedirt3349]

Musk! kick the human animals out and introduce food AND energy independence!

[@Im76110]

@@Joedirt3349 say it louder for the ones in the back

[@dtyallen9864]

When you kick the animals out, start with Washington.

[@billhosko7723]

Go ahead Karen. You pay the land taxes, you put in the new soil, you put in the fencing to keep thieves from taking the product in the middle of the night...

[@river4837]

@@billhosko7723 Bill the thieves have migrated into the suburbs to systematically destroy that area next.

[@charlesstokes1967]

Surprised that it was one one location that I didn't know Wow

[@brentpringle6928]

Which one

[@drdal]

From a rich "Motor City" in 1920s to a "Ruin City" today, there buildings and houses falling down. It is only very sad.

[@crippleguy415]

Ghettos don't make thugs . Thugs make ghettos . Sad what the animals have done to the once beautiful city . 😔

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching.

[@genepitney155]

It is called progress...I worked downtown during the 1967 riots....the place was on fire...left and never returned.

[@KristianK9755]

Thanks for watching!

[@RUD-LION-KEMAR-TRIBUT]

Incroyable image 👍 que se passe-t-il dans votre pays c’est incroyable comme à l’époque c’était beau et maintenant il y a plus rien c’est triste ! Un ami de France 🇫🇷

[@KristianK9755]

Merci de regarder!