Exploring the last remaining neighborhood in Southwest Detroit's Delray area

[@fredbalandran3182]

Cool old houses thanks for the ride

[@MichiganMade]

I agree, love them...thank you for the support

[@NHLGodfather]

Years ago, it was a vibrant ethnic Hungarian neighborhood with locations such as Al's Lounge (best chicken paprikas in town), Joey's Stables (best Hungarian Gulash and live gypsy band), Szabo's Market, The Hungarian Club (best chicken soup and apricot struddle), St. Stephens Church, Red Pelican Mustard plant, and a nice small "downtown" area on Jefferson at West End St that had a small cafe, hardware store, bike shop and so on. But like so many ethnic neighborhoods throughout Detroit, it succumbed to flight and blight. What a shame. Time marches on.

[@MichiganMade]

@@NHLGodfather yes sir I knew the area well

[@313Valentine]

We don't stop on red here

[@MichiganMade]

LOL absolutely not never have in the 20 some years I lived in this area and now when I come back to film or reminisce I still don't... got to love Delray

[@bartonpercival3216]

I wouldn't either. I remember when I visited a close friend who lived out on 7 mile, she told me that when the signal turns yellow, that means gun it!!!!!!!! 👍😆

[@agray7474]

Wow…and y’all proud of it…🤦🏽‍♀️

[@MichiganMade]

Of course im proud of it this is where I was born and raised and lived over 20 years this is my neighborhood I'm not proud of what happened here but I'm proud that they're still life in Delray and a few sections that still have houses with people living in them and houses that they're trying to fix up that I am proud of I lived in this neighborhood from 1983 to 2005 I will always love Delray

[@agray7474]

@@MichiganMade I meant proud of running red lights! Smdh…I don’t even know why I responded back 🤦🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

[@hellopeople4637]

Love this 🎉🎉

[@MichiganMade]

Thanks ❤

[@tfoen7678]

Thanks for the video. Was wondering what's the update on the new bridge and how the community was doing and how are they handling this? Hopefully for the better than the worse.

[@MichiganMade]

My pleasure!!! thank you for watching and I agree... I want to see nothing but success for those that remain in this wonderful part of the city

[@thebigbopper6000]

We're still here.. 🖤

[@MichiganMade]

@@thebigbopper6000 ❤️❤️❤️

[@TkKirkland-lm5wv]

Is the IC club still there . haven't been there in awhile

[@MichiganMade]

@@TkKirkland-lm5wv yeah it was further up Jefferson about a quarter mile from where I turned right off of Jefferson in the video

[@matthewcummings5927]

What is the IC club?

[@MichiganMade]

It's a motorcycle club..The Iron Coffins...

[@brianwheeler8417]

My childhood 😢😮

[@15DurangoRT]

I wouldn't stop at those red lights either!

[@MichiganMade]

Only because there's never any police in this area and they usually wouldn't give you a ticket for that anyhow but in the 90s growing up there people would blow the red lights due to the fear of being a victim of crime because Delray was crazy in the late 80s through early 2000s

[@MayorMcCheese313]

I hope the new bridge will help this area, economically. Wonder how this area will look in a 10+ years from now.

[@MichiganMade]

I imagine they'll add some parks maybe a small area of new housing next to the pocket that already exists and maybe build some businesses on Jefferson right in that area... I'm just happy they didn't totally destroy the entire area for the new bridge even though the majority is gone they're still a little left for Nostalgia and those people who've been living there their whole lives

[@marknemetz5020]

At 5:34 did you throw trash out your car window?

[@MichiganMade]

@@marknemetz5020 never... do you not see me complaining and getting upset about trash dumping piles in my old neighborhood so why on Earth would I do such

[@MichiganMade]

It was the crust end of my Pop-Tart, which will melt in the rain if not get eaten from an animal

[@marknemetz5020]

@MichiganMade all good bro. Yeah it didn't make sense that you'd be talking about the mess and then adding to it. Keep up the good work!

[@MichiganMade]

@marknemetz5020 I understand and thank you I appreciate it and thank you for watching and the support my friend

[@thegoatudontknow]

wild

[@salinaayers6061]

Still got family that lives out there today th❤❤❤❤ growup out there

[@ryanrau6714]

I don’t know why anybody would want to live next to Zug island.

[@MichiganMade]

A lot of people did over the years I know I spent almost 20 years in that neighborhood from the late 80s to the mid-2000s you get used to the smell LOL

[@Golfing422]

It’s cheap affordable housing. 500 bucks a month rent.

[@Shawntye-ne4zh]

That was gone when The Hogans left and returned but I haven't seen it

[@MichiganMade]

It's an older picture I just put it up there because I knew most Del Rey people would remember it and bring back memories so that they would be excited or interested in seeing what the neighborhood looks like today

[@robertmccullough4255]

Maybe people building the bridge is staying in some of them nicer homes

[@MichiganMade]

I highly doubt it people building The Bridge or iron workers probably making close to $100 an hour if they're living in Delray then they either are from their have ties there or are crazy LOL

[@robertmccullough4255]

@@MichiganMade just thinking people from out of state working on bridge, but I'm sure your right.

[@MichiganMade]

@robertmccullough4255 right you never know it could go either way

[@robertkaspert4092]

You can go under the new bridge

[@MichiganMade]

I did when I went to Delray Park not that long ago

[@9thCavalryDet]

Marathon destroyed Delray... and the City of Detroit allowed it. Detroit got nothing in return, not even cheaper gas

[@MichiganMade]

As well as Oakwood Heights AKA Bayside that's the real neighborhood they destroyed they tore that whole area down promised people good buyouts and shafted a ton of people Delray was a victim also but once they finalize the plans for the bridge and demolished the majority of the neighborhood for a custom Center that was the end of Delray thank God this little section in my video still survives to this day or there would be nothing left.. marathons also doing and did the same to the Boynton neighborhood

[@damon9408]

The city had installed cameras to catch the dampers, looks like it's still goin on

[@MichiganMade]

@damon9408 yeah they always find ways around things like that just like in Brightmoor there's cameras everywhere but every time I drive through there I see new piles of dumping all over the main dump areas of the city it's sad

[@Golfing422]

Yeah, union man working there don’t live there.

[@MichiganMade]

@@Golfing422 I don't know who you're talking about in the comments but I've lived in Detroit my whole life when I spent most of my first 20 some years in the southwest Delray area

[@ronnieperdue5002]

Delray always been some where would want live at can remember inthe early 70s one of worse smell would come from there Detroit Michigan a ghost town also u stay on east Warren and concord would never stay there again almost lost my life there in 1975 ps but that's hood were we live at originally born Alabama we there then Cincinnati Ohio then Detroit it was the motor city in them years not anymore 😮

[@MichiganMade]

Thanks for sharing your stories tied to Detroit, and I appreciate you watching my videos

[@ronnieperdue5002]

@@MichiganMade no promblem happy hoilday to and yours

[@MichiganMade]

@ronnieperdue5002 thank you and right back your way my friend enjoy your holidays

[@ronnieperdue5002]

@MichiganMade copy that my bro

[@Shawntye-ne4zh]

You should see where the riot took place on Chene street Everything is gone a whole community.

[@MichiganMade]

I've been over there I got over 3,000 videos on my channel check them out if you haven't seen any if you like this one the rest are pretty much the same just of different neighborhoods throughout the city

[@bobherron6937]

Who member Keller and Dearborn party store???

[@MichiganMade]

@@bobherron6937 Auntie Ries ❤️❤️

[@BigBishop1]

Savage City

[@MichiganMade]

It was in the 80s 90s and early 2000s easily the most dangerous part of Detroit for a long time even police weren't allowed to patrol into Delray without having at least one or two backup units

[@strykerthepsycher8412]

Yeah Great Job Rick Snyder. I thought his Emergency Manager bill was supposed to take care of these neighborhoods. That guy was an absolute and epic failure of a Governor. Worst Governor in the history of humanity.

[@MichiganMade]

It has a lot more to do with the scamming corrupt sneaky City mayor's and employees throughout the years who pocketed a bunch of money instead of focusing on and investing money into areas that really needed it

[@strykerthepsycher8412]

@@MichiganMade Yeah I'm aware at how bad the city has been run for many years. But that idiot of a Governor did absolutely nothing in his power grab when he put emergency managers in charge. Not one positive thing came out of that in any of the cities. Take Flint for an example.

[@landrewg]

Turn off the radio

[@MichiganMade]

You can barely hear it and I like listening to what they have to say about my Detroit Lions the day after a game

[@landrewg]

@MichiganMade I would keep arguing about how wrong you are but I'm afraid it would just make me dumber

[@MichiganMade]

It's a radio, bro, settle down....yikes. almost 6,000 views, and you're the only one who seemed to have an issue with a low radio show in the background. It's not like I got Megadeth on full blast or something

[@michaelarnold9445]

More peaceful than war turn country s you come from😮

[@MichiganMade]

I was born in Detroit so as far as I know this is where I come from as for people in the past like ancestors and what not I have or had no say in any thing that went on during their time seeing I wasn't born yet.

[@MichiganMade]

All I know is my family goes back five generations in Detroit my grandfather who's 99 has lived on Linwood since the early 1900s and my grandmother's side of the family lived off of John R and 6 Mile.. I was born and raised in Delray spent over 20 years there before moving to the Livernois and Tireman area where I spent another 12 to 13 years and now I live off of Dexter just south of Joy Road as a white man I've been in the city my whole life and I don't ever plan on leaving I love my city

[@bobherron6937]

Rip uncle rubin