“ GETTING ABOUT ” 1935 DETROIT, MICHIGAN STREET RAILWAYS VINTAGE TROLLEY & TRANSIT FILM MD10175

[@lawnmowerman2199]

Thank you Thank You THANK YOU for all of these posts!! I truly appreciate and look forward to seeing each one!! Even though these times have passed they are definitely not forgotten!! Happy Thanksgiving and may you all have a blessed and Merry Christmas

[@PeriscopeFilm]

You are so welcome @lawnmowerman2199 it's our pleasure. And ... if you love what we do ... you can support our efforts at Patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm

[@nattypezman4894]

​@@PeriscopeFilmWOW that's all I can say 😁😁👍

[@pinetree9343]

This is great history being presented in this video. Sadly, those good old days are gone.

[@hanginlaundry360]

I knew a lady musician who, as a teen at this time, took street cars all over Detroit to substitute for organists at churches in need. She would take a streetcar back (alone) after church and treat herself to an ice cream on her way home. Detroit was clean and orderly.

[@zackjay71]

Then in the 60’s it changed. It got dark. And crime rose exponentially. My family market was sold in 69 too much crime and taxes. Was on the East side.

[@frink32]

​@zackjay71 Westside and same reason. Truly a shame about my home city.

[@DetroitFettyghost]

Bless all the DDOT drivers who take there jobs seriously- I thank you. These trains ive heard about so much from my grandoatents and G.Grandparents and parents too.

[@mohammedali672]

It is sad that Greektown has basically disappeared . You used to make a day of it , and you could ! 3 floors of shopping and then The 8 or 9 choices for Greek food ! A token Greek resteraunt and Bakery are all thats left . The Casino changed the dynamics of that neighborhood .

[@cmskid20]

my great grandfather and his father were both street car conductors in Detroit

[@scratchdog2216]

2:30 Imagine having a car parked on a section of rail and turning it into a house. It would be awesome. Like an endlessly classy trailer.

[@josephbeckmann8106]

Grand a month gets you a 330 sq. ft. caboose in the Germantown area of Louisville, KY. They are pretty cool.

[@MichiganPeatMoss]

2024: Off-topic, I always love those spitter and splutter audio jumps between breaks in the film. An important part of the experience with PeriscopeFilm. :)

[@mitchelldakelman7006]

Copied from a 35mm print that had splices, its not supposed to be this way, we take what is available!

[@roberts.3712]

I rode those streetcars for some time then the city covered the tracks and cancelled the service. Then General Motors made a killing and sold busses to the DSR with smelly exhausts. They made my eyes burn.

[@richardbrobeck2384]

Great Video !

[@louislamonte334]

Detroit, and so many other communities desperately need light rail today!!

[@antony716]

Unfortunately, some see public services as a bad word

[@garyszewc3339]

I got a kick out of the horse-drawn trolley. The conductor actually came down, picked up the baby and handed it to the mother, before storing the stroller. These days somebody would kidnap the baby, and steal the stroller.

[@ronaldarchibald2506]

As a child i rode a streetcar. Mr mcgillacutty operated it.

[@Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu]

Look at that once great city. Destroyed during the Great White Flight. Summer if 67'. Flint, Saginaw, Lansing and Grand Rapids also began their freefall the same time.

[@evan12697]

classic lol. White people moving in = evil gentrifiers, white people moving out = evil white flight

[@multoc]

You clearly haven’t been to the city in the last ten years

[@Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu]

@multoc I just was just in the Detoilet last weekend and I live in Flint, so..

[@matthewrhodes4385]

I guess whites don't take any responsibility for running Detroit into the ground. And look at that, whites poisoned Flint too. I guess whites were not responsible for that either.

[@sman7555]

​@@Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu Are you sure? What part of Detroit were you in? I walked downtown a few months ago. It's beautiful

[@Bob-b7x6v]

Boss Kettering and Henry Ford murdered all the functioning mass transit in Detroit and the burbs when GM's Electromotive Division could've improved and expanded it...

[@lawrencesobczak9729]

You obviously know nothing about the history of the DSR. Did you know that Henry Ford PAID to have the DSR lines extended to get to the Rouge so his workers could get to work with no excuses? Or that the Highland Park Assembly Plant was chosen in part because it had great access to the DSR for the same reason? GM located its plants around the city for the same reasons.

[@BillSanta-w4w]

You might want to double check your facts about Mr. Ford’s rationale behind building the Model T in Highland Park. HP didn’t exist when Ford decided to build there. Ford hated paying city taxes; that is why he offered to build a separate water treatment and distribution system if Highland Park would organize itself out of the farmland of Greenfield Township.

[@brucewelty7684]

And then Coleman made the Mugger Mover

[@matthewrhodes4385]

Slick Rick Snyder poisoned Flint and destroyed Detroit. So, there's that.

[@GOPRepubliklan]

Yeah but it was never meant for us. Notice how it never made it to 8 Mile.

[@evan12697]

Look what they took from us

[@stepheng3667]

11:32 - 11:45 Those are ugly buses.

[@safetyharborfirearms]

It aint there no more along with most of the city.....

[@GOPRepubliklan]

Packard Plant is still there!

[@Bob-b7x6v]

The People Mover and Q-Line SUCK!

[@MrNostalgiabuff]

*people moocher

[@DetroitFettyghost]

They really are nothing but a toy for people to try out once then forget

[@GOPRepubliklan]

@@MrNostalgiabuff No, it's the Mugger Mover. The original one was at Fairlane but when the thugs ruined that one, the Mugger Mover name lived on downtown.

[@A.LeeMorrisJr]

I like the Q-line concept, but the damn thing doesn't go anywhere😧!

[@DetroitFettyghost]

@@A.LeeMorrisJr Exactly. I live on the Eastside way up gratiot wat am I gonna so on that thing lol

[@mikco99]

That time stamp and minute crawler was so annoying, I had to stop watching.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, so that they can identify the material they need to license, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes. In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous KZbin users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do. Love our channel and want to support what we do? You can help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.

[@johne189]

Thank you for the explanation, and all involved for their efforts.