The auditorium is jaw dropping. You just don't see that in modern high schools.
@MrJellyton5 жыл бұрын
well, support for the arts generally seems lacking these days.
@bluefire08075 жыл бұрын
there are some high school auditoriums that are just amazing. Look up P.S. duPont High School (now a middle school) auditorium
@marlaacolee5 жыл бұрын
My church is actually an old school, not sure when it was built but it was open till probably the 90’s , my dad and a lot of my friends parents went there, and the auditorium looks similar .. it’s beautiful
@erectustesticulus31915 жыл бұрын
You see those everywhere in Europe
@obscurelyvague5 жыл бұрын
@@MrJellyton A lot of people say that too many "frills' are being taught in schools/ Frills such as physical education and drama and art and kids need to only know the basics as their great grandparents were taught , reading writing and arithmetic. A lot of people say that several generations of kids turned out dumber because they were distracted with useless stuff like critical thinking.
@TrevorVaubel5 жыл бұрын
10 years ago, people were going to class here. Crazy.
@christinasdiary42485 жыл бұрын
my school has it check it out its branksome hall asia
@terminat15 жыл бұрын
@Chris Krasniewski A lot.
@journeybeyondthesea5 жыл бұрын
Trevor Vaubel Ikr wow 😮
@jcspider72595 жыл бұрын
@@terminat1 YES, and "there", not "their". What has happened to my country.....? NOTE: original comment to which this was directed has either been removed or edited
@Hotdog_pimpin5 жыл бұрын
Yer mom went to class there
@apipar76815 жыл бұрын
they should've abandoned my school instead of this masterpiece.
@Whissya4 жыл бұрын
Ikr:( dis is dream shcool for me or atleast some bigger shcool because my shcool is really small but comfortable I wish I was born when this shcool hasn't opened yet and was born near there
@Whissya4 жыл бұрын
Imagine we have nothing like pool or pe class, science lab etc... and the sport Hall is like really small and dirty
@makemecry66044 жыл бұрын
Sasuke Uchiha mine has a very nice auditorium (which used to be a church or a place to pray, the walls are full of religious paintings and beautiful art. My school was a religious kind of thing in the early 1900’s so it is very old looking. It’s a nice high school!
@julcaos4 жыл бұрын
@@makemecry6604 even by those standards, your school seems pretty nice. You should research schools in brazil...
@makemecry66044 жыл бұрын
JulCaos ohh yeah..
@cosperkina3 жыл бұрын
The murals are painted over in the library. The ceiling had angelic murals too. I graduated in that auditorium and performed on that stage. It had beautiful lighting and red velvet seats. It was like a professional theatre. I learned how to swim in that pool at 8am. It was freezing outside, but really warm in the pool room. The gym had wood floors that shined like glass. Yes, the track was used for running, and yes, those things in the swim area were actually dryers. It was a beautiful school. We had no idea how lucky we were.
@juansalazar5793 жыл бұрын
ur legit haha yt account since 2006 like daaaaaamn
@seanthedruid3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for adding your recollections to this comment section. It’s wonderful that you experienced such a beautiful school as part of your formative years.
@cosperkina3 жыл бұрын
@Brent Gocavs A lot can happen in 30 plus years. I graduated in ‘88, and we were Cooley Cardinals. But I’m guessing the Bull has something to do with Jordan/Chicago Bulls. Could be wrong.
@papijuho60243 жыл бұрын
You are indeed lucky. Must be heartbreaking to see how the school is now...
@cosperkina3 жыл бұрын
@@juansalazar579 I thought it was longer.
@debbyheidbreder56864 жыл бұрын
I graduated from this school in 1963. This was the most beautiful high school I have ever seen. The auditorium was absolutely beautiful and the library was my favorite place to be. I worked in the library for extra credit. The woodwork and artwork could never be duplicated. I was so proud to have gone to this high school and I did appreciate the beauty of this school at that time and can still remember what it looked like then. It’s so sad to see what it looks like now.
@Glitterflickan4 жыл бұрын
Debby Heidbreder What a beautiful school you went to! I am from sweden and we have nothing like this where i went to school!
@nicmendz4 жыл бұрын
@@Glitterflickan ain't it obvious this account is fake? 'Her' profile pic is painted and found off the internet. They joined a week ago too.
@strawbrryfld14 жыл бұрын
Debby Heidbreder it rivals my High School in Baltimore. The Institute of Norte Dame. I, fortunately, was well aware of the fabulous building we had. They have since removed the original features of the science lab for more “modern” features, which personally I think was a huge mistake! The old cabinets wooden cabinets had the original glass in them. The glass was rippled. The old thick slate topped work areas. I was extremely sad to see it was gone. Such is life nothing lasts forever. 🥺😊
@themountainivs31104 жыл бұрын
Nice feeling better now today I am not usa I am Indian Kerala . I am watching Malayalam movie ranam that movie story is this Detroit war just waching ranam movie
@crymeariver92504 жыл бұрын
Doombeanz I maybe she saw the video joined an account and not everyone takes a picture of her or himself. She needed an account to comment, and not Even you have a picture of yourself
@mariohenley1495 жыл бұрын
Graduated from Cooley in 1993.......The auditorium was the BEST in the entire city.....Was as beautiful as the Fox Theater..... Breaks my heart to see it like this....But the Cardinal spirit will live forever
@simtrate39595 жыл бұрын
All things end. Clearly your education was insufficient.
@retroreactiveaj72485 жыл бұрын
@@simtrate3959 So explain what education has to do with someone liking a theatre?
@retroreactiveaj72485 жыл бұрын
@@simtrate3959 Clearly your sentence is not relevant. If you want to use English correctly stick to the point of your sentence instead of staying non-relevant information towards the comment. In all honestly, what I'm actually saying is. Shut up.
@WarthDader745 жыл бұрын
Sad things like this happens because of the democrats and the people who give their votes to them
@F1w05 жыл бұрын
@@WarthDader74 I agree. Democratic Mis-management of political policies and socializing too many public services has given many people entitled personalities. Thus they loot vandalize and disregard anything they see fit.
@kaileyb89424 жыл бұрын
How do people see something so rare and beautiful and think “let me burn it” I feel so bad for the people that put blood sweat and tears into creating that..
@gamingfails5504 жыл бұрын
They rolled in their graves that day.
@atruckin_hairstylist66454 жыл бұрын
Just the purest form of evil.
@VAHOSS4 жыл бұрын
Definitely a sick minded and dangerous person
@SpeedAnarchy4 жыл бұрын
It was problaby some homless people tryin to keep warm and not knowing or thinking started a fire
@catherinemaria33674 жыл бұрын
@White Boy shut the fuck up, humans ruin everything, it doesn't matter about skin colour.
@Mikelauderdale4 жыл бұрын
As a Detroit Cooley High School student/musician (Trumpet & Cornet), I appreciate the LOVE and SUPPORT that my teachers, counselors, administrators and support staff gave each of us, as we attempted to navigate our way through our teenage years seeking out the skills and knowledge that would eventually lead many of us to successful careers in Metro-Detroit and around the world! Had it not been for my 4 years at Detroit Cooley High School, I'm pretty sure that my ability to push through obstacles, overcome adversity, and gain a burning desire to study and later become a Criminal Justice Practitioner and College Professor would not have happened (with as many rich memories, otherwise). Detroit Cooley High School is NOT dead! It LIVES on in the spirits, lives, and memories of ALL who attended classes, the plays, concerts, sporting events, ceremonies, dances, parties, community courses, rallies, luncheons, special programs, fundraisers, and other events that help shape the lives of young people, and the community that it served. The Detroit Cooley High School Cardinals (Red/Black/White) are VERY Special/Strong people who have ALWAYS been fierce competitors and will no doubt continue to do those positive things that help to shape the world that we live in! Our building may be damaged, but our SPIRIT is EVERLASTING! Sweet, Sweet, Red and Black that Sweet, Sweet Red, and Black! I LOVE YOU Detroit Cooley High School! Dr. Michael A. McMorris
@yeahyeahboy45194 жыл бұрын
When America starts rebuilding itself these next for 4 years with trump. I Pray the whole USA gets together to put back their cities and rebuild stuff such as this school. With a community of a few thousand, I can see it get done. America including Detroit will be strong once again the way it used to be when it was before crooked politicians sold out our country to china. We will see Detroit be back to its original powerhouse it once was. Godbless America. All things are possible with God.
@nicwilson893 жыл бұрын
@@yeahyeahboy4519 With trump?
@mudbucket13543 жыл бұрын
@@yeahyeahboy4519 trump won't and can't do shit
@CopyofCharlotte3 жыл бұрын
@@yeahyeahboy4519 r/agedlikemilk
@MrSamdabeast3 жыл бұрын
Why would you sign your name Dr. In the least professional platform possible?
@debbieblack825 жыл бұрын
I went to Cooley. Those were hair dryers in the locker room and they use to let you come swim at night on wednesdays to the public for free. Thanks for the memory.
@walamo47965 жыл бұрын
kwame DontDance Fuck you’re Chevy Cruise your stupid ass microwave Handle and you’re life
@thatshygirlinclass84045 жыл бұрын
kwame DontDance it was probably you huh
@davidlafleche11425 жыл бұрын
Detroit is in ruins, because fathers don't raise their kids right.
@niamiller76655 жыл бұрын
David Lafleche honestly 😂
@DiEGo9240405 жыл бұрын
Hair dryers in public schools?? That's so cool! Man, seems like schools were in their golden years during the 70s and 80s. I could only imagine..
@bigsirenguy5 жыл бұрын
The asshole who set the auditorium on fire should be imprisoned for a very very long time. How can people have so little respect for history and the work it took to make something that beautiful?
@sjd73ss5 жыл бұрын
definitely a real big piece of shit scumbag
@Alex-lf1cl5 жыл бұрын
I doubt it was intentional
@289rory5 жыл бұрын
Alex Maybe
@v906605 жыл бұрын
It could have been an accident, maybe by a homeless
@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia5 жыл бұрын
bigsirenguy agree
@Linda-90375 жыл бұрын
That building was built to emphasize the best of education...To have the students perform have real dressing rooms...top notch respect for the arts...Such a shame....
5 жыл бұрын
Velvet Hammer 😞😞😞 exactly
@elisenicholson23724 жыл бұрын
Velvet Hammer as a ballerina, i’d do anything to be able to perform on that stage :(
@AnucatMZK4 жыл бұрын
No the greatest shame is the policymakers didn't provide for the theater program to be viable. If we wanted to do something, it was without funding the budget or a set aside theater teacher. Our teachers had to double as theater director on top of their 7-8 classes and the other extra curricular activities they helped out with. When I going there the teacher shortage was happening or shall I say over filled classrooms.
@ace_of_cups40964 жыл бұрын
I never went to this school, in fact, im just graduating this year, but i can imagine this building in full repair, full of students. I love old buildings like this, such amazing architecture, despite the damage inflicted by careless people
@AnucatMZK4 жыл бұрын
I did go here. It was beautiful.
@alexsandlin92264 жыл бұрын
good luck
@rodrickthompson27993 жыл бұрын
I do too!!
@joyr363 жыл бұрын
I can picture this school turned into a fancy hotel or an art gallery. Maybe a history or science museum.
@pjf031319792 жыл бұрын
Ace of cups huh? Like 2 gals and one of them cups? I like that film. I like to eat my own faces while enjoying that film. Its grand. I have done my own film. It's called one guy, one cup, three buttholes and one large spoon to eat the caca with. Look for it and watch it with kids and your mother and father. It's very educational and you can learn to eat caca by viewing it. Try it because it's good. I have done it since 1 year old and I've only been sick for my entire life but AIDS and diarrhea isnt that bad.
@oriannabliss13294 жыл бұрын
This looks like a school people pay 40k a year to go to.
@Macbasil4 жыл бұрын
Dollars and Philippine Peso
@artyismybae95544 жыл бұрын
Not really.
@louie93734 жыл бұрын
People pay a lot for looks but it turns out you can read for free online and not be in debt. Imagine what this country would look like if people created new industries instead of paying for validation from an outdated conglomerate like the University industry? That's a world I want to see.
@debbyheidbreder56864 жыл бұрын
This was a public school not a private school. It was built at a time when people valued a good education.
@mikaeruu03094 жыл бұрын
@@debbyheidbreder5686 wasn't it built when school was actually useful because factory work was real? unfortunately education sucks now regardless and school has become mostly useless information.
@jess4metoo4 жыл бұрын
It’s sad how we just discard our past. The auditorium itself looks like a historical landmark.
@kaiaaspen54084 жыл бұрын
Samesh Maharaj piss off, the US is made out of immigrants. It’s pathetic that there are people like yourself.
@echo99324 жыл бұрын
@Samesh Maharaj Mate, U.S. was found on the prospect of immigration. Bug off
@anonymousarts54684 жыл бұрын
Samesh Maharaj wtf idiot your an immigrant from Europe dumbhead
@richardsinclair76614 жыл бұрын
@Samesh Maharaj As an American myself, I can say no one skin color is more American than other. Fuck that line of thought. If you were born here, moved here, or became nationalized, you're an American. I don't care what you look like, nor do I care whether my race is dominant. Once again, fuck that and fuck you.
@nemanja98rs4 жыл бұрын
@Samesh Maharaj that way of thinking is so sad that it is actually primitive, please work on yourself
4 жыл бұрын
Can't believe the city let that school go to trash. Blows my mind.
@soniarena52504 жыл бұрын
Enrollment numbers dropped.
@toxicwhitestraightmalebigo60914 жыл бұрын
And the city had no money.
@maeganbyerley4 жыл бұрын
@@toxicwhitestraightmalebigo6091 The reason why the city has no money is because of the drop in population and changes in the auto industry leading to loss of jobs hence the decline in population.
@toxicwhitestraightmalebigo60914 жыл бұрын
@@maeganbyerley And why did all that happen in the first place?
@maeganbyerley4 жыл бұрын
@@toxicwhitestraightmalebigo6091 economic growth and development 🙄
@iced_espresso4 жыл бұрын
I’m honestly so jealous of the students who were able to attend this school and have the experience of graduating from here. Everything about this school is absolutely beautiful and enthralling
@sifridbassoon9 ай бұрын
I've watched a lot of these videos about Detroit and one thing that really comes through is the pride that the city had in its schools. It's devastating seeing all that has been lost.
@ZoeDovydaitis4 жыл бұрын
This makes me so sad. That theater is jaw dropping. As a theater kid, I would have DIED to have a theater like that at my high school. And to have all of that completely destroyed must have been devastating. Geez.
@michaeldiebold88474 жыл бұрын
I feel that. I was a techy. Did the lights and fall spots. This theater would have been an absolute joy to set for. I felt this one so hard. What a waste.
@YourDeath3114 жыл бұрын
Imagine how épic it should be to practice your acting hère and you become the next Joker few years later
@8corymix84 жыл бұрын
@Wes 76 exactly correct sir! The one's who destroyed this were probably oppressed victim's in life though. Lol. It's the white privileged who's at fault. Joke
@magicman31634 жыл бұрын
Zoe Rose eh theater kids are assholes
@Moonlight-wz5gv4 жыл бұрын
@@magicman3163 Most of them are not at all.
@DaddyDoSoWell5 жыл бұрын
You guys missed an area in the new wing. There was an auto shop in there with about 8 garages. They would allow people in the community to come there and get their cars repaired so that us students could get hands on training in vehicle repair. My old auto shop teacher was Mr. Dallas. The coolest guy in the world. I had a lot of great memories there. I'm saddened every time I pass by the building.
@danskinner96695 жыл бұрын
DaddyDoSoWell everyone is saying they should have found guides to go through the building with them, you definitely sound like someone. What made you stay in Detroit if you don’t mind me asking?
@mariohenley1495 жыл бұрын
Mr. Dallas was one of the coolest teachers at Cooley.
@mikemcguffey64585 жыл бұрын
@@mariohenley149 Can I ask what it felt like to be there when you were there?
@MsKiTTy11385 жыл бұрын
YOU WHERE SO LUCKY TO HAVE WENT HERE... BE PROUD.
@MrShampooking5 жыл бұрын
the auto shop was great i went there year it opened and the metal shop was cool as well i was even in the ROTC and yes we had a gun range and guns i would like to see that in today's age i would be so cool to go back through the old school sometime we only lived 8 houses away when i was growing up
@onedayyoumay954 жыл бұрын
Idk why I’m so fascinated with dead highschools/malls/buildings. Maybe because all that life and the memories that were once made there and now it’s just set to ruin. Amazing and sad.
@KoiMan614 жыл бұрын
just like me
@hzuiel4 жыл бұрын
Also I think it fascinates some people because depending where you live, this isn't a thing. Where I'm from there are some abandoned places but not many. There's a shut down ammo/powder plant from ww2 that they recently started opening up to build new factory and warehouse space and demo'd some of the old rusted buildings. There's another area nearby that is old industrial buildings and it is spotty, some are unused, some are still in use, i'm not sure what the % is, but the area as a whole is hardly abandoned. Most buildings that aren't going to be used anymore are demolished if they are highly unlikely to be useful for any other purpose. We had one mall close probably 20 years ago, and it re-opened as a series of department stores and large chain stores not too long after. The interior of the mall was sectioned off and used for storage for the stores that now have their entries on the outside walls of the mall rather than the inside. Most abandoned houses eventually get purchased and flipped or leveled and the land sold off at a tax auction. It really never occurred to me until seeing videos like this on youtube that there could be uninhabited places like what there are out there. Whole uninhabited cities in china and abandoned military or industrial complexes that sprawl for dozens of acres. That stuff just hardly exists near me. That powder plant even before they started really opening it up, while it was still owned and maintained by the military, it had guard posts every so often up the highway and there were a few businesses that for whatever reason were operating inside of there and you had to stop in at a guard station to get inside. The only remotely cool place on the property was an abandoned neighborhood that was all homes which were built to house the families of military officers that were stationed at the plant to run it(civilians did almost all the labor, the military just oversaw it.) It was still technically inside of a restricted government facility with a guard post at the only entrance near the place, you'd have had to hike through the woods to get to it, and even still some people got caught trying to explore it. I've seen pictures and satellite photos, that's about it.
@miinouu71934 жыл бұрын
Me too
@onexonesie4 жыл бұрын
To me it's my fascination with the "end of the world" feeling. What would be left behind to represent the occupied spaces once held by humans. It's like stepping into an alien world only to imagine what it was like before. So many lives and stories unfolded there once. It just makes your imagination go wild. I would love to explore an abandoned world in another galaxy if I had the chance just to see the remnants of it, but these videos are the closest feeling to that desire.
@lionelkennedy13944 жыл бұрын
Same here. If those walls could talk ..
@fefemyluv4 жыл бұрын
It’s quite sad how wasteful humans are.
@YeetZmeN4 жыл бұрын
I think that it’s better to just remove it entirely and leave something to remember it by rather than just let it stay there decaying. Removing it and leaving something in memory of it shows some care and respect, whereas leaving it to decay does not.
@Rainkit3 жыл бұрын
@@YeetZmeN Leave it. In a few centuries archeologists can dig it back up and think we were better than we were lol
@sfenn733 жыл бұрын
White flight. Days of glorious America are over.
@douglasrowland37223 жыл бұрын
IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE
@jillsmcfarland20013 жыл бұрын
Elites have a plan
@grayvetrain4 жыл бұрын
Holy f-THAT’S AN AUDITORIUM?! THAT’S LIKE A BROADWAY THEATER
@Ri_54754 жыл бұрын
My highschools auditorium is like that same size wdym
@grayvetrain4 жыл бұрын
Rida khan bro, I’ve never seen a high school auditorium look like that, ever. You may be used to it but not everyone goes to a high school with an auditorium like that
@Ri_54754 жыл бұрын
@@grayvetrain yup my highschool is pretty famous in my city that's why
@grayvetrain4 жыл бұрын
Rida khan good for you.....But I honestly don’t care
@wojalert39594 жыл бұрын
Rida khan what a pricky response😂
@maurogonzalez66094 жыл бұрын
Imagine being in the final class in the school. Just absolutely gigantic & gorgeous but almost completely empty besides you & several hundred other kids. Must’ve been really crazy.
@thomasshrenlas73964 жыл бұрын
Imagine being the first class
@georgeboggan92325 жыл бұрын
Use to be a janitor there we tried to fix the place up the best we could but they still closed.
@georgeboggan92325 жыл бұрын
@kwame DontDance cost to much to fix wasn't in the budget.
@jscott74325 жыл бұрын
@@georgeboggan9232 wasn't in the budget as the state and city continue to steal money
@danskinner96695 жыл бұрын
George Boggan I mean I don’t think I’d be able to get any work done in that place if I worked there 😂 I’d be staring at the architecture too much and get my ass fired
@brandon91725 жыл бұрын
@Cliff Yablonski Ur mom gay
@bigneilh5 жыл бұрын
@@georgeboggan9232 I think based on kwame's other posts he is suggesting the people were pigs and you had your hands full because of it... I don't agree but that was his intentions (I believe)
@kristinsvideodiary16294 жыл бұрын
Imagine learning in such a breathtaking environment
@yoyo-ck6jb3 жыл бұрын
Fr if my school looked like this I would’ve wanted to go everyday and learn. Absolutely beautiful.
@stephenlacher54605 жыл бұрын
IDEA: When you do one of these, try to find someone who went to that school as a guide.
@mega68155 жыл бұрын
Great idea!
@LisaGallegos5 жыл бұрын
So cool
@aidancanoli4 жыл бұрын
honestly that would be amazing even if they just got someone local for every place it would make every video all the more entertaining and informative
@ChicanoOne7604 жыл бұрын
And also have a r2d2 Droid. Please also include a woman with big bum in all the shots
@Chenoa20243 жыл бұрын
@@ChicanoOne760 what?
@FirstNameLastName-kt3zn5 жыл бұрын
I don't think any city in the United States has declined as much as Detroit. It's very sad.
@adriankepler52545 жыл бұрын
Hopefully it starts coming back soon. Detroit needs more jobs for the people on the outskirts
@alsacrime48065 жыл бұрын
TeaSis Speak it into being and so it is a lovely thought indeed💕
@hersheysfloyd5 жыл бұрын
Sad
@alsacrime48065 жыл бұрын
The State of Michigan at the State-level has approximately $10.13 billion of the taxpayer's money it is not using, i. e. surpluses equal to $1,009 for every man, woman and child in Michigan or $4,034 for a family of 4. This does not include all the additional surpluses that exist in the school districts, cities, or counties in Michigan. This is known as STEALING. cafrman.com
@fragglerock50005 жыл бұрын
It sure is... I can’t understand how a big school like this can go down :(
@dagoddess57484 жыл бұрын
I graduated from this school and as a teen didnt realize how beautiful this school was!! Totally walked thru the metal detectors on auto pilot each day just to get an education. Never paid attention to the beauty before my eyes. Totally took it for granted and thought every HS auditorium looked like the Fox Theatre! I just wanted to make it home safe, have fun with friends and do my work. Lots of violence happened here during my time there however it is Filled with so many great memories that I will always cherish. Our school really was bomb!!! COOLEY CARDINALS 4 LIFE 🔥🔥🔥
@bre91564 жыл бұрын
Well damn, don't think much people here actually expected to find someone who graduated from here in the comments. I think we're all glad we did, though.
@kubagurpl81304 жыл бұрын
Just wanted to ask, how did it feel to see the school in this video?
@tacticoolgent17844 жыл бұрын
As kids, we never really appreciate anything. I grew up in a very historically rich part of the US. Spent childhood field trips visiting places several hundred years old. Never really cared about the history, culture, or architecture until I moved out west which, comparably speaking, isn't nearly as historically deep.
@nats22304 жыл бұрын
Wow, it must've been so strange seeing everything abandoned like this, especially when you've seen it in use with people going about their everyday life.
@jakeheddens87764 жыл бұрын
Da Goddess,why did they close the school?
@vrccb2 жыл бұрын
This building needs to be listed, saved and restored as a National Monument. It is extraordinary.
@salemdesigns6510 ай бұрын
@vrccb: Who's going to pay for the restorations? Not only that, that whole neighborhood and the entire district has seen better days.
@superkrystal985 жыл бұрын
Look at that library. Can only imagine what it looked like when the school was open, must've looked almost like the Harvard library. And the auditorium was so eloquent. How could the city of Detroit let this beautiful building go to waste like this?
@greenrefrigerator5 жыл бұрын
I hate to say it because I know it makes it sound like I'm politicizing this but the truth is Detroit in general failed because of leftist administration and their innate policy of giving everything away. California is currently going through the same thing but it's interesting that cities run by right leaning administrations fare MUCH better. That said, I used to vote Democrat, and there was a time when they could do good things but today their ideology is a big mistake in this country. I will never vote Democrat again - EVER.
@chrisrayyahweh4 жыл бұрын
One word Democrat
@jacksetter954 жыл бұрын
@@greenrefrigerator You are so foolish, so of the nicest cities in the country are run by leftists. Something else changed in Detroit though.
@greenrefrigerator4 жыл бұрын
@@jacksetter95 Among the largest cities in the country that are failing or HAVE failed, the one common element they all share is they have liberal administrations. Sorry if that "offends" you but it is what it is. The facts speak for themselves.
@daniellaiwikstrom54804 жыл бұрын
deadmanw@lk1ng to offer an alternative perspective it wasn’t leftist or democrats that destroyed Detroit. It was just globalisation. Countries like China could because of their ability to pay the workers less and many other reasons produce the same things as the city of detroit did but much cheaper. This may seem like a bad thing, but the chinese taking over manufacturing has benefited almost every american because of the cheaper goods and it gives us the abilitiy to specialize on things we do better.
@luvcannoli4 жыл бұрын
i always hate seeing abandoned places. it makes me sad to see “what once was” of something. like abandoned theme parks, water parks, schools, hospitals. it really makes me wonder how life was for the people there before it was abandoned
@TheMattTrakker4 жыл бұрын
@@marshaarbi I don't think inhabitable means what you think it does
@mancamiatipoola4 жыл бұрын
Oh my frend, if only you knew how deep the rabbit hole goes...
@YeetZmeN4 жыл бұрын
Same here. It makes me think of how people loved these places, made memories in them, maybe lived in or went there daily, made friends, etc, and how now all those memories, all the stories, all the care that went into the building is just gone, left in ruin without a second thought or any consideration of it’s importance to some of many people. It’s just sad. Same thing goes for lost/broken toys.
@dannythompson19484 жыл бұрын
Don't hate it, accept it. It's a fact of life. Things come and go. Live and die. It's the natural order.
@wrenchrat4 жыл бұрын
I'm from Detroit. This happened because Democrats regulated and taxed the city and the State of Michigan into the ground.
@KOSMOS1701A4 жыл бұрын
you know, that school auditorium is kind of poetic in a way of Detroit as a whole, built to a marvelous grand scale that is the envy of things, then suffering disaster that leaves it a mere shadow of what it used to be.
@orangewedges4 жыл бұрын
That's the story of a lot of American cities. They once had their golden moment but fell into disrepair when hard times hit and we're left with only photos and people's stories of the way things used to be.
@ReflectedMiles4 жыл бұрын
When he said that the school was considered the showpiece of the education system in Detroit, I thought that, unfortunately, it still kind of is. It just reflects a different, much sadder reality.
@censorshipfollowjesusnow91273 жыл бұрын
Who here drives an American car?
@NameSpaceVoid3 жыл бұрын
@@ReflectedMiles Exactly, he dances around the fact that "a fire broke out" rather than say "the ghetto ass locals burnt it down just for fun" like all the other abandoned buildings in Detroit. Think about the type of people to burn something like this down, think hard.
@nicwilson893 жыл бұрын
@@NameSpaceVoid Another comment said it was a photographer spinning steel wool, and another said he knew the people responsible as they bragged about it on stories and he reported them /shrug
@letsgoblue95963 жыл бұрын
My grandfather has only one entry about Detroit in his old journal. “The damn city make butt loads of cars, and half the people don’t have one. Tell my how that works. Damn Detroit.” It kinda cracks me up every time I read it.
@KilliansMom1 Жыл бұрын
Most people couldn't afford to maintain cars in Detroit. Roads were bad back in 70's. Outer Dr was so bad. The highway ramps were like moon craters. Notice all the Old Tire shops on every corner.
@salemdesigns6510 ай бұрын
@@KilliansMom1 I dont remember tire shops at every corner back then but I do remember churches in every size in Detroit. Many of them are gone or abandoned as well...
@lorenabautista22425 жыл бұрын
it's so weird how there's always one random chair somewhere, just "chilling" in every abandoned building.
@iHopBathroom4 жыл бұрын
It’s cause people put it there when they smoke, teenagers need somewhere to get high
@marianneprescott14975 жыл бұрын
How could they just let that school deteriorate? That should be a crime.
@danskinner96695 жыл бұрын
Revolves around money sadly. Why invest money into a closed school when it’s cheaper to utilize update or even build a new school when your city is shrinking to the population of a large town. To bring that school to modern standards with AC, heating and electrical would cost millions. That’s why my high school renovated itself over the course of 5 years. It was earlier to rip everything out and start fresh.
@IncognitoInvisible5 жыл бұрын
Something called “white flight”. When desegregation took place, whites fled the cities to the suburbs, taking their wealth with them. Detroit, along with many other large cities suffered greatly because of this. However, people have been returning, which is driving the price up again, known as “gentrification”.
@DavidJohnson-dp4vv5 жыл бұрын
If you ship out and automate millions of factory jobs what do you expect.
@midlight97585 жыл бұрын
So many people left Detroit they did not have the student population for such a large building nor the tax dollars to pay the costs in maintaining the building. Imagine the heating costs alone.
@techblogger83235 жыл бұрын
Frogman Smith or because when the school became mostly black they didn’t care and in general education wasn’t valued
@butterflysenshi154 жыл бұрын
Bruh, I feel jealous of anyone who got to go to school there. The modern-day schools I went to absolutely could not compare to the work that went into the main building in this (and the last school I went to everyone complained of a mold problem in the locker room that's been there for ages). The people that took their time to shape that theater have all my respect for their craft.
@velocityrex4 жыл бұрын
Don’t feel jealous bro, my dad went to school and every story he told me involved murder from the time period of 1989-00. All three of his brothers shared similar stories. It just wasn’t safe from what I heard. Yes the school is beautiful without a doubt but idc how good a school look...if I hear niggas stuff guns, drugs, and etc in their lockers then I’m going somewhere else. Fenkell and hubell was in the top ten dangerous streets in Detroit
@douglasrowland37223 жыл бұрын
Back then when they didn't have nothing they could build edifices like that...and today with trillions of dollars around....everything is metal, dry wall, and something that is supposed to be plastic !!
@mougougeki3 жыл бұрын
Only been 15 years since i left there but auditorium was beautiful even in 2009
@7260162 жыл бұрын
Detroit Public Schools, with the exception of Cass Tech and Renaissance, were gladiator schools from about 85 onward. The teachers were world class though. If you could survive the bullies, neighborhood crews and gangs you could get an education that was second to none. However, it was a life and death situation. Children lost their lives for coats, sneakers, and all sorts of petty rivalries. Even some of the middle schools were turnt but the high schools were rough as any county jail in the country.
@olucaszb4 жыл бұрын
At 15:40 imagine all the nervous kids with butterflies in their stomach that had that view right before going on stage to perform
@nickhoffman74483 жыл бұрын
And thats not your normal everyday high school auditorium. It's literally at least 4x the size of my high schools auditorium.
@loganstroganoff12843 жыл бұрын
@@nickhoffman7448 its about the size of mine but mine was a generic early 2000s utilitarian style,meaning no style,just blah basic and plain. Elite private schools don't even build auditoriums like that anymore.
@brianholihan54974 жыл бұрын
My mom went to Cooley. I still have her senior yearbook from 1941. I didn't know the theater was so ornate. The book's photos are entirely focused on people--lots of group photos of student clubs. They seemed to take the architectural splendors for granted. There were so many great buildings in Detroit; people saw this kind of beauty on a daily basis.
@tonyv77533 жыл бұрын
When white people lived there
@douglasrowland37223 жыл бұрын
Most of those Detroit Landmarks NOW DESTROYED........
@MrEOM414 жыл бұрын
They really should build schools like this again... It would really inspire kids more
@AfterAFashionASMR4 жыл бұрын
Wes 76 this is a very ignorant comment. The learning environment is of great importance and many of the countries leading in the international PISA testing scores put a great deal of effort into the learning environment and other factors such as being highly selective for who can be teachers. They also actually show respect for schooling and the teaching profession, paying teachers the high salaries that such a vital role in the transmission of knowledge and culture to future generations really has in a healthy society. It’s no wonder the USA is so fucked up right now. The USA is putting kids in schools that look like prisons with metal detectors and massive locks on doors, cops all over, bag checks, etc. And because of the low respect and salaries people can expect if they go into the teaching profession, way too many classrooms are being headed up by people who really have no business being teachers. If you look at GSS data on the USA - an alarming number of teachers do not know when asked if the earth revolves around the sun or the sun around the earth. That is fucked up!!! It’s no wonder so many schools are having so many more issues with student apathy, discipline, and violence. You’ve got kids in a glorified prison with teachers who don’t really have the ability to teach them. Scores went down. Would you expect any different?!? So now we have the accountability movement which has preplanned curriculums that basically dictate how lessons should be taught because too many teachers are unable to do so on their own. But of course these lessons are usually dry and boring that takes any inquiry or creativity out of the teaching and learning process. And do you know what education at its best should be?!? People inquiring and creating freely together. Think about it. When have you best learned in an educational environment - when you were sitting immobilized in a desk for hours on end, being told what you should know? Or asking questions and looking for answers? We need learning environments that support this type of learning or we will continue to fall more and more behind other countries on such international tests. You can throw all the money in the world at something but if you’re not throwing it in the right direction and if the underlying structure is unsound then the building will still fucking come down around itself. That you think that the leaning environment has no effect on students emotionally and psychologically is really more of an issue. And the mentality demonstrated in your comment is part of the reason despite all the money and legislation nothing improves.
@clard4 жыл бұрын
If the funding was there. I go to a new school, but it’s way smaller than an average high school, thanks Pasco!
@suzannethepatriot80494 жыл бұрын
ExtraOrdinary MUSIC... Kids nowadays need more than a fancy building to inspire them. How about two parents who love them and care for them. Two parents who expect their kids to be upstanding law abiding and decent people. I could go on and on. This building is just a reflection of the decay of humanity in general.
@itzparadox42434 жыл бұрын
@LAFOLLETTER Racist fuck
@sebaa73084 жыл бұрын
ITzParadox It is kinda true. They’re loud, cause disruptions during class time, have stupid beefs and fights in school, they wanna act “hard” in school which makes them look like low iq imbeciles, make fun of anyone trying to make an effort in school. Should I keep going?
@disgrief5 жыл бұрын
Omg it so sad how the population of the school decreased :/ i would've honestly loved to go to that high school !
@raesmith21644 жыл бұрын
@@YourName-jm7lz *would've or would have
@Whissya4 жыл бұрын
@@YourName-jm7lz wow sad. This place is so beautiful when my shcool is nothing compared to this and I can't believe 9 years ago when I had no idea what shcool was people went here
@emma49554 жыл бұрын
Your Name that’s so sad. Now it feels like the school was under appreciated. The architecture seems fitted for an arts school (maybe it was idk I’m not rlly paying attention).
@dannyboy49294 жыл бұрын
@@YourName-jm7lz i went to Cooley. It was just your typical school in the ghetto. There were future criminals here and there were tons of amazing students also. I went for the 9th grade but then they closed down. This school was way better than any Detroit school i had gone to.
@goonnbegreatwhicholavender39734 жыл бұрын
Costa Zambaras damn sounds like u talkin about a whole city epidemic not HS
@Pyrinsomniac4 жыл бұрын
Something that gorgeous built for such a good purpose... it makes my heart hurt to see it crumbling like that. That LIBRARY, my God...
@RicasGameCafe4 жыл бұрын
My parents went to school here this is where they met I believe. I actually sung in the auditorium in a concert they were having. It was absolutely beautiful!
@lionelkennedy13944 жыл бұрын
Wow
@AnucatMZK4 жыл бұрын
I graduated from there in 92
@abi6ail3334 жыл бұрын
Rica's Game Cafe wow it must have been amazing to see it buzzing with people
@DJ-hg7qt4 жыл бұрын
The pool could be divided in the middle, for boys at one end and girls at the other. Each had a diving area. No mixed classes when my mom went there in 1939.
@jaypence3324 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty boys we required to swim in the nude.
@faarsiiz4 жыл бұрын
Not trying to be rude but is your mom still here? God bless
@Ratplague7075 жыл бұрын
Seeing old buildings neglected like this is so depressing to me. The amount of labor and craftsmanship involved in building a place like this is mind boggling by modern standards. All of the walls and ceilings are plaster and lath, meaning that someone had to first nail strips of 1 inch lath to every stud in the wall. Then the plasterer would come and apply the first layer of plaster, and then another and another, by hand, until a flat surface was achieved. Each and every window and door was crafted by hand, and each pane of glass hand glazed into place, the sashes of each and every window fitted into place with cords, pulleys, and counterweights. The wood likely came from old growth forests, and was of a far, far higher quality than anything we see in construction today. The masonry work was structural, unlike today's brick buildings where the bricks are a tacky veneer placed outside of cinder block, concrete, or wood framed construction. Buildings of this era made great use of natural light and ventilation, whereas today, we make use of fluorescent light, low ceilings, and air conditioning in buildings whose windows no longer open. When this place is torn down, all of this craftsmanship and material will end up in a landfill. Today, we build buildings out of plastic and foam to last 30-40 years, and then tear them down when they don't fit the fashion of their day. Back then, they built buildings using techniques that had been passed down through the generations, and they built them to last for generations. Sadly, today's generation is oblivious to this, and so in cities across America, we are destroying our heritage and replacing it with a new generation of "architecture", precision engineered to meet the bare minimums required by local code, using the cheapest (yet fanciest looking, or trendiest) materials available, as fast as possible. Detroit is a city that's a shell of it's former self economically. In other cities in America, we are experiencing great economic prosperity, and yet that prosperity is just as much of a threat to our architectural heritage as abandonment, as more and more beautiful, yet unprofitable buildings are destroyed to make way for ones that will turn a better short-term profit.
@WouldntULikeToKnow.5 жыл бұрын
"Today's generation" you mean corporations that try to do everything for bare minimum expense? We know we're getting douped but we need affordable places to live, work, go to school. When my college put up prefab, cheap looking buildings everyone was disgusted but what say did we have?
@erinslps5 жыл бұрын
I don't think 'todays generations' is a good way to put it. Always have companies strived to create cheaper, easier solutions to building and stuff.
@chineseslaves19714 жыл бұрын
Ratplague707 , life isn’t the same without beauty and art around. I remember moving to San Jose and it was so god awful ugly everywhere, yet even so every place has its own pecking order when it’s a planet removed from another. Buildings like this in their former state make life much more meaningful. Such a shame to see it end up like this. When cities are ugly, and some are sprawlingly so, I just find a place that’s nicer, with more of a country feel but close enough to jobs. Now I can drive through old CA country roads and get away from all of the crowds, find parking, have a view of mountains and shop in Spanish architecture with the same view. Locally it’s just as nice in a different way, we have everything but I can walk, bike or drive to it and we also have the same pretty architecture. In spite of the superior beauty, the people are much more casual, very unpretentious and it’s a better fit for the artistically inclined.
@butcharmstrong96454 жыл бұрын
I know what you mean. The US is about the only country that doesn't cherish it's old buildings and either destroys them or lets them deteriorate like this beautiful structure. Can you imagine if they wanted to tear the Louvre in Paris down, or Big Ben in London? How much less our lives would be without those wonderful structures.
@sorcerykid4 жыл бұрын
@@WouldntULikeToKnow. Truth! This comment should have 1k upvotes.
@GirlWhoLikesBugs4 жыл бұрын
As a theatre student, I am amazed. This breaks my heart to see such a beautiful school with an incredible theater in shambles. I can only imagine what it was like to see the performances, to hear a pit orchestra from beneath the stage, and the way it must have looked when it was all lit up. I truly hope this school will be restored at some point. It's breathtaking.
@jgaryusmc5 жыл бұрын
I graduated from Cooley High in 1985. Was a beautiful school. FYI the banked track was for running, I ran many laps around it during gym class.
@astrodiver15 жыл бұрын
Thanks for answering that Jimmy, from fellow class of '85 (not Cooley)
@justinjessup48285 жыл бұрын
Ya’Dad talk about a reunion all the people form that school seen this video. I wish my high school looked like that
@stormyi007c55 жыл бұрын
Mumford High School also had a banked track so this was popular in many Detroit High Schools
@fllnxxangel5 жыл бұрын
I had one in my old high school that was banked as well. It was put in, in the 50s from what I remember. It was hella sick and I’m so sad that the new school doesn’t have one.
@MsKiTTy11385 жыл бұрын
YOU WHERE SO LUCKY TO HAVE WENT HERE... BE PROUD.
@philepstein5245 жыл бұрын
At last, people who know how to use cameras. Panning slowly so we can see what's there, and stopping long enough to grasp the scene instead of spinning around the rooms wildly. Nice work guys.
@Cre8Lounge5 жыл бұрын
@Ralph Goober Anything better than Michael Bay techniques
@jamesoconnor35625 жыл бұрын
Amen to that !! Half the stuff up here looks like the Zapruder film.
@Budaboose5 жыл бұрын
Yes most you tubers clearly are in it for their own enjoyment and could care less about their viewers. I hate it cause little kids are the viewers a lot of times and don't know the difference between professional, passionate, or just plain idiot content makers. I like telling my son who does and who doesn't deserve your time. Stop subscribing to people who can't even take the time to make their videos consistent and watchable. I'm sorry but home video makers shouldn't be getting any views and that's what most are.
@JadeCouture90935 жыл бұрын
Lol meanwhile my high school was designed by a guy who specialized in building prisons
@ashgeorge80164 жыл бұрын
Haha yup mine too. There wasn't any windows in the classes either at my school
@tastefullys4 жыл бұрын
Dakota High School. Macomb County Michigan. Same thing
@violetjulias8944 жыл бұрын
Tyler Marcus Fairview high school anyone?
@knm44 жыл бұрын
Gpn?
@fever14 жыл бұрын
ah yes enslaved learning
@TexasMami944 жыл бұрын
Please check out Thomas Jefferson High school in San Antonio Texas. It has the same Art Deco feel. It was built in 1932 and still stands today. It’s beautiful.
@DetroitWrecker6665 жыл бұрын
Thank you for not bashing on our City during your stay. Detroit has been through decade upon decade of corruption and thievery via Politicians. Detroit is currently on the rise but, we have a LONG way to go.
@latinamarie805 жыл бұрын
A rise? To where I'd like to know, it's also not just the politicians fault, the people of Detroit's fault just the same, i grew up not to far from there and lived a short time in the heart of Detroit, yes the car plants shut down, plants shut down and people left and the ones who stayed, didnt help it much, made it worse! I would be very SURPRISED if in my lifetime it gets back to what it once was and not a 💩hole waiting to fall in!
@DetroitWrecker6665 жыл бұрын
@@latinamarie80 I agree! Although, I think our current mayor is on the right track. You're right though...... The people who live in those neighborhoods need to start taking pride in their homes, neighborhoods, themselves. Pride of ownership. No one owes anyone, ANYTHING. If you want it, all you have to do is go get it. We live in the United States! There is no lack of opportunity, and there NEVER has been!
@politelady1235 жыл бұрын
@@latinamarie80 you grew up not far from here huh?! Lol one of many people from the burbs who only came here for tiger and lions games. Bash as well as praise our city; only when it fits the conversation. Makes me really appreciate my fellow WHITE and MEXICAN friends who aren't afraid of our city and actually see the potential of what it's gonna be. Living and building side by side, one day at a time without talking down about the people (as a whole) trying to make it better.
@politelady1235 жыл бұрын
@@DetroitWrecker666 thank you!
@DetroitWrecker6665 жыл бұрын
@@politelady123 Ya know, our City has come a LONG way in the last 5 and 10 years. It's changing people's attitudes, and the way people think about Detroit. That's a GOOD thing! There's a LOT of people living in the neighborhoods where, their homes look nice, even if there is burned out and abandoned homes on the same block. They NEVER gave up. And I think Never Giving Up, sums up our City as a whole! Like I said above. We're on the right track, we have a lot of work to do. But don't ever count out Detroit because, no matter what major City you live in, there's a Detroit guy who set up shop there, and is getting ready to bring it home!
@burnsit2475 жыл бұрын
This video angered me. Buildings like this should be the standard! Beautiful, artistic and impressive. Attending such a place like Cooley High, I would have been proud to say I went there; This was my high school! I would have wanted to learn in such a place that is and feels like a place of knowledge. Schools now a day lack the essential aesthetics! Sad, cold, bland buildings that all look alike, with no color and no art. We need to revitalize this institutions before they are all gone!
@lemmdus21195 жыл бұрын
I agree one hundred percent!
@Nasterrya5 жыл бұрын
I absolutely agree! Nowadays the new trend will likely be glass walls apparently for new ‘modern’ schools, so cold. I badly wish it will go back to this eventually... We really can’t build the future without looking back at the past sometimes. Wouldn’t everyone prefer going to school at a Hogwarts-like building instead of a modern café? ;) That school was such a gem, it’s really sad.
@robh32675 жыл бұрын
Like everything else it's all about money the cause and downfall of society.
@diatoniclemonade36874 жыл бұрын
I'm angry too, but it's just too hard to replicate these ornate buildings because of the immense talent required. Stone masons, bronze workers, plasterers...all jobs that once required the skill of an artist, are virtually non existent in the current era (in the capacity they once were). We can't really be mad about this, especially when there's a literal skill shortage, and there's nobody to hire.
@chopperman80424 жыл бұрын
@49jubilee no, it was the manufacturing jobs went to over seas bidders. Bill Clinton trade agreement with countries like China killed our American culture.
@nplovingham5 жыл бұрын
i graduated from Cooley in 1988. I thought the architecture was amazing then and it breaks my heart to see it vacant. My Mom still lives in the neighborhood, so i drive by it every day. so sad! C,O,O - L,E,Y Cooley, Cooley, Cooley High!
@duhh_rudddyyy6514 жыл бұрын
E.E.EAG.L.L.LES.EAG.LES.GOOOOO EAGLES - BRACKENRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL SAN ANTONIO TX
@mr.president91004 жыл бұрын
If u drive by it everyday..u must still live with your mom.😂
@xanderdoesnt4 жыл бұрын
@@mr.president9100 Or they visit their mum every day.
@ilysm36354 жыл бұрын
@@duhh_rudddyyy651 omg that's the same cheer my school does!!!
@mr.president91004 жыл бұрын
@maemo move out!
@TraddyGirl622 жыл бұрын
The reason why the Fisher is so grandiose is that the Fisher brothers gave the architect, Albert Kahn, a blank check to make it as glorious as possible. It was meant to be a tribute to the city. The tower on top used to be covered in gold leaf until they covered it in tar during WWII. Now, it has a copper sheath.
@salemdesigns6510 ай бұрын
...and true, the Fisher project was to have two towers flanking a taller tower. I have an old rendering of it. The whole project was going to be absolutely huge at the time. Even now, I'll visit the Fisher Building just to entertain myself over the amount of marbles and granites. Just stunning!
@kay22k154 жыл бұрын
The burnt out auditorium seats fittingly looks like hundreds of tombstones, absolutely shameful.
@waltersobchak72754 жыл бұрын
Fucking animals
@iNz4N3N3rVeZ4 жыл бұрын
The people who let this building go to waste are as bad as the people who burnt it down
@ben.jammiinn3 жыл бұрын
welcome to Detroit 🤷🏽♂️
@blue2tang4 жыл бұрын
Imagine the confidence in the future the people who built this must have had. They were building something for their posterity. To think only a couple of generations of their children could go there before they had to flee the city. Maybe this is part of the reason nothing beautiful is built any more.
@michaeldiebold88474 жыл бұрын
Truth spoken. Everything is temporary now. We are so divided.
@richardbeharry64564 жыл бұрын
Very good point. A lightbulb went off in my head when I read your comment. That IS why things are built differently today. It's sad but reality
@generalkayoss73474 жыл бұрын
"Diversity" killed Detroit.... Great white flight.....
@randyweaver65434 жыл бұрын
Mike D everything has always been temporary. Anything not lived in or used starts to fall apart unless someone maintains it.
@strongfp4 жыл бұрын
@Ken MacDonald The subject goes far more in depth then that, but hey keep up the divisive comments!
@MADEbySOUL3 жыл бұрын
That library made my heart beat with so much wonder and awe! Y'all I would be in the swim team, shooting range, go to every play, and study in that library! It would just be amazing if they could restore the Library, Auditorium and part of the classrooms as a community center.
@MrShampooking5 жыл бұрын
My sister and I both went to Cooley 1969-1974 , It's a dam shame what has happened to the school, after watching this I had to go by my old house and to see the school, I was glad about one thing the didn't damage the old clock on the front of the school
@JoeHarringtonCRUSHmgt5 жыл бұрын
I want that clock... Cooley Class of 82
@fry68044 жыл бұрын
Joe Harrington stupid question but when they said in the video about all the numbers that left the highschool and the city, what exactly happened to you and other classmates? Did everyone go to auto plants in other cities?
@michaelmachado25724 жыл бұрын
You went to a great school. Your memories will never leave you.. Sad how it's just fading away..
@karrionnsmith4 жыл бұрын
Was this a tuition based high school?
@ironhusk53564 жыл бұрын
Karrionn Smith,public school
@airaero54735 жыл бұрын
This is hands down the most badass school I've EVER seen
@blast4me7544 жыл бұрын
Yes it's a nice school but the old famous school in Little Rock looks a whole a lot better .
@Clawson_customs4 жыл бұрын
Ya a school with a shooting range is definitely the best school ever I love it wish every school in america had a shooting range in it definitely make them a lot safer
@randyweaver65434 жыл бұрын
dady dad some schools still have shooting teams. Skeet, sporting clays, etc.
@eddiemack75345 жыл бұрын
I attended Cooley high from 2004-2007 its was a beautiful school at that time. Watching this makes me wanna cry.
@AnnyBAdventures5 жыл бұрын
Sames years I was in high school. I would have loved to have gone to this school.
@MoooseBlood5 жыл бұрын
At least you got to enjoy it. I went to highschool ten years after you did. My graduating class had 2k+ every time we went to a different class we we shoulder to shoulder with eachother. The building was crap. This building is still beautiful.
@sailorjade5 жыл бұрын
Was it a good high school considering it’s Detroit? I go to Holt HS and neighboring Lansing Everett, Sexton, Waverley, and Eastern are less than ideal schools
@jayt46975 жыл бұрын
why was the track banked in the gym?
@kevinr.35425 жыл бұрын
so it was over crowded but that's wasn't the buildings fault!
@ucprof20082 жыл бұрын
My Dad graduated from Cooley HS in 1930 and went on to the University of Michigan and Indiana University Medical School. It was a beautiful school. We visited in 1956 and it was still a very active place.
@ritaturner99065 ай бұрын
Wow so your dad was rhe 2nd graduating class? I bet he has great photos.
@ucprof20085 ай бұрын
@@ritaturner9906 I think most of those were lost when he moved to Indianapolis after he left U. Michigan in 1932.
@ucprof20085 ай бұрын
Remember that the ‘30’s saw the country in a Depression. Dad was forced to leave Michigan when his Father died and he went to work to help support his mother and younger siblings. he picked up his education again at Indiana and graduated Medical school in ‘42, in time to serve as a physician on the Hospital Ship Hope in the Pacific Theater.
@fayedekoo57165 жыл бұрын
‘This School closed in 2010 and they still have blackboards’ it’s 2019 and my school still has blackboards lol
@ANTAGONISTKING5 жыл бұрын
your school probably still taught the lost fine art of thinking.
@ardithbard8575 жыл бұрын
Kefentse Brown right
@dustyjarvis4645 жыл бұрын
Faye De Koo I had White boards
@dustyjarvis4645 жыл бұрын
Power plant wow your dumb
@Caddy9115 жыл бұрын
Detroit is poor, they used what they had.
@chubzlanders33715 жыл бұрын
They don't take time to build schools like they used to now they are design from a prison layout for safety I guess I went to a beautiful school in up state ny in pulaski build in 1880s huge marble walls and stares. Moved to Florida they all were prisons
@coolpossumpossum99235 жыл бұрын
Chubz Landers My high school was literally originally meant to be a woman’s prison but decided they wanted it to be a school.
@chubzlanders33715 жыл бұрын
@@coolpossumpossum9923 yup all schools are made that way now
@theredneckbuddha27635 жыл бұрын
I go to Mandarin High, one of the few open campuses left. To be honest, I feel like I'm the only one who really appreciates to beauty of the architecture. However, kids nowadays couldn't care less if their school looked like a prison, or looked like the one in the video
@chubzlanders33715 жыл бұрын
@@theredneckbuddha2763 yup as I said about my childhood school looking back at it. It was amazing but then it was a school that I didn't want to be at lol
@popinmo5 жыл бұрын
@@theredneckbuddha2763 they probally would like it but it dosnt matter school is suposed to be a prison to make your life bland and desenstize you to life
@lonelyshrimpart5 жыл бұрын
can we bring back art deco? way better than modern
@HardDriveGuruOfficial5 жыл бұрын
I agree!
@chilikonlia59945 жыл бұрын
Anything is better than modern. Except maybe postmodern.
@lonelyshrimpart5 жыл бұрын
postmodern is cool
@celecia71805 жыл бұрын
Art deco and mid century.. Very warm and personal
@bucki585 жыл бұрын
Make America Art Deco Again!
@dmd56453 жыл бұрын
Cooley!! My Dad went to Cooley , Class of 1958!! . And he was in JROTC. And i remember him talking about them closing the school, he had a wistful, sad tone in his voice while talking about it. But, i never knew what it looked like. Thank you! Awesome! To actually see some of the rooms he was actually in as a teenager! Neat! Thanks guys! He was a truly inspiring man that gave his life to Jesus, making a wonderful life for our family, and being a remarkable role model. Yea, there were some awful times, He had been a Marine-pretty tough disciplinarian. But since 2000, I became friends with him and got to know him as a man not just my father. Because of John 3:16- I know without a shadow of a doubt, He's with Jesus at this very moment and that I WILL see him again. I love you Dad! and i Miss you!
@dcxdanny5 жыл бұрын
Pretty sad - I graduated from Cooley High in 1967. I went back in the 1980s to get some school records for college. The kids at the time treated me like some celebrity :-)
@lightning95sc5 жыл бұрын
I graduated from Cooley in 1981. I used to perform on that stage. Good times. I had always hoped someone would do something to preserve and make use of the old girl.
@BUTTERY-APEX5 жыл бұрын
Dan what was the track used for on the second floor above the bb courts ?
@ckola305 жыл бұрын
I'm curious when they stopped using the firing range? As someone that was shot, I whole hearty think that they should teach gun safety like drivers ed, show the good & negative side. & the boot camp style physical ed class they had, maybe we can lower the obesity health issues we have today.
@stevelovessialetsdance59665 жыл бұрын
Very sad I envision it in all it's glory kids teachers beautiful sad very sad..
@commandroid93365 жыл бұрын
@@lightning95sc wish I were in as good school as you people were.
@laurenlongfellow97144 жыл бұрын
This is wholeheartedly depressing..
@vorant773 жыл бұрын
Detroit died due to many factors, number one being leftist policies.
@MsKiTTy11385 жыл бұрын
THIS IS A SCHOOL I WOULD HAVE BEEN PROUD TO HAVE WENT TO. SO TO ALL THE ALMA MATER OF THIS SCHOOL YOU WHERE SO LUCKY TO HAVE WENT HERE. BE PROUD.
@coolfred90834 жыл бұрын
YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE ALL CAPS
@smpiano66054 жыл бұрын
I guess they didn't teach you at your school that yelling doesn't make what you're saying any more true than if you say it in a low voice.
@MsKiTTy11384 жыл бұрын
@@smpiano6605 sorry my comment in all caps ruined your whole day, & made you waste valuable time composing such a useless comment. but I was taught quite well, even have some college behind me. but just for you I didn't use a cap in this response. don't bother responding either, because I don't like wasting my time.
@msmsmsmsmsmsmsmsmsmsm4 жыл бұрын
MsKiTTy1138 it’s not that deep bro
@emmy85484 жыл бұрын
He knows.
@xinghuali28423 жыл бұрын
This is one of the best abandoned school explorations I've watched. I don't know why I always love watching abandoned places and imagine how people once lived there.
@hansdaspanzeriv19354 жыл бұрын
All you guys talking about that theatre while that library looking fine as hell
@orangewedges4 жыл бұрын
I'm with you. I loved the look of that library as well. Can't imagine how nice it would have been back in the day with the original flooring and wall details.
@puppylove52664 жыл бұрын
Ikr it looks like a really old British library
@AnucatMZK4 жыл бұрын
That Library was awesome. The image on the wall they kept passing over was of Thomas McIntire Cooley. The man for whom the school is named. That divider in the pool wasn't originally there. We used to have swim the whole pool.
@mindakahn99644 жыл бұрын
R3 T106 FA It looks like a university library.
@Detrimental3133 жыл бұрын
Yeah It was called the Martin Luther King library
@valentinroesler41204 жыл бұрын
Why did we stop building like this? It’s crazy how even in a ruined state this school is magnificent. If Bauhaus buildings start to fall apart it just looks like somebody shit out a lotta concrete
@eliseosterbrink80003 жыл бұрын
We don't build like this anymore for a few reasons. The first and most obvious is because of the enormous expense. There aren't enough people who keep fine crafts like carving alive, and it takes a very long time make fine moulding and panels. The second (maybe third?) reason is that there's a lot of stigma amongst architects against old styles and even revival styles. There's a strange sort of hatred for past styles and revivals are seen as perversions of their roots. Old styles typically have lots of ornate decorative work, so ornate decorations are frowned upon. There are many more reasons (like the digital revolution), obviously these aren't the only ones, but those are the ones that immediately come to my mind as an architecture student.
@ufhjfu43262 жыл бұрын
@@eliseosterbrink8000 we can still build modern architecture without perverting it with cheapness. the problem isn't that modern architecture doesn't put enough designs, sometimes thats exactly the opposite. its moreso that it is not build to last. it is build to be cheap so that we may employ quickly people to build it and when it is deteriorating you will be scammed into repair in a perpetual cycle of purposefully degenerative architecture designed to make money
@slappy89412 жыл бұрын
We stopped investing in civilization when Democrats started paying stupid people to breed so they would make more democrat voters.
@IvorySoul6962 жыл бұрын
@@slappy8941 And republicans are any better? At least we're not injecting bleach and taking horse tranqs to cure COVID. This is just a stupid political comment with nothing to back it. Keep hating.
@trossk2 жыл бұрын
@@ufhjfu4326 modern architecture is almost as bad at copying ideas as new movies. Here in Seattle, one highrise went up with ugly orange stripes up the side, the following year, there are now 10 towers with ugly orange stripes. So many new buildings are just so.....generic.
@Princesss12254 жыл бұрын
That stack is the boiler room of Cooley High. I sub as a Engineer there. I went in that building the day after the fire. I couldn't believe what I saw. There were kids playing in the gym as I went up to the second floor. That fire was purposely set!!!!!! The media wouldn't even put it on the news! That building would be unstable because the auditorium sits in the middle of that building. They were hoping the building would collapse. The plenums were fallout shelters back in the days They started stripping the windows off the buildings. All buildings like Cooley, Mumford, Cody, Mackenzie, Redford, Central, were built like that back in the day. I worked at all of them except Central High.
@audreyyates26883 жыл бұрын
I work at Central right now-the first high school in Detroit. It is still operating, but now has an elementary, middle, and high school in it, plus a community clinic. It has a lovely auditorium, too.
@SuchanDEJP4 жыл бұрын
When I see this beautiful school, I wish I was 14 again and would go back to school. I would learn harder and would be better in sports and would not make the mistakes I have made in my life. Great Work of you Guys.
@wizkid15 жыл бұрын
the smokestack like on many public schools here in milwaukee too is for the boiler room.. used to heat the building. most were heated with coal at the time hence the need for a stack.
@merlyworm5 жыл бұрын
Wow. I was going to reply just this... And from Milwaukee too. Yeah, that smokestack is for the boiler room. it was common for the boiler to be in a separate building from the school. Still many schools here in Milwaukee set up just like that.
@ekc_sc.7225 жыл бұрын
We had the same situation in Chicago too. Always attended a school with a boiler room.
@maxwellmc97345 жыл бұрын
Wow was wondering why the stack UK.. cool
@73challenger50315 жыл бұрын
It wouldn't surprise me if there was also an incinerator there, also.
@willburr135 жыл бұрын
And just like Detroit schools, mps is a pile of crap
@kevinmunozortega57624 жыл бұрын
The abandoned highschool looks more like a university from seeing the library and the theatre. It's a shame that such a fantastic architecture was left to waste. Edit: Wow, this is the first time I got more than 100 likes. Thank you all for liking my comment. I honestly think that this high school could have more potential in attracting more teenagers to study if it was modernised, but still kept its original architecture. 2nd edit: I believe this highschool ruin is a good representation of the existential crisis. Is it slowly becoming a city ruin like NieR: Automata?
@Brascobadboy4 жыл бұрын
What a waste
@mchagnon74 жыл бұрын
@LAFOLLETTER You're probably the only person on earth who has ever contributed the fall of Detroit to the inferiority of the black race. I shouldn't need to tell you what's wrong with that.
@dgyrlc11234 жыл бұрын
@LAFOLLETTER you were censored because you are a racist prick.
@lionelkennedy13944 жыл бұрын
@LAFOLLETTER FOH!!.
@mikaeruu03094 жыл бұрын
@LAFOLLETTER imagine being racist in 2020. get better soon.
@42luke935 жыл бұрын
It’s sad too because you know nobody will ever repair the auditorium and it was probably used for city events by the way the picture showed how nice the place looked right before the fire.
@jadahale41545 жыл бұрын
@@Powertuber1000 You could say the same about internet trolls.
@culturematters41575 жыл бұрын
@Ugonna Mbara: Black people can't even pick up the trash in their own yards. How much does it cost to do that?
@funnyyylock5 жыл бұрын
Bruh my name is Luke and I played roblox and your name is similar to 420 and I’m smoking a blunt
@culturematters41575 жыл бұрын
@Ugonna Mbara: What looks better: An average white or black neighborhood? Try to be honest...
@sonofjorel98865 жыл бұрын
Nope. The city abandoned Cooley, and the surrounding neighborhoods long before it burned down. I graduated from Cooley in 1984 and when away to college in Indiana. After I earned my associates degree, I joined the Air Force. (Served in Desert Storm) After the Military. I completed my BS in Mathematics. And became a teacher. When I returned to the old neighborhood in the 90s, it was a shithole. I heard thrust old friends about the fire. Still have my old yearbook, have pictures of when the school was functional. Such a waste.😢
@unimatrix5014 жыл бұрын
THIS SCHOOL WAS SO NICE THEY SHOULD HAVE MADE IT INTO AN ART COLLEGE! i've never seen such detail for a city school before its really amazing and to think how proud it's students must have been going to such a great looking school!
@F1w05 жыл бұрын
Any one else thing it was sad how such a beautiful building has been so seriously destroyed.
@Notthisguyeither5 жыл бұрын
Classic example of what Detroit has become. Once beautiful homes and neighborhoods abandoned and burnt out graffiti everywhere it is the most depressing place I've ever seen
@sarsbrooks48135 жыл бұрын
...I OFTEN WONDER WHY - PEOPLE MUST DESTROY THINGS... - SOME EVEN DESTROY THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS... - THE PROJECTS - THAT THEY INHABIT... - THEY WILL LEAVE OUT OF THEIR APARTMENT - AND - URINATED IN THE STAIRWELL... - AND - WON'T CLEAN UP AFTER THEIR DOGS... - OH I'M SPEAKING OF ALL NATIONALITIES... - !!! - SMH - DESTROY OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPERTY - JUST BECAUSE THEY WORK... AND THEY DON'T - SO THEY FEEL INFERIOR - AND - WILL ROB YOUR HOME - AND/OR DESTROY YOUR HOME - WHILE YOU'RE AWAY... - WE MUST GET RID OF - THE SPIRIT OF - ENVY - AND - JEALOUSY - IT ALMOST BROUGHT ME TO TEARS UPON SEEING THE AFTERMATH OF SAID FIRE... - I JUST LOVE THE BEAUTY OF IT ALL... -
@tammybrennan95065 жыл бұрын
Tim Lepley Detroit still has some very beautiful homes
@Notthisguyeither5 жыл бұрын
@@tammybrennan9506 I know it does and I hope the city recovers someday it just really affected me the couple times I made deliveries there being able to see past what it has become to see the real place of beauty that it used to be all of the nice neighborhoods that are now mostly in ruins it gave me a real sense of pain for all of the people who still hold on to what the American dream used to be I will forever be affected by what I saw
@tammybrennan95065 жыл бұрын
Tim Lepley ~ The whole Country has become unrecognizable to me, maybe if things such as The pledge of Allegiance we said daily & proudly weren’t removed maybe schools families & society wouldn’t of went straight down hill. Maybe the flag is next to be banned. I agree, definitely sad and hard to see how everything is dilapidated. Have a awesome day
@moeiscool4 жыл бұрын
The auditorium makes me sad. So beautiful, it should have been preserved or repurposed
@douglasrowland37223 жыл бұрын
That building belongs to the government. Back then, they wouldn't even let the community use the school buildings for neighborhood events if they were going to make any money....all you could have is block club stuff and anything that does not involve the wealth of the community. I always wondered why the people did not have control of the schools....but BY LAW you had to send your child there !!! We were sleeping then, we were so proud of America, we didn't catch what they were doing. They taught what they wanted to. We couldn't even have community meetings there...we had to use the churches. The fact that we were so proud of what we THOUGHT we ''had''...illustrates what the bible says....pride is a sin !
@MartinCarenaSantiago4 жыл бұрын
Man, I feel like I would have genuinely enjoyed going to school if it looked like this. That entire building is a masterpiece, and the theater is jaw-dropping. Another awesome video guys.
@AnucatMZK4 жыл бұрын
Man you have no idea. I graduated from there in 92. It was beautiful. Life was so fast that it was taken for granted. We didn't have a class on architecture or the history of our or Detroit. There are so many factors. Just know that Detroit was set up to decline over time. People were in such a survival mentality that it was all about right now money and not preservation. The schools population was a little over 3,000 my senior year. In 89 there was change in my middle school or I would have been at Cooley my freshman year.
@Hannah-ig7th4 жыл бұрын
I went to a junior high that looked similar to this school (on a smaller scale of course). Our auditorium was massive and beautifully built. Its hands down my favorite school I’ve ever went to. Even considering how young I was, I remember still being so appreciative of its history. I was in the last 7th grade class to ever go there. It’s been abandoned since. Still breaks my heart to drive past it
@johnpeters4824 жыл бұрын
My mother graduated from Cooley High School in 1964. I’m not going to show her this video because I am certain it will upset her. About two or three months after graduation, she moved to Austin to attend the University of Texas (her other alma mater 🤘🏻). I asked her why she chose to move so far away from Detroit. She said she had lived there for almost all of her life and wanted a change of scenery and even by the early 60’s the city was already in decline. A few years ago she attend a reunion. It was bittersweet. The school they had all attended was closed but she saw many classmates she hadn’t seen in decades. She has lived in Texas all this time but still has a lot of nostalgia for Detroit from the 50’s and early 60’s. She will tell you it was truly a great city back then. Thanks for sharing this video.
@jow2655 жыл бұрын
This school is freaking beautiful, amazing. If I had the money I'd renovate it. Amazing!
@greenrefrigerator5 жыл бұрын
@@YourName-jm7lz I don't think they literally mean they would invest the many millions of dollars it would take to renovate this building. Detroit has become a ghost town with a level of lawlessness rivalling the old west of 200 years ago. I think it's just the OP's way of expressing how nice this school was. I see a lot of people who talk that way, and while it can be a bit confusing, I mainly see younger people doing this but most don't mean it in a literal sense. I could be wrong here but that's how I interpreted it.
@corycollier5 жыл бұрын
yeah likewise. Absolutely gorgeous place and deserves to be restored and preserved for future generations. Turn it into a museum possibly...
@coolfred90834 жыл бұрын
@@YourName-jm7lz Because they value this differently to you
@coolfred90834 жыл бұрын
@@greenrefrigerator Yeah, I think it means if they had essentially infinite money, renovating this would be one of the things they'd do.
@rogerrobertson29584 жыл бұрын
Good luck!
@billiam98455 жыл бұрын
I attended Cooley in 1960-62. It was truly a beautiful example of Spanish architecture. The auditorium was originally a open courtyard that was converted shortly after the school was opened to an auditorium. Not to diminish how great this High school was, or maybe to underscore how much the student body "enjoyed" the environment of Cooley High, it had in the early 60's the highest dropout rate due to pregnancies in Michigan...
@JohnSmith-10665 жыл бұрын
Cooley was designed and constructed by Anglo-Saxons. There’s nothing “Spanish” about it.
@tammybrennan95065 жыл бұрын
Joe M I’m watching this u tube rite now, idk how I found this channel but it’s awesome especially when u live in Michigan 👍
@politelady1235 жыл бұрын
@carlos Rivas ugh... how does it feel to be racist?! Trying to be on the same side of a race that doesn't like your people neither! Be quiet!
@thatshygirlinclass84045 жыл бұрын
carlos Rivas dumb
@aldofhister68595 жыл бұрын
@carlos Rivas Fuck you brown back !
@marshasmith-lowe27615 жыл бұрын
Most of the high schools built during that time had banked running tracks, very detailed auditoriums and libraries. Also marbled walls.
@blast4me7544 жыл бұрын
Everything built pre 1960's were very detailed from the buildings , phones , cars and a bunch of other things I don't feel like naming
@miloe.32454 жыл бұрын
Kevin ,youre joking right? youre not that much of a idiot ,are you???
@sararoberts72063 жыл бұрын
We know over time there will be some decay but what is the most heart breaking is the vandalization and the fact someone ruined this building on purpose. Just why????
@musikman3375 жыл бұрын
Just think of the love stories that took place at the high school..crush's that turned into marriages etc
@jenwhite88325 жыл бұрын
musikman337 what a beautiful thought
@musikman3375 жыл бұрын
@@jenwhite8832 ikr
@wetrain91075 жыл бұрын
tiger cat why does saying a lovely thought make u say that?? what is wrong with you honestly
@fatherandie5 жыл бұрын
Your Name ... lmfao they couldn’t have all been “criminals” jeez dude.
@fatherandie5 жыл бұрын
Your Name I just misread it, my bad. it’s not a big deal though
@TruthNTime5 жыл бұрын
What makes your videos so good and stand out from the rest is you always give a little history about what you're exploring and add mood music that seems to fit the place you are exploring just right. It makes all the difference, Bravo you two, Bravo... ...for setting the Benchmark in URBEX documentaries and adventures. Thank you...
@jeffstrains40145 жыл бұрын
I agree! I am amazed they do not have more subs then they do.
@TruthNTime5 жыл бұрын
730k subs is nothing to sneeze at, however I agree !
@prdoohan5 жыл бұрын
It makes me sad the "mainstream" don't see this quality content. I imagine on Netflix or similar it'd be a hit.
@TruthNTime5 жыл бұрын
No question about it, These guys Set the benchmark in Urbex. I've watched at least a dozen other so called explorers they're all cheesy Bouncy camera work always zoomed in too close so you can't get any perspective so on so forth. These 2 definitely got their stuff together and it shows .
@EddieBoes5 жыл бұрын
Definately. And their mood music is done right. Not during the entire thing, or too loud over talking. I love hearing the footsteps and ambient sounds clearly.
@dsmeadows28484 жыл бұрын
My Mom Went to Cooley High School in the 40's... Everything in Detroit was destroyed after the Great White Flight... If you want another building that is an old theatre, go find the Redford Theatre. That one was huge like the Fox Theatre. and the old Train Depot in Downtown Detroit..Many have tried to save the old Train Station.. It was beautiful. Detroit used to be beautiful and they exploded the old Hudson's building downtown Detroit. But it had beautiful everything. When I was a small child we would always go to downtown Detroit to Hudson's with their gold and brass elevators .
@marcharris27344 жыл бұрын
Ford is now restoring the old train station.
@debbyheidbreder56864 жыл бұрын
You are so right about the beautiful architecture in Detroit. My mom used to take us downtown on the bus to Hudson’s for lunch. They had the best egg salad sandwiches. The train depot was also extremely beautiful. Unfortunately none of that architecture will be built again but I do have wonderful memories of my childhood growing up with such beauty. I was so proud to have gone to the best high school in Detroit at that time. Looking at the devastation is heartbreaking but I was able to remember how it looked when I attended Cooley and my graduation.
@dgyrlc11234 жыл бұрын
@@debbyheidbreder5686 I would live to see how it looked during your days there. I was born and raised in Detroit, but during the time I went to school, Cooley High had a bad reputation of not being one of the safer DPS so I never even attempted to go there. I never knew how large it was or how it looked inside. But I am curious to see how it looked during its heydays.
@lionelkennedy13944 жыл бұрын
Detroit seems like a beautiful city.
@debbyheidbreder56864 жыл бұрын
Lionel Kennedy Detroit used to be a great city but now it’s not anymore. I haven’t lived there for a very long time.
@williams14432 жыл бұрын
I graduated from Cooley, June 2010. It was still beautiful then and we were so sad to hear it was closing!
@williams14432 жыл бұрын
Also, as a graduate of Cooley. It is now sooooooooooo hard to freaking get your transcripts or copy of diploma or anything like that now that it's closed
@midoribudd27574 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid, we took a trip to visit this high school, I sat in that auditorium and can remember how beautiful it was to me, even as a child. Theatre has always been a big part of me and seeing this video breaks my heart. Happy that you've brought light to such an old yet still somewhat beautiful piece of Detroit history.
@PRNTestDrive5 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the exact same thing when you were in the library, the students there probably didn’t appreciate how elegant their school was, same way I probably wouldn’t have either back in high school. Very cool building, very sad it’s so wrecked after 9 years.
@DaddyDoSoWell5 жыл бұрын
I went to Cooley High School and I can tell you we took a lot of pride in our school. It's so sad to see it in this condition. Cooley did not have to close. It's the fault of Detroit's leadership at the time that caused this and it's the reason so many other buildings in Detroit looks like this.
@PRNTestDrive5 жыл бұрын
I can only imagine how upsetting it is to see this school in the condition it is for you. Any of these historical buildings are part of history that gets lost forever when it’s closed and vandalized like this. I’m glad to hear that the students knew how special that school was though, some silver lining in an otherwise very sad situation.
@melc38715 жыл бұрын
We appreciated the ENTIRE building. I worked in the library and it was amazing to just look around at all the detail. We fought to keep our school open but the alumni lost the fight. The building was beautiful inside and out!!!!
@MrKellyELA4 жыл бұрын
That library and auditorium are/ were amazing. This should’ve been preserved as a museum of an ancient school.
@julcaos4 жыл бұрын
yep! agreed...
@lionelkennedy13944 жыл бұрын
Indeed. I was even impressed with the library and gymnasium.
@MrKellyELA4 жыл бұрын
Lionel Kennedy That style of gym was actually a standard for most Detroit Public Schools.
@lionelkennedy13944 жыл бұрын
@@MrKellyELA It was impressive. Makes my high school gym look small
@bellamarisa4 жыл бұрын
The library was my favorite. I can imagine how stunning it was back in the day. I would’ve definitely spent the majority of my time in that library!! Spectacular!!!
@lemmdus21195 жыл бұрын
This video makes me want to cry. Buildings like this should be the standard. Its like we are regressing.
@bandombeviews60354 жыл бұрын
This was never standard by any means. It was built to show off Detroit’s wealth, not to be a practical school.
@fiercedevil69554 жыл бұрын
That bathroom looks MUCH better than my middle school bathroom. This has marble while my school has plastic.
@jesskim85964 жыл бұрын
Mine has metal which is even worse
@brickspace86174 жыл бұрын
In my school in Britain we had a big long metal urinal (not separate urinals), toilets without seats, brown floor tiles and the walls and the cubicles (stalls) were always the same shade of blue in every single school. So in Britain it's not much better. As far as I know this is what most schools still look like now.
@yt-tl8mn4 жыл бұрын
You should come to indian schools to see bathrooms
@heartsfromlana4 жыл бұрын
My middle school bathroom is pretty similar to in the one in the video except only the floor and counters are marble, something also pretty similar is the court yard my school also has that. Few things that are majorly different that the school in the video has the track around the gym but instead at my school we have two gyms. Also with the theater I have two theatres one is much smaller but the other is way bigger. My school also has a huge Industrial Arts room with a bunch of tools/machines for the use of student and staff.
@rodrickthompson27993 жыл бұрын
This building could be repaired but it would take a minute. It would cost alot. Probably be better just start over!!!
@youngdirko29385 жыл бұрын
Imagine being in that school at its peak time in 83 that’s literally what I dream about sometimes that’s insane
@ec81075 жыл бұрын
You wouldn't have wanted to be in that school in '83. That was peak population, not the best of times. The bottom was falling out of the city by the time the '70s came around.
@EphemeralProductions5 жыл бұрын
E C: wouldn't have wanted to be in a LOT of American schools in 83. Lol. Much rougher time in schools and a totally different world than schools today
@mvanluven785 жыл бұрын
@@ec8107 exactly. Best times would have probably been 45-65 or so. It would have been pretty intimidating in the 80's.
@DETSRC3135 жыл бұрын
Lot of rich dealers I knew went to school there. Crack was hitting the D hard on 1983 YBI gang was taking over that neighborhood.
@pinkelefant4ever5 жыл бұрын
@@DETSRC313 where are they now?
@hughsmith7903 жыл бұрын
Interesting that you mentioned the steel beams on the theater stage being melted and bent. Steel becomes pliable at about 2000F (meaning it can be bent or lose its ability to carry the load placed on it.) At 3000F steel become a molten hot liquid which one might see boiling in a steel mill. Steel is a strong material for construction, it’s only drawback being if it becomes to hot in a major fire, and collapse under the weight of the load it’s holding up in the building.
@SACERDOTISAIRENE2 жыл бұрын
Like the WTC buildings...
@EvanVanderStoep4 жыл бұрын
The "power plant" looking smokestack is most likely the smokestack for the boiler room. The school was also most likely to have been heated by a water radiator system connected to the boiler.
@jayzen.a.m.35714 жыл бұрын
Incinerator?
@matthewserdynski16994 жыл бұрын
Back in the day the boiler was heated by coal, and the high smokestack was designed to disperse pollution high in the air so it spread further without affecting the atmosphere closer to the ground. Id be interested to see the old coal rooms where they had to store it all.
@superdragonz14 жыл бұрын
Evan Vander Stoep my hs has a smokestack never saw smoke coming out though
@gtametro4 жыл бұрын
@@superdragonz1 i doubt they will still be burning coal. it will be gas fired so no smoke
@clurkroberts26504 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful school. I’m so sad that this facility wasn’t appreciated and saved. The hearts, minds and soul of generations of students and teachers were lost.
@ShardyShardWagner245 жыл бұрын
I think Wayne State University should purchase Cooley and extensively renovate it and expand their school of education
@amandafoshaug84354 жыл бұрын
That would be incredible
@tastefullys4 жыл бұрын
They probably dont want to spend millions upon millions to fix it. It’s cheaper to just build a new building
@whoisjohngalt114 жыл бұрын
Without a huge grant from the automakers or something like that, nobody would have the money to do that. It would be nice, but kids would probably just destroy it anyway. When I was in high school we couldn't even keep doors on the bathroom stalls. As soon as they would put them on some knuckleheads would be swinging on them and break them.
@andrewpriebe32864 жыл бұрын
Smart man
@sdoyal14 жыл бұрын
They would need a military platoon to keep any students safe , that area is not good these days.
@asleepinthemorgue4 жыл бұрын
Whenever I see abandoned schools like this I always wanna refurbish the schools and make them as great as they were before, just so more generations can enjoy it as much as the others did
@briand66712 жыл бұрын
So they can be burned again? Ever been to detroit ?