I say keep the building, don't take it down, and make it for homeless people. Don't provide them anything else free, just give them the building and see what they do with it. Make it a reality show.
How can the billionaire who own these building be allow to just abandon them who the real criminals ....i know lest blame the poor black folks who don't own any of them; not one single build.
@fan119 You must be very young or damn stupid. Africans were kidnapped to the states as slaves, and ever since they have been segregated and controlled by the goverments and kept in poverty. If you fill up a place with alot of hungry people, eventually the hungry will take what they need.
i dont expect you to understand that since i believe your a spoiled shithead from the suburbs. you wouldn't last a day in the projects.
What the hell??? All of those Jazz items (photos, awards, posters, etc.) strewn about that abandoned office need to be saved and given to a Jazz museum.
man I love this video. It's really post-apocalyptic and a great glimpse of what life would be like if there was a cataclysmic event with few survivors.
Great video. Watched this for an Urban Geography class. Just a little praise for you
@foxdmulder $30/hr. for shoddy labor plus workers being paid not to work, resulting in a product of decreasing quality, resulting in a steadily decreasing demand for said product.
It's as if the city had to be evacuated after some sort of nuclear meltdown. It's literally like watching Chernobyl footage.
It really kills me to see the collapse of American civilization, and laugh it up kids, but Detroit is an example of what will happen if the US stays on it's current path of shrinking middle class, rich getting richer, and poor getting poorer.
@dnlcast2 wow is a "negro" free world your picture perfect utopia? Perhaps we should go get some rope in your eyes? If you opened your mind, you would realize that there are many cities like this all over in the USA and not all of those are ran by "negroes". There are bad and ignorant people in all races and cultures, it's common sense and your comment proves my point. By the way, it's 2011. Who says negro?
Name a couple of those cities, at your leisure. To my knowledge, the only other that can compare in terms of statistical degradation and collapse is Flint, MI. Flint is Detroit's neighbor. I'm not defending anyone's rhetoric... but it seems you should be able to defend your own. Also, do you mean "were run" when you say "are ran"? Mysteries are abound in your posting...
ill take all those plakes etc. from that building and sell them or keep them then ill throw a party through out the whole building. Fuck i wanna go there now
Detroit was once the worlds most promising city...It would of dwarfed Weston, Massachusetts, Alpine, New Jersey, Palm Beach, Florida, Scarsdale, New York Ect...
But!...
The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street riot. Blacks start looting, killing, robing,
A 68 year-old Armenian immigrant, beaten to death by a group of black youths,
A married mother of two. Shot, as they tried flee from a mob of black youths beating a white man.
haha, im sorry, this may be my musician side talking...but i laughed my ASS off when the camera turned to what was so obviously a regular old snare drum, and in that STRAIGHT UP befuddled way said "what the HECK is this thing??" i mean, have you never seen a live band in your life? anyway, really cool video - its really eerie how much stuff from past lives is up in that haunted old building. how the hell did you get in there?
All debates aside, I find it sooo amazing and nostalgic to see awards and plaques, once Cherished and hung on walls by people, now Strewn about like garbage.
@pr9nkaholic Detroit is just a glimpse into the future of most US-cities. They have been build primarely for business. Not for living. Detroit became obsolete with Japanese cars and more expensive gasoline. New York will become obsolete once the heart of the global financial market beats in Berlin, Beijing and Saudi Arabia. The anglosaxon empire is in its final phase. It's the same with all empires. Thats why its good not to have one.
soooo awesome! I wanna go here so bad. I feel like it's kind of everything that is off limits in most cities, but abandoned and free to explore (or are they)
The International Jazz hall of fame was sad. Me and my buddy where in Book Tower around that same time. U guys find the roof hatch in the elevator room? When we came down, after 4 or 5 hours, we ran into the security guard watchin the (Bookies was still there) place. The guy had a gun and wanted to know what the F we where doin there. I was real glad we didnt jack anything--I did want some of the stuff from the IJHF. Its gunna be"Green" Apts. soon,I hope. Nice work :) Oh, Ren-Cen is taller.
in Germany where they make the BMW, in Bavaria , the divorce rate is next to zero.in Detroit , a city i respect, tough ,blue collar, every thing die when the music i loved die.fucking rap,pants on the ground what do you expect.brothers used to be elegant,with high level of curiosity,and Detroit probably was a great place to live. I am a immigrant my self and my restless spirit did great things for me.with out of curiosity every thing idles. that is my ecsplenation.
What the hell? Americans, they leave a huge historic skyscraper...Omg Some people should buy this Thing for a hand of dollars and do some commercial work with it...That's so damn strange...
@Schlittenfahrer93 Except very few people are willing to invest in Detroit, because very few people live there. The city's government id broke too, so these places end up sitting. They all have owners, but the owners don't have to money to do anything with the buildings. It's quite sad.
What is the current situation in Detroit? Resumption of growth is occurring, or not? That's because I read a few days ago that investors would be getting some mega abandoned areas in suburban Detroit in order to establish farms. Also read about the challenge of relocating the current mayor in the city center, the few inhabitants of the suburb, to reduce the cost of maintaining street lighting, street cleaning and security, it already thinking about the transformation of the suburb on farms.
@anythingbutcommon I would respectfully argue that the race riots and white flight, are symptoms not causes. as for the down sizing of the auto industries that is for sure a big part of the picture but how bad would it have to be for people and companies to just pick up and leave there homes there factories, keep in mind a great deal of detroits industrial base simlpy moved to more freindly states. my last 3 chevy SUVs where made in TEXAS, do you think that has any thing to do with race riots
if i lived there id be rich by now , go in there with hold alls , fill them with all them valuable objects and sell the lot on ebay, that guy said it himself that organ is worth atleast $7000.
@b191191 Except it's considered trespassing, and if you get caught inside or it can be proven you were inside, you go to jail. Most of the buildings don't look like that too, most ARE cleaned out by scrappers and people taking souvenirs.
It’s such a shame to see great American sky scrapers built by great American people being left idle like that, unfortunately in the U.K we only have about 5 or 6 nice sky scrapers in the whole country & a hand full of others that have no architectural or aesthetical value what to ever. It’s a shame to see them left to deteriorate like that in the US.
i didn’t realise the punishment was so hard , in the U.K most that would happen is a $200 equivalent fine.
@b191191 Yes, it really is sad, but what's even worse is there is nothing you can do about it. Luckily Several buildings have been renovated like the Westin Book-Cadillac hotel, which was built by the same people that built this tower shown in the video. Hopefully Detroit can turn it around and regain it's once glorious title.
are u guys kidding me? are all the skyscrapers abandoned as well? what happened in detroit? a disease or smthng? :) when can i move in then? my own skyscraper, is it?
@Fan119 Or is it that white people - who are historicaly in a better economic position in America - moved out of the neighbourhood when they couldn't find jobs to another town or neighbourhood. At the same time black people who were poorer didn't have the resources to move anywhere else and stayed...
@Fan119 Whites have run down their own communities. I used to live in Oklahoma, and Henryetta, Muskogee, Sand Springs, and Oklahoma City have been run down by inbred white crackers.
These comments are hilarious. People saying "Oh Bring your gun down there, they will find you." Talk. Talk. Come down here. Walk the streets you see in this video. A Video makes it look like the worst place in the world. And ignorant people, who have never been to Detroit, come comment like they know something. Come down here. See for yourself.
Kinda a scary... Peoples SSN Numbers and other private records can be in those papers... I like how the one guy is just sitting there as if he works there, reading the papers and stuff. I wonder why people left their Items there though? Its almost as if they all ran out do to some scare...
“These buildings, they are designed with repetition in mind, repetition of power, patterns everywhere, as if the patterns were made by machines, I guess the economic machines of the motor city,” says Damon.
“The towers look like computers,” Gareth observes. “The shadows look so much more geometric and sharp when you see them on tall buildings,” he continues to muse. And the horizon, when I view it through the camera lens, looks so bleached by the sun, bleached into an apocalypse.”
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@thespawnof66 You ever seen Cass Tech? They walked right out. Books in the classrooms, notes on the chalkboard, lab equipment on the desks. Still sitting there today, after 5 years. They literally all just left school one regular day and nobody ever went back inside.
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That furniture is probably worth at least several thousand dollars, then the scrap, the antiques, collectibles etc. I would be tempted to clear the building for free if I was allowed to keep everything from it.
I got vertigo watching the footage where you seemed to be standing on a ledge near the top of the building. If you had fallen, that would've put you in the running for the Darwin award.
look these guys were methheads out looking for good shit to steal they can go through the whole building in two hours posing as a cleanup crew these teams can go 24 7 365 with no fear and 9 times out of 10 find the most precious item and get it out of there their inguinity is flawless and their determination the feircest comaridity is strong what holds them together is the drug crystal meth dirty word to some miracle cure to others with a photographic memory of this adventure with their comarads
This is a direct result of Ronald's Reagon's philosophy to let the rich make more money, and undercut labor. It was supposed to "trickle down" to everyone. This video is proof of what those polices accomplished.
@yurei8 Incorrect. This happened to Detroit starting the late 1960's, 1967 to be exact. It had nothing to do with Reagan. This was a direct result of violence and a race riot.
To inform you a little more, rich people start businesses, which pay taxes and employ hundreds and thousands of people, like you and me. If there were no rich people, we wouldn't work anywhere.
Are you saying the federal reserve stealing 23.7 trillion dollars from the American people has absolutely nothing to do with the current state of Detroit?
And if rich people start businesses why can I provide you long lists of names of people who were not rich who started businesses and can you explain to me why so many rich people were not born into financial wealth?
@SadegoGG You blamed Regeans philosophy on the current state of Detroit. Detroit's downfall started long before Ron was our president. That is a blatant lie.
You can provide that list because most people that start businesses are regular people. Simple enough. By not taxing the rich with ridiculous taxes, it helps keep their corporations alive and expanding, which helps pay us regular folk and pay the government taxes.
Can you please specify where I said Ronald Raegan ruined Detroit? Also, i'm glad you now realize you don't have to be rich to start a business. Moving on, why is it so important for the American people to pay 35% of their incomes in federal taxation? Because the government lies about deficits by not discussing their investment? You should look into the government's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports. Government debt is held in investment, high taxes are not necessary in America.
@jerrytimes Saying that the riots are what killed Detroit is not true. America has lost a great amount of its manufacturing base. But we were told before hand, that more jobs were going to be created by tax cuts. The money went out of the country. Loss of middle income jobs hurts the entire economy. I'm not attacking all of the wealthy. I'm saying that the general welfare of the people, requires policy support for the less wealthy also. They are the most numerous.
@jerrytimes correction it started long before the late sixties - do you think the suburbs and the freeways that led to to them magically appeared . have you ever heard of the practice of blockbusting . have you ever thought about who got wealthy .
I did a lil bit of research and found out that John F. Kennedy signed into law to host the olympics in 1968 but the bid failed. My mistake. So I guess Detroit almost host the olympics but in it's current state I don't see that happening in the near future.
omg i wanna walk around so much, i love to explore abandoned houses, but i never been i skyscraper :)
hugejoint 3 days ago
Omg so fucking awesome, a UE dream come true. Is it easy to go in there or is there a fence around it?
StyrbjornStarke 1 week ago
I say keep the building, don't take it down, and make it for homeless people. Don't provide them anything else free, just give them the building and see what they do with it. Make it a reality show.
AdamBomb669 2 weeks ago
I would've taken those beautiful wooden tables the moment they abandoned that building, just saying..
okihama 3 weeks ago
Imagine if we had money...and good government
Thumper5592 3 weeks ago
Why are there fire extinguishers everywhere?
XXhpminiXX 3 weeks ago
wow, that's amazing. I'm surprised they let you go in
st0rmgal 3 weeks ago
Is that the Book Building?
CheckM8King2 4 weeks ago
How can the billionaire who own these building be allow to just abandon them who the real criminals ....i know lest blame the poor black folks who don't own any of them; not one single build.
sgtstorage 1 month ago
Reminds me of Pyongyang N. Korea.
Isaiah6517 1 month ago 3
they should tear it down
pete5668 1 month ago
wow clean up the mess and you have a nice living place ;)
flexxo1000 1 month ago
this is a nice building... and to think detroit was a bustiling city once.
yourcrazybroski 1 month ago
i hate what it has turned in to. in the end of the vid that apartment looked nice
brendanskates4life 1 month ago
@fan119 You must be very young or damn stupid. Africans were kidnapped to the states as slaves, and ever since they have been segregated and controlled by the goverments and kept in poverty. If you fill up a place with alot of hungry people, eventually the hungry will take what they need.
i dont expect you to understand that since i believe your a spoiled shithead from the suburbs. you wouldn't last a day in the projects.
dnjsrbij 1 month ago
@dnjsrbij actually most of the african tribes leaders sold their own tribes out. Kind of like what the government is doing to our military.
emanweezy 3 weeks ago
What the hell??? All of those Jazz items (photos, awards, posters, etc.) strewn about that abandoned office need to be saved and given to a Jazz museum.
Talk about disposable culture. Truly, very sad...
mgabbard 1 month ago
what the fuck happened to USA?
TheLukaszencja 1 month ago
@TheLukaszencja BLACKS
truckinby 1 month ago
man I love this video. It's really post-apocalyptic and a great glimpse of what life would be like if there was a cataclysmic event with few survivors.
Great video. Watched this for an Urban Geography class. Just a little praise for you
UrbanDemon97 2 months ago
The real ground zero.
omegassault 2 months ago
HAS ANYONE EVER HEARD OF EBAY? I"VE SEEN A BUNCH OF STUFF I COULD LIST ON THERE OR CRAIGSLIST!!!! I"D BE A MILLIONAIRE IN LESS THAN A YEAR.
nowthatsfunny1 2 months ago
It must be the former set for "Night Court" I just a picture of Mel Torme on the floor, why don't they fix the place up for the homeless??
carpetime 2 months ago
can we sell Michigan to Canada for, I dunno, like 5 horses or something?
tacoland2000 2 months ago 14
@tacoland2000 It might be nice to have a little bit of Lake Michigan on our side, yeah. :)
PatchesRips 2 months ago
@tacoland2000 No, i wouldn't accept it for free.
767fife 2 months ago
looks a lot like the abandoned/decrepit factory towns of the Soviet satellite countries.
tacoland2000 2 months ago
they should make zombie movies in detroit !
HubertWolfen 2 months ago 7
Forgive me, is this real? this is like a scene from I am legend or resident evil.. what happened here?
foxdmulder 3 months ago
@foxdmulder $30/hr. for shoddy labor plus workers being paid not to work, resulting in a product of decreasing quality, resulting in a steadily decreasing demand for said product.
tacoland2000 2 months ago
@foxdmulder Niggaz happened there.
betterbeavailable 2 months ago
are you flying?
tamerseeker 3 months ago
too much mic noise.. keep everything away from hitting the mic.. you are annoying people to death u dumb $%^#@
airassurance1 3 months ago
how the hell is all that stuff i the building still??? i can imagine all the bums and punk kids that have been in there.
saverio1e 3 months ago
Word
ImmanuelCunt22 3 months ago
It's as if the city had to be evacuated after some sort of nuclear meltdown. It's literally like watching Chernobyl footage.
It really kills me to see the collapse of American civilization, and laugh it up kids, but Detroit is an example of what will happen if the US stays on it's current path of shrinking middle class, rich getting richer, and poor getting poorer.
LCon30 3 months ago
Any place that is run by negroes will ultimately be ruined, destroyed, and turned to hell!
dnlcast2 3 months ago
@dnlcast2 wow is a "negro" free world your picture perfect utopia? Perhaps we should go get some rope in your eyes? If you opened your mind, you would realize that there are many cities like this all over in the USA and not all of those are ran by "negroes". There are bad and ignorant people in all races and cultures, it's common sense and your comment proves my point. By the way, it's 2011. Who says negro?
gwenny3080 2 months ago
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tacoland2000 2 months ago
Name a couple of those cities, at your leisure. To my knowledge, the only other that can compare in terms of statistical degradation and collapse is Flint, MI. Flint is Detroit's neighbor. I'm not defending anyone's rhetoric... but it seems you should be able to defend your own. Also, do you mean "were run" when you say "are ran"? Mysteries are abound in your posting...
tacoland2000 2 months ago
Detroit is one vhg dumpster dive
breakdanceexpress 3 months ago
Which building is it? I recognize the architecture, but I don't recall the name.
Gbemus666 4 months ago
Looks like a lot of good garage sale stuff there. Shoulda set up some tables at the base of the building and sold the stuff.
MrMaypole14 4 months ago
Can you take the stuff that is abandoned? Or is that considered looting? I see some items that could bring in some good cash.
BondisBourne78 5 months ago
Detroit : a city we could easily do without.
betover68 5 months ago
@betover68 Say that to the 4 million people who populate in or around that city...
Bass2Intense 5 months ago
wow....
miamivicepastels83 6 months ago
i would love to do what your doing..
gymclasshero88 6 months ago
how many of the buildings around you are also abandoned?
gymclasshero88 6 months ago
Was the building really full of stuff? Amazing how so much has been left behind.
jettenjetta 6 months ago
I'd like to know why he was whispering in an abandoned building?
PaisanTed 6 months ago 2
There was a lot of Charlie Parker stuff in there. Was that skyscraper where his record label's office operated?
HailDarkened 6 months ago
ill take all those plakes etc. from that building and sell them or keep them then ill throw a party through out the whole building. Fuck i wanna go there now
ChIcAnO2111 7 months ago
I have too much time to wast and I found out what building this is :)
Mar2623 7 months ago
/watch?v=JVoGW5fgdkM
Detroit: a city that once was
OnlinewholesaleCOCC 7 months ago
THIS IS NOT RACIST; its the truth.
Detroit was once the worlds most promising city...It would of dwarfed Weston, Massachusetts, Alpine, New Jersey, Palm Beach, Florida, Scarsdale, New York Ect...
But!...
The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street riot. Blacks start looting, killing, robing,
A 68 year-old Armenian immigrant, beaten to death by a group of black youths,
A married mother of two. Shot, as they tried flee from a mob of black youths beating a white man.
OnlinewholesaleCOCC 7 months ago in playlist own
Dude I'd be ebayin' all that stuff
Ljungman42 7 months ago
What building is this? /what is the intersection?
amal7493 7 months ago
what is the name of this building
shutout951 7 months ago
fucking need to level it. Just level it all
talltom1973 7 months ago 2
Oh, I'd love to walk around in such an abandones skyscraper.
JeriChsk2 8 months ago
Why didnt you just take everything and bring it to the antiques roadshow :P
mikere555 8 months ago
Very good video, The best i´ve seen so far
perjanan 8 months ago
@perjanan thanks!
yrvelouria 5 months ago
haha, im sorry, this may be my musician side talking...but i laughed my ASS off when the camera turned to what was so obviously a regular old snare drum, and in that STRAIGHT UP befuddled way said "what the HECK is this thing??" i mean, have you never seen a live band in your life? anyway, really cool video - its really eerie how much stuff from past lives is up in that haunted old building. how the hell did you get in there?
bijibadness 9 months ago
I want to go there it´s amazing to see abandoned buildings and things like that. Greetings from slovakia.
PUK1SVA 9 months ago
That snare drum was made by Ludwig and worth thousands. I can't believe you didn't take it.
BuildingAbandoned 9 months ago
DUDE UR NUTZ !!! BUT, yup i watched ur vid
saintmj57 9 months ago
If only we could turn the clock back when it was robust, the 50's....I was the last caucasion born in that zip code.
reddnec 9 months ago
@reddnec yea just keep buying your "american cars" from mexico with parts from china.
externalpower 8 months ago
NICE VID
MaxSpeedMedia 9 months ago
tons of valuable shit left behind, id redecorate my house with all them abandoned paintings or some shit!
shammy63 9 months ago
I hear Detroit is like this because of the blacks.
hightops77 9 months ago
i feel bad for this city
1234wilbur 10 months ago
i think i can see my apartment in this video
mangin23 10 months ago
fantastic...but is it legit ?
90038jhon 11 months ago
@90038jhon normaly no. but go for it if you want.
DavisCampbell 10 months ago
All debates aside, I find it sooo amazing and nostalgic to see awards and plaques, once Cherished and hung on walls by people, now Strewn about like garbage.
pr9nkaholic 11 months ago 22
@pr9nkaholic thats one of the coolest comments i've ever seen on this site. what a great notion, i never thought of it like that.
bijibadness 9 months ago
@pr9nkaholic Detroit is just a glimpse into the future of most US-cities. They have been build primarely for business. Not for living. Detroit became obsolete with Japanese cars and more expensive gasoline. New York will become obsolete once the heart of the global financial market beats in Berlin, Beijing and Saudi Arabia. The anglosaxon empire is in its final phase. It's the same with all empires. Thats why its good not to have one.
AlMayer1100 1 month ago
@pr9nkaholic You're so right. These are videos of buildings, but they are really about people.
gracie1232 1 month ago
soooo awesome! I wanna go here so bad. I feel like it's kind of everything that is off limits in most cities, but abandoned and free to explore (or are they)
CrimsonEmpire 11 months ago
highbeam.com/doc/1P1-2305079.html
This was the jazz museum :(
socialmissfit 11 months ago
The International Jazz hall of fame was sad. Me and my buddy where in Book Tower around that same time. U guys find the roof hatch in the elevator room? When we came down, after 4 or 5 hours, we ran into the security guard watchin the (Bookies was still there) place. The guy had a gun and wanted to know what the F we where doin there. I was real glad we didnt jack anything--I did want some of the stuff from the IJHF. Its gunna be"Green" Apts. soon,I hope. Nice work :) Oh, Ren-Cen is taller.
socialmissfit 11 months ago
this is sooo crazy
ilyChrisTeenUHH 11 months ago
in Germany where they make the BMW, in Bavaria , the divorce rate is next to zero.in Detroit , a city i respect, tough ,blue collar, every thing die when the music i loved die.fucking rap,pants on the ground what do you expect.brothers used to be elegant,with high level of curiosity,and Detroit probably was a great place to live. I am a immigrant my self and my restless spirit did great things for me.with out of curiosity every thing idles. that is my ecsplenation.
niki62plovdiv 11 months ago
I see a damn good rummage sale!
Back up the truck.
You know you could do that and do a nationwide tour of festivals and cash in.
1967mustanggta 11 months ago
There's lots of loot there. You fellers take anything? Find anything cool?
Barnekkid 1 year ago
You lucky bastard! How did you get into Book?
anythingbutcommon 1 year ago
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anythingbutcommon 1 year ago
detroit looks like a war is going on there or that a war just ended and the USA lost. that place should be fixed up.
exbronco1980 1 year ago
Whats wrong with you Americans?, why not renovating the whole area?.
Zoza15 1 year ago
@Zoza15 with what (or whose) money where? Don't fail to take into account the room we have in this country too.
atrumdecretum 10 months ago
What the hell? Americans, they leave a huge historic skyscraper...Omg Some people should buy this Thing for a hand of dollars and do some commercial work with it...That's so damn strange...
Schlittenfahrer93 1 year ago
@Schlittenfahrer93 Except very few people are willing to invest in Detroit, because very few people live there. The city's government id broke too, so these places end up sitting. They all have owners, but the owners don't have to money to do anything with the buildings. It's quite sad.
anythingbutcommon 1 year ago
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cyberplunge 1 year ago
Who the heck leaves so much stuff behind when they move out? Or were they locked out?
Clarrisani 1 year ago
What is the current situation in Detroit? Resumption of growth is occurring, or not? That's because I read a few days ago that investors would be getting some mega abandoned areas in suburban Detroit in order to establish farms. Also read about the challenge of relocating the current mayor in the city center, the few inhabitants of the suburb, to reduce the cost of maintaining street lighting, street cleaning and security, it already thinking about the transformation of the suburb on farms.
Darylcfamily 1 year ago
50 years of democrat rule, this is what liberalism run amuck can do to a great city.
scrapdaddy811 1 year ago
@scrapdaddy811 So the race riots, white flight, and the serious downsizing of the american auto industry had nothing to do with it?
anythingbutcommon 1 year ago
@anythingbutcommon I would respectfully argue that the race riots and white flight, are symptoms not causes. as for the down sizing of the auto industries that is for sure a big part of the picture but how bad would it have to be for people and companies to just pick up and leave there homes there factories, keep in mind a great deal of detroits industrial base simlpy moved to more freindly states. my last 3 chevy SUVs where made in TEXAS, do you think that has any thing to do with race riots
scrapdaddy811 1 year ago
if i lived there id be rich by now , go in there with hold alls , fill them with all them valuable objects and sell the lot on ebay, that guy said it himself that organ is worth atleast $7000.
too bad i live in the U.K
b191191 1 year ago
@b191191 Except it's considered trespassing, and if you get caught inside or it can be proven you were inside, you go to jail. Most of the buildings don't look like that too, most ARE cleaned out by scrappers and people taking souvenirs.
anythingbutcommon 1 year ago
@anythingbutcommon
It’s such a shame to see great American sky scrapers built by great American people being left idle like that, unfortunately in the U.K we only have about 5 or 6 nice sky scrapers in the whole country & a hand full of others that have no architectural or aesthetical value what to ever. It’s a shame to see them left to deteriorate like that in the US.
i didn’t realise the punishment was so hard , in the U.K most that would happen is a $200 equivalent fine.
b191191 11 months ago
@b191191 Yes, it really is sad, but what's even worse is there is nothing you can do about it. Luckily Several buildings have been renovated like the Westin Book-Cadillac hotel, which was built by the same people that built this tower shown in the video. Hopefully Detroit can turn it around and regain it's once glorious title.
anythingbutcommon 11 months ago
are u guys kidding me? are all the skyscrapers abandoned as well? what happened in detroit? a disease or smthng? :) when can i move in then? my own skyscraper, is it?
GoneWildAbroad 1 year ago
@GoneWildAbroad ....ZOMBIES!
kaosinc 11 months ago
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@GoneWildAbroad
Africans happened to detroit as whites moved out they moved in and brought crime poverty and their crappy work ethic to the jobs there.
the negro is a cruel mistress
Fan119 5 months ago 23
@Fan119 Or is it that white people - who are historicaly in a better economic position in America - moved out of the neighbourhood when they couldn't find jobs to another town or neighbourhood. At the same time black people who were poorer didn't have the resources to move anywhere else and stayed...
maszlagma 2 months ago
@Fan119 Whites have run down their own communities. I used to live in Oklahoma, and Henryetta, Muskogee, Sand Springs, and Oklahoma City have been run down by inbred white crackers.
publicatdamagnificen 2 months ago
@Fan119 Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.
If you don't get the message, go figure.
TheAwakian 2 months ago
@Fan119 What are you smoking crack black people didn't fuck over the city
skillz7854 1 month ago
@Fan119 we came here because of you
jumponjumpon 1 month ago
@Fan119 because of them it looks like this
213jcav 2 weeks ago
@Fan119 tribal government doesn't mix well with modernity.. i guess it's a big "oopsy" for slavery
brianestoll 2 weeks ago
How did you come in?
Martenshofstede 1 year ago
DETROIT ROCK CITY BABY!!!
armanico04 1 year ago
These comments are hilarious. People saying "Oh Bring your gun down there, they will find you." Talk. Talk. Come down here. Walk the streets you see in this video. A Video makes it look like the worst place in the world. And ignorant people, who have never been to Detroit, come comment like they know something. Come down here. See for yourself.
IxCLuTcHxI 1 year ago 18
@IxCLuTcHxI ignorant people? i lived in detroit for two years (balfour and east warren) the city is full of animals
badgerattoadhall 8 months ago
@IxCLuTcHxI I live in detroit and I'm still scared to hell from walking down the streets
gmodfreak09 7 months ago
@gmodfreak09 Same Thing in Mt.Clemens. I think I saw a 12 and a 14 year old smoking.
HipieofBSA 6 months ago
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how fast did the economy of the city center collapse?
economy based primarily on car manufacturing?
white flight to the outer suburbs after desegregation?
what happend? what timeline?
CyberspacedLoner 1 year ago
how fast did the economy of the city center collapse?
economy based primarily on car manufacturing?
white flight to the outer suburbs after desegregation?
what happende? what timeline?
CyberspacedLoner 1 year ago
The guy can barely figure out that he's looking at a drum but can properly appraise an organ?
Tippet76 1 year ago
One of these days
WeaponSamurai 1 year ago
Kinda a scary... Peoples SSN Numbers and other private records can be in those papers... I like how the one guy is just sitting there as if he works there, reading the papers and stuff. I wonder why people left their Items there though? Its almost as if they all ran out do to some scare...
mustange550 1 year ago
@ 2:54 is that a dead cat?
Frankie3112Nld 1 year ago
@Frankie3112Nld No It is some type of hose.
mustange550 1 year ago
@mustange550 allright than.looks remarkable though.thnx.
Frankie3112Nld 1 year ago
@Jay4P No. Detroit is not as much of a shit hole as people say.
JeffsHoliday 1 year ago
“These buildings, they are designed with repetition in mind, repetition of power, patterns everywhere, as if the patterns were made by machines, I guess the economic machines of the motor city,” says Damon.
funkatraz 1 year ago
“The towers look like computers,” Gareth observes. “The shadows look so much more geometric and sharp when you see them on tall buildings,” he continues to muse. And the horizon, when I view it through the camera lens, looks so bleached by the sun, bleached into an apocalypse.”
funkatraz 1 year ago
“It looks as if a giant rodent has gnawed his way through all the articles left by the office workers,” says Rochelle. “Why are there trophies and jazz records left in cardboard boxes? Some of this stuff looks expensive.”
funkatraz 1 year ago
Wow! Just like they up and left!
JDeereGP 1 year ago
When the jobs are gone, so are the middle class, welcome to America: circa 2020.
rezek71 1 year ago
I would go here just to get all the shit to sell it.
NorthWestRegionRep 1 year ago
awesome.
staticstate 1 year ago
WTH? That's weird. It doesn't look like anyone properly closed whatever business was there. It really looks like it was just abandoned. Spooky....
thespawnof66 1 year ago
@thespawnof66 You ever seen Cass Tech? They walked right out. Books in the classrooms, notes on the chalkboard, lab equipment on the desks. Still sitting there today, after 5 years. They literally all just left school one regular day and nobody ever went back inside.
IxCLuTcHxI 1 year ago
White flight.
wijse 1 year ago
I need to know the street this is on, danger level, and also the level of use it gets. I know it's abandoned but it still has use
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KingDavidA 1 year ago
That furniture is probably worth at least several thousand dollars, then the scrap, the antiques, collectibles etc. I would be tempted to clear the building for free if I was allowed to keep everything from it.
polarbear3333333333 1 year ago
@polarbear3333333333 get ready to be stabbed
THET2236 1 year ago
Detroit will be completely abandoned in the next few years. It should become a zone to freely explore but beware.
7477238 1 year ago
@7477238 htrjnrth
Discofreestyle 1 year ago
you dont need guns here
theinfamousoz 1 year ago
Just drop a bomb on it.
Vostokification 1 year ago
An archeologists dream... instant ruins not buried under hundreds of years of history.
janelasdedeus 1 year ago
dang that place could be a potential gold mine for antiques and old stuff to sell
x420matrix 1 year ago 2
Detroit: America's largest ghost town.
stevostevie 1 year ago 2
It looks like out of a horror movie after everyone ran away in a hurry.
fantasticHorus 1 year ago
I got vertigo watching the footage where you seemed to be standing on a ledge near the top of the building. If you had fallen, that would've put you in the running for the Darwin award.
yallstoob 1 year ago
to many junky ass sounds junky editing u fucked it up
joeguinn39 1 year ago
them nigger riots played into this
MrSchizoaffective 1 year ago
learn how to use a camera
joeguinn39 1 year ago
The Book Tower has a really good view of downtown Detroit.
MikulkaSP 1 year ago
I've always wondered what the inside of those buildings were like.
mikey1978416 1 year ago
and you didnt take the painting?
DrGustavGraves 1 year ago
Detroit loves you!
dirtygreendetroit 1 year ago
is detroit as much of a shit hole as people say?
Jay4P 1 year ago
@Jay4P Yeah it is. :-(
nevsky1961 1 year ago
look these guys were methheads out looking for good shit to steal they can go through the whole building in two hours posing as a cleanup crew these teams can go 24 7 365 with no fear and 9 times out of 10 find the most precious item and get it out of there their inguinity is flawless and their determination the feircest comaridity is strong what holds them together is the drug crystal meth dirty word to some miracle cure to others with a photographic memory of this adventure with their comarads
ghostman3331 1 year ago
Made In China.
jimtfmb 1 year ago
Detroit would make an AWESOME movie set for a zombie movie!
jtno2 1 year ago
How did you get access into that building. I would love to get in it and look around! Who owns all that stuff? This is cool!
mustange550 1 year ago
@mustange550 the guy that owns that stuff is the nothing.
legosbrs 1 year ago
This is a direct result of Ronald's Reagon's philosophy to let the rich make more money, and undercut labor. It was supposed to "trickle down" to everyone. This video is proof of what those polices accomplished.
yurei8 1 year ago
@yurei8 Incorrect. This happened to Detroit starting the late 1960's, 1967 to be exact. It had nothing to do with Reagan. This was a direct result of violence and a race riot.
To inform you a little more, rich people start businesses, which pay taxes and employ hundreds and thousands of people, like you and me. If there were no rich people, we wouldn't work anywhere.
jerrytimes 1 year ago
@jerrytimes
Are you saying the federal reserve stealing 23.7 trillion dollars from the American people has absolutely nothing to do with the current state of Detroit?
And if rich people start businesses why can I provide you long lists of names of people who were not rich who started businesses and can you explain to me why so many rich people were not born into financial wealth?
Thanks.
SadegoGG 1 year ago
@SadegoGG You blamed Regeans philosophy on the current state of Detroit. Detroit's downfall started long before Ron was our president. That is a blatant lie.
You can provide that list because most people that start businesses are regular people. Simple enough. By not taxing the rich with ridiculous taxes, it helps keep their corporations alive and expanding, which helps pay us regular folk and pay the government taxes.
jerrytimes 1 year ago
@jerrytimes
Can you please specify where I said Ronald Raegan ruined Detroit? Also, i'm glad you now realize you don't have to be rich to start a business. Moving on, why is it so important for the American people to pay 35% of their incomes in federal taxation? Because the government lies about deficits by not discussing their investment? You should look into the government's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports. Government debt is held in investment, high taxes are not necessary in America.
SadegoGG 1 year ago
@SadegoGG I thought you were someone else when I typed that. My bad.
jerrytimes 1 year ago
@jerrytimes Saying that the riots are what killed Detroit is not true. America has lost a great amount of its manufacturing base. But we were told before hand, that more jobs were going to be created by tax cuts. The money went out of the country. Loss of middle income jobs hurts the entire economy. I'm not attacking all of the wealthy. I'm saying that the general welfare of the people, requires policy support for the less wealthy also. They are the most numerous.
yurei8 1 year ago
@jerrytimes correction it started long before the late sixties - do you think the suburbs and the freeways that led to to them magically appeared . have you ever heard of the practice of blockbusting . have you ever thought about who got wealthy .
mitjazz 1 year ago
I would so be leaving with that snare drum at 1:15
Nice find!
rg65 1 year ago
To think that we hosted the Olympics here...
This is why you never vote in an EX-basketball player for mayor.
ComprimisedXInsanity 1 year ago
@ComprimisedXInsanity Did i miss something? When did we host the olympics
wilde4200 1 year ago
@wilde4200
I did a lil bit of research and found out that John F. Kennedy signed into law to host the olympics in 1968 but the bid failed. My mistake. So I guess Detroit almost host the olympics but in it's current state I don't see that happening in the near future.
*shrugs*
ComprimisedXInsanity 1 year ago
OH and GUYS WTF!?!? Fire extinquishers ... office chairs ... hard floor.. AND IT'S TIME TO