1957 Eastland Center in Harper Woods, Michigan

Exterior shots of the Eastland Center in Harper Woods, Michigan in 1957, the year it opened. a J.L. Hudson store anchored the mall. From home movies by Fred W. Boegelein, who appears briefly in the shots.

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• Hudson's
• Hudson
• Mall
• Detroit
• Harper
• Woods
• Michigan
• 1950s

[mindspring57]

@Jaylethal777 You complain that "we" keep leaving areas, and you suggest that is the problem with Detroit. Why would it be? Are you saying that the presence of white people is necessary to keep a city clean and orderly? Detroit happens to be 90% black. If the people who live there are not responsible for picking up the trash and debris, who is?

[SKSMADMAN]

We lived in Harper Woods from 1959-1971. We lived on Woodmont which was within walking distance and I spent many a day with by brother and friends hanging out at Eastland. Remember Kroger's where my mother grocery shopped and then put her full shopping cart in a little area and parked it, took a number, left it and shopped and nothing would be missing when we came back. Try that today! Nice that you posted this. Thanks.

[toughserb145]

I wish i was born during world war 2, but i was born in 1998. i wanna go to the White Eastland. its so beautiful when it first openned.

[lilpoindexter]

Niggers sure do know how to fuck up a good thing.

[Easiderz]

after the riots..the plan was set in stone for the white companies to leave. Autoplants leaving KILLED US...and all of the dept/grocery stores that left, didnt make it any better. It became a ghost town(80's)...when coleman got in office, the plan should have been for us socalled blacks to take over our communities and city economically, but instead the arab came in and sewed it up.

[randypcole]

Great video. Thanks for sharing. It's such a shame what keeps happening to these once nice areas

[DrCruel]

@Jaylethal777 When I was young, we were too poor to leave the inner city. I remember the way we were finally convinced to move was by young kids throwing rocks through our windows, and the windows of people like us. Just after we moved out, our house was burned down.

I don't so much blame it on Blacks as I do on the Leftist culture. Leftists think that working hard or having nice things is a crime, and that they can do to or take from such people anything they like.

[directech111]

@touche1950 Because they knew the truth. It happens in every city. It's just their culture, give them a break.

[robertwmartens]

This was back when shopping malls were a new and different feature on the American landscape. And they all had OUTDOOR plazas.

[Ihitaparkedcar]

Doesn't look like that anymore. Kind of, but not really.

[touche1950]

@Jaylethal777 why did you assume she was talking about blacks?

[64098]

This is wonderful footage for 52 years old! There used to be a site in the Detroit Historical Society that had a couple of hundred photographs of the departments in the Woodward Avenue store.

[Jaylethal777]

so if you felt blacks dressed differently and behaved differently then you wouldnt have a problem with us ..bullshit if you keep leaving areas ... i dont understand you why do you keep running and leaving areas and places when i see nobody bothering your people you seem scared to me

[kgoosen]

kayakrazy, my guess is because the pretzels at hot sams got smaller in 1977........

[kayakrazy1]

I have a pic of my grandmother holding me on the same wall where the gentleman is lighting a smoke.. (For me, circa 1964). Fast forward a scant 13 years...1977......and we were already watching our backs and our purses. Notice also how people dressed; my grandma always put on her Sunday best to go to Eastland. By '77 it was already getting shady.........ANY GUESSES AS TO WHY ????