An Interesting Look At The City From 60 Years Ago

An interesting video, with sound, showing many parts of the city from 1957:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umt1CYzUXII

Cool, there's a shot of the Hospital I was born at!

Thx for sharing link.

And so the pendulum swings

I once read that Detroit rivaled NY for biggest city in the world back in the 20's. By '57 it was the 5th largest in the US which likely coincided with its peek in population. It has regressed since and it only took 60 years to bottom out.

Detroit was the greatest of all 20th century boom towns. It went from being a medium sized city to a metropolis in the space of 20 years on the back of one gigantic industry, and then rode that same industry back down the other side of the cycle. While also being beset by all of the other ills that hit late 20th century U.S. cities: racial division, crime, decay, ill-conceived 'planning', suburban sprawl, flight, abandonment, neglect. All of which were magnified here due to our lack of economic diversity and resiliency.

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Originally Posted by SammyS

And so the pendulum swings

I once read that Detroit rivaled NY for biggest city in the world back in the 20's. By '57 it was the 5th largest in the US which likely coincided with its peek in population. It has regressed since and it only took 60 years to bottom out.

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1) Detroit was far from ever catching NYC but may have caught up with Chicago by now if it had not stopped growing, 2) Detroit was actually the nation's fourth largest city from 1920 - 1940s.

Pretty sure that's Notre Dame and Regina Catholic high schools on the Harper Woods side of Kelly that're shown at 22:12.