The Detroit Youtube thread.
If someone drops a thread one of my first sources for information is not Google, it's youtube. It's a great source for material from yesteryear and it's most of the time a surprise to me.
Let me open this topic with this moving tribute to this city.
John Rich - "Shutting Detroit Down".
There's more.
Abandoned skyscrapers of Detroit.
[[Great music score!! At 1'56", take a last look at an intact Lafayette.)
If you really want to get depressed, see this 10 minute video.
Detroit Ghetto.
It almost looks like a set for "Modern Warfare 2". The music is appropriate for the mood. Can't see where they are driving. They are moving at quite a speed. What is that demo structure at 5'27"?
If you have anything to add, feel free to do so.
DETROIT: City on the Move
Total duration 18 minutes:
This one recurs here frequently. May as well get it registered early. From 1965:
Quote:
This public domain film narrated by then-mayor Jerome P. Cavanaugh was made in 1965 to promote Detroit. The city faced many urban problems and its population was in decline. These difficulties were amplified by the 1967 riots, which are seen by many as one of the most significant events which led the city into a forty year decline. Since the mid 50s, the population has dropped by half and the infrastructure has been destroyed or has decayed due to abuse and neglect.
This film is pretty funny for the mayor's unenthusiastic reading of the narration and the film's denial of the problems which went on to destroy the city, but it wasn't so funny for those who lived this slow-motion deconstruction.
Finally, though, since 2000, the central city truly has been showing signs of life again as investment and residents return to the core, renovations of streets and buildings take place, and new construction develops, but whether this encouraging development can spread out to the far-flung neighborhoods remains to be seen. Fortunately, Detroit has more cultural jewels remaining than those unfamiliar with it tend to credit it, and this greatly helps its prospects.
Speramus meliora, resurget cineribus. We hope for better things, it shall rise from the ashes. Put your hands up for Detroit!
Crowder a punk offspring of Limbaugh
Crowder's youtube comes off like a joint effort between the Heritage Foundation and Nickelodeon.