  Mercman Member Username: Mercman Post Number: 28 Registered: 10-2006 |
Excuse me if this has been posted already, but I found this today and had not seen it on the detroityes.com before. I did a search before posting, but didn't find anything: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =QQxrhiraoUg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =hRj4_qkqgXo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =xVhTdKnDUW0 Thought they were very cool clips. Shows a completely different time in the city. Saw lots of landmarks that I learned about only on the Detroityes forums- places that are now gone... | ||
Jerome81 Member Username: Jerome81 Post Number: 1519 Registered: 11-2003 |
YEs those have been posted a couple times. Still amazing to watch. That was probably the peak of Detroit population at that point. Amazing to think it doesn't look anything like that today at all. Not even a little bit. Though I do seem to notice a lot of garbage in that last one. Okay, so maybe the garbage hasn't changed.... | ||
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge Post Number: 161 Registered: 08-2006 |
I dunno, Jerome. I wasn't alive in the 50s but I recognize quite a bit from these films... and the 'garbage' was the last thing on my mind. Cheer up. One result of Detroit's urban depopulation is that a lot of our oldest landmarks have actually stayed standing, whereas in other cities the Dime, Maccabees, and Metropolitan buildings (and other buildings like them) were destroyed to make way for glass-and-steel Aon Centers and AT&T Plazas... | ||
Redvetred Member Username: Redvetred Post Number: 32 Registered: 04-2007 |
Thanks Mercman. It's funny - the most steady portion of the films was of the Gayety Burlesk theater. Must have meant something special to the videographer. | ||
Carolcb Member Username: Carolcb Post Number: 1096 Registered: 11-2006 |
Can someone tell me about the Brass Rail? How cool! | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 1444 Registered: 03-2006 |
those the sign is now at Kruse and Muer in rochester | ||
Carolcb Member Username: Carolcb Post Number: 1097 Registered: 11-2006 |
Thanks! I pulled up the picture on their website. | ||
Rfban Member Username: Rfban Post Number: 102 Registered: 02-2004 |
I agree with you GsGeorge however there was still a lot destroyed in the 1950s. Here is a promotional video clip of Detroit bidding for the 1968 Olympics from an earlier DY thread. Notice the mentality of the “new,” “exciting,” “new Detroit.” DY thread link https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/91697/95800.html | ||
Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall Post Number: 195 Registered: 05-2004 |
How many times did you hear the word "renaissance" used in this film? Little did Jerome know how quickly he and the city would come crumbling down. |
