awesome video my dude

@@JosephSneep This is where my great grandparents grew up

That would be great! Nebula video? haha

Come to Buffalo to do a video

I'd love to hear his perspective. Would you post a second video on this somewhere? Maybe Patreon?

That's honestly pretty funny, now I want to look through my deck and find it lol

Ouch

You know Gary is bad when people from even the south side of Chicago refuse to live there. Lol

Thanks for telling me that I had no idea when I got that card

@@angelgjr1999 Whats up with the chicago south side?

I just need to affirm but i assume the salt is so to make the ice melt faster?

@@faizfuad8361 Yes, that's correct. Salt lowers the freezing point of water.

@@grfrjiglstan Cities don't use strictly salt anymore. It's either just sand or a mix of sand and salt. Salt is a problem for infrastructure and vehicles as it is corrosive. Salts corrodes roads and bridges for example. It does damage to various parts of vehicles. That's why when a street is salted, you don't want to prolong washing your vehicle. Damage can start to happen. When salt reaches a certain temperature, it's no longer effective. It's fine for non-critical applications such as on snow that you will clear away later. But for when the application is used on roads and highways, it becomes impractically slow at lower temperatures. Within this search (that's where I got some of this information), I also found that around the freezing mark is when salt most effective. Or that's what it seems like anyways. At 30°F (-1°C), one pound of salt will melt about 46 pounds of ice. At 20°F (-6°C), one pound of salt will only melt about 9 pounds of ice. And at +1°F (-17°C), one pound of salt will only melt about 4 pounds of ice. So the colder it gets, the more salt is needed to provide a given amount of ice melting action. There is no industry standard for "lowest effective temperature" when it comes to highways and roads.

@@TheMrCC21 Well, whatever it is, they couldn't afford it.

@@grfrjiglstan alright thanks

Have you ever been to Grimsby 😮

glad you took her so she can see all sides of humanity and how fortunate she is to live in a place she is proud to call home.

It's mainly because of single industry economies. Gary was doomed from the start thanks to it's over reliance on the steel industry. Same story with Detroit and the auto industry and cities across the midwest and south

All over the rust belt. Youngstown Ohio is similar

Town's like that can be found coast to coast, not just the rust belt.@@gnielsen07

Yeah, they are called "Places Where Black People Live." And they ALL end up like Gary eventually. That's the pattern, for anyone with the balls to acknowledge it.

Yes, because people have failed to build up communities and care about each other. Individualistic societies will crash anywhere. Corporations will thrive in this societies because will exploit you will deny social benefits, health care and education the very basic human rights. One does not need to be a “communist” one needs to be a human being. Corporations are to make billions pollute and live individuals jobless.

That city is full of racist cops and politicians, so not surprising that they made this move.

@@harveytheattorney And they're all Democrats. And now their mayor is running for the senate.

@@lancevance5907 even as a left leaning politically person, I can tell you democrats can absolutely positively be racist, these Hammond politicians are a case in point

The road was closed in 1976 due to a toxic dumping facility on the Garry side not being properly managed causing toxic runoff going in to Hammond during floods.

that's only the beginning, I hear EPA are building a dome as we speak

That's hilarious!

That's an awesome story!

already u.s. lost its superpower hundred years ago, Its economy is developing thanks to the colonial countries in Europe nowadays

I would have made out with them in celebration

I'm gonna do that when I leave philly

That family, with all of their millions, did nothing for this city.

@@ToddWerner-vp3vc they didn't owe anybody anything. Look at the chip on your shoulder and broaden your thinking. They were dirt poor once and truthfully the city didn't do anything for them either.

​@malakai79 many successful families give back, at least somewhat, to the community they grew up in. This family did nothing! Look at the original comment, the city should not honor that family.

@@ToddWerner-vp3vc I simply don't engage with low level intelligence. All the best on your soul growth.

Yesssss!! I will NEVER deny where I was born and raised.

I live just North of Portland,Or and it's the same thing. Once upon a time it was a Great and Beautiful city. Now if you HAVE to go there, it is a straight drive, in and out. So Sad...

My dad was driving past Gary with the family in the station wagon. Dad says, "If we break down here we are all dead." This was in 1966.

That's one hell of a phrase

Imagine being named after this city, just like my case. ._.

@@smith1958b bruh even to this day lol u break down there you're probably dead or getting robbed for everything down to your boxers and socks bud 😂 places is a fuckin animals den

That’s a funny name

hahahaha love it

We have that in Wyoming all the time. A lot of the deer in town are so used to people here that you can walk right by them.

@@miniaturemachinist6098 Shows how empty it is

@@beanman6684 Yes, Wyoming sounds dope AF. I actually want to live there one day

@@miniaturemachinist6098 Happens in utah sometimes

That’s heartbreaking! :(

My dad from there. So sad I hear the stories of its hay day all the time

That is blasphemous!

Really is time Americans left us all alone and sorted out its own sick sad sorry mess

What do you think about Michael Jackson and the Jackson Family? They were born in Gary Indiana. Do you have stories to share about them?

WOW! Is it really that bad?

@@yuma9663 No idea, I had my mother in law with me, no way did we go near Gary. The rental guy sure thought so.

Rental car person was clearly unhinged. Gary’s not the safest, but it’s hardly a terrifying no-go zone.

😂

Draw a circle around Chicago too.

Used to be 90% white. Now its 90% black- Just stating facts, look it up.

It's looked good before it existed

Maryville sucks too

Jesus, isn't Merrillville the porn capitol of the world?

Sameee

Yeah they have a news article calling lake station the poorest city in the state I live in south bend

Actually it was called Lake Station before named East Gary. City officials wanted to expand Gary to the east more. Though, as Gary's reputation began to become more negative, the folks there wanted to disassociate with Gary's stigma.

You’re beautiful

@@kevinxanity4113 ur sussy and I'm coming for u

@@BrocoliMan2002 Easy there, tough guy. The internet isn't big enough for the two of you.

I wish I could have seen some of the abandoned buildings when they were in somewhat better shape. I explored St. Mary's Mercy Hospital back in May of 2017 and part of it is about ready to collapse. It didn't seem like the police cared whether I was in there or not. Kevin is right. You're gorgeous.

Are the stories about fake roadblocks true, I'm from the U.K and have heard wild stories about this place . ..

Didn't even have to change the damn set smh

Shi I hope they at least paid to film there but who knows

Чернобыль даже лучше

@@justjuangoodcitizen4297 lol

Bogus, lol

you look nice :)

What church he Pastor at?

Piss on the road

Hahaha bruh, chill! 😆😆😭

first thing that popped in my mind when i read the title

😭😭😭

Maaaan, i thought he was from Nickerson Gardens, Watts

lmao that was the first name i thought of, and of course MJ

Its fucked if nothing changes. But people want gary to change and theres perhaps even people dedicated to turning gary around

That is one of the last things you'd ever wanna hear from a cop...

@@enzop6861 If he was black it WOULD have been the last thing he heard from a cop...other than the gunshot.

Locals call it Burns Ditch not Burns Harbor. Used to run Chicago daily back in the late 90s out of Michigan. Used to skirt the truck scales on 94 by going US 12 and follow the parade of steel haulers. Exit on Cline Avenue or Burr St off 94. Good times. Ran the rail yards. Conrail 63rd or Mopac or BNSF or Global I & II. Got shot at all the time going into Conrail. Finding bullet holes in my container would be an everyday event and this was way back 96-97.

​@@joeyknight8272 All I know about Gary I know from this video, but it seems that redeveloping the city is far beyond the resources of the city government. It'd need some serious state or federal help. I hope they get it, because from the video, it could be really beautiful.

Haha. Maybe Covid shut them down hours before the opening. That happened to a bakery near me in NYC. They invested all that money in ovens and such, but lockdowns hit.

Eek lol

@@nelsonx5326 Not unless COVID-19 was around in 1999. XD

@@brianm2242 That was coven 18

Keep voting crat???

I only wish my company would do the same and maybe pay for rerouted miles around that shit hole.

Yes. When I was driving we were told NEVER to fuel at that Pilot or the TA in Gary. One year there were three murders at that TA. Robberies were common. We fueled in Lake Station (10 miles east and a tad safer) It was called the Travel Port until TA bought them out after I went to local driving.

The TA was disgusting

Curious as to why they'd fire you?

@@ginalynn6963 it was/is a super high crime area. Drivers robbed and or killed. Trucks being jacked. Its not a good place. Lol

I would rather piss my pants than stop there

This guy has the typical soy-boy appearance, and a PC abhorrence of hard facts, coupled with a fear to call a spade a spade. Even in Wokipedia you can read: "after white flight in the 1970s, the city of Gary held the nation's highest percentage of African Americans for several decades". That speaks VOLUMES about the reasons for Gary's metamorphosis from a prosperous industrial and economic hub into a hellish dunghole. If any doubt remained in the tender minds of the bleeding hearts, Wokepedia makes it brutally clear with the demographic breakdown: Whites, 8.91%. Niggas, 83.90%. That does not show in this coward's video, who piously shows EMPTY PHANTOM STREETS. No showing people at large, lest it became obvious that they were ALL niggas! Go, Gary, go!

KFC WOOWOO u can always trust KFC

@@TL915.24 What the hell is KFC?

@@javiergilvidal1558 the best chicken 🐔 you will ever taste "Kentucky Fried Chicken" but 9 out 10 times in a weirdo town or city u can always trust a KFC to get off and get food

interesting! Maybe Gary should try re-branding itself. It might take more than a name change, but that could be a start. What would we call the new Gary?

Interesting

@@wildman2012 west lake station

Actually East Gary was called Lake Station then East Gary then back to Lake Station. Lake Station is older than Gary. It was a rail stop on the lake hence the name.

I used to live in Lake station, the town was pretty nice. It's not as bad as Gary but most roads there just need adjustment. Everyone at the school was really nice but they schools at the time weren't well maintained (This was back in 2012). The last time I been to one of the school was back in 2018 when my cousin graduated and it was pretty nice looking. I don't know where I'm getting here, all I'm saying is it's a good town

For real you need to stop tripping you are from central La and you think Gary is worse than central La

@@user-ps7jc6zz1w Gary is worse, by far. Its a shithole that has nothing going for it. Central/South LA at least has culture, great food and lively. Gary is a ghosttown and an all around terrible place.

Just the vast areas of abandoned houses , blocks and blocks of old buildings that were empty , you don't have that in Los Angeles .

Theres a reason for white flight.

@@gregdaweson4657 Self fulfilling prophecy

Same with me, cops told me to blow off stop signs.

It sounds straight up cursed.

@@gregdaweson4657 you should “white flight” yourself back to Europe

LMao

Reminds me of Hamilton, Ontario

It's true. The smell is unbearable.

That smell is from one of the only remaining coke plants in America, on the east end of USS.

Which part is beautiful exactly? Lol

Idk enough about Gary, but i think that the media was/is somewhat overreacting. I live in indiana(3 hours from gary, ~1 hour from indy) and stopped there to see if the media was right about gary, and just out of curiosity. It was definitely not dangerous there at like 4 pm. There were abandoned homes, but some really nice ones too. I barely saw anyone, and a gas station I stopped at was fine too. It was like an average gas station in indiana, nothing more. I think you get what I mean

I think this is a bad characterization of Gray tbh. My step dad has some of his family in Gray (we live in IL by state line) it’s not a place I would say have a lot of potential. Although it’s not the murder capital anymore I do believe Gray is not the safest place to be and it maybe safer than Chicago but with only 60k residents and half of the infrastructure abandon I’m sure crime exist in some form. Indiana is a corrupt state and the only reason ppl decide to live in Indy is because cost of living is way cheaper. Other than that I’m not sure why anybody would live in Indy

I keep hearing in the comments that it's not the murder capital any more, and actually the murder rate is quite low. Is that because they've run out of murder victims ? ☆

Get a huge demolition machine and start knocking down those old houses . The city or the state may even pay you big bucks to do it . Then collect all the bricks that can be used again , and sell 'em to the construction companies to build new homes there . Just a thought from CA . Go to the city and tell them - no more abandoned houses ! Turn it back into farmland !

thats some deep lore

It is pretty reminiscent of Detroit. I would to visit family there as a kid and all those abandoned/burned down buildings and the perpetual grey sky always bummed me out.

@Purple Ray no he's right unfortunatley......I live 5 min away and thats kind of how it is.

So did you sell any houses?

I'm excited to see what's to come of all these burnt blocks in Detroit. There's so many resurgences happening everywhere, and slowly but surely they'll make their way back.

I'm buying land in Ohio & I'll see what your city has (Edit; talked to the other executive's & we're going to be shopping in your neighborhoods) We need to preserve worthwhile development, homes Anywhere can be improved If we removed the human caused problems we see an 'ideal land' "If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it" - Willy 'Gene Wilder' Wonka Big Love

Yeah...but Gary is certainly not the most miserable city. If anything, it's a tie with several others.

I love Black people but i not think it woud be good idea for me to move in a all Black people city

And home for stericycles biohazard incinerator ! Breathe deep my frand

So what your saying is that the truth should be swept under the carpet?

lol

You left a dog turd for another dog turd that is covered in glittered

@@drunkenengineer887 The weather was a lot better in the one covered in glitter. :-)

hows ur life now

@@Midwestemoisme Great, I no longer live in the US.

I wonder why that is....

This guy has the typical soy-boy appearance, and a PC abhorrence of hard facts, coupled with a fear to call a spade a spade. Even in Wokipedia you can read: "after white flight in the 1970s, the city of Gary held the nation's highest percentage of African Americans for several decades". That speaks VOLUMES about the reasons for Gary's metamorphosis from a prosperous industrial and economic hub into a hellish dunghole. If any doubt remained in the tender minds of the bleeding hearts, Wokepedia makes it brutally clear with the demographic breakdown: Whites, 8.91%. Niggas, 83.90%. That does not show in this coward's video, who piously shows EMPTY PHANTOM STREETS. No showing people at large, lest it became obvious that they were ALL niggas! Go, Gary, go!

I just did a search on news from Gary, and that is indeed what I found. It was all murders. That and "books offered in vending machines to get kids interested in reading". Yeah, we'll see how that works out. The stories about more murders will continue, but they'll likely forget that attempt at reading.

Wholesome and horrifying 😅😂

You know it's rough when you move back to comifornia.

@@ddorsey1091 oh shut up

@@ddorsey1091 communism is when capitalism

It’s amazing he even sold it

Well there's your problem lady

@Brian Rogers bruh cops kill people here... Not too far from me a body was found chopped in pieces and the man caught was a serial killer. We don't put it on the news for everyone to see but some places in Canada are messed up. The ghetto area I used to live in had someone running around every night shooting at people for no reason. She got caught only because she shot herself by accident.

Halifax police strike was pretty brutal

@Brian the opioid problem is overwhelming because even kids are talking about doing it

Same happened to me in Memphis, TN.

Gary was actually very prosperous in 1957 lol

Gary was a nice place in 1957. Take your race baiting fake history somewhere else.

@@ArtistsCry13 I think that's what they mean, it looks like how it was when it was at its most prosperous. I had the same experience driving through Welch, WV a few years ago. Some of the buildings look like they had been untouched since the 1950s.

grandpa jones!

That's pretty cool

That's so cool, dude. Your Grandpa fought the GOAT. 💯

Damn that's awesome

And to think that the greatest artist in the world was born here, I am talking about the one and only Michael Jackson.

It didn’t take long for Michael to leave Gary in the dust lol they were living in Los Angeles since he was like a kid. Smart move 😂

Is it easier to pick up ladies in Gary. You know when you move to certain third world countries you are treated as a star.

@@ahmedzakikhan7639 Oh yeah, it's the same thing. They all want to get the fuck out.

@@ahmedzakikhan7639 yea buddy!!!

I'm so sorry you had to experience that

Are all the gals up there fine as you?

@@shibuoommen6884 right?

@@shibuoommen6884 you dog 😉

Cringe

I thought this was a great video as well! I have hope for my city and pray for a come back one day.

I heard that about Camden, NJ. They said red lights and stop signs mean go.

@@dementedmindstate7063 Camden NJ does suck mightly.

I've also heard of police telling people not to stop at red lights/stop signs because they will likely get carjacked.

@@voiceofreason1208 I mean yeah your asking for it if you stop, there are ppl waiting for you to stop and Rob you, you yield at best if your in a bad area, if you stop doesn't mean you will get robbed your just asking for it

Makes Flint look good by comparison.

And birthplace of mj

The Jackson 5 were born tbere.

@Wally Reyes It probably had to do more with 10s of thousands of steel jobs lost in the 80s when St. Reagan was in office. But hey, don't let facts get in the way of your blind hate.

I'm a Gary native and I went to Purdue NW for engineering. My dad moved to Gary from Mississippi and met my mom. I heard so many great stories about Gary from all the adults when I was younger. As a civil engineer, I look at the infrastructure and just imagine the possibilities. Gary needs a strong comeback!

Used to

Criminal gotta sleep sometime too. Give it a couple hours.

A classmate of mine was killed in Gary, which neighbors my city.

Gangs will move to metropolis where there are more money to rob/make.

Did you get off the bus?

@@leezhieng I don't think you understand how gangs operate, or honestly even what they are

@@donnerwetter1905 the Ruhrgbiet sounds a lot like Pittsburgh then

@@Juan-hv9bi lots of ‘luxury’ apartments with good road or freeway access, i.e. car centric, is what I see around me as new development in the US right now

A big university campus would be a good idea for Gary.

@@donnerwetter1905 " European rust belt cities have a much more diverse economy", I dont think its fair to say this as it implies the diverse economy was there and prevented collapse. Declining European cities made the conscious decision to diversify when they saw problems brewing. That is the actual difference - Europeans are far more likely to think long term and shift gears/diversify than Americans who want to keep things the same. Look at coal workers still arguing to keep their jobs around with truly compelling logic such as: "its my job". Look at how many declining cities in America double down on their current trajectory rather than expanding and diversifying.

Geelong in Victoria, Australia, also avoided the fate of Gary. It was a city of 200,000 dominated by heavy industry; an aluminium smelter, Ford engine factory, oil refinery, etc. Then most of that heavy industry (except for the refinery) closed down within a few years. But both the state and federal governments poured a LOT of well targeted money into it. There was lots of assistance to establish new businesses in more modern industries. Some failed, but others are now mid-sized companies employing many people. More money was spent on retraining workers with obsolete skills. The rail line to nearby Melbourne, a city of 5 million, was improved and sped up, the freeway got extra lanes and a fast ferry to the centre of Melbourne was introduced. This encouraged people tired of the huge city to move to modestly sized Geelong and commute to work in Melbourne. All these projects combined to save Geelong and it didn't shrink or develop dangerous areas. The loss of the factories and heavy industry actually made it a nicer place to live and it continued to do well after the assistance and economic stimulus projects were wound down.

Even I would never send you to Gary, Indiana!

I live near there and yeah it does smell like sulfur

Why does it smell like sulfur? Is it from the mill(s)?

@@SiameseCheese yes

Specifically from the coal used

you write well...that good education shows

How many of you and your well educated friends stayed in Gary yo become successful lawyers, doctors, and business men/women in that city??

@@adamdavis5312 excellent observation. Smart hardworking folk tend to leave decaying cities, and for good reason

Born and raised in Gary as well (Wirt c/o '94). I grew up by Wells Street Beach, and it was beautiful. I would go back and live but its too depressing and no jobs.

LW ‘81. Gary did have a very good school system. Thanks for sharing your experiences there.

@BleedBlue Colts True, but this did happen around 1997ish while I was living in Schaumburg, Illinois. It made national news and was a BIG deal then. Do the research...

@BleedBlue Colts I’m sure it was the State troopers. I’m sorry you had to live there. I certainly would not call it a figment of my imagination. So, I’m correct for the most part. Apology accepted buddy.

@BleedBlue Colts well, I certainly do recall LE bumper to bumper showing off their presence to Gary and news outlets.

@Purple RayNope. I live in Chicago, and Gary is stunningly bleak.

Yup scary Gary

Wow ! Katherine Jackson spoke on how bad it had become by the 1960s as well.

need to bring a butcher knife to the bus stop....what a fine upstanding place

Dunder(head)... not “ Her and her brothers”, but “ She and her brothers”. English is a wonderful language. Take care of it.

@@judeirwin2222 You failed to provide anything constructive to the topic of conversation. Perhaps you should learn some interpersonal communication skills and we'll be even.

Dude, just take the correction in stride.

gary at night is more dangerous than any part of chicago

I remember when Downton Gary got bordered up with a facade window fronts on stores. It went downhill fast. But 30 years later... that White Castle Restaurant is still there on Broadway, downtown.

Yeah I drive across country and thought the same thing. First gas station I go into has 3 inch thick plexiglass and the clerks expression was like wtf a white guy doing in here lol

Gas do be flammable

the first time i drove through gary on the interstate there was a little suburban neighborhood that very closely resembled the one i grew up in, only it looked like it was built maybe 10 years earlier. it was empty, except for a couple abandonded rusted out cars in the driveways. every time i drove past it would be a little more run down, more moss on roofs, until eventually the little buffer area was so overgrown you couldn't see it from the highway anymore.

I read this as he was stuffing tens of thousands of bodies in the abandoned buildings, not that there are tens of thousands of abandoned buildings lmao, I was like how has this guy not been caught??

@@intruative same

yeah i remeber that if i remeber right the guy had been doing the same thing i think in texas or it was arizona either way it goes should've kept the guy in prison

Is that your sales pitch?

@@johnhughes1783 Lol

PUBLIC APATHY. The situation in US is horrific. Theres folks going around pointing cameras at semi derelict cities and towns all over the place. Theres people living there in total poverty. One of them inhabited by females on their own. Whole streets with empty shops, gas stations and diners and wharehouses all starting to collapse. How come that nation paid people to walk about on a moon. Why are they staring into space trying to find 'life' when they cant even manage what they have. Do you think any distant civilisation would tolerate the people here// Why are you assuming they would be like you. Foir instabncxer whats all this about Police killing a 1000 people a yr. They dont seem to do that to the corrupt. In UK we are experiencing Police attacks too who are sent on behalf of religion. They told us that the evidence we gathered during 12 yrs traipse round vCent London accompanied by victims cannot be revealed to public. They also told us that theres no such thing as 'Natural Talent'. theres only what your teacher teaches. That attitude killed millions US Nativ Americans and Germany did same to tribes in Africa. This is the 3rd attaxck we have experienced after doing state of the art work on so called incurable clients sent to us by Health system. They had recd anything up to 22 yrs 'treatment' They needed six hours. One of them would have died that nite had we not broken in to get to her. We wewre then told to stop the work which was threatening establ jobs so around 12-15 000 died and the issues covered up by Local Govt. Police. HM Coroners. HM Courts. HM Psychiatry Charities. Press. 17 universities who are in league with Int drug firms. f-book and Twitter destroyed all our mails and all websites also disappeared. We have no access to Parliament or Law or Health or Welfare. We are woriied anbout dying cos this place coulds be ransacked by Police and the public would do nothing. We are a Jewish Family who came to UK to escape the very activities going on in UK. We came here with two suitcases and 80 yrs old granma. we were washing up dishes in hotel and taking scraps food home. no one offered any help. We left behind jobs in the Law System. Now lets think about this site. People are goin around filming other pewoples misery so what the persons criteria. Why dont they go raise hell at the aeras Political representative for those areas. Why dont they stop and knock at all the doors to see if the folks need food por help with property maintenance. Why are peopole sitting watching all this and doing nothing. Is it becauase the victims aree not 'relatives' If so you need waking up. No change in 10.000 yrs. Stop the deception. 5000 comments have not changed anything.The UK and Europe are also horrific. The EEC has told us that nothing can be done about corruption or the attacks on us. Maybe wre should try to get out of here urgent before we end up dead. The natives that the US killed knew how to survive. You dont. You killed most them wheres the guilt we dont see any. Waste time putting comments on sites, the people are all going in different directions. There will one day be pay back because theres no attempt to change. God help me and asny innocent people. But where they are dont know.

When gangs move in and take over, Gary is what you get! Who wants to live in a place like that?

its the armpit of Chicago now, no deodorant.

Richard cline . yes but the video says that Gary went from the highest murder rate in the u.s to not even making the top 10 murder rates in Indiana. So it appears that when a city s pop keeps dropping and there is a huge drop in people to rob ,then criminals move out of town too

@@iang8169 They just killed each other off.

@@iang8169 Murder rates are down but property theft, substance abuse(meth and heroine) and "violent crime"(assault, rape, robbery etc) are sky high. As in ~2x the national average high. Gary is an absolute shithole.

Maybe he did it intentionally

That's awesome. It's always a blessing to meet such people, especially in time of need.

oh my god are you the Griswolds? lol

@@phillyfan3942 lmfao, your terrible sir, probably right but still terrible. lol

what kind of National Lampoon shit is this lmfao

Fallout New Vegas made it famous, I was surprised when I learned Boulder City is a real place

I always immediately think of Boulder City! Another one in Arizona was Goodyear, which was clearly named after the rubber company. They needed a specific kind of cotton that could be grown in Arizona. Company Cities are so fascinating.

i heard of Boulder City through the many documentaries about the Hoover Dam

I recall seeing a video once about how Boulder City was basically Ottumwa Iowa transplanted to the desert to attract workers for the dam (a little bit like the current man-camps in North Dakota to bring workers for the oil and gas development except those jobs are temporary (a dam isn't?))

I live in Vegas. I did not know there was no gambling in Boulder City. FYI: citizens of Monaco are not allowed to gamble in the casinos. I can understand Boulder not wanting workers on the dam to gamble while it was being built but that was way back in the 1930s.

And kinda sad

White flight at its finest.

@@PrinceCezar27 That is simply untrue. I am a lifelong hammond resident, Hammond is connected to Gary by several streets, 169th street which turns into 15th avenue in Gary. It is also connected by 177th street which becomes 25th in Gary. Just like Route 41 becomes Lake Shore Drive connecting Hammond to its neighbor city of Chicago. The road in hammond that was cut off from Gary was because it was a residential area that wanted to cut down on traffic. Hammond is a multi cultural city so your theory is white flight is a lie. Don’t comment on places you know nothing about.

@@donnix768You're right that it had nothing to do with white flight, but it wasn't just a matter of cutting down traffic b/c there wasn't much traffic going down 9th Av. at that point. I remember when Hammond and Gary had their little "war" over that. Hammond put up a dirt barrier under the bridge and Gary came along and removed it. So Hammond put it back up and posted some cops to guard it, and Gary came along to try to remove it again and a several days long standoff ensued. Gary cried racism. Hammond said it was to prevent contaminated runoff from the Midco site. We all knew it was to stop people from committing crimes and quickly fleeing back to Gary, which happened a lot. Loven Oven Pizza, which was located right next to the bridge there, moved because they were constantly being robbed. Closing that road prevented a lot of crime in that corner of Hessville. Just the fact that they now had to go down to 169th, deal with the stoplight, and cross the bridge was enough to discourage most of it. It had nothing to do with racism, as you pointed out Hammond is multi racial. It was purely a crime prevention measure, and an effective one at that.

@@PrinceCezar27 and if the whites all wanted to move in you would call it gentrification. You are a fool.

You probably were being watched

@@peternagy-im4be yeah, I assumed... Ended up going through a red light and down the wrong way on a 1-way road to get back on the highway quicker. Wife and I weren't waiting around. Eery place even for me and I grew up in Appalachian country.

@@hichrisperry for Gary read many US cities

PUBLIC APATHY. The situation in US is horrific. Theres folks going around pointing cameras at semi derelict cities and towns all over the place. Theres people living there in total poverty. One of them inhabited by females on their own. Whole streets with empty shops, gas stations and diners and wharehouses all starting to collapse. How come that nation paid people to walk about on a moon. Why are they staring into space trying to find 'life' when they cant even manage what they have. Do you think any distant civilisation would tolerate the people here// Why are you assuming they would be like you. Foir instabncxer whats all this about Police killing a 1000 people a yr. They dont seem to do that to the corrupt. In UK we are experiencing Police attacks too who are sent on behalf of religion. They told us that the evidence we gathered during 12 yrs traipse round vCent London accompanied by victims cannot be revealed to public. They also told us that theres no such thing as 'Natural Talent'. theres only what your teacher teaches. That attitude killed millions US Nativ Americans and Germany did same to tribes in Africa. This is the 3rd attaxck we have experienced after doing state of the art work on so called incurable clients sent to us by Health system. They had recd anything up to 22 yrs 'treatment' They needed six hours. One of them would have died that nite had we not broken in to get to her. We wewre then told to stop the work which was threatening establ jobs so around 12-15 000 died and the issues covered up by Local Govt. Police. HM Coroners. HM Courts. HM Psychiatry Charities. Press. 17 universities who are in league with Int drug firms. f-book and Twitter destroyed all our mails and all websites also disappeared. We have no access to Parliament or Law or Health or Welfare. We are woriied anbout dying cos this place coulds be ransacked by Police and the public would do nothing. We are a Jewish Family who came to UK to escape the very activities going on in UK. We came here with two suitcases and 80 yrs old granma. we were washing up dishes in hotel and taking scraps food home. no one offered any help. We left behind jobs in the Law System. Now lets think about this site. People are goin around filming other pewoples misery so what the persons criteria. Why dont they go raise hell at the aeras Political representative for those areas. Why dont they stop and knock at all the doors to see if the folks need food por help with property maintenance. Why are peopole sitting watching all this and doing nothing. Is it becauase the victims aree not 'relatives' If so you need waking up. No change in 10.000 yrs. Stop the deception. 5000 comments have not changed anything.The UK and Europe are also horrific. The EEC has told us that nothing can be done about corruption or the attacks on us. Maybe wre should try to get out of here urgent before we end up dead. The natives that the US killed knew how to survive. You dont. You killed most them wheres the guilt we dont see any. Waste time putting comments on sites, the people are all going in different directions. There will one day be pay back because theres no attempt to change. God help me and asny innocent people. But where they are dont know.

A lot of the buildings that are rotting look really cool and unique architecture, its sad

Honestly it is prime real estate for redevelopment. It is right on Lake Michigan and next to Chicago. It could easily become the next Holland Michigan if developers put a bit of effort into gentrification.

It depends. A lot of tax codes and zoning codes either prohibit people from making investments into a community or punish them for doing so. A progressive land value tax and an abolishment of euclidean zoning could help a lot of struggling US cities.

@@carfreeneoliberalgeorgisty5102 I agree. I honestly think that considering Gary is practically a ghost town today, it would probably be best to abolish the city and start over. Maybe call it Chicago Heights, Bay City, or Lakeview. A total rebranding and total start over could work. Not much of the buildings there are even worth salvaging and considering it lost 90% of it's peak population it practically is already abandoned.

@@jonathanbowers8964 I don't know if tearing down the city and starting over is a great idea. It's near impossible to create a thriving city from scratch since cities grow incrimentally and urban prosperity is a very bottom up process. Creating the conditions that allow for economic prosperity is a much better idea.

That's a very nice memory.

Detroit ain't no better.

I grew up in Gary, it was doomed after the steel mills pulled out. I had a great childhood there in my community. There were beautiful classic homes, we were relatively safe, it wasn’t until the end of my highs school years that we finally moved, it wasn’t because of the crime. A police officer shot at a muscle car for revving his engine and peeled out after his traffic light turned green directly in front of our house. It’s tragic how it deteriorated. I’ll always have fond memories of my life in Gary. I’d love to see a revitalization of Gary.

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That would be Kensington ave in Philly. Don’t even need to hire actors.

@@outofAlog 😆😆🤣🤣😆 You get that right I have to drive past there to work.

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Facts. I'm from Camden, New Jersey and had to go to Kensington to meet someone. I actually appreciated Camden when I got back across the bridge which had a bad reputation but has changed alot.

They're doing their best to work on it. There are a lot of old dilapidated structures down Broadway that they've been tearing down and they're working on replacing them slowly but surely. There's a lot of such construction going on in a lot of areas, hopefully it'll help a bit not having to see all the burned and gutted buildings everywhere and it'll give room to grow new businesses.

@Carl Ferrigno There's actually plenty of people and money to support businesses to an extent, but especially on Broadway. There are a lot of people that commute either to places on Broadway (I sometimes work at a government center there) or go through Broadway to be elsewhere, it's a pretty busy road. A lot of people are looking forward to what gets built on the stretch they're working on.

I also went to see Michael Jackson's house and nearby school etc with my family,there is surely enough points to come back again for this neighborhood city of Chicago

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Never

I'm sure the early 20th century will take note of your observation.

Not as easy as it sounds.

Ummmmmm the city often develops BECAUSE of the industry.

@@havocproltd dont repeat history you goof howd you misinterpret that

@@munchenonyou3774 I'm sorry. I must have been blinded by the stunning display of the self evident. And i don't even know what "diversify their labor market" means.

That's so funny, though. You must love your wife so much.

@@I_Lemaire maybe not as much as I thought since I put her in imminent danger just driving to Gary lol

That's an everyday thing in Gary

I'm from Cleveland too. When I was in the air force a friend of mine who came on leave with me seen wish bone in a western union on st Clair. Special day for him like it was for yall.

I just visited Gary last June for Michael Jackson's death anniversary ( I'm a Super Michael Jackson fan as well) and I was shocked by the city itself, it gave me a feeling of doom, I was like, no wonder Joe wanted to get his family out of there

Youngstown, Ohio: *pats Gary*

Atleast there not flint mi.

Detroit > Cleveland

@@2011phill I feel bad for the people in Gary because I was raised in Flint sad to say but very true

Well It Is What It Is…Born & Raised Hovey St to Miller Dunes.