I drove through Gary almost everyday for 30 years on my way to work. The difference between the time I started driving through in 1974, until the time I made my last drive through it 2004 is amazing. When I first started driving through Gary their were stores and shops everywhere on Broadway. At the end it looked like a war zone. All the store were gone the building torn down or burned down. It now looks like a post apocalyptic movie set. It’s a shame their are so many beautiful buildings and churches that are in ruins. And it’s true it’s a high crime area but their are truly good decent people still living there. Many of whom I’m proud to call my friends.
Gary was a town that was dependent on the steel industry for much of the jobs in the area. While it provided great wages for employees, the mills were made unviable due to increased competition.
I am a door dasher and i got stuck in gary during a blizzard. Thankfully a couple of residents came and helped me push my car outta the snow. They knew i didnt live there and didnt want me to get robbed or worse by someone. They did me a real solid by helping me get outta there quick.
It’s beyond saving now, the amount of factories and abandoned buildings is way to high. They focused to much on being industrial and not so much residential.
person who lives 20 min from Gary here and can confirm these schools are everywhere. it's so sad that public schools aren't available to the Kids in Gary. However a number of charter schools have popped up
They stopped funding schools that had low test scores…plus it was way too many schools that existed & their economy couldn’t afford to keep these schools open. I grew up in the 90s in Hammond & we would play basketball against 8 different Gary high schools.
Dude it sucks ass, half of the towns in indiana looked abandoned or flustering with life with fresh trees. Like my town literally just sold our City Mall and has built so many new buildings. It only took 20 years.
I live in Indy and once went to a mental hospital for a week. One boy there was 13 from Gary Indiana and it is whack over there. His uncle had him selling weed, his 9yr old cousin was addicted to heroine, he got with some 19 yo girl, someone tried to bomb thier school, and other sht
I live in Indianapolis and have been through Gary many times, the best part is you can see Chicago from the beaches of Gary, and their beaches are never filled because of the lack of people
I'm from Gary. Gary is huge, it is over 54 Square miles. That's the same size as San Francisco. Before the population decline that started in the 1970s, Gary had 9 High Schools: Emerson, Frobel, Horace Mann, Tolleston, Edison, Roosevelt, Lew Wallace, Wirt, and West Side.
I know someone that was around before Gary became abandoned. They said it was a great place then another mayor took over and every thing went down hill.
Gary was a beautiful place .Had beautiful shops on broadway. Plus big stores Gordons and Sears and Goldblatts etc. Many hotels and resturants and bakeries and was safe.
The Music Man sure made his hometown of Gar, Indiana sound like it was a nice place. Why in the world would anyone break out in a chorus of "Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, my home sweet home".
Gary isn’t as bad as people say it is. If I had to pick between being stranded in the southside of Chicago or Gary I’d pick Gary. Met some really nice older ppl out there and there’s actually a really nice beach in Gary.
My family was from Gary and my grandfather even taught at Gardner Street in the early 70s. It really breaks my heart to look at what Gary has turned into… there’s still really a lot of potential there.
My late husband was murdered in Gary, outside of his bar. It was dangerous in the past and it’s now. It was a very good city to go shopping, but the politicians took it for granted n filling their pockets with illegal activities 😢😢😢😢😢😢
My dad was born in Gary always told us bad stories about it not even kidding when he was a kid one of his neighbors had a living tiger smuggled in country and kept it in their basement
My mom and her siblings are from Gary she grew up on Connecticut st. It was a nice neighborhood for what it was in the late 90s early 2000s the last I visited there . As to being scary idk someone stole my grandads car in daylight and parked it at the corner of his house few hours later. The "gangsters" were polite atleast 😂
Bold of you to assume that I, a born hoosier (even though I hate that term), don’t know about Gary. On a serious note though i always find videos like this interesting. Gary is such a strange case.
We had great basketball rivalries with the Gary HS’s in the late 70’s. Emerson, Roosevelt, West Side, Mann. All gone. I played football at Gary Roosevelt field. They threw rocks at our bus when we left.
Not really. Many are too opened to the elements, have tons of broken glass, plus guys like this coming around. Just saying, when you're in Gary... there is no shortage of abandon buildings. They usually seek out something a little more lowkey
Gary is more like Detroit than Detroit is. In the past 60 years, the population dropped to half. I live in Indiana, and everytime I go to Chicago, I pass Gary. Gary is a ghost city.
I most definitely did know, that's why I moved to Gary Indiana because it's quiet and banded, they got a lot of band apartments and houses and Car Lot too an opportunity to own land for the low
There is still a vibrant community there. I used to live there and know many people who work and live there. They want to say it's abandoned, it's NOT. Go there if you doubt me.
If you're a Gary resident or native this is common knowledge. Just like Gary's only official performing arts school, Emerson was grades 6th -12th and on 3 different occasions the city wanted to combine it with another school, Wirt HS. They finally did the third time and Wirt HS was renamed Wirt Emerson HS only to close a few years ago.
The demographics changed too much. The people that built the city were driven out by another group and it subsequently fell apart. Same thing that happened to Detroit and Chicago (and currently to the entire nation).
@@tentax762 are you serious right now? If it was his school and his classroom and his initials on his desk and chances are it was him or if he even put his whole name. Think about that
Imagine in the middle of the school year: "Hey Jimmy, your school just closed permanently so, yeah. Time to switch" "MOM, THIS IS THE 3RD TIME THIS YEAR!"
This is what happens when a town relies on only one industry to employ the people that live there. Like my granddad said his granddad said *Dont put all your eggs in one basket*
As someone who lives in a town right by, it's not that bad. Mostly just old. A lot of revitalization going on. I've never once felt unsafe, but I'm also not an obnoxious asshole or trying to get up in anyone else's business. I even lived in black oak for a while when I was like 18 with a bunch of friends. Cheapest place we could afford at the time. We got robbed once but it was as kinda my friends fault so, not exactly random.
I live in Merrillville. It’s nicknamed Garyville because they are becoming the same place. Merrillville community schools is literally adding on to the high school all the time because it is blending with Gray.
Looks like the third floor of my first high school…snuck up there once, it was eerie. Like hadn’t actually been used for decades, the maintenance staff would store stuff up there though.
I lived in Nashville Indiana for a few years and you hear a lot of bad things about Gary, one was delivery drivers had 2 or 3 people with them because they'd be followed and when they got out of the truck someone would jump in and drive away, plus that little area is in a different time zone, that's why they didn't change the clocks in fall or spring
How come these places can't be converted into grand boarding home for those who need it?! There are so many displaced people on the streets, yet no one thought of repurposing these abandoned buildings for the homeless?!
Gary is like a post apocalyptic crater
I live right next to Gary and can approve
@@autumnescoe8958 same
Yeah, they’ve been abandoning gary for the past few years now less and less people they’re still dangerous
It’s really unfortunate too.
😅😅😅
I drove through Gary almost everyday for 30 years on my way to work. The difference between the time I started driving through in 1974, until the time I made my last drive through it 2004 is amazing. When I first started driving through Gary their were stores and shops everywhere on Broadway. At the end it looked like a war zone. All the store were gone the building torn down or burned down. It now looks like a post apocalyptic movie set. It’s a shame their are so many beautiful buildings and churches that are in ruins. And it’s true it’s a high crime area but their are truly good decent people still living there. Many of whom I’m proud to call my friends.
This is what DEMOCRATS do to the country
Your friends are the ones who won't use their financial standing as an excuses to committ crimes.
Gary was a town that was dependent on the steel industry for much of the jobs in the area. While it provided great wages for employees, the mills were made unviable due to increased competition.
Por que la gente se fue ? Por que se fue terminando todo ?
You're looking at the future if Chicago.
Gary is the Detroit version of Indiana
gary, chicago and detroit were basically the crime epicenters of the country for a bit
Yea
Its more like Chicago. Detroit works too.
@@nathandrabing5942 more like Detroit, not many people living there anymore. Gary is all just factories and abandoned buildings.
Nah, I think it's worse. Been to Detroit for a festival..it was alright. Some areas were scary af though.
I am a door dasher and i got stuck in gary during a blizzard. Thankfully a couple of residents came and helped me push my car outta the snow. They knew i didnt live there and didnt want me to get robbed or worse by someone. They did me a real solid by helping me get outta there quick.
sounds like a nice horror movie
God bless them.❤️
Nobody will rob u in Gary. They will help u. Oh wait that's what happened
That is nice of them.
"'Murica!"
I've always been told to stay away from Gary.
I'm was born in Gary, and I NEVER go back
It's too dangerous.
It used to be a great city!!!
How? And why? Why don't go back? Is it cursed?
Go to Miller Beach. Million dollar homes
@@TheIcon360 it's a terrible place, one time my grandma opened her garbage bin and there was a dead person in her trash can.
@@FlyhighSkyKing Damn , so there always these things happen 😐
Gary is just Chernobyl without radiation
So sad
Gary is what happens when the main business pulls out, the railroad
Then the supporting businesses pull out to
@DayniraAndMatthew hahahahahahahsh
@DayniraAndMatthew gary indian is near chicago
@DayniraAndMatthew thats in the ukraine
The government really just gave up on a whole ass city.
On the whole country...
@@EEE-jb4zwdon’t compare any place in the US to the hellhole we call Gary
@@EEE-jb4zwGary is like the rest of the country in the same way the teeth inside a tumor are the same as your normal teeth
@@Rich-fr2yvexcuse me but why are there teeth inside your tumor
I live in the town and I find it annoying that it lets all the buildings and homes fall to ruin. So much potential thrown away.
It used to be so pretty too 😞 lived there and now im closer to kalamazoo area. Its so sad
It’s beyond saving now, the amount of factories and abandoned buildings is way to high. They focused to much on being industrial and not so much residential.
The potential has already been ruined do to all the factories
I doubt the city has the money
Money will be spent to build things but never spent to responsibly discard them.
person who lives 20 min from Gary here and can confirm these schools are everywhere. it's so sad that public schools aren't available to the Kids in Gary. However a number of charter schools have popped up
They stopped funding schools that had low test scores…plus it was way too many schools that existed & their economy couldn’t afford to keep these schools open. I grew up in the 90s in Hammond & we would play basketball against 8 different Gary high schools.
When the factories left Indiana everything rapidly declined everywhere outside of Indianapolis and the immediately surrounding cities.
Dude it sucks ass, half of the towns in indiana looked abandoned or flustering with life with fresh trees. Like my town literally just sold our City Mall and has built so many new buildings. It only took 20 years.
When Dana Inc Left. Richmond is now ghost 👻 town
I live in Indy and once went to a mental hospital for a week. One boy there was 13 from Gary Indiana and it is whack over there. His uncle had him selling weed, his 9yr old cousin was addicted to heroine, he got with some 19 yo girl, someone tried to bomb thier school, and other sht
I live in Indianapolis and have been through Gary many times, the best part is you can see Chicago from the beaches of Gary, and their beaches are never filled because of the lack of people
I have lived in Indiana my whole life and never knew Gary was this bad
It’s even worse than this shows, barely any housing, mostly either abandoned buildings or factories that make the sky grey.
Same
I've hauled rvzzz 13 years and didn't know Gary was as bad as that
20 public schools? not even boise has 20 schools....
Gary used to be a massive city, just like Detroit.
I'm from Gary. Gary is huge, it is over 54 Square miles. That's the same size as San Francisco. Before the population decline that started in the 1970s, Gary had 9 High Schools: Emerson, Frobel, Horace Mann, Tolleston, Edison, Roosevelt, Lew Wallace, Wirt, and West Side.
@@cottageindustry3040
I'm from Gary, too.
It's so sad to see the ruin because it used to be a great city. 😡
@cottageindustry3040 Gary has a little more land mass than San Francisco. San Francisco is jam packed.
I know someone that was around before Gary became abandoned. They said it was a great place then another mayor took over and every thing went down hill.
It's a shame that equipment can't be donated to a poor country who would love to have it.
Gary is a poor country and they don't want it.
Why does America have to help the world all the time? They hate us, remember?
Thank you so much for your kindness dedication and ability to show parts of this country and the reality of what’s happening
Man this is really awesome!!! I fell into the rabbit hole of your shorts channel 😂
it's an excellent channel
Gary was a beautiful place .Had beautiful shops on broadway. Plus big stores Gordons and Sears and Goldblatts etc. Many hotels and resturants and bakeries and was safe.
Meridith Wilson's 'The Music Man' (1957) has a song lauding 'Gary Indiana'
The Music Man sure made his hometown of Gar, Indiana sound like it was a nice place. Why in the world would anyone break out in a chorus of "Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, my home sweet home".
it makes sense that Harold would be from this shitty town
Gary isn’t as bad as people say it is. If I had to pick between being stranded in the southside of Chicago or Gary I’d pick Gary. Met some really nice older ppl out there and there’s actually a really nice beach in Gary.
Good ‘ol Gary if you’re a Hosier you know not to go to Gary 😂
Us Kentuckians know better too 😅
Home of us indianimals 😂
True though
@@BigKingB94 Indianamals sounds so rad, I'm stealing that.
I rode my
Bicycle across the USA. Went thru Gary
At 6am on a Saturday
Nice to hear from pink Floyd on this video
That inhale scream waters does never gets old
Right.
@@runlikehell4180🎉🎉🎉
When the mills and other big industries left, no jobs and this is what happens. A lot of the US looks like this. Midwest doesn't have a lock on this.
Thank the '90s 'deregulation and the export of jobs to rock-bottom-cheap-labour countries.
@None-zc5vg actually started in the 80's with Reagan. Bush was a speed bump. Clinton's NAFTA was the cherry on top.
@@housepumpinpc3983 👍👍
I can litterly agree with everything he just said I grew up in that area lol. Litterly 10 min down the street from all that stuff
Too bad you fell asleep during the spelling bees.
@@billsheddy6464 yeah I just now noticed I muffed that up. Thanks for pointing out my flaws in life. Lol
Now everyone knows I misspelled a word
My family was from Gary and my grandfather even taught at Gardner Street in the early 70s. It really breaks my heart to look at what Gary has turned into… there’s still really a lot of potential there.
I visit Gary a lot actually. It’s not as bad as people think anymore but it looks exactly like this
That’s sad. I’ve always been fascinated with old schools…
Playing "Another Brick In The Wall" is incredibly fitting.
Born in East Chicago Indiana… 1991. I saw Gary change so quick.
My mum went to Gary Indiana by accident in her teens and didn't know anything about how bad it was.
The elementary school one should be opened as a museum for michael jackson
My late husband was murdered in Gary, outside of his bar. It was dangerous in the past and it’s now. It was a very good city to go shopping, but the politicians took it for granted n filling their pockets with illegal activities 😢😢😢😢😢😢
i’m so sorry for your loss. i hope you’re doing much better now and pray for peace of mind with you and your family❤❤
Condolences
My dad was born in Gary always told us bad stories about it not even kidding when he was a kid one of his neighbors had a living tiger smuggled in country and kept it in their basement
Was it a white Tiger & did the guy own a tattoo shop? Roy boys was the name of the shop & the guy had white tigers…it was insane
I live in Munster, but every time I go to Gary, I feel like I’ve traveled to a post apocalyptic world. 😞
Still investing here! 13 units! Tons of cashflow and opportunities
You have my attention
Because it’s all factories and mills.
Gary, Indiana, the armpit of America. Nestled between Detroit and Chicago ironically
I had a nightmare I got lost and drove through a town like this, it’s unnerving to know places like this actually exist in the US.
Some decades ago unrelated to Gary. Some kids were coming back from a concert and accidentaly stopped at a bus top in Detroit. They got rxped
Gary Indiana the place cell phone companies wouldn't cover.
The communitay really knows how to take care of a place. 😂😂😂
It's really not that bad if you can stand the sound of trains and gunshots overnight-
Gary Indian used to have the most haunted house in USA
as some one who lives like 10 mins away from gary, when we drive though there daily, i see so many abandoned buildings
It's sad that they still have everything inside cause those items could've just been donated for other schools to use😢
Its more sad and depressing when u realize how much resources that went into it but has now been wasted.
My mom and her siblings are from Gary she grew up on Connecticut st. It was a nice neighborhood for what it was in the late 90s early 2000s the last I visited there . As to being scary idk someone stole my grandads car in daylight and parked it at the corner of his house few hours later. The "gangsters" were polite atleast 😂
As someone who lives in Indiana, we suck complete and total ass.
Bold of you to assume that I, a born hoosier (even though I hate that term), don’t know about Gary. On a serious note though i always find videos like this interesting. Gary is such a strange case.
We had great basketball rivalries with the Gary HS’s in the late 70’s. Emerson, Roosevelt, West Side, Mann. All gone. I played football at Gary Roosevelt field. They threw rocks at our bus when we left.
Basically Gary is the irl Escape from Tarkov
my friend goes to indiana every year to see family and we're thinking of going together someday and exploring this place. also great song choice lol
"Metal detectors"
This sounds so weird for me.
(I'm from Switzerland)
Such a far cry from the music man days 😢
He should've looked for a textbook with Michael's name in it
Schools from around the country should descend upon these abandoned schools and salvage what they can for their schools.
To keep costs down.
Yet they "need" my property taxes year after year after year. No end in sight.
They could have really monopolised the school Michael Jackson went to.
Gary is scary. I can believe it.
You sound like a Garedy-Cat 🐈
I wouldn’t be surprised if this happens to Chicago in a few years .
Nice spot for the homeless
Not really. Many are too opened to the elements, have tons of broken glass, plus guys like this coming around.
Just saying, when you're in Gary... there is no shortage of abandon buildings. They usually seek out something a little more lowkey
Even the homeless leave Gary
@@jeremybrinkman8538 ain't squat there to beg for lmfao
Chicago is only miles away, they have more people to beg to there
My Dad worked as a mechanic there 64 years ago. It really stunk back then. HORRIBLE.
Gary is more like Detroit than Detroit is. In the past 60 years, the population dropped to half. I live in Indiana, and everytime I go to Chicago, I pass Gary. Gary is a ghost city.
I most definitely did know, that's why I moved to Gary Indiana because it's quiet and banded, they got a lot of band apartments and houses and Car Lot too an opportunity to own land for the low
Maybe we can put all of California's homeless there
You win the random comment of the day award. Not sure if that was suppose to be a joke but if so, dude that was terrible.
Its a Republican state. So, nuff said.
Well look at the name….
What do you expect that would accomplish? Will the homeless bring jobs with them? Will rampant drug use and mental suffering suddenly stop?
There is still a vibrant community there. I used to live there and know many people who work and live there. They want to say it's abandoned, it's NOT. Go there if you doubt me.
If ever there was a place in dire need of need of overly aggressive gentrification
If you're a Gary resident or native this is common knowledge.
Just like Gary's only official performing arts school, Emerson was grades 6th -12th and on 3 different occasions the city wanted to combine it with another school, Wirt HS. They finally did the third time and Wirt HS was renamed Wirt Emerson HS only to close a few years ago.
very cool
I’ve always wanted to walk around the abandoned schools but it scares me too much.
I love Indiana
Everything in Gary is practically abandoned.
We gonna talk about the red stain in the first school
Love the choice of british children singing about their hate for school in the bg, ngl.
what happened then Gary Indiana that made everyone leave? just the bad economy?
naw man some kids scratched out the ‘r’ in the “Welcome to Gary, Indiana” sign and people were like peace ✌️
The demographics changed too much. The people that built the city were driven out by another group and it subsequently fell apart. Same thing that happened to Detroit and Chicago (and currently to the entire nation).
A certain demographic came.
The steel mills closed. Sad and true
As others have said it was White flight and steel mills
Gary and detroit both went down at the same time.
For decades, Gary was referred to, as "little chicago", and for good reason.
Is no one gonna question that stuff on the floor in the beginning 💀
By chance did you find Michael Jackson's desk he might have wrote his name on it or carved his initials in it? it could be worth money.
You think he was the only Michael in the world?
@@tentax762 are you serious right now? If it was his school and his classroom and his initials on his desk and chances are it was him or if he even put his whole name. Think about that
@@White__Hammersomebody would've got that a long long time ago
Imagine in the middle of the school year:
"Hey Jimmy, your school just closed permanently so, yeah. Time to switch"
"MOM, THIS IS THE 3RD TIME THIS YEAR!"
I went to hella skools out here
Sounds like it 😅
This is what happens when a town relies on only one industry to employ the people that live there. Like my granddad said his granddad said *Dont put all your eggs in one basket*
As someone who lives in a town right by, it's not that bad. Mostly just old. A lot of revitalization going on. I've never once felt unsafe, but I'm also not an obnoxious asshole or trying to get up in anyone else's business. I even lived in black oak for a while when I was like 18 with a bunch of friends. Cheapest place we could afford at the time. We got robbed once but it was as kinda my friends fault so, not exactly random.
Gary, Indiana
Gary, Indiana
Gary, Indiana
My home sweet home!
These videos make it seem like Gary is a ghost town it’s actually very beautiful and the mayor is a nice guy
I live in Merrillville. It’s nicknamed Garyville because they are becoming the same place. Merrillville community schools is literally adding on to the high school all the time because it is blending with Gray.
“Indiana” ….. “metal detectors” ……..
These are some *strange things*
A person could go on full Punisher-mode in Scary Gary, and have guaranteed work for rest of their life; there's so much crime going on there! 💀
A surprise the US military doesn't clear out crime in urban areas.
Looks like the third floor of my first high school…snuck up there once, it was eerie.
Like hadn’t actually been used for decades, the maintenance staff would store stuff up there though.
Crazy, in germany you won't find abandoned schools, they either get repurposed or renovated
i want to renovate that town, it looks like it has alot of potential.
I lived in Nashville Indiana for a few years and you hear a lot of bad things about Gary, one was delivery drivers had 2 or 3 people with them because they'd be followed and when they got out of the truck someone would jump in and drive away, plus that little area is in a different time zone, that's why they didn't change the clocks in fall or spring
The one guy who discovers abandoned things for us to see. ._.
I remember passing by the mills in Gary and there was something just sad about it
Yeah, "Metal detectors" just puts a chill down my spine. I'm happy I never had to deal with that. Yucky
Trying to buy an abandoned school to rehab it is hard. The city makes it very difficult.
Apocalyptic is not what you think. The Steel mill was it's main source of income when the steel mill closed things went down from there.
I actually do know this before I moved my parents moved to California I was born in Indianapolis. And we would visit family in Gary
I’ve been to one of those schools before, not been a student there but have seen the run down ones. They are pretty cool but also kinda creepy
Gary is the closest IRL city we'll ever get to Carcer City from Manhunt and GTA universe.
Dude amazing music choice ☺️
How come these places can't be converted into grand boarding home for those who need it?! There are so many displaced people on the streets, yet no one thought of repurposing these abandoned buildings for the homeless?!