Michael Jackson Birthplace - Childhood Hometown Tour of Gary Indiana

0:02 welcome everyone Adam the whoo here

0:02 coming to you from Gary Indiana the

0:07 stomping grounds of a very young Michael

0:10 Jackson and that is what today's video

0:12 is going to be all about check this

0:16 place out

0:17 join me Shelley starting off with this

0:20 mural that has been placed on the side

0:22 of the building the Jackson 5 Michael

0:25 and his brothers who were all born here

0:28 had their first performances here and

0:31 lived here on August 29th 1958 the King

0:37 of Pop was born in this very Hospital

0:40 the building was established in 1927 but

0:44 current day like most the rest of this

0:47 town pretty much abandoned most the

0:50 windows are broken out or boarded up

0:56 it's interesting to think that one of

0:59 the biggest music icons of all time his

1:03 life began right in there this would

1:07 have been the front entryway and if we

1:10 peak up over the top you can see the

1:15 staircase there leading up into the

1:19 hospital and on ground level there are a

1:22 couple of accessible points that we can

1:26 peek at very moist and damp down in

1:29 there some paper records that have been

1:32 drenched by the elements

1:36 no telling what's documented in those

1:38 books if you're feeling daring enough it

1:42 would be easy to just jump down there

1:44 wade through the puddles and enter into

1:47 the building I however will not be doing

1:50 that today should take this opportunity

1:53 to tell you that this neck of the woods

1:56 has one of the highest crime rates

1:58 anywhere in the nation it's not

2:00 somewhere a tourist should be wasting

2:03 time dilly dallying around camera in

2:06 hand you just got to kind of see what

2:08 there is to be seen and continue moving

2:11 on passing the water tower now making

2:17 our way over to the former homestead on

2:21 the corner of the renamed Jackson Street

2:23 and Jackson family Boulevard is the

2:27 residence

2:30 right over here very tiny accommodations

2:33 for such a large family and while the

2:37 home has been cleaned up and restored

2:40 grass has been planted some hedges along

2:43 the sidewalk and even a little statue of

2:46 children playing it has been kept pretty

2:48 much how it was way back then and you

2:52 know that by just turning around and

2:54 looking at the neighbor's house right

2:57 over there it looks pretty much the same

2:59 two houses on the same block that are

3:03 nearly identical except this one house

3:07 the Jacksons just to give a little

3:09 perspective on its size here is a side

3:12 angle

3:13 well 2-bedroom 1-bath place down on the

3:17 ground

3:18 some bricks and placards have been

3:21 placed by the city and other family

3:23 members see the glove there in the

3:25 middle embedded in the concrete this was

3:32 dedicated from the office of the mayor

3:34 this shows him through some of the

3:36 different stages of his career as far

3:39 ride he's got the sunglasses on below

3:42 the fence line is a row of bricks people

3:45 come out here and share their thoughts

3:46 and memories by writing them right along

3:49 the edge you would like to read what

3:52 people have said or who has been through

3:56 they place their names memories where

4:01 they're from etc it is pretty neat that

4:04 people will come to a certain place that

4:08 they've never been before just to leave

4:10 their thoughts all along some brick the

4:14 world was better with you in it we love

4:17 you and miss you so much a few more on

4:21 this end as well

4:25 and I've heard that sometimes people

4:28 will scribble into the fence line of

4:30 course they repaint it because they

4:32 don't want you destroying the fence but

4:35 you can also see faintly down here there

4:38 are some inscriptions in the concrete

4:40 right here it says I love you

4:44 here's a few that have been written

4:46 since the last time it was repainted

4:50 April loves Michael and so does Adriana

4:55 the King of Pop stated right there in

4:59 the backyard are a couple other statues

5:01 there's a girl sitting on a little bench

5:04 with her pet dog and some deer they're

5:07 off in the background next to the shed a

5:09 couple locks have been bolted here and

5:13 some wooden hearts that have

5:16 inscriptions on them as well there used

5:20 to be a very large historical marker

5:22 right there you can see the base of it I

5:24 don't know why it's not there anymore

5:26 but it stood you know probably five or

5:29 six feet tall taking up the corner of

5:32 the yard but it's no longer there for

5:36 whatever reason it's gone at the end of

5:38 the sidewalk leading to the front door

5:40 it states and loving memory you gave us

5:44 a lifetime of love and has all the

5:47 family members inscribed parents Joseph

5:50 and Katherine brothers Jackie Jermaine

5:53 Marlon and Randy sisters Janet Latoya

5:56 and Rebbie there is a tree B re b bi e

6:01 it's a very big family it seems as if

6:05 anywhere someone can inscribe a memory

6:08 or a name they take that advantage by

6:12 placing it all along street signs and

6:15 the poles holding them check this one

6:20 out

6:20 there are hundreds

6:23 hundreds of memories and names written

6:26 all up all up the side of this a lot of

6:31 people have been out here corner of

6:36 these cross streets that's where it all

6:38 started in this neighborhood on this

6:41 corner in that house the Jackson's not

6:46 too far away from where they resided

6:47 short walk through those fields crossing

6:51 that empty parking lot and what is now

6:54 the abandoned Garnett elementary school

6:59 which is where they went to class years

7:02 later another organization took the

7:04 building over by the name of images of

7:06 hope but it is also closed grass has

7:10 grown up a sign of what once was even

7:16 though the brothers did a variety of

7:17 performances at school and a talent

7:20 shows one of their first as the Jackson

7:23 5 happened just across the street it is

7:26 now completely fenced off but this is

7:30 mr. Lucky's lounge a bullet hole has

7:34 been placed in the front window

7:38 designated by banners along the side

7:42 home of the first Jackson 5 performance

7:45 at one point there was a pool hall

7:49 billiards and they even served a

7:52 hamburger by the same name but through

7:56 these doors in 1964 history was made

8:01 very difficult to see but I zoomed way

8:04 in

8:14 as I pull back out you can see there is

8:14 a huge concrete piece blocking the door

8:19 not accessible you'll notice that

8:22 state's own a piece of the history

8:25 I heard the current owner was going to

8:27 sell off parts of the stage where the

8:29 performance happened I don't think that

8:32 ever came to be but it looks as if

8:34 Beelzebub himself might have been

8:37 interested now that I look at it I think

8:40 people have reached over and taken a

8:42 piece of the structure for themselves

8:44 pieces of the brick little souvenirs

8:47 have been taken one could say based on

8:50 the condition of the place that mr.

8:52 Lucky's has run out of luck it's seen

8:58 better days here's a little more of the

9:01 downtown area you can see now it's kind

9:04 of fallen by the wayside not in the best

9:08 shape these days quite a few stray dogs

9:11 I don't think there's a leash law in

9:14 these parts that's gonna do it for today

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Michael Jackson Birthplace - Childhood Hometown Tour of Gary Indiana

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