one city is suffering or one community is suffering, the entire world should pitch in and help elevate it instead of sit there and stare at it. people have lost the faith in a lot of things, probably had to do with the faith they had in detroit. once industrial -- of the entire world. >> it's enormous. >> yeah, it is. about a mile long, maybe quarter mile wide. i've got a pretty good view from up here. >> yeah. how many people worked here at it's peak. >> during the war, there were, like, 33,000 people working here. they went out of business in '56. they brought studebaker in as a partner, and studebaker pulled them down. >> this has been abandoned since the '50s? >> actually, what happened in 1956, they rented out to various entrepreneurs. it was a shoe warehouse, trucking company. >> how long has it been like this, though?