Explore Abandoned Mystery Building North St. Louis 

Thanks.. It may be up sunday morning for ya

+Grant Simpson wow super cool. I always wish I had the info and some stories from people who have history with the building prior to making the video.. are you in the st louis area still?..

No, I live in Orlando now. After I left St Louis I lived in Phoenix Az for a couple decades. Advance was a fun place to work. On of our more interesting stops was we had 75-90 arcade/coin op games on the bottom deck of the Admiral (before it had the hideous metal skin added). A few years after I left Pete Entringer, who was effectively running the company and was a good boss to work for, had some kind of falling out with the owner and left to form Audio-Visual amusements and the Advance got kind of sold off in bits and pieces after that from what I was told. It was a very rough neighborhood back then, we had shootings in the alley next to us and so on, but we were able to park in protected spaces and the upper floors of the building gave us seemingly unlimited room to store stuff. For historical information, the guy who owned it also was instrumental in re-furbishing/revitalizing the "Fabulous Fox Theater" during that time also - I don't know if its still around or not but a lot of us got involved in that.

No, I live in Orlando now. After I left St. Louis I lived in Phoenix AZ for a couple decades. Advanced was a fun place to work. From what I understand a few years after I left the guy who basically ran the place, Pete Entringer, had some type of falling out with the owner and left to form Audio-Visual Amusements that ended up moving to the westport area. Pete was a good guy to work for, wish I had kept up with him. We had a lot of pretty interesting stops, the biggest was the whole lower deck of the Admiral Steamboat (before they put the ugly metal cladding on it) where we had 75-100 pieces of coin op equipment. It was a very rough neighborhood back then, shootings in the alley to the side and so on. We had protected parking since it was an old car dearlership.

+Grant Simpson ya.. its still considered a tough area.. before I went in.. a guy mowing told me his friend was shot dead in the street right out front

Do you remember the address or what part of the city this was in?

+Douglas Kmiotek ya. Could be

Thanks man, I really appreciate you

Thanks, There was a lot that I didn't show... unfortunately It would've made the footage repetitive

yes it was cool

Yes, thanks.. Probably will be up Sunday

Yes it is

The next video, on this place will show you the view from the rooftop and the building next door

"Otis" has been around a long time~ cool freight elevator

Thanks so much, and yes they have... Am I going crazy or have I also seen their name on other things... I wanted to say water fountains. But, it's probably just that I see water fountains at the same spots that I see Otis Elevators..

+Ruth Walton It was an old car dealership

+Pix L Industries cool

Thanks so much for your support.. It's called monster by martin hall

+Tim Virnig I'll try and look that up. I have a subscription too epidemic sound.. the two songs in the middle were same artist

Martin Hall.. Is the name of the author, composer of the two songs in the middle of the video.. Don't have the other two trap music hip hop yet...

That's a very cool Idea... Luckily I can see the address number in the video...

My friend had a sister who worked at our library. After they filmed all the city directories, the library threw them out and she gave them to my friend. We had a blast looking through them and especially how our neighborhood corner had changed over the years. The buildings were the same, from the late 1800s, but businesses had come and gone over the hundred + years. The directories are a great resource. There used to be a big wagon manufacturer here that built wagons purchased nation wide. Some of those wagons were the "prairie schooners" that people went west in. Some through your St. Louis! When it closed, the grandfather of a friend of mine bought the building and tore it down. He used the lumber from it to construct a neighborhood. This was in the 1920s. The neighborhood is still there and people living in it get a kick out of hearing the history of the wood in their houses. The houses were very well built and the man leased most at first and then later sold on affordable contract for deeds to the working people who lived there.

Super cool! send him my way. I know where there is tons of glass blocks stacked on pallets in an old factory...

Max Zomboni cool.. maybe it was a moving and storage tganns

The support pillars and big windows on the mezzanine reminded me of the car manufacturing plants in Detroit. The way they looked back in the days of Model Ts. I think there was some type of manufacturing on the 2nd and 3rd floors.

There was a lot of small car manufacturers in the st louis area back in the day.. Some manufacturers that are no longer in business.... Someone wrote arrive in a wagon leave in a model t on the door near the beginning. I am really curious as to whether or not there was anything besides a moving company here at one point.

I'd love too.. youtube has made things very tough as far as earning any revenue and it's been really hard on small content creators to get their videos seen and get enough views to make any revenue... We have traveled a little and would love to do a lot more in the future

Cooollll man thanks, Unfortunately there isn't enough of them on the music site I use... It's a paid subscription.. Maybe I just have to keep searching the site.. I've used that song once before and people really liked it...

There's got to be someone out there willing to make some similar "on the cheap" ? ... :-) ..... LOTS of musicians and singers that could use work right. Put out some feelers? I'll make you a post on My Google Plus to ask folks.

awesome.. appreciate it..

Yeah no problem. It totally fits the mood of many of the places you explore, and, if you keep the volume at "mid range" on it ? You'll be doing better than a different producer I watched today. The trick is Just consistent beats , IMHO ? !!!!!! "Normal" music ya know. Not the "ghostly" stuff. I think you get it. That way if something DOES sound out of the ordinary we can hear it ? OR dip the volume at that spot if need be in "Post" , right.

These other guys have yet to give history information that I have heard? I do Like how you tell us about where you are at. Your viewers chime in with info too sometimes? .... it's Just a different style. It is. I Like how you try to do long "cuts" , too. It gives the best feel of a place. So Im more than happy to give any suggestions I "FEEL" , and , you say others have mentioned the same thing ? Yeah, go for it man.

+MiniTieGaming monster

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+DUSK O. Soundwaves arranged in melodic rythmic patterns

I'm not sure how young he is... It's crazy.. I hate to see it being lost too. We are saving a lot of it through video and photograph... We filmed the inside and outside of the Clemen's mansion in St. Louis in February of this year... It burned too the ground a couple weeks ago..

can you guess what all the rumbling andcrime ridden, however once extremely ffluent, areas in this country have in common.....hint: has alot to do with demographics, and politically incorrect to talk about it

Car dealer

Car dealer. And then storage on North Hrand Blvd

Grand

Old auto dealer

Andrew Gems lol

thanks...