In 1950 St. Louis had a population of 800,000; today it's 320,000. St Louis has lost 2/3 of it's population in just 60 years. The city now has the same number of residents that it did in 1870.
I was born and raised in north st. louis... my younger sister worked at crown candy when she was 14 years old... its a damm shame what has happened to north st. louis... all those empty lots were single family homes with 4 family flats mixed in.. i graduated from jackson school in 1953 and the last time i saw the school it was all boarded up and closed... now you can't walk down the street especially at night for fear of being shot and killed...
Nice to see lots of architecture older than the '20s, for a change. Many videos of cities just show the building book of the '20s, really. This was far more interesting.
When I was little, my aunt would come to visit. She liked to go downtown and go shopping at Stix,Bear, and Fuller and we would have lunch in the store's resteraunt. Afterwards, we would go to the Broch's candy store and she would buy us some candy. That was in the early '70's. Both stores moved out a long time ago.
I rolled these streets and worse for a time as a repo field agent. At night. Thing I always thought was funny was you'd see all these crappy cars parked on the street, and then something totally out of place like a Maybach or an AMG Mercedes or a Bentley Continental GT...three guesses where the dope man lives...LOL
nice, you're trying to get my prejudiced ire up. I grew up in this once great city and cant tell you how heartbreaking it is to not be able to go back to north county. my childhood home is now a backfilled urban lot!
Appreciate the video showing the real St Louis, a place of two significant confluences. This is where the Missouri and Mississippi rivers meet and where Route 66 meets Highway 61.
Okay, this is what I hate about these 'statistics'. First off, these area's are MOSTLY in North City. There is still a HUGE part of St. Louis is that is historical and beautiful. I live in the Central West end and go to UMSL. The area's of Clayton, Maplewood, University city, Delmar Loop and the Central West end are amazing parts of the city. Clayton and the park have some of the most expensive real estate in the country. Also, Tower Grove and part of South City are very nice, including Lafayette Square are AMAZING. Of course there are 'bad' areas, but every city has them. So what. It doesn't mean St. Louis is that bad. And the homicide statistics show that 90% of the crime is gang and or drug related in North City and Dutchtown. Soooo, if you're not gang banging and doing drugs, chances are you'll be just fine. Look up the homicide map/statistics for St. Louis and you will see for yourselves.
I was born and raised here. My family home is rite off of North Grand. Now, I am here in North County with my other half. If I had a chance to go back, I would. This person driving through part of the north side, making it seem like its really bad. Its not. U see a lot of vacant lots because they don't want to rebuild. They r waiting on the people to moved, loose their homes r die. Then they will rebuild. They don't want to pay the blk people for their homes to rebuild. U might not believed this, North City have the best land and they want it. I will always LOVE the North side. I also had a house on Arsenal, it was always something going on over there.
St Louis peak population was 880,000 in 1950. Today it's about 315,000 but I'm thinking that number is inflated. Metro STL is about 2.8 million and that's about as big as it will ever be. St Louis is on the verge of a major decline. Violent crime is astronomical. Major corporations are fleeing. Taxes are going up. The big universities are all that's keeping the inner city afloat. But it still beats Detroit!
Yeah I grew up right in the grand and St.louis ave area where this video first starts right around the corner from that big church you see in the beginning.
Godstolemybike Jones the huge park spaces are where buildings used to be. Most of the stores have bulletproof windows,and you give your order,pay, and they put your items in a large drawer, and shove it out to you.
Did you know you're supposed to use your turn signal BEFORE making your turn??? Those funny red signs with 8 sides mean you're supposed to stop for a moment, not just slow down a little. 6:33 - That B&W sign with the arrow means the street in One Way, and it's not the way you were going.
March of 2021 i went north of Delmar on Goodfellow just to I-70 at 11:30 PM with my windows down cranking my radio with K-SHE 95 . Night time is better to drive through North city. Dexter Lombardo out 🤠
Would like to know exactly where this was. I’m from U.City. Grew up near the Loop. This city (as much as I liked it) was always pretty trashy. North Side was always rough, even before the gangs moved in. When that happened, things got a bit out of control. No jobs, very little work, most people live off of welfare. -can’t afford to move (even if they had a place to go). Every one else has already left. St. Louis is unique in that the city is NOT in any county .(it is it’s own entity)-so no county taxes go to it. The only tax base is internal. Government corruption has always been bad, too. Many problems. Very complex. It also hasn’t helped that the entire metro area was, from the beginning, set up as a totally segregated city. --(with the exception of University City). Very sad. People must move to where the jobs are.
i saw a street sign. Blair at St. Louis Ave. north side but by the water tower, i think. grew up in Carondelet myself in the 60s & 70s. moved to the other side of the state in 1978 and love it.
These neighborhoods aren't that dangerous. They just look scary because they contain a bunch of abandoned buildings and empty lots. There aren't a lot of eyes on the street, and I wouldn't go walking around there in the middle of the night, but they're perfectly safe to drive through at any time of day. 99% of the violent crime in St. Louis is targeted and contained within specific communities of wannabe gangsters and drug dealers. The random car jacking of a white person that results in death or injury is extremely rare but gets so much media attention that people think it happens all the time here. It doesn't.
It's dangerous, (I wouldn't go there at night), but it's not as dangerous as you think. How dangerous could it be when everyone has moved out? Even the gangs have moved away. It's more of a ghost town than a ghetto. I grew up in north St. Louis in the Hyde Park area. It's sad to see everyone has left, and there's nothing left but rubble. There's a few people trying to hold on, but it's a ghost town. All of north St. Louis needs to be bull dozed and start over. There's nothing there but vacant lots and abandoned houses. Bull doze it all.
There is something to be said about all the hundred year old brick structures,(and some a lot older) that are still standing,because they were built by people who were true craftsmen,not just drywall and plastic shingles on a poor construction. If the city were willing to help people who wanted a home,this would be the place to do it. After the white people left for the suburbs,poor blacks moved in and were slowly but surely overcome by the ravages of poverty and crime. They could start,one street at a time, clean it up,have neighborhood community gardens,and have watchmen to keep everything in line. It's been done in other cities. After all,why not keep our cities together,instead of driving 200 miles a week!
BigORat it aint a ghost town. It has the highest homicide rate in the country at like 60 murders per 100k people which is higher than sao paulo, rio, and other 1-3rd world cities
Crown Candy is really struggling to stay in business because people don't come to the city anymore. Since the whole Ferguson thing and now the aquital of Officer Jason Stockley, the blacks have gone on a murder rampage. Violent crime is staggering. The city police dept is massively under staffed. The city is in a perilous situation. It's a real shame. So much effort has gone into keeping St Louis viable.
Jason Stockley was innocent. O.J. was guilty. If o.j. would have been found guilty, a riot would have ensued. Blacks answer to everything that doesn't go their way - RIOT_RIOT_RIOT!!!!
I've watched a few St Louis videos now. There are some badly run down areas, but none of them look as bad as Detroit videos. Block after block of burnt out houses and businesses, etc.
Detroit only looks worse because of the riots. Ether way a city isn't defined dangerous based on how it looks. North STL is murder capital right now and much worse then Detroit.
This makes me slightly homesick? I lived in St. Louis and the outskirts most of my life until 2014. It's no more dangerous than other cities in my opinion. White girl here!
I grew up in St Charles but lived on the South Side for the last 20 years. I STUPIDLY moved to Sacramento in 2014. Oh wow. There is a whole different trash in Sacto. I lasted a year and came back to the South South. St Louis is home and always will be.
xAliceisAlivex I am over 80 yrs.old,great up in St.Louis,and visited most of these neighborhoods at some time or another,going to Catholic schools and visiting girlfriends all over the city. Most neighborhoods were old,centered around a church,and the town was generally well kept and vibrant. All that changed with "white flight" and as the neighborhoods became downtrodden and unkempt,we lost our precious history. There are pockets of civility but for the most part,there is little interest in preservation. St.Louis needs revitalization by the young. They could start by forming property salvage. Buying up ruined houses,salvaging the bricks,and reinstating a historic neighborhood. It could be a coalition. After all,this property could be prime and it is cheaper than suburban. Think about it !
@@gregorycyr9272 Almost all of them look like bomb went off. The industry left here 70 years ago and generations of poor welfare people is mostly what is left. After hurricane Irene nobody cleaned anything up and nobody cares. All you see in many upstate cities is old broken abandoned factories with no windows. It's depressing and gross.
@@gregorycyr9272 I moved here from Florida and I am about to get the Hell out of here. The homes here are dirt cheap and yes the taxes are a little higher but you get free healthcare and college. The jobs also pay more up here but the place is just too depressing. I saved way more money by living up here.
likeliterally it's true that land values in LA are so high that there isn't much abandonment. As for these areas of STL, I'd say they're among the most dangerous neighborhoods in the US. I was definitely driving with my doors locked.
likeliterally where he was is pretty bad but not exactly the worst of the worst. I wouldn't go there at night but during the day it's relatively safe. There are neighborhoods I wouldn't go in during the day with an armored car.
That’s because he was in an old abandoned industrial aria of old north St.Louis, it’s not much over there and not many people live there… I guess he was afraid to go to parts of the city where there are plenty of people out …. But that definitely wasn’t the ghetto.
Growing up in the 60's we knew the cops in our hood, if not by name but by face. They knew us too, and even though there wasn't a great relationship between the cops and residents it was something, even more so in the 50's I'm told. When the police decided they didn't need to have a relationship things really started to go down hill. Now it's an us against them atmosphere, where law abiding citizens seem to be caught in the crossfire. Thugs terrorizing and police and the white establishment criticizing because no one wants to get murdered testifying. No protection, word of advise, get a ccw and be alert at all times in the STL. Not saying it's like Beirut....... but damn close at times. This city is dying and really needs to be accessioned back into STL Co, but if the county voters have anything to do with it, that won't ever happen. STL is a city which is consistently in the top 5 for violent crimes per ca pita, and if they don't figure out how to fix now. Soon it will and may already be too late. Get back in St Louis Co and get rid of the crooked politicians and bad cops that don't serve and protect and rebuild this city.
You call that ride by the ghetto.. you must have been scared to go the real hood …. Because that wasn’t it .. you drove around an old abandoned industrial aria of the old north St.Louis.
BUT! there your wrong. What it looks like and what it is are two different things. North STL is fucking dangerous. You will get carjacked just for driving the wrong car at the wrong block.
This is tasteless and disrespectful. It serves no purpose other than racist fear-mongering. You are using these neighborhoods and the people that live there as entertainment. Seriously, driving with your doors locked?Please. You need some perspective. I’ve got friends in all these neighborhoods and I’m not trying to say STL doesn’t require some street smarts, but I am saying get the fuck out of this city if that’s where you are. Driving through neighborhoods where you are terrified of the people who live there (all black neighborhoods...) while filming them and their homes and their lives is a major invasion of privacy and so objectifying. Why do you feel entitled to do something like this? And then to use the word “ghetto”! A ghetto tour. Racist and disrespectful! I know for sure you have no right to use that term for any neighborhood in STL that you have absolutely no connection to. It is clear to me you have no connection to real STL because if somebody from real STL made a video like this, a lot of these neighborhoods wouldn’t be in it. The most STL thing about this video (and your comments about it) is all the racism coded into it. If you from STL, you should know what it means when folks talk about black neighborhoods with this tone while avoiding actually saying “Black.” Instead, people say ghetto, or crime from the city, or blight, or juvenile delinquents. Human beings live in all of these neighborhoods, real humans, real St. Louisans. Maybe next time, use your time to educate yourself. Do some reading about St. Louis, learn why certain neighborhoods are dealing with poverty and crime more than others, learn about how black folks have been (and are) treated in STL and all the thriving black neighborhoods that racist policies and people destroyed (the Ville, Kinloch), learn about white flight to the county, redlining that prevented so many black St. Louisans from purchasing homes, and gerrymandering to keep black folks from voting or having any unified voting power. And stay out of other people’s neighborhoods.
