before wellston was lost looks like its on its way

I wonder if they knew how much uranuim dust they were inhaling. lol no of course they didnt

Many familiar sites, amazing how comforting to relive

No sound🎉

I remember i got to ride on one of the trolley cars back in the early 60 It was something i will never forget Don't know where i was going Are where i wound up at I remember the sounds of the wheels going down the tracks

I remember as a child going on the streetcar to the University City Loop where the streetcar would turnaround and return to the City.

At 75, born and raised on the east side (Granite City) I well remember the streetcars. I've heard and read that the streetcar system in St. Louis was shut down in St. Louis in 1958, except for the Hodiamont line, which was taken out in 1968 (?). But in these clips I'm seeing autos from the early 60's. My older sister, who graduated from high school in 1961, soon after got a job at one of the big banks in downtown St. Louis. She recently told me she used to take the streetcar to work. What is it about "historians" of St. Louis that they don't have their facts right...??? That having been said, thanks much Mr. Saxton for these wonderful clips that show what a marvelous city St. Louis used to be, and could be if only we had competent city leadership. Thankfully, many young urbanists (and some developers) have (and are) moving into the city and have turned and are turning neighborhoods around to desirable and safe neighborhoods .

I remember riding in those street cars back in the mid/late 1950's, and I always thought they were rough riding. Lived at 4529 North Market, right across the street from a large Catholic Church, (or Cathedral), sorry but I don't remember the name as I'm 80 now.

My grandpa drove a streetcar and later went to work for the post office. I still have his black box with a blank timecard in it. Then my Uncle George was one of the last drivers. Family said when he retired, so did the streetcars.

That stations still there on the Rock rd and Jennings station. You can get anything you want right there from buttons to crack.....

I rode on that type of streetcar when I was about 4 in 1957 with my mom. We lived in Alton Illinois but has friends in St. Louis. Don't know what line it was that we rode. There were streetcars in Alton but I don't know if this is the type or if I ever rode one there. But I remember these type because they basically looked just like a bus but had only one light.

Thanks for the #14 PCC streetcar line ride and for sharing! Besides the trolleys, I really like seeing the period vehicles on the streets when many of them were fairly new.

Hello, any chance I can use this footage in a small true Crime documentary I am working on. It is not on this topic at all but from this era.

Hello, any chance I can use this footage in a small true Crime documentary I am working on. It is not on this topic at all but from this era.

It really is amazing how much character St. Louis has lost over the past 70 years.

What an interesting ride! Wish I could have been there.

Cool to look at this compared to Google Street View today. It was once a living breathing city. Now it seems largely abandoned in the same places. Too bad.

Wow, I realized that the intersection was DeBaliviere and Delmar where the tow by 165 was taking place. So the current BiState service center replaced an old one at that site. I always wondered.

In the 1950's I took 6 bus going's t0 and from high school, I took the Grand Avenue streetcar many times to go to South St. Louis. This video sure brings back happy memories.

These are great videos. Lately, I've been checking out vintage streetcar line films and comparing the streetscapes to how they look today on Google View. Quite a contrast in St. Louis, but it looks as though they've been working on bringing the downtown back to life again. The area around "The White Mill" looks gone for good, but you never know.

Great vid, Cliff. The opening 2 or 3 minutes...which road(s) were those, and what direction? I recognized the last 4 minutes or so as the line down Forest Park Expressway. That wasnt the U City line. But great vid. Thank goodness you preserved this stuff . It looked like the final bit was the Line southbound on Central in Clayton, going over the Rock Island .

Back to the future…

I am so glad people took time to take photos and shoot video back then!! Thank you, Cliff!!

O baby, very schweet! Love the creativity with the camera between the rails, and the pacing vid of 1793 and 1636! And the you braved the snow and low temps to get nice snow vids. Was that a windup camera, or batteries? Was that footage in Clayton of the Central bridge over the Rock Island RR? Then down to the Wallinca loop it looked like. Great stuff, thanks.

Thanks for sharing! I was about 6 years old when my mom & grandma found out the streetcars were going belly up, I they took me down to ride it, since I loved anything on rails. I especially like the footage from the cab! Perhaps if it wouldn't be too difficult, add narration to identify the more obscure locations. Great job! Love to see footage of the Creve Coeur Lake and Kirkwood lines if you know if any film exists.. thanx again.

The Hodiamont in 1966 must have been among the last streetcar lines to shut down in the US. Just Pittsburgh, El Paso and Philadelphia after?

I love these. Just wondering if you could include a street map to show the lines. I don't recognize most of them due to time and/or changes.

Wellston was jumping. I walk the old Hodiamont line on occasion...I hear they are going to make an official trail. Seems like yesterday, if you are still alive to remember.

Was #165 preserved by any chance?

It really does look like you're going down an alley with two sets of rails on the Hodiamont line. Nice footage of St Louis period streetcars. Thanks for sharing!

i love these streetcars

Tres cool! Thanks for the Wes Montgomery, almost makes me want to pick up the guitar again.

I rode that line only once as I recall, early ‘60s. Much of that streetscape is unfamiliar. I’ll need to dig out my system map and reacquaint myself with the route.

More air pollution for Saint Louis in 1966 by those diesel buses.

The 1600 series of these trolleys were built in 1941 and was the first fleet to have Oval standee windows above the regular side windows.

This makes up for never getting to ride on a St. Louis Streetcar. My Dad promised to take me sometime, but never got around to it. It would have been scary standing in the street to board!

Know lying union comm democrats killed all of this

My father took me to ride on the last streetcar on the last day of service. I wore my boy scout uniform and I got to ride free. My dad had to pay LOL. But this was it. In WW2, my mother used to work right down there in a coffee shop and took this streetcar everyday. I went back there this past October 2021 and checked it all out. So different.

It's nice seeing these streetcars.

Beautiful footage.

The west side looks so different back them. Everything looks so nice

I lived on Hodiamontline. We joked bout it going thru back alleys etc

Omg. My dad lived on this street as a child. His house was still there, last time I checked. He's 86, now. I can't wait to show him this. Thank you!

so sad

I remember. I used to love it. Thru bk alleys and yards

I did not know the Hodiamont line was the last to go, and thought they were all gone by ‘63. I remember the Hodiamont right of way very well. My dad worked that line as a motorman in the 1940s.