I know of an abandoned chemical plant. Would you like to go there next?

That is Lilly Freeman Elementary School, I went there when I was a child.

Hi hope all is well 👋

I just got them today. Thanks for making a decent video about them. Cant wait to see how they perform.

Probably not your best video ... hallways and stairwells. Am I being deconstructive?

I’ve stayed out there almost my entire life until I was about 8 I am now 15

I'm a few years late to this thread but I went there a lot with my friends from Webster back in the late 70's after the bars on the Missouri side closed for the night. Have a lot of memories there but I guess I'm more selective than I thought because I don't remember an upper floor. I was thinking the drag shows were on the lower level next to the back room, but from what other people are saying I guess my memory is off a bit. Last time I was visiting St. Louis in 1992 (maybe '93) to do a concert and on my way back to NYC stopped over in Faces the night before my flight. Stumbled out of there with some dude I'd just met who mugged me in the parking lot. I have no memory of how I got on my flight back to NYC a few hours later without any ID. But memories of Faces during my college years was fabulous and this vid is like a deja vu for me. Thank you for your urbex bravery in those hallowed, legendary ruins.

Where is it at? In alton

Wow , that was interesting to see. I have never been to faces. Thank you for the tour.😊❤

KFC rides again. Thank you Brian Davids!

Heart breaking, i was a member their in 1977, a very young child. It was under Rev A.R. Leak. It's a beautiful church very sad to see it go.

I thought Bells contains was at Bellafontaine and Riverview Blvd I thought cemetery across from Calvert was a Lutheran cemetery?

soo cool

You should come back out now. It's nicer than it's been for decades.

Quit KZbin?

I used to work for the man who ran this bar. He used to manage theaters before and I was a 16 year old working as an usher in one of his theaters. He got me really drunk and he and his boyfriend molested me at his apartment in the Central West End sometime in the mid 80's.

Go back and go downstairs please

The men's only basement! LOL

I grew up in Washington Park

That building was Monday's Maid Laundromat and the Car Wash at 56th and Forest

Colony is at 40th and Waverly

Great find Brian glad to see your out exploring again 👍🏻

that place was called Packer River North, I94 & North Dowling Ave. I delivered several loads of wheat there in the late 1980's. What a Shit hole. The guy that ran the scale out by the streets went by DJ & he was a real jackass.

This the video I’m looking for

Yeah no women were ever allowed down there

Wow I had so many good times there in my 20's

When did faces close?

I’ve been to GC, and this cemetery I believe is behind Walmart. The story is they put that dirt road right over graves and basically desecrated the cemetery, which disturbed Lucinda Irish’s spirit, and apparently she will yell at you if you visit it at night. Also, it is said that her spirit is seen less now that people are maintaining the cemetery.

been a while Brian hope all is well.

Great memories. I used to dance there. They had drag shows upstairs on the little stage. Such great memories.

Hello Rogue, I'm a part time professor at SLU and looking for an urban explorer to talk to the class on January 16 about this building. Might you be interested. Dale

mike brown reached for a LEO's service weapon

thank you for this creepy video....I love going thru abandoned buildings myself, but that one really freaks me out being as that was my main hang from the day FACES opened somewhere around 1978....not sure of that date, but not too far off....it was THE RED BULL everyone was going to before FACES....same neighborhood around the corner and equally fun....everybody parked in the same parking lot....anyway....thanks....so weird that it looks exactly as it looked except decripid....I just wish you hadn't shoved that chair off the 2nd floor....can you please go put it back?

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I'm writing a book about someone who worked at this mill in 1914 as a night watchman/janitor. He had an affair with a women, and I like to imagine he was sneaking her into this place at night. He was hanged for murder in 1915, and he might even haunt this place. Thanks for giving a good visual for me to use in my writings.

every nite before close the last song they would play in the disco was "Last Dance" by Donna Summer and in the basement (which stayed open as long as people were there partying) the most popular song that was always playing on the jukebox was "its raining men" the basement is where the "dark room" was located and it was quite the site to see but it scared me with the aids epidemic and all, there was a urinal on the wall right by the bar and that was how they legally kept women out cuz it was considered a big restroom complete with pool tables, pinball machines, bar, piano lounge/room, and a dark room that was barely lit, behind the bar they had big bowls full of condoms and single use lube packets for free while gay porn played on the tvs,, leaving the club after some of the beet nites ever it would be daytime outside

My Dad and his partners built that place in 1965. And there was supposed to be a 2nd tower but due to money issues and infighting it never got built

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ALL MINE...ALL MY HARD WORK

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I lived on the other side of the levee next to this house on the Mississippi River,we lost everything in 93!!!!!!I sure do miss those days, it was like heaven!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here’s a little background on Faces… I was 17, my best friend was 21. we grew up together. Went to Faces many many times. The desk at the front door has always been there. If you walk in before 11pm there was no one to card you at the desk. Being under 21? That’s when we went, 1030pm. It looks nearly the exact same as it did in 1985-1990. Walk in, same dance floor, bar on the right, and there was a bar by the stairs on the left but that isn’t there anymore I guess. One huge thing missing? There was a large DJ booth, enclosed with a large plastic window at the far end of the dance floor, by the stairs. Faces had the most intense stereo system. Your entire body would thump. No joke. You couldn’t hear your own voice. Was a very fun place albeit a gar bar, drag bar. Downstairs had a big square bar in the middle. It was a full on leather bar. Men wearing chaps and full leather! It smelled like leather down there. There were 3 pool tables. It was all open down stairs, nothing like the video shows now. Several small TVs hanging up and every single one of them was showing gay porn with no sound. We ventured down there but found it to be, too wild! Upstairs was where the drag shows were. Kinda dark. And it wasn’t very big. I don’t recall the actual date but we were there and Taylor Dayne showed up. She came upstairs to watch the drag show! So one of the drag queens covered one of her songs. I actually still have her autograph on a $1 bill! It was either 86ish or 87ish. She must have been in STL for a concert. You’re welcome!

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I'm 72 years old. I was born and raised in this neighborhood. I lived on 67 and Paulina. A 2-3 minute walk from this Church. I know this because the was, before it was St. Andrews's, it was St. Mary of Mt. Carmel. I was baptized there, made my first Communion and Confirmation there. There was also an Elementary School there, i went there from Kindergarten and graduated from the 8th grade in 1965. You showed a stained glass window. I knew the family that donated it. I cried throughout this video as I saw in my mind's eye how it was more than 50 uears ago. The only thing I didn't see in this video was the beautiful Mural behind the Alter.

Gary Public Schools Memorial Auditorium or what most called it just Memorial Auditorium. Built in 1927 closed in 1972. This was just the entrance to a bigger part of the Auditorium, this place was actually a huge complex lot's of history has been here from Stars, Presidents Public figures have spoke entertained here. But the 1997 downtown fire destroyed huge section of Gary and most of this building was destroyed. This was what was left but it was razed in 2020 for a huge housing complex demolition probably started not much after you were here.

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Hey Brian I still see tracks and trains I went haywire and went to Cape Girardeau Missouri to go look at the bnsf railroad tracks

U alive man

Thanks. I thoroughly enjoyed this.