A Unique Town North Of St. Louis: Alton, Illinois 4K.

[@ChrisHarden]

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[@leodannyportal]

Hometown is San Francisco and lived in Los Angeles before moving to Alton in 2016. I have never looked back. Alton is a great place to call home. Plenty of restaurants, and cool bars (even a gay bar is located in downtown), and new cinema is awesome. The housing stock is fantastic with plenty of victorians, empire style and modern architecture too. I hear a new Starbucks will come to town.. mixed feeling about that, as there are plenty of family run coffee shops in town. The new Amtrak Station to Chicago is great too and the STL Airport is only 35 minutes away. I recommend anyone thinking of relocating to visit Alton IL and the many neighborhoods along the Mississippi Bluffs. Alton is a special town with special and friendly people.

[@brentdrury2490]

I'm excited about Starbucks coming to town, but I hear a lot of great things about Germania Brew Haus which I'll have to try sometime.

[@zappa3837]

Maeva's is one of the coolest coffee spots I've ever been, so I hear you on the ambivalence about Starbucks.

[@alansewell7810]

I lived in Alton a couple years around 2000 and loved it for those reasons.

[@eriknephrongfr8847]

I love Alton. I moved here permanently 3 years ago and love it here. Work is 8 minutes away and there’s pretty decent food around. Plus, the people are awesome.

[@knightoftheday1]

The people are awesome?

[@eriknephrongfr8847]

@@knightoftheday1 Yes.

[@gaming_sportsaaron1365]

@@knightoftheday1 yes they definitely are

[@TheOnlyreezybeezy30]

I live in Alton too. It's not bad as this guy makes it sound. It's pretty laid back

[@eriknephrongfr8847]

@@TheOnlyreezybeezy30 Hey neighbor.

[@DemsRinsane]

Alton was a great place to grow up in the 60s and 70s.

[@truburna05]

Been here my entire life, still love it.

[@logananderson4563]

Live live in godfrey but in Alton everyday

[@nolanmclaughlin4325]

Link up?

[@CJColvin]

The neat interesting thing about Alton Illinois is that it has Fast Eddie's Bon Air.

[@williamperkins9349]

We do not consider anything north of I-270 as "metroeast," this is the Greater Alton Metroplex. You began in E. Alton and entered the area known as "Lower Broadway" roughly 2 mi. east of downtown. At 5:27 you finally entered downtown. At 7:14 you left downtown and entered Middletown. At 9:19 you were back downtown. At 9:46 (after almost going the wrong way down 3rd St.) you returned to the Eastend Business District. At 10:01 you turned onto Ridge St. and into the Hunterstown neighborhood (my old stomping ground). At 10:18 you returned to Middletown. At 10:46 you were downtown again. At the 13:30 mark you 'skirted' the Christian Hill District. At 14:41 you went around Statehouse Sq. and took a roundabout way to the Salu area of Upper Alton. You then headed north and out of town to the new high school. You failed to cover North Alton (aka Norside, Buck Inn), Upper Alton (aka Pietown), the Milton Area, North Rodgers, Dago Hill, Boozytown, or Dogtown. You also did not mention Eliah Lovejoy - first martyr to freedom of the press and abolition of slavery, the Underground Railroad, Robert Wadlow - the tallest man that ever lived, and you didn't go down W 7th st. the steepest bricked street in the world. You also failed to show the Piasa Bird (the original was the largest native American painting ever found in North America).

[@ChrisHarden]

Hmm.

[@lecuyerdooley1084]

@@ChrisHarden I was just going to type a comment about the error of St. Louis St. being Alton -- that's East Alton -- but you are right. Alton is very historical and quite a bit was overlooked in the video.

[@WBDE]

I grew up outside of Alton and I think it was a shame that you missed so much. For a town that is a bit run-down Alton has a tremendous history. When I was growing up there it had major industrial employers such as Laclede Steel, Owens-Illinois Glass and Alton Box Board Co. You drove right past where they once were on Broadway. Where you made one of your left turns in downtown Alton is the site of one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. You drove past the federal courthouse twice. The wall outside of it used stone blocks from the Civil War era freighthouse of the Chicago & Alton Railroad. You also drove past the remnants of a major Civil War era prison for confederate soldiers. Alton was also the home of the tallest man in recorded history, Robert Wadlow. My mother went to school with him. I wish you could have been with a native who could have showed you so much.

[@exist7415]

I am close enough to alton and have been looking for the perfect halloween experience. What is the most haunted places I can visit? Look foward to a reply the city is very pretty. A very american city to me.

[@disturbedltlman6007]

I don’t know many natives of the area that are still there or have any desire to return,lol can’t say that I blame them

[@joelalm3645]

Great content on feed back. They should add the positives of Alton. Rushing through didn't give more credit to the history. The new things being done. Deluxe came through helped businesses move forward. Great pesponce back the there podcast. Be better for them to stop in the chamber of commerce get more information about Alton. Joel

[@amybaum2722]

@@exist7415 mineral springs

[@amybaum2722]

My 2 grandfathers knew robert wadlow

[@mercedesannajasminekagomel4240]

I was born and raised and grew up in Alton I moved away in 93 but it’s my home always this video made me smile and proud and homesick I used to roam the streets seeing my old neighborhood I lived a block over from Henry and 4th street on 5th

[@pamdotson4346]

The great actor, Clint Walker, was born in Hartford but raised in Alton. He is most famous for starring in the long running western series "Cheyenne" from 1955 to 1964.

[@gmitchell91]

Alton is stinking awesome. My mother's side of the family is from there. I spent my summers there, and it will always be a second home to me. So much history. So much to see and do. It has improved so much in recent years. Thank you for showcasing such an amazing town.

[@knightoftheday1]

Alton history summed up. Killed the last decent white person in town. A tall guy. The guy who shoot MLK.

[@loyaltonotredame2160]

@@knightoftheday1 and some random guy who was born here and plays in the nhl

[@amybaum2722]

I was born in alton illinois. I saw you pass east 7th Street where I live from 1987-90 and dukes bakery which has the best donuts. I feel homesick watching this video

[@mr.traphousechickenllc]

Duke's bakery is always going to be the best

[@williamperkins9349]

If there are donuts in heaven, they were made at Duke.

[@AthenaGM]

I appreciate you taking of your time and doing this. I am i lnterested in this town, and this helped with the projections we have in place! Stay well!🤙🏻

[@markwaters7760]

I grew up in Alton in the 60s and 70s. I went to St Mary's. It was a great place to grow up. Multi generations of families that all knew each other. My Dad worked for Owens-Illinois Glass Co. and we got transferred to Portland, Oregon but I have been back to Alton several times since we have large family back there. Alton has a special place in my heart! Great memories!

[@1L6E6VHF]

I had read somewhere that, at one time, Alton had been home to the tallest man who ever lived (8'11.5"). I don't know if anyone taller has come along since. Yes, Alton was severely damaged in the Great Flood of 1993. The flood line went to the top of the US flag painted on that "Welcome to Alton" grain elevator. Furthermore, the people of Alton made a huge effort to save their city from the flood with sandbags. The sandbags held - but residents were caught dumbfounded when telephone cable shafts let the flood in within the city😭

[@1L6E6VHF]

@@rolandsnyder2088 I may have been by it, but, I'm not sure. My wife and I did see the very high water in the QC area as we went out west that year.

[@zappa3837]

Good on you for mentioning Miles Davis being born in Alton. Most people think it was E. St. Louis.

[@lecuyerdooley1084]

13:10 To the upper left are the ruins of the old Alton prison, where more than 11k Confederate soldiers were jailed at different times during the Civil War. It was often overcrowded and diseases raged -- over 1500 Confederates are among the mass burials in the Confederate cemetery in North Alton.

[@reborns2luv730]

im moving to alton in the next couple of weeks, will be opening a bed and breakfast. thanks for the video

[@ChrisHarden]

Awesome! Hope it goes well.

[@blakebelangee1549]

Whats it called because i might stay.

[@Reneelimelight3357]

I’ll be looking for it

[@knightoftheday1]

Mack shore you have good locks and a gun.

[@Gaystapo]

Alton is a certainly interesting place my family has been here for generations..

[@FrostmourneFK]

The sight of my local circle K having gas prices below $2 made me want to cry. I paid $4/gallon there a few days ago.

[@mr.traphousechickenllc]

I was born in Alton Illinois I love my city Duke's bakery has the best donuts in the United States made fresh daily.

[@zuzannawisniewska4464]

Alton, Illinois is a beautiful city on the Missisipi River. It's a long way from Chicago to Alton, I rarely go there.Few people know that on February 22,1918, Robert Pershing Wadlow, the tallest known man in the world, was born in Alton. Greetings to the people of Alton from Chicago, IL.

[@mestupkid689]

The big grain elevator at the end of main where you turned left towards the casino has a red line painted near the bottom. Thats the water line from 1993 when the Mississippi River flooded over. I live nearby alton. Seen the piasa bird on the side of the cliff there in grafton dozens of times

[@Lyric-sd5tb]

Just accidentally applied for a job here. I will definitely be revoking that application.

[@shelbyz1974]

Second time watching this video and the cool vibe from this town comes through. I love the architecture of the homes and the brick streets really set off the whole look of the town. I'm gonna have to take a trip here to see it in person. Thanks for the video Chris👍🏻

[@ChrisHarden]

Thank you for supporting by continuing to watch videos! Glad you like.

[@loyaltonotredame2160]

i am honored you made a video about my home city!

[@rustybryant9218]

I have a lot of family from Alton Illinois, my Grandpas cousin is the Alton Giant, Robert P. Wadlow. I lived in Bethalto but now live in Springfield Missouri area.

[@SaraAsher-ox2lb]

Would you please tell us which way the rivers flow...left or right of center of town(s) as you go from place to place? Thank you:)

[@charliemac64]

My family settled in the Alton area in the 1840s. Of course, I'm long removed from there (my g-g-gpa only stayed there a short time, but other family members planted themselves). I've been on a familial history tour, studying my far-reaching family's roots, for the past couple of years, so this was very cool to see where they lived after studying them through paper for so long. My family built a bit of early Alton, and raised asparagus on the outskirts of town. A number of my far-flung cousins were the streetcar operators, both before and after the electric cars. One of them did it for 41 years. Other prominent citizens/businessmen for the time. I saw you went down Salu St. Some of the family lived on that in houses they built in the late 1800s. Unfortunately, I really couldn't pinpoint where you were, and the rain was falling at the same time. They lived closer to downtown in the earlier days, but when the streetcars came, they moved to Upper Alton. But thank you for driving me around town for a bit! It is so cool to be able to imagine the changes it went through from when the family first landed there in the 1840s. I can see why they had streetcars...there would be very little parking downtown for all of the automobiles of all the workers in all those buildings. I can only imagine how many have disappeared thru the years. Old Alton is very cool looking. Now I want to go check it out. Thank you, again!

[@lmfd7373]

havent been to Alton in about 20 yrs but we used to loveee to drive over to Alton from St Louis to go to Fast Eddies and it used to be a fun bowling alley right soon as you exit 367 but cant think of the name of it. . still have a lot of friends and family over in Alton

[@kpeeskii]

My grandmother has lived in Alton close to 40 years. She moved there due to her brother being employed with Boeing in St. Louis. I loved being near the river and the bluffs but overall I didn’t like living there at all, although I graduated from AHS ‘08. But she LOVES it. She refuses to leave

[@dominiquewyatt6704]

I want to live in Alton

[@33Donner77]

I believe Alton had street lights before Chicago. Driving across the bridge from Missouri to Alton, I saw a large column on a hill. I drove to it and discovered it was the monument to Lovejoy in an old cemetery in a poor part of Alton. Interesting cemetery.

[@lecuyerdooley1084]

The Alton High School you showed in the video is the new campus, actually the old JB Johnson Vocational building site, which was completely remodeled and made larger to be the new high school. Most Alton High School graduates graduated from the site on College Avenue -- if you stayed on College at 15:18 for another half mile or so, it would be on your left. The old campus has three buildings, the Main (original building, erected 1927), the Annex (originally East Junior, erected 1942), and the Olin (the original vocational building, erected 1952). This campus is now home to the middle school complex -- Alton once had four junior high schools spread out over Alton-Godfrey (North, West, East, and Central), but all middle schoolers attend one campus made up of three buildings.

[@brianchase9251]

The first several minutes of this video had me stumped, then shocked. I grew up in the area in the 60's and 70's and left in 1979. I was 5 minutes into the video when I realized that was friggin' Broadway! The whole left side of the street used to be lined with giant factories. It looked like the right side had lost a number of buildings as well. It looks like a completely different city now.

[@lecuyerdooley1084]

The industrial age died a death in the late 20th Century and with it went those factories and a sizable amount of residents.

[@jeffholloway7974]

I remember reading and seeing newspaper articles about two bull sharks that were caught with catfish nets in the 1930's in Alton. Shifting gears, Illinois is one of my favorite states and just my opinion, but is the most American state. It is a shame that the pension crisis is so outrageous that people are moving out, and not many new people are moving in.

[@henrycoffman5907]

I Agree With You In Full T00, Illinois is one of my favorite states.

[@alansewell7810]

I liked that about Illinois too. It is the core of America. Its politics is a bit too corrupt and left-radical for me now, but that is more a feature of public employee unions buying the legislature than a reflection on Illinois people in general.

[@killermunki83]

I work at Morrison's. This is when we had our food pantry going on! 12:59. Awesome to see that in this

[@ChrisHarden]

Nice!!

[@eriknephrongfr8847]

You guys are awesome! I live next door.

[@jeffgrigg8171]

I grew up in East Alton and joined the Navy from a recruiting office on Broadway in the mid-80's. The building that is round at the corner on the left at 12:33 was Snyder's Shoe Store for decades. The concrete building at 12:51 was a Masonic Hall. The Salu neighborhood was reputed as a bad place to be after dark due to drugs and crime. My in-laws lived north on Humbert Road in Godfrey.

[@nolanmclaughlin4325]

The thing at the school was so students mainly seniors could get their stuff like return books and get year books and stuff I graduated there class 2020

[@illiniheel67]

Old Bakery Brewery in the old Colonial factory is great....the live music scene is revived as well. I drive through once or twice a year.

[@lukestenitzer]

You have to film the river road and all the small towns heading towards Grafton.

[@stevesawyersdca]

About all those brick streets: I was born and spent the early 1950's in the area, and brick streets were everywhere you went in Alton. You'll even notice that a lot of the streets you're driving on in the video are actually brick that's been paved over with a thin layer of asphalt. Local legend is that in the late 1800's there were several thriving brick factories in town, and the owner of one of them got himself elected mayor - and the rest, as they say, is history. On the other hand, i know a lot of towns in central and southern Illinois were paving their streets with bricks back then, so go figure. At any rate, thanks for the interesting video.

[@williamperkins9349]

Brick was common all over the country.

[@x083.]

FYI what you drove in on at the high school was students getting textbooks for online learning

[@lecuyerdooley1084]

14:40 Statehouse Circle ... back in the 1830s, the Illinois state capital was Vandalia but a vote was held to move the capital elsewhere. Alton was among the cities on the ballot for voters, and it was actually chosen. This circle, believe it or not, was the area where the capitol building was to be built. Unfortunately, state legislators threw out the votes, deeming the vote too close.

[@jomama5186]

Antioch is a small town my Mom and I would go to when I came to visit. It is totally charming. The whole town is two main streets that cross each other at perfect 90 degree angles. And the houses and churches all encircle it. It is ADORABLE. It also has a train station nearby(on the way to the town) to commute to Chicago for work

[@AlexJW224]

Please return to this city and go more in depth!! So much history was missed in this video

[@gerifleming1125]

Not the best representation of a town full of history and Beautiful architecture. You seem to have skipped by some of the most beautiful homes and buildings that we have in Alton. Would love to see you do a more in-depth tour in the fall at some point.

[@actionsub]

That said, the bluffs start to pick up again once you get south of Cahokia and head into Monroe County.

[@carlosflanders518]

Never seen more drunk drivers than around Alton and along the Mississippi River Road on a Sunday afternoon. Scary.

[@wawalker1]

Did you see the Piasa bird painting on the bluffs? I assume it's still there. I haven't been in Alton in a few decades.

[@Vincent-ke5zn]

That's very sad about the crime rate, I just saw your great video on Pekin. Too bad that Alton isn't like Pekin. Have you done any video on Quincy, IL? My dad grew up on a farm there, but now it's a big subdivision

[@marvindoolin1340]

I was a freshman at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville during the 1962-63 school before there was anything but fields at the site of present day SIUE. All my classes were on the campus of the former Shurtleff College in Upper Alton, and I worked at the uptown A&P store. I recognized Broadway, of course, despite the fact it has changed considerably, and the downtown area, especially that angle-shaped building, looked familiar. I hope you're someday able to tour Upper Alton as well. There are limestone bluffs with some interesting history along the Mississippi farther south about fifty miles.

[@AustriaGermany]

my friends in Illinois say there is excellent surfing on the Mississippi river , they called it "Hang Ten In Alton"

[@craignovy2090]

What a pretty town! Yeah absent high state property taxes as was said in video this place would be doing much better. Distinct well preserved downtown, brick streets and rolling river bluffs...really cool. The churches stand out as well. Video captured it beautifully. If this is your first Chris Harden video check out more recent ones. In those in general there is more narration and fact sharing which is priceless. He really has a sixth sense how to find and film things!

[@MatthewEbner-fr3wc]

I love my family from Alton!

[@midwestgrammar2941]

That's a nice place to move to if you tired of drama in the stl

[@knightoftheday1]

Are you joking?

[@hoodsreaction491]

Alton got gangs and hoods too , GDz , BDs , Vice lords , Latin kings ,

[@bmpiper2006]

I lived in Alton from 2002-2006. I went to the dental school there. The campus is actually a historic college-it was a teachers’ college in the early 1900s. There is a statue of Robert Wadlow on campus. He was the tallest person ever at 8’11”. There is a mix of historic and newer buildings on campus. I haven’t been to Alton in many years, but the downtown area looks just like it did all those years ago. And Fast Eddies looks the same too.

[@WBDE]

If you went to dental school in the Upper Alton section of Alton then you were probably aware of the old Western Military Academy on Seminary Street which was owned by the Jackson family. One of its alums was Paul Tibbetts who was the pilot of the B-29 which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War 2

[@Vincent-ke5zn]

At 16:52 ,I understand about the unpredictable rain, it's hard to work around

[@gtreib65]

Enjoyed your car-umentary. I want to visit Alton now.

[@foghatrocks]

You forgot, James Earl Ray was from Alton too.

[@lastone6878]

You missed alot..I'm from Houston but lived in Dooley for awhile

[@theacw02]

Thanks for the info about my home state. You are like a chauffeur, driving me to all the places I often wondered about. When it rains why not use a dashcam? GoPro would be an excellent choice.

[@ChrisHarden]

I use a GoPro for all of my vids. Dash cam footage wouldn't look this good. When it rains, water gets on the camera lens and ruins the video and there's not much that you can do about it.

[@blueztx]

Chris, you forgot to mention Alton's famous "Illinois Giant", Robert Pershing Wadlow, the tallest man ever recorded at 8ft 11in.!

[@blancalopez1125]

Beautiful video.But you didn't show part of the north, like homer Adams st Or number 100 that take you to Grafton. Really .And you didn't continue in college avenue at the end of college you could have shown a very beautiful part of downtown with a big statue of the tallests man of alton.we want to see you again here in alton .I think is a nice place to live . thanks very much for your video

[@juliestrom412]

People come from all over to go to the Alton casino on the river called Argosy casino formerly Alton Belle Casino.

[@erikmcc804]

I Love this catch Nostalgia, thanks I used to live Alton for short period. It was somewhat nice, but i moved across the river. I do miss Fast Eddie's bar the best 1/2 pounder burgers around. also I also dont believe in urban legend of Alton, but i did hear some people get stranger than normal on friday night's lol. Thank you for the memories and try a Fast Eddie;s Burger you will slap you best friend, they are that good.. lol thanks again stay safe and Peace!! BTW If you gamble, try the Alton Bell :-)

[@eriknephrongfr8847]

Greetings from BOPSE(Brotherhood Of Properly Spelled Eriks)

[@kristin6161]

Love me some Fast Eddie’s!

[@DaMusicluvT]

That Alton High School was not there until 2006 when East and West Middle schools merged into the old high school. Also, New Alton High was originally an elementary school years ago. My hometown for 20 years.

[@lecuyerdooley1084]

Before it was an elementary it was JB Johnson Vocational for the high schools

[@bustedaw11]

This reminds me- I need to stop by cheapies and grab a couple tires 🤣

[@SanFelipeCreek]

There was a lady that went to her car from the casino . That lady put her car in reverse but she put the car in drive and drove it in the Mississippi. She was in the river for 3 years no family or friends were looking for her. Dexter Lombardo out 🤠

[@mexicokelo]

U started in east alton not down town alton

[@ChrisHarden]

Yes I did. Didn't I say as such?

[@williamperkins9349]

He also called it "downtown" which it isn't until Henry St.

[@Vincent-ke5zn]

I love your video, but would like to have seen the statue of Robert Waldo (the tallest man)

[@Reneelimelight3357]

You were there when they were giving the freshman there computers for remote learning I was there

[@BoratWanksta]

Good video, I did like that old residential area that was just up the hill from downtown Alton, around the 8 minute mark. BTW at 1:26 in this video, is that a gate that can be closed, when there are high water levels on Wood River Creek? Looks like such a gate, to me.

[@williamperkins9349]

Yes, flood gates built around 1957.

[@bryankreinhart]

At the end, that was not Alton High School, which is on College Avenue. That is the J B Johnson Vocational Center.

[@TheOnlyreezybeezy30]

That is currently the new high school. It used to be JB Johnson. The old Alton High School on college is now a middle school I believe

[@bryankreinhart]

@@TheOnlyreezybeezy30 Thank you for the update. I haven't been to Alton in over a decade but am a graduate of Alton High, Class of '84. Things sure have changed since I've been there!

[@TheOnlyreezybeezy30]

@@bryankreinhart your very welcome. I graduated in 99

[@williamperkins9349]

@@bryankreinhart I graduated in 74.

[@DianaHalstead]

If you were going to bash a town during the 5 minutes of the video and not show the true beauty of the city why didn't you just move on to another town?

[@mdmarko]

Was born and raised in the area. Returned for a visit five years ago after many years away. When I crossed into Alton via the Clark Bridge, the place looked like it had had the life sucked out of it. In the 60's and 70's Alton was a thriving city of nearly 45,000. A lot of heavy industry, many well-paying jobs. The loss of that heavy industry and the rise of crime makes Alton a place to stay away from.

[@leodannyportal]

What do you mean by the obvious drug use at 7:53 ?

[@FrostmourneFK]

I think people hear things about Alton and STL, and don't fact check or look into it themselves.

[@TrailPvP]

song thats around 6:40 please

[@vinceadams662]

I go thru alton quite often. Im more afraid of the people there than the ghouls

[@katherinejativa975]

Hi, I may be relocated to Alton, why you say this?

[@killermunki83]

Should look up stuff about Jacksonville illinois....... Some good history there too....

[@ChrisHarden]

Just got back from another Illinois road trip and I filmed content for about 80 or so videos. Jacksonville is included in my upload schedule somewhere.

[@chrisl2632]

Don't believe in ghosts? Arrange to spend some time in the basement of the McPike mansion.

[@amybaum2722]

My dad still living in alton illinois

[@natashanewell7567]

It was mostly downtown alton in this video I live live in alton

[@amybaum2722]

I was born in alton illinois!

[@michellevolkmann5675]

Hi, cool

[@amybaum2722]

That's not the high school I attended when I lived in alton illinois

[@gregorypierson4536]

The old high school is at 1600 College Ave. The new one looks like a prison.

[@gregorypierson4536]

On the right at the corner of Henry and Ninth St. is Duke's Bakery. One of my close relatives robbed that location and spent some time in jail. What sucked about that crime was that he was employed there at the time. Even he can't explain what made him do that. He now lives in central Illinois.

[@honeypie-hk]

be safe my friend theres no more traffic in there

[@geoffcasias9367]

seems like a lot of churches, one on every corner

[@sarahoko2090]

Lol. Yes. I went to Marquette. I was googling Jazz. Didn’t Miles Davis originate from here? Only people with the Bird-man tattoo need reply.

[@actionsub]

@@sarahoko2090 Miles Davis was indeed born in Alton, but was raised in East St. Louis, about a half hour south.

[@sarahoko2090]

@@actionsub do you know anything about his family? If they went on in the music industry? I just love this little space on earth, really good vibes. I’m not drinking from the Mississippi, but maybe there’s something in the water.

[@hornedsaviour]

Bro I live the next town over, it's legit a church or 2 every mile. On west delmar there's a 2 mile stretch with about 8 to 10 churches, some across the street from each other and next door to each other.

[@danielsentertainmentproduc1527]

Is this the last metro east video and can you make this a full length video with all the other metro east videos

[@ChrisHarden]

Yes it’s the last one. Do you mean all of the Metro East videos that I’ve made combined into one single video?

[@danielsentertainmentproduc1527]

Nostalgia Tours yes

[@ChrisHarden]

Interesting idea

[@johnallen310]

Alton is also home to the worlds tallest man. Robert Wadlow.

[@amybaum2722]

I was born in alton illinois. My 2 grandfathers knew robert wadlow. I've seen his grave and his belongings too which are in the mason lodge

[@tzctlpc]

I live in alton

[@ChrisHarden]

How do you like it?

[@HeyDolo]

I live there as a freshman...

[@DemsRinsane]

Henry St is the best street in Alton.

[@Suave26]

It didn’t rain once this video

[@logananderson4563]

Also another haunted place there is the mcpipe mansion

[@nolanmclaughlin4325]

*mcpike, idk if you meant to put it like that but it's like three blocks from my house

[@logananderson4563]

@@nolanmclaughlin4325 I used to live by st.Mary’s school

[@nolanmclaughlin4325]

@@logananderson4563 I'm up more my McKinley daycare

[@stryker1195]

Do you do this for fun, business, or a job?

[@ChrisHarden]

For fun. No business, employer or company is associated with this.

[@laurenleclaire3104]

Wow you apparently no nothing about Robert Wadlow. You did not even go by his statue or the SIU Dental College, which is one of the best in the nation. There was a whole upper Alton area that you did not tour. and you missed the greatest houses by not going through the richest are which is off of State Street on top of the bluffs. There is an actual castle up there. You should do a better job checking things about the cities before you make these videos and just go on the crime stats and taxes.

[@slechtajames53]

Kind of looks like a ghost town

[@Shepard-k]

😂 the current middle school would of been more nostalgic as it was the former high school until they opened that prison back in '06

[@logananderson4563]

I live in Godfrey but I’m in alton everyday

[@Reneelimelight3357]

Same

[@nolanmclaughlin4325]

I live right on the edge of Godfrey

[@eriknephrongfr8847]

Hey neighbors!

[@logananderson4563]

@@eriknephrongfr8847 what where neighbors

[@eriknephrongfr8847]

@@logananderson4563 I’m in downtown Alton

[@trisha9697]

I heard of this place

[@blakebelangee1549]

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE THAT IS ALL HOLY GO TO MEDORA,IL PLEASE.

[@ChrisHarden]

Wow. You really want me to go there. Haha

[@amybaum2722]

I lived in medora illinois in 1983-84