Decades: 1930-1940 | Living St. Louis

In this episode of Decades, we look into the beginning of the Great Depression, the changing social lives of St. Louisans, the end of prohibition and more.
0:00 Intro
01:52 Hoovervilles
02:52 The Great Depression
06:06 Radicals
08:06 End of Prohibition
09:18 Roosevelt
11:15 Factory Worker Strike
15:06 Civilian Conservation Corps
16:28 Art Museum and the Bronze Cat
19:43 Bernard Dickmann
21:05 Homer G. Phillips Hospital
23:18 Riverfront Memorial and Park
24:34 Outro

[@andrewlewis7558]

Cool to see how St. Louis has always looked inward and compelled its community to make change. A lot of that "do something about it" attitude is what I love about our city's character. Don't be fooled by your golden age thinking, or we'll never move forward.

[@rickwalter8032]

I’m glad it coming back to life

[@TheMadKeyboard]

The captioning for this video is from the previous 1920-1940 video.

[@terencea2729]

The closed captions don't match the words spoken in the video.

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

Now it's the Other way around , Poor Whites are looking for Jobs in Homer G. Philips and other North Side Businesses , The children and grandchildren of of this generation , I was born a 4th generation St . Louis resident in 1967 and grew up Here , I Love my City , but the South Siders are having the turn around and the White folks still Here after 4 or 5 generations they need Work too , St . Louis is a great City and the perfect place to raise a family :) QC

[@fresatx]

Clearly STLs best days are behind it... hmmmm I wonder how the demography changed since the good times?

[@crud420]

a loooooooootttta democrats

[@tonylipsmire5918]

@@crud420sure if you want to disregard the fact St. Louis had been a hub of progressivism even prior to the civil war with the influx of anti-slavery Germans. Nathaniel Lyon and the people of St. Louis are the biggest reason the confederates were driven out of Missouri early in the war

[@CJColvin]

That's how the city of St.Louis became a complete Democratic City.

[@patmo131]

Yeah, how’d that switch to the Democrats work out for African Americans?

[@CJColvin]

I know right