Decades: 1950-1960 | Living St. Louis

[@jakeduffin4626]

Great video! Thank you for sharing!

[@matrox]

Pruitt Igo housing project finalized construction in 1955, the damages and tearups begin by 1956. Pruitt Igo demolished 17 short years later. I have a pair of Chuck Taylor All Stars that lasted longer than that.☝😩

[@PaulAllen-e8v]

@@matrox my mother lived in PI

[@joeryanstrialbook2005]

I grew up in St. Louis in the decade, living in the West End. I had no idea Pruitt Igo was so many buildings crammed together on a tract of land the Shanty Irish lived on 100 years earlier. I do remember the Negroes, sitting on the stoops of the ancient brick three story buildings that lined Delmar, as I rode the streetcar from the downtown YMCA, when I was eight years old, to home on Saturdays.

[@matrox]

If 1950-1960 was ALL ShOoK uP, then 1980 to the present is ALL F&%ked UP!

[@skeetrix5577]

aint that the truth!

[@poetcomic1]

Present population of the city of St. Louis 330,000. Population of St. Louis Metro Area 2,300,000.

[@kathrynralli4557]

Excellent

[@joeblow9548]

They chose decay

[@user-zx8de8op9l]

Well done

[@CJColvin]

The major downfall for the city of St.Louis is the fact the city of St.Louis wanted to seceded from St.Louis County in 1877 and because of that the city of St.Louis can no longer Annex land, had the city of St.Louis stayed in the County then the city of St.Louis wouldn't have as much issues as it is having now.

[@azcactus2008]

@@CJColvin I always thought it was the other way around. Thanks for the information. I’ll have to look deeper into this just to confirm.

[@savedin87ify]

God I couldn't imagine telling someone you cant eat at my restaurant because the color of your skin. I would welcome everyone in my establishment. My moms adopted family had a restaurant. They had black employees.

[@jusatyro]

I take it you are not a Star Wars Fan or read about the Sudan.... "Wuher always told people: If you have a drink in your hand, you don't need me for nothing.'" ―Excerpt from "We Don't Serve Their Kind Here"[2] "We Don't Serve Their Kind Here" is a short story in the anthology From a Certain Point of View. The story, written by Chuck Wendig, focuses on the point of view of Wuher, the bartender of Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina. Sudan: Race and Religion in Civil War August 27, 2013 Sudan: Race and Religion in Civil War August 27, 2013 HOMEALL NEWS‘RACISM ROOT OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN SUDAN’ ‘Racism root of human rights violations in Sudan’ 3 years ago KHARTOUM Racism is the primary cause of the atrocities committed in Darfur, the Nuba Mountains, and other areas of Sudan, according to prominent political analyst and journalist El Haj Warrag.

[@Uarehere]

From my perspective, the whole thing seemed really arbitrary. They're allowed to shop there but not eat there? Bizarre rules those racists had.

[@williamthomas1]

NYC built subsidized housing in Manhattan at the same time and those buildings are still standing and are still part of the housing authority. There are other forces at play in this. St. Louis seemed to step up and approve every measure to make the city a better place in every decade but there was always failure. The boom and bust economy that is this grotesque form of more, more, more for me and less, less, less for you capitalism has more to do with this than anything else.

[@qbanz00]

STL is still one of the most segregated cities in the country. One where blacks thrived and built their own communities, but airports were built on top of them

[@Frankenspank67]

Airports? Didn't realize StL had more than 1.

[@naturalobserver1322]

No one lives in St. Louis anymore, they simply try to survive. ☠☠☠

[@liliny2314]

Well I do

[@_avi_mageek8275]

My boy said he was proud lmao

[@dovbarleib3256]

Destroying your 19th Century architectural heritage does not "save" one's city. S. Louis was damned, after the World's Fair, for showing pride in the namesake of a 13th Century Talmud burner posing as a Catholic French king.... then placing his Crusader statue at the Main Entrance to the World's Fair at the pinnacle of the City's existence.

[@FiggaFrank]

Rationalizing injustice

[@brianchase9251]

I grew up in Metro St. Louis in the 60's and 70's and left in 1979 for good. I still get a kick out of the way people -- even today -- keep dancing around the Pruitt-Igoe fiasco and blaming its failure on everything but the real thing that caused it to fail. And that was the Pruitt-Igoe population. The people who lived there. They ruined it and no-one else. Period. I think people are just too ashamed to admit that it was doomed to failure from the beginning. From the day those people started moving in. Why pretend that it's anything else? It happened in cities all over America. It's still happening today. Some people just can't be helped. Not then. Not now. Not ever.

[@liliny2314]

What do you mean by those people you mean black people African American people are you blaming My culture?? Do we refer to you as white people you are as racist as they come

[@paceflchick]

Shhhhh facts hurt feefees. How about that beautiful townhouse community across from Union Station, they destroyed that one as well. It was fenced off within 5 years or something, I was a west suburbia kid.

[@ramaj26]

This should be called growing up WHITE in St. Louis 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@joeblow9548]

And it was wonderful,,today its living in fear,,from the same people that destroyed brand new projects in 20 years

[@wiltinglotus002]

​@joeblow9548 white flight and segregation is what hollowed out the city, not the victims of it

[@matrox]

St Louis, Ill? or St Louis, Mo.??? 🤔The only city I know that confusingly takes up 2 effing states!!!🫵😡

[@charlesprice7608]

I guess you never heard of Kansas City 🤔🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@matrox]

@@charlesprice7608 Kansas who??🧐

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

Effingham is a City in Ill .

[@paceflchick]

Not the only one.

[@paul-hb5vc]

I take it never been to Kansas City, Mo? The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties).