Old ST.Louis

[@remysonders406]

I am from saint Louis still live here. Love this

[@KM-qc6fn]

My family has been in St. Louis for over 150 years, we are truly St. Louisian. Love this video, this is the time that my Great-Grandma was a kid I’d assume.

[@paulpetock2836]

This is the time I was a kid early 1950s . my great grandfather migrated to St Louis in the 1850s from Germany , he later was in the GAR , the Union army . My great Grandmother's line goes back to the begining of the city , migrating from Ohio , originally from Germany .

[@tammybrown4901]

Born n raised here love my city

[@farmyardflavours]

I would love to see Old St Louis, and that beautiful fair they held

[@twistoffate4791]

I have to say it: The music accompanienment is wonderful. I enjoyed greatly both. Thank you.

[@mariakettlehut7399]

Born and raised in south st Louis our ancestors have been in st Louis since 1861

[@CJColvin]

This is when St.Louis Missouri used to be great.

[@KM-qc6fn]

This is kinda rude, St. Louis had a loss in population but at the moment we are better than ever. We are building skyscrapers and huge project like the Greenway, Ballpark Village V.2, 100 above the park and numerous other things are shaping us.

[@KM-qc6fn]

We have one of the largest Metro Population as well.

[@CJColvin]

@@KM-qc6fn Thats true.

[@cookiesspirit2329]

@@KM-qc6fn I sure hope y’all make it. I’d love to see those beautiful old homes restored and the city revitalized. I’ve never been there, but I enjoy watching vids on STL. People pay ridiculous prices for new houses built like cracker boxes in my part of the country, Nevada, and California is ridiculous. Since so many people work from home now, they could move there and have a lovely mansion restored for less. Just a thought. All of that unpainted woodwork looks like a real home.

[@bruceenlow8480]

Thank you for these photos. I am interested in any photos in the mill creek area during the 1950's.

[@MiracleFound]

My grandfather's side all lived in St Louis.

[@jackwagon4460]

I grew up there Charlie!beautiful job! ❤️❤️❤️ I still recognize most of it, we lived all over the North and Southside. Saw Cherokee Street, North Florissant, 14th Street, Gaslight Square. Hyde Park. So much history. It makes me happy and sad at the same time.

[@virginialpinon748]

I grew up to age 13 on. Salena. Played ball on "sandy lot , rocky lit next door...an old Tom Lee dawn bldg..went Shepard on Wisconcin. ..moved Bdwy. A rose fro BELZ. A failed dwn old watevr..went Holy Cross. Shopped at Foid Ctr. Yes there were raggedy spots bk then but it was my childhood and I loved it

[@navet6564]

Thanks for the flash back,wish Rock Church @ Grand & Cook and North St Louis Water tower were included.

[@Kasey_Barkle]

Came across totally by accident. Looking for an old 30s blues song. Love it. Added to master playlist

[@angelhoneycutt8016]

I've lived in St louis mo southside 42 years

[@40vandeventerplacestlouism62]

I lived in St Louis for 16 years , known all parts if the city and area that surrouned it, live the "old world" charms of it very very much!!! Now that I lived in inland empire (east of Los Angeles and Sandiego) and there are nothing like my old St louis at all , desert, traffic, different kind of folks, etc, I missed St Louis and will come back after I finished my nursing school here. :-) , by the way, I will write a book on the old Vandeventer Place on N Grand ( Vetterrans hospital) . Forest Park!!! The BEST Public park in the whole United States!!

[@tinabrown2674]

I guess there is no other place like home in this world. Life consists so much of change. But I've always cherished the small tastes of Europe in St. Louis. It was built on French culture. Memories of St. Louis does touch the heart. So many ppl of different countries have arrived within the last 2 decades. That's one thing I did love about it. I'm in Ohio now. There are some similarities of St. Louis in cities here, like Cincinnati. But not the same. Cherish your life experiences from that city. No other American city like it. I value my origin- 3448 St. Vincent.

[@tammybrown4901]

@@tinabrown2674 I do lived here all my life my home

[@tscooter22]

Nice collection of photos!! Thanks for the upload. :-) I wish my Grandfather was still around so he could tell me where some of those shots were taken.

[@taroman7100]

Founded by French as a fur trading post in the 1700's, I've lost count of the times I've heard St, Louie referred to in westerns. It was a grand old city. Under horrible management the past forty years. Those people are criminals. They keep redoing the riverfront with no riverboats. Why the hell not put back a boat like the Admiral? Laclede's Landing faded. Too bad. Even in these photos St Louis had a sprawling growth. I loved STL and have lived away for at least forty years but people tell me I'm crazy to want to return. StL ended up the middle stepchild of the Midwest with Chicago sucking off it like a vortex.

[@painkillerjones6232]

It was our own damn fault. Back in the day, we spurned the railroad for fear of competition to our riverboats. Pure idiocy. Chicago would otherwise be a mid sized town, and St. Louis would be the mid-western hub it was meant to be.

[@CJColvin]

@@painkillerjones6232 Exactly mate. Also what makes it worse is that Kansas City Missouri is the largest Missourian city which St.Louis Missouri was originally supposed to be.

[@bigvalley4987]

Hold that thought. We have experienced this city in the same time era🥰

[@twistoffate4791]

I enjoy these conversations about St. Louis. I live in Columbia, which is a town making its own horrifying mistakes. Reading these comments is a crash course in St. Louis history, told by the people who live or have lived there and have opinions.

[@paulpetock2836]

@@painkillerjones6232 Chicago was better geographically centered to become a great rail center , being right on the Great Lakes . STL would also have greatly benefited if it better developed its Rail system , but it would not have overshadowed Chicago !

[@chicagoui9299]

My Home!! I’m ready to be back old Lou!!!

[@luiseduardovargasdiaz2475]

St. Louis is a beautiful city. I lived for a 2 years and I love St. Louis.

[@adamwaynearts314]

Love this video, music blade me think something was coming around the corner with every image. Live in North County Florissant which is older than Saint Louis. At 5:29 you see the Making of City Museum water tower and the Gothic Church next the Shell Building downtown, if your looking for the freshly creative photography of Saint Louis I recommend looking at my Instagram Gallery. You won't be disappointed.💯📷❤

[@marybeebe2792]

Some things don't and really shouldn't change and for the sake of keeping family's together children grow up to fast it just looks like the streets were safer then but this music is like the sound of the future creeping up on everybody they all woke up one morning and it was the future and everyone's saying what happened

[@jeffking4176]

Interesting. I grew up in St.L. 1961-1983. Music sounds like a horror movie 😐.

[@painkillerjones6232]

Sounds like the kind of music you hear in a movie when someone dies. It fits.

[@TriAngles3D]

That is because it is coasting at a somewhat similar pace and sound as the movie the Dead Zone

[@zlowride1]

Indeed the music had an Indiana Jones vibe to it

[@sr6061]

Why did you leave? I agree about the music

[@CJColvin]

@@sr6061 So she can get away from the criminals and thugs in the city of St.Louis as well as having more space like you get in St.Louis County.

[@waynermcmahon8214]

Southside Stl mo 314 75 to 21 so far still a good place to live if u got a backbone and heart nuthing to fear but god

[@jamesdavis5096]

In some of these pictures if you look really close you can see Uncle Leonard and the slyman Brothers

[@BBBATGIRL]

James Davis uncle Leonard is my actual uncle/?where did you think you saw him?

[@zlowride1]

Did anybody see Earl Shive

[@billsmith5985]

The not-so-Famous Barr's of old St. Louis.........

[@virginialpinon748]

Hey I got my xmas gift every ur at Famous. Always looked forward to the xmas windows. It's a glorious memory

[@painkillerjones6232]

The music blends well with the pictures of a city that's unaware of it's impending doom.

[@soultrigger5856]

????

[@rollingvee]

This is amazing Charlie. How do you find all of these great photos? Well done!

[@KingSlimjeezy]

i love the "balanced" density of the city in those days. Cars killed killed it in the long run despite the awesomeness of the auto. but what the fuck is with this serial killer music yikes

[@mehlville97]

what is the music I like it

[@painkillerjones6232]

belongs in a funeral.

[@wendyw8931]

Being a native St. Louisan, i recognize many of the street scenes. Too bad the photos aren't captioned.

[@elizabethkelley5260]

I grew up in St.Louis and have many fond memories of"the way we were" Now almost all the old gracious and beautiful brick neighborhoods have been desecrated,schools torn down,cheap and ugly butildings abound, and derelict and dangerous houses are ruining our city,just like many others I presume Shootings,robberies t,and crime rule,and it is not good to be out after dark ,even to go to church or shopping and especially if you are carrying cash. Forewarned is forearmed.

[@tombeckring2255]

@@elizabethkelley5260 tell that to the people of parts of South St Louis who love their neighborhoods. And the people who live in the Central West End in some of the most beautiful houses in the state or the country. And on and on. You can't group everything together oh, I know there's a lot of crime but some of it is blown out of proportion there are many nice neighborhoods in St Louis I should know I live here. I hope this doesn't sound too critical but you're probably one of those people who moved out to St Charles County are further and now think St Louis city is nothing but a complete ghetto

[@elizabethkelley5260]

@@tombeckring2255 Tom, I still live in St.Louis. I grew up in BADEN when it was Irish and German. After all my travels,I moved back and now live on the "hill". I lived in the CWE for many years. Two people were shot on my block. Maryland and Euclid. These things never happened until fairly recently. It is dangerous now,and you must stay alert at all times. No lollygagging! I still love my city! .

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

your welcome , I should have saved more info , glad you liked it :) QC

[@arthurmccullough1407]

Show some of the early 70s and after McKinley high school gold bugs.

[@chicagoui9299]

I made it back!! Residing in south co!! The city N downtown need help!!

[@River144SS]

Slow it down my God It’s just a blur

[@anthonyvalli2455]

I was born in there and have family there... think I saw my grandma getting mugged around 4 minutes in.

[@angelbowles3220]

Hi my name is angel I lived in saint Louis all my life

[@painkillerjones6232]

Hi

[@zlowride1]

Sup i live in Wood River 👍

[@tiffanyyoung07]

nice

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

Thanks Tiffany :) QC

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

I forgot the song , sorry , it went well with it though :) QC

[@KeleoProd]

I saw my high school

[@virginialpinon748]

Fone on steroids. I meant...an old torn down bldg

[@dddd3528]

Nice photos- captioning and dates would have better- also you need to get a different nickname- Quaalude Charlie- are you kidding me?

[@taroman7100]

Yes, the music is ok in some places but overpowering in others.

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

Quaalude Charlie sounded better than Crazy CCharlie at the Time Ludes were all the Rage :) QC

[@olivedarb03]

You should have shown the churches that populated the city back then ! And yes , the music is very inappropriate .

[@dennisbrock1435]

The pictures are scrolling by to fast … making this video useless.

[@taroman7100]

you're music choice is sombre quite appropriate considering what's happened to a once great city.

[@painkillerjones6232]

Agreed.

[@thirdeye6258]

wtf happened it just boring as it seemed last it was before