This ABANDONED St. Louis Suburb Is Full of GARBAGE

[@ChrisHarden]

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[@malburt7223]

One demographic only knows how to take and destroy. They never fix or build anythingand blame everyone else for thier problems

[@shann_de]

I was raised and grew up here. Wow! You gave a deep inside look of my childhood town. The memories I had here are indescribable. It was so much joy. Everyone knew each other. Everyone was some kin to each other. My entire maternal side is from Kinloch. My grandparents, my mom, aunts, uncles and cousins. I went to head start here, church, grade school. My mom and all her siblings went to Kinloch high school. My uncle is Darryl Williams. Him and Keith were best friends. Not bragging just sharing how sentimental Kinloch is to me. Imagine how it was back in the 60’s through the 90’s. We had such great memories here believe it or not. All the land you see vacant and trashed was once homes, apartments, post offices, churches, stores, schools, parks, etc. This was my community. 💔

[@UnapologeticallyBlaque395]

Yes.. it's very sentimental..I too grew up there.. everyone was close..I grew up there in a time where no outsiders were allowed in..I was trying to see if he was able to Ride down my old street .my stumping ground

[@UnapologeticallyBlaque395]

I did see the old Post office..and the old gas station ⛽ where I got all of my penny candy 🍬

[@TTsquad-p4z]

❤😂​@@UnapologeticallyBlaque395

[@Oldman5261]

I live in this area and am shocked at the level of decay. This area looks like a prime candidate for a future local landfill.

[@aidd1938]

I don’t understand why the EPA couldn’t sue the land owners (City of St. Louis and the Airport Authority) to clean up their property. Clearly a health hazard.

[@TaylorMMontgomery]

Just to clarify, the property buy-up from the airport authority wasn't just for future airport expansion, but mostly to comply with the FAA's noise abatement program.

[@jimbarrofficial]

That was my thinking... how awful would it be to live in the landing path of large jets.

[@dragonmeddler2152]

You are correct, Taylor. The NorthPark development was one of the State Tax Increment Financing incentives I worked with at the MO Dept of Economic Development. It started strong and looks like it's doing well, today.

[@whitneymoore9814]

😊 I just got the motivation to make a difference. Thanks for making this video.

[@VidVaultX]

I currently live in those apartments. you drove by on Mable ave. As other people in the comments have said, there is constant gunfire almost every night. One thing you'd definitely find interesting is opening Google street view and scrolling around kinloch. Some areas you drove by that just look like overgrown forests were actually nieghborhoods. There are also a couple streets that are now covered in trash that you can "drive" down in the 2008 Google street view. Pretty crazy to see how much its changed

[@Neevie-Styx]

Wouldn’t you rather move to a town that’s not abandoned and covered in trash?

[@bennybennerson7728]

@@Neevie-Styxyou know poverty is a thing right? also maybe they have family members that they want/need to be for?

[@chrisbartolini1508]

@@bennybennerson7728Why are you depressed bro? Just stop being sad.

[@bennybennerson7728]

@@chrisbartolini1508 wrf are you on about?

[@chrisbartolini1508]

@@bennybennerson7728 Don’t tell me I actually have to explain the comment

[@KennyJr514]

My fiances parents used to live 1 street over from Kinloch in Berkeley. They purchased 3 lots next to each other in the 1950s. We lived next door from them for years up until about 2015. You would not believe how crazy this place is, especially at night. The nonstop sounds of gunfire. Someone was shot in the park and crawled into our across the street neighbors backyard and died. There was an abandoned car parked in front of our house with a dead body in it. I grew up in some rough neighborhoods, but I NEVER ventured into Kinloch, it absolutely terrified me. You are a brave soul riding around and video taping this area as the crime in this area is absolutely ridiculous and the value of life is nothing. We were one of the few white families in Berkeley, everyone on our street had been there for decades and knew each other. She eventually moved out in 2020 and sold her 3 properties for $40k and someone rehabbed both of the houses, the third lot was a large garage. They are trying to revitalize Berkeley but I'm sure it will be an uphill battle. Thanks for the video as I've always been curious as to what the history wad on Kinloch.

[@ChrisHarden]

Dang, crazy stuff

[@BigChillingGoingDown]

Diversity is great, huh?

[@KennyJr514]

@Chris Harden I enjoyed your video about Warrenton, I moved out here in 2019 and left the City behind. It's so much more calm and peaceful out here.

[@D-Fens_1632]

Yeah I'm but a few minutes from there and have family who were refugees from the Berkeley area, some had been there since the 1950s. The crime, violence, garbage, and otherwise unemployed behavior that pushed them out has been creeping north and west for decades. It's really sad and frustrating watching the county decline overall. On a daily basis I see and hear about things you never would have imagined even 10 years ago. I know some fellow citizen will chime in with "It's not that bad," and it's not, yet. They're also deluding themselves a bit. Yes it's mostly safe if you mind your own business but it's a simple fact that we're seeing higher levels of crimes that rarely occurred in many of these cities in North County. That said, as far back as the 80s it was generally known to everyone to avoid Kinloch.

[@gabrielszakaly6232]

@@BigChillingGoingDown yes but unironically

[@chrisjmiller6]

The corruption runs deep in St. Louis.

[@louiscoyner5307]

True, but Kinloch is in St. Louis County as well as a number of other communities that look like Kinloch. But then St. Louis's alley are pretty much the same. Who's to blame? Now I'm going to be called a racist, but perhaps part of the problem lies with the residents.

[@do_not_trust_bjc]

At least you see it. Many see evil as good here.

[@cdeeznutzz]

@@louiscoyner5307why would people dump trash on the streets they live? i think its coming from the people that have the signs that say “junk removal “

[@user-xy2ir4gr4q]

The corruption runs deep every where Caucasians have touched.

[@a.m.mcaloon9874]

Corruption runs deeper in Missouri. How did a bunch of companies owned by white people get to turn it into a dumping ground without the help of the assholes in Jefferson City.

[@STL_Mel]

I lived in Kinloch from 1983 to 2001. Kinloch sets as is does today for a number of reasons. Top reasons include the Lambert St. Louis Airport bogus buyout, which displaced residents from the 1980's through the late 90's. The second reason in my opinion is corrupt government. There has been scandal in almost all Kinloch administrations since 1948, and where there was not scandal there was exploitation from St. Louis County. Third reason is a feeling of hopelessness, which happened to some of us watching all of this happen, and feeling like you have no were to turn.

[@shann_de]

I know you know my ppls Williams and Simmons. Morrison sounds real familiar too. Lol

[@SpartanVirus]

It's alleged that there was a sufficient push back to the city attempting the buyouts. Enough for the corrupt local gov & its subsequent private sector henchmen to "play dirty" as it were and commissioned the illegal dumping themselves, effectively poisoning any chance for residents to keep their land _&_ maintain it's value, etc... from there, it was open season on dumping, and anyone within driving distance *then* piled on the nail in proverbial coffin, as it were.

[@calonstanni]

I lived in Berkeley for 18 years. Bought my house for $32,000 and sold it for $12,000 in 2012. What a disaster zone. I was the only white person in my neighborhood and my house was FULL of bullet holes. I finally called the cops and showed him the bullet holes and said "I KNOW i'm in a bad neighborhood, but is this many bullet holes normal?" and he said "No. You really need to move." Now I live in South City...where I feel MUCH safer, the people are much nicer and there's more to do.

[@jamesrobert4106]

Despicable savages.

[@shann_de]

Glad you got from out there and that’s coming from a Kinloch native and lived in Berkeley for many years after moving out of Kinloch.

[@calonstanni]

@@shann_de Where abouts do you live now?

[@Boosiefade123]

@@calonstannifrost ave n hanley

[@dragonmeddler2152]

Yeah, St. Louis. Stay south of 40 east of Skinker...

[@tjohnson9051]

Chris, as usual your video is outstanding. I've never seen so many mattresses in one place! I don't know how in the world you'd ever clean all that up, it's a daunting task!

[@farris5918]

Can you just imagine how many babies were made on all those mattresses. 😂🎉😂🎉 🍻 🍻

[@rojo843]

This my hometown. My mother Pinky, my Uncle Gilbert Williams, my Aunt Dot, my grandmother Geneva, all from Kinloch

[@stevek8]

I promise. After you were seen twice driving around at that speed, EVERYone had eyes on you. Not a safe thing to do.

[@ChrisHarden]

What speed?

[@stevek8]

@@ChrisHardenslow

[@zac6499]

lol black people scary!

[@Kepi_Kei]

@@ChrisHarden I live near Kinloch and you took your life in your hands.

[@seekbalance6891]

it seems like, since there are few entrances to kinlock, maybe they could control or at least monitor entry/exit. they could have ALPRs to record what vehicles are coming/going.

[@jaredwblack]

I was thinking the same thing. Hang a bunch of cameras and start fining people. Fines could bring in some revenue to offset clean up costs, and act as a deterrent. But the city probably doesn't have the resources to do that or the ability to collect on fines. So, fatal flaw in that plan

[@seekbalance6891]

@@jaredwblack , i think when there's a will, there's a way. could the residents of kinloch create a partnership with st louis, with the county, with the airport, with the owners of the condemned properties, with the business park? the current state of affairs seems bad for all of them. i'm not saying that cams would be a panacea nor the only solution. but i believe that if all the stakeholders got together and took ownership of the problem, the money would be found. also i wonder what help can the state give? what about the highway patrol? to be clear, i don't pretend to have the answers. i'm sort of brainstorming on this because there is so much illegal dumping in my own state. here i think the major obstacle is the political climate.

[@tommygunn-pm3pn]

You guys must not live in or near the city of St. Louis/Kinloch. They’re so many vehicles being driven everyday in the city with fake temporary state tags or vehicles without plates at all! I’m sure 99% of the people illegally dumping fall into that category of fake/expired tags or no plates at all! St Charles county did a crack down on the temp tags I believe they said 1 in 3 cars driving in their county(neighboring StL county)had illegal temp tag

[@etyrnalizd4603]

​@tommygunn-pm3pn I got pulled over 7 times in st Charles, moscow mills, and st peters weeks after my plates expire. Meanwhile I see plates 4 years expired chilling

[@badkatrising3918]

Nobody has plates on their car in that area and all the cars are stolen anyway

[@charleykeenan6171]

Always happy to see a new upload from you! In the end it is very important to see the bad with the good.. I appreciate what you do very much.. Thanks Chris and Happy Weekend!

[@glenngoetz3054]

Makes me wonder how many bodies may have been dumped or buried there over the years????

[@Nova.1]

MANY

[@Kim-gq3n]

That's no joke and a very disturbing thought. I live in West County St Louis and it's a totally different world than what I am seeing here. I think I will stay on this side of the tracks.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

We have a place in Australia that is very similar, it's called - WINDALE, NSW. How about using Drones to patrol the streets, with 4K cameras, strong lights. They could charge batteries in the day time then patrol at night.

[@suzanneg4537]

Drones would be gunned down faster than you could say "Howdy" Anyone doing anything illegal around there has an easy place to be doing it, and they like it that way.

[@nickelliott1174]

They would get shot out of the sky.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

@@nickelliott1174 did i mention the lasers these drones would carry, to defend themselves ..

[@terrancewatts4812]

The upside down car was the thing that got me!

[@RMSTitanicWSL]

Late 90s Dodge Ram pickup....

[@annacurransmotherofmeghanc1841]

The perfect looking white long bed moving truck parked on the side of the road. Looked like it had just pulled over until he passed it and looking back the passenger side was completely demolished like a meteorite hit it. Creepy horror movie stuff.

[@mrsarianna6607]

I’ve always wondered Why don’t they get the low risk inmates and people who owe fines and etc to go clean it up?

[@shelbyz1974]

Right. They should be contributing some good towards communities that really need it. Repaying their debts to society.

[@DeanDewnuffun]

Yes why don't we have anyone at the ready to clean up the messes in every city they have destroyed? Let's keep propping Black culture up and mimicking how they live - and then let's make plans for sweeping up the destruction when it all falls down.

[@antwangordon6918]

@@shelbyz1974Inmates already do that. Unfortunately it’s in mostly white rural areas. Prison’s keep a lot of white small town’s residents employed. When I was an inmate in Florida, we literally built schools and had to work landscaping for the local government. As well as Department of Transportation or D.O.T squad. Building roads and highways. Department of Corrections are free labor.

[@narizgrande]

Obama needs to come clean it up..

[@kickelodeon1249]

the umsl student apartment complex was cleaning up trash on a regular basis in kinloch but people continue to dump more trash than what they are able to clean up. I lived in kinloch for years, me and my wife got caught in-between an insane back and fourth drive by gun fight, over a hundred rounds were popped off at that "block party" at the park

[@macymakesmagic]

I love your videos. Great information. Keep posting them. 🎉

[@ChrisHarden]

Thank you, will do!

[@blueztx]

Next move for Kinloch will probably be for it to disincorporate as a city. It will become a census designated place and will no longer have elected officials, probably the best move, considering it's checkered history of corrupt mayors.

[@uhoh7541]

Nice video. I don't live far from here, but don't visit as one doesn't go to this area unless there's a specific reason. I actually thought kinloch had already lost it's population and was basically an unincorporated area of STL county already. Shocked to see homes still there. Early 2000's i drove through Kinloch on accident at night to avoid a closed road en route to a friend's house and that was a scary situation. I always carried a street guide with me, BUT it didn't do any good because there weren't any street signs! There was random garbage on the streets back then. Luckily my natural sense of direction got me to the main road without incident.

[@jetsons101]

You know a area is bad when the church in your video, "Saint James Missionary Baptist Church" is surrounded by a chain link fence with a burnt-out house just across the street.

[@DeanDewnuffun]

Maybe the Christian men should have done more, instead of just talk. Christians proved themselves to be just as degenerate as any other group, and their religion fell. Hopefully others will see the folly in religion and turn instead to tradition. Pagans wouldn't live this way.

[@JeanJacquesNantel]

In the case of Kinloch, the solution to the garbage problem is to study the map in order to find a group of streets that would allow to totally close an area by piling the garbage on them. The idea would be to totally impede the passage of cars. After some years a natural forest would grow there.

[@DLeadVox]

Holy Cow! Great video Chris. The mattresses. Unbelievable.

[@kickelodeon1249]

it's only black on black gun violence, literally everyday. I lived in those apartments for years, moved out as soon as they started letting non umsl students live there

[@zombiegirlfanter]

Im from and live in St Louis. I want to help these people clean this up, I know it will continue to be trashed. But I feel sooo bad these residents. Wow, so sad

[@shann_de]

Yep. My entire family was bought out one by one. It breaks my heart that my town was evacuated on failed projects. Yeah the crime would’ve eventually caused the town to go down but it’s still so heartbreaking. I literally grew up here 🥺

[@edwardmiessner6502]

I don't think I've ever seen a suburban area as in as bad a shape as Kinloch. It could very well be abandoned within a decade.

[@ChrisHarden]

Me either, and I wouldn't be surprised if it gets that way soon

[@mikekeeler6362]

Buy a bunch of property dirt cheap

[@Boosiefade123]

might be labeled a suburb but it’s not suburban

[@flakco6245]

@@Boosiefade123@ all!

[@kurtbagin7356]

The land was part of the noise buyout not expansion . I used to buy my beer in that town back in 81’ . I was 17 not 21 but no one cared . It was new sales tax money for the city . The cops always turned a cheek .

[@badkatrising3918]

We would buy beer there as well if not, we go across the river to Gino’s. We could always get kegs of beer back in the day was no issues as long as you had money for the tap.

[@seantyler7401]

I’ve live in STL or right across the river my whole life. We have some dangerous areas. Wouldn’t want to be caught in the street

[@rcstl8815]

Fun fact: St. Louis owns the airport property even though its border ends around Jennings Station and there are several county municipalities between it and the airport. At one time, city employees were paid travel from the city to the airport. And Bridgeton, St. Ann, Berkeley, Kinloch and others munis surround the airport.

[@susandaniels9733]

I'm surprised you haven't found piles of tires yet,that's a pastime where I live.in one year alone,5000 tires were removed, made up 20 percent of all tire clean ups in the state.the perps of course were tire shops that didn't want to pay to get rid of junk tires.

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

Kinloch is a Special kind of Hell . Every educated person should just stay out . They will drive right up to you roll the Window down with Gun in hand and Rob you , Your lucky if all they take is your stuff and your Pride . There are nice girls who probably are looking for a Husband to get them out of there , and there are decent people trapped in there . I will not ever go there again if I can help it . This is a Place that can use Jesus Christ , And fathers in the Homes Educating the Children . Keep this place in your Prayers , it really needs them .

[@midwestgrammar2941]

I remember when the kinlock police was so corrupted the county took over in 1998

[@Stlouishoodhistory]

They wasn’t corrupted the county was more corrupt

[@Kyntteri]

I've been watching these urban decay videos for quite some time now and made up a simple trash bingo game. Requirements are: mattress, car tire, couch, TV. The game is depressingly easy.

[@SILENTSLY]

Thanks for not adding any context whatsoever as to why Lambert lost passenger traffic. STL was a hub for TWA until it was bought out by American Airlines in 2001. TWA actually paid for the new runway (11/29) and planned on using Lambert as its main hub. After American bought TWA, they cut service into Lambert and subsequently cut jobs, hence why nothing happened with the land in Kinloch.

[@DeanDewnuffun]

No one flies into St. Louis because murder and rape are what can be expected after arrival on any airline. Americans have chosen to conduct themselves as Africans do. Now the US looks like African towns.

[@inokerogoyawa]

@Geoffrey Morrison Yes it was

[@luckylag360]

There is a huge Opportunity for the people here to build a great town, they need to use eminent domain, fines against St. Louis, and taxes to get the land back. Than they could develop a nice town center, multi use with a vibrant commercial center. As someone in college for city planning I’d love to help.

[@luckylag360]

@Geoffrey Morrison it’s a suburb of St. Louis, there’s 2 million people there, and it’s right by the airport. There’s no reason a vibrant town center with a mix of commercial, office, and housing wouldn’t be successful.

[@DeanDewnuffun]

@LuckyLag360 great idea! Open up a vibrant shopping district with exclusive dining, bowling alley, craft brewery, maybe an Oakley sunglasses store. Movie theater! Nice! And then watch the businesses bail out one by one due to rampant shoplifting by ghetto turds. Don't offer ghetto people anything. Let them live in the messes they've created. People with far less resources and technology BUILT St. Louis. People thrived in St. Louis even in the Winter. And then Americans were brainwashed to coddle and adore ghetto people and their ghetto culture. Well, here it is. Every saggy trousered aspiring rapper should move to St. Louis and reconstruct it using a sneaker, headphone, vape shop economy.

[@nickelliott1174]

Nobody is going to invest in that area.

[@luckylag360]

@@gsnoorky well that’s why the local government has to step in and do it. I’m not talking about brining in businesses, I’m talking about new businesses there created by and for those local residents. With a housing solution associated to this it’s a viable plan, given the massive housing shortage. The midwest forgot You have to induce demand.

[@danielmorse4213]

That's a nice idea. Of course the murderers, rapists and drug addicts will love to help.

[@cgimovieman]

Wow. Just.. wow. I’ve never seen so much trash and illegal dumping in my life. It really makes me sick to see people doing that. But honestly, organizing community cleanups or having any kind of patrols in the area isn’t going to fix things. If people are dumping there, there’s a reason for that. And it’s not just because the area is largely abandoned. It’s because there are bigger problems in the surrounding areas with there not being proper and adequate trash pickup. While I absolutely don’t condone people dumping like that, think about if you lived somewhere, didn’t even have basic trash pickup each week, and were low income and unable to drive very far (if at all) to take your own trash to a dump somewhere. Most dumps that I know are on the outskirts of towns. For good reason. No one wants one right by their home or in the heart of a city. If you can’t drive say 20-25 miles each week, stuffing trash in the trunk of your car or strapped to your roof, what are you going to do? Likely not dump it in your front lawn or inside your house. You’ll likely go just a few miles away to a vacant lot and drop it off. So I’d say the greater St. Louis area has deeper issues with needing trash pickup. But it’s easier to say to fix it, than it can be to actually fix it. Areas rely on taxes and some other money provided by residents living there. If residents leave entirely, or if there are so few or they have so little money that they pay in the form of taxes, sometimes you just lose those services. So…sigh…it’s hard to know what the solution is. All I know is that places like this, abandoned malls, or others, make me so sad to see.

[@DeanDewnuffun]

What St. Louis needs is more Diversity. Diversity is our strength.

[@cosmictraveler1146]

Yep so in a nutshell, a bunch of issues need to be solved in a city.

[@kickbckjojo489]

It was stated that lots of the trash is due to contractors. Contrators are paid to haul away trash from recent rental properties or foreclosured homes. These critters just dont want to pay the money to get rid of trash such as renting a large dumpster or calling a junk removal service. They also do this in the city. They will dump large heaps of decayed drywall right next to dumpsters that set there for weeks at a time so residents are forced to place their trash as close as they can to the bins. Its a horrid scene. Diapers and rotten food everywhere. Any vacant lots they abandon this rubbish in as well because they just dont want to deal with it.Its more of a moral issue. They just dont give a damn. Lastly most folks know to call a crackhead to get rid of whatever you need gone.

[@kickbckjojo489]

You are definitely right though. A solution is hard to find for this complex issue.

[@cgimovieman]

@@kickbckjojo489 Well I definitely agree with you on one of your points; that it’s a moral issue. There sure are a lot of basic behaviors that I just don’t remember people doing when I was a kid. From thing like mass shootings, right down to dumping trash or being loud in the middle of the night when you have neighbors just feet from you. It’s hard to know what to say. No matter what your political beliefs, religious beliefs, or whatever, I just wish people could learn to raise their kids to be responsible, tolerant, and generally understanding and good people. I’m only 43, but I see a lot of people much younger than me already doing things I’d have never done at their age.

[@cecilyerker]

You have a new subscriber! I never even heard of Kinloch and I’m a Saint Louis County resident

[@michaelsteele4587]

I remember when that song by Huey came out, I was 19 and running with a group of friends who hit up the clubs back in the early 00's. Kinda hilarious to think about all those chicks who were dancing to that song in the club back then trying to "pop, lock & drop it" now because their hips & knees would be popping, locking and they'd be dropping. Twenty years is a long time, thanks for making some of us feel old.🤣🤣

[@ChrisHarden]

🤣 for me everyone was jamming to that song in middle and high school

[@qbanz00]

The airport bought kinloch to “expand” and tore it down but never used the land … now it just sits abandoned. It was the first AA city in Missouri. There was also a Berkley cop who kidnapped and killed a girl and dumped her in kinloch in the past few years

[@andreadehoyos9910]

I saw another video that said, St Louis started the trash dump to lower property vaues, after residents refused to sell.

[@KevinCoop1]

I believe the area was bought because of the expansion that did happen. The people living in these areas were subjected to very high noise levels from the jets. So, it was not bought to build upon. The City of St. Louis owns all the land as you say, but also the land at the actual airport too. Always have. If they wanted to stop the problem of trash, all they would have to do is block all access to the area. Since only one way in, should be very easy to fix. Within the city are areas worse than this video. Way worse.

[@louberkman5995]

Very interesting. Nice Work,

[@billsmith5960]

I was just there this past Sunday morning in a rental car. I had some time as I was flying out of Lambert Field. Last time I did that was 5 years ago. It has become worse and even the garbage dumping is incredible. I will have to hand it to the area, they now have an area where they collect all of that illegal dumping and put it in one place. It's at the corner of Courtney and Witt. It's behind the old Police Station/City Hall (which used to be a school way before that). You can see it on Google Maps. The place is beyond repair and just the outskirts of a few properties are worth keeping. The rest needs to just become distribution warehouses. At least that would cut down on the illegal dumping as nobody in their right mind would invest to put homes up there. It's sad but reality.

[@Kerry-G]

The price would be cheap unless the “local government “ blocked it. You could have those warehouses bringing in big bucks 💰and jobs just like they did in pontoon beach in Illinois

[@billsmith5960]

@@Kerry-G - It’s in a perfect spot for warehouses. I suspect the local govt wishes that the area will somehow go back to what it was many moons ago. Yet it never will.

[@dorothydaugherty1277]

I'm just thinking the airport couldn't expand due to the toxic area. They are probably dumping there because the dump is toxic. Crazy what has happened .

[@gayprepperz6862]

Kinloch was a hell hole when I lived in Berkely back in 1971. It has only gotten worse, with an elected Mayor calling on the St. Louis County Police Dept. for protection because of the the death threats. Very sad. Kinloch s' days were over within twenty years after it's founding.

[@gordon3730]

Kinnock was bought out because of sound noise. If you live or work near airport your vehicle be covered in jet fuel. Imagine that homes and property. There is still an area on border gov is cleaning nuclear waste

[@mikekeeler6362]

I used to live almost at the end of a Runway at O'Hare Airport

[@kevinstewart7636]

I used to live in NoCo. You're lucky you didn't get carjacked, and beaten to death. The airport buyout did kinloch a favor.

[@CAROLDDISCOVER-2025]

Back when I was a kid there is this guy that moved out of kinloch, Mo. I believe that he said that his family was only white family or one of three white families that lived in all of kinloch. He talked about rough it was back then. Looking back I'm assuming he moved out because the airport planned expansion. I don't know now didn't know then. Also it sounds like their City bored has taken control of the city. Because now it sounds like they can impeach the incoming mayor instantly. I didn't say they didn't have good reason to impeach these two. But with the new tax revenue at least part of it's going to kinloch. Put up the street light and let him shoot it out but have cameras including infrared cameras showing the trucks going in full and coming out empty with the license plates after all there's only a couple of ways in as you said. Another municipality far far away from there in the state actually did this in one little area in the 1990s went with more difficult to do this and it stopped. Besides they can set up to monitor eatsplace it comes in with his cheapest cameras are nowadays and if the mayors are stealing tens of thousands of dollars then why couldn't they stop it? Unless maybe the board is getting kickbacks. Just saying just asking a question. As far as Ferguson Missouri be mostly white maybe way back in the sixties. But I'm more recent time it was 60% white 40% black in the 1980's. Last time I check because of the riots right after it when they bust those people in for the most part. And they found that so-called boy that was a mountain of a man with a boy's face blood inside front seat of the patrol car . When he went after the cops rifle that was locked up in the console. The cop was surrounded by unfriendly to him. Back to what we were talking about Ferguson at that time after the riot with basically 40% white and 60% black. Regardless of color parents often don't understand when they move away from the problem they often bring part of it with them call their children and that spreads the problem. I had a young black man worked for me for a period of time and he's a great worker. Nothing to do with St Louis. But the attitude. He wants to see the nice little mix race suburb turned into LA with tall fences and dogs and crimes. That was his goal along with his group. As intelligent as he was I thought I had showed him a better way. But later I found out that he had sunk back in with his filth and was murdered. What's that lead the horse to water but you can't make him drink

[@RebeccaBaker-og9yd]

Thanks for these videos. Gives insight into the real st. Louis. Not the glossed up one. Again, thanks.

[@ChrisHarden]

Thanks, appreciate the kind words!

[@RebeccaBaker-og9yd]

@@ChrisHarden you're welcome!

[@cathy5070]

Wow! Unbelievable place and tragic for it to be like this.

[@shann_de]

It truly hurts my heart. I was raised in Kinloch, it wasn’t always like this.

[@cecilyerker]

I think those “prejudiced” developers and residents saw the inevitable and got out while they still had a chance. Noticing a clear pattern of behavior isn’t prejudiced, it’s called logical reasoning.

[@crud420]

there's a single deciding factor in real estate and it loves basketball

[@stargazingdemigod]

My grandma house is the one at the end of courtney and my aunt stayed in some apartment complex in kinloch. Its crazy how much has changed since the 90s. North county has really changed alot and not for the better. We still have good people here tho.

[@MooPotPie]

6.500 residents in 1960. Only about 250 today.

[@ChrisHarden]

Yup. Crazy right?

[@GCFMingez]

And you see how they take care of their neighborhood there’s a reason there’s not any businesses or schools in that whole area

[@susandaniels9733]

Must've been a haven for scrappers at one point as people used to dump appliances, they might still.

[@MM-bd3ph]

Great job Thank you

[@joannunemaker6332]

😢What a sad state of affairs.

[@SchitzophrenicSynapse]

I used to work delivering pizza in Ferguson, MO (2005) and lived in Berkley. Kinloch was technically in our delivery area. We weren't allowed to even drive through the borough because of all the times our cars were shot at. A lot of the houses that were lived in didn't even have front doors, only blankets covering the entrances. Ther theory was either they sold their doors for drugs, or just made it easier to enter the house to buy drugs. I never see this stuff in documentaries.

[@midwestgrammar2941]

Remember going to grade school with them kids from kinloch area back in the early 90s. They was something else some was claimed to be in gangs & fighting every morning before class over different villages in north county. Still remember them days up to 2024

[@willymichaels215]

I remember 20 - 30 years ago when everyone still lived there. It had a reputation back then… they used to be deep

[@pablohurley2188]

I didn't realize how bad it was I used to live there with my mom I was so clueless back then

[@Tblazer42]

Its sad STL has become such a sh!t hole. I was born and raised in St. Ann and Bridgeton. It was great back in the 80s and 90s. We left in 01 for Arizona. I miss STL.

[@annacurransmotherofmeghanc1841]

Looks like something you'd see in a horror movie, for real. It's definitely putting of creepy evil type vibes.

[@adamlamberti1805]

I love these videos!

[@protectionplus100]

At 28:32 I desperately need parts from that red GMC 6500 series box truck on the left of the road.. Are they free to get since they are abandoned if I pay a transport company to retrieve and deliver to me? Also what street was that on? 😊THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP😊

[@TheOldTapeArchive]

Rule of thumb: Whenever you see the words "Martin Luther King Jr Blvd", or some street named after a reverend/community activist, things are about to get trashy and dangerous. Lock your doors...or better yet, turn around.

[@galewinds7696]

Those streets named mlk need to be changed, nothing but trouble on those streets

[@UnapologeticallyBlaque395]

😢...so sad to see my childhood neighborhood so desolate and in ruins..😢

[@JennRighter]

Hey, I'm gonna illegally dump my trash. Instead of doing it in some business' dumpster or apartment complex dumpster somewhere, how about just out in nature and on the street. That makes sense.

[@zank_frappa]

I have a friend who lives in the apartments nearby. Ended up turned around back there a few times, super sketchy

[@racinglightning01]

How is the city of St. Louis not held accountable, especially with the City owning property inside Kinloch? It's fuct this exists in one of the wealthiest countries on the planet on 2024..

[@handsomepat4815]

When I was a kid and got in trouble my dad would tell me he’s gonna send me to the Kinloch Military Academy lol

[@agnesg]

Wow you werent kidding about the mattresses

[@The1stClassVillain]

All of that trash is outrageous 😧🫣. That is disgusting. They need to send some people to clean that up. I hope they catch who is doing that

[@michaelwelsh7362]

I lived in Berkeley in the 1960’s and 1970’s and would drive to UMSL through Kinloch.

[@georgemartin7717]

Excellent job covering this area in the daytime. You obviously did " your homework " on the history of this area. I noticed you started this tour in the morning and were gone by dusk. I was born and raised in St Charles. Back in the early '80's, in my formative years of driving as a teenager and prior to gps, I'd go driving all around with a few friends in our spare time. Our night got cut short early when we got lost and wound up in this area. It was not good and we were unarmed white boys. The only weapon we had was a good set of tires and enough common sense to run every damn stop sign and stop for NOTHING to get out of there QUICK. By the time we got out of there, in about 10 minutes ( this was at night ), my tires weren't that good anymore. Never got lost there again or went there again. I also found two more nice areas to visit in the St.Louis area during those formative years of driving. In no particular order, I found the magnificent beauty of Wellston and University City ( aka, U-City ). On the Illinois side, across the Mississippi River, you had the other East St. Louis ( both are stupendous areas) Granite City and Cahokia. So, if you get a chance. Tour those areas, especially history rich East St. Louis, ILL. As a white guy, if you want an adrenaline rush and your truly wanting an adventure. Then visit these vibrant little cities at night and enjoy the creatures that roam these towns at night. As long as you have night vision goggles, a bullet proof suv, or at least one with twin . 50 cal's mounted in the roof top, then you'll be fine.

[@ChrisHarden]

Thanks for the kind words. I’ve made videos on all of those places that you mentioned except for University City.

[@cecilyerker]

@@ChrisHardenoh man, you should do U City, my mom lives there

[@shann_de]

@@ChrisHardenU City is where Nelly is from. 👍🏽

[@tiffanim547]

Born and raised in STL, living in Texas for 12 years now. When I saw the title, not disclosing the vicinity, I just KNEW they were talking about Kinloch. Wow, it was pretty dismal in the 80's, 90's but my God, look at it now... SMH

[@williamforrest4371]

Call it what it is GHETTO CAUSE OF YOU KNOW WHO FACT

[@PROLIFICSMOKER]

As a St. Louis native you lucky you was their early in the mornin that’s one of few places that’s a no go zone!!! I won’t mention others but their is many head up 314 pray for better dayz

[@hydroy1]

From the 60s to the 80s if you were white, you could never travel ANY of them streets you were on without being shot at or shot to death or abducted and held for ransom as it was the race riots and Berkeley was all white and Kinlock was all full of black murderous gangsters and drug dealers. I know because I lived it until the airport bought out most of Berkeley and I moved to South Florida never to return as you can STILL be murdered in St. Louis even if you're just passing through. Fact is St. Louis is even MORE dangerous today then it was when I lived there and it was really bad when I got out.--- P/S there IS a lake behind Kinlock it is behind that big new Amazon warehouse called Jackson Park lake. Springdale school was there

[@billsmith5960]

I remember in the 70's going up with my dad to pick up some automotive equipment in Kinloch. The guy that was selling the stuff told him, "Come up early on Sunday morning, that's the safest time." So we did.

[@saldrich3226]

Nice job, Fellini.

[@RMSTitanicWSL]

I've often wondered if the residents of Kinloch could sue the St Louis Airport Authority for creating a nuisance and demand they fund police and cleanup costs. Or that the city of Kinloch couldn't start condemnation proceedings against the St Louis Airport Authority.

[@tparaiso601]

The dumping situation on Mable St is probably 5x worse than in this video. Saw an abandoned dog/junkyard dog chained up to a tree. In further research, learned one of the few houses remaining in Kinloch was that of noted St. Louis rapper Huey of "Pop, Lock, and Drop It" fame... He was killed in the front yard of his/his relative's home on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. In retrospect, it was not a great idea to drive through this area - your presence may attract unwanted attention.

[@MrMurph2009]

Did you report the dog so that he could be rescued, or did you just leave him to starve to death?

[@mikekeeler6362]

Kenlock Wildlife Preserve

[@garydean0308]

The obvious answer is to build a municipal dump there. It would be manned and the illegal dumping would mostly stop. Lots of East St Louis and Washington Park are like this.

[@Alan-ph6iu]

They should just turn Kinloch into a landfill.

[@warren3174]

Went to the fire academy near there. Knew it was bad when there was razor wire around it. LOL

[@briandm33]

I'm surprised that the state hasn't closed down Kinloch and just gone in and cleaned the whole place up. Forget about letting people come into the town the state just needs to close it down and clean up the whole area.

[@jamesmcdonald5868]

Hopefully Harper Woods,MI makes good use of the space where Eastland sat on 8 mile road and can further expand into the neighborhoods that border. It is all but a short amount of time for this to happen, considering Detroit's eastside has bled into the south end of the city and quadrupled the crime in less than 10 years as it grows every day. Eastpointe has bled its crime into the North East border of Harper Woods too.

[@danielmorse4213]

My friends in East point have sold out and moved on. My friend in Harper Woods was brutality robbed and raped in her house a few years ago. Yea...... Sad.

[@crud420]

remember when the US founding fathers said "duhh uhhh muhfuggin people din come and clean it now is like dis"

[@cosmictraveler1146]

As a St. Louis-Ian, I’ve never been there but damn

[@salintium]

There is alot of trash in riverview as well off riverview blvd

[@sthpac69]

Schnucks Markets distribution center occupy a large portion of Kinloch.

[@scottmaytham3578]

All that old furniture and trash, and I don't believe I've seen one old used fishing boat.

[@ottohesslein3230]

Someone with some equipment and labor could make a living demolishing all the old houses and repurposing the building materials. An entire industry of dismantled towns, with all the wood, bricks, wire, etc, reclaimed. The land could be repurposed to grow food.

[@johnreitz5676]

Are you going to finance this?

[@jamesgrandstaff2612]

Chris, have you ever considered doing more Ohio videos? Our state has a lot of small towns you could explore.

[@ChrisHarden]

One day I'll start venturing through the Buckeye State

[@Comm0ut]

Sounds like a good place to avoid. Conway reminds me of Dolton which also VOTED for exactly what it got.

[@williamforrest4371]

GREED GREED GREED FERGUSON,KINLOCK,BERKLEY,ST.LOUIS,ST.LOUIS CO,HAZELWOOD,FLORISSANT,CALVERTON PARK SHOULD BE CALLED AFRICA