i really wonder why they showed pics of white people and not all the long time black people who live there and was born and raised there its black town so why not show the black people that did alot of things threw the years 2 help e.st louis love my home town please show pics of the blacks from back in the day give the blacks some credit 2
Black people keep waiting for a handout from the democrats that you keep voting in.pull urself up by ur own bootstraps.Or keep whining about it and see where it gets you!
Racism was not the cause of the decline.It was crime.It got so bad thieves entered homes in broad daylight and carried your items down the street.You could not ride a bus or go to the at night,you'd be robbed.So the remaining white ppl sold their homes at HUGE losses and left.Next they robbed the businesses until they closed/moved out.Yes the criminals were black but if they were Irish the crime flight would still have occured.
@goldensassenach It is not even crime. The root cause was the way the city boundaries were drawn up and it was easy for large businesses to build outside of the city and avoid the taxes. Re: Alorton, Ill, and National City, Ill. There was nothing that could be done. The city government was starved to death and then everything else fell apart. People look at me like I have a third eye when I tell them East St. Louis was a GREAT PLACE TO GROW UP!
I currently live in belleville one town over place is the definition of the ghetto ... I tend to go here every once in awhile to buy weed but thats just if im that desperate
I was born there and lived there until I was 9. Moved to Cali and didn't visit again until 2005. It is depressing to see what has happened to ESL. A lot of it is politics and racism. When I was a kid there from 70-79, it was a thriving vibrant mostly black community. I have great childhood memories. The food, the people, the music, the soul... I miss it so much. I am homesick watching this. And the song fits.
@777blackskinlady Racism an corrupt politics as well a severe decline in industry no doubt played a role in these cities decline,but what about the large role that awelfare minded entitlement driven culture contributed?
@orvgg Thanks. Somehow we never forget our home towns and tend to reminisce about the time in our lives we grew up there. East St. Louis will always have a special place in my heart.
@pauljosephherman Assumption High School home of the PI oNE EARS! At glorious Heideman Field, I am a bunny, but SHit yoou guys got all the hot chicks!
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Hello...this is Phil Perry, from East St. Louis. This video was very moving for me...and extremely touching. There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with the song you chose for this video. I am trying to find out if Father Goldammer is still living, and if you have any information on him. He was a strong figure in my childhood while I attended St. Elizabeth grade school, and I would love to know where he is, how he is, or if he is deceased. Please visit my channel and listen to some of my music. :-)
I remember Fr. Goldammer. I was a kid though, so I can't remember a lot of what he taught. However, he came across as a dedicated person. I live in suburbs of Chicago now and have no idea of what happened to Fr. Goldammer. It would be amazing if he is still alive. Best regards, Paul
@pauljosephherman I am sorry to report to you that Father Goldammer died in Florida from Cancer of the pancreas. He left the priesthood sometime in the early 70s and married an airline stewardess and moved south and operated a marina. I agree with your opinion of him. He got crossways with the bishop. Father did not want them to close St. Elizabeth and he lost. Truth being told, he should have been the next bishop of Belleville. He was well respected by the faithful and the clergy.
not from St. Louis area and needing gas, I pulled off in East St. Louis to find a gas station.............. yeah that really didn't happen. homeless living in cracked out burnt houses, being asked if i want to buy drugs, and seeing prostitutes strut there stuff wasn't my deal. true dumphole. sorry if i offended anybody that lived there during the glory days, but the place will never be recovered.
being brave I drove through the old neighborhood lst week. The street my aunts lived in is no more. The houses are either boarded up or burnt down. History blames it on the business moving out of the area and taking their money with them. but I blame it on those who moved in there and don't work..this was the downfall of the once beautiful area.
@Paulatomaszewski Posted once b/4 but it didn't take for some reason. Detroit is the same way buddy. In 75 years this whole country will look like Haiti
This vdo shows how black folks fucks up citys lol thats why i moved 2 belleville its to much to deal with down here in the police aint bout shit ether
I was born and raised in East St Louis and it was a good place to grow up and I miss it. What sealed East St Louis's doom was the loss of jobs. The companies packed up and left, and took their jobs with them. They were chasing cheaper labor. Tax revenue plummeted as only the poor and chronically unemployed remained. Crooked politicians were only a small part of the problem. They exist everywhere. People better listen up & think about it because East St Louis might be our future in the USA
as a note of history east st. louis was predominantly a jewish, german,polish, and black town. many germans who lived there were catholic but secretly many were of jewish descent. my source is the late dr. seiman who himself was believed to be german catholic but was in fact jewish by ethnicity. many of these people left after blacks moved more and more into what was predominantly white neighborhoods in the 1960s, there was a hell of a lot of racism that came mostly from the young the teens.
i grew up in a jewish ghetto(i didnt know the word until 1971 so i never internalized the concept) as that neighborhood wasnt bad. the slums is what black neighborhoods were called. the racism that i experienced didnt come from "white" people but from jews. in fairness i also got a lot of good from jews as well. but many of the teens of the sixties were the source of much of the outright klan type racism in east boogy. but the gag is, many of them are of jewish descent. only in east st. louis
this guy lived in east boogy during the 50's and sixties. the nieghborhood he's driving through is the one i grew up in. and yes that neighborhood was more or less predominantly white when i move there in 1965. my question is was he with the white teenaged boys who drove by my house on the skiped steet in the video no.23 st. (right after joe mahony's accident zone) in 1966 and threw a big chunk of coal at a little 5 year old black kid who was me and sped off?
and if the poster is the person who made this video, i lived in the old brown and yellow duplex formerly owned by dr. seiman. if you lived in that neighborhood i am sure you knew who the persons were if you were not with them because our paper boy who lived one 24th st. who is your peer knew. he was with them.
Assumption High School, Heidemann Field ome of the Pi ONE ers. IF you aren't from the city, you won't get it. I had to go to Althoff, I am the only "Bunny" in my family. It is kind of bummer. I wanted to be a River Rat!
You all are stupid, apparently products of teh East St. Louis public school system. Ghetto is a term that was coined to describe the jewish neighborhoods under Nazi control during WWII. So, as you can see, Ghetto is actually the description of a "White" jewish neighborhood but your all too retarded to realize that.
I'd surely love to review more footage of ESL in the days of its greatness. I saw a glimpse of it on a youtube posting on Katherine Dunham and was a bit stunned.
Only two of those buildings still exist and one I remember is Illini Federal Bank at corner of Missouri and Collinsville Avenue and the old Sears building on corner of 10th and State Street(a block away from where Katherine Dunham lived)which is now the Board of Education for School District 189.
Mr Paul, I've reviewed ur video twice now and found it interesting. I also grew up in ESL and know the streets very well. In fact, one of my aunts actually lived on the very block you lived on. I don't remember her old address though, lol.
I've not been there in several years but was reminded of the monumental markers like the old shop city drive in. After all of these years, that damn screen is still there although a nursing home now resides on property, lol.
Time again I read comments EStL is on cusp of greatness, or things are changing. Upon the death of my great uncle in 1958 an editorial in the Journal remarked that it was a shame he would not be around to see the greatness to which the city was moving and for which he had worked so hard. 50 yrs later that thought is still expressed and there is still plenty of blame to go around. The solutions aren't politician/blacks/whites, casinos/schools. Don't inflate any one group's power to screw up.
ESL has many famous people either born or raised there. Miles Davis was raised there, his father was a dentist. Donald F McHenry, former US Ambassador, Jackie and Al Joyner, Reginald and Warrington Hudlin (Hudlin Brothers of "House Party"), and Anne Mae Bullock (Tina Turner) are among a few of ESL's history. Another native, Abraham Bolden, was the first African American Secret Service Agent assigned to the White House Detail by President John F Kennedy.
This is a much more realistic view of E ST L as I remember it, although I grew up in Edgemont area & went to St. Philiip & Assumption HS I too hitchhiked to school along the same road, so it brought back some memories. it evokes a sense of proud sentiment towards a city we loved growing up, & still have hope that it will someday again turn into a great city.
My apologies. I don't mean to offend anyone. That is the song that came to me when I made the video. There are some good things happening in E.S.L. like I mention in the info section. E.S.L. has changed a lot. I pray for E.S.L to prosper.
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First of all MUTHA FUCKA he didn't live in the Ghetto! He lived in East St. Louis when it was a majority white community back in the 40's, 50's and a good portion of the 60's. So get your fucking facts straight ASS WIPE!!!
Secondly, this video DOES come across racist when you have a white person giving his or her perspective on what living in the "ghetto" is, with Elvis Presley's RACIST, music culture stealing ass singing in the background!! You IGNORANT ass WHORE!!! Now chew on THAT, BITCH!
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Ha Ha! You are dumb ass son of a bitch, huh?! Were you not able to comprehend any part of what I JUST explained to your imbred, retarded, trailer park ass! LOL
Now listen AGAIN little Billy Bob! I never once implied that just because ESL was once all white, that it was somehow a "good suburb." My post is right below. READ IT AGAIN, BILLY BOB! LOL
Don't get mad at me because you live in a trailer park and buy your clothes from Wal-mart! LOL
Better than being a ape and having my pants around my knees like a retard. Pftt. Go ahead and give your girls stupid names like La'Quisha ROFL. Stupid ape.
LOL!!!! Is that honestly the best you've got? I guess you really told me, huh? LOL!
Billy Bob, you are too funny! So let's see...You called me an Ape, right? So what's next? Let me guess....I'm a stupid NIGGER! Oh well, there goes your ENTIRE vocabulary! LOL!
Now you have nothing else to say. Poor widdle redneck. I guess you better go back into the trailer and finish fucking your sister, you INBRED PIECE OF SHIT!
Yeeeeeh HAAAAH!! I bet you can relate to THAT kind of talk, huh? LOL
This is weird! I went online to find out what happened to the beautiful artwork inside St. Elizabeth's Church at 25th and Ridge - and I came across your video. It was like I was walking to school again. I lived at 418 No. 22nd Street. When I saw Dollar's Market, I knew I was going back in time. My friend and I used to stop there every morning and she would buy "a nickel's worth of baloney" for her sandwich. This was in 1950 - almost 50 years ago and I still have that memory.
The place that started it all: the Assumption boys crooked, democratic, political machine that still runs St Clair County today. They still buy votes in East St Louis for $5.
Then there was, Buster and Ted Wortman, gangsters that ran everything south of Springfield. I remember Buster with a Thompson sub under his coat. He couldn't have done it without Mayer Fields though and later Jimmy Connor's grandpa. Anybody recall Jimmy's dad stealing all that money from the toll bridge? Off to Tim & Joes.
Yeah, there's more corruption in St Clair county today that was started by the hoods that ran ESL.... Remember when Sam Flood's dad was a cop down there and shot that little kid for stealing somebody's milk bottle money?
And there was two cops (Sweeny was one) that later admitted to killing nearly 30 people for Buster. People used to disapear in ESL all the time. Many of the crooks who ran ESL then still run Belleville today.
I grew up down the hill. It's true that there were/are some very crooked people that came out of ESL and that they are still heavily involved with the political scene in this county; however, those people are all starting to die off now.
The voter fraud thing is a shame, but North St Louis is just as bad, and niether can hold a candle to Chicago.
ESL is worse than chicago, higher murder rates and more rugged, only thing is that chicago is bigger and spread out ya know, its small, so its like concentrate ghetto, chicago is a big ghetto, sorta spread out
Did you ever notice how ESL is much longer than it is wide. It's built like a giant drag strip. You could literally stand in the grass at Holten Park and wave to somebody on RR64.
Im not in ESL anymore, but I plan to move there, or to Detroit, though I got a cuz that wants me to move to Denver. I got relatives in Alton, Ill up that way though. Nice place
as a kid i spent many summer months in east st. louis in that neighborhood at 24th and louisiana. my cousins and i used to ride bikes up to a little store called pirtle's up on ridge ave. down from 24th st. i visit east st. louis every year since becoming an adult and hasn't had any problems with anyone there,and this is in some of the "worst" neighborhoods. if you don't start beef with anyone and try to be a billy-jo-badass,ANYONE can survive in east st. louis without having to be scared.
It used to be called the garden city. Not many of the residence there were permenant, wealthy st louisians had small homes there for weekends. When the depression hit they sold them off cheaply to get any kind of money when they needed it the most. The town became poor but didn't go down until the steel mills closed and unemployment skyrocketed again. Not too unlike the ghost towns created today by the mortgage mess.
E. St. Louis was an All-American City in 1957 by Look magazine & the Nat'l Municipal League. By 1990 it was labeled by FHA as "the most distressed small city in USA." In short, shifts in technology & transportation caused major employers (stockyards, railroads, factories) to close/relocate, resulting in unemployment & widespread community abandonment. Between 1960 & 1990, the city's ethnically & racially mixed population shrank from 88,000 to 43,000. Now it is 31,000 & 98 % African American.
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BROTHERS AND SISTERS! I escaped from East St. Louis, and I now live here in San Diego, Calif. Life is good here. There is work, medical care (the CMS system and Medi-Cal), addiction treatment programs, generous AFDC (Aid to Families with dependent Children) and homeless shelters. Leave ESL and come to San Diego, California! There is no future in ESL! You can start life over here, and it never snows here! Even the police are cool here.
Near the end when you see that prison which was once a high school that says it all...I was surprised not to see any video near the interstate & RT 3 which looks like a bombed out war zone somewhere in Iraq. About what year did it all start to come undone in ESL?
Yes, the prison was once Assumtion Catholic High School for boys. I grew-up a half-mile from there, on Warren Avenue just off Kingshighway. The decay started way back in the 1930s, but speeded-up in the 1960s, when I was a boy. I now lice in San Diego, CA. Life is good here, with lot's of work and programs for single mothers, addicts, and homeless. Even the police are cool. I encourage all of my fellow ESL brothers and sisters to move here
I lived in south stl all my life and knew that there was something better now im in mission viejo going hard after my dreams but I always go back to the hood. And I will never forget were I come from.
I am White and I grew-up in Wash. Park near ESL, and I attended St. Martin's (misidentified in the clip) school and church shown at the end of the clip. You big crybabies can't admit the truth: It was WHITE politicians and gangsters who ruined ESL. By the time the Blacks moved-in in large numbers, the city had already become a cesspool. ESL is best proof of the need for Marxian socialism!
i am originally from the south side of chicago and to this day visit relatives in east st. louis and from THAT area (24th st. and louisiana ave.). used to buy chinese take out at a place at 24th and stste st. east st. louis has THEIR political officials to blame for it's condition. i read many racist comments on this AND YOU DO HAVE A POINT. many of US need to care more about what goes on in our communities. still to place blanketed blame is UNFAIR! it's proud hard working people still in ESL!
I want to thank you for the videos as well. I am originally from there also. Now in California. I attended St. Patricks Elementary (wish I could have seen it in the vid) and Assumption High School. It made me feel a little sad and homesick at the same time. I bought some property there to hold a piece of where I came from. Sentimental value only and the property taxes are very high for almost no service. Cheap compared to Cali. No matter what it becomes it will always be special 2 me.
I thank you for posting this video. It is really sad to see the condition of East St. Louis these days. I was born and raised in the city 28 years ago. But, the city is in bad shape due to bad politics. The city officials allowed for houses and old structures to sit up and become havens for crime, drugs, etc. Residents pay a great deal of property taxes within the county. However, the money is not being utilized to maintain roads, provide more jobs for residents, and beautify the community.
I really enjoyed seeing the video and wish there was more of it, but I sat here a cried the whole time. How sad to think that the music is so appropriate to the beautiful town I grew up so many years ago. Thanks so much for putting this together. It sure brought back a lot of wonderful memories. Actually, I attended and graduated from St. Adalbert's grade school when it was first built and was married at the church by Father John.
This makes me very sad....there is an obvious mistake ...."Father Mac's St. Albert Church" is "St.Martin of Tours Church." Now a Protestant Disciples Church, they did a really nice job on the inside - it almost looks like new. to our (ADT Security) system in there. And the Rectory for St. Elizabeth is home to the nuns who run the Catholic Daycare center at the old St. Adalbert school on Summit Ave. They work there along with a couple of the Brothers of Mary.
I did make a note about the mistake in the About This Video section to the right. I had already put the video up on YouTube when I realized I put the wrong name on the church, one of many senior moments, now becoming a way of life. Thanks for the added information on St. Elizabeth's.
Thank's a lot for posting this video. I have been in East St. Louis, December 23, 1989. Johnnie Johnson drove me with his Ford and I took a photo of the Cosmopolitan Club, there he, Ebbie Hardy and Chuck Berry been playing every week 1952-1955.
great vid. i know east st. louis does look like a ghetto, but being a resident of st. louis, i am able to look past the violence and crime in the city and see the true beauty of it. perfect music for the video too.
I am from Washington Park origionaly, now in Texas. Brought back memories. I went to Lansdown Jr High. What happened to E. St. Louis ? The same as Washington Park, the blacks took over and destroyed it
I only had time to drive from where I was working to where I used to lived on North 21st street and attended school during a break. Then, it was back to work until late at night and we left the next day early.
Still a great vid, it feels wierd to go to places you used to live and see how it has changed for better or worse and alot of times even if it is better it still feels worse to you because it's not what you remember.
I live in pontoon beach illinois and I sell life insurance in east st louis every day. I am never there past dark and the people tell me to be carefull all the time. Its fucking scary.The roads suck and there are drugs,begars,theves, killers and prostitutes every where.
I suggest you go to the wikipedia link on this page, or do your own research on this city. The problem with your question is that there is no "they" - - the "they" is actually "us" - - it's the market, it's the availability of cheap land, it's state and county coffers stretched to their limit paying for building infrastructure for a population leaving and recreating the same disposable communities. It's sad, but I'm afraid there's no change to this pattern in the foreseeable future.
Great vid. But to add to your point the city officials are all putting money in thier pockets and not the city. Not to mention The East Saint city leaders and Illinois government won't allow St.Louis City and Missouri to acquire rights to East Saint. It's a Fucked up situation, alot like Kinloch on our side the city leaders are not equiped to run let alone rebuild a depreciating area. Mainly because most officials are relatives and where given thier position.
that what happens when you let hud section 8 and welfare in the people dont care what there town looks like I say cut them off
thefbc4201 6 months ago
i really wonder why they showed pics of white people and not all the long time black people who live there and was born and raised there its black town so why not show the black people that did alot of things threw the years 2 help e.st louis love my home town please show pics of the blacks from back in the day give the blacks some credit 2
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darealpurep618 7 months ago
i hope east st.louis gets better and they renovate it so its like stl city
warzonologist 8 months ago
@warzonologist THAT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN AT ALL, SO, MOVE ON!.
TLJAWSIMIB 3 months ago
Black people keep waiting for a handout from the democrats that you keep voting in.pull urself up by ur own bootstraps.Or keep whining about it and see where it gets you!
cobraman96 9 months ago
Racism was not the cause of the decline.It was crime.It got so bad thieves entered homes in broad daylight and carried your items down the street.You could not ride a bus or go to the at night,you'd be robbed.So the remaining white ppl sold their homes at HUGE losses and left.Next they robbed the businesses until they closed/moved out.Yes the criminals were black but if they were Irish the crime flight would still have occured.
goldensassenach 11 months ago
@goldensassenach It is not even crime. The root cause was the way the city boundaries were drawn up and it was easy for large businesses to build outside of the city and avoid the taxes. Re: Alorton, Ill, and National City, Ill. There was nothing that could be done. The city government was starved to death and then everything else fell apart. People look at me like I have a third eye when I tell them East St. Louis was a GREAT PLACE TO GROW UP!
Shenandoah58 8 months ago
I currently live in belleville one town over place is the definition of the ghetto ... I tend to go here every once in awhile to buy weed but thats just if im that desperate
atlbraves1025 1 year ago
I was born there and lived there until I was 9. Moved to Cali and didn't visit again until 2005. It is depressing to see what has happened to ESL. A lot of it is politics and racism. When I was a kid there from 70-79, it was a thriving vibrant mostly black community. I have great childhood memories. The food, the people, the music, the soul... I miss it so much. I am homesick watching this. And the song fits.
777blackskinlady 1 year ago
@777blackskinlady Racism an corrupt politics as well a severe decline in industry no doubt played a role in these cities decline,but what about the large role that awelfare minded entitlement driven culture contributed?
CyanoticFuture 1 year ago
Fantastic video, by the way. Thanks for your time and for posting it Paul.
orvgg 1 year ago
@orvgg Thanks. Somehow we never forget our home towns and tend to reminisce about the time in our lives we grew up there. East St. Louis will always have a special place in my heart.
pauljosephherman 1 year ago
Is St. Elizabeth's still open? Are there even any Catholics left in E. St. L?
orvgg 1 year ago
@orvgg Belleville Diocesan website says there are 8 parishes in East. St. Louis.
At one time I think there were 12. I could not find which parishes are still going.
pauljosephherman 1 year ago
@pauljosephherman Assumption High School home of the PI oNE EARS! At glorious Heideman Field, I am a bunny, but SHit yoou guys got all the hot chicks!
fozngrace 9 months ago
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moojeed 1 year ago
Hello...this is Phil Perry, from East St. Louis. This video was very moving for me...and extremely touching. There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with the song you chose for this video. I am trying to find out if Father Goldammer is still living, and if you have any information on him. He was a strong figure in my childhood while I attended St. Elizabeth grade school, and I would love to know where he is, how he is, or if he is deceased. Please visit my channel and listen to some of my music. :-)
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I remember Fr. Goldammer. I was a kid though, so I can't remember a lot of what he taught. However, he came across as a dedicated person. I live in suburbs of Chicago now and have no idea of what happened to Fr. Goldammer. It would be amazing if he is still alive. Best regards, Paul
pauljosephherman 1 year ago
@pauljosephherman I am sorry to report to you that Father Goldammer died in Florida from Cancer of the pancreas. He left the priesthood sometime in the early 70s and married an airline stewardess and moved south and operated a marina. I agree with your opinion of him. He got crossways with the bishop. Father did not want them to close St. Elizabeth and he lost. Truth being told, he should have been the next bishop of Belleville. He was well respected by the faithful and the clergy.
Shenandoah58 8 months ago
cool stuff
jacko19600 1 year ago 2
cool
jacko19600 1 year ago
Gosh, i dont miss that place. I'm from Belleville, I live in Connecticut now. that place needs some work..someone needs to fix them houses.
lilhotmomma86 1 year ago
this is an old video it was before they tore down the old drive-in on St Claire and 41st
loudizzle816 1 year ago
not from St. Louis area and needing gas, I pulled off in East St. Louis to find a gas station.............. yeah that really didn't happen. homeless living in cracked out burnt houses, being asked if i want to buy drugs, and seeing prostitutes strut there stuff wasn't my deal. true dumphole. sorry if i offended anybody that lived there during the glory days, but the place will never be recovered.
bobbystewart1986 1 year ago
being brave I drove through the old neighborhood lst week. The street my aunts lived in is no more. The houses are either boarded up or burnt down. History blames it on the business moving out of the area and taking their money with them. but I blame it on those who moved in there and don't work..this was the downfall of the once beautiful area.
Paulatomaszewski 1 year ago
@Paulatomaszewski Posted once b/4 but it didn't take for some reason. Detroit is the same way buddy. In 75 years this whole country will look like Haiti
rosevillefool 1 year ago
This vdo shows how black folks fucks up citys lol thats why i moved 2 belleville its to much to deal with down here in the police aint bout shit ether
mondrion1 2 years ago
My address was 2210 Illinois Avene/MLK Drive
shae1970 2 years ago
NIGGA IM STRATE FROM 24TH & WAVERLY AND I FUCK WIT CHALLIE...., NORTH ST, LOUIS I SEE U NIGGAZ
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2entrygue 2 years ago
another reason why i love the USA.
Spartanizzo 2 years ago
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boxinabag 2 years ago
Moron
celticwarrior24 2 years ago
@2entrygue oh wow your cool.
Spartanizzo 1 year ago
I was born and raised in East St Louis and it was a good place to grow up and I miss it. What sealed East St Louis's doom was the loss of jobs. The companies packed up and left, and took their jobs with them. They were chasing cheaper labor. Tax revenue plummeted as only the poor and chronically unemployed remained. Crooked politicians were only a small part of the problem. They exist everywhere. People better listen up & think about it because East St Louis might be our future in the USA
tommyobones 2 years ago
My brother I was born and raised in ESTL aslo and you speak the truth
dmhibb 2 years ago
wow thats kool so u did a good thx for letting me see that
locktown24 2 years ago
as a note of history east st. louis was predominantly a jewish, german,polish, and black town. many germans who lived there were catholic but secretly many were of jewish descent. my source is the late dr. seiman who himself was believed to be german catholic but was in fact jewish by ethnicity. many of these people left after blacks moved more and more into what was predominantly white neighborhoods in the 1960s, there was a hell of a lot of racism that came mostly from the young the teens.
oldschoolsituationz 2 years ago
i grew up in a jewish ghetto(i didnt know the word until 1971 so i never internalized the concept) as that neighborhood wasnt bad. the slums is what black neighborhoods were called. the racism that i experienced didnt come from "white" people but from jews. in fairness i also got a lot of good from jews as well. but many of the teens of the sixties were the source of much of the outright klan type racism in east boogy. but the gag is, many of them are of jewish descent. only in east st. louis
oldschoolsituationz 2 years ago
this guy lived in east boogy during the 50's and sixties. the nieghborhood he's driving through is the one i grew up in. and yes that neighborhood was more or less predominantly white when i move there in 1965. my question is was he with the white teenaged boys who drove by my house on the skiped steet in the video no.23 st. (right after joe mahony's accident zone) in 1966 and threw a big chunk of coal at a little 5 year old black kid who was me and sped off?
oldschoolsituationz 2 years ago
and if the poster is the person who made this video, i lived in the old brown and yellow duplex formerly owned by dr. seiman. if you lived in that neighborhood i am sure you knew who the persons were if you were not with them because our paper boy who lived one 24th st. who is your peer knew. he was with them.
oldschoolsituationz 2 years ago
WOW who is the "NECK" ????????
2datopceo 2 years ago
Assumption High School, Heidemann Field ome of the Pi ONE ers. IF you aren't from the city, you won't get it. I had to go to Althoff, I am the only "Bunny" in my family. It is kind of bummer. I wanted to be a River Rat!
fozngrace 2 years ago
You all are stupid, apparently products of teh East St. Louis public school system. Ghetto is a term that was coined to describe the jewish neighborhoods under Nazi control during WWII. So, as you can see, Ghetto is actually the description of a "White" jewish neighborhood but your all too retarded to realize that.
DDixon1000 2 years ago 5
Does the skin color of the people in the Warsaw ghetto really matter?
destructo71 2 years ago
at least you have some good parts
MzKryz94 2 years ago 4
I'd surely love to review more footage of ESL in the days of its greatness. I saw a glimpse of it on a youtube posting on Katherine Dunham and was a bit stunned.
Only two of those buildings still exist and one I remember is Illini Federal Bank at corner of Missouri and Collinsville Avenue and the old Sears building on corner of 10th and State Street(a block away from where Katherine Dunham lived)which is now the Board of Education for School District 189.
00Daizy00 3 years ago 9
Mr Paul, I've reviewed ur video twice now and found it interesting. I also grew up in ESL and know the streets very well. In fact, one of my aunts actually lived on the very block you lived on. I don't remember her old address though, lol.
I've not been there in several years but was reminded of the monumental markers like the old shop city drive in. After all of these years, that damn screen is still there although a nursing home now resides on property, lol.
00Daizy00 3 years ago 2
Time again I read comments EStL is on cusp of greatness, or things are changing. Upon the death of my great uncle in 1958 an editorial in the Journal remarked that it was a shame he would not be around to see the greatness to which the city was moving and for which he had worked so hard. 50 yrs later that thought is still expressed and there is still plenty of blame to go around. The solutions aren't politician/blacks/whites, casinos/schools. Don't inflate any one group's power to screw up.
ghuxel 3 years ago 4
ESL has many famous people either born or raised there. Miles Davis was raised there, his father was a dentist. Donald F McHenry, former US Ambassador, Jackie and Al Joyner, Reginald and Warrington Hudlin (Hudlin Brothers of "House Party"), and Anne Mae Bullock (Tina Turner) are among a few of ESL's history. Another native, Abraham Bolden, was the first African American Secret Service Agent assigned to the White House Detail by President John F Kennedy.
awbolden 2 years ago
This is a much more realistic view of E ST L as I remember it, although I grew up in Edgemont area & went to St. Philiip & Assumption HS I too hitchhiked to school along the same road, so it brought back some memories. it evokes a sense of proud sentiment towards a city we loved growing up, & still have hope that it will someday again turn into a great city.
rybcage 3 years ago 5
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This racist ass Elvis Pressly song called "In the Ghetto" playing in the background is really LAME! So typical.
SEFYH 3 years ago
My apologies. I don't mean to offend anyone. That is the song that came to me when I made the video. There are some good things happening in E.S.L. like I mention in the info section. E.S.L. has changed a lot. I pray for E.S.L to prosper.
pauljosephherman 3 years ago
Apology accepted. Thanks for understanding!
SEFYH 3 years ago
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Sefyh you fucking realize this isn't racist he if talking about how hard it is in the ghetto stupid bitch.
LuzerSC 2 years ago
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First of all MUTHA FUCKA he didn't live in the Ghetto! He lived in East St. Louis when it was a majority white community back in the 40's, 50's and a good portion of the 60's. So get your fucking facts straight ASS WIPE!!!
Secondly, this video DOES come across racist when you have a white person giving his or her perspective on what living in the "ghetto" is, with Elvis Presley's RACIST, music culture stealing ass singing in the background!! You IGNORANT ass WHORE!!! Now chew on THAT, BITCH!
SEFYH 2 years ago
Just because it was white does not make it a good suburb stupid bitch.
Secondly : WHITE PEOPLE CAN LIVE IN THE GHETTO TOO YOU STUPID PIG. How is he racist? He is saying how hard it was to the man stupid bitch.
Go get an education.
LuzerSC 2 years ago
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Ha Ha! You are dumb ass son of a bitch, huh?! Were you not able to comprehend any part of what I JUST explained to your imbred, retarded, trailer park ass! LOL
Now listen AGAIN little Billy Bob! I never once implied that just because ESL was once all white, that it was somehow a "good suburb." My post is right below. READ IT AGAIN, BILLY BOB! LOL
Don't get mad at me because you live in a trailer park and buy your clothes from Wal-mart! LOL
So is you mother really your cousin! LOL!!!
SEFYH 2 years ago
Better than being a ape and having my pants around my knees like a retard. Pftt. Go ahead and give your girls stupid names like La'Quisha ROFL. Stupid ape.
LuzerSC 2 years ago
LOL!!!! Is that honestly the best you've got? I guess you really told me, huh? LOL!
Billy Bob, you are too funny! So let's see...You called me an Ape, right? So what's next? Let me guess....I'm a stupid NIGGER! Oh well, there goes your ENTIRE vocabulary! LOL!
Now you have nothing else to say. Poor widdle redneck. I guess you better go back into the trailer and finish fucking your sister, you INBRED PIECE OF SHIT!
Yeeeeeh HAAAAH!! I bet you can relate to THAT kind of talk, huh? LOL
SEFYH 2 years ago
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yo bro u no longer live in this city!!! yall left so dont try and rep my hood!! u dont care at all!!!!!
daniboi618 3 years ago
Umm no Stl belongs to Missiouri. :|
lyndsy8 3 years ago
east st. louis is in illinois. (across the river from st. louis, missouri)
xlmidi 3 years ago
Yeah St. Louis is in Missouri. East St. Louis is a seperate city, across the Mississippi river in Illinois.
butchvito 3 years ago
wtf? does east stl belong to IL
i thought its still missouri
osiris92 3 years ago
This is weird! I went online to find out what happened to the beautiful artwork inside St. Elizabeth's Church at 25th and Ridge - and I came across your video. It was like I was walking to school again. I lived at 418 No. 22nd Street. When I saw Dollar's Market, I knew I was going back in time. My friend and I used to stop there every morning and she would buy "a nickel's worth of baloney" for her sandwich. This was in 1950 - almost 50 years ago and I still have that memory.
kennedymargaret 3 years ago 11
The place that started it all: the Assumption boys crooked, democratic, political machine that still runs St Clair County today. They still buy votes in East St Louis for $5.
Then there was, Buster and Ted Wortman, gangsters that ran everything south of Springfield. I remember Buster with a Thompson sub under his coat. He couldn't have done it without Mayer Fields though and later Jimmy Connor's grandpa. Anybody recall Jimmy's dad stealing all that money from the toll bridge? Off to Tim & Joes.
babarando 3 years ago
Ha! Nobody's pulling the wool over your eyes. :)
Yeah, there's more corruption in St Clair county today that was started by the hoods that ran ESL.... Remember when Sam Flood's dad was a cop down there and shot that little kid for stealing somebody's milk bottle money?
And there was two cops (Sweeny was one) that later admitted to killing nearly 30 people for Buster. People used to disapear in ESL all the time. Many of the crooks who ran ESL then still run Belleville today.
broomshover 3 years ago
I grew up down the hill. It's true that there were/are some very crooked people that came out of ESL and that they are still heavily involved with the political scene in this county; however, those people are all starting to die off now.
The voter fraud thing is a shame, but North St Louis is just as bad, and niether can hold a candle to Chicago.
gmdinformation 3 years ago
ESL is worse than chicago, higher murder rates and more rugged, only thing is that chicago is bigger and spread out ya know, its small, so its like concentrate ghetto, chicago is a big ghetto, sorta spread out
thedogisout18 3 years ago 3
Did you ever notice how ESL is much longer than it is wide. It's built like a giant drag strip. You could literally stand in the grass at Holten Park and wave to somebody on RR64.
babarando 3 years ago 4
Im not in ESL anymore, but I plan to move there, or to Detroit, though I got a cuz that wants me to move to Denver. I got relatives in Alton, Ill up that way though. Nice place
thedogisout18 3 years ago
i'm frm east st luois 22nd street by the church tht was soon n da vid
deecrazy13 3 years ago
my cousins live right up from 25th and louisiana on N. 24th st. Is that chinese food take out still up on State right down from 24th?
soln4suhreborn 3 years ago
yea i live n tha suburbs now but ever thing is da same rlly
deecrazy13 3 years ago
hello east st louis raised and born get at me c/o96 lincoln sr high
SGBM30 3 years ago
That was a nice remembrance. I've only been to St Louis once. Thanks for sharing that.
RevieUp 3 years ago 6
as a kid i spent many summer months in east st. louis in that neighborhood at 24th and louisiana. my cousins and i used to ride bikes up to a little store called pirtle's up on ridge ave. down from 24th st. i visit east st. louis every year since becoming an adult and hasn't had any problems with anyone there,and this is in some of the "worst" neighborhoods. if you don't start beef with anyone and try to be a billy-jo-badass,ANYONE can survive in east st. louis without having to be scared.
soln4suhreborn 3 years ago
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Hey, that's racist!
SpongeStorm4000 3 years ago
hmm i didnt kno 3:54-4:28 was a part of ESL...I used to drive there all the time(stopped driving through that area about a few months ago)
RoboTheHoobo 3 years ago
saint theresa rocks
JACKO1946 3 years ago 5
It used to be called the garden city. Not many of the residence there were permenant, wealthy st louisians had small homes there for weekends. When the depression hit they sold them off cheaply to get any kind of money when they needed it the most. The town became poor but didn't go down until the steel mills closed and unemployment skyrocketed again. Not too unlike the ghost towns created today by the mortgage mess.
TreyNitrotoluene 3 years ago
E. St. Louis was an All-American City in 1957 by Look magazine & the Nat'l Municipal League. By 1990 it was labeled by FHA as "the most distressed small city in USA." In short, shifts in technology & transportation caused major employers (stockyards, railroads, factories) to close/relocate, resulting in unemployment & widespread community abandonment. Between 1960 & 1990, the city's ethnically & racially mixed population shrank from 88,000 to 43,000. Now it is 31,000 & 98 % African American.
pauljosephherman 3 years ago
i saw hood's lot thats the place where you can get all the bootlegs
kellygirl789 3 years ago
It will come back on day.Sorry for your city jimthecelt.
clickhereforfun 3 years ago
its proven this is the most dangerous city in america
ak47ering 3 years ago
must of been early in the morning, didnt see anyone outside. im in east stlouis's back yard, cahokia il.
stlouis2thafullest 3 years ago
ummm sorry but isnt st.louis in missouri????
rkoptj 3 years ago
EAST. EAST Saint Louis is in IL. St. Louis, is in MO
RaptorX137 3 years ago
ohhh yeah how could i forget dat sorry...
rkoptj 3 years ago
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BROTHERS AND SISTERS! I escaped from East St. Louis, and I now live here in San Diego, Calif. Life is good here. There is work, medical care (the CMS system and Medi-Cal), addiction treatment programs, generous AFDC (Aid to Families with dependent Children) and homeless shelters. Leave ESL and come to San Diego, California! There is no future in ESL! You can start life over here, and it never snows here! Even the police are cool here.
jimthecelt 4 years ago
Near the end when you see that prison which was once a high school that says it all...I was surprised not to see any video near the interstate & RT 3 which looks like a bombed out war zone somewhere in Iraq. About what year did it all start to come undone in ESL?
mrkrl 4 years ago 6
Yes, the prison was once Assumtion Catholic High School for boys. I grew-up a half-mile from there, on Warren Avenue just off Kingshighway. The decay started way back in the 1930s, but speeded-up in the 1960s, when I was a boy. I now lice in San Diego, CA. Life is good here, with lot's of work and programs for single mothers, addicts, and homeless. Even the police are cool. I encourage all of my fellow ESL brothers and sisters to move here
jimthecelt 4 years ago
lice???
stanmugs 3 years ago 2
I lived in south stl all my life and knew that there was something better now im in mission viejo going hard after my dreams but I always go back to the hood. And I will never forget were I come from.
314404CALI 3 years ago
I am White and I grew-up in Wash. Park near ESL, and I attended St. Martin's (misidentified in the clip) school and church shown at the end of the clip. You big crybabies can't admit the truth: It was WHITE politicians and gangsters who ruined ESL. By the time the Blacks moved-in in large numbers, the city had already become a cesspool. ESL is best proof of the need for Marxian socialism!
jimthecelt 4 years ago
This is a good video! Hard to believe whites actually lived/thrived here...how things change. Amazing...
mrkrl 4 years ago 19
at about :36 is where louisiana avenue turns into MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DRIVE!
soln4suh 4 years ago
i am originally from the south side of chicago and to this day visit relatives in east st. louis and from THAT area (24th st. and louisiana ave.). used to buy chinese take out at a place at 24th and stste st. east st. louis has THEIR political officials to blame for it's condition. i read many racist comments on this AND YOU DO HAVE A POINT. many of US need to care more about what goes on in our communities. still to place blanketed blame is UNFAIR! it's proud hard working people still in ESL!
soln4suh 4 years ago
I want to thank you for the videos as well. I am originally from there also. Now in California. I attended St. Patricks Elementary (wish I could have seen it in the vid) and Assumption High School. It made me feel a little sad and homesick at the same time. I bought some property there to hold a piece of where I came from. Sentimental value only and the property taxes are very high for almost no service. Cheap compared to Cali. No matter what it becomes it will always be special 2 me.
TonyWillis2008 4 years ago 15
nice job look what the animals did too a city
jacko19600 4 years ago 19
look what the animals did too a city
jacko19600 4 years ago 18
the truth is hard to hear!
jacko19600 4 years ago 21
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nice replying to your own comment, douche
poop121 4 years ago
its like a modern day soddom and gommorah like city
wildcattackle 4 years ago 8
I thank you for posting this video. It is really sad to see the condition of East St. Louis these days. I was born and raised in the city 28 years ago. But, the city is in bad shape due to bad politics. The city officials allowed for houses and old structures to sit up and become havens for crime, drugs, etc. Residents pay a great deal of property taxes within the county. However, the money is not being utilized to maintain roads, provide more jobs for residents, and beautify the community.
ladymojah1 4 years ago 26
you can blame that on years of leadership of CARL OFFICER!
soln4suh 3 years ago 23
I really enjoyed seeing the video and wish there was more of it, but I sat here a cried the whole time. How sad to think that the music is so appropriate to the beautiful town I grew up so many years ago. Thanks so much for putting this together. It sure brought back a lot of wonderful memories. Actually, I attended and graduated from St. Adalbert's grade school when it was first built and was married at the church by Father John.
patches4141 4 years ago 24
This makes me very sad....there is an obvious mistake ...."Father Mac's St. Albert Church" is "St.Martin of Tours Church." Now a Protestant Disciples Church, they did a really nice job on the inside - it almost looks like new. to our (ADT Security) system in there. And the Rectory for St. Elizabeth is home to the nuns who run the Catholic Daycare center at the old St. Adalbert school on Summit Ave. They work there along with a couple of the Brothers of Mary.
Shenandoah24 4 years ago 22
I did make a note about the mistake in the About This Video section to the right. I had already put the video up on YouTube when I realized I put the wrong name on the church, one of many senior moments, now becoming a way of life. Thanks for the added information on St. Elizabeth's.
pauljosephherman 4 years ago
sorry. I should have looked. Although sad, it is a great video.
Shenandoah24 4 years ago 26
i have relatives from the area(ridge ave.,louisiana ave.,24th st.) we used to get chinese take out from the rice house on 24th & state.
soln4suh 4 years ago 4
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gas man came and shut our gas an shit off when i was 3 years old in the middle of winter . ya america cool
reckonman 4 years ago
Thank's a lot for posting this video. I have been in East St. Louis, December 23, 1989. Johnnie Johnson drove me with his Ford and I took a photo of the Cosmopolitan Club, there he, Ebbie Hardy and Chuck Berry been playing every week 1952-1955.
allaboard70 4 years ago 2
Thank you for the mention, allaboard70. My parents were both born in ESL. My mother was the eldest child of Ebbie Hardy.
awbolden 2 years ago
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i dont see my projects, wurr is da John De Shields, Holes, Old Wethaz, Gumpaz, help me out hurr man, lol, but it was a koo video
LCakaShotyRaw 4 years ago
great vid. i know east st. louis does look like a ghetto, but being a resident of st. louis, i am able to look past the violence and crime in the city and see the true beauty of it. perfect music for the video too.
kurfdurf94 4 years ago 2
hey more pics of st theresa hs !
theolaa 4 years ago 23
I am from Washington Park origionaly, now in Texas. Brought back memories. I went to Lansdown Jr High. What happened to E. St. Louis ? The same as Washington Park, the blacks took over and destroyed it
xcellant 4 years ago 14
Was that really appropriate. The ones who destroyed the cities are actually regressive thinkers like yourself.
GameTheory84 4 years ago 9
@xcellant yea, all the good looking sat girls were from wash. pk. !
jacko19600 1 year ago 4
Great Video and I don't really listen to Elvis but it fits. Why no footage of downtown East Saint?
DubStackG 4 years ago 4
I only had time to drive from where I was working to where I used to lived on North 21st street and attended school during a break. Then, it was back to work until late at night and we left the next day early.
pauljosephherman 4 years ago
Still a great vid, it feels wierd to go to places you used to live and see how it has changed for better or worse and alot of times even if it is better it still feels worse to you because it's not what you remember.
DubStackG 4 years ago 9
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stanmugs 4 years ago
I live in pontoon beach illinois and I sell life insurance in east st louis every day. I am never there past dark and the people tell me to be carefull all the time. Its fucking scary.The roads suck and there are drugs,begars,theves, killers and prostitutes every where.
Floishberry 4 years ago 10
Repeating the question from above, WHY DON'T THEY DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT? What happened to make this city this way?
stanmugs 4 years ago
I work ther sometimes lately every day. I hate seeing that on my schedule but its very profitable to sell life insurance beleive it or not
Floishberry 4 years ago
I suggest you go to the wikipedia link on this page, or do your own research on this city. The problem with your question is that there is no "they" - - the "they" is actually "us" - - it's the market, it's the availability of cheap land, it's state and county coffers stretched to their limit paying for building infrastructure for a population leaving and recreating the same disposable communities. It's sad, but I'm afraid there's no change to this pattern in the foreseeable future.
sangerharris 4 years ago
Great vid. But to add to your point the city officials are all putting money in thier pockets and not the city. Not to mention The East Saint city leaders and Illinois government won't allow St.Louis City and Missouri to acquire rights to East Saint. It's a Fucked up situation, alot like Kinloch on our side the city leaders are not equiped to run let alone rebuild a depreciating area. Mainly because most officials are relatives and where given thier position.
DubStackG 4 years ago
What happened to make East St. Louis so run down nowadays? Why don't they do anything about it???
stanmugs 4 years ago