Actually, the Pruitt-Igoe experiment could have worked way better if they had had the elevator stop at each floor instead of only 1, 4, 7 and 10. If they had put playgrounds and basketball fields between the buildings and a shopping centre with cafés in the middle. And built it with better plumbing quality. And the city not stopped collecting the garbage after a couple of years (!). Plus, the cold brutalist architectural style does not work well for social housing projects
Don't be fooled. Priutt-Igoe didn't fail because of architecture. It failed because of the quality of the tenants. There are buildings of different types in this neighborhood and many of them looked like this and still look like this today. The graffiti and broken windows were there while the tenants resided at Pruitt-Igoe They destroyed the place faster than it could be repaired.
What do you know.....were you there?....Those buildings in St. Louis you mention which still look the same have been remodeled several times over and smaller. Don't categorize us!
I guess I was so angered by your comment I didn't make much sense.....The bottom line is still the same.....Don't try to categorize us......Walk a mile in my shoes.......then kiss my ass!
vowoyele, I've really loved your stories. They add a very human side to this sad tale.
If you look up Pruit Igoe on Google Maps or WikiMapia, it's all grass. Did they purposely make the land into a large field or did that happen over time?
Also, did the destruction of Pruit Igoe result in any deaths. Was anyone trapped in there? How did they get everyone out?
Totally urban decay, all that's up there now is a large field of grass and some of the solid cement slabs. About half of the land has been redeveloped, I believe, into a school. The rest is fenced off dumping ground.
No, no-one was trapped when the buildings,everyone was relocated to differnt housing projects or different areas around the city. One of the main objectives of the city was to disperse the population. We wre too "concentrated".
If you start readng this you CANT stop.Once there was a little girl named Cecilia.She was a litle 7 year old who got strangled and raped by a man.If you dont post this to 15 other videos you will see Cecilia standing at the end of your bed with a knife and she will kill you
.You have to do this by midnight or you will be dead
this complex was said when it was built to be one of the great masterpieces of Modern Architecture in America. It was a complex of public housing which was trying to create social harmony following the ideals of modernism. It failed horribly and as you guys have said lots of people died and violence was rampant. Its demolision was very significant as it marked the Death of Modernism and all its ideals of veneration of the machine and function over form.
I imagine a war torn town in eastern europe after the bosnian war. Sadness and suffering, i have not watched Koyanisquatsi yet but this song has got a great meaning in my heart ive got to watch this film.
Everytime I've watched Koyanisquatsi I have always wondered what this building was - I assumed it was selected for filming because it would be (and is!) spectacular to see such a large building demolished. Now I know the history behind it, it makes so much more sense in the "out of balance" context. I wonder if there are many other segments of the film that have historical significance as well as intrinsic beauty?
Pruitt-Igoe was a urban housing project built in St Louis, Missouri. The project was critised and eventually it got knocked down. The footage is from a film called Koyaanisqatsi. The film is about what we are doing to land and how we wreck it. The music was also used in the film. It was made back in the early eighties and is in my opinion one of the greatest films ever.
The more I watch this video I start to feel as if PI is a burial ground. I knew and knew of so many people who died there. The building to the right is where a kid about the same age I was,11 or so ,was riding on top of the elevator and slipped.. He was crushed between the wall and the elevator car.
im sorry, i just found out of this, i never knew of something like this... could you maybe give me a link about the story or what tell me what exactly happened? im very confused now. was this in the USA? how come so many people died? what happened? im sorry but i found it kinda shocking about things i read here about people dying, and im really curious.
PI , as mentionrd earlier was a housing project in St. Louis Mo. Thare were many homicides.Quite a few children also died as a result of falling from windows. One of our favorite games involved riding on top of the elevators. I realy want to point out the fact that the violent aspect was not all there was to the experience. If you open the"more" info section Mr. Automatic added I had posted a few of my memories and he addded them to his intro.
how come there whare so many homicides and that it was so criminally? how could such a large project fail so big and how come there whare sooo many criminals? i mean, if i looked at this, and read some stories about it i would think it was like in japan or something. but US? i cant believe it :O. thanks for telling me what this is :)
Please , Don't think everyone there was a criminal, The majority of us were just poor people who were glad to have a roof over our heads. A large number of those who were criminals did not even live there. They came there to do their dirt because they knew it was hard for the police to actually control the complex. The biggesst problem came as a result of the fact that the structures were so complex that at times it served well as a fortress of sorts.
Thanks vowoyele, I'm enjoying your stories. Recently, we lived in St. Jamestown in Toronto, kind of like P-I, but different. I know what you mean when you say that people were very poor, but there was a strong sense of community. I miss living there for the people. always something going on, always people to talk to. I don't miss the roaches and bedbugs though...
EEEEEKKK! Roaches. To this day I still hsve a phobia. About what I see., I can actually see what appears to be a face around the area you describe as a white 'spot' It's frustrating because some people can actually see it and some can't. The "vision" appears as almost like a "bubble". I recognize that those are like clumps of grass which look like eyes , but what makes it look like a face to me is that aura surrounding it.
I read a little about Jamestown..It seems to be a very interesting place to live. I'vr oftrn yhought about visitibg Canada. Maybe I'll definitely put that on my list of things I must do.
Actually it's ST Jamestown.Jamestown is another area in Rexdale which is often confused and is notorious. ST Jamestown is much quiter - it's just dirt poor. (you can see it on google earth) But I see a lot of similarities in the PI. I read the article "It was just like Beverly Hills" about the first generation of PI residents. Yeah, I'll bet when it was first built, it was. I can imagine the hope from moving out of the slums into brand new modern buildings. it must have been awesome.
I Undertand the differnce between the two, I mistakenly thought you meant you had come from what was designated as the "project",Jamestown. I did not actually live in PI when it was first opened..I had relatives who did.Axtually the place we moved from wasn't bad..We moved to Pruitt Igoe because of financial reasons. I did appreciate the contrast from the surrounding neighborhood,though. From what I read St. Jamestown and Jamestown has similar problems,there were just more people in Pruitt Igoe.
Yeah, they do have similar problems, but you're right, on a much smaller scale than PI. That place was massive. Fortunately, in Toronto, the crime situation is nowhere near what it is south of the border. You hear a lot of young thugz boasting about how rough Toronto is getting, but it's wildly exaggerated. As I said in another thread, I used to walk home from work late nite through St. Jamestown and I never felt threatened. I think the American experience is far more serious.
Unfortunately, as I see it the poison germinated in Pruitt Igoe was spead over the city in My oppinion. The year we moved,there were about 400 or so homicides,Crack was and still is a massive problem, but that seems to be a lot of people's downfall all over the world,so it seems to me. The worse part of it is we are killing ourselves.
The possibility that this was some kind of hoax crossed my mind.I checked out another video to see if I saw the same thing. I did not see it as clearly. But I did notice a strange movement of light on the ground.I quess I have to apologize to Mr. Automatic again. It would be nice if someone other than Cheezy would respond.Hellllooooo, I know you're out there...Helllllloooooooo.
As I try to stress and get people to focus on is the fact that there WAS a lot of love, there Was compassion, There was a sense of Unity. I balieve the main reason The complex was demolished was rhat sense of unity which evolved from within those boundaries. The AUTHORITIES lost control. Those buildins could have been saved. The visions you see of the destreuction were not what was left when it was closed. Some windows were broken, Some doors broken down. Buildings were prepped for demolition.
I was not a fighter when we moved in there, I learned quickly that only the strong survived. But just inagine that many angry frustrated and often desperate people heaped into such a small area. At some points the police did not come there unless there were 3 to 4 to a car.They were shot at many times.Remember also that this was the late 60's & early 70's when we as black people were struggling to gain some sense of control of our destinies.
,y gwamma was the last person to come out of pruitt igoe.. get this, the city evicted folks but wouldnt relocate them to similar conditions. Many went to carr square village.. but she didnt get there that easy, she refused to leave the buliding until they gave her a place.. She won as you can see by now.. and you can confirm tha, cause it made the paper, my ma still has a clipping of it.
everytime i look at this video, i think of how many lives were affected, incuding mine.. i played on those fields when i was growing up in Carr Square, we all collected grasshoppers and all the while i saw glass in the fields, now i see how grand pruitt igoe Is. It offerred pride and a community of our own. sure there was tragedy, and to outsiders it was unsafe, but if youre from the projects, it was home.
I can watch this video and..at times, hear laughter and music impossible to imagine by others. But, it was there.... Every day..... No matter what individual families were going through, There was always someone a few cinder blocks away who would lend a hand. None of us had much to give.But someone was always there to give what he or she could. I stated before that we were a village. I retract that statement. We were a small city.
As I grow older and become more aware of some of what I consider "True" suffering I realize we didn't have it that bad. When I read about the suffering of many in Africa,Iraq,Georgia, or even across the boarder in Mexico......I have to thank God. It could have been worse.
At 2:27 I think the view is just across Jefferson Street. It brngs back memories of walking home from school and feelig priveledged because we were in Pruitt Igoe. When all was said and done we had secure shelter. A lot of the housing around us was literally falling apart.Some had leaky roofs,holey floors,many had no electricity or gas in the middle of winter. We were the LUCKY ones.
The wiew at the 5:12 Mark is the building where one of the most momentous occassions of my life occurred. As I stood there I made up in my mind that I was not going out like that. I Know Jeanette was not a saint... you had to know her ,,To see the way she could light up a room,,,bring life to a party. I remember once my mother jokingly told her that she was going to bring black roses to her funeral. Jeanette laughed and said she would jump up and slap her.
hello! i live in north st louis, about 12 blocks from pruitt-igoe, in hyde park, and have been gathering whatever stories i can find about the people who lived in that development (as well as the homes vacated for the new "development" planned by paul mckee). vowoyele, your stories are incredible. i would love to hear more...
I lived in Hyde Park for a little while. We Were on 19th and Palm. I was in St. Louis 2 or 3 years ago. I visited the area. I was pleasantly surprised at how much demolition had been done.....It eas actually CLEAN.
aialeggi, it's important to take everything people write online, especially on youtube, with a grain of salt, just a tip, especially if you're doing a serious project on something.
accept it, it doesnt take counseling to see that, unless you dont know what it means to pre-judge someone, were you from those projects, do you know someone from them, lived close to them? probly not, so my guess could say youre not white trash and you think all people from that project are crooks.. you punk. think before you speak, cause if you dont you will show your true colors, and obviously yours is yellow. face the truth, you need to do some soul searching..
some folks would say no even if they did see it, out of natural denial. but i do see the image, but my imagination is soo active, i see an abstract image, like the face on mars. but remember that others cant always see whats meant for another. thats how confirmations work.
I posted another note to the entry pertaining to our ages, Jeanette and mine. I don't see it. It might turn up later. That is her brother mentioned in the article. If I remember correctly they were twins, they lived in the same building we were in on the sixth floor. I always felt sorry for their Mom and younger siblings.Like I said before, in retrospect I appreciate my mother more and more.When I droppred out of high school,she enrolled me in Job Corps.
A note, the only record I can find of someone named "Jeanette" being murdered in the Pruit/Igoe area is an 18 year old girl, you're telling me this 18 year old girl had a 3-4 year old daughter and a son? I mean no offense but I've learnt to always be critical when it comes to believing people over the internet.
I don't want to publish her last name out of respect for her family. If you point me in the direction where your information came from I could check it out. Our Jeanette may have been about 20 or so. She was older than me and I was 17 when she died.
a not to ogargantou.. that is my mother youre talking about, i will track you down and make you eat a computer for implying my mother is a lie. why would she lie about that, and now im even more mad cause you even make it seem like my grandmother was lie too. leave your name and number and i will make sure one of my family members meet you in person to settle this great deal of disrespect implied towards my family...no offense but folks like you should be slapped..
So True. Thank you for broaching the subject of peychiatric care. Imagine what it is like to be brought up in an environment where death by violence was the norm. I don't recall once having seen any type of care offered. I'm not saying anyone was obligated, that would start a whole 'nother argument. But few if any recieved help.By the way, It didn't happen in pruitt Igoe, But my son was shot in the back for no apparrent good reason. By the grace of God he survived.
just because you say, no offense, doesnt mean its ok to say what you said, youre pretty stupid to think that you wouldnt offend anyone, so if you feel threatened it seems as if by saying no offense, youve prepared yourself to step on others toes, preparing for a response? Maybe you cant empathized ,and see that was a prejudiced comment and didnt consider the receiver actually, so by assuming all were crooks, pimps, ho's, etc, you showed your true ignorance.
The majority of the glass windows were also brken by tge workers in order to minimize the hazzard of flying glass. Most of those buildings were imploded,you know....Kind of like the Twin Towers
When The Video Reaches the four minute mark I see the apartment we lived in.There were eleven Stories. We lived on the tenth floor. we had three bedrooms. My mother,sister, brother and I. The Elevators Always smelled like pee. When we gotta go you gotta go. It takes a long time to get to your personal unit. A lot of us prefferred not to face the embarrassment of walking around in wet clothes. By the way the debris laying around was left by demolition companies.
Pruitt Igoe was a civil housing project in St. Louis. It and Cabrini Green in Chicago are classic arguments against socializing urban development, but I don't think the problem was that the projects were state run; rather, the problem seems more likely to have been that they were designed as cages to keep blacks in - to literally keep the marginazlized part of society in the margins. The music is as emotionally tearing and draining as seeing the conditions that these people lived in.
A Few Months ago I responded to this video with a true story about my life in Pruit-Igoe, It was deleted...I'm assuming it was the person who submitted this video. Everyone seems to want to assume they know, or you dont fukkin' care about the humanistic aspect of living in such a place.......Fuck you
All I know is I keep coming back here to watch it. It is magnificent from start to finish! Glass/Reggio had relentless rhythm in KS that did not carry over into the other films.
It makes you wonder what buildings that are 'new and modern' at the moment will end up like these buildings!?! Scary.
I haven't visited these comments in a while - but I have periodically read up about Pruitt-Igoe... I saw a video on a reunion of people who used to live there. They recalled it being a happy time. Also read that a major flaw was that they didn't put toilets on the ground floors so people would just pee in the elevators!
1crayfish2. I'm sure your home is lovely. :) What homes AREN'T boxes of concrete or wood or both? It's what you make of them, that makes the difference. I would just hope that your neighbourhood isn't as dishevelled as Pruit-Igoe appeared to be just before it was torn down. The rubbish and the broken windows etc. :)
I'm pretty sure I saw it on youtube - but it was probably a year or more ago. It may have been taken down! I think I found the link via the wikipedia page on Pruitt-Igoe. Check there. Sorry I can't be of more help.
its really a good song you just have to be in the correct mind set... ill help you a bit (im not trying to insult just bear with me) the music is really a sit back and drone out everything your not really suppose to listen to every detail the art is in its lengthyness and repitition
OMG this was brilliant whilst I was driving to the old casino in the final mission I was listening to this (I try to catch it every time on Journey) and it was just so cool the GTA 4 storyline is fantastic this just blended in so well. Sorry for rambling.
That even more adds to the ingenuity of GTA IV trailer 1. The game is all about how immigrants are separated from the "ordinary people", treated as something worth less than dirt yet they build up the whole country. This soundtrack and how trailer 1 was built up is truly marvellous. The main character moves to NYC from Eastern Europe, thinking "Life is complicated. I killed people, smuggled people, sold people. Perhaps here, things will be different." Fatal mistake.
Incredible. It suddenly strikes me how amazing the first GTA IV trailer must have been for those who had seen this Koyaanisqatsi film before they stayed up late at night when everyone was asleep, just to see the first glimpse of the world's fastest selling game ever, and probably the 21st century's most anticipated game so far.
5/5, added to favorites. I think I'll rent or buy this movie.
lol thats cool dude its not like im gonna break your legs for replying late haha. Yeah its really fascinating, you should watch a movie called Judgment night where they use these kinds of areas in a great chase thriller. Love what 40 years makes in terms of urban devlopment. I doubt they'l ever build these pleasent areas again in urban planning.
yeah makes me glad to live in a semi detatched house. Couldnt imagine living in a generic block of flats like that. Love to do some research on this. Whats the area again in St Louis.
awwe shit! wasnt going to but just downloaded this song from Limewire (the free version). Aghh Damn. Sorry. Sorry. Shouldn't of downloaded the other 130,000 songs on there then.
You know, I think its great that a so called "Menace-to-society" video game (yeah right) can bring so much attention to a great piece of work like this!
"You know, I think its great that a so called "Menace-to-society" video game (yeah right) can bring so much attention to a great piece of work like this!"
What's even greater is that we live in a free society such that not everyone must be subject to what we consider great art. There are different tastes out there, after all. And we can't FORCE or WILL something to be popular.
It's amazing, because the land these high-rises we're once on, is still there, empty. At around 2:14, you see a building with 2 green tower things, thats still there, it was a part of the leasing office, it's boarded up and....CREEPY. If you go on the land you can still see the parking lot under all the weeds and grass, same with the outline of the foundation of the high-rises. It's weird, almost 40 years later...
Interesting how all the "this was boring" comments went on to mention the GTA game...if you actually enjoyed that game, no wonder you don't have the ability to sit quietly for 6 minutes and contemplate an artistic piece, which is surprising because it included things blowing up. It wasn't boring at all. It was actually fast-paced and exciting and deeply, deeply disturbing.
I love GTA, and this has always been my favorite scene from Koyaanisqatsi. Every GTA since 3 has been a great artistic accomplishment on par with this film. Don't generalize about the attention spans of people who play video games.
It's not NYC, LA, or Detroit. It's about a failed attempt to "bring people back" to the city of St. Louis in the 60's and 70's...wikipedia the name of the song (Pruit Igoe or Pruitt Igoe) to read more.
I tend to focus on the positive aspects of Puitt/Igoe. There were maaaany positives.We built relationships, made memories, shared lives, we shared love. There was a strange sense of unity , as a whole outsiders were not allowed to come in and upset the.......balance............We were village of thousands.......Only the strong survive.
Most of us learned how to dance on skates. I remember St. Nicks. Nate was a floorboy. He had the funniest laugh I have ever heard. I miss him, still. The guys didn't want to be called punks so they never wore white precisions .They were for girls....... Those were the days.
I remember the dances on and around the pyramid. Dancing In The Street was often played over the p.a. system. We all danced. Everybody danced, some of us better than others, Jeanette was one of the best. My cousin Johnny was ,too. He taught me how to bop, and play spades. I'm goooood.
At the age of sixteen my mother saved my life, she signed me up for Job Corps. I was sent to Astoria , Oregon.She saved my life by not allowing me to become a more active participant in the madness surrounding us.
September of 1970 I went home to visit. The day I arrived, I heard a voice yelling,........She's under the breazeway.......I went across the street to see what was up. I made my way to the front of the crowd, there were a lot of us there.......
I saw my first murdered person when I was 10 or 11. I actually saw her. She had been decaying at the bottom of the elavator shaft of the third or fourth building on Ofallon, we lived in the second one. I remember seeing people carrying a stretcher, covered with a white sheet. Just as they were passing me the wind blew the sheet. I saw her....... I had already known of a lot of us dieing but the vision of what was under that sheet still haunts me......Only the strong survived.
The days of summer were especially memorable. The concrete was so hot our bare feet burned as we ran to the playground to play in the sprinkler system the firefightrs set up. The goal was to not only endure the pain from the heat, we also learned how to walk on glass with few cuts on them. When we were really looking for fun we rode on top of the elevator or slid down it's cables.
I remember winters, playing in the hallway on the 10th floor.We played catch a girl kiss a girl,kickball,dodgeball,and skated.
Shirley and I smeared do do we found in the middleway on that mean old lady's doorknob. In retrospect I see we were wrong,She lived on the 9th floor and we made a lot of noise over her head. The hallway floors were concrete and we skated often, all of us did. We must have really disturbed her.......Iapologize. You're probably no longer with us but, I apologize.
I remember waking up each morning looking at the cinder block walls of the room my sister and I shared.They were painted blue and white, a checkered pattern. Mamma let us do it.
How much of this entire sequence is St. Louis. Is the opening footage of urban decay before the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe also St. Louis? I know not all those buildings shown falling after were in St. Louis.
Past history can be future history with special effects
yneal1960 1 year ago
very good detail adding that the song is used in gta iv trailer! can anyone tell me where are that places in the vid? I'm not from the usa
EduWestCoast 1 year ago
Actually, the Pruitt-Igoe experiment could have worked way better if they had had the elevator stop at each floor instead of only 1, 4, 7 and 10. If they had put playgrounds and basketball fields between the buildings and a shopping centre with cafés in the middle. And built it with better plumbing quality. And the city not stopped collecting the garbage after a couple of years (!). Plus, the cold brutalist architectural style does not work well for social housing projects
mischnix 1 year ago
philip glass's finest moment
synthburn 1 year ago
this film is soo mutch better live ive seen it and after having watched it nothing comperes i guess it changes you!!! for the better!!! XD
theaeiou113 1 year ago
good video, makes me think another could be made with the same music to one of the biggest controlled demolitions, the world trade center ?
wesalloa 2 years ago
Later in the film there's a lot of demolition...South Bronx project towers.
smblackwell82 1 year ago
could someone tell me what are these building collapsing
Guilherminho0 2 years ago
@Guilherminho0 Pruitt-Igoe, a major urban housing project which fucked up big time!
OwnedOver9000 2 years ago
it's your mom walking around in the city...
Martastik04 2 years ago
.l.
fuck you motherfucker
Guilherminho0 2 years ago
Don't be fooled. Priutt-Igoe didn't fail because of architecture. It failed because of the quality of the tenants. There are buildings of different types in this neighborhood and many of them looked like this and still look like this today. The graffiti and broken windows were there while the tenants resided at Pruitt-Igoe They destroyed the place faster than it could be repaired.
stlbrian 2 years ago
What do you know.....were you there?....Those buildings in St. Louis you mention which still look the same have been remodeled several times over and smaller. Don't categorize us!
vowoyele 2 years ago
I guess I was so angered by your comment I didn't make much sense.....The bottom line is still the same.....Don't try to categorize us......Walk a mile in my shoes.......then kiss my ass!
vowoyele 1 year ago
I LIVE IN THE HOOD YO
WhoElseButMoi 2 years ago
vowoyele, I've really loved your stories. They add a very human side to this sad tale.
If you look up Pruit Igoe on Google Maps or WikiMapia, it's all grass. Did they purposely make the land into a large field or did that happen over time?
Also, did the destruction of Pruit Igoe result in any deaths. Was anyone trapped in there? How did they get everyone out?
caeseroct0 2 years ago
Totally urban decay, all that's up there now is a large field of grass and some of the solid cement slabs. About half of the land has been redeveloped, I believe, into a school. The rest is fenced off dumping ground.
TheDoctor342 2 years ago
No, no-one was trapped when the buildings,everyone was relocated to differnt housing projects or different areas around the city. One of the main objectives of the city was to disperse the population. We wre too "concentrated".
vowoyele 2 years ago
(When the buildings were demolished)
vowoyele 2 years ago
i would like to see the qatsi movies projected on the buildings in my neighbourhood with a very loud sound
huizo 2 years ago
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If you start readng this you CANT stop.Once there was a little girl named Cecilia.She was a litle 7 year old who got strangled and raped by a man.If you dont post this to 15 other videos you will see Cecilia standing at the end of your bed with a knife and she will kill you
.You have to do this by midnight or you will be dead
MonkeyFangCatseyes 2 years ago
Pruit Igoe; St Louis
cellarbuoy 3 years ago
What is the name of that complex?
PublicAccessCabler 3 years ago
I love how they can blast 50 story buildings with surgical precision.
PublicAccessCabler 3 years ago
nvm seems i was wrong its not New York.. its somewhere in between Illinois and Missouri states. lol
markuz008 3 years ago
for me this looks sad...
markuz008 3 years ago
what city is taht???
leninrap90 3 years ago
New York?
markuz008 3 years ago
I heard it was St. Louis...
Je1505 3 years ago 2
The opening of the video is NYC, the apartment buildings were in St. Louis.
ThaSchwab 2 years ago
I think there's one lesson we can all learn from this.
If it's a dirty rotten council building then blow it up!
Destro7000 3 years ago
this complex was said when it was built to be one of the great masterpieces of Modern Architecture in America. It was a complex of public housing which was trying to create social harmony following the ideals of modernism. It failed horribly and as you guys have said lots of people died and violence was rampant. Its demolision was very significant as it marked the Death of Modernism and all its ideals of veneration of the machine and function over form.
trujib 3 years ago
And both PI and WTC were destroyed.
RaphaelNYC 3 years ago
I imagine a war torn town in eastern europe after the bosnian war. Sadness and suffering, i have not watched Koyanisquatsi yet but this song has got a great meaning in my heart ive got to watch this film.
casa990 3 years ago
well 4 me this video reminded of Call of duty 4 modern warfare mission "all ghiled up". It's in the abondened town, buildings look kinda same.
retrospizikes 3 years ago
Everytime I've watched Koyanisquatsi I have always wondered what this building was - I assumed it was selected for filming because it would be (and is!) spectacular to see such a large building demolished. Now I know the history behind it, it makes so much more sense in the "out of balance" context. I wonder if there are many other segments of the film that have historical significance as well as intrinsic beauty?
zenpho 3 years ago
this song is a tune!
i heard of from gta 4
emokiller907 3 years ago 3
so is Pruit Igoe a neighborhood or something? If so wat city is it in?
videolover428 3 years ago
Pruitt-Igoe was a urban housing project built in St Louis, Missouri. The project was critised and eventually it got knocked down. The footage is from a film called Koyaanisqatsi. The film is about what we are doing to land and how we wreck it. The music was also used in the film. It was made back in the early eighties and is in my opinion one of the greatest films ever.
DB3457 3 years ago
thanx. gonna see if netflix has it to rent
videolover428 3 years ago
Might also recomend the next two films called Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi. The trilogy is called the Qatsi trilogy. Qatsi means life by the way.
DB3457 3 years ago
The more I watch this video I start to feel as if PI is a burial ground. I knew and knew of so many people who died there. The building to the right is where a kid about the same age I was,11 or so ,was riding on top of the elevator and slipped.. He was crushed between the wall and the elevator car.
vowoyele 3 years ago
My mistake. I was about 14, he was younger.
vowoyele 3 years ago
im sorry, i just found out of this, i never knew of something like this... could you maybe give me a link about the story or what tell me what exactly happened? im very confused now. was this in the USA? how come so many people died? what happened? im sorry but i found it kinda shocking about things i read here about people dying, and im really curious.
gaastra12 3 years ago
PI , as mentionrd earlier was a housing project in St. Louis Mo. Thare were many homicides.Quite a few children also died as a result of falling from windows. One of our favorite games involved riding on top of the elevators. I realy want to point out the fact that the violent aspect was not all there was to the experience. If you open the"more" info section Mr. Automatic added I had posted a few of my memories and he addded them to his intro.
vowoyele 3 years ago
how come there whare so many homicides and that it was so criminally? how could such a large project fail so big and how come there whare sooo many criminals? i mean, if i looked at this, and read some stories about it i would think it was like in japan or something. but US? i cant believe it :O. thanks for telling me what this is :)
gaastra12 3 years ago
Please , Don't think everyone there was a criminal, The majority of us were just poor people who were glad to have a roof over our heads. A large number of those who were criminals did not even live there. They came there to do their dirt because they knew it was hard for the police to actually control the complex. The biggesst problem came as a result of the fact that the structures were so complex that at times it served well as a fortress of sorts.
vowoyele 3 years ago 9
Well said!
uv777 3 years ago
Thanks vowoyele, I'm enjoying your stories. Recently, we lived in St. Jamestown in Toronto, kind of like P-I, but different. I know what you mean when you say that people were very poor, but there was a strong sense of community. I miss living there for the people. always something going on, always people to talk to. I don't miss the roaches and bedbugs though...
gueraranchera 3 years ago
EEEEEKKK! Roaches. To this day I still hsve a phobia. About what I see., I can actually see what appears to be a face around the area you describe as a white 'spot' It's frustrating because some people can actually see it and some can't. The "vision" appears as almost like a "bubble". I recognize that those are like clumps of grass which look like eyes , but what makes it look like a face to me is that aura surrounding it.
vowoyele 3 years ago
I read a little about Jamestown..It seems to be a very interesting place to live. I'vr oftrn yhought about visitibg Canada. Maybe I'll definitely put that on my list of things I must do.
vowoyele 3 years ago
Actually it's ST Jamestown.Jamestown is another area in Rexdale which is often confused and is notorious. ST Jamestown is much quiter - it's just dirt poor. (you can see it on google earth) But I see a lot of similarities in the PI. I read the article "It was just like Beverly Hills" about the first generation of PI residents. Yeah, I'll bet when it was first built, it was. I can imagine the hope from moving out of the slums into brand new modern buildings. it must have been awesome.
gueraranchera 3 years ago
I Undertand the differnce between the two, I mistakenly thought you meant you had come from what was designated as the "project",Jamestown. I did not actually live in PI when it was first opened..I had relatives who did.Axtually the place we moved from wasn't bad..We moved to Pruitt Igoe because of financial reasons. I did appreciate the contrast from the surrounding neighborhood,though. From what I read St. Jamestown and Jamestown has similar problems,there were just more people in Pruitt Igoe.
vowoyele 3 years ago
Yeah, they do have similar problems, but you're right, on a much smaller scale than PI. That place was massive. Fortunately, in Toronto, the crime situation is nowhere near what it is south of the border. You hear a lot of young thugz boasting about how rough Toronto is getting, but it's wildly exaggerated. As I said in another thread, I used to walk home from work late nite through St. Jamestown and I never felt threatened. I think the American experience is far more serious.
gueraranchera 3 years ago
Unfortunately, as I see it the poison germinated in Pruitt Igoe was spead over the city in My oppinion. The year we moved,there were about 400 or so homicides,Crack was and still is a massive problem, but that seems to be a lot of people's downfall all over the world,so it seems to me. The worse part of it is we are killing ourselves.
vowoyele 3 years ago
The possibility that this was some kind of hoax crossed my mind.I checked out another video to see if I saw the same thing. I did not see it as clearly. But I did notice a strange movement of light on the ground.I quess I have to apologize to Mr. Automatic again. It would be nice if someone other than Cheezy would respond.Hellllooooo, I know you're out there...Helllllloooooooo.
vowoyele 3 years ago
As I try to stress and get people to focus on is the fact that there WAS a lot of love, there Was compassion, There was a sense of Unity. I balieve the main reason The complex was demolished was rhat sense of unity which evolved from within those boundaries. The AUTHORITIES lost control. Those buildins could have been saved. The visions you see of the destreuction were not what was left when it was closed. Some windows were broken, Some doors broken down. Buildings were prepped for demolition.
vowoyele 3 years ago
Forgive the mistakes.....as anyone can see I am not a Keyboardist
vowoyele 3 years ago
But they are all too often manipulated.....
vowoyele 3 years ago
I was not a fighter when we moved in there, I learned quickly that only the strong survived. But just inagine that many angry frustrated and often desperate people heaped into such a small area. At some points the police did not come there unless there were 3 to 4 to a car.They were shot at many times.Remember also that this was the late 60's & early 70's when we as black people were struggling to gain some sense of control of our destinies.
vowoyele 3 years ago
,y gwamma was the last person to come out of pruitt igoe.. get this, the city evicted folks but wouldnt relocate them to similar conditions. Many went to carr square village.. but she didnt get there that easy, she refused to leave the buliding until they gave her a place.. She won as you can see by now.. and you can confirm tha, cause it made the paper, my ma still has a clipping of it.
cheezyrider73 3 years ago
everytime i look at this video, i think of how many lives were affected, incuding mine.. i played on those fields when i was growing up in Carr Square, we all collected grasshoppers and all the while i saw glass in the fields, now i see how grand pruitt igoe Is. It offerred pride and a community of our own. sure there was tragedy, and to outsiders it was unsafe, but if youre from the projects, it was home.
cheezyrider73 3 years ago
I pray that this is not some kind of ruse.
vowoyele 3 years ago
Does any pne out there see what I can see in view at 3:58? Tell me what you see.
vowoyele 3 years ago
I can watch this video and..at times, hear laughter and music impossible to imagine by others. But, it was there.... Every day..... No matter what individual families were going through, There was always someone a few cinder blocks away who would lend a hand. None of us had much to give.But someone was always there to give what he or she could. I stated before that we were a village. I retract that statement. We were a small city.
vowoyele 3 years ago
As I grow older and become more aware of some of what I consider "True" suffering I realize we didn't have it that bad. When I read about the suffering of many in Africa,Iraq,Georgia, or even across the boarder in Mexico......I have to thank God. It could have been worse.
vowoyele 3 years ago
At 2:27 I think the view is just across Jefferson Street. It brngs back memories of walking home from school and feelig priveledged because we were in Pruitt Igoe. When all was said and done we had secure shelter. A lot of the housing around us was literally falling apart.Some had leaky roofs,holey floors,many had no electricity or gas in the middle of winter. We were the LUCKY ones.
vowoyele 3 years ago
The wiew at the 5:12 Mark is the building where one of the most momentous occassions of my life occurred. As I stood there I made up in my mind that I was not going out like that. I Know Jeanette was not a saint... you had to know her ,,To see the way she could light up a room,,,bring life to a party. I remember once my mother jokingly told her that she was going to bring black roses to her funeral. Jeanette laughed and said she would jump up and slap her.
vowoyele 3 years ago
hello! i live in north st louis, about 12 blocks from pruitt-igoe, in hyde park, and have been gathering whatever stories i can find about the people who lived in that development (as well as the homes vacated for the new "development" planned by paul mckee). vowoyele, your stories are incredible. i would love to hear more...
aialeggi 3 years ago
I lived in Hyde Park for a little while. We Were on 19th and Palm. I was in St. Louis 2 or 3 years ago. I visited the area. I was pleasantly surprised at how much demolition had been done.....It eas actually CLEAN.
vowoyele 3 years ago
aialeggi, it's important to take everything people write online, especially on youtube, with a grain of salt, just a tip, especially if you're doing a serious project on something.
Gargantou 3 years ago
That's right..... Emotions aren't based on science.They can't be calculated.
vowoyele 3 years ago
Emotions can to a large extent be science, hence why psychology works(for most people anyway).
Gargantou 3 years ago
You are a baby, don't be offended...Keep Growing..God be with you.
vowoyele 3 years ago
A baby? Then what is cheezyrider73? I'm making logical statements, he's making death-threats.
Gargantou 3 years ago
accept it, it doesnt take counseling to see that, unless you dont know what it means to pre-judge someone, were you from those projects, do you know someone from them, lived close to them? probly not, so my guess could say youre not white trash and you think all people from that project are crooks.. you punk. think before you speak, cause if you dont you will show your true colors, and obviously yours is yellow. face the truth, you need to do some soul searching..
cheezyrider73 3 years ago
Good Morning.Does Any one out there see what I see at 3:58? I would appreciate some input....
vowoyele 3 years ago
some folks would say no even if they did see it, out of natural denial. but i do see the image, but my imagination is soo active, i see an abstract image, like the face on mars. but remember that others cant always see whats meant for another. thats how confirmations work.
cheezyrider73 3 years ago
No, nothing jumps out...is it a something personal? Are you talking about the white paint stain on the front walk?
gueraranchera 3 years ago
i will ask for tips when i need them, thanks.
aialeggi 3 years ago
And I will continue posting comments when I want to, thanks.
Gargantou 3 years ago
I posted another note to the entry pertaining to our ages, Jeanette and mine. I don't see it. It might turn up later. That is her brother mentioned in the article. If I remember correctly they were twins, they lived in the same building we were in on the sixth floor. I always felt sorry for their Mom and younger siblings.Like I said before, in retrospect I appreciate my mother more and more.When I droppred out of high school,she enrolled me in Job Corps.
vowoyele 3 years ago
A note, the only record I can find of someone named "Jeanette" being murdered in the Pruit/Igoe area is an 18 year old girl, you're telling me this 18 year old girl had a 3-4 year old daughter and a son? I mean no offense but I've learnt to always be critical when it comes to believing people over the internet.
Gargantou 3 years ago
I don't want to publish her last name out of respect for her family. If you point me in the direction where your information came from I could check it out. Our Jeanette may have been about 20 or so. She was older than me and I was 17 when she died.
vowoyele 3 years ago
a not to ogargantou.. that is my mother youre talking about, i will track you down and make you eat a computer for implying my mother is a lie. why would she lie about that, and now im even more mad cause you even make it seem like my grandmother was lie too. leave your name and number and i will make sure one of my family members meet you in person to settle this great deal of disrespect implied towards my family...no offense but folks like you should be slapped..
cheezyrider73 3 years ago
Wow you're pretty pathetic threatening people over the internet, get a life nitwit.:)
No offense but people like you need psychiatric care.
Gargantou 3 years ago
So True. Thank you for broaching the subject of peychiatric care. Imagine what it is like to be brought up in an environment where death by violence was the norm. I don't recall once having seen any type of care offered. I'm not saying anyone was obligated, that would start a whole 'nother argument. But few if any recieved help.By the way, It didn't happen in pruitt Igoe, But my son was shot in the back for no apparrent good reason. By the grace of God he survived.
vowoyele 3 years ago
just because you say, no offense, doesnt mean its ok to say what you said, youre pretty stupid to think that you wouldnt offend anyone, so if you feel threatened it seems as if by saying no offense, youve prepared yourself to step on others toes, preparing for a response? Maybe you cant empathized ,and see that was a prejudiced comment and didnt consider the receiver actually, so by assuming all were crooks, pimps, ho's, etc, you showed your true ignorance.
cheezyrider73 3 years ago
The majority of the glass windows were also brken by tge workers in order to minimize the hazzard of flying glass. Most of those buildings were imploded,you know....Kind of like the Twin Towers
vowoyele 3 years ago
Thanks god for the obliteration of those massive residential buildings. They were so ugly, that I felt scared when I saw them.
World needs more architecture.
cheirodelysoform 3 years ago
When The Video Reaches the four minute mark I see the apartment we lived in.There were eleven Stories. We lived on the tenth floor. we had three bedrooms. My mother,sister, brother and I. The Elevators Always smelled like pee. When we gotta go you gotta go. It takes a long time to get to your personal unit. A lot of us prefferred not to face the embarrassment of walking around in wet clothes. By the way the debris laying around was left by demolition companies.
vowoyele 3 years ago
Thank you.....
vowoyele 3 years ago
i never really liked classical but i love this song one of the best in GTA 4
roryhynes 3 years ago
it's actually not classical, it's new age.
XxRetroGamerxX 3 years ago
I apologize for directing my frustrations toward you Mr. Automatic.
vowoyele 3 years ago
No probs, atleast i got to enjoy your story. If you can ever be bothered to type it up again, it would make a great addition to the comments.
themanautomatic 3 years ago
Vowoyele, I never got to read those stories, I really would be interested to read them too, if you wouldn't mind!
gueraranchera 3 years ago
This scene is so sad. Just shows how us humans are so powerful in a bad way, destructive. War is bad, STOP IT NOW!
GTA4Glitcher 3 years ago
This is showing the destruction of the pruit igoe projects for future building. It has nothing to do with war. (frickin hippies)
mrroboto396 3 years ago
does anybody have the sheets to that?
opcman 3 years ago
The bridge demolition at 5:52 is one of my favorite shots of the movie.
YeNguyen 3 years ago
Any idea where it was? It was pretty cool.
PandaMishima 2 years ago
Pruitt Igoe was a civil housing project in St. Louis. It and Cabrini Green in Chicago are classic arguments against socializing urban development, but I don't think the problem was that the projects were state run; rather, the problem seems more likely to have been that they were designed as cages to keep blacks in - to literally keep the marginazlized part of society in the margins. The music is as emotionally tearing and draining as seeing the conditions that these people lived in.
samattos1 2 years ago 4
Just watching this has deeply affected me. It almost makes me hate humanity as a whole - we're so . . . destructive, wasteful. It's sad, really.
Clib4Lyf 3 years ago 2
Are those shots from 3:30 to 5:00 from Prypiat, Ukraine? The abondoned city of the Chernobyl disaster?
DiavoloDiAno 3 years ago
No, the now gone,Pruitt-Igoe projects, St. Louis.
gueraranchera 3 years ago
It does certainly look like Chernobyl to me
GTA4Glitcher 3 years ago
Life is complicated.
I killed people, smuggled people, sold people.
Perhaps here, things will be different.
AJHM2008 3 years ago
Wow, so original.
Pothatuu 3 years ago
A Few Months ago I responded to this video with a true story about my life in Pruit-Igoe, It was deleted...I'm assuming it was the person who submitted this video. Everyone seems to want to assume they know, or you dont fukkin' care about the humanistic aspect of living in such a place.......Fuck you
vowoyele 3 years ago
All I know is I keep coming back here to watch it. It is magnificent from start to finish! Glass/Reggio had relentless rhythm in KS that did not carry over into the other films.
SweetSweetWaldo 3 years ago
It makes you wonder what buildings that are 'new and modern' at the moment will end up like these buildings!?! Scary.
I haven't visited these comments in a while - but I have periodically read up about Pruitt-Igoe... I saw a video on a reunion of people who used to live there. They recalled it being a happy time. Also read that a major flaw was that they didn't put toilets on the ground floors so people would just pee in the elevators!
Tanru2000 3 years ago
i live in a place like this.
not that abandoned but this pretty much the same
nothing more than concrete room`s
but i like it more than anything else.
it`s cheap and i can call it home.
when i close the door behind me, its my own little place where i can do things i like.
par example watch Koyaanisqati
1crayfish2 3 years ago 2
1crayfish2. I'm sure your home is lovely. :) What homes AREN'T boxes of concrete or wood or both? It's what you make of them, that makes the difference. I would just hope that your neighbourhood isn't as dishevelled as Pruit-Igoe appeared to be just before it was torn down. The rubbish and the broken windows etc. :)
Tanru2000 3 years ago
Is that video on youtube?
caeseroct0 2 years ago
Which video?
Tanru2000 2 years ago
"saw a video on a reunion of people who used to live there." This one.
caeseroct0 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure I saw it on youtube - but it was probably a year or more ago. It may have been taken down! I think I found the link via the wikipedia page on Pruitt-Igoe. Check there. Sorry I can't be of more help.
Tanru2000 2 years ago
Is GTA producers conseratives??
The WKTT radio station hates liberals lol
mlps93 3 years ago
It's a satire of the actual conservative radio station WTKK.
Seannaz453 3 years ago 4
It comes on the Journey radio station
"omg gta4 trailer, by saying this im so not ignorant XDXD"
chrislpp 3 years ago 2
One of the more enjoyable stations in that game...I listen to it in hopes of hearing this song lol.
quasda 3 years ago 5
its the only song i like on the the journey
69Macleod69 3 years ago
3:17 it get interesting
WWEking9119 3 years ago
This song is better than GTA IV.
germanvoodoo 3 years ago
its really a good song you just have to be in the correct mind set... ill help you a bit (im not trying to insult just bear with me) the music is really a sit back and drone out everything your not really suppose to listen to every detail the art is in its lengthyness and repitition
lutherhans 3 years ago
i can't stand those people posting "GTA4!!!!!"
anytime they find a song from the game!
I love this game, too! But what makes you guys do that? XD
kAmi9teen8y5 3 years ago 2
because they heard it in gat four and want to show that they enjoy it,more importantly why do you feel the need to criticise them for it? get a grip
69Macleod69 3 years ago
Beautiful game for the 21st century, beautiful song, beautiful movie with influences. That's how it should be.
ThisIsGonnaBeCool 3 years ago
OMG this was brilliant whilst I was driving to the old casino in the final mission I was listening to this (I try to catch it every time on Journey) and it was just so cool the GTA 4 storyline is fantastic this just blended in so well. Sorry for rambling.
Javindo 3 years ago 8
its like fantasia for older people!...
minus: the 20's (kinda squeeky) voiced conductor...
minus: disney
ITS GREAT!
moonunitzappa13 3 years ago 4
Jesus... One of the most beautiful songs ever...period...
Fenixchan 3 years ago 6
Phillip Glass is a beast can't wait for that doc film on him to come out
AndrewCullen 3 years ago
this gave me goosebumps
johnboy888 3 years ago 2
That even more adds to the ingenuity of GTA IV trailer 1. The game is all about how immigrants are separated from the "ordinary people", treated as something worth less than dirt yet they build up the whole country. This soundtrack and how trailer 1 was built up is truly marvellous. The main character moves to NYC from Eastern Europe, thinking "Life is complicated. I killed people, smuggled people, sold people. Perhaps here, things will be different." Fatal mistake.
Henkibojj 3 years ago 4
very true...period :D
i love movies like koyaanisqatsi cause they can let people think what they think...
moonunitzappa13 3 years ago 5
Incredible. It suddenly strikes me how amazing the first GTA IV trailer must have been for those who had seen this Koyaanisqatsi film before they stayed up late at night when everyone was asleep, just to see the first glimpse of the world's fastest selling game ever, and probably the 21st century's most anticipated game so far.
5/5, added to favorites. I think I'll rent or buy this movie.
Henkibojj 3 years ago 2
lol thats cool dude its not like im gonna break your legs for replying late haha. Yeah its really fascinating, you should watch a movie called Judgment night where they use these kinds of areas in a great chase thriller. Love what 40 years makes in terms of urban devlopment. I doubt they'l ever build these pleasent areas again in urban planning.
jamesthq 3 years ago 2
yeah makes me glad to live in a semi detatched house. Couldnt imagine living in a generic block of flats like that. Love to do some research on this. Whats the area again in St Louis.
jamesthq 3 years ago 3
this song tis scary
haj001 3 years ago
Where can I download the song/movie
VicensStudios 3 years ago
You can purchase mp3 downloads from the itunes store.
DON'T STEAL MUSIC
trumpet90909 3 years ago
awwe shit! wasnt going to but just downloaded this song from Limewire (the free version). Aghh Damn. Sorry. Sorry. Shouldn't of downloaded the other 130,000 songs on there then.
jamesthq 3 years ago
You know, I think its great that a so called "Menace-to-society" video game (yeah right) can bring so much attention to a great piece of work like this!
NoSilence16 3 years ago 5
"You know, I think its great that a so called "Menace-to-society" video game (yeah right) can bring so much attention to a great piece of work like this!"
What's even greater is that we live in a free society such that not everyone must be subject to what we consider great art. There are different tastes out there, after all. And we can't FORCE or WILL something to be popular.
mikeockurts 3 years ago
It's amazing, because the land these high-rises we're once on, is still there, empty. At around 2:14, you see a building with 2 green tower things, thats still there, it was a part of the leasing office, it's boarded up and....CREEPY. If you go on the land you can still see the parking lot under all the weeds and grass, same with the outline of the foundation of the high-rises. It's weird, almost 40 years later...
AcEz1985 3 years ago
I've heard that St. Stanislaus RC Church beside that site is under threat of censure by the office of the bishop for radically weird goings on.
gueraranchera 3 years ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is actually.
AcEz1985 3 years ago
but i suppose all the game trailers are trying to get attention these days. Gary Jules - mad world for Gears of War
unclelez 3 years ago
really? is it the music in the gta trailer? Glass is finally getting noticed in popular culture
unclelez 3 years ago
this video it´s amazing, very good, and it´s artistic, and the music is for gta 4
Leal2007 3 years ago
Its a shame that it took Grand theft Auto 4 to bring this song to my attention, fanstastic piece of music! But also cant wait for the game ;)
tcepseruk 3 years ago 3
I def. see the resembelance to the GTA trailor.
kza7 3 years ago
Interesting how all the "this was boring" comments went on to mention the GTA game...if you actually enjoyed that game, no wonder you don't have the ability to sit quietly for 6 minutes and contemplate an artistic piece, which is surprising because it included things blowing up. It wasn't boring at all. It was actually fast-paced and exciting and deeply, deeply disturbing.
gueraranchera 4 years ago 4
I love GTA, and this has always been my favorite scene from Koyaanisqatsi. Every GTA since 3 has been a great artistic accomplishment on par with this film. Don't generalize about the attention spans of people who play video games.
SedanChair 3 years ago
wwoww wtf????
zabears40 4 years ago
It's not NYC, LA, or Detroit. It's about a failed attempt to "bring people back" to the city of St. Louis in the 60's and 70's...wikipedia the name of the song (Pruit Igoe or Pruitt Igoe) to read more.
texeverlasting 4 years ago
Housing projects such as PI provided for lucrative building and demolition contracts, but did not address the real problems of poverty and racism.
SweetSweetWaldo 4 years ago
wow
ghjkfdhgfd 4 years ago 6
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vowoyele 4 years ago
I tend to focus on the positive aspects of Puitt/Igoe. There were maaaany positives.We built relationships, made memories, shared lives, we shared love. There was a strange sense of unity , as a whole outsiders were not allowed to come in and upset the.......balance............We were village of thousands.......Only the strong survive.
vowoyele 4 years ago 2
Most of us learned how to dance on skates. I remember St. Nicks. Nate was a floorboy. He had the funniest laugh I have ever heard. I miss him, still. The guys didn't want to be called punks so they never wore white precisions .They were for girls....... Those were the days.
vowoyele 4 years ago
I remember the dances on and around the pyramid. Dancing In The Street was often played over the p.a. system. We all danced. Everybody danced, some of us better than others, Jeanette was one of the best. My cousin Johnny was ,too. He taught me how to bop, and play spades. I'm goooood.
vowoyele 4 years ago
Jeanette was there, she had a hole in her forehead........ I looked in the hole.............
She had two children, the babygirl was about three or four,her babyboy was eight months...I wonder how they are.
vowoyele 4 years ago
I checked with family and found out the little girl was in fact, only one or two.
vowoyele 3 years ago
At the age of sixteen my mother saved my life, she signed me up for Job Corps. I was sent to Astoria , Oregon.She saved my life by not allowing me to become a more active participant in the madness surrounding us.
September of 1970 I went home to visit. The day I arrived, I heard a voice yelling,........She's under the breazeway.......I went across the street to see what was up. I made my way to the front of the crowd, there were a lot of us there.......
vowoyele 4 years ago
I saw my first murdered person when I was 10 or 11. I actually saw her. She had been decaying at the bottom of the elavator shaft of the third or fourth building on Ofallon, we lived in the second one. I remember seeing people carrying a stretcher, covered with a white sheet. Just as they were passing me the wind blew the sheet. I saw her....... I had already known of a lot of us dieing but the vision of what was under that sheet still haunts me......Only the strong survived.
vowoyele 4 years ago
The days of summer were especially memorable. The concrete was so hot our bare feet burned as we ran to the playground to play in the sprinkler system the firefightrs set up. The goal was to not only endure the pain from the heat, we also learned how to walk on glass with few cuts on them. When we were really looking for fun we rode on top of the elevator or slid down it's cables.
vowoyele 4 years ago
I remember winters, playing in the hallway on the 10th floor.We played catch a girl kiss a girl,kickball,dodgeball,and skated.
Shirley and I smeared do do we found in the middleway on that mean old lady's doorknob. In retrospect I see we were wrong,She lived on the 9th floor and we made a lot of noise over her head. The hallway floors were concrete and we skated often, all of us did. We must have really disturbed her.......Iapologize. You're probably no longer with us but, I apologize.
vowoyele 4 years ago
Monday, October 29, 2007
I remember waking up each morning looking at the cinder block walls of the room my sister and I shared.They were painted blue and white, a checkered pattern. Mamma let us do it.
vowoyele 4 years ago
How much of this entire sequence is St. Louis. Is the opening footage of urban decay before the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe also St. Louis? I know not all those buildings shown falling after were in St. Louis.
SweetSweetWaldo 4 years ago
This is a wild guess, but that kind of looks like New York City in the opening shot.
CliffX 4 years ago
No, not all is from St. Louis. There are several different locations built into the montage, but definitely at 3:16, that's Pruitt-Igoe. Scary.
gueraranchera 4 years ago
gta ıv is a very very very very very gooooooooooooooood game
alikenan07 4 years ago
wow dammn we almost lost detroit
LauraViolet1 4 years ago
It seems to have been lost, doesn't it
vowoyele 2 years ago