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My dad grew up in North St. Louis through the 1930s and very early 1940s. Then it off to N. Africa to fly in a B-24 Liberator to bomb Rommel. Then to Venosa, Italy to bomb Hitler. When he returned from the war dad used to take the streetcars to Sportsman Park for a Cardinals game.

I have ridden in these street cars. I was just a kid, maybe six or seven years old and we lived out in the country. We would ride a passenger train from our little part of the world into Union Station and then my mother would catch one of these street cars to go to my Great Aunts house. I don't remember where she lived but it seemed like a long ways to a kid. Great memories and this is a great video. Thank you for sharing it.

I vaguely remember when the last streetcar was removed from service, I had to be 2 or 3 years old. It made me sad to hear it, because I could sense that it was a huge change.., not necessarily for the better. Can't say I remember riding on them, but I do remember seeing them cruising around.

Streetcars were a major way to get around St. Louis and other cities until cars took over. I remember being on the one that came to the University City Loop with old City hall in the background.

St. Louis holds a spot in many American's hearts as emblematic of the turn-of-last-cetury greatness, immortalized in the musical "Meet Me In St. Louis", with the famous "(Clang Clang Clang Went The-) Trolley Song". The streetcar on the Delmar Loop nods to that history, and it might have been a splendid, albeit over-the-top agenda to make the buses of that same design, as there are a couple buses for tourists that are styled as such. It's important, however schlocky and hokey to try to recall those better days, part of the putting a "somewhere" on a place, to avoid the "There's no there, there", emptiness of a city-specific style.

These beatiful streamlined designed streetcars are of course the precursor to St. Louis' Metrobus system. Any thoughts on the design of modern buses? The most current versions are a bright green color, and I believe, electric.

Can't remember riding them but one time we went downtown to see the window display Remember the streets being done up in lights I remember the most window i saw was the train display Trains were going ever where Miss those days

Beautiful. God Bless Miss Lovie🙏🙏

I rode one of these in the 1950's when I was a kid. Thanks for the memories

Nice footage & then we get an extra treat with a little "Miles"

This is so wonderful to see the street cars ,trains and buses going your way ,when you need to get there !

Wow! Great footage. I Google viewed the Wellston Loop, it looks like it was hit by a bomb and the neighbourhood seems abandoned. Too bad.

Incredible video. Been looking for more on the subject. I grew up right by where the summit line used to be and people would always tell me about the streetcar that used to be there. I'm so sad I never got the chance to ride it (or go to school on it, I bet that would've been fun)

I think these images are from the last day of service...

The last of the street cars were long gone before I came along. This was the most in-depth video I have seen of them. Thank you.

A lot of your comment makes sense however I would place the 1970s in that first half. Other than that okay. Also your message is way too short. Don't be shy express yourself a little more. LOL.

From what I understand the Wellston was the last car. I was born in 1958 I believe I would have been 8 years old at the time.

I heard one of our street cars ended up in San Francisco. How appropriate.

This video is so well done. In the 1950's I took the Gtand Avenue streetcar almost daily. Oh, the memories.

At 2:55, there is a great shot of a St. Louis motorman using the switch iron to grab the trolley rope from the high trolley rope catcher above the back windows of a PCC car. I'm familiar with Mark Goldfeder. Some years ago, I bought a large collection of original photos showing St. Louis streetcars all the way back to the horse car era. It includes bus photos back to the late 1920's through the 1950's. Too bad there isn't a way of posting some of them here. You guys would love them. I rode on ex-St. Louis Public Service PCC cars in San Francisco on some of my early visits. A beautifully restored ex-St. Louis PCC car is operating in San Diego on a Downtown tourist line. It's now painted in San Diego colors. ruclips.net/video/BtjEO5q8vnE/видео.html

WOW I used to love riding the streetcars to go downtown with my mom to Famous-Barr, JC Penny's, and Buster Brown's Shoe Store. 💓💕💖💞💞

The pink car at 1:26- my mom used to have one just like it!

Amazing film

Blacks and whites 50/50

The music of STL jazz greats Jimmy Forrest and Grant Green. And of course East St. Louis's own Miles Davis.

We desperately need these back. GM and the rest of the car companies ruined America.

I sure enjoyed this video as I was born in 1953 and was pretty young riding one we made connection with at Grand and Gravois riding it to my pediatircian office in Grandall sqaure on Grand. I remember needing to walk out in to the street to get it. We took a bus to make the connection from the Southhampton neighborhood. My Dad worked and had the one car in our family. My mom stayed home so it was my mom taking me to the visits. I wonder what the Special streetcar was for in the video. I only remember us driving to Cards games on Grand.

My brother would love these so much!

I like the '59 Cadillac.

I just looks like the city was alive.

I'm a little too young (1963) to remember the street cars, though I remember the lines along the streets after they stopped, and everyone else in my family remembers riding them. It looks like this line went everywhere a person wanted to go, or just a couple streets away. Too bad they stopped them because there is nothing like that now to get around town because Bi-State can't cover the ground the way those fixed lines could. What's amazing and is sorely missing, is all the development along the entire route of the line. Those stores and shops are gone for many reasons, but street car service is one that is never mentioned.

I we t school on bdwy. Car wen it had a conductor. One drove one kept stove going. On othernd apps. 1946

Right at 4:15...(Fox & Woolworths)... What is directly across from Woolworths, headed east? That's the corner of Olive & Grand but across from Woolworths. I was hoping the camera would scan on across with the streetcar.

Beautiful -- love the music, adds a lot, very evocative. My Dad started with St Louis Public Service in 1947 -- I used to ride the cars & buses with him all the time. Thank you!

now we have METO LINK the MOST dangerous crime RIDDEN WAY OF TRANSPORTATION* JUST A BIG FEDERAL GOVT. WASTE OF $$$$$!$$$$!

SO PRACTICAL!!

i never ever got to live in st louis but i did visit it way back in the 1960's and can recall seeing those street car buses driving all around! pity they are having so mmuch trouble revining this i guess noone really cares anymore about strret cars!

Classy times. Thanks

Wow this brings back memories. In the 50s and 60s my very poor Grandma lived above Hippy's Market at Chippewa and Texas. Long gone now. She heated the big three room apartment with a wood burning cook stove. When we kids stayed over we all slept together in the "front" room and the street cars rang their bells when they made their stops at the corner. We were all poor but it was a great time to be alive.

Grew up by The Bevo Mill, can barely remember them when I was a little kid in the early 1960's going up and down Gravois.

This memory is so dear to me.. thank you for putting it up! Is this the S-F ranch in MO?

Fun! I well recall electric streetcars in suburban Clayton when I was a young child in the ‘50s. They did not last long after that. Sadly, I never rode one.

Great video brother and great music. This is when the city of St.Louis used to be awesome and was originally Missouri's largest City.

The city of St.Louis Missouri sure looked beautiful back in the day and not to mention that the cars looked beautiful back in the day as well.

Thanks for the memories. Some of my earliest memories include riding next to my motorman dad, sitting on the sandbox, on the old Creve Coeur line, in the early 1940s. Grandpa was also a motorman. When I was 20, I lived on Olive Street, in Gaslight Square, (when it was a happening place). Daily took the Olive Car downtown to work. Was very sad to see the last cars go out of service in the early 60s. I have a couple of picture books of this era, and a large map of the Public Service Company system dated 1942, real treasures when I’m feeling nostalgic.

I was selected in 1986 at this same ceremony at camp Famous Eagle. The major difference I remember between them and this video was that we were tapped out. The You have been chosen method must have been adapted later. But a special experience regardless. One I will never forget.

My city looks so different back then

I'm an historian. And I look at this with an historian's eye. There's a grip that this stuff still retains on the human psyche. If we go back an exact century, or at least 100 years, from 1920 to 2020, what do we notice? That there are two almost perfect halves - 1920 to 1970, and then 1970 to 2020. Each of them 50 years. The first 50 years were remarkably intact, and by that I mean that much of what existed in 1920 still remained in 1970. In the next 50 years we took most of it apart and replaced it. With something very different. And the replacement - because it exists in the era in which we live, we're forced to believe that it is something of value, even of as much value as what was replaced. I've spent quite a few years listening to people talk. And what they say without really saying it, is that what the 2nd 50 years produced compared to the first 50 years - is crap. It's an embarrassing thing to admit. But there it is. There was a distinct continuity that glued those first 50 years together. A continuity of design, certainly, but also one of value, and of aesthetics. Considering how people actually lived, their quality of life, and their relationship with the built environment. Which is what made it a public domain. In which citizens had a relationship with where they lived, and what they lived in. Many today would think of this as just nostalgia. But buried deep inside that sentiment is something far more nuanced, settled, with a powerful social stamp upon it. All you have to do is take a really good look at a few minutes of this, to get a sense of it. Of course, I've read all about how Big Auto and Big Rubber and Big Oil took apart public rail transit. It's a well-known story, easy to find for anyone who cares to look. But along with the demolition of car-independent living, alternative ways of getting around (and during a time when classic auto design reached a kind of cultural climax) we completely altered our urban design as well, our street layout, our commercial presentation, and our sense of almost any neighborhood of any kind that remained kid-friendly. We never designed areas of residential commercial utility to be kid-friendly, actually. They just were, and how they happened to be said something about the kind of society that built it that way. I spent many years riding streetcars similar to this around an urban inner city core, during a time when that core was being demolished and replaced with glass and steel. It doesn't feel urban any more. It feels like something that could pop up along the Las Vegas strip almost overnight. And that's not urban. It makes me smile though, remembering back to a time when I was still a pretty young kid, the first time I was riding a streetcar with a friend of mine, and I realized that the driver didn't have a steering wheel. I shouted it out. Turned red-faced at the laughter up and down the car. They didn't know that I'd ridden streetcars quite a few hundreds of times by that point, and it had never entered my mind before.

0:00 0:03 The takes from the stupid orange

I R.E.M. er in the forties and fifties riding Grand Ave in south St. Louis to Sportsman Park to watch the Browns and also Cardinals baseball games.