@@IskandarTheWack Not Really , They Are Building The City Back Up ! Construction Every Where ! The new aquarium is coming , the soccer team/Stadium / Ball park village apartments etc.... Yes there are some rough areas , but so does every city in America!! I LOVE MY CITY 314 STL
Wow - I'm 22 and I'm St. Louis born and raised. So was my mom, and both grandparents. Mom was born in '63 and seeing these images brings a tear to my eye! Such a bizarre feeling longing for a time that you never experienced. Many kids my age don't understand the massive influence McDonnell-Douglas had on our area. Damn near all of the 1950/60s mid century modern California architectural influence can be accredited to that corporation. Seeing where my granny and grandpa used to hang out on Gas Light Square is also amazing! Thank you so much for the post!!
Terrific vintage shots of St. Louis! Love the shots of the river front before the Arch was built, Union Station, the Budweiser Brewery, inside of Busch Stadium (former Sportsman's Park) with a "Cards" game (great job of editing in that ball-bat connection!), the "Gas Light Square" area, that final shot of the McDonnell (before it became McDonnell-Douglas) F4 Phantom landing at Lambert Field (STL) and the pretty woman driving a 1960 Ford Galaxie, Sunliner convertible. Thanks so much for sharing!
My family moved to St. Louis in mid-1965 when I was five and a half, and I remember much of it, and I remember watching over time the two legs of the arch creeping up higher and higher. It was a different city then. We moved from a northwest ex-urb of Chicago. I remember driving down I-55/U.S. 66, and parts of it were incomplete. The night before we moved in to our new house we spent at a travel lodge in East St. Louis. I don’t think too many people would do that anymore. I recall swimming in the swimming pool there and driving to our new home the next day, we got off highway 40 at Skinker where the big Amoco (then Standard) sign was. I’ve lots of memories of growing up in St. Louis, especially going to Cardinals games with my dad & brothers. I do remember my father taking me on a bus to the old sportsman park one time. Still rooting for the cardinals.
I turned 10 in 1963 and was surpised to see the riverfront already flattened out for the Arch. I remember the look prior to it with I believe overhead rail running along the riverfront. It was excursions on the Admiral that brought us down to the riverfront. The Admiral trip down the river and back was lots of fun.
I grew up in St Louis and it was fun to see the black and white Chevrolet at 1:07 which looks exactly like my grandfather's car. He kept that car spotless and waxed at all times
Wonderful I am a tourist here and it’s cool to see some of things I’ve seen from back then! BTW best botanical gardens or any gardens I have ever seen. The city has MUCH to offer!
I was a freshman at Clayton High in 63. Those were the days you could go into the city without worring if you were going to get back home in one piece.
This is a year after my dad was born. He got to see so much change of stl. When we go downtown he tells us about the buildings and places that used to exist and what not
Wow, that's my old Saint Louis City. McDonnell Douglas was were my grandpa worked for 30 years after WW2 ended. By the late 60's, my family and relatives had moved out to Wentzville from the city which was a somewhat far outlying suburb on a fresh new Interstate 70 chocked with towns full of fairly new super cheap bargain houses known as white flight suburbia. I wish Saint Louis wouldn't had been ruined and ended up dying short of being a truly great city that it had potential of being. It's a 3rd class sort of city in the modern era with top notch 1st class tourist attractions like the classical European style of grand art museum, Forest Park, The Gateway Arch, Climatron, Zoo, and many others. I lived downtown Saint Louis in the early 2000's, attended UMSL, and then left for it was becoming even rougher, housing became ever so limited, grocery stores and other business lacked to set up shop. While the new Loft District development looked nice, it was fake financial speculation ran by upper crust sell outs placing their Gen X kids as the investors which actually drove lots of good people away as the Jefferson Arms on Tucker shut down in 2007 with this Pyramid Real Estate Rothschild owned investor outfit defaulting on the redevelopment loan a couple years later only further hollowing out the city. I hope Saint Louis can be restored and put back one day...
The major downfall for the city of St.Louis was the fact that the city of St.Louis wanted to secede from St.Louis County in 1877, had the city stayed with the County it would've been a booming metropolis.
Rollie Mosley That’s wassup man! Wish I had a job that allowed me to travel. I’m not leaving STL anytime soon either. If you been looking around the city lately it’s been coming up. Lots of Start up companies moving here. SLU & Washington University are building and rebuilding a lot of stuff too. We getting there one day at a time...
@@tejayjr.9893 yessir, I Work for a landscaping company In St.Louis and we be all around the city and you right bro ! The new aquarium they building , Them Ballpark village apartments, They supposed to be getting a soccer team/stadium and summoe shit .. They even tryna rebuild da hood areas, They building new cribs In The hood hood, I'm talmbout The hood side of delmar, and all thru the tracks ! It's All Money To Be Maid Here , Watch Errbody who shook for dallas/Houston, They a be back in 2-5 Years
Kenneth Grigsby EXACTLY! St. Louis coming up. Don’t get me wrong man I like other cities. Luv Houston, Dallas n ATL. But they traffic, CRAZY!!! Its also hardly any jobs and you have to drive so far to do anything. In STL everything is 15-25 mins away. We have good food here n the cost of living is cheap and you can get a nice crib on the low. Only thing I don’t like here sometimes is the people. Then on the other hand sometimes I love the people here so idk it’s weird lol. However St. Louis is in the rise to be the next big city.
Thanks so much for posting this. As a St. Louis baby boomer having turned 16 and driving age in 63 this has been a real treat. I’m sharing it with everyone. Beautiful convertible and young lady. Well done⭐️⭐️⭐️
I was born here and have lived in St. Louis all of my life. It is surreal how it still looks similar to this video. The riverfront without the Arch looks rather plain, but I wish we had more steamboats!
Born in 1963. When I was 5 y/o my parents took us down town all the time especially during the Christmas Holidays....absolutely amazing back then!! I miss that!!!
It was a much better city then. the arch was a great addition but since then they let the Riverfront and Lacledes Landing go. How in the hell do you have a great river with NO excursions except a few tiny river boats. the city management for the past 40 years has been criminal.
@@veot.2869 Something.... and NOW they wanna merge the City and the County... BACK in those days... the County would have LOVED to merge with the CITY! BUT the city wouldn't allow it... go figure...
Right, the city died from corruption of sell outs lining their pockets for personal gain at any cost. A true democracy would had flourished holding multiculturalism and racial diversity to be it's great strength. America got it all so wrong...
My dad took 8mm movies like this in the 60's. There's one he took while we we're in St. Louis in 1970. He got confused (high) putting several reels of footage on one bigger reel, and the part with the steamboat sitting there on the Missouri. The footage is now upside down AND backwards, so the steam goes back into the boat and the steam organ! Hilarious. Thanks for the memories sir!
Oh boy a trip down memory lane. I've lived in St Louis all of my life and I'm here to stay. My dad retired from McDonnel Aircraft. Thanks for the memories. Oh yah get a load of those cars kinda forgot about how big they were and those fins.
I remember going to St Louis from Illinois then,. They had tolls on some of the bridges. One memory was the arch just starting to be built. My mom said a football player was going to kick a ball over it once done. I was around 4 or 5. We had relatives there. We also moved there when I was that age for some time.
My dad worked at Mc Donnell Aircraft Corp , North American Aviation and along with Saberliner and Rockwell He also worked with Boeing for a time . It's just to bad that all was bought out by Boeing . I remember dad would take one of us to work with him . I also remember the old I called the junk yard with old aircraft setting by the building .
I just started HS in 63. Knew the downtown area pretty well but never remember a Dollar Store back then. Times were so much more simpler back then and happier. You never had to lock doors or your cars. Never feared going out for walks, even at night. Kids would play till just after dark. Parents never had to worry about where there kids were as long as they were in at night and never missed dinner. Very little violent crime. Cops were more laid back, kids feared their fathers more than cops. Modern technology and greed is what caused the cost of living to rise, crime to be staggering today, hatred and racism to skyrocket, God being banned nationwide, first President, JFK, to be violently assassinated by the Federal Reserve in my time. Yeah, St. Louis was a good family place to live back then. Today, families wouldn't know each other if not for their I-phones. Yeah, modern technology. We need some of it but the rest is destroying all our values, our families, our lives. Best thing would be for technology to invent a time machine, one that could take me back to the good ole days. I'd trade this life in a heartbeat for the old days.
In one way we are much more connected to each other across the world than we ever were back in the good old days. However, in the most important respect, we are less connected with our deeper values we share. Trump is a good example of a mass communicator and is connecting with many people including media every day. In a crazy way it hurts him and helps him. I am a white male and do see how it felt in our fine city St. Louis. I was very glad I was not born a minority or even a woman because Life would have shown its unfairness to me and I would have had resentment instead of priviledge. I was oblivious. I know that sounds selfish but it is true and I'm a bit ashamed of my past ignorance. Unfortunately I think there are plenty of greedy selfish people out there (me included, I guess) trying to make their city better every year through building stuff instead of Believing in each other and supporting everyone who needs help. Saint Louis city and Saint Louis county are like two divorce parents arguing the last 143 years over essentially pride and tax dollars. It has costed us in many ways.
well i started high school in 84 and i can remember in the late 70s into the mid 80s and during the summer telling my mom bye early in the morning and not coming home until the evening. My dad would occasionally yell at me to check in more often but we never worried about stuff like people do now.
3:40 - '58 Plymouth sighting, blue 4-dr. Some of my earliest memories are of the old warehouses on the riverfront being torn down to make way for the soon-to-be-built Gateway Arch. The 'New' Busch Stadium, the Poplar Street bridge, I-40, all the 'new' approaches on the east side from I-55 and I-64 being constructed... … 'Where have you gone, Stan Musial'?...
I lived there my first 28 years. Couldn't take the miserable winters any more, and where the city was headed. Left for Orlando 22 years ago. Best decision I've ever made. From this serene amazing place, to top 4 murder capital? No thanks.
I well remember Saint Louis in 63. Watched with awww as the Arch was later built. Certainly never had a desire to live in Saint Louis being a farm boy.
I remember that block was still intact in the early '90s, and I couldn't figure out what the Greek columns were about. I still don't know, but at least I see they were just as out of place in the early '60s as well.
@robert leonard Right Bro ! It is definitely not that bad ! This is America there will be crime in every big city , from all races of people!! I Respect Caucassians Like You Bro ! While The others hide out in west county, then when they come to they city , They are like a deer in the headlights ! And if some one does fuck with you , especially as a man Grow Some Balls and Defend Yourself !
I'm from St Louis, born and raised since 1989. Its funny how as a young man I recognized most of this video (especially since I live south city). It's cool AF seeing what use to be before my time...
I was born in 1947 and grew up in S. St. Louis at Compton and Pestalozzi St.. We rode the Admiral up and down the river in the Summer. Slid down Art Hill in front of the Museum in the Winter. When I was 13 I thought how cool would that be to ride my bike across the MacArthur Bridge to another state, I took off one Sat. and didn't tell my Mother. When I got across the bridge and it was a long ride to my surprise there were several black boys that pointed at me and yelled get that white M.F.. I turned around and peddled like I never did before, I had no idea what E. St. Louis was all about, if my chain would have broke I probably wouldn't be writing this comment. At 15 I got laid a block off Gas Light Sq., my little sex maniac friend showed me the facts of life, and I would often go back. I had money as I worked at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel taking food to the rooms. I always worked as a young boy shoveling snow, raking leaves, cutting grass, and anything else I could do to earn money. Now days kids just sit outside the Market here in Vegas and beg, oh how the world has changed since 1947.
This has the look of some sort of KGB recon video. The sleeper cell was just making it look like a casual day around town before getting to the critical shots of attractions and strategically significant locations.
Completely unreal seeing the point of space-time my parents emerged through. They would be born in Barnes Jewish Hospital during the summer of that year.
I do remember all of this and it was nice before it went all to hell. Saw Stan the Man in the old Sportsman Park. A rough town back then too but they way of thinking was much different than today. Long Live Phantom II.
my father & mother met @ McDonnell Douglas in '78 and had me. west city was on the decline so they moved to a beautiful up & coming municipality called WELLSTON... comical as it sounds today, st.L natives know it's the truth.
Instead of 1920's music, it would be more fitting to use early 1960's music or late 1950's music, wouldn't it? Just wondering why and how the 1920's entered into this pitcure of the 1960's. No big deal, just wondering as I've been a musician all my life, now age 70. Love the video! 👍
Some might say this footage is taken right around the city's prime... I'm a youngster but statistics and local anecdote all point to the same truth. I would say maybe a few years earlier before 1st through 3rd street was razed to nothing though, an alternate timeline where a lot of the city's history still remained would have been a better one. (Edit: not to mention if they hadn't demolished most of the buildings from the Worlds fair! I would have loved to have been able to explore forest park in that similar state today.) Especially now that America is finally just starting to come to its senses about getting rid of vehicle traffic in cities and making them more walkable, all those streets and businesses and just buildings in general would be priceless to us now. Its cool to have a symbol of some sort to identify your city, but I would much rather have culture to define us than a freaking mid-century vanity project.
It shows Emerson Electric off of West Florissant (north county) in Google, but I don't remember where it was back in the day. My first guess would have been somewhere closer to Olivette, but I wouldn't bet a penny on that. My father worked at Emmerson right out of electrical engineering school at Rolla then moved on to McDonnell Douglas. This was a great video with a beautiful car and very nice looking model and all of the St. Louis hotspots.
That is at W Florissant and Lucas-Hunt. I worked at Norwood Hills Country club and it backs into the golf course. You could see the HQ building off the East course.
Thanks. Nice to see before the city went into the crapper. Born and raised in North St Louis and I returned for a visit after 35 years and was shocked at what I saw. Suffice to say the third world country I live in now is much nicer. Sad.
jeff crawford St. Louis was a place unwilling to change with the times. They didn’t want to segregate their city. The financial repercussions have been immense.
I lived in the St Louis area my whole adult life. I lived near AB for twenty years. After two cars were stolen and my house burglarized. I moved to Jefferson county. So yes there was a lot of crimes in my old neighborhood.
Oh Jefferson County With The Meth Heads ?? OK 😂😂 This is America! In Every big city, there will be crime, and rough areas ! Grow Some Balls And Defend Your Self/Territory !
@@kennethgrigsby3913 Maybe. At least I haven't been broken into or had a car stolen in the last twenty years. Plus my kid didn't get bused to a different district in school. Better schools less crime. Yep a win win! Defend what? The pussies steal from you when you're not around or sleeping. You have NO idea what your talking about so STFU
@Nate When I first moved there I could sleep with the doors open and just latch the screen door in the summer. Then the powers to be opened a section 8 apartment building down the street. Then it all went down hill.
I'm from st.louis and to see it before the arch is pretty cool
Same here, kinda awkward. Lol
Ain’t st louis with out the arch
Agreed been here all my life and yeah that was pretty cool
Ope, there's no arch? 😅
I’m from STL too, I go to KHS
17 years old born and raised this is so pleasant to see my city decades before me
26 but damn, the city actually looked good back in the day, now it's just all worn down and shady.
@@IskandarTheWack Not Really , They Are Building The City Back Up ! Construction Every Where ! The new aquarium is coming , the soccer team/Stadium / Ball park village apartments etc.... Yes there are some rough areas , but so does every city in America!! I LOVE MY CITY 314 STL
@@kennethgrigsby3913 Another team isn't a positive, aquarium sounds okay.
@@IskandarTheWack 😂😂😂 how would that not be a positive for the city's economy 🤔🤔
@@kennethgrigsby3913 ruclips.net/video/xcwJt4bcnXs/видео.html
It doesn't benefit anything, and it takes money from the citizens.
Wow - I'm 22 and I'm St. Louis born and raised. So was my mom, and both grandparents. Mom was born in '63 and seeing these images brings a tear to my eye! Such a bizarre feeling longing for a time that you never experienced. Many kids my age don't understand the massive influence McDonnell-Douglas had on our area. Damn near all of the 1950/60s mid century modern California architectural influence can be accredited to that corporation. Seeing where my granny and grandpa used to hang out on Gas Light Square is also amazing! Thank you so much for the post!!
I was born and Raised in St Louis and I am 68 years old .
mrjl barrett Hell yeah
mrjl barrett same and I turn 26 this month
@@dillonohlemiller9027 i am 68 in June .
Ur old dude
@@marksymbala3454 What does 68 hot to do woth it my wife os 45 Dud
I'm 20 years old and Saint Louis looks a lot more peaceful back then than it does today...
@Tai Lopez Hey bro, your opinion is your opinion.
@Aye Aye Ron lol at least we aren't Chicago... or God forbid Detroit 😂😂😂
@Aye Aye Ron Lol You're garbage
Democrats turned all major cities to shit after Kennedy was killed.
Idk why I’m so surprised at the upfront racism but at least they upfront w it.... but I bet they watch black entertainment and music
I remember sitting across the street from Union Station with my father as he painted pictures of the fountain and statues.
Terrific vintage shots of St. Louis! Love the shots of the river front before the Arch was built, Union Station, the Budweiser Brewery, inside of Busch Stadium (former Sportsman's Park) with a "Cards" game (great job of editing in that ball-bat connection!), the "Gas Light Square" area, that final shot of the McDonnell (before it became McDonnell-Douglas) F4 Phantom landing at Lambert Field (STL) and the pretty woman driving a 1960 Ford Galaxie, Sunliner convertible. Thanks so much for sharing!
It's weird to think that the Cardinals not playing downtown. I was born in '77 so them playing out where Sportsman Park seems weird to me.
that was a 1960 eugenics Nazi ford.
That shot of Washington University 2:15 is the same 60 years later
Its actually a 1960 Ford Galaxie (the same year the Edsel Brand was killed off).
@@CJColvin Indeed, you're correct and I changed my above response to reflect that's a 1960 Ford. Thanks!
My family moved to St. Louis in mid-1965 when I was five and a half, and I remember much of it, and I remember watching over time the two legs of the arch creeping up higher and higher. It was a different city then. We moved from a northwest ex-urb of Chicago. I remember driving down I-55/U.S. 66, and parts of it were incomplete. The night before we moved in to our new house we spent at a travel lodge in East St. Louis. I don’t think too many people would do that anymore. I recall swimming in the swimming pool there and driving to our new home the next day, we got off highway 40 at Skinker where the big Amoco (then Standard) sign was. I’ve lots of memories of growing up in St. Louis, especially going to Cardinals games with my dad & brothers. I do remember my father taking me on a bus to the old sportsman park one time. Still rooting for the cardinals.
the Amoco sign still stands in 2022
Made me cry I was born and raised here
Me too. '65
I turned 10 in 1963 and was surpised to see the riverfront already flattened out for the Arch. I remember the look prior to it with I believe overhead rail running along the riverfront. It was excursions on the Admiral that brought us down to the riverfront. The Admiral trip down the river and back was lots of fun.
I grew up in St Louis and it was fun to see the black and white Chevrolet at 1:07 which looks exactly like my grandfather's car. He kept that car spotless and waxed at all times
Wonderful I am a tourist here and it’s cool to see some of things I’ve seen from back then! BTW best botanical gardens or any gardens I have ever seen. The city has MUCH to offer!
Many of the attractions in forest park in St. Louis is from the 1904 worlds fair, which is one of my favorite things about StL
I was a freshman at Clayton High in 63. Those were the days you could go into the city without worring if you were going to get back home in one piece.
This is a year after my dad was born. He got to see so much change of stl. When we go downtown he tells us about the buildings and places that used to exist and what not
Wow, that's my old Saint Louis City. McDonnell Douglas was were my grandpa worked for 30 years after WW2 ended. By the late 60's, my family and relatives had moved out to Wentzville from the city which was a somewhat far outlying suburb on a fresh new Interstate 70 chocked with towns full of fairly new super cheap bargain houses known as white flight suburbia. I wish Saint Louis wouldn't had been ruined and ended up dying short of being a truly great city that it had potential of being. It's a 3rd class sort of city in the modern era with top notch 1st class tourist attractions like the classical European style of grand art museum, Forest Park, The Gateway Arch, Climatron, Zoo, and many others. I lived downtown Saint Louis in the early 2000's, attended UMSL, and then left for it was becoming even rougher, housing became ever so limited, grocery stores and other business lacked to set up shop. While the new Loft District development looked nice, it was fake financial speculation ran by upper crust sell outs placing their Gen X kids as the investors which actually drove lots of good people away as the Jefferson Arms on Tucker shut down in 2007 with this Pyramid Real Estate Rothschild owned investor outfit defaulting on the redevelopment loan a couple years later only further hollowing out the city. I hope Saint Louis can be restored and put back one day...
The major downfall for the city of St.Louis was the fact that the city of St.Louis wanted to secede from St.Louis County in 1877, had the city stayed with the County it would've been a booming metropolis.
Born and raised in good ole St. Louis...
Rollie Mosley I’m born n raised here too. Are you still around or did you move away too?
@@tejayjr.9893 I'm still here. My jobs travels to Dallas in Oct and Nov. I love Dallas and got fam in Chi, but it's STL 4 Life
Rollie Mosley That’s wassup man! Wish I had a job that allowed me to travel. I’m not leaving STL anytime soon either. If you been looking around the city lately it’s been coming up. Lots of Start up companies moving here. SLU & Washington University are building and rebuilding a lot of stuff too. We getting there one day at a time...
@@tejayjr.9893 yessir, I Work for a landscaping company In St.Louis and we be all around the city and you right bro ! The new aquarium they building , Them Ballpark village apartments, They supposed to be getting a soccer team/stadium and summoe shit .. They even tryna rebuild da hood areas, They building new cribs In The hood hood, I'm talmbout The hood side of delmar, and all thru the tracks ! It's All Money To Be Maid Here , Watch Errbody who shook for dallas/Houston, They a be back in 2-5 Years
Kenneth Grigsby EXACTLY! St. Louis coming up. Don’t get me wrong man I like other cities. Luv Houston, Dallas n ATL. But they traffic, CRAZY!!! Its also hardly any jobs and you have to drive so far to do anything. In STL everything is 15-25 mins away. We have good food here n the cost of living is cheap and you can get a nice crib on the low. Only thing I don’t like here sometimes is the people. Then on the other hand sometimes I love the people here so idk it’s weird lol. However St. Louis is in the rise to be the next big city.
Well this is something in my recommended I'm proud of.
The Chicken tender wasn`t invented until 1974, I wouldn`t be able to survive back then without my crunchy, juicy tendies.
Thanks so much for posting this. As a St. Louis baby boomer having turned 16 and driving age in 63 this has been a real treat. I’m sharing it with everyone. Beautiful convertible and young lady. Well done⭐️⭐️⭐️
I was born here and have lived in St. Louis all of my life. It is surreal how it still looks similar to this video. The riverfront without the Arch looks rather plain, but I wish we had more steamboats!
Born in 1963. When I was 5 y/o my parents took us down town all the time especially during the Christmas Holidays....absolutely amazing back then!! I miss that!!!
I remember...born in '62.
Same here ‘63 👍
What do you think was the demise of the city?
This certainly deserves honorable mention. I was 12 yrs old in St. Louis at the time but it still needs captions.
Wow amazing and thank you so much for the history...walk down memory lane.
It was a much better city then. the arch was a great addition but since then they let the Riverfront and Lacledes Landing go. How in the hell do you have a great river with NO excursions except a few tiny river boats. the city management for the past 40 years has been criminal.
Yep. I agree. They are funneling the money...where??? Out of the state? City? ??? Cronies and crooks.
@@veot.2869 Something.... and NOW they wanna merge the City and the County... BACK in those days... the County would have LOVED to merge with the CITY! BUT the city wouldn't allow it... go figure...
Hard to keep city maintenance up when you have so many blacks.
Right, the city died from corruption of sell outs lining their pockets for personal gain at any cost. A true democracy would had flourished holding multiculturalism and racial diversity to be it's great strength. America got it all so wrong...
Can one of you please point to a thriving city that is majority black
My dad took 8mm movies like this in the 60's. There's one he took while we we're in St. Louis in 1970. He got confused (high) putting several reels of footage on one bigger reel, and the part with the steamboat sitting there on the Missouri. The footage is now upside down AND backwards, so the steam goes back into the boat and the steam organ! Hilarious. Thanks for the memories sir!
Before i was born but i recognize some of the sights.
Wow, so at one time St. Louis was a nice city and downtown looked nice. Good to know living here for 40 yrs.
I was born in St. Louis in 1963. Thanks for sharing this!
This was quite a while back. I think I was 9, maybe 10 then. This is VERY good !! Thank you for posting this !!
I was born and raised there and I was 15 when this was filmed. Awesome. Thanks 👍
Great memories! Thanks for sharing! 😊 👍
Thank you for posting this, great little historical piece that hits the highpoints of St. Louis.
St. Louis baby! In the good ole days! When you could drive a convertible downtown and sit on your front porch. Without the fear of being gunned down!
Born and raised in this great city. 25 almost 26
I dunno why I needed to watch this but I did as I live here
Oh boy a trip down memory lane. I've lived in St Louis all of my life and I'm here to stay. My dad retired from McDonnel Aircraft. Thanks for the memories. Oh yah get a load of those cars kinda forgot about how big they were and those fins.
I remember going to St Louis from Illinois then,. They had tolls on some of the bridges. One memory was the arch just starting to be built. My mom said a football player was going to kick a ball over it once done. I was around 4 or 5. We had relatives there. We also moved there when I was that age for some time.
I was 5 in 1963 but I remember going downtown with my dad (who worked for Terminal RR). It was a very busy place then.
Born and raised. This is amazing to see.
Great views of my hometown!
My dad worked at Mc Donnell Aircraft Corp , North American Aviation and along with Saberliner and Rockwell He also worked with Boeing for a time . It's just to bad that all was bought out by Boeing . I remember dad would take one of us to work with him . I also remember the old I called the junk yard with old aircraft setting by the building .
I thought it was kind weird that it was in my recommendation randomly😭 but i like it, most of this stuff is still here.
I just started HS in 63. Knew the downtown area pretty well but never remember a Dollar Store back then. Times were so much more simpler back then and happier. You never had to lock doors or your cars. Never feared going out for walks, even at night. Kids would play till just after dark. Parents never had to worry about where there kids were as long as they were in at night and never missed dinner. Very little violent crime. Cops were more laid back, kids feared their fathers more than cops.
Modern technology and greed is what caused the cost of living to rise, crime to be staggering today, hatred and racism to skyrocket, God being banned nationwide, first President, JFK, to be violently assassinated by the Federal Reserve in my time. Yeah, St. Louis was a good family place to live back then. Today, families wouldn't know each other if not for their I-phones. Yeah, modern technology. We need some of it but the rest is destroying all our values, our families, our lives. Best thing would be for technology to invent a time machine, one that could take me back to the good ole days. I'd trade this life in a heartbeat for the old days.
In one way we are much more connected to each other across the world than we ever were back in the good old days. However, in the most important respect, we are less connected with our deeper values we share.
Trump is a good example of a mass communicator and is connecting with many people including media every day. In a crazy way it hurts him and helps him. I am a white male and do see how it felt in our fine city St. Louis. I was very glad I was not born a minority or even a woman because Life would have shown its unfairness to me and I would have had resentment instead of priviledge. I was oblivious.
I know that sounds selfish but it is true and I'm a bit ashamed of my past ignorance. Unfortunately I think there are plenty of greedy selfish people out there (me included, I guess) trying to make their city better every year through building stuff instead of Believing in each other and supporting everyone who needs help.
Saint Louis city and Saint Louis county are like two divorce parents arguing the last 143 years over essentially pride and tax dollars. It has costed us in many ways.
@Duke Of Prunes u sound stupid
@JP McCray Why'd you put the 🐒 emote? Was it really needed?
@@santaclaus9654 yes
well i started high school in 84 and i can remember in the late 70s into the mid 80s and during the summer telling my mom bye early in the morning and not coming home until the evening. My dad would occasionally yell at me to check in more often but we never worried about stuff like people do now.
Back when Saint Louis had every damn thing, my dad is always reminiscing about the 60s and 70s. Sometimes I wish I were born in that era
The riverfront looks incomplete without the Gateway Arch and all of its metallic majesty (lol)!
great video!
a few of the buildings along the riverfront are still there. very cool
Awesome video. Wish time travel was a thing.
Great video!...I am from Kansas City, MO and love St. Louis. Surprising that there are really no skyscrapers then.
This was the year i was born ! Interesting how a lot of that looks the same today slightly different
Very cool video I was only 4 in 63 but still neat to see the old sights.
Art Hill in the winter ... ahh yes
Nice, but I was hoping to see Ted Drewe’s also :)
love...love...love...shared 3 times
Cool seeing how my neighborhood of Bevo Mill looked more than 50 years ago.
3:40 - '58 Plymouth sighting, blue 4-dr.
Some of my earliest memories are of the old warehouses on the riverfront being torn down to make way for the soon-to-be-built Gateway Arch. The 'New' Busch Stadium, the Poplar Street bridge, I-40, all the 'new' approaches on the east side from I-55 and I-64 being constructed...
… 'Where have you gone, Stan Musial'?...
my home decades before it was my home! heck, this is a year before even my parents were born!
Beautiful
That was an impressive bit of film making! What camera was used to shoot this?
Use to go down to the riverfront with my grandfather in the early 60’s and throw rocks into the Mississippi
I lived there my first 28 years. Couldn't take the miserable winters any more, and where the city was headed. Left for Orlando 22 years ago. Best decision I've ever made. From this serene amazing place, to top 4 murder capital? No thanks.
I well remember Saint Louis in 63.
Watched with awww as the Arch was later built.
Certainly never had a desire to live in Saint Louis being a farm boy.
St. Louis looks a lot more quaint and comfy back then. definitely not the same.
God, I love the 60's
Yeah we want Gaslight square back.
they're idiots they let certain elements get the run of things
I remember that block was still intact in the early '90s, and I couldn't figure out what the Greek columns were about. I still don't know, but at least I see they were just as out of place in the early '60s as well.
And now.. well on our way to becoming another Detroit....
Thanks, blacks and liberals
not on the way...it's a shit hole now
I live in saint louis have been since the 90s but this is awesome
Saint Louis gang
The Admiral! Good times.
Make stl great again......cause damn.....
That ship has sailed...
@robert leonard Yea, but go just a few miles north and see what happens.
@robert leonard Crap! I was thinking you were at Hi Point already.. damn I'm old...
@robert leonard Right Bro ! It is definitely not that bad ! This is America there will be crime in every big city , from all races of people!! I Respect Caucassians Like You Bro ! While The others hide out in west county, then when they come to they city , They are like a deer in the headlights ! And if some one does fuck with you , especially as a man Grow Some Balls and Defend Yourself !
@@painkillerjones6232 This is America , There Will Be Rough Sides of town in every big city Grow Some Balls !! Or go hide in west county !
So ... if you just move the baseball stadium downtown, add the Gateway Arch & Lumiere Casino, St. Louis looks EXACTLY like that NOW
I was completing my second year at SLU!
This video is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing! What is the backstory?
My wifes grandparents visited the fair and purchased the souvenirs shown near the end of the video. They inspired the video.
Ignore the reply before this one. The reason for this video was to get members of our society to attend a conference in St Louis.
@@bkendall41 So, this is your wife's grandmother touring around St Louis in her convertible?
My city 💜
I'm from St Louis, born and raised since 1989. Its funny how as a young man I recognized most of this video (especially since I live south city). It's cool AF seeing what use to be before my time...
That’s so freakin awesome!!!🇺🇸❤️😊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😊❤️😍❤️😊😘😍😘
I was born in 1947 and grew up in S. St. Louis at Compton and Pestalozzi St.. We rode the Admiral up and down the river in the Summer. Slid down Art Hill in front of the Museum in the Winter. When I was 13 I thought how cool would that be to ride my bike across the MacArthur Bridge to another state, I took off one Sat. and didn't tell my Mother. When I got across the bridge and it was a long ride to my surprise there were several black boys that pointed at me and yelled get that white M.F.. I turned around and peddled like I never did before, I had no idea what E. St. Louis was all about, if my chain would have broke I probably wouldn't be writing this comment. At 15 I got laid a block off Gas Light Sq., my little sex maniac friend showed me the facts of life, and I would often go back. I had money as I worked at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel taking food to the rooms. I always worked as a young boy shoveling snow, raking leaves, cutting grass, and anything else I could do to earn money. Now days kids just sit outside the Market here in Vegas and beg, oh how the world has changed since 1947.
wait a minute.....blacks judged you on skin color? MSM said that wasn't possible!
This has the look of some sort of KGB recon video. The sleeper cell was just making it look like a casual day around town before getting to the critical shots of attractions and strategically significant locations.
You wouldn't want to film downtown from East St. Louis today.
Completely unreal seeing the point of space-time my parents emerged through. They would be born in Barnes Jewish Hospital during the summer of that year.
Great memories.
I do remember all of this and it was nice before it went all to hell. Saw Stan the Man in the old Sportsman Park. A rough town back then too but they way of thinking was much different than today. Long Live Phantom II.
Ammm I think this was even BEFORE BuscH stadium...GAS LIGHT SQUARE!!!
Who is Ammm? Why say that?
@@michaelcraig9449 why be a prick for now reason.
@@cosmiccharlie1056 Ha
my father & mother met @ McDonnell Douglas in '78 and had me. west city was on the decline so they moved to a beautiful up & coming municipality called WELLSTON... comical as it sounds today, st.L natives know it's the truth.
Welp its a scary city now.
Instead of 1920's music, it would be more fitting to use early 1960's music or late 1950's music, wouldn't it?
Just wondering why and how the 1920's entered into this pitcure of the 1960's. No big deal, just wondering as I've been a musician all my life, now age 70.
Love the video! 👍
Someone please tell me why the song is. It reminds me of a distant memory of a computer game from my childhood and I need to figure out what it is.
Amazing footage! What kind of car was that convertible? Year?
Pretty sure it’s a 1960 Ford
@@2wheelnutt Close..look at the back lights..dead giveaway for a Mercury.
Some might say this footage is taken right around the city's prime... I'm a youngster but statistics and local anecdote all point to the same truth. I would say maybe a few years earlier before 1st through 3rd street was razed to nothing though, an alternate timeline where a lot of the city's history still remained would have been a better one. (Edit: not to mention if they hadn't demolished most of the buildings from the Worlds fair! I would have loved to have been able to explore forest park in that similar state today.) Especially now that America is finally just starting to come to its senses about getting rid of vehicle traffic in cities and making them more walkable, all those streets and businesses and just buildings in general would be priceless to us now. Its cool to have a symbol of some sort to identify your city, but I would much rather have culture to define us than a freaking mid-century vanity project.
Looked better back then
Better then rather than now I can promise you that.
cool ass cars
Excellent video. I was born and raised in the area, and I've done a lot of traveling in the Midwest, and I still think St Louis has the best skyline.
1:14 Is that Stix, Baer & Fuller on the right?
who plays on the sound track?
Where is/was Emerson Electric? Great video
It shows Emerson Electric off of West Florissant (north county) in Google, but I don't remember where it was back in the day. My first guess would have been somewhere closer to Olivette, but I wouldn't bet a penny on that. My father worked at Emmerson right out of electrical engineering school at Rolla then moved on to McDonnell Douglas. This was a great video with a beautiful car and very nice looking model and all of the St. Louis hotspots.
That is at W Florissant and Lucas-Hunt. I worked at Norwood Hills Country club and it backs into the golf course. You could see the HQ building off the East course.
Across from and a little north of the old Northland Shopping Center on West Florissant. I Miss the Admiral.
@@CPrzywojski I in worked at the Norwood Hills also. Back in the 70s
Oh my god
Thanks. Nice to see before the city went into the crapper. Born and raised in North St Louis and I returned for a visit after 35 years and was shocked at what I saw. Suffice to say the third world country I live in now is much nicer. Sad.
jeff crawford St. Louis was a place unwilling to change with the times. They didn’t want to segregate their city. The financial repercussions have been immense.
Soulard Market still go there
I lived in the St Louis area my whole adult life. I lived near AB for twenty years. After two cars were stolen and my house burglarized. I moved to Jefferson county. So yes there was a lot of crimes in my old neighborhood.
Don’t remember anyone asking
@@JohnDoe-yq5bd Always a smart ass. 🖕
Oh Jefferson County With The Meth Heads ?? OK 😂😂 This is America! In Every big city, there will be crime, and rough areas ! Grow Some Balls And Defend Your Self/Territory !
@@kennethgrigsby3913 Maybe. At least I haven't been broken into or had a car stolen in the last twenty years. Plus my kid didn't get bused to a different district in school. Better schools less crime. Yep a win win! Defend what? The pussies steal from you when you're not around or sleeping. You have NO idea what your talking about so STFU
@Nate When I first moved there I could sleep with the doors open and just latch the screen door in the summer. Then the powers to be opened a section 8 apartment building down the street. Then it all went down hill.