No kidding.
Back in 1977, I was sent TDY to Scott AFB.
Even the taxi driver told me to stay the Eff out of St Loo-wee - if I wanted to stay alive.
Last time I was there a relative picked me up at the airport, and I was remarking on the interesting old buildings you can see from the freeway. “You don’t want to see what’s inside them,” she said...
Amazon helped kill cities, as did democrat policies of no cash bail, and defunding the police.
Look on the bright side - you still have some 7-11s!
There really isn't much in the way of traffic control; speeding cars, and ignored stop signs and lights are to be be expected. As long as you know that, you can act accordingly.
Why is it pronounced Saint Lou-ee and Louisville is pronounced Loo-ah-ville?
Cause and effect, one of nature’s most mysterious and incomprehensible laws, at least for a liberal
I think Milwaukeestan, WI holds the record for no Republican Mayor for 118 years, now.
I was born there; we escaped in 1970.
Don’t worry. The next Democrat will fix everything
And it's not just St Louis: Baltimore, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and yes, even New York, are going down this path. Yet the idiot voters keep voting for more of the same.
The city of St. Louis is an interesting place. Some time back it divorced itself from St. Louis County because the city didn’t want to pay to improve the hick county. But that move locked the city limits.
A hundred years later and the City would love to be able to tap into all the tax money available in St Louis county, but the county wants nothing to do with it.
The city has lost more than half of its peak population in the last 50 years. As you drive on the interstates you’ll see mile after mile of brick homes—all boarded up and abandoned. Church spires are everywhere, but most of the churches have also been abandoned.
Because of its small geographic size very bad neighborhoods are physically close to nicer places. Go just a few blocks the wrong way and you’ll find yourself deep in ‘Injun’ territory.
you would have to start by ending crime. And since that is their voting base, it will never happen.
Was always in a doom loop, afiac.
Or, have democrats been stealing elections in these jurisdictions for years? Decades?
Not that hard to believe for me...
You have to read the whole article to get to the section that discusses how not too many blocks west of the blighted area revitalization is occurring.
The population has gone from 857,000 and 82% white in 1950 to 293,000 and 42% white today. It’s a ghost town.
There’s got to be some really cheap real estate there.
I had a job offer there for one of the aircraft companies. This was when the BLM riots were burning the city down. I laughed at the recruiter. He admitted they have been having a hard time finding people to work there.
We lived in the far western ‘burbs from ‘66 to ‘69. It wasn’t bad back then. You were warned to keep out of East St. Louis. But going downtown was safe — ball games at the then-new Busch Stadium, concerts at Kiel Auditorium, the just-completed Arch and Gateway Park. It was quite nice.
I was born there and spent the first twenty-five years of my life in the area. It was once a great city. I used to go all over the city (except the north side) without any concern for my safety. It’s a shame how so many of our historic cities have fallen into ruin.
If you come home and your lights don’t work you been visited by illegals at work copper thieves.