St. Louis has its fair share of problems. However, some of the inner ring suburbs also have those same problems. St. Louis used to be one of the nations industrial powerhouses. As those jobs moved however, the city and some of the older suburbs started to see decline. In this video you’ll see the suburb of Normandy, along with a handful of other smaller cities that surround Normandy.
0:00 – 2:46 University of Missouri St. Louis
2:46 – 5:13 Normandy
5:13 – 8:40 Pasadena Park and Hills
8:40 – 13:19 Northwoods
13:19 – 20:22 Pine Lawn
20:22 – 21:30 Beverly Hills
21:30 – 24:13 Velda City
24:13 – 24:45 Hillsdale
24:45 – 26:07 Normandy High School
26:07 – 29:42 Wellston
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Thanks much Chris.
Bring back the old hood music!
It was a great place to grow up in the 50s and 60s. Moved away in 1972. Last time I went there in 1994, my car was surrounded by some rough looking teenagers. I told them I was scouting g a location for a movie and if they wanted to be in it as extras to leave me their names and numbers. Some actually did. Hahaha
Thanks. Today, Normandy School District is essentially babysitting with two free meals a day. People move out to get to "better" schools, and think they will be accomodated more than others due to historic racism. When they finally reach the Pattonville School District, they discover that Pattonville students represent 57 countries and 42 languages, but some still demand special treatment above the rest of the students. Pattonville is not a magic building with magic students and teachers. It's hard work and achievement. That's what the Normandy School District needs, but if they can't do it, then the Normandy District suburbs will loose population that should move across the U.S. for easy assimilation.
My mom grew up in Wellston. It started going downhill in the very early 1960s. When I would go spend the night at my grandmothers, it never failed to see a burning house or two. Owners would burn them down for the insurance. I hated going to Wellston, who, by the way, had its own high school until the population and horrible ratings for the district forced it to close.
Good one! I lived on Wabada for a short time in 1953. By 1965 gangs had taken over Wellston and the few remaining white folks were persecuted out. It may as well be North St Louis.
I'm a famous Normandy alum 😂, ok maybe not famous but I did go to Normandy all four years of HS. I lived in a little unincorporated city just south of Bel-Ridge and North of the Rock Road..I walked a lot of the area you drove.
Going to Normandy was so unfortunate, we had so few resources. We have so many cemeteries in Normandy and that just doesn't bring in a lot of tax revenue. We only got yearbooks our senior year. We never had home football games or track events because our field and track were shit.
We used to have a building with a pool in it. When I had gym class my freshman year and had swimming, I was the only one who knew how to swim, so my teacher taught me diving and flipping off the diving board.
We used to have barb-wire on top of the fence that surrounded the campus. One day the principal came and visited with the excellerated classes to get feedback from us on school improvements. We wanted the barb-wire gone and it did come down. I have heard that metal detectors were installed a few years after I graduated, so I'm surprised to see it is still gone.
It may have been a rough school with few resources but I have fond memories, there were plenty of good students!
This area looks really pretty
Pasadena hills is gorgeous. Hello from New Zealand.
Bad? I expected Detroit, Baltimore or LA. They look like bombed out Zombie land. These 'bad' homes are clean, well manicured and well maintained. The streets are clean as are the cars. There's no graffiti. I only saw one home that was boarded up. Just from the visuals I would live there.
“Mean Streetz” is better than “Evil Streets.”
Almost all suburbs will decline. Damn near every one of them is fiscally unsustainable and do not even bring on enough revenue for basic infrastructure maintenance. It is the ugly secret no one wants to admit b/c so many folks love living in suburbia.
St Louis is in the middle of the country on a greatest river, what happened ?
Drop the annoying 'music' please.
Your response to violent crime is to drink shakes, work out, and take boxing lessons? Are you joking? How about buying a gun, seeing as anyone breaking in is likely to be packing. What good is a nice left jab when the perp is ten feet away from you and holding a pistol?
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With those crime rates, wow. I see another callibozo coming on. The one guy that backed his car out in front of the video? By the barry obozo school. They acted like a criminal there didn’t they? I mean you can see how a police officer would follow them around, call in the plates, so on.
I don't know when. But the only option that I see for the long-term future is for Saint Louis City and Saint Louis County to be merged into a single municipality
Black people don't take care of their neighborhood like the white people do.
It baffles me. Even tho Society is struggling, We are yet to even attempt to implement: "The concept around: The better off the lowest income living people are doing; The better the entire rest of our countries economy could be doing." -Think of it like a ecosystem in nature. The least important little things might seem meaningless and insignificant yet, if they crumbled away, the entire ecosystem would crumble. The last things remaining would be the top diverse predators that eat everything else.. until they eat each other.. leaving just a few top sharks in the ecosystem.. the whales would all be gone once the plankton crumble away, the sharks would eat the whales. Then once all that's left is sharks, the sharks would eat the sharks. *(Think of this but as a analogy for our economy and our modern day society..)
If we instead decided to support the lowest people in the ecosystem, there would be a beneficial systematic dispersion towards other aspects of society benefiting. All because the lowest people would be flourishing. I say flourish but I really just mean, able to obtain the most basic essential living standards… Yet even that would Vastly improve our current state of our economy & society *Also imagine this analogy in our economy. The more help we invest in the lowest level people, the more it would trickle into every facet of our economy. If poor people can pay their rent & not go homeless: landlords would get $, businesses would get $, banks would get $, local small shops would get $, mortgages & bills could be paid, insurance companies would get $, Taxes would get $, So essentially that $ would go out & filter right back in to improve our Country while simultaneously improving our quality of Life. Every bit of the economy would somehow find a way to benefit off of this situation… I don't get why we haven't even Given it a chance?? If it doesn't help? Then by all means stop it and figure out what problems we could be facing might be one's that run way deeper than expected and that would take drastic changes to improve that situation… (I hope we TRY something soon, before things get any more unstable. The worst thing we could do is continue on doing exactly what we are currently doing. It might get to a point where overcoming our struggles could simply become a pipedream. I don't want it to get to that)
15:42 The name of this school says it all.
24:1 C🤬MMUNITY IS STR8 UP TRASH
Interesting how we've let the blight of the city just keep expanding out. Now that can be said about Saint Louis Detroit Kansas City and a whole host of other cities. Just not concern as a whole was what's going on until it comes up and bites us. Eventually it does because the blight continues to expand outward. Ironically had chance to go to UMSL. Basically live free. It was little bit far away from home but your relatives nearby at the time. One of them had passed on and I was fond of them and they were fond of me. Freehouse and property and it was little bit farther out but I could pretend I'm so been in district and everything else. But how good of a spill do you think I'm so really was? We can let other people answer that. But I went to a better school far away. They had left her home to me with one stipulation that I live in it for five years. Otherwise it was to be sold and the proceeds go to there more immediate relatives. Well they got the money 💰. There's not a lot to be said good about St Louis Kansas City Springfield Missouri. Crime and blight. Pretty much takes care of the major cities in Missouri except for maybe Columbia. I don't know a lot about it.
Coming out of the Navy in January 1965, I entered the "University" on probation, being a high school drop out. I got in, I think, because at that time the "University" consisted of the old country club's clubhouse. The first school building at that time was under construction. It opened for classes in September 1966. I remember sitting in the ballroom with about 300 kids, listening to lectures about the Hapsburgs offered by a pompous professor. I graduated from Mizzou at Columbia in 1969.