I was born at the old St. Antony's Hospital in 1938. Went through the war in St. Louis with my dad working at Curtiss Wright. I graduated from DeAndreis High School in 1956 when rock 'n roll was king, and I finally got a job at McDonnell Aircraft. I graduated from Parks Collage (St. Louis University) in 1965 and finally got married at the Old Cathedral in 1966. The rest is history. Loved St. Louis in the 50's and 60's.
My father Boyd Adderley worked for Curtis Wright and graduated from Parks Air School on the east side and worked for McDonnall Aricraft and we left St Louis in 1955 to go to Lancaster Calif, Edwards AFB where he was a rep for the F-101 Voodoo. Left California for Las Vegas Norton AFB and my Dad served in BangkokThailand and DaNang VietNam before returning to St Louis where he work as a buyer for the Harrier. A few years later I was in DaNang with the Navy my parents are long gone and I'm 75 now but remember all the great times with my Dad on the flightline.
Born 76 razed in St Louis what a great city it use to be, Now I am ashamed . When I go on a cruise and someone asked where you from I reply FLY OVER COUNTRY. This film brings back so many memories.
I was born in the 90s but this made me sad. The once vibrant city just isn't what it used to be... I only visited (this last weekend), and there were nice parts, but the majority of the buildings looked abandoned. Surly a manufacturing power house at one point, but now a dying town whose decrepit buildings tell a story of such a time. Anything and everything will pass, but sometimes too quickly.
My Dad's parent's lived in Webster Groves when I was a kid. We lived in upstate NY so getting there was a rare treat. My father took us to Garavelli's in 1956,and we & my bros. got roast beef sandwiches. They were good. I went to the Fox Theater the same trip, and saw "The Searcher's" w/ John Wayne. We went back 3 more times, the last, me alone, when my grandmother was a widow in 1968, and living in the downtown apartment's near the arch.
I lived there in the mid-Sixties. Spent a lot of time at the ColorArt store. Also Famous-Barr, and the McDonnell Planetarium (new at the time). Are any of those places still around? I also remember my father, when house-hunting, asking the realtor if the neighborhoods of interest had any dark-skinned residents. Perfectly acceptable question at the time.
It wasn't. All you could do was go to the burger shop and have a real "neat" and "swell" hamburger, and than go run around in an open field or something like that. I would have killed myself back then.
The drugstore at Westroads was a Ben Franklin. Nearby was a Pope's Cafeteria. Betterndorf's was up at Hanley and Clayton, where a Schnuck's market was later located. Also, re. the "Fitz's" restaurant in the video, the real "Fitz's," owned by the O'Brien family, was a small railroad car-style restaurant on Clayton just east of Brentwood on the south side of the street, in the 50's and 60's. The Fitz's in the video came much later, long after the original closed. Other businesses before Fitz's came into that building included a bank and the Lantern House restaurant. The Lantern House restaurant itself was previously located on or near the southwest corner of Delmar and Skinker.
You must mean White Castle, I lived in St.Louis from 1960 -1992 and I never seen any such sign while I lived there. Actually the years I lived there, racial tension was practically non existent. I'm white and me and my black co-workers used to go to bars ,restaurants and bowling alleys together with never a problem.
you must have been wearing blinders, i was a child in the 60s, and i remember back door service for "coloreds" at white castle and no service at woolworth's lunch counters. i remember ivory perry climbing the north leg of the arch during its construction to protest the lack of black contracts awarded towards its construction. that's just the petty stuff. i wont mention the violence and intimidation when you were "out of place" and not the right skin tone. st louis literally had it all from A to Z! :) !
*meant to type "that had a sign out on their front yard that said Jesus. In S. Saint Louis, I was even told to lock my door just getting gas? I live now in a city and the cities around me, there is such Fear in a lot of things you do, as there was in S. Saint Louis.
L Cheragotti, I agree...crime is everywhere, but many cities are worse than others. South Saint Louis is one of them. All I ever saw was sex, sex, sex, and lust Everywhere. I never lived in a city with all the nastiness that S. Saint Louis has. I hardly even heard one person ever speak of the love of God either, or saw others with a personal relationship with the Lord either. One day, as I was going down a street..I was SHOCKED to see ONE house has a sign out on their front yard that said Jesus!
They, of ALL people, shouldn't say that. The reasoning behind that, as so many of us St. Louisan's know the only reason that claim is anywhere near valid, is do to the fact that they are basing the statement on the amount of crime vs. residents. Anyone with half a brain would realize this if they consider the "suburban flights" that our city has endured through the years. :(
I used to go to school sick because if I stayed home I knew my mother would make me watch Charlotte Peters with her. Could not stand her. Loved the old Avalon theater and Sportsman's Park.
. From what I have seen, it seems to be true. It would of been nice if it stayed as this video shows, but it seems to not be this way anymore. Which is a sad thing. People try so hard to clean the city up, in showing neighbors, yet many ignore who lives in their own homes, and what they are doing. Its a shame the city did not stay the way this video shows it.
I saw a post from the Daily RFT.com that said St. Louis Named Number One Most Deadly Place to Live in America, and also they went on to say its the The most sinful city in America
There was Bob Ferrell, King Richard, Gil Newsome, Robert BQ, Dave Dixon and many others I listened to. Drove my parents car everywhere...56 Chevy Bel Aire, and then my own car, TR 3, went to many drivein eating places, drive in movie places and always had a great time doing the Imperial...you could do that dance on either side of the river and the girls loved just about any boy that knew it. Favorite theatres were Fox, St. Louis, issouri, Ambassador, Loew's State, Washinton (GC, IL)
There was Bob Ferrell, King Richard, Gil Newsome, Robert BQ, Dave Dixon and many others I listened to. Drove my parents car everywhere...56 Chevy Bel Aire, and then my own car, TR 3, went to many drivein eating places, drive in movie places and always had a great time doing the Imperial...you could do that dance on either side of the river and the girls loved just about any boy that knew it. Favorite theatres were Fox, St. Louism Missouri, Ambassador, Loew's State, Washinton (GC, IL)
Does anyone remember the name of the dimestore/drugstore at Westroads Shopping Center (now Galleria) in the '60s & '70s? . It wasn't Woolworth's or Kresge's. And I think it was next to Bettendorf's grocery store.
This brought back so many memories! The Tamale man on the corner from the Granada Theater, the knife sharpener (that REALLY goes back!), Ronnie's, sledding on Art Hill, the milk man with blocks of ice - and in the summer the driver would chunk off some for us kids, The Highlands where our school picnic was always held, Mr. Softee (ding....ding...), the first hot pretzels at Famous South County...I could go on! Thanks for these memories! I'm sure we all have many to share!
So many memories…from Mr. Softee to Kreskes…I remember them all 😊
I was born at the old St. Antony's Hospital in 1938. Went through the war in St. Louis with my dad working at Curtiss Wright. I graduated from DeAndreis High School in 1956 when rock 'n roll was king, and I finally got a job at McDonnell Aircraft. I graduated from Parks Collage (St. Louis University) in 1965 and finally got married at the Old Cathedral in 1966. The rest is history. Loved St. Louis in the 50's and 60's.
My father Boyd Adderley worked for Curtis Wright and graduated from Parks Air School on the east side and worked for McDonnall Aricraft and we left St Louis in 1955 to go to Lancaster Calif, Edwards AFB where he was a rep for the F-101 Voodoo. Left California for Las Vegas Norton AFB and my Dad served in BangkokThailand and DaNang VietNam before returning to St Louis where he work as a buyer for the Harrier. A few years later I was in DaNang with the Navy my parents are long gone and I'm 75 now but remember all the great times with my Dad on the flightline.
Born 76 razed in St Louis what a great city it use to be, Now I am ashamed . When I go on a cruise and someone asked where you from I reply FLY OVER COUNTRY. This film brings back so many memories.
I was born in the 90s but this made me sad. The once vibrant city just isn't what it used to be... I only visited (this last weekend), and there were nice parts, but the majority of the buildings looked abandoned. Surly a manufacturing power house at one point, but now a dying town whose decrepit buildings tell a story of such a time. Anything and everything will pass, but sometimes too quickly.
Look at it today. The entire State needs to be leveled and started...over
The BEST years EVER for growing up in St. Louis, and being a young TEEN!!! Some of those favorites are STILL ROCKIN'!
Several of those are still going strong.
my younger sister worked at crown candy when she was 14 years old...
I was born in St. Louis in 1947 so everything here brought back a lot of memories. Thank you for the post.
Old Judge coffee.....forgot all about it!
What was name of restaurant on russell and cherokee in 1950 60s
St louis is a dirty chocolate city now after 50 plus years of liberal policies.
We snuck into the World but were highly disappointed to see someone the age of our mothers.
Did you forget "White Castle"
Actually I was missing Red Barn Restaurant. I remember one on Natural Bridge near Taylor.
My Dad's parent's lived in Webster Groves when I was a kid. We lived in upstate NY so getting there was a rare treat. My father took us to Garavelli's in 1956,and we & my bros. got roast beef sandwiches. They were good. I went to the Fox Theater the same trip, and saw "The Searcher's" w/ John Wayne. We went back 3 more times, the last, me alone, when my grandmother was a widow in 1968, and living in the downtown apartment's near the arch.
Why do you have a picture of the Pomona Fairgrounds dragstrip (Home of the Winternationals) with a subtitle Pacific Raceways?
Check the name on the car
@@jimparker7778 Not sure of your point.
I lived there in the mid-Sixties. Spent a lot of time at the ColorArt store. Also Famous-Barr, and the McDonnell Planetarium (new at the time). Are any of those places still around? I also remember my father, when house-hunting, asking the realtor if the neighborhoods of interest had any dark-skinned residents. Perfectly acceptable question at the time.
What a fucking racist. At least your generation is dying out.
im 20 and not going anywhere,,sorry the truth hurts
why not a Bob pettit ,( St Louis hawks center) pic???
I know Bob Pettit from St. Charles.....was a mess of those kids...lol
Velvet Freeze , you could get Ice Cream in a plastic Baseball Cap
I remember that at the Velvet Freze on Gravois and Compton
The fifties and the sixties were very good years for being a kid. This memory just makes you stop and think how much time has gone by.
It wasn't. All you could do was go to the burger shop and have a real "neat" and "swell" hamburger, and than go run around in an open field or something like that. I would have killed myself back then.
nah it was nice speaking to others who werent staring into a stupid phone every second lol
The Palace of Poison was in Lemay on Lemay Ferry Road.
Typo--"Bettendorf's," not Betterndorf's."
The drugstore at Westroads was a Ben Franklin. Nearby was a Pope's Cafeteria. Betterndorf's was up at Hanley and Clayton, where a Schnuck's market was later located. Also, re. the "Fitz's" restaurant in the video, the real "Fitz's," owned by the O'Brien family, was a small railroad car-style restaurant on Clayton just east of Brentwood on the south side of the street, in the 50's and 60's. The Fitz's in the video came much later, long after the original closed. Other businesses before Fitz's came into that building included a bank and the Lantern House restaurant. The Lantern House restaurant itself was previously located on or near the southwest corner of Delmar and Skinker.
i don't recognize the Palace of poison, where was that?
lemay ferry by steaknshake,,it was recently a liqour store now gone,,better enjoy steak n shake ,,its going too
I don't know why Bluberry Hill is in this. It opened in 1972.
Thanks! I have great memories of growing up in old north St. Louis! Especially the hot tamale man!!!!
where are the whites only signs
HA!
You must mean White Castle, I lived in St.Louis from 1960 -1992 and I never seen any such sign while I lived there. Actually the years I lived there, racial tension was practically non existent. I'm white and me and my black co-workers used to go to bars ,restaurants and bowling alleys together with never a problem.
you must have been wearing blinders, i was a child in the 60s, and i remember back door service for "coloreds" at white castle and no service at woolworth's lunch counters. i remember ivory perry climbing the north leg of the arch during its construction to protest the lack of black contracts awarded towards its construction. that's just the petty stuff. i wont mention the violence and intimidation when you were "out of place" and not the right skin tone. st louis literally had it all from A to Z! :) !
*meant to type "that had a sign out on their front yard that said Jesus. In S. Saint Louis, I was even told to lock my door just getting gas? I live now in a city and the cities around me, there is such Fear in a lot of things you do, as there was in S. Saint Louis.
L Cheragotti, I agree...crime is everywhere, but many cities are worse than others. South Saint Louis is one of them. All I ever saw was sex, sex, sex, and lust Everywhere. I never lived in a city with all the nastiness that S. Saint Louis has. I hardly even heard one person ever speak of the love of God either, or saw others with a personal relationship with the Lord either. One day, as I was going down a street..I was SHOCKED to see ONE house has a sign out on their front yard that said Jesus!
They, of ALL people, shouldn't say that. The reasoning behind that, as so many of us St. Louisan's know the only reason that claim is anywhere near valid, is do to the fact that they are basing the statement on the amount of crime vs. residents. Anyone with half a brain would realize this if they consider the "suburban flights" that our city has endured through the years. :(
theresa reason for flight and its obvious,,no one wants to live with crime violence and drugs
What is so weird is that a month ago I am driving up the street in Watauga Texas and coming down the street opposite direction was a Mr. Softee truck.
I used to go to school sick because if I stayed home I knew my mother would make me watch Charlotte Peters with her. Could not stand her. Loved the old Avalon theater and Sportsman's Park.
. From what I have seen, it seems to be true. It would of been nice if it stayed as this video shows, but it seems to not be this way anymore. Which is a sad thing. People try so hard to clean the city up, in showing neighbors, yet many ignore who lives in their own homes, and what they are doing. Its a shame the city did not stay the way this video shows it.
I saw a post from the Daily RFT.com that said St. Louis Named Number One Most Deadly Place to Live in America, and also they went on to say its the The most sinful city in America
You think St Louis the most deadly /sinful? WHoa try Chicago or New York
i liv here and it is,,,its a hell hole and i have stayed too long
brought back some memories I was born in the 60's..Good clean and wholesome
Where was the poison restaurant at the end?
Great video. Music made me cry but it was too pretty to turn off.
Wow..I grew up in south city St.Louis..this brought so much back to me,,, to me the good ol days...Living in Ecuador now...miss you St. Louis
that stlouis does not exist anymore..you can only miss the great memories,,stay in ecuador
newberry's
Oh my gosh! This video is amazing! I love the walk down memory lane. Thank you so much for sharing. :o)
There was Bob Ferrell, King Richard, Gil Newsome, Robert BQ, Dave Dixon and many others I listened to. Drove my parents car everywhere...56 Chevy Bel Aire, and then my own car, TR 3, went to many drivein eating places, drive in movie places and always had a great time doing the Imperial...you could do that dance on either side of the river and the girls loved just about any boy that knew it. Favorite theatres were Fox, St. Louis, issouri, Ambassador, Loew's State, Washinton (GC, IL)
There was Bob Ferrell, King Richard, Gil Newsome, Robert BQ, Dave Dixon and many others I listened to. Drove my parents car everywhere...56 Chevy Bel Aire, and then my own car, TR 3, went to many drivein eating places, drive in movie places and always had a great time doing the Imperial...you could do that dance on either side of the river and the girls loved just about any boy that knew it. Favorite theatres were Fox, St. Louism Missouri, Ambassador, Loew's State, Washinton (GC, IL)
how cool!
@chach2000 I don't exactly know, but could it have been a Ben Franklin store?
Does anyone remember the name of the dimestore/drugstore at Westroads Shopping Center (now Galleria) in the '60s & '70s? . It wasn't Woolworth's or Kresge's. And I think it was next to Bettendorf's grocery store.
anyone else notice theres no 4:37
I had my 16th birthday at the teen dance show in st. Louis. It was televised. I sure would love to have a copy of that.
Great Memories are here! Thanks for uploading this video.
So cool that many of the st. louis landmarks are still here and operating.
This brought back so many memories! The Tamale man on the corner from the Granada Theater, the knife sharpener (that REALLY goes back!), Ronnie's, sledding on Art Hill, the milk man with blocks of ice - and in the summer the driver would chunk off some for us kids, The Highlands where our school picnic was always held, Mr. Softee (ding....ding...), the first hot pretzels at Famous South County...I could go on! Thanks for these memories! I'm sure we all have many to share!