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So sad

HELP MICHELLE

I did sound for this for several years.

Why doesn’t this have move views?! Dylan is the 🐐

the problem is always the upstate shitcago politics we just had huge damaging storms in east of belleville are washington county you don't see that fat ass pitzker giving us help fuck shitcago and pitzker

And we're supposed to be supreme beig AMERICA IS DYING!!!!!!!

Haunting melody 4 wats2come

i remember going through cairo on the way from indiana to texas and back quite a few times in the 60s. once dad was going to stop for the night and at the gas station asked the guy where would a good place be. he said it would be best to just keep on driving. there was going to be trouble that night. they were expecting more fighting.....so we moved on. it was falling apart then. at future city there somebody wrote on the city limits sign; FUTURE CITY (only time will tell).......

There are a lot of old farm towns like this in Oklahoma and Kansas. There are old buildings everywhere, completely empty. No new houses have been built in 50-60 years. Maybe 300 people live there, when once it was 3,000. Cairo sticks out in my mind because of an infamous general who made a name for himself there...U.S. Grant.

In Mark Twain's time, Cairo was a very important port-in the days of the riverboat steamers. It began its decline in the 1930s, as rail shipping took over from riverboats. There is simply no need for it anymore-and be advised that the Mississippi/Ohio Rivers flood periodically-so that makes the city even less viable.

Down town looks like a war zone, except for no active combat.

We used to drive thru Cario on the way to central IL as a kid. My mother would always stop at a restaurant downtown for lunch. She went there as a child in the 1920s and took us there. I wish I knew what the name of the restaurant was? It had red brick walls and big ceiling fans. It looked like it was built in the 1800s. Maybe some of you old timers remember it?

Last I heard the population is now (2022) about 1700.

Now the town is down to 1800.

Looks lively in this video compared to now. Less than half the population now than what's posted in this video.Far less buildings too.

This is one of the songs that got me in a punk rock. I know you probably don't look at this anymore or do anything with it because of all the s*** that's happened... But still got to say blah blah blah punk rock saved my life.. blah blah blah.. That kind of b*******..

God....what a dump.

The hand of god has touched you did you learn a lesson mabie try being less corrupt more friendly less greedy this is what you get all you meth dysfunctional know it all crackerjack hillbillies don't feel sorry for you you deserve it try getting it right the next time by the way don't mess with your brother or sister....

the scarecrow

that made me luagh when he let go off the pull with no rope or no nail

Ted dancin machine rules! I’m reading free pizza for life right now I love it brother! Awesome to put a song to the band I’m reading about 👍🏽

Has potential

someone has to care someone pray to rise this town up move it like they did Valmeyer Illinois truth

Breaks my heart my family the knights, moyers are from cairo dad was born there in that old hospital in 1943 grandmother was born there in like 1916 grandpa in 1912 great grandparents ran a tobacco shop there roots run deep there lots of kin folks there

I am watching this in 2021. It is far worse now than when this video was made.

Win some, lose some. No guarantees.

I would literally pay $100 for the original cassette of anyone has a copy.

epic.

I was born in Cairo I was born at St Mary's hospital 1961

7:41 the landscape is like torn off a painting; Sad & Beautiful.

I'm sorry guys, but you need to practice more as... actors. Practice and remake it. Perform better. This could be a good version of the story. Good luck!

May have been at this show, LOL, good times, great band, Oi! DC!

So sad. A town, on the confluence of 2 mighty rivers, should be as big, if not bigger and wealthier, than St. Louis or New Orleans. I grew up 20 miles from Cairo. My grandparents lived there. Many wonderful memories from late 70's/80's. Saw my 1st movie at the Gem theater when I was 5. My cousins and I got to go see Pete'a Dragon. There was a bakery, Eddie's Pastry, they had a butter top coffee cake (NOT a gooey butter coffee cake, that isn't fit to eat in my opinion) that I could eat my weight in! So yummy. Long ago there was a What A Buger just before you went under the trussel into town that had the best burgers. I remember Mack's BBQ, the OLD Shemwells BBQ (not the place that is still there today, no comparison) and don't forget The Turf, which was a bar but had the BEST pizza ever! Today Cairo doesn't even have a grocery store, just a Dollar General. No fresh meat or vegetables unless you drive 30 mins to MO or KY. Poverty abounds. So sad. There should be no reason whatsoever for that town to be in the pitiful condition it is. I can only assume corruption is to blame. In fact, if you dig deep enough you will find that was the case with the public housing commission, they were happily taking the governments money without any upkeep or maintenance. Eventually the public housing was condemned and razed. Many families left without a home. The town is still full of wonderful people just a sad state the town is in. Lots of love to the wonderful people of the deepest part of Southern Illinois.

tear the buildings down rebuild the city by selling the land to investors

Reminds me of silent hill.

Im from Cairo I was born at st Mary's hospital in 84

Stupid.

My grandfather's antique store can be seen at 2:15. Back then it was all picture window displays and not boarded up. They lived in the apartment upstairs with my aunts and uncles. My uncle Tommy fell out of the 2nd story window when he was a toddler. Scraped him up but no broken bones. My sister and I were born in that hospital when it was called Saint Mary's Hospital. I'm glad they showed the bridge to Kentucky, because that's where my sister and I grew up. The little village called Wickliffe Kentucky is 5 miles past the end of the bridge.

My Great Grandfather owned a grocery store in 1915 I have the cash register and meat slicer and a good picture of it on the inside

Thanks for the video! Glad you captured it before it was gone. That yellow brick building @2:31 was the McKinley Interurban station, the building that stored the street trolleys built in 1910. Really neat video!

Interesting video, if one ignores the music and some melodramatic captions.

mm, want to see more from this duo

Very good and interesting video-eeerie song too! Cairo IL looks like a little piece of Detroit was dropped into the bottom of Illinois!

I wonder if Cairo has ever been used as a setting for a post apocalyptic movie.

Cairo needs to be revived somehow. This is depressing seeing all those abandoned buildings.

It's virtually an abondon town let the rivers take it back

Amazing! Can we get a part 2 ? THE WORLD NEEDS HEROS

Lol was year was this??

Cairo is a sad mess now...at least the bridges to & fro are way kewl!

The state is shit hole .