Im moving there in the summer! I have been there so many times and love it. Its big but not crazy densed like Chicago which was my second option. Plenty of nursing jobs in st louis
My mother was from Clayton. As an adult, I lived right off Forest Park on Pershing. Looking good. Thought I'd just take a little spin around the old neighborhoods tonight. Thank you Chris.
Born and raised in the Tower Grove neighborhood in the 60 and 70's. Enjoy the drive through videos of the city and greater St. Louis area. Live out in Saint Charles now and still have friends in the city. Go and visit once in a while and the city still has some of its old glory but it's a shame what the current and some former mayoral and city council occupants have allowed the city to deteriorate into. Every big city has its struggles and I hope the best for my city's future. Go Cards!
I haven't been back to St. Louis for many years, but I was born in St. Louis and moved to University City in 1960, graduating from U.City High in 1965. Watching this video was very nostalgic and like a drive through these areas, which look familiar, even though many of the actual buildings post-date my living there. I'm glad a comment mentioned the 1904 World's Fair, which was in Forest Park. The Missouri History Museum in Forest Park was originally the Jefferson Memorial and when I was living there, held an entire wing of trophies and memorabilia dedicated to Charles Lindbergh for his famous transatlantic flight, including a replica of his plane The Spirit of St. Louis. I don't know whether they're still there.
Clayton Missouri is becoming 'the new downtown' with major office towers, expensive condominiums and some of the best schools in the area. It amazes me as I am old enough to remember when the tallest building in Clayton was the three story brick courthouse.
As a native of Clayton, I strongly suggest your next video include a drive down Wydown. It’s without question one of the most beautiful residential streets in the St.Louis metro area.
Brought back so many great memories of growing up there. I cried when you were driving through Forest Park. 😊❤ We went to the Muny every summer. It was great seeing all the Broadway shows. I've lived all over the country and look forward to watching more of your videos. On warm summer nights, you could smell the hops from the brewery.
I grew up there too and share your nostalgia. My family still lives there after all these years. The Muny, fabulous outdoor venue. My sister and I danced on stage there when we were kids. Saw Rudolph Nureyev dance there. Many summers of enjoyment in the heat & humidity at the Muny.
clayton looks surpisingly walkable - gotta be one of the most urban 'edge cities' that exists - nothing like uptown houston or sandy springs/dunwoody here
I moved to Clayton my freshman year in high school (1993) and was so impressed by the public high school. It was miles above my hometown of Joplin, MO. Yes, Clayton is full of wealthy people who lead wealthy lives and while I am always grateful for the education and idyllic 4 years I spent there, I hated that the income inequality in STL city and countywas so blatant. How amazing would this country be if everyone was provided the type of public education I received at Clayton High School?
13:32 The athletic field on the left was the site for much of the 1904 Olympics, also the same year that the Worlds Fair was happening nearby in Forest Park.
Yes thanks for showing and telling about what going on in each city and county. That’s way when I visit I will know my way around and what neighborhood .👍👍👍
I am a life long StL Co. resident for my entire life, 56 years, and I dread going to Clayton. There is near perpetual road construction and frequent building and utility construction going on somewhere. Then there is the parking issue. Traffic can be difficult though not always bad especially at night when it is a near ghost town. Most times it is worse than downtown St. Louis. There are some nice homes surrounding Clayton proper and gorgeous neighborhoods.
This a beautiful area of St. Louis. I hope you will some day cover more of the Central West End and the historic southside neighborhoods like Soulard, Lafayette Square, Shaw, the Tower Groves, St. Louis Hills, etc., which are among the most visually interesting places in the St. Louis area.
U City was a utopia when I was growing up and graduated from the U my family goes back to the 1950s and still live there. I'm glad has started the process of bringing ucity 3rd ward back to life
During the gentrification of U City I renovated several units in 708 Interdrive and 715 Limit. The units became housing for nursing students at Wash U. Threw a lot of darts at Blueberry Hill. This was cool! BTW, I got to see "Starry Night" at the Art Museum as part of a travelling exhibition, so this city is big enough to attract international culture and trade. You should be making about $150k to live in these neighborhoods. Other millionaires might look at Ladue and Ollivette.
It could be that the vid has been edited. Same thing once happened to me when I posted a time stamp that was no longer in the vid after editing. As I write this, at 23:00 both buildings come into view, Chase Park Plaza on the left, 100 Above the Park on the right. After he turns left, then right, the buildings disappear from view, then reappear as he passes between them at 23:23.
Right towards the end, the domed building is the Cathedral, called by locals the "New Cathedral" (there's a very old small basilica on the riverfront locally called the "Old Cathedral"). The New Cathedral is full of amazing Byzantine-style mosaics, not what you'd expect in the Midwest.
At 3:04, the building overlooking Shaw Park used to be the headquarters of National Prearranged Services. It was the largest provider of prearranged and prepaid funeral contracts in the US. The organization also ran a $450 million fraud from 1992-2008 that targeted customers primarily in Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas.
You have a great speaking voice and sound much like a computer animated voice at times. I mean that as a compliment. You should look for voiceover jobs if you dont already.
Btw, I love your vids! Im here in Denver and, if I may request, it would be neat to see you do Denver and maybe some of it's suburbs, DTC specifically?
@@ChrisHarden Awesome! This is great content. I stayed at the Le Meridien Hotel in Clayton recently and thats why I searched and found your channel. Your vid was so good, that I sat there and watched your channels vids until late last night lol.
Thanks! Not everyone in the comment sections of my videos are as nice as you, lol. Good to know how you found the channel and I’m glad you enjoy the vids!
@@ChrisHarden can you do one of Shiloh and Lebanon and maybe Scott Air Force base or if not can you do one of st Charles Missouri Edit: Shiloh is in Illinois Lebanon is in Illinois and Scott Air Force base is in Illinois and all of them are in the metro east of St. Louis
@@wingsfan1450 definitely surprising STL have a hug wealth due to a lot of Low income - Middle class being so cheap all things got in common is ghetto and the hood that all Of north county and sum parts of west county
Why not Missouri?? Grew up there. Gorgeous places, not all of it, of course. Many extremely poor as well. Much wealth, as somebody else mentioned. Anheuser Busch, for instance. Clayton & U City IS St. louis . . . just the county, not the city. Forest Park is St. Louis City as is the memorial you saw. There are homes and neighborhoods in Clayton and in the city of St. Louis that would blow a person's mind if they could be seen on video here.
Thanks for this video Chris. Wish you would go slower to actually see a building or house or landmark? For instance, the exquisite old homes along Lindell Blvd. Couldn't see the Memorial at all or not one home in Clayton. Couldn't see anything in U. City! Or some of the gorgeous buildings on Wash U. campus. Grew up here so am very familiar with all of this but cannot see a thing. Interesting but disappointing. Close up view of the high rise? What did i miss? No offense also but Lindell Blvd. is pronounced Lin Dell with accent on first syllable, not on "dell." A blur.
I would have liked growing up in the western St. Louis suburbs, graduating from a great public high school, and capping off my education with an MBA from Washington University and then a fat corporate job in Clayton. I worked for Maryville College back in the day, we tried hard, but fell way short of Wash U. I have always liked St. Louis. The best botanical gardens I have personally visited were in St. Louis, and the train station is worth seeing. It is a shame that the local thugs have destroyed the city of St. Louis.
I love driving through Clayton in the winter ❄️🥶❄️🥶 because there is a out side ice skating rink ⛸️⛸️ and the white rich kids will be drinking their hot cocoa and cappuccino . The attire they wear is very expensive they look like models from the Plaza Mall. The clothes must be from Saks or Neiman they look like professionals Wall Street people. Dexter Lombardo out 🤠
I moved from Alton, IL to Clayton when I was in middle school. I'm not a fan of Clayton or the stuck people that live there. Central West End, Soulard, University City, The Hill, there are so many better places.
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Im moving there in the summer! I have been there so many times and love it. Its big but not crazy densed like Chicago which was my second option. Plenty of nursing jobs in st louis
Oh yeah. There is a huge hospital complex in Forest Park here
My mother was from Clayton. As an adult, I lived right off Forest Park on Pershing. Looking good. Thought I'd just take a little spin around the old neighborhoods tonight. Thank you Chris.
5800 Pershing in skinker is a horrible neighborhood it’s dangerous fr that a 92Bloods neighborhood
I lived on Pershing too, c 1980
@@richardsprow3418 6170 Perhing almost at Talaynias .
I left in 1981
Born and raised in the Tower Grove neighborhood in the 60 and 70's. Enjoy the drive through videos of the city and greater St. Louis area. Live out in Saint Charles now and still have friends in the city. Go and visit once in a while and the city still has some of its old glory but it's a shame what the current and some former mayoral and city council occupants have allowed the city to deteriorate into. Every big city has its struggles and I hope the best for my city's future. Go Cards!
I haven't been back to St. Louis for many years, but I was born in St. Louis and moved to University City in 1960, graduating from U.City High in 1965. Watching this video was very nostalgic and like a drive through these areas, which look familiar, even though many of the actual buildings post-date my living there. I'm glad a comment mentioned the 1904 World's Fair, which was in Forest Park. The Missouri History Museum in Forest Park was originally the Jefferson Memorial and when I was living there, held an entire wing of trophies and memorabilia dedicated to Charles Lindbergh for his famous transatlantic flight, including a replica of his plane The Spirit of St. Louis. I don't know whether they're still there.
Clayton Missouri is becoming 'the new downtown' with major office towers, expensive condominiums and some of the best schools in the area. It amazes me as I am old enough to remember when the tallest building in Clayton was the three story brick courthouse.
I wonder how can they keep clayton safe when North county ain't that far from it and so it's St louis city???.
1904, when St. Louis hosted the Olympics, it also had the Worlds Fair. Back when that was a big deal
As a native of Clayton, I strongly suggest your next video include a drive down Wydown. It’s without question one of the most beautiful residential streets in the St.Louis metro area.
Was going to be my suggestion also, please. Grew up on Wydown.
Absolutely - it's an exceptional area and makes St. Louis one of the most beautiful cities in America (the world!!??).
Brought back so many great memories of growing up there. I cried when you were driving through Forest Park. 😊❤
We went to the Muny every summer. It was great seeing all the Broadway shows.
I've lived all over the country and look forward to watching more of your videos.
On warm summer nights, you could smell the hops from the brewery.
I grew up there too and share your nostalgia. My family still lives there after all these years. The Muny, fabulous outdoor venue. My sister and I danced on stage there when we were kids. Saw Rudolph Nureyev dance there. Many summers of enjoyment in the heat & humidity at the Muny.
clayton looks surpisingly walkable - gotta be one of the most urban 'edge cities' that exists - nothing like uptown houston or sandy springs/dunwoody here
Gotta love Clayton and University City Missouri (the 2 most Urban areas in St.Louis County).
I moved to Clayton my freshman year in high school (1993) and was so impressed by the public high school. It was miles above my hometown of Joplin, MO. Yes, Clayton is full of wealthy people who lead wealthy lives and while I am always grateful for the education and idyllic 4 years I spent there, I hated that the income inequality in STL city and countywas so blatant. How amazing would this country be if everyone was provided the type of public education I received at Clayton High School?
Kelia, isn't the income diversity "blatant" in most of this country? Just saying!
13:32 The athletic field on the left was the site for much of the 1904 Olympics, also the same year that the Worlds Fair was happening nearby in Forest Park.
Yes thanks for showing and telling about what going on in each city and county. That’s way when I visit I will know my way around and what neighborhood .👍👍👍
I am a life long StL Co. resident for my entire life, 56 years, and I dread going to Clayton. There is near perpetual road construction and frequent building and utility construction going on somewhere. Then there is the parking issue. Traffic can be difficult though not always bad especially at night when it is a near ghost town. Most times it is worse than downtown St. Louis. There are some nice homes surrounding Clayton proper and gorgeous neighborhoods.
This a beautiful area of St. Louis. I hope you will some day cover more of the Central West End and the historic southside neighborhoods like Soulard, Lafayette Square, Shaw, the Tower Groves, St. Louis Hills, etc., which are among the most visually interesting places in the St. Louis area.
Went to Delmar Loop plus Central West End for one vid,
Drove around the south side of St. Louis in another. Both should be coming up soon
U City was a utopia when I was growing up and graduated from the U my family goes back to the 1950s and still live there. I'm glad has started the process of bringing ucity 3rd ward back to life
During the gentrification of U City I renovated several units in 708 Interdrive and 715 Limit. The units became housing for nursing students at Wash U. Threw a lot of darts at Blueberry Hill. This was cool!
BTW, I got to see "Starry Night" at the Art Museum as part of a travelling exhibition, so this city is big enough to attract international culture and trade. You should be making about $150k to live in these neighborhoods.
Other millionaires might look at Ladue and Ollivette.
Thanks,A good stroll/drive through my old hood
At 13:50:21, you’re approaching the old Famous Barr Clayton location.
Many memories there.
At 37:11 you speak of a new high rise at 100 Kingshighway. Next to it is the classic Chase Park Plaza Hotel
The video is only 24:50 mins long. Where is 37:11?
It could be that the vid has been edited. Same thing once happened to me when I posted a time stamp that was no longer in the vid after editing.
As I write this, at 23:00 both buildings come into view, Chase Park Plaza on the left, 100 Above the Park on the right. After he turns left, then right, the buildings disappear from view, then reappear as he passes between them at 23:23.
A St. Louis institution.
Right towards the end, the domed building is the Cathedral, called by locals the "New Cathedral" (there's a very old small basilica on the riverfront locally called the "Old Cathedral"). The New Cathedral is full of amazing Byzantine-style mosaics, not what you'd expect in the Midwest.
@15:49 you have Skinner but I believe it’s actually Skinker just FYI. Love your videos m8
Yup, definitely a mess-up on my end. Good catch.
It is Skinker, but Skinner sounds good.
Love to see anything that got to do with my city especially where im from specifically all love fam 💯
At 3:04, the building overlooking Shaw Park used to be the headquarters of National Prearranged Services. It was the largest provider of prearranged and prepaid funeral contracts in the US. The organization also ran a $450 million fraud from 1992-2008 that targeted customers primarily in Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas.
Kinda sad you can't see WashU's main hall+quad on the road like that- it's pretty awesome!
You have a great speaking voice and sound much like a computer animated voice at times. I mean that as a compliment. You should look for voiceover jobs if you dont already.
Aaron Why thank you kind sir. 👊🏻
Totally agree.
@@ChrisHarden just found your channel. really enjoying....love the music differences when entering diff neighborhoods.
At 36:40:43, you are passing the famed Jewel Box, built for the 1904 World’s Fair.
Beautiful area clayton.😮😅😊
Btw, I love your vids! Im here in Denver and, if I may request, it would be neat to see you do Denver and maybe some of it's suburbs, DTC specifically?
Oh yes, I'll definitely be heading there sometime.
@@ChrisHarden Awesome! This is great content. I stayed at the Le Meridien Hotel in Clayton recently and thats why I searched and found your channel. Your vid was so good, that I sat there and watched your channels vids until late last night lol.
Thanks! Not everyone in the comment sections of my videos are as nice as you, lol. Good to know how you found the channel and I’m glad you enjoy the vids!
@@ChrisHarden can you do one of Shiloh and Lebanon and maybe Scott Air Force base or if not can you do one of st Charles Missouri
Edit: Shiloh is in Illinois Lebanon is in Illinois and Scott Air Force base is in Illinois and all of them are in the metro east of St. Louis
Was planning on getting those the next time I had a chance to go down
So surprising to see how nice this area is, given that's close to St. Louis and in Missouri. Thanks for enlightening me!
Why surprising? StL has huge wealth. Its number hurt from having 3 million divided up into a billion political entities.
@@wingsfan1450 facts
@@wingsfan1450 definitely surprising STL have a hug wealth due to a lot of Low income - Middle class being so cheap all things got in common is ghetto and the hood that all Of north county and sum parts of west county
St. Louis is So run down asf
Why not Missouri?? Grew up there. Gorgeous places, not all of it, of course. Many extremely poor as well. Much wealth, as somebody else mentioned. Anheuser Busch, for instance. Clayton & U City IS St. louis . . . just the county, not the city. Forest Park is St. Louis City as is the memorial you saw. There are homes and neighborhoods in Clayton and in the city of St. Louis that would blow a person's mind if they could be seen on video here.
What song is the first track you play NT? I could listen to this all day!
I'm pretty sure it's Log by Laxcity
Thanks for this video Chris. Wish you would go slower to actually see a building or house or landmark? For instance, the exquisite old homes along Lindell Blvd. Couldn't see the Memorial at all or not one home in Clayton. Couldn't see anything in U. City! Or some of the gorgeous buildings on Wash U. campus. Grew up here so am very familiar with all of this but cannot see a thing. Interesting but disappointing. Close up view of the high rise? What did i miss? No offense also but Lindell Blvd. is pronounced Lin Dell with accent on first syllable, not on "dell." A blur.
As someone from stl, this is where the Rich people live.
st Louis zoo they have an educational room where they bring out animals to meet you and they educate you about them
my birthplace Richmond heights suburb of Clayton Mo
I would have liked growing up in the western St. Louis suburbs, graduating from a great public high school, and capping off my education with an MBA from Washington University and then a fat corporate job in Clayton. I worked for Maryville College back in the day, we tried hard, but fell way short of Wash U. I have always liked St. Louis. The best botanical gardens I have personally visited were in St. Louis, and the train station is worth seeing. It is a shame that the local thugs have destroyed the city of St. Louis.
Aka Cori Bush.
Beautiful. 😮😅😊😢
One of the main reasons those suburbs are prestigious is due to the presence of Washington university.
And at 39:24:42 we see a demonstration of the classic “Missouri rolling stop”, guaranteed to get a moving violation in any state!
In STL Stop means slightly tap on pedal.
BTW, it's "LIN-dll" Blvd., not "lin-DELL".
Clayton is the County Seat of St Louis County.
I love driving through Clayton in the winter ❄️🥶❄️🥶 because there is a out side ice skating rink ⛸️⛸️ and the white rich kids will be drinking their hot cocoa and cappuccino . The attire they wear is very expensive they look like models from the Plaza Mall. The clothes must be from Saks or Neiman they look like professionals Wall Street people. Dexter Lombardo out 🤠
What about LaDue?
It's "Ladue", one word with a small "d". So many streets there are private, and the houses so far back from the street, you wouldn't see much.
Parts of Clayton looks similar to Indian Village/University District/Palmer Woods in Detroit.
Did you drive by Arnold in Jefferson county
No more Missouri side of the St. Louis area videos from this trip. Only two more Metro East ones before I’m out of the St. Louis area videos entirely.
Nostalgia Tours What are the last 2 metro east places
Wood River/East Alton & Alton
why does clayton look better than springfield
Trust me Clayton doesn’t their hella ghetto to Clayton 🤣 and the areas around the areas are hoods the hoods are dangerous asl
And you believed the weather forecaster for St. Louis???? 😂🤣😂
Don’t be fool U city the hood and Dangerous asl better be careful around Delmar blvd up to Page Ave
You are absolutely right about this.
I'd argue Ladue is more prosperous given all the millionaires who live there.
I moved from Alton, IL to Clayton when I was in middle school. I'm not a fan of Clayton or the stuck people that live there. Central West End, Soulard, University City, The Hill, there are so many better places.
I'm from there and i'm not "stuck up." "better" is in the eyes of the beholder.
st.louis city is a county its the only city& county combo
So is Baltimore city MD