I use to live in Cairo as a child from 1971 to 1986, and Tracy Simmons was a childhood friend, best friends since elementary school. We have reconnected in over 25 years. I love Cairo and which there was way I could help even though I don't live there anymore.
I know Bobby and Anthony Simmons. Grew up on going across the bridge from Kentucky to go to King Tuts. My mom and Dad used to go to King Tuts. Love growing up in the area. Great memories of Cairo, The Turf and their late night cravings for their pizza and the sandwich that was so yummy at 2:00 am.
This was such a bustling place back in the seventies! Remember travelers on I-57 having to detour through Cairo because the Mississippi River bridge was still under construction?
My mother's family was from just north of Cairo - Mounds and Villa Ridge. In 1968, we went back to see all my mom's elderly relatives before they died (which they promptly began doing in the next two years.) I was full of 1960s idealism, and was trying to figure out the "boycott." My Uncle Melvin fixed a gaze on me, then asked if I knew that Cairo was farther south than Richmond, VA (capital of Confederacy.) He gazed at me a little harder to see if I "got it." I got it.
"Rather than integrate, business owners decided to abandon the city..." b.s., complete and utter bull excrement. Cairo declined along with riverboat traffic and railroad traffic... and that decline started well before the 60's and 70's. geez, get over yourself already.
A historic little town like this loaded with history and at the very southern end of a US state at the confluence of two mighty rivers... it just screams potential for a multitude of things both historical & entertainment worthy, especially with those relics still standing downtown! A sort of historical, vintage, and riverside resort of a bygone era. One that takes you back into the past the instant you pass through those levies. I'm a big city dweller who never even heard of this place until now and I tell you that I can just see all of this. Wake up IL!
You know, the old guy is right. When a black man date a white woman he really think he has something of value. Brothers, the educated God fearing black woman is the most beautiful woman on this planet, she was giving to you by God.
Sorry, but it's not pronounced "Kay-ro", although everyone from St. Louis seems to think that for some reason. It's pronounced "Care-o". I was born there and still have family there. Yes, it's a mess. That's a shame, because it was a great, little city at one time.
I doubt Cairo was "segregated" like the deep South. I will not live in a legal and economic order where I am not free to change residence, and/or not free to close up any shop I happen to own. And I am sure that the vast majority of Americans agree with me. Once I24 and I57 were completed, Cairo lost its reason for being, and businesses there ceased to be profitable. If Cairo was a place of profit opportunity, then black businessmen would have taken over the businesses foresaken by their former white owners. That nothing of the sort happened is very revealing.
I use to live in Cairo as a child from 1971 to 1986, and Tracy Simmons was a childhood friend, best friends since elementary school. We have reconnected in over 25 years. I love Cairo and which there was way I could help even though I don't live there anymore.
I know Bobby and Anthony Simmons. Grew up on going across the bridge from Kentucky to go to King Tuts. My mom and Dad used to go to King Tuts. Love growing up in the area. Great memories of Cairo, The Turf and their late night cravings for their pizza and the sandwich that was so yummy at 2:00 am.
This was such a bustling place back in the seventies! Remember travelers on I-57 having to detour through Cairo because the Mississippi River bridge was still under construction?
My mother's family was from just north of Cairo - Mounds and Villa Ridge. In 1968, we went back to see all my mom's elderly relatives before they died (which they promptly began doing in the next two years.) I was full of 1960s idealism, and was trying to figure out the "boycott." My Uncle Melvin fixed a gaze on me, then asked if I knew that Cairo was farther south than Richmond, VA (capital of Confederacy.) He gazed at me a little harder to see if I "got it." I got it.
I'm from metropolis. I've been through Cairo several times. It's really sad to see it like this.
Metropolis is a beautiful little town
I couldn't agree more
"Rather than integrate, business owners decided to abandon the city..."
b.s., complete and utter bull excrement.
Cairo declined along with riverboat traffic and railroad traffic... and that decline started well before the 60's and 70's.
geez, get over yourself already.
A historic little town like this loaded with history and at the very southern end of a US state at the confluence of two mighty rivers... it just screams potential for a multitude of things both historical & entertainment worthy, especially with those relics still standing downtown! A sort of historical, vintage, and riverside resort of a bygone era. One that takes you back into the past the instant you pass through those levies. I'm a big city dweller who never even heard of this place until now and I tell you that I can just see all of this. Wake up IL!
You know, the old guy is right. When a black man date a white woman he really think he has something of value. Brothers, the educated God fearing black woman is the most beautiful woman on this planet, she was giving to you by God.
Sorry, but it's not pronounced "Kay-ro", although everyone from St. Louis seems to think that for some reason. It's pronounced "Care-o". I was born there and still have family there. Yes, it's a mess. That's a shame, because it was a great, little city at one time.
I remember the fear we northern blacks had in the 50's when traveling thru Cairo to go South. The police were more racist than any I've ever known.
I Lived In Cairo For Twelve Years Mt Grandfather Is Bobby Simmons, If Anyone Knows Me Message Me
But I Love Cairo So Much
@MsGoosehunter It sounded like he was telling it like it was. Not candy coating it.
And this video is in the late 70s or early 80s right??? Look at the City during those year! !! Now it s worse. ..
@Corduroy66 Please elaborate if you will...
Pronounced Care-oh not Kay-ro...anyone that grew up there would know that
These guys' English is so bad, I can barely understand them. Good Lord.
No offense, but I do like the video.
I doubt Cairo was "segregated" like the deep South.
I will not live in a legal and economic order where I am not free to change residence, and/or not free to close up any shop I happen to own. And I am sure that the vast majority of Americans agree with me.
Once I24 and I57 were completed, Cairo lost its reason for being, and businesses there ceased to be profitable.
If Cairo was a place of profit opportunity, then black businessmen would have taken over the businesses foresaken by their former white owners. That nothing of the sort happened is very revealing.