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 dreadsword
 
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Gender: Male
 |  | East St. Louis
< on 2/14/2007 3:21 PM >
|  | | | http://www.builtst...uis/eaststl00.html
As usual, don't know if this has been here. St. Louis returned a million search results. Anyway, this came across Fark this AM - some good pics, great history.
From 90,000 to 36,000 presently - that's a lot of abandoned real estate.
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White Rabbit
  
Women's Advocate
Location: Missouri
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: East St. Louis
<Reply # 1 on 2/14/2007 3:41 PM >
| | | | We were just there this weekend, exploring the hospital on there. The guys were laughing at me because I'll do the most dangerous, risky stuff and not think twice about it--yet exploring simple buildings in East St. Louis makes me really nervous.
Seriously, though, the place is a shithole. You drive around there and it looks like something out of a post-apocalyptic movie. Streetlights don't work. The streets are cracked and crumbling. There's garbage blowing around everywhere. Weeds and grass overgrown everywhere. Empty, decaying, and crumbling buildings everywhere you look. I get paranoid about getting carjacked or something just driving around there, especially at night.
[last edit 2/14/2007 3:44 PM by White Rabbit - edited 1 times]
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dreadsword
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: East St. Louis
<Reply # 2 on 2/14/2007 9:05 PM >
| | | | Yeeesh - yeah, no kidding. The pictures make it look pretty desolate. I'm shocked that there's actually anyone still there - why stay? The only positive development according to the Built site has been the opening of a casino; some regard casino's as a new start, but arguably they can be just-as-validly considered last-ditch, generally hopeless revitalization hail mary's.
Sounds like turning the area into a movie set for post-apoc. films would be a better business model.
Anyway, cool to hear the first-hand report - stay safe over there, dude!
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memory_machine
  
Location: St. Louis, MO
Gender: Male
"I'm sure it's fine."
| |  | | Re: East St. Louis
<Reply # 3 on 2/14/2007 9:18 PM >
| | | | Whenever I'm in East St. Louis, I feel like I'm getting a pretty good idea of what it's like to be in a war-torn third world country. It really is that impoverished. But just remember, it was ST. LOUIS, not East St. Louis, that received the honors for the most dangerous city in the U.S! Maybe that's just because there's hardly anyone left in East St. Louis to mug or rob.
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HairyTheTaco
Location: The Hammer, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: East St. Louis
<Reply # 4 on 2/14/2007 10:05 PM >
| | | | What a great link, I just took the entire tour on that site.
I always thought Detroit and Buffalo were kinda funny with their crumbling streets and abandonments everywhere, but after seeing that site, I have to say East St. Louis takes the cake! If I'm ever in the area, I will for sure be taking a day trip through that city.
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peterbillionaire
 
Location: Kansas City Missouri
Gender: Male
| | Re: East St. Louis
<Reply # 5 on 2/15/2007 2:11 AM >
| | | | i used to go to "faces" nightclub, pictured on the left here http://www.builtst...uis/eaststl05.html
the attraction was that it was open all night. it was unbelievably sleazy -- but in a good way! we would come out of the club at 6:00 AM when the sun started to rise and see the blasted crumbling landscape of east st louis, as if the world had ended while we were inside but we hadn't heard it because the club music was so loud.
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dreadsword
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: East St. Louis
<Reply # 6 on 2/15/2007 2:56 PM >
| | | | Memory_machine: GC - looks like war torn Africa from "Lord of War" or something.
HairyTheTaco - I've been through Buffalo, and thought it looked rough around the edges but not totally "after-the-end-of-the-world" like East St. L. Detroit I've never been too - I would think detroit would have even more abondonments and desolate areas?
Peterbillionaire - that's really funny that you noticed a spot like that. "faces" - sweet! Actually does sound pretty cool - would be great to have a bar that stays open all night.
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