re: St. Louis is a joke.

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If anything downtown St Louis is safer than it has been in a long time.

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I was there a few years ago when Metallica had their 2 nights in the old football stadium. I had no fear walking around, though this was mostly during the day.

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I will take exception to it being born of racism

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It was initially. White Flight is a widely accepted term to describe white people fleeing black people coming into their neighborhoods and St Louis is no exception to that.

It’s not current racism. It’s past racism.

Has anyone ever made a better business move than Stan Kroenke moving the Rams to LA? I think that was the Killshot

Also the Ferguson stuff with Michael Brown didn’t help either.

Pine Bluff, AR says hello. Maybe it doesn’t make the cut since only about 40,000 remaining souls.

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You should visit East St. Louis. I hear it’s beautiful.

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I was in St. Louis for managing a soil remediation project in the late 80's

A biz friend used to say that he was the last white baby born in East St. Louis. He was born in the early 1930's

While there the mayor of East St. Louis had a limo and bodyguards with full auto weapons. There was no garbage pickup, the sewerage plant was down and there were drive thru crack houses known as Crack in the Box.

There were two mafias in the area. The Italian mafia in St. Louis and the Jewish mafia in IL where the steel mills and scrap yards were. There were two small towns with border down main street full of strip clubs with whorehouses all run by the Jewish mafia.

I had lunch at a place on Manchester, Faloni's. During the day, dad ran the bar and mom ran the restaurant. If you wore a white shirt she would put a bib on you before the food arrive. Their son ran the bar at night and also was a bookie. I've downed shots of Tobasco chased by shots of whiskey in that bar. The next morning was rather painful.

We rented an office cubicle in an office supply company offices. This is where I did my paperwork. The staff rented a party bus to go to Oktoberfest some little German town. They even had an extra deposit for puking rights on the return trip. I got a BJ on the bus during the return trip that evening.

St. Louis was beginning its decay when I was there but it was a fun place. The first week there when I went to a bar everyone bought me drinks because I was from out of town.

I went down the road to Fast Eddies. Convinced that even the brothers were afraid of the bikers.

First Rams game I attended..commented “This will not last.” Gone one year later. When someone hands you free 50 yard tickets to an NFL game….not for long.

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The area near the arch has a very nola feel to it

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LaClede's Landing

I came from a direction that had a lot of graffiti

On a Saturday morning while at breakfast my car was broken into and a combustible gas sniffer and my bag phone was stolen. Precinct captain came over himself because there was no crime in this precinct, on northern edge of Dago Hill. . Must have been crackheads. Every car in the parking lot was broken into