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@mikepayne4387

6 жыл бұрын

CharlieBo313 Not trying to be political but hasn’t every city you’ve driven in been controlled by Democrats for the past 50+ yrs?

@FREEDOMIST617

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Payne All the southern states are Republican run. The poorest states are just about all Republican

@FREEDOMIST617

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Payne Lets be real though. Both parties have screwed the American working class. Was it Republican or Democrat business owners who shipped jobs overseas leaving places like Detroit in ruin? Usually wealthy businessmen are Republican. Not always but usually. Both parties have screwed us. Dont act like the Republicans are some kind of saviors. If republicans ran things thered be no social programs. At least the democrats try to help the poor working class more than Republicans

@grahamwellington6556

6 жыл бұрын

States? The cities in question are run by dems.

@FREEDOMIST617

6 жыл бұрын

Graham Wellington There are hundreds of cities run by republicans that are dirt poor ad well. See West Virginia and small rural Appalachia for starters. Charlie is showing inner city hoods. It could just as easy be the rural poor in their shacks and trailers.

"East St. Louis Hoods" is a misnomer. East St. Louis is a hood.

@yvngjoint

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah but there's hoods within the hoods. Rs .. Its like subdivisions in a white town. (The shields, weathers, the gomps, etc) many more but idc to name them all.

@hanggeng7269

5 жыл бұрын

East Los Angeles is a hood too

@clarissaxplainsitalll

5 жыл бұрын

No.... what he means is the whole city of East St Louis is the hood.. ain’t no cops coming to save you

@asadfalconsfan1851

5 жыл бұрын

Hang Geng los angelos hoods are soft

@aidancollins4645

5 жыл бұрын

@@hanggeng7269 in the 90s they were tuff

I grew up on 62 street, moved to 74th street in the 70’s. Attended Martin Luther King Jr. High School and graduated from Assumption. I have friends still living and working in East St. Louis. There are many good people trying to do right and make a difference there. Great memories!

@coolc8017

5 жыл бұрын

pswilson1000 that’s nice to know

@carlaiello1993

5 жыл бұрын

What's your point!

@Mattology1

5 жыл бұрын

Stop

@bigvalley4987

4 жыл бұрын

pswilson1000 I know some of the Best families that lived in E St. Louis, ILL.🥰

@kwanculturel8724

4 жыл бұрын

I wish i could contact my half siblings from your home town, mark and Margaret; theyvare twins that i think would be about your age. I have never seen them but maybey once. I talked to them on the phone way back in the seventies........

I live about 50 miles north of East St. Louis/ St. Louis. I'm a 53 year old white lady, and I gotta say, I really enjoy your videos. You keep things real, you don't try to sugar coat things, or add more drama than there really is. Keep up the good work...

@darkjord5823

8 ай бұрын

@@jamesarmstrong88 stand what? 50 miles north is a whole different world. you think it looks like this 50 miles out? Nah, hell it done look like this 4 miles out. 5 miles out theres mansions and shit. This is just a very small area of st louis.

For a lot of people on here, this is East Saint Louis, in Illinois! If you go across any bridge, across the Mississippi River, you will be in Saint Louis, Missouri! Different cities, different states! This city is East of Saint Louis, that's why it's called East Saint Louis! And yes, it was once beautiful! My great grandmother and grandmother told me so! They had stores, clubs, grocery stores, and famous people would come there to have a nice time! Yes, there are many issues with this city, but it's not as cut and dry as some may think! This is my city, and although it is in sure need of help, I still love it and my people!

@KSmall109CAB

4 жыл бұрын

Keep the faith!

@umartal9958

4 жыл бұрын

@@barrackhussein464 you was in special ed huh? She said ESL is il.. It's it own city and it is east of STL.

@chuckkottke

4 жыл бұрын

I could see that at one time it was prosperous, my Uncle John had a bakery in your town. I sure do hope the city makes a comeback, most of the houses and apartments look good, just need more businesses to grow back the economy, maybe worker owned enterprises?

@joeass883

3 жыл бұрын

Good for you. Move back and live in it. No one is stopping you. Have at it lover of ESL

@camiblutube7116

3 жыл бұрын

@@joeass883 To whom are you referring?!

I like watching your videos because they give me a perspective that I didn't have before, thanks :D

@601TRAVELS

6 жыл бұрын

Thats why I love them too, feels like I'm ridin shotgun!

@tishkerrville8942

6 жыл бұрын

Dre they sure do ...shows how the economy really is ✌

@shaunhindahl2884

4 жыл бұрын

Y'all can come chill on the stoop with me sometime, up close, give you a nice perspective of the Economy 🕵️🕵️😁 YFAMC THRUSHLIFE

@TicklerDude

4 жыл бұрын

I live in a rich, white neighborhood. The economy is doing great. #TRUMP2020

@mickdavis2385

4 жыл бұрын

@@tishkerrville8942 It doesn't count in areas where people don't want to work.

I've never been to St. Louis, my father spent the last few years of his life there, he had family there who I had never met. He bought a home in East St. Louis and I had no idea what the area looked like until after his death. Don't understand why he would choose to live there, he had the means to do better. Ironically, when he died it wasn't neighborhood criminals who plundered his estate, it would be his own family.

@llhenderson9357

6 жыл бұрын

VANgazmic Voyage Did u know east St.Louis is really Illinois. Once you cross the Missouri bridge your in Illinois. which is east of St. Louis. This not Saint Louis MO

@vangazmicvoyage5077

6 жыл бұрын

LL Henderson I knew that.

@austinsimms8763

6 жыл бұрын

Yea it really is fucked up overthere n that is so stupid for them to do that

@jeffking4176

5 жыл бұрын

VANgazmic Voyage Both St.Louis, and East St.Louis have interesting histories. Both very different, yet very similar. I was born and raised in University City, and had friends who lived in E.St.L. So I’m familiar with both. I can understand why one can have an attachment to even E.St.L. It was dangerous for sure, but back then, I never had any problems ( and I’m white). The city has very little tax base , and seems no matter who was in power, politics has always been corrupt. So very little ever gets done. Very sad for the decent people trying to scratch out a living, trying to survive.

@corneliaadams9398

5 жыл бұрын

love

To be honest, it looks like a town that was developed in the 20's-60's, and just stopped there dead in it's tracks for 50+ years, architecturally, and residentially speaking

@KennyboyGM

2 жыл бұрын

Typical Midwest city .

@packers_fan_1076

2 жыл бұрын

That is exactly what happened

@TheTacticalMess

2 жыл бұрын

East St. Louis has a really long history which is part of why it is now. Look up the East St. Louis riots. White people (I’m white) were incredibly nasty to the people living in East St. Louis and killed a lot of people there. It’s honestly disgusting. East St. Louis was once an industrial town but the switch from using boats to railroads very negatively effected the local economy. Over the years the town has been seeded with corruption in nearly every facet. Landlords of East St. Louis houses often find ways to take advantage of renters. The police force and public officials have long been corrupt. Historic racism is a large part as to why it’s remained underfunded for so long.

@C24242

9 ай бұрын

ESL was founded in the 1800s and was basically the Pittsburgh of the Midwest. It was full of industry. Railroads, meatpacking, coal, steel. A lot of goods were made and/or stored there back in the day. But local tax laws changed, workers began unionizing and eventually, they built the interstate through the city. So, some businesses relocated to areas with lower taxes, others like the St. Louis Stockyards left after the interstate was built because they no longer needed to use the railroad to ship cattle to the meatpacking plant so they built new plants closer to the cattle ranches and no longer employed unionized labor. The interstate also allowed residents to move into new homes that were being built in St. Louis County, those newly founded subdivisions also had better schools, so moving was a no-brainer. The locals in East St. Louis will all say to "bring back the white people" but the truth is they don't need white people to save them, ESL needs to produce again. They need an economy that's run from within. The real estate market in ESL is mostly run by Sieron & Associates. And they run predatory practices, sellers put a down payment on a house and pay the rest over the course of a year. By the end of the year, the seller most pay the remaining debt on the house or be evicted. Few of the businesses left there are actually run by people who live there. So none of the revenue ever returns to the city. It goes to wherever the business owners live.

east st. louis is in illinois, its own city across the river from st. louis missouri...

@niukkafukkyodeadppls2008

6 жыл бұрын

215Christ yea no shit

@iknowdeweybrudda6564

5 жыл бұрын

215Christ day St. Louis is even worse

@thedarklord6130

5 жыл бұрын

Missouri can have it

@toxin6584

5 жыл бұрын

No duh

@JamesYoung-vi6lm

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's across the river but it's still connected..... It's all the same city really. It's like saying the Bronx NY isn't in net York City ... All the boroughs make up New York City . Every major city like that and that's why they are so big cause they swallow up all the smaller towns around it over time.... Just like saint Louis MO is made up of a bunch of smaller towns that are connected

East boogie city of champions 💯💯💯

@gigglesman-zd8sy

Ай бұрын

On the folkzzz

8:30 guy in the white tshirt is frozen in time

Keep y'all heads up to everybody still in EastSTL. Im gone to college now. But I'm comin back. And when I come back we gon bring ourselves back up. We gon make it far. Don't lose hope

@Owen_O-Quinn

5 жыл бұрын

Mychael Hunt that is awesome bro 🙏🏽

@chriscook1249

5 жыл бұрын

Keep the faith Mychael Hunt..don't pay ant attention to the haters.

@c3realK1ll4h

5 жыл бұрын

Mychael Hunt you going to graduate with gangsta degree, well done, you going to be promoted to mob boss

@user-rx6km2de4m

5 жыл бұрын

Hope is already lost. Just look at the video! ROTFLOL

@c3realK1ll4h

5 жыл бұрын

UNCLE JED bruddah is going to bring business to the place, lots of opportunities will be created, we going to have a drug corporation

You growing dawg🙏🏿 keep grindin

Sure seems like these areas are growing by the day here in America. Sad reality. Looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

@johnjacob4973

6 жыл бұрын

Sum b milwaukee is exactly what you’ve just described.

@wildearth3992

5 жыл бұрын

Kyle Niquette You obviously never seen the Bronx in 80´s

@ussocom3644

4 жыл бұрын

@NATIONALIST #PATRIOT "good majority black/diverse neighborhoods" Ah, fantasy land. Those don't exist.

@senordicknose8106

4 жыл бұрын

U ain't lying

@sKid-zy1ss

4 жыл бұрын

NATIONALIST #PATRIOT Are there any nice black neighborhoods ?

You should start commentary and talk about the history of each city. Just a suggestion. Otherwise great videos and very unique idea you have here

@johnmarks714

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Even better is if Charlie offers both the commentary and non-commentary versions

@johngreen3543

2 жыл бұрын

Charlie we like the vlogs just the way you do them with no music and no commentary Thanks.

It's way more intimidating at night. Trust me.

@c3realK1ll4h

5 жыл бұрын

Glenn Pettiford I am from London, I want to go there

@c3realK1ll4h

5 жыл бұрын

PoofyHD they are a friendly bunch

@ksmccoy82

5 жыл бұрын

Only the strong survive so keep ur scary ass where u are.

@nathanflecke9635

5 жыл бұрын

Very very true I had the pleasure of that experience on Martin Luther king jr drive last night

@c3realK1ll4h

5 жыл бұрын

Nathan Flecke bruddah I want to go there, and I am from London, I want to fight there, looks like the right place

I experienced a carjacking in St.Louis. Then about two weeks later, the police told me my car was found in east S t.Louis. Things got too overwhelming and I was just a student in USA for two month.

@celticwolf6102

5 жыл бұрын

Welcome to America lol

@yizhuang1612

5 жыл бұрын

SLU还是Washu？

@c3realK1ll4h

5 жыл бұрын

Xiaotian Zhu China Man U should have done Kung fu on the thieve

@TheTacticalMess

5 жыл бұрын

There are pockets of bad areas in St. Louis. I really hope this didn’t turn you away from it though. St. Louis can be and is a beautiful place. Sorry you went through that.

@c3realK1ll4h

5 жыл бұрын

CelticWolf am I welcome too?

Keep on bringing those videos, Charlie.

@pickywolf2728

6 жыл бұрын

John Davis ok then SUPPORT! Contribute to help him.

Cool video bro.

Congrats 70k awesome other people do these but yours are the best . Keep on truckin.

@CharlieBo313

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

People don’t realize when you walking thru it’s a different scenery you see a lot of shit walking thru the hood

I aint gon lie, look alot like Detroit..

@SagHill_255

4 жыл бұрын

Same builders

@tankshots3452

4 жыл бұрын

Stuntman Beatz it’s worse than Detroit though.

@witkneemenyon5612

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah the houses n streets . They houses just not as big ( speaking of west side )

@willnewman2418

4 жыл бұрын

Tank Shots yeah way higher murder rate

@abbykirubakaran160

4 жыл бұрын

fr fr

Hell, that looks good compared to the last time I was back there. I can't tell State St. from Missouri Avenue. It all looks the same. This is my home and I'm not ashamed to say it. But the shame is the decades of corruption that has always existed in East St. Louis, way before white flight. It would take a miracle to turn it around. Blessings be upon you, East St. Louis.

@Goodwithmyhands2

4 жыл бұрын

Quit voting those pigs back in there. The tax payers should demand better.

@lauradunn4615

2 жыл бұрын

My home too in 70s Belleville is starting to go down too

I fall sleep to your videos , this is a type of ASMR for me

This not St Louis , This is Illinois🤦🏽‍♂️

@nathanhoernis161

4 жыл бұрын

Bitch it says east st.louis

@reggrice3175

4 жыл бұрын

@@nathanhoernis161 i use to think it was in Missouri too...dont get mad or feel stupid..we learning everyday fam

@jessiewilliams818

3 жыл бұрын

Not even 10min,a bridge away

Damn, just a wasteland, keep showing the truth charlie. Btw, congrats on 70k subs

@DavidCanada-hz9dq

6 жыл бұрын

Douglas Kasten Fuck you hating ass Bitch this my City Born and Raised love my City you must not be from here why you Hating!!

@douglaskasten4630

6 жыл бұрын

David Canada 1975 cool, glad you stayed, but can't deny the truth, it's 1/2 dead

@rakedog

6 жыл бұрын

Douglas Kasten it’s not a wasteland, that’s just how it is on a rainy day in winter. Nobody wants to go out because it’s too cold. Go to St. Louis on a warm day, and it’s a pretty lively place.

@douglaskasten4630

6 жыл бұрын

Rakedog do the bldgs come out when it warms up too???? That's the wasteland

@rakedog

6 жыл бұрын

Douglas Kasten I’m assuming you mean buildings and yes there are buildings in St. Louis. Just because there aren’t very many in a small part of the city doesn’t mean that the rest isn’t populated and ,like I said, lively.

Been there don't want to go back.

@DurandMj

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!..

This allowed me to look at my old hood from an objective perspective and I have to say it’s an eye opener

This comment section (including the replies) demonstrates that we, as Americans, are not working together for a better society. Consequently, society will not improve until everyone is working together rather than for themselves. Race, socioeconomic status, religion, etc. is so important to many of you that you refuse to cooperate with anyone that thinks differently from yourselves. That leads to isolation and even greater homogenous ideologies. This is what is driving a great divide between people.

@msdecemberloveangel8236

2 жыл бұрын

Amen brother very well spoken. Facts tho.

Notice how near enough every pedestrian stares at the car, like they're waiting for the car to stop to jack it or something. I'd be shitting myself if a gang of 4-5 turned and looked at my car lol

This is my hometown! Born & raised!! I almost felt like I were in the vehicle with you. This may just have been the push I needed to relocate out of state. (Never looked at it through this lense before)

@IntellectuallyAstute

6 жыл бұрын

East Saint

@maryellenwood2032

6 жыл бұрын

Hey neighbor. From Cahokia. Spent many days in East St. Louis.

@jaybone2189

6 жыл бұрын

Miss D. Do you know the howard family from east stl sister?

@IntellectuallyAstute

6 жыл бұрын

No! Doesn't ring a bell.

@davidcase2208

6 жыл бұрын

you see any crazy things growing up there? I'm from alton and went down there to get some burnt cd's with a friend of mine at a flea market. we went further into the city and my friend said he could get bud and that he had done it before. I have no idea why I ever agreed but I did, turns out he didnt have the money!!!. It was during the summer and instead of heading straight out, he pulled a U turn and a crack head jumped in front of us and stopped our car. Before I knew it he was asking for a ride and he climbs in the whip sitting right behind me in the back seat. he seen an amp screwed into the seat and started ripping it off the seat. Once he had it he just calmly walked away. DUMBEST SHIT I EVER DID IN MY LIFE.

I remember driving through St. Louis many years ago. Got turned around in the daytime trying to get back from the outskirts and ended up driving down the same neighborhood back road for like 15-20 minutes towards downtown again. Nothing but boarded up homes the entire way.

I am so glad that you uploaded this video. They are always showing how beautiful the arch grounds are with all of the new renovations but they don't show you the slums that you have to go through to get there. It's a total embarrassment.

I travel a lot for work and Cairo, IL is the scariest place I've been to. I lived close to East St. Louis and worked in North St. Louis for five years.

@spicyroads

6 жыл бұрын

Jeff Ha I went thru Cairo a year ago , most shocking place I’ve seen in the USA. I’m in Guatemala now and feeel much safer than that place

@terryg995

6 жыл бұрын

ball keith Bullshit, there's no one or nothing in Cairo, so who's after you there, except the ghosts of what once was?

@terryg995

6 жыл бұрын

Jeff Ha, I gotta agree, I took a side trip there out of my way to ESL once just to see the Ohio & Mississippi Confluence and I was shocked and dumbfounded by what ever happened there. I had to read the history to find out. Bigotry is a mutha, the prejudice wasn't nearly as bad in ESL. I am into urbexing, but I had no desire to explore this place. It's just eerie.

@jacobbecker1905

6 жыл бұрын

Jeff Ha I’ve heard this so many times. Never been down there. How is it scary?

@theblacksheep5226

5 жыл бұрын

I live in Cairo now and used to live in East St Louis. Cairo does have a nice hood far off the main drag where I live, but yeah otherwise its crap. ESL much, much worse, has been for decades. Total hopeless wasteland. Some crazy stuff always happening in ESL 24/7.

I have had a Patreon for about a year. It goes by the same name CharlieBo313. I had only one video there I just posted another one of mine. I'm going to post more, if I even have it set up right for people to donate or whatever. The problem is Patreon seems complicated, not really sure how it works, and can't find the time to really figure it out with KZread going on. I also have a Twitter, but the only one I really concentrate on is KZread. I don't know how people manage multiple social media, especially with the type of time consuming videos I do with the editing and all. So everybody has been asking about a Patreon so I'll see if anyone donates.

I love this. It's like from the vantage point of a ghost.

@nuckymancini7013

4 жыл бұрын

8:48 they look like they cn @ghost

Charlie, what was happening at the 9:00 mark - looks like you broke something up. Did they see your dash cam and make you out for a cop?

@dickblackbeard5752

6 жыл бұрын

kd8poi for sure

@StonerFromThe618

6 жыл бұрын

Shit I live 10 mins away I know how estl works. Them boys had some shit on em forsure

@yvngjoint

5 жыл бұрын

Thats the city lol yu cant b just posted up at the store . thats opp shit in those boys eyes omm

@erinjones6705

4 жыл бұрын

Until people give their hearts and lives to JESUS CHRIST this world will always be a sinful nation

@brendanwilson4876

4 жыл бұрын

Erin Jones really?

"We can't close our eyes to the plight of the city. Kids, you noticing all this plight? (Gunshot, followed by screams.) Roll 'em up."

First 39 seconds is straight up nice, way better than I expected.

Hay hommey know where i can get a set of hubcaps for my Family Truckster!

Me and my husband drove by these neighborhoods and was in awe. I didn't realize it could get this bad. So many abandoned houses it looked dead but then randomly I'd see someone on a porch or parking in a driveway into their homes which were right next to homes that were either collapsing or abandoned or both.

Passed through East St. Louis so many times in my car and on the MetroLink. Never truly been deep in it though. It’s a shame. Looks like such a beautiful place. Seedy politics, corruption, historic socioeconomic issues... it all adds together.

Respect 💯 keep doing y’all thing St. Louis

I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN THE POOR NEIGHBORHOOD OF NORTH ST LOUIS... I CELEBRATED MY 21ST BIRTHDAY OVER THE RIVER INTO E.ST LOUIS... THAT WAS IN 1959.. I MOVED TO CALIFORNIA IN 1962... BEST DECISION I EVER MADE...

dude your videos make me glad to live in North End Michigan

I went to see Mike Epps live some years ago in St. Louis and he mentioned going over to East St. Louis. People started clapping, he paused and blurted out, "East Saint Louis look like Baghdad!"

me and my wife had to get gas passing through east st Louis . the gas station lady came out to tell us to leave and it wasn't safe for our 6 month old baby. it had a car wash right beside it which seemed to be the local hangout. was scary if im honest. not for me but for my wife and child .

Is that East Saint Louis Illinois the 618 I got family out there

@camiblutube7116

4 жыл бұрын

Yes!

Your videos give the next hood hope😂

@601TRAVELS

6 жыл бұрын

These videos are on point

@evamcinnis7992

6 жыл бұрын

K Hardy It starts with self to insight people to do better for the community.

@donsmith3857

3 жыл бұрын

what kind of hope? that some dumbass can drive around a cesspit shithole bum fucked wasteland without getting capped? ROFLMFAO

@lauradunn4615

2 жыл бұрын

People come see dupo this can't be blamed on anyone but white people shame on them and the mayor

I'm so glad I don't live in East Saint Louis but it's trifling everywhere though I stayed on the outskirts of East st. Louis all my life but as an adult I got the move wherever I wanted to!!!

my friend is from St. Louis Mo. I told her we stayed in E. St Louis, IL. When traveling. She told me "you don't know what danger you were in." So much bloodshed there.

@terryg995

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, STL brings a lot of their shit into that poor downtrodden city. 1/2 the murders recorded are STL residents dumped there.

He also said that when your takin in the hood and your aware of it you can automatically brace yourself to seeing wild stuff but when you don't have a clue it's different

You only traveled from 10th in State to Bond Ave. You passed by all the projects.

@thefolks5199

4 жыл бұрын

Cuz he spooked

@boricuafrican1

4 жыл бұрын

@@thefolks5199 this is the same guy who gets out of his car to interview gang members....at night.

@Jstaywinnin

4 жыл бұрын

@@thefolks5199 or he just didnt feel like it it was raining

Those dark brick places around the 7:00 mark look like barracks; nice to have a roof over your head but kind of depressing.

@dalemcnamee2427

6 жыл бұрын

H. Dumpty Esq. Government housing ( aka "The Projects" ) at its finest... Our taxpayers money at work...

My stepdads side of the family lives here and my brothers and I use to DREAD coming here every summer to see our cousins. We’re from Nashville, TN and this a totally different environment that we were not used too. It’s crazy as hell. I would make it my missions to move up out of there!

And you made this video on a cold and cloudy day. You certainly know how capture the unpleasent parts of Saint Louis with the right tone.

Notice the lack of proper infrastructure like Storm drains. Then notice that the deteriorating buildings/business are far away from where people actually live. Does it actually take a Rocket Scientist to even point that out?

I live about 10 minutes from east STL. And need to go through it to get to STL. Never had a problem driving through there. Seen some pretty kind people while I’m at it. But yes there are definitely streets and blocks you don’t want to get caught on.

@adamhonestyanddecency5054

6 жыл бұрын

Jacob Becker Yeah, I've been through there and most people are pretty cool. Like you said, just certain places.

@UnderAlog572

6 жыл бұрын

What do you mean caught on and what would happen

@terryg995

6 жыл бұрын

He simply means the people don't bother anyone as long as you mind your business they mind theirs. No one is gonna assault you or jack you for your possessions. Hell, you rarely even see anyone out unless you're on State Street. You rarely see crowds exceeding two or three walking around or sitting on the front porch.

@seheadhunter50

6 жыл бұрын

that's because East St.Louis is too empty now. North is where the hoods at

@---cr8nw

6 жыл бұрын

Just keep your car moving. If you stop for too long, you might get an interrogation. If your car is too nice, it might get a few dents and scratches. If your car breaks down, call someone you know that can get there fast. (Uber won't help you in the hood.) But if you just keep moving and mind your business, you'll be fine.

We Love This City 💯 move thru ESTL & live to learn to maneuver around the Earth 🌏

At 1 time east st louis was a beautiful city

@terryg995

6 жыл бұрын

a damn lie, ESL was never beautiful. It was surrounded by industry that polluted everything in the city. There were pockets of beauty, but don't ever tell that lie again

@georgewashington5675

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah after all the coloreds moved in and turned it into Africa

@BlissfulBundlesgiftshop

5 жыл бұрын

actually it was .

@BlissfulBundlesgiftshop

5 жыл бұрын

Shut the fuck up coward.

@InspectorSplatter

5 жыл бұрын

I think it was actually expensive AF to live there 2 back then

Picked a good day to joy ride through my city it was all wet and had rained. We don’t go outside too much when it’s like this, come on hot day😉

@carlaiello1993

5 жыл бұрын

There's no sharks in that water! Grab some soap!

East Coast ghettos always look worse than Midwest/South counterparts. I guess that's because cities on the East are more urban. It's just gritty af. Midwest and South have that suburban look, well at most a suburb nobody is taking care of, but it doesn't look as run down as Bmore, Philly and DC. I know it has nothing to do with how dangerous they are, just saying visually they look better, but Chicago, Detroit, St Louis, NOLA, etc. are, as we all know, really dangerous.

@killabitch504

6 жыл бұрын

big abandoned building vs fucked up dalapted houses built in the 1900's

@babiivo1

6 жыл бұрын

Sum b I'm from Europe acrually. Yeah, East coast is definitely more urban and dense, but I'm not sure if that has anything to do with liberalism. Here we don't have big properties because Europe is way more dense than USA. Plus it's architecture is way older. It's hard to describe how much. I live in an average neighborhood of an average European city, none of them famous for being too old or historic, yet both far older than any American city. Any, literally.

@babiivo1

6 жыл бұрын

Sum b Whoa whoa dude, chill. I didn't say anything offensive, only that I don't see a connection between liberalism and dense housing. 1st of all I'm not a foreigner. My ancestor have been on this land since the 7th century probably, while yours... most likely your grandpa came where you are, if that. 2nd yeah, I'm brainwashed... 3rd learn geography Europe is a fucking CONTINENT, not a COUNTRY. So, if Sweden is socialist, doesn't mean that my country idk how many 1000s of km far away is. 4th I don't hate guns, but you guys over there have a big gun problem. Facts. Toughest Eu cities would be considered safe in USA and vice versa cities like Seattle and Denver (considered safe in USA) would be god damn dangerous here in Europe. So it's either a gun problem or you guys are naturally more crazy and violent. Pick one. 5th aren't SF and cities like that richer than Iowa and Texas?

@babiivo1

6 жыл бұрын

Sum b You have no idea what 3rd world means, trust me.

@babiivo1

6 жыл бұрын

none of your damn business Yeah, older, that's true. But midwestern/southern hoods look suburban-ish, if that makes sense. Nice big house with a decent amount of soace. Vacant, half ruined, I agree, but still like a decent house. Northeast is all too dense, looks like people are living too close to each other, also everything is stone/brick/whatever and it makes it look way worse, visually that is.

I remember reading a story about a US Marine in Iraq from East STL; he said he felt safer in Iraq than he did back home in East STL.

Are you going to visit any hoods in Florida? That would be very interesting to see

I remember riding thru East St Louis back in the early 80's on my way to Texas. It was a very run down and scary looking place back then and see it hasn't changed much in 40 years. Thankfully I was safe on a Greyhound bus at the time. Never would have driven a car thru there.

@Texas8888

2 жыл бұрын

It's STL Will ..some places you go some you don't ..from 80s-2022 .. a grad.from O'Fallon tech 88 some places in the school you didn't go..lol

There is a store like that in every hood🤣😂

I remember when Dave Chappelle said in a stand up that there are some rough hoods outside of DC

This is not Saint Louis MO. This is Illinois, once you cross Saint Louis Bridge downtown your in Illinois Which is east of Saint Louis. That's why this area is called east Saint Louis. THIS IS ILLINOIS

@carlaiello1993

5 жыл бұрын

Everyone knows einstein

@TheKishWatson

4 жыл бұрын

Carl Aiello 😂😂😂

@eddiew2325

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheKishWatson shut ip carl

One thing i can say about estl is, we produce a lot of good athletes. We have lost so many this year to gun violence its sad .

5:25 when youre gangster af but still live at home and mom dont let you smoke inside

@TheKishWatson

4 жыл бұрын

stdfreesteve or when you’re trying to survive and still have enough respect to not smoke inside

Charlie, I was wondering, is there any place that's so bad that you won't go there or you will only go there during the day?

@terryg995

6 жыл бұрын

A KKK mixer

HEY WAS BORN AND RAISED THERE. GREW UP AT THE ROOSEVELT PROJECTS, WENT TO SCHOOL AT HAWTHORNE GRADE SCHOOL. WE MOVED AWAY IN '67, BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE I'VE SEEN PICTURES, NOT WHAT I REMEMBER. THANKS FOR THE VIDEO.

@lisad9403

6 жыл бұрын

Book of John My entire family was raised in E.St. Louis...went to John Robinson & East Side High Schools! We moved away when I was a child. It looked MUCH BETTER & SAFER BACK THEN! WOW...I'm glad we moved!!!

@bookofjohn1623

6 жыл бұрын

HEY LISA D. YES I AGREE, IT WAS SAFER THEN. EVEN THE AREA AROUND WASHINGTON PARK WHERE MY GRANDPARENTS LIVED IS ALMOST GONE. THERE IS A LOT OF VACANT LOTS, AND BUILDINGS. FOR A TOWN THAT WAS THE HUB OF INDUSTRY FOR SUCH A LONG TIME, IT JUST DON'T LOOK THE SAME. I GUESS THAT HAPPENED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO CITIES SUCH AS E. ST. LOUIS. LOOK AT GARY,IN. DETROIT, MI. PITTSBURG,PA. TAKE INDUSTRY AWAY, AND WITHOUT INJECTED NEW BUISNESS THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS.

EAST ST LOUIS AINT DAT BAD IT JUST LOOK RUFF U MIND YO BUSINESS U A HAVE NO PROBLEM

@carlaiello1993

5 жыл бұрын

Nigga please

@KHH595

5 жыл бұрын

Lord Loc if only that were true. Victims are often doing nothing but minding their own business.

@tnisiadunn5688

5 жыл бұрын

@WORDto BIGbird You are right. I lived there amost all my life. Still have family there. You will get robbed but they ain't gonna kill you. Unless you did something real bad.

@jamaalhorton2343

5 жыл бұрын

Lord Loc you spoke the whole truth!! I love home!! It was love there for me! Born and Raised in East Saint Rock Warrior stand up!

@jamaalhorton2343

5 жыл бұрын

TNisia Dunn the whole truth they only kill you if you done something!!

When i grew up in estl the street i lived on was like a huge family. Everyone knew each other, huge block parties and everything. The violence was never this bad, its sad.

@andymullarx6365

Жыл бұрын

One thing leads to another.

Born and raised in E St Louis. 33 years old now and all this still is the same from when I was little.. politicians taking all the money. All we have is liquor stores and churches on every corner that one liquor store he went in I will never forget someone started shooting at me when I was 19 years old trying to steal my car

@chrismartin2123

5 жыл бұрын

Wow and 33 yrs of how many different presidents promising change for these areas what a load of crap

yeah always try to get the projects as well as reg blocks in any city u go to. gotta get both sides of the hood

Damn, it looks outdated and run downed.

@IntellectuallyAstute

6 жыл бұрын

Right! LOL

@thomasschreiber9559

6 жыл бұрын

Watch the vids about Detroit, there's a real mess.

@ShellymanStudios

6 жыл бұрын

David E Link broken

@anthonysopran4342

6 жыл бұрын

Shellyman Studios Like most Cities in the U.S

@seheadhunter50

6 жыл бұрын

city of empty buildings it's sad driving by

U must use a lot of petrol bro. great vids. esp in the hoods

We drove through St. Louis to go to the Dakotas in 2019. We felt more unsafe going through Sioux City, Iowa than we did St. Louis.

Good vid I subscribed

@CharlieBo313

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and subscribing.

Thats my home town. Im glad im somewear eles.

These are the neighborhoods you heard about in old 1960s soul real history here

@LuisCarruthers

6 жыл бұрын

Patrick King I read Chuck Berry's book and back then it sounds like East St Louis was better than St Louis.

@terryg995

6 жыл бұрын

1896yeah, No ESL just had the club scene. STL still had all the money and power. Jazz was big in STL, but more on point with ESL citizens like Alton's Miles Davis who grew up and played the clubs there or Ike and Tina and Chuck Berry. The average black family was still struggling in ESL as they were in STL.

Other brilliant video Charlie 👏👏💛

I visited St Louis 12 years ago. The security guy in the hotel warned me not to stray off the freeway into east st Louis.

I live near toronto canada and I've been to Detroit and Buffalo. I thought that was ghetto until I saw your videos. So crazy just crossing the border everything changed even how dark everything looked. Hard to understand how places get like this.

@tommiebrooks8573

6 жыл бұрын

simonriddick, the government has a hand in it! Believe it or not, this city is a GOLD MINE because of the land/property! Politicians from other cities are trying to get their hands on it! If only the politicians in ESTL could get it together and work on one accord to treat this city like the land of milk and honey......that it can become.

@terryg995

6 жыл бұрын

Tommie Brooks, I want to believe your conspiracy story, and it's not that outlandish especially when you read the editorials in the Belleville Democrat that has done everything to kill any chance the city has to revitalize from a Busch Gardens Zoo proposal, to a central transportation terminal to Big 3 boneyard for new cars moving to dealerships to a Reading Terminal-type market . this list goes on. The only problem I see is with the conspiracy theory is what will the politicians and white men get , except a riverfront which overlooks STL, a true working dock that's falling apart. There are no pristine views worth paying millions for until you spend millions to clean-up Cargill, Front Street and the old horse stockyards. Going south you run into the old Power plant, so that riverfront is no bargain at any price.

@vualgrimoire4822

6 жыл бұрын

simonriddick Check out Keele Finch Colony in Toronto aka little Sudan. But don't go at night. It's gunfire time. Or check Flemmington Park or Thorncliffe. US style shit holes in Toronto that u never hear about cuz whitey stays away. Lol!

@TheWho58

5 жыл бұрын

Looks like your typical city/town in northern ontario just add your french canadians and natives all broke selling crack for income

@elijahtheprophet4544

Жыл бұрын

@@tommiebrooks8573 You're absolutely right, government has a HUGE hand in it. Spiritual warfare my friend, it's purposely don't to blacks and other minorities in America, but that's about to change real soon ..

“ST LOUIS NIGGAS WANT THEY CORNER BACC”

@kyoakland

4 жыл бұрын

Ice cube

@tmclifestyle1780

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@nuckymancini7013

4 жыл бұрын

Trouble was right there on that corner staring @charlie

My first job off the farm was doing deliveries in east st.louis Washington part and state park till 1am... sometimes i miss it.

My brother lived on the east side for a year, and when he came back he was messed up.

You guys do realize this is Illinois in the fall/winter where we have all four seasons in a week. Everywhere looks dreary this time of year.

@yahinessness5669

3 жыл бұрын

Right! they always record places at this time of year making everything look so horrifying 🙄🙄

@silversifter6223

2 жыл бұрын

@@yahinessness5669 you’ve clearly have never been to ESTL

Charlie, I have to thank you for your outstanding videos that refuse to let us pull the blinds down over our eyes and ignore the horror of poverty and desolation that exists in this country. My god, it's DEATH. It isn't just poverty, it's boarded up, pock-marked, dried up, soul-draining DEATH. What isn't boarded up is unlivable. And some are still living in what IS boarded up. And the trees just standing there on dead land with dead branches reaching up to absolutely NOTHING. If you want the answer to why there's so much violence and drug abuse in our country, just take a look at this video and others like them.

That's a scary fkin place. It's even scarier at night. It's quiet but you know they're watching you

I grow up in Cleveland and it amaze me to see what i grow up in. But got to love ur hometown.

That A & S Market looks like a fortress. Man, I'm in Toronto and some people here think we have tough areas. You guys would laugh at our "tough" areas.

@NikhilSharma-ug1rx

6 жыл бұрын

argopunk my friend took me to Jane and Finch, as well as Scarborough and told me they were dangerous. Being from Chicago, I just laughed

@argopunk

6 жыл бұрын

All those areas are guilty of is being ugly. Well, Scarborough has some nice parts too.

@wilfordbrimleypranks

5 жыл бұрын

I'm from upper michigan and i've heard people call green bay tough. There isn't a street in green bay I wouldn't walk down at night. There isn't a street in E stL that I would walk down at night, maybe even during the day

Praying for E.St. Louis... Its not the City . Its the people..that's the problem.

@bigvalley4987

4 жыл бұрын

Terry Starks The people is lovely. It is the Politicians. The people are commoners. Please do not blame this on the citizenry.☑️

Im from Texas but I lived in east st Louis on 15th and Cleveland and 37th and Waverly. Real gang battlefield shit. Learned a lot...

This is sad 😭 how a lot of our black people choose to live like this

St.Louis Missouri gets mixed up with EAST St.Louis Illinois, this is in Illinois not Missouri!!

@butchvito

5 жыл бұрын

Parts of St. Louis, MO are just as bad if not worse, especially North STL. Too different to compare because of the difference in population.

@carlaiello1993

5 жыл бұрын

Only by dumb fucks

Don’t talk about it if u never lived it aka white people in the comments

Stay out of East Saint Louis there's been an outbreak of Tyroneavirus and the chances of you recovering your personal items are Slim

@donguess4332

Жыл бұрын

Lmao 🤣

Nothing like this in Miami Dade County. The difference in mean tempeture change per-day is truly incredible. In the summer Southeast Florida has a High in the 90's and a mean tempeture change per-day of 10 degrees; only if it rains. I like the cold in Illinois, Brain Storm Brian