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Originally Posted by the urban politician
Cool pics. The area looks like shit, but your depiction of it is appreciated
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This is actually one of the better maintained areas of East St. Louis. I could of done a thread only of some streets with the well maintained brick ranch house infill that could have passed for a middle suburb or central illinois city instead of a broken down industrial satellite. I believe there is also a small area that extends up the bluff from the main portion of the city that is well maintained.
East St. Louis was a tour de force of blues, jazz, etc., and downtown was a hotspot of live music clubs where people from all over the st. louis metro and beyond would go for a night out whether they were black or white until the late 60s when the city imploded with riots, gangs, a never caught serial sniper...