St. Louis Overview | An informative introduction to St. Louis, Missouri

I think St. Louis is one of the most underrated and overlooked cities in the country. In this video I briefly cover St. Louis's history, population, skyline as well as a few things that make it unique. Thanks for watching: St. Louis Overview | An informative introduction to St. Louis, Missouri

[davidpetersen]

My goodness, I think it would take a full week to enjoy all the buildings, museums, attractions and parks you mention in this St. Louis snapshot. Glad you did this one! I think St Louis now takes first place on my most surprises in one video list! Bravo! The building interiors you reveal are architecturally breathtaking. 🎉❤😊 from David in Houston TX

[austinfreeman]

I love my city! Thank you for giving STL some much needed love!

[laurabagley]

So St Louis just jumped to the top of my “us cities to visit” list 🤩 amazing overview of what seems like an incredible city!

[tannerperkes]

I love St Louis! I lived there for a couple years and fell in love with the place. Even after living there I learned a ton from your video and want to go back to visit! I think you did a great job highlighting so cool and unique aspects of the city

[swampfox]

I never knew I wanted to visit St. Louis, now I do.

[SunsetIndigoRealty]

Beautifully researched and produced. Like others in the comments I've been anticipating you covering my city with your characteristic charm and comprehensiveness. It certainly is one of the most underrated cities in the US, which considering how influential it was in US (and I'd argue world) history, makes it all the more amazing that it has flown under the radar for so long.

[bjornloken]

Wow, looks like I need to visit St. Louis! You did a great job highlighting the important information about the city; from its geographic significance to its many architectural marvels. Awesome video.

[Healthyagingwithmarvin]

Fantastic video of my hometown. You didn't scratch the surface on why I enjoyed my time living there.

Non pretentious population. Easy city for daily living. (sometimes people will forget they are in a big city) Farmers Markets. The Great Rivers Greenway that will be excellent in a few years.

There are just tons of neighborhood festival that adds to the sense of community. I can talk about the food and arts.

I don't know if life will take me back there to live but I agree with you its one of the most underrated cities in the country.

[jimspies]

STL'n for over 50 years. Great video. One thing to note that along with the Compton Water Tower, there are TWO other standpipe water towers in St Louis City, including the world's tallest free-standing Corinthian column. They are the Bissell water tower and the Grand Ave water tower.

Obviously, there have been books written about STL history, so your video couldn't cover everything, but bringing up those two water towers also brings up North St Louis and the history of discrimination, segregation, and disinvestment that is here (others may mention crime statistics, that's a symptom or result of the things I mentioned). It's a story that played out in many cities, but few as pronounced as St Louis. Reading "The Broken Heart of America" by Walter Johnson; and/or watching the movies "Pruitt-Igoe" and "Spanish Lake" are great introductions to the topic.

[jasonvoigt]

Yo CityGeek! Been following your channel for a long time and thanks for finally covering my city and putting it in such a positive light. Yes we have it all, the culture, history, etc. There's a few things I would add such as the food including our great BBQ, and our St. Louis style pizza and gooey butter cake. We're also one of the most haunted cities - just ask anyone who has stayed at the historic Lemp Mansion. I could go on, but either way - excellent job!

[CommanderColson]

Great video as always! Would love to see you cover San Jose, CA. When people think of the Bay area, they often think of San Fran and Oakland, but I hardly hear anyone ever mention San Jose!

[highwayheaven]

St. Louis is an awesome city. It punches above its weight in terms of attractions. There are many other attractions not listed here.

[StLouis-yuiz]

I have been very eagerly anticipating this one! :P You did a good job covering the Lou. I want to share a quote from 'The Secrets of St. Louis' a circa 1960 documentary.
"No tour of St. Louis could ever really be a complete one. A city this old and this vast has accumulated hundreds o points of interest... each of these speaks a language of its own; and a good part of the cities special appeal is the unspoken stories they all seem to tell."
I won't try to cover all of the things I would have liked to have seen included that weren't because, I see that you gave us more time than any other city so far so thanks for trying to cover as much as possible. When you are ready to do a part 2 let me know and I can certainly provide additional interesting facts and places to discuss. ⚜

[jrock]

@ 4:27 The World’s Fair Pavilion was built AFTER the 1904 World’s Fair. The Pavilion was built in 1909 with the money that the city made from the fair. The Saint Louis Art Museum is the ONLY building that was built during the fair and still stands today.

[JXY]

Saint Louis is a cool city. Lots to check out. The only thing I don’t care for is the downtown, which lags behind similar city downtowns.

[samihabbarannaba]

Love saint louis from Annaba (Algeria)

Annaba also has a beautiful basilica of saint Augustin
A roman city and a very beautiful architectural marvels from Ottoman period to french colonisation

[BohemianMinstrel]

Hi there, I like your videos. Please tell me, what is the music that commences playing at 5 minutes 10 seconds ?

[samihabbarannaba]

I invite you to do videos about algeria and it s beautiful cities : Annaba Algiers and constantine

[CharlesBudde-vxvi]

St Louis ended in my lifetime. It is a sadness. The contributing reasons include the city's failure to invest in jobs. The breweries went away, Monsanto, Chrysler, MacDouglas, etc and etc. The city took no action. As a result, the community failed and continues to fall apart. Jobs are the basis for any community. Consequently, downtown is a no-go war zone. Grand Center is absolutely a no-go zone even in the midst of Powell Hall's renovation. No one can safely go there any longer. Goodbye Fox. Goodbye Grandel. Goodbye Black Rep. The Muny, also gone. Too dangerous and NOTHING being done to counter it. St Louis WAS a wonderful city with vibrant neighborhoods and better than decent schools and amazing facilities, particularly in the hospital complex. That is evaporating quickly and nothing stands in the way of it. This city is a rolling disaster and picking up speed.

[darkuserkain]

Yeah I used to love St Louis. My mom side of the family is from there so we spent alot of time there. Now it's a shit hole thanks to what Bush did to the city. Crime is out of control. It's sad that such a beautiful city turned into a shit hole