#East St Louis

[unplaces]

N 9th Street, East St. Louis, Illinois.

[20th-century-railroading]

Rising out of East St. Louis by Mike Danneman Via Flickr: A westbound Southern Pacific freight train treads the long, elevated viaduct approach for MacArthur Bridge over the Mississippi River at East St. Louis, Illinois, in December 1984. Powering the train is EMD SD45 No. 7419, followed by EMD GP9 Nos. 3734 and 3361.

[unteriors]

N 83rd St, East St. Louis, Illinois.

[freshthoughts2020]

Its Sexyy

by

Jaevonn Harris

4' x 6'

[roadsidepeek]

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[olidel]

Escape from New York (1981) East St. Louis, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; NYC

Despite its name, much of the filming for this 1981 cult classic took place in East St. Louis, Illinois, as director John Carpenter feared it would be too expensive to make the real New York look sufficiently rundown. East St. Louis had plenty of townhouses which resembled New York, and had also recently suffered a major fire, on top of having an abandoned train station and a bridge, two locations the movie required. 

*cracks knuckles and hits head with a mallet several times* Escape from New York is the first Dogme 95 film.

[vannajamma]

I mean….

No lies detected. I love where I live.

[illustratus]

At St Jean d'Acre, the grenadiers Daumesnil and Souchon cover Bonaparte with their bodies to protect him from the shrapnel of a bomb blast.

by Louis Charles Bombled

[yearningforunity]

LOVERS, RED DOOR LOUNGE. EAST ST LOUIS, ILL., 1986.

Photo: Gerald Cyrus

[whitesinhistory]

On July 3, 1917, continuing violence raged in East St. Louis, Illinois, as white mobs attacked Black residents and destroyed their homes and other property. The primary outbreak of violence began on July 2, 1917, when white residents of East St. Louis and other nearby communities ambushed African American workers as they left factories during a shift change. The National Guard was called in to suppress the violence but they were ordered not to shoot at white rioters; some troops reportedly joined the mobs targeting the Black community.

In 1916 and 1917, thousands of African Americans moved from the rural South to East St. Louis in search of industrial work. White residents, along with the city's political leaders, attempted to discourage Black migration and prohibited railroads from transporting Black people to the region. When these attempts failed, white residents used violence to intimidate, expel, and destroy the African American population.

From July 2 through July 5, 1917, at least 39—and some estimate as many as 200—African Americans were shot, hanged, beaten to death, or burned alive after being driven into burning buildings. The riots caused more than $400,000 in property damage and prompted 6,000 African Americans—more than half of East St. Louis’s African American population—to flee the city. While 105 people were indicted on charges related to the riot, only 20 members of the white mob received prison sentences for their roles in perpetrating the extreme violence and killings.

[unplaces]

Lynch Ave, East St. Louis, Illinois.

[20th-century-railroading]

Missouri Pacific - East St. Louis, IL by d.w.davidson Via Flickr: After having crossed the MacArthur bridge, three new MP SD50s have a southbound hopper train entering the Chester Sub at Valley Jct., in May 1985.

[theartsofrust]

[scholarofgloom]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The quintessential politico: Rocky chomping on ethnic food, October 1, 1958. Running for his first term as governor, Nelson Rockefeller and Louis Lefkowitz, who was running for Attorney General, ventured down to Delancey Street and visited a deli. It was Rocky's first-ever trip to the Lower East Side. They ate corned beef sandwiches and Rocky also bought a five-pound salami for $3.

Photo: Associated Press

[soulmusicsongs]

Have Mercy On Me - The East St. Louis Gospelettes (Love Is The Key, 1977)