Detroit & St.Louis

[skeletor]

This doesn't have much to do with baseball..but the FBI just announced
that St.Louis was the MOST DANGEROUS city in the United States.

The second ??? Who else, but DETROIT..sheesh...

Heck, I was in St.Louis, last summer,,didn't seem all that bad to me,
then again, I wasn't skunking around the back alleys etc..

Great new ball park...anyhow...

[AutographCollector]

This doesn't have much to do with baseball..but the FBI just announced
that St.Louis was the MOST DANGEROUS city in the United States.

The second ??? Who else, but DETROIT..sheesh...

Heck, I was in St.Louis, last summer,,didn't seem all that bad to me,
then again, I wasn't skunking around the back alleys etc..

Great new ball park...anyhow...
I just talked to a buddy of mine who lives in St Louis (on the Mizzo side). He said that East St Louis (on the Illinois side) is where it's dangerous. He said that there are crackhouses, gangs, strip joints, the works.

[Captain Cold Nose]

I just talked to a buddy of mine who lives in St Louis (on the Mizzo side). He said that East St Louis (on the Illinois side) is where it's dangerous. He said that there are crackhouses, gangs, strip joints, the works.
That's what I was thinking, too.

[Solair Wright]

East St. Louis is a HORRIBLE place in my opinion. There are lots of crimes there, gangs, and even worse, some of them get away with it. :x You need to be careful while driving there. I heard a couple carjackings on the news that occurred in East St. Louis since 1998.

Luckilly, none of this happens in the St. Louis suburbs.

[Senior skittles]

how ironic is that??? My science teaches said something about st. louis being on a crack on the earth or something like that.....and that sometime in the next 20 years st.louis would be underground!!!!! I dont believe that at all but ya never know!

[malt-tones]

I just talked to a buddy of mine who lives in St Louis (on the Mizzo side). He said that East St Louis (on the Illinois side) is where it's dangerous. He said that there are crackhouses, gangs, strip joints, the works.


Speaking of East St. Louis, which is actually in Illinois, I have had the pleasure of being there, twice; specifically to purchase alcoholic beverages.

Why's that you say? Wulp, St. Louis or the State of Missouri has some cockamamie law about liquor sales on Sunday, which Michigan does also; however, I do not think that sales are suspended at exactly midnight because I seem to remember buying some brewki’s (in Michigan) for the Saturday night/Sunday morning all-niters that I participated in as a youth.

--Sidebar: The first time I purchased beer I was not even old enough to have a driver’s license, the good old days---

Anyhow, we, some colleagues and yours truly, drove all day Saturday and into the night to get to St. Louis ASAP, for a work function that occurred on Monday morning. We were pretty tired and pulled into the Hotel, which was near Busch Stadium, the Arch, and the Grand Central Station which had recently been converted into a mall of sorts, similar to Greektown just bigger.


We didn’t feel like going to the bar, we just wanted a few beers before we hit the hay. Well, low and behold, no party stores were opened, or at least not selling beer (I kinda forget, it was many years and brain cells ago). So we loaded up the company van and crossed the bridge into East St. Louis to get our beer. WOW!

--Sidebar: The first time I went to the Indy 500, which occurs on a Sunday, we didn’t realize we had to buy the beer on Saturday. --

It was worse than some areas in Detroit. You took two steps into the party store “lobby”, and there was a large section of glass, probably bullet proof. You gave your “order” to the clerk and he retrieved your items. You, the customer, only received those items after you deposited the cash in large metal drawer, similar to a bank’s drive through window.

You want to talk about culture shock, YIKES!