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Old St Louis from Above - Part 21
Aerial drone footage shot in 4K with DJI mini 3 of old St. Louis landmarks from above, mostly abandoned places. August 2024
De Paul Hospital - built 1828, First Hospital West of the Mississippi
Simmons - Marshall School - built 1899
Homer G. Phillips School of Nursing Facility - built 1937, part of first modern Black hospital in St. Louis
2715 N kingshighway Abandoned Church - built 1920
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Old St Louis from Above Part 20
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Aerial drone footage shot in 4K with DJI mini 3 of old St. Louis landmarks from above, mostly abandoned places. August 2024 - Alton, IL. addition Alby Quarry - closed 2014 Grand Theatre - closed for 47 years Hotel Stratford - closed for 36 years Church if the Redeemer - built in 1870
Old St Louis from Above Part 19
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Aerial drone footage shot in 4K with DJI mini 3 of old St. Louis landmarks from above, mostly abandoned places. April 2024 Banneker School School - closed 2004 Church of the Holy Communion - abandoned Streetcar Powerstation Building - Built 1903 - abandoned Orpheum Theatre - built 1917, closed and reopend a few times, finally closed for good in 2012 - abandoned
Old St Louis from Above Part 18 - Epic Drone Crash
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Aerial drone footage shot in 4K with DJI mini 3 of old St. Louis landmarks from above, mostly abandoned places. April 14, 2024 - the day my dji mini 3 crashed and died . . . RIP
Old St Louis from Above - Part 17
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Aerial drone footage shot in 4K with DJI mini 3 of old St. Louis landmarks from above, mostly abandoned places. March 2024 Baden School - abandoned 2009 Ludwig Apartments - abandoned 2008 Baden Bank - abandoned Old Rock House Tavern - abandoned Gundlach School - abandoned 2009 #abandoned #stlouis #missouri
Old St Louis from Above Part 16
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Aerial drone footage shot in 4K with DJI mini 3 of old St. Louis landmarks from above, mostly abandoned places. March 2023 St. Augustine Church - before and after fire destroyed it #abandoned #stlouis #missouri
Old St Louis From Above - Part 15
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Aerial drone footage shot in 4K with DJI mini 3 of old St. Louis landmarks from above, mostly abandoned places. February 2023 Euclid School - abandoned 2007 Hodiamont Tracks Drug Store - abandoned Cabanne Garden Apartments - abandoned Eliot School - abandoned 2004 Bissell Mansion - Empty - oldest brick house in St. Louis #abandoned #stlouis #missouri
Old St Louis from Above - Part 14
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Aerial drone footage shot in 4K with DJI mini 3 of old St. Louis landmarks from above, mostly abandoned places. December 2023 Langston Middle School - abandoned 2017 Rexall Warehouse Building - closed 1896 Perpetual Praise and Worship Ministries - abandoned Stowe Elementary School - abandoned 2009 #abandoned #stlouis #missouri
Old St Louis from above - Part 13
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Old St. Louis from Above - Part 11
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Old St. Louis from Above - Part 10 - the East Side
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Old St. Louis from Above - Part 9 #abandoned #stlouis #missouri
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  • @mitchrabe2155
    @mitchrabe2155 Місяць тому

    Great footage. Very well done.

  • @mitchrabe2155
    @mitchrabe2155 Місяць тому

    Central vpa school is so so sad. Cotton Belt Freight Depot is one of the first buildings that got me interested in abandoned structures. What is the song on this one?

  • @mitchrabe2155
    @mitchrabe2155 Місяць тому

    My little five year old boy said "It is sad seeing those schools empty, but this music make it even sadder" Very well done.

  • @sthpac6910
    @sthpac6910 Місяць тому

    The Church @ 1:26 is being worked on by the Mexican community. It's going slow but it is persistent.

    • @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest
      @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest Місяць тому

      Yes, it seeemd to be under contruction/repair when I filmed this last summer. At least something is being saved from the wrecking ball or mother nature!! We need more of that.

  • @sthpac6910
    @sthpac6910 Місяць тому

    The church at :26 on Hebert at Jefferson has been torn down but the steeple is still standing. I believe there must be a problem with the funds to pay or licensing or something, because for the last two months or so there is this pile of rubble and a large crane just sitting there along with a bull dozer, hmmm

  • @gailbaldwin9249
    @gailbaldwin9249 Місяць тому

    Great videos!! I've binged watched all of your work and I'm really impressed with your matching of music to the video. They are hauntingly beautiful music videos. As an ex St. Louis person, it is really great to see the area from your perspective. Glad you got your drone replaced! Keep em' comming! ;-)

    • @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest
      @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest Місяць тому

      Thank you!! I will have several more videos coming for the St. Louis area in the next few weeks and months as well as other locations in the midwest after that! Stay tuned!

  • @jamie49868
    @jamie49868 Місяць тому

    Was that an eagle in flight on an otherwise nondescript panel on Langston?

  • @mitchrabe2155
    @mitchrabe2155 2 місяці тому

    Falstaff Brewery has always amazed me. Thank you for sharing.

  • @mitchrabe2155
    @mitchrabe2155 2 місяці тому

    Baden Bank is beautiful!

  • @mitchrabe2155
    @mitchrabe2155 2 місяці тому

    Hard to imagine trees can start growing on the roof of the Spivey building! But they do!

  • @aaronmermelstein1169
    @aaronmermelstein1169 2 місяці тому

    would be GREATLY informative if you'd add the addresses/areas/neighborhoods of these buildings.

    • @jamie49868
      @jamie49868 Місяць тому

      I agree. It is a pain to pause and google.

  • @jamie49868
    @jamie49868 2 місяці тому

    I love this series. However, they do make me sad. I am old enough to remember when these places were alive and well. The churches and schools especially because they remind how many families, communities, and how much energy there was in the city.

    • @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest
      @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest 2 місяці тому

      @@jamie49868 thank you, and sadly I have more videos of more locations to post soon.

    • @jamie49868
      @jamie49868 2 місяці тому

      @@jimlwolfe-empty-midwest I know there are many, many such places around STL. I city walk from north side to south side and all points in between. The number of closed/abandoned churches and schools is truly shocking to me no matter how often I encounter them. I can see the wealth and investment people made, now just rotting away. Have you done anything on the remnants in and around the old Mill Valley area?

    • @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest
      @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest 2 місяці тому

      @@jamie49868 Yes, it's sad for sure, I never realized how many places there are until I started doing the videos - I w contacted by someone at STL magazine doing a piece about all the closed schools and I'm sure that I have shot video of 20 or more schools. Not sure about the Old Mill Valley area, tell me more, where specifically is that?

    • @jamie49868
      @jamie49868 2 місяці тому

      @@jimlwolfe-empty-midwest Mill Creek Valley ran from Jefferson between Market and Locas St. down to 20th. I think it started out German but developed into THE Black area with people like Scott Joplin, Josephine Baker along with most notable black St Louisans of the early 20th century, and Harris Stowe College. There isn't much left but there is the abandoned Black Hospital, an old YWCA, and some other buildings I'm not quite sure what they were, and just north on Sam Shepard is a real cool abandoned art-deco police station with some pretty cool churches. Check with your friends at STL mag or the History Museum because I may be incorrect on a few details, but I think you could get a pretty cool episode out of it I dig your work. Peace

    • @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest
      @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest 2 місяці тому

      @@jamie49868 Thanks, I'll have a look!

  • @lyonsdavid
    @lyonsdavid 2 місяці тому

    All the Graffiti looks horrible & disgusting, whoever thinks that looks good is insane!

    • @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest
      @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest 2 місяці тому

      To each his own, art is ment to be interpreted, and it's different to all - I like it.

  • @garyteague9555
    @garyteague9555 2 місяці тому

    What a shame for our once iconic Missouri city

    • @markbrowning4334
      @markbrowning4334 2 місяці тому

      Blacks...... That and about 75 years of democratic government.

  • @gctg
    @gctg 2 місяці тому

    why not show some great old buildings that are still in use and look really good?

    • @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest
      @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest 2 місяці тому

      ummm, because that is not what my channel is about. It's call Empty Midwest. not cool old buildings.

  • @fentanylanonymous
    @fentanylanonymous 2 місяці тому

    Dang didn’t know that church on hogan St burned down.

  • @DCussen
    @DCussen 3 місяці тому

    Very unfortunate. Very, very unfortunate.

  • @rikimonday2824
    @rikimonday2824 3 місяці тому

    Did many photo shoots at the graffiti walls!, my sister went to Cleveland Jr ROTC love seeing the city I grew up in ❤

  • @joanmullen2552
    @joanmullen2552 3 місяці тому

    If only the roofs were kept up! Such beautiful buildings!

  • @joanmullen2552
    @joanmullen2552 3 місяці тому

    What a shame to allow that beautiful building to fall into disrepair. If the roof was replaced it would lead to far less damage.

  • @Predjama631
    @Predjama631 4 місяці тому

    From St. Louis Patina about the church - "By 1936, however, the congregation followed their members and the money west to the new suburbs going up in Central County, and it probably passed into the possession of the Jamison Memorial Church, which had been founded in 1917."

    • @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest
      @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest 4 місяці тому

      Thanks for the extra info, I keep forgetting to check that website when I create videos!

  • @doyleholloway1818
    @doyleholloway1818 5 місяців тому

    i went to club imperial in the 1950s...

  • @doyleholloway1818
    @doyleholloway1818 5 місяців тому

    Looks like st. louis didn't care much about this care center

  • @doyleholloway1818
    @doyleholloway1818 5 місяців тому

    I lived in aprox 1949 across the alley from St Liborius school where the fenced in rectangular grassy area is in this video.. 1841 MAIDEN LANE Old Old jackson school which was converted into 4 family flats...

  • @josh.70239
    @josh.70239 5 місяців тому

    Wow! 😂😂

  • @stephenrichie4646
    @stephenrichie4646 5 місяців тому

    Well, damn.

  • @BurmyPower
    @BurmyPower 5 місяців тому

    😭

  • @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest
    @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest 5 місяців тому

    Agreed, lots of amazing buildings left to decay away.

  • @charlene3303
    @charlene3303 5 місяців тому

    It’s just sad that St. Louis has all those abandoned buildings and houses. St. Louis has a lot 🎉money to fix those problems or tear them down. Missouri needs to get it together fast

  • @orcajr.5843
    @orcajr.5843 5 місяців тому

    Looks enriched by diversity

  • @shakazulu365
    @shakazulu365 5 місяців тому

    All of this abandonement and dextruction is because of crime. These areas would still be thriving if the city had maintained ssfety and the infrastructure. Criminals and their enablers the Democrat party have destroyed our cities. Our ancestors were right, you’ve bought the lie.

  • @tammybrown4901
    @tammybrown4901 5 місяців тому

    Haven't been to baden in 30 yrs. Ohhh wow the memories how tragic is this.😔😔💔💔

  • @tammybrown4901
    @tammybrown4901 5 місяців тому

    Isnt these apts here were the old velvet freeze was located, went with my mom all the time how sad.

  • @nitromonkey2004
    @nitromonkey2004 6 місяців тому

    Great drone footage. Please keep posting more.

    • @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest
      @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest 6 місяців тому

      Hey, glad you liked it, thanks for watching and yes, I have plenty more locations I will add. Sadly there is no shortage of amazing old abandoned places in St. Louis, and all over the Midwest……stay tuned.

  • @nitromonkey2004
    @nitromonkey2004 6 місяців тому

    I love your drone videos. It's so terrible that these amazing STL buildings with such awesome architecture are just abandoned. Keep more coming.

    • @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest
      @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest 6 місяців тому

      Couldn't agree more! It’s so sad how they let all of this just crumble. I will have many more videos coming ….. stay tuned! Lots more locations in the works.

  • @shaunsms7737
    @shaunsms7737 6 місяців тому

    Once again no focus of building front just circirling of building from far. Confused about what to look at

  • @shaunsms7737
    @shaunsms7737 6 місяців тому

    Please spend time focusing if you have special needs sorry ijs

  • @llywelynyllevyn1176
    @llywelynyllevyn1176 7 місяців тому

    I got news for you, first, that spray paint is not your typical graffiti. The gray writing, the demonic faces, the old gray haired woman, the baby. That is very occult stuff based on the bible painted on a long concrete wall, next to a bridge. I'm no bridge for these spirits to enter into the land and cross over from their world into ours. I'm from the Midwest, I'm empty, I've got these spirits caught and trapped but I'm not the bridge, I'm the wall that has stopped them all. See that sand? That represents the seashore, just as the seashore keeps the sea out of the land I have kept these spirits from flooding into the earth. That's from the bible. Like the song kashmir my eyes have filled with sand, I am the shore keeping these sea spirits out of the land. Now you see all this brick? All these abandoned brick buildings all over St. Louis and every major city? I'm going to hire millions of Americans to go to work and take some of these buildings apart and save the lumber and brick. $20. an hour times 8 hours a day times a million jobs is 160 million per day times 250 work days, that's only 40 billion per year. We are going to clean up these American cities. We will barge this brick down the Mississippi river to central America, they need schools and building materials. Some buildings we will save and keep. Then we will rebuild new neighborhoods in our cities with new parks and newer more modern buildings. Billions and billions of bricks from 1800 through 1960. 160 years of brick making, sitting, waiting to be reborn into new buildings for the world. Millions of new jobs. Every major American city is the same. We are going to clean it up like the WPA program under Roosevelt in the 1930s. I am the baby, unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given and the Government will be upon his shoulder. I am the baby and the wall. I am taking over the money and will fund these projects without debt through grants. I am the gateway of the spirits, I am LA, the city of angels. St. Louis is my city. LLXIIX77

  • @kathymccarthy6695
    @kathymccarthy6695 7 місяців тому

    This is amazing!!!!

  • @stephenrichie4646
    @stephenrichie4646 7 місяців тому

    I’m realistic enough to know that ultimately buildings are just objects with a life cycle, like everything else. They serve a purpose, until they don’t. Can’t help but feel sadness to see Central High School in ruins. My school, class of 1956.

  • @organstl
    @organstl 7 місяців тому

    Great footage- great view.

  • @stephenrichie4646
    @stephenrichie4646 7 місяців тому

    I attended Harrison school in the mid 1940s

    • @annarowden9457
      @annarowden9457 3 місяці тому

      My dad and aunt attended Harrison during the forties. They grew up across the street from Fairgrounds Park.

  • @matthewg7228
    @matthewg7228 8 місяців тому

    4:18 The cotton Belt Freight Depot is a great landmark and looks amazing from the bike trail north of the arch.

  • @doyleholloway1818
    @doyleholloway1818 8 місяців тому

    THE CARE CENTER COULD USE SOME MAJOR CARE

  • @doyleholloway1818
    @doyleholloway1818 8 місяців тому

    WHAT A SHAME!!!!!

  • @doyleholloway1818
    @doyleholloway1818 8 місяців тому

    i lived very close to krey meat packing plant... i can still smell that smell ... YUCK

  • @sthpac6910
    @sthpac6910 9 місяців тому

    Beautiful, I love these videos.

  • @denniskosmicki2684
    @denniskosmicki2684 10 місяців тому

    Beautifully done.

    • @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest
      @jimlwolfe-empty-midwest 10 місяців тому

      Thank you very much! Ok will be uploading a new video this week, and many more to come after that!

  • @jugandoclasicos
    @jugandoclasicos 10 місяців тому

    I find beauty in all this

  • @gusplays3145
    @gusplays3145 10 місяців тому

    I lived very near here