Explore Abandoned Mystery Building North St. Louis
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- Explore this Abandoned Mystery Building. It is a beautiful example of a Commercial building in old North St. Louis. Come Explore with us. This is one of my top 5 favorite commercial, industrial buildings I have been in.
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As a kid in the 1960s growing up in St Louis we did nothing but go in and explore abandoned buildings it's just kind of funny to see them on these modern CZcams videos😅
This building was originally a Cadillac dealership, in the late 70s it was advanced automatic sales, one of the larger distributors of vending machines, pool tables, juke boxes etc in the Midwest. Absister company advanced auto photo operated thousands of the old film photo booths ( mostly black and white). The building at that time was owned by Charles kagels (not sure of the spelling). I was service manager there when I was in my early 20s. It was also one of the last commercial buildings in stl that used an ammonia based ac system.
+Grant Simpson wow super cool. I always wish I had the info and some stories from people who have history with the building prior to making the video.. are you in the st louis area still?..
No, I live in Orlando now. After I left St Louis I lived in Phoenix Az for a couple decades. Advance was a fun place to work. On of our more interesting stops was we had 75-90 arcade/coin op games on the bottom deck of the Admiral (before it had the hideous metal skin added). A few years after I left Pete Entringer, who was effectively running the company and was a good boss to work for, had some kind of falling out with the owner and left to form Audio-Visual amusements and the Advance got kind of sold off in bits and pieces after that from what I was told. It was a very rough neighborhood back then, we had shootings in the alley next to us and so on, but we were able to park in protected spaces and the upper floors of the building gave us seemingly unlimited room to store stuff. For historical information, the guy who owned it also was instrumental in re-furbishing/revitalizing the "Fabulous Fox Theater" during that time also - I don't know if its still around or not but a lot of us got involved in that.
No, I live in Orlando now. After I left St. Louis I lived in Phoenix AZ for a couple decades. Advanced was a fun place to work. From what I understand a few years after I left the guy who basically ran the place, Pete Entringer, had some type of falling out with the owner and left to form Audio-Visual Amusements that ended up moving to the westport area. Pete was a good guy to work for, wish I had kept up with him. We had a lot of pretty interesting stops, the biggest was the whole lower deck of the Admiral Steamboat (before they put the ugly metal cladding on it) where we had 75-100 pieces of coin op equipment. It was a very rough neighborhood back then, shootings in the alley to the side and so on. We had protected parking since it was an old car dearlership.
+Grant Simpson ya.. its still considered a tough area.. before I went in.. a guy mowing told me his friend was shot dead in the street right out front
Do you remember the address or what part of the city this was in?
Awesome building .. love the architecture..
and how cool is it that your first ad I seen was the trailer for the new Walking Dead season !! 🤘🏻🤘🏻👏🏼👏🏼
these videos are so much more interesting simply because it’s in the city where i live 🤣
another great video love the music . all did another amazing job. can't wait to watch part 2.👍👍❤
Thanks.. It may be up sunday morning for ya
Thanks for making such cool urbex vids. The music you've added really worked for this one,... GREAT STUFF!!!
PS: Those elevators remind me of a car showroom. They're big enough to shuttle the cars from floor to floor for storage,...
+Douglas Kmiotek ya. Could be
Thanks man, I really appreciate you
I sat in the wall greens parking lot across the street from this place like a month ago and watched like 27 drug deals go on inside. I was out looking for spots to go explore but there was 100% someone using this place as a trap house.
What an amazing building, the "we'll pickle anything" graffiti was great! 😁
Thanks, There was a lot that I didn't show... unfortunately It would've made the footage repetitive
yes it was cool
Good video :) I will enjoy the other parts of it :)
Yes, thanks.. Probably will be up Sunday
After watching this I will hit "like" everytime! (If I like it lol) awesome videos guys
So sad to see another beautiful building fall apart.................
Yes it is
Nice find guys
Another great explore :)
"Otis" has been around a long time~ cool freight elevator
Thanks so much, and yes they have... Am I going crazy or have I also seen their name on other things... I wanted to say water fountains. But, it's probably just that I see water fountains at the same spots that I see Otis Elevators..
interesting, great job x
The next video, on this place will show you the view from the rooftop and the building next door
How I missed this I do not know but it is sad. Love the stalactites 😆
+Ruth Walton It was an old car dealership
Wow! What a cool old building! I really enjoy all of your videos but keep forgetting to hit the "Like"button.
I think that was a old Cadillac dealership,has been visited by a another urban explorer previously,I recognize that place.
+Pix L Industries cool
Art Deco building with marquee= theater as Artn Deco was the predominate architectural style When most theaters were built, which was 1915-1925. Many were multi-story buildings, some taking up whole blocks. On the ground floor they would have the theater and any other apace would be retail. Upper floors were office space and apartments. You seem to be very interested in the history of the buildings you explore, and so am I. If you go to a local library, they should have micro fiche of old city directories. If you have an address, you can look a place up in the directory and it will tell you what was in the building that given year. It also works for houses. It will tell you who lived there that year and what they did for a living. For this building, you could start in the 20s and it should show what it was built as.Keep checking the directories at 10 year intervals and you can see the life of the building. Interesting stuff.
That's a very cool Idea... Luckily I can see the address number in the video...
My friend had a sister who worked at our library. After they filmed all the city directories, the library threw them out and she gave them to my friend. We had a blast looking through them and especially how our neighborhood corner had changed over the years. The buildings were the same, from the late 1800s, but businesses had come and gone over the hundred + years. The directories are a great resource. There used to be a big wagon manufacturer here that built wagons purchased nation wide. Some of those wagons were the "prairie schooners" that people went west in. Some through your St. Louis! When it closed, the grandfather of a friend of mine bought the building and tore it down. He used the lumber from it to construct a neighborhood. This was in the 1920s. The neighborhood is still there and people living in it get a kick out of hearing the history of the wood in their houses. The houses were very well built and the man leased most at first and then later sold on affordable contract for deeds to the working people who lived there.
Love your vids..whats the title of the song at the 2 minute mark!
Thanks so much for your support.. It's called monster by martin hall
hey do you know the name of this? ive been trying to find the location of this place for a while ever since i saw it once.
Saint Louis Local and also urban explorer. Really interested in the location of this building if you could provide and set location in north county. Any info is appreciated.
can you tell me where in STL this building is located? I'd like to shoot a music video in there
Any chance to find out the artists and song info on the music?
+Tim Virnig I'll try and look that up. I have a subscription too epidemic sound.. the two songs in the middle were same artist
Martin Hall.. Is the name of the author, composer of the two songs in the middle of the video.. Don't have the other two trap music hip hop yet...
From the front, I thought it might've been a card room/gambling establishment, not originally but at one time. Once inside, I retracted that guess. Several commenters have made plausible suggestions. Never seen so much glass block fronting a bldg before - nearly the entire front wall. Met a Jersey dude named Bill living in Santa Monica who'd wkd in a factory manufacturing glass block (dying/dead industry?). While showing him around Oakland, & he pointed out remnants of it thruout the bldgs dntn that I'd never noticed prior. Now, every time I see it, I think of him & how excited he used to get when we'd come across some..."Glass block! Glass block!" LOL. It is pretty, for sure, but Bill was a little bit over the top.
Super cool! send him my way. I know where there is tons of glass blocks stacked on pallets in an old factory...
see the crazy side of me would turn that into a house with my address on the Marque out front. we keep building and losing green space but have lovely places waiting to be renovated and people just sit on deeds hoping for a boom and jackpot that never comes. wakeup people!!! ok done ranting. lol. love your vids. I just wish I could have an old building and the cash to restore it. I'd cherish it for life :)
is that near like jefferson and carr or jefferson and tenth?
1:08 I would say it was a moving and storage company. A lot of old storage buildings built in the 1930s and 40s had those Bonded and Fireproof signs on them. Those were important selling points. If people were storing nice stuff there, they wanted it to be safe, and not burn up or get stolen. Which happened a lot in older buildings. The nice part on the first floor and the mezzanine level would have been the business offices. Everything else would have been the storage space.
Max Zomboni cool.. maybe it was a moving and storage tganns
The support pillars and big windows on the mezzanine reminded me of the car manufacturing plants in Detroit. The way they looked back in the days of Model Ts. I think there was some type of manufacturing on the 2nd and 3rd floors.
There was a lot of small car manufacturers in the st louis area back in the day.. Some manufacturers that are no longer in business.... Someone wrote arrive in a wagon leave in a model t on the door near the beginning. I am really curious as to whether or not there was anything besides a moving company here at one point.
ST.LOUIS finest NEIGHBORHOOD
Acoustic song: Monster by Martin Hall
Yeah That second song was exceptionally fitting ? I think "atmospheric" goes good with the exploring. JUST my 2 cents.
Cooollll man thanks, Unfortunately there isn't enough of them on the music site I use... It's a paid subscription.. Maybe I just have to keep searching the site.. I've used that song once before and people really liked it...
There's got to be someone out there willing to make some similar "on the cheap" ? ... :-) ..... LOTS of musicians and singers that could use work right. Put out some feelers? I'll make you a post on My Google Plus to ask folks.
awesome.. appreciate it..
Yeah no problem. It totally fits the mood of many of the places you explore, and, if you keep the volume at "mid range" on it ? You'll be doing better than a different producer I watched today. The trick is Just consistent beats , IMHO ? !!!!!! "Normal" music ya know. Not the "ghostly" stuff. I think you get it. That way if something DOES sound out of the ordinary we can hear it ? OR dip the volume at that spot if need be in "Post" , right.
These other guys have yet to give history information that I have heard? I do Like how you tell us about where you are at. Your viewers chime in with info too sometimes? .... it's Just a different style. It is. I Like how you try to do long "cuts" , too. It gives the best feel of a place. So Im more than happy to give any suggestions I "FEEL" , and , you say others have mentioned the same thing ? Yeah, go for it man.
It looks like it used to be a club
Car dealer
Car dealer. And then storage on North Hrand Blvd
Grand
Beautiful 🤭🤭 what street is it on
I hope the guy who buys all this property is young, because I don't see this being redeveloped in my life time. It's like the people who think a building lot in Detroit is worth something. Unless there's good jobs to draw people to these areas, the neighborhoods aren't coming back. Detroit started shrinking in the 50s. They've had more houses than people to live in them ever since. I could never understand how anyone would pay money for a house in Detroit when there were all kinds of empty ones they could have for little or nothing. Unfortunately it's the same story in Buffalo, NY. Gary, IN, Cleveland, OH, SL,MO and on and on. The industrial revolution that built these cities is long gone, like the mining towns in the west that are now ghost towns. Sad because I hate to see this great architecture lost.
I'm not sure how young he is... It's crazy.. I hate to see it being lost too. We are saving a lot of it through video and photograph... We filmed the inside and outside of the Clemen's mansion in St. Louis in February of this year... It burned too the ground a couple weeks ago..
can you guess what all the rumbling andcrime ridden, however once extremely ffluent, areas in this country have in common.....hint: has alot to do with demographics, and politically incorrect to talk about it
Do u travel.. if so y don't come Jersey.... ?
I'd love too.. youtube has made things very tough as far as earning any revenue and it's been really hard on small content creators to get their videos seen and get enough views to make any revenue... We have traveled a little and would love to do a lot more in the future
One of the problems with "likes" is that people are too lazy to get off of full screen to do it. Is there any way to put a ""like" button contained in the actual video?
A auto dealership or a parking garage?
Old auto dealer
Song name please
+MiniTieGaming monster
Explore Abandoned Places With TattooTonyAlton Who is it by please?
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Andrew Gems lol
WHAT IS THE MUSIC?????
+DUSK O. Soundwaves arranged in melodic rythmic patterns
Very interesting building. I’m glad there are commenters on your videos that are able to clarify the history behind some of the places you film. I can just imagine the old Cadillacs in there up for sale on the showroom floors and the other stuff that was there. One of your commenters made a very good point, you can always pump money into these places to rejuvenate them, which I wish could happen, but the industries that once kept these places alive have dried up. Then again, there are so many reasons to live in St. Louis, like the lower cost of living and taxes I presume. People from California are trying to leave and are moving all over the country due to the high cost of living, crime and overcrowding there. I’m thinking the City of St Louis needs to do a better job promoting itself as a good place to live, bring in all the high rollers from California to rejuvenate the old abandoned places and bring in some jobs, providing incentives to those individuals!
155th lol
thanks...
clicked away cuz the music sucked so bad :(