So we came up . . . sort of . . . on a YouTube channel I enjoy called AlternateHistoryHub. He did a special on bad city flags. For some reason he didn't talk about us very much (Milwaukee, looking at you there), but we did make a brief appearance in the [url=https://youtu.be/yYwhL2Veh6w?t=1003]Conclusion[/url].

If you want to see the good, the bad, and the ugly in all their gawdy glory here's the whole video. Cody is usually good for a laugh. His presentation is pretty classic.

I didn't watch the whole video, but I wish he had at least mentioned our city. I think we have a pretty cool flag. It's on the simpler side yet very effective in referencing our history.

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A name drop would have been nice, but as he says, good flags aren't funny. And I was well pleased to see ours as the ultimate example of the rare good US city flag. (There are a few others. And I'm inclined to agree with him about Baltimore. I'm pretty fond of that one too.) Maybe I should mention in the comments that we used to have one of those busier numbers until we hired a vexillologist to design a new one. Anyway . . . back to real news.

Damn SP; there you go making me look up words again.

^If it makes you feel better I did have to look up the spelling. I mostly know it because of all the polls people here kept pointing me to on r/vexillology. (Assuming you mean vexillologist, of course, and not "news," say. Which some people clearly need to look up. Like me, it would seem.)

Speaking of Youtube, a channel named PeriscopeFilm has posted this video showing some early '50's film of various Missouri areas and there are scenes showing the outside around the war memorial, Old Courthouse, and Union Station.

^I wonder what they were shooting that for. It looks to be professional work on decent enough stock. Documentary work? Or educational films? You can see two cans of film sitting on the baggage truck at 29:40. Looks like 35mm prints being flown off somewhere for showing. (The ones in the can in the background, that is. Not this print, or even necessarily the original stock.) I'm not a film guy, so I can't be sure. But it sure looks like the shipping cans for the 35mm prints that I saw at festivals or exhibitions on occasion before everything went digital. (Never really worked in a cinema, so we didn't see film all that often. I was usually in live theatre venues of one sort or another. But we hosted occasional film screenings. If someone wanted to pay to bring in a 35mm projector. We only had 16s in house. And I think only one, named Ethyl, worked. Yeah, yeah, the projectors had names. Strange but true.)

Anyway, fascinating stuff! Nice shots of CoMO, too. Wish he'd gone up and shot the business end of Union Station a bit.

Browsing Youtube and came upon this short clip:

^Interesting. I wonder what they were shooting? Seeing Met Square under construction like that really takes me back. My scoutmaster was an engineer on that building.

I've never been to the wax museum on the Landing but this guy (based in Tampa) really seems to like it. 

He also mentioned he'll be back in STL in the next couple months because of our well known haunted house scene. 

Why America Needs the Midwest

St Louis, while not explicitly named once..that I can tell...is featured very very prominently. This is a great hype piece for our area of the country.

Thought this was interesting, the oldest voices that we can still hear with an appearance by a St. Louisan at the 7:33 mark. His name was Thomas Mason and he made the recording at the Steinberg & Co hat store in downtown STL on June 22, 1878.

CWE, May, 2022

Happened upon this video.  Posting because its hilarious how skeptical this guy is.   Like, he keeps saying "we're told" every time he gives a fact about some building.  Seems to be hinting at some grand conspiracy that he never gets around to meantioning...then ends the vid with spooky music.   WHAT ARE THEY HIDING!?

So... aliens built St. Louis?

The internet has provided a platform for lots of things.  Some good.  Some bad.  It never ceases to amaze me how much stupidity proliferates.  This whole Tartarian past civilization theory is one of the worst things I've seen.  Yeah, the buildings from the 1904 World's Fair were already there, built by a prehistoric advanced civilization and re-purposed for the Fair.  Then demolished immediately after the Fair to keep the populace in the dark.  Just another example of the ease which people can be convinced to believe just about anything 'cause I saw it on the internet.    

Ah, ok.  So that's his angle.  This is that "mud flood" stuff.   Those neoclassical architects must be flattered their their works are mistaken for the real deal

Man, watching the place just sit there, and the possibility of it just being demolished just keeps the wound open.  My dream for this place is that it could be re-acquired by a public entity like GRG and there could be a competition to fill in the blanks of what we don't know of Cassily's vision.  

Here's something you don't see everyday. There's a channel I subscribe to, Electronic Gems, that plays mostly '80's inspired Synth Electronica from various artists.  I've been busy lately so I had not watched any videos for apparently at least 2 weeks.

^ We need to have tsomething like his with video driving around St. Louis... like a BBC Radio One Essential Mix.

^I kind of made a stab at it a bunch of years ago, though with a crumby camera and not the best recording. And not ideal light and poor route planning, maybe. So . . . you know . . . the same thing, but with more suck.

^ That was great! Bravo!!