The city of St.Louis Missouri sure looked beautiful back in the day and not to mention that the cars looked beautiful back in the day as well.

Beautiful -- love the music, adds a lot, very evocative. My Dad started with St Louis Public Service in 1947 -- I used to ride the cars & buses with him all the time. Thank you!

A shame they're all gone! The Metrolink just isn't the same

Wow this brings back memories. In the 50s and 60s my very poor Grandma lived above Hippy's Market at Chippewa and Texas. Long gone now. She heated the big three room apartment with a wood burning cook stove. When we kids stayed over we all slept together in the "front" room and the street cars rang their bells when they made their stops at the corner. We were all poor but it was a great time to be alive.

I R.E.M. er in the forties and fifties riding Grand Ave in south St. Louis to Sportsman Park to watch the Browns and also Cardinals baseball games.

We desperately need these back. GM and the rest of the car companies ruined America.

My city looks so different back then

Great footage! Sad these no longer exist. Even sadder the city is not even vibrant like the old days. Not sure we’ve moved forward or backward

Great shots.. I loved the Street Car system, or what was left of it in the late 40s and though the 50s and early 60s.. My Cousin and I rode the last cars on the Franklin line. I would almost bet that young man boarding a car was him from the way it looks. When I was really young what was left of the St. Charles line ended at around Brown Road on the Rock Road. I recall the old wooden cars that ran along side the Rock Road much of the way to Wellston. I only can say I rode it once. I also had an Aunt and Uncle who lived in Maryland Heights near the Creve Couer Line. Once in a while I got glimpse of the cars running though the country side and a few times recall them turning at the park at the end of the line. I always wanted to ride them but never go too, they took it off before I could. I used to go to a Dentist on Broadway near downtown and nearly every Saturday for years took it to Baden to switch to a bus to Ferguson. I loved the part where it bounced along side the Calvary Cemetery. Many times I rode the Clayton car to the end of the line and back to downtown. Same for the Grand, Broadway, Hodiamont, and a few times on the Jefferson. It was a wonderful way to travel and no bus line can hold a candle to the fixed route trolleys.

You could ride the street car in safety....how about our Metro where people hop on and off like bunnies....and people wonder....how can we make the Metro more safe....does in take a genius to answer that question....the bullies just move from the playground, to the classroom to the Metro....mocking the system and laughing at the good cirtiizens who can't figure out how to keep the Metro safe....Good Luck...

Thanks for the memories. Some of my earliest memories include riding next to my motorman dad, sitting on the sandbox, on the old Creve Coeur line, in the early 1940s. Grandpa was also a motorman. When I was 20, I lived on Olive Street, in Gaslight Square, (when it was a happening place). Daily took the Olive Car downtown to work. Was very sad to see the last cars go out of service in the early 60s. I have a couple of picture books of this era, and a large map of the Public Service Company system dated 1942, real treasures when I’m feeling nostalgic.

This is so wonderful to see the street cars ,trains and buses going your way ,when you need to get there !

I'm an historian. And I look at this with an historian's eye. There's a grip that this stuff still retains on the human psyche.

I rode one of these in the 1950's when I was a kid. Thanks for the memories

I lived on Pershing Ave.

Thanks for sharing. This brought back memories of riding the streetcar to the doctor's office as a child.

The last of the street cars were long gone before I came along. This was the most in-depth video I have seen of them. Thank you.

Grew up by The Bevo Mill, can barely remember them when I was a little kid in the early 1960's going up and down Gravois.

I rode a streetcar in St. Louis the last week they were in operation.

I loved the streetcar...a dime! took it from overland (midland ave.) downtown St. Louis or to forest park (skating on the ponds there in the winter). thanks for the footage.