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Old 01-13-2012, 08:46 AM
 
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The North Side was mostly German through the first half of the 20th century. I would say that Baden is the only north side neighborhood that still maintains an authentic German feel. The Southside also had a number of German neighborhoods such as Dutchtown (because Americans couldn't pronounce "Deutsche") and Bevo. For the most part, St. Louis has been more strongly influenced by Germans than any other ethnic group, despite originally being a French settlement.
Yeah, trying to explain to my wife (who's not from around here) that St. Louis was originally settled by the French, hence the French street names, but is predominantly a German and Italian, and Irish, and.....town. Well it sort of makes her head explode!

And now we've got a new wave of immigrants, she's really confused!

Makes the city better though, IMHO!
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Old 01-13-2012, 08:51 AM
 
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Yeah, trying to explain to my wife (who's not from around here) that St. Louis was originally settled by the French, hence the French street names, but is predominantly a German and Italian, and Irish, and.....town. Well it sort of makes her head explode!

And now we've got a new wave of immigrants, she's really confused!

Makes the city better though, IMHO!
There were also Yankees from the Northeast (like Eliot of Wash U) and southerners from Kentucky and Tennessee (like David Francis) who came when St. Louis was a boom town in the 1800s.
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