In a recent interview, Freeman Bos-ley, Jr., who was mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1993 to 1997, describes the neighborhood his family moved into in the mid-1960s, when he was a child: It was a beautiful home, very solid community, our block was probably 50/50 white-black.... We had two theaters.... We had sporting good stores, we had bakeries, we had Woolworth's, we had Rexall Drag Stores, we had everything that you would need to have a community, I mean totally solid. And I'm talking about, we had this in 1964. And by the time 1972 comes around when he graduated from high school, all that's gone (Archibald, 2009).
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