For more than 20 years, Tommy Igoe, has been blazing a trail in the music industry as a sideman, band leader, and educator. His Birdland Big Band is the hottest band in the world's biggest music ...
The first Pruitt-Igoe building to be demolished was imploded in 1972. Click on the slide show button to view additional images. Accepted wisdom will have us believe St. Louis' infamous Pruitt-Igoe ...
The former site of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project , along Cass Avenue, looks nothing like the complex of 33 11-story buildings it once was in the 1950s and ‘60s. The buildings, which were originally ...
From its fanfare opening in 1954 to its live-on-TV demolition three decades later, the St Louis public housing project remains a powerful symbol of the social, racial and architectural tensions that ...
Here’s the trailer for The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History, a documentary film by Chad Freidrichs, in association with the Missouri History Museum. We see vintage advertisements for the “bright, ...
Former residents of a low-income, majority-Black housing development in St. Louis, Missouri, are seeking restitution from the US Army over a Cold War-era testing program they say made them ill. Ben ...
In only a few decades following the Second World War, American public housing projects from Chicago to Atlanta went into steep decline. Concieved and built largely between the ‘30s and the ‘50s, such ...
With 12,000 residents in 33 high-rise buildings on 57 acres, the Wendell O. Pruitt and William L. Igoe Homes constituted an ambitious attempt to shelter the workers who would staff a resurgent postwar ...
Led by East Coast drumming icon Tommy Igoe, the Birdland Big Band delivers powerful performances each Friday night at New York's renowned Birdland jazz club. Eleven captures Igoe and some of the ...