I realized I had not been up to Kinloch in a decade, and I decided to revisit, having heard that a new documentary is coming out soon chronicling the history of the famous town. Things sure have changed. The whole west half of the historic African American town has been turned into two huge distribution…
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Kinloch, Part 5
Update: The town had changed dramatically when I revisited the town in February of 2020. The building above is now boarded up and abandoned. The community garden below has moved to a new location. Kinloch, despite its reputation, has much still going for it. An urban farm is cultivated by the city during the summer on…
Kinloch, Part 4
Update: The town had changed dramatically when I revisited the town in February of 2020. In an attempt to add population to the city of Kinloch, many apartment buildings were built in the 1960’s and 70’s. Most of these buildings now are unfortunately abandoned; some were snatched up by the airport, such as these burned…
Kinloch, Part 3
Update: The town had changed dramatically when I revisited the town in February of 2020. Many of these houses have now been demolished. It’s so important to stress how the aborted airport expansion wiped out a wide swath of Kinloch. Scattered through the trees, remnants of the earliest houses in Kinloch still stand in several places….
Kinloch, Part 2
Update: The town had changed dramatically when I revisited the town in February of 2020. This part of Kinloch has been cleared for warehouses. Like some ancient necropolis, mounds of rubble pop out of the underbrush throughout the western part of Kinloch. Demolished for an airport expansion that never happened, each pile represents a house that…
Kinloch, Missouri
Update: The town had changed dramatically when I revisited the town in February of 2020. The original text of this post was removed in January 2021; new commentary, improved photos with a new order with some additions and subtractions updated in February of 2024. Much of these public housing apartments have been torn down, but not all…