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darkstar

(5,829 posts) Tue Jun 23, 2026, 02:48 PM 11 hrs ago

Freaky (to me at least) Factoid re: Miles Davis and Chuck Berry:

They were born and raised within 15 miles of each other in St Louis area. Possibly the two biggest giants of 20th century popular music. I dunno, just strikes me as odd.

Bonus Factoids: 1) They were both born within 6 months of each other in 1926 so we are current celebrating the centennials and 2) according to google, they never met.

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Freaky (to me at least) Factoid re: Miles Davis and Chuck Berry: (Original Post) darkstar 11 hrs ago OP

There are an amazing number of famous people FROM St. Louis tonkatoy8888 9 hrs ago #1

tonkatoy8888

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1. There are an amazing number of famous people FROM St. Louis

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Tue Jun 23, 2026, 04:34 PM

9 hrs ago

but they all left as soon as humanly possible.

Yogi Berra, John Ham, Fontella Bass, Maya Angelou, Josephine Baker, T Bone Burnett, William Burroughs, Jimmy Connors, Phyllis Diller, Robert Duvall, Charles Eames, Buddy Ebsen, and T.S. Eliot, to name a few.

St. Louis is a place where the people who really "count" are incredibly resistant to change and anything that upsets the status quo.

For instance, we could have been the headquarters of AT&T, but they wouldn't let the then president of Southern Bell join the most exclusive country club because he "wasn't the right type of person."

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