Screening of Select Scenes from Documentary Film on Pruitt-Igoe
Author:Steve Patterson June 18th, 2009
Saturday June 20th scenes from the still in-production documentary film on Pruitt-Igoe will be screened.
The 33 buildings known as Pruitt-Igoe only stood for two decades. The bulk of the site has been vacant now nearly twice as long.
Here is a short clip from a 1981 program entitled Trouble in Utopia:
Pruitt-Igoe’s architect was Minoru Yamasaki. Yamasaki is best known for the World Trade Center project that was destroyed on 9/11/2001.
The scrrening location is the Des Lee Auditorium at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park at 5700 Lindell Blvd (map). Bike parking is presumably available and access is easy from the Forest Park MetroLink light rail stop.
- Steve Patterson
