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Additional Thoughts on the Confederate Memorial

August 2, 2017by nicklemen Leave a comment

In 2015 I wrote a post on this blog about the Confederate Memorial in Forest Park. That memorial has since been removed. In my original post I proposed that the […]

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Central West End, Civil War, Forest Park, Lost, Memorials and Monuments, Uncategorized

Postcards: Chimpanzees at the Zoo

November 17, 2015by nicklemen Leave a comment

I found these postcards for sale recently and instantly decided I had to buy them. The postcards date from 1950 and they show a side of the St. Louis Zoo that I had never seen before.

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Forest Park, St. Louis Zoo

Forest Park’s Victorian Bridge

July 11, 2015by nicklemen Leave a comment

On July 4th of this year I was lucky to be able to walk to Art Hill from a friend’s Central West End apartment. The east side of Forest Park […]

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Central West End, Eames and Young, Forest Park, Great Divorce, North St. Louis, South St. Louis, St. Louis County, Streetcars

The Confederate Memorial in Forest Park

June 30, 2015by nicklemen Leave a comment

The Confederate Memorial in Forest Park has been the target of controversy in recent months. I first learned of the Confederate Memorial in 2012 when I read about it in […]

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African American History, Civil War, Forest Park, Memorials and Monuments

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