Postcards: Chimpanzees at the Zoo
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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Field Trip: Cincinnati Music Hall
Last week Cincinnati Music Hall announced plans for a $125 million renovation beginning in 2016. The massive Cincinnati Music Hall was completed in 1878. The auditorium boasts over 3500 seats […]
A Tale of Two Founders: Jean Baptiste Point du Sable and Louis Blanchette
Two Founders Jean Baptiste Point du Sable and Louis Blanchette, two minor yet notable figures in American history, spent the end of their lives as residents of St. Charles, Missouri. […]
Forest Park’s Victorian Bridge
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 […]
The Confederate Memorial in Forest Park
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 […]
Welcome to St. Louis!
Welcome to St. Louis This is a page from a wonderful little book called Problems of St. Louis, Being a Description, From the City Planning Standpoint, of Past and Present […]
From the Archives: Post-Dispatch November 14, 1897
A St. Louisan Describes His Sensations in an Opium Joint He Discovered in the Fashionable West End “It is easy to find an opium join [sic] in St. Louis. My friend […]
911 North Tucker Boulevard and the Story of Stacker Lee
The night was clear and the moon was yellow, and the leaves came tumbling down… 911 North Tucker Boulevard My post today starts with a house – the row house […]
The Vanished Visitation Academy of Visitation Park
The Neighborhood Visitation Park is a very small neighborhood of less than a thousand persons on the North Side of the City of St. Louis. It takes its name from the […]
Marine Villa’s Lost Marine Hospital
The Neighborhood Marine Villa, which has been known by that name only since 1969, is a South St. Louis neighborhood of approximately 2700 persons bordered by Cherokee Street to the north, […]
