Mercantile Bank and the Ghost of the Ambassador
A New Home for Mercantile Bank In 1973 Mercantile Bank had 1500 employees scattered among 12 buildings around downtown St. Louis. The company thought that consolidating operations into one building […]
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Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi
Below is Chapter IV of Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi. I happened to pick up the book this last week and thought its references to St. Louis would make […]
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 […]
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