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 […]
Tag Archives: St. Louis History
The Death of Tito
Thirty-six years ago today on May 4, 1980, Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia, died due to gangrene, a complication of circulatory problems in his legs. He had served as […]
Monday Meditation: 1896 St. Louis Streetcar Map
This is a map showing the streetcar routes that existed in St. Louis in 1896. It’s pretty. It’s interesting to contemplate the vitality and upward trajectory that this map represents, […]
Allen Avenue
I took these photos last year and since then they have just been sitting around inside my computer. This is every building on Allen Avenue in McKinley Heights. McKinley Heights […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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