Then with all [Judith’s] might she struck his neck twice and cut off his head. She rolled his body off the bed and took the canopy from its posts. Soon afterward, she came out and handed over the head of… Continue Reading
We realized we had never looked at St. John United Church of Christ up close, despite long admiring its unrivaled location sitting high upon a hill overlooking the intersection of Manchester and Sulphur Spring roads in Manchester. Of course, the… Continue Reading
While checking out the Vandeventer Place gates for the third time, I finally took a look at the Korean Veterans’ Memorial, which was dedicated in 1989, replacing an earlier vandalized monument. The large stainless steel sculpture is a sundial keeping… Continue Reading
Wait a minute, I thought to myself, as I looked at the front facade of the Odd Fellows Hall on Lindell Boulevard, there’s something suspicious about that building. As I suspected, as many buildings in the Grand Center and nearby… Continue Reading
Lee Avenue is extra wide as it used to have a streetcar track down the middle of it (the rails are probably still buried under multiple layers of asphalt). It is a heavily abandoned and demolished street, but there are… Continue Reading
Those little bungalows from after World War II pop up on Ohio Avenue just north of Wyoming, but then the normal architecture one would expect appears in two story Second Empire houses. There is also a mixture of other housing… Continue Reading
Kingshighway south of Lindell is dominated by apartment buildings, but most importantly by the hospitals which have come to symbolize the east end of Forest Park. The Park Plaza tower to the north will always be a landmark, above, but… Continue Reading
They sure do stack ’em high, as sometimes contributor to this website, Jeff Phillips, once famously said back when we were in college.
Twenty years ago, when I would spend time in my friend’s family restaurant, the Majestic, I would have never imagined the way in which the Central West End south of Lindell would have been transformed in the last ten years.… Continue Reading
Update: All racist comments, especially ones left under fake names, will be deleted in this post. Start your own blog if you want to promote your white supremacist views. East St. Louis was always corrupt, even when it was majority… Continue Reading