Month: February 2009
San Luis Love-In
Update: Looking back now as of January of 2021, I quite frankly don’t know why I was so worked up about the demolition of the San Luis. It really was not an attractive building–it was actually quite mediocre and dated–so I don’t blame the Archdiocese for tearing it down. In fact, I have a great…
Funny and Out of Date City Ordinances
No spitting allowed No necromancy allowed No pinball wizards allowed No margays, whatever they are. And finally, ladies, make sure to invoke this law the next time you’re at your dead-end job.
San Luis Dilapidation
Update: Looking back now as of January of 2021, I quite frankly don’t know why I was so worked up about the demolition of the San Luis. It really was not an attractive building–it was actually quite mediocre and dated–so I don’t blame the Archdiocese for tearing it down. In fact, I have a great…
St. Augustine at Twilight
Update: St. Augustine’s has been purchased and is undergoing renovation. Last Saturday in the Central West End, I found myself inexorably drawn to my favorite, forlorn friend in St. Louis Place, the august St. Augustine Church. The sun was setting, people were driving insanely around me, but I made it there and snapped this photo…
San Luis Rally
Update: Looking back now as of January of 2021, I quite frankly don’t know why I was so worked up about the demolition of the San Luis. It really was not an attractive building–it was actually quite mediocre and dated–so I don’t blame the Archdiocese for tearing it down. In fact, I have a great…
Arcade/Wright Building
Update: Pyramid Companies went bankrupt, but the building’s renovation by a new company was completed in September 2015.
Windows
These windows face the Metrolink tracks just before the Busch Stadium stop. I don’t know if they were once part of a warehouse that faced the tunnel, or if the room was some sort of railroad office. It would be interesting to know.
Marktown, Indiana
Update: Portions of the town were demolished in the Spring 2014; see a house in St. Louis that looks similar to many of the buildings in Marktown. Marktown is the closest you’ll ever get to being on another planet on the southeast side of Chicagoland. It sits in the middle of an oil refinery, and…
Interesting Links
Update: The first link of the Arch is dead. Various blog posts of note recently: Dawn Griffin: Super 8 Footage of unfinished Gateway Arch and downtown 56 Houses Left: Last house in Carrollton being demolished.