Month: December 2013
Kirksville, Revisited
Over thirteen years have passed since I graduated Truman State and left Kirksville and Northeast Missouri. It’s been almost exactly a year since I last visited, when I gave a series of lectures about a series of topics, including this website. Learning about the demolition of two prominent buildings in downtown Kirksville, the Miller Apartments…
Cherokee Street, December 2013
From a family made of mufflers, to a herd(?) of frogs, there is plenty of home-grown creativity and humor among many of the longtime residents of Cherokee Street.
North Side of Delmar
There’s been a lot of talk of “North of Delmar” recently, so I thought it would be interesting for me to drive down Delmar, starting in the Central West End in the west and ending at Vandeventer Avenue in the east and photograph the actual north side of Delmar. What I saw may surprise you;…
Downtown Mid Afternoon, December 2013
I walked around downtown and took some pictures as sunlight reflected off of the windows of buildings onto their neighbors. It creates an interesting effect.
Hebert Street
Update: The buildings above and below were demolished around the beginning of 2020. Hebert Street can change from utter devastation and abandonment in the northeastern corner of JeffVanderLou… …to new signs of life in the Old North St. Louis neighborhood. Update: I went back to this block in July of 2014 and the winter of…
Grace Lutheran
Update: Unfortunately, by September of 2018, the congregation could no longer afford to keep the church open, and the windows were being removed, and the interior was being vandalized. The church was purchased at the City tax auction in mid 2019, and was being renovated into a community arts center; however, all signs of activity…
Lindell Bank And Trust Drive In
Lindell Bank and Trust has been on this corner of Grand and St. Louis Avenue for generations; right across the street from Carter Carburetor and a few blocks from Sportsman’s Park, it surely saw huge numbers of people come through its doors over the years. But with the popularity of the automobile surging, it built…