End of Autumn 2025 Odds and Ends

Here are some leftover photos from the last six months. Above is a Falstaff sign in Benton Park.

Above, looking down a street in what I think is Kingsway East towards the Chase Park Plaza, but I can’t be sure.

Above is the Missouri Athletic Club, which I snapped while sitting at the light at Washington and Fourth streets.

P.R. Papin Aerial Surveys, Aerial view of Chevrolet Motor Division Plant (3809 Union Boulevard), January 12, 1941, Missouri History Museum, N46699

Above is the old Chevy plant where I think they used to make Corvettes. I was going to do a post on it but I realized there is nothing left of it. Note how even in the 1940s there was open land northwest of the intersection of Union and Natural Bridge.

I spotted some original wood block pavement in Chouteau’s Landing.

Finally, we see the German St. Vincent’s Orphan Home, in this not-so-great photo I took on the fly. It grew out of the cholera epidemic of 1849, when children were left orphaned when their parents died.

3 Comments Add yours

  1. Alan Covich says:

    Were the wood blocks treated with preservative like creosote? Is anything know about what type of wood was used? Maybe only oak?

    1. cnaffziger says:

      Great question, I don’t know.

  2. Sean B. says:

    “That’s-One-neat-ColLecTion-of”..”PicTur es-Chris”…”Spot_On!”… ( |:<) )-]•••

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