I had some leftover photos I didn’t have a use for, so as usual, I do an odds and ends post. The building above is on Sidney Street in Soulard just to the east of Interstate 55.

By comparison, this corner storefront above on the Near North Riverfront is a real survivor, with most of its context gone. Below, near the city limits just south of the Wellston Loop, another building sits empty with a storefront built out front.

Sadly, the tornado on May 16 destroyed a building that had been sitting vacant, but had one of the best names for a business that I had ever encountered: Granny’s Washtub. It suffered the same fate of so many other buildings that tragic day.