Here is the Wellston Loop, which stretched from the actual town of Wellston into St. Louis. It is in transition, and only the future will show what its fate will hold.
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Until perhaps the late ’60s and shopping malls, Wellston was akin to Maplewood as a shopping destination for their respective areas of the County. Like Maplewood, it had everything (as Stefon would say…) from a Sears store to Western Auto to all sorts of smaller merchants, banks, and professionals.
I see the old streetcar/bus terminal building is still standing – barely, it looks like. back around 10 or so years ago, I recall there was a charrette held to revitalize the Loop area; obviously it went nowhere.
That terminal was really active back then – a real hub of activity.
Like Brandon of Kirkwood indicated, Wellston was the place to shop——-especially if you were from North County. My mother and father were raised in the Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood. After WW11 we moved out to Maryland Heights. I had a aunt who lived on Burd and Wells and a uncle who owned a linoleum store at 5885 MLK (Easton). We made many trips into Wellston until about 1960 when my aunt and uncle both moved out to north county. It was a great area and full of good memories.