OMG! That is the original Ed’s White Front BBQ building!
That place was simply a legend from its founding in 1933 until closing in 1979.
The sauce was renowned throughout STL.
Being a Kirkwood bumkin, I’d never heard of it until dating some Northside girls in the late ’50s. Of course, we always went to the equally-cherished Melrose pizzeria across the street and west a block, but eventually found our way to Ed’s. The Melrose building is still there, next to the revered Goody Goody Diner.
Sam the Watermelon Man was there, too; this was another renowned STL institution.
All of this was just East of Laclede’s last gasometer; it was razed in 2013, but is the ornate “technical” building still standing?
A note on the “Coast To Coast” building, nee Ed’s – it was originally a little further South, but when Natural Bridge was widened with the advent of the Small Arms Plant it was moved to its present position.
OMG! That is the original Ed’s White Front BBQ building!
That place was simply a legend from its founding in 1933 until closing in 1979.
The sauce was renowned throughout STL.
Being a Kirkwood bumkin, I’d never heard of it until dating some Northside girls in the late ’50s. Of course, we always went to the equally-cherished Melrose pizzeria across the street and west a block, but eventually found our way to Ed’s. The Melrose building is still there, next to the revered Goody Goody Diner.
Sam the Watermelon Man was there, too; this was another renowned STL institution.
All of this was just East of Laclede’s last gasometer; it was razed in 2013, but is the ornate “technical” building still standing?
A note on the “Coast To Coast” building, nee Ed’s – it was originally a little further South, but when Natural Bridge was widened with the advent of the Small Arms Plant it was moved to its present position.
I think the original Ted Drew’s St. Louis location was along Natural Bridge in this area.
Yes, I just looked it up and it was near Goodfellow and Natural Bridge.