Wow, I suppose 6,500 posts have a way of sneaking up on you! I also suppose since Paul McKee and his failed Northside TIF is in the news, it would be germane to talk about it and how I’ve been investigating and shedding light on his dealings for eighteen years now. Some of the first…
Tag: Anniversary Posts
Eighteenth Anniversary of Saint Louis Patina: Bombed Out Jack in the Box
Update: A devastating tornado ended up striking the afternoon this post was published. The Jack in the Box is now a Mexican restaurant named Antonio’s. I really didn’t have much planned for the eighteenth anniversary of this website/blog/whatever you want to call it, but then I thought of the bombed out Jack in the Box…
6,000th Post
Let’s face it. I’ve been talking to a lot of people in South City and many of our favorite businesses (and not so favorite businesses) have been closing lately. There’s clearly something going on where there’s just not enough money going to locally-owned businesses and even national chains, and the result is that many commercial…
Your Favorite Posts
A major milestone is coming up soon here at St. Louis Patina, and I was curious if readers had particular favorite posts they liked or were their favorite. Copy and paste the URL in the comments section.
Seventeenth Anniversary of St. Louis Patina, St. Augustine’s, Dusk, May 4th
We’re getting closer to two decades here at St. Louis Patina, rounding out our seventeenth year, and what better way to commemorate it than looking at St. Augustine, which is slowly coming to an end after years of neglect. So we’re left with another landmark destroyed.
5,500th Post at St. Louis Patina
Thinking back over 5,500 posts, give or take since some were lost when this website crashed a year ago, for some reason this post from February of 2015 popped into my head. It’s interesting in that my 5,000th post also dealt with a subject from the St. Louis Place neighborhood. I was always drawn to…
Sixteenth Anniversary of Saint Louis Patina
On the occasion of the sixteenth anniversary of St. Louis Patina, I wanted to announce that I now own the trademark for the name “St. Louis Patina.” I wanted to thank my parents for helping me obtain this recognition of this identity that I’ve built up over the last decade and a half. You’ll notice…
Fifteenth Anniversary of Saint Louis Patina
I started this website fifteen years ago today, and we’ve come a long ways since then. Three reboots, two crashes, and hopefully now it looks better than ever due to the hard work of around twenty WordPress technicians back in January and February of this year. Thankfully, there are still plenty of new things to…
5,000th Post: The Ruins of the Freie Gemeinde
None of my friends who live up north around the St. Louis Place and Old North St. Louis neighborhoods told me they were terribly surprised when the old Freie Gemeinde went up in flames on a bitterly cold night a week ago. It suffered a partial collapse way back in 2013, and when I checked…
Fourteenth Anniversary of St. Louis Patina: The Times They Are a-Changin’
Fourteen years now. The world and St. Louis have changed so much in that time. I’ve changed so much, too. I think about what and how I photographed in that time. What is gone, and what I had no idea even existed back in May of 2007. I’m on my fourth camera, and I have…