Update: Demolished in the spring and summer of 2016. Due to the generosity of Metro East resident, Dennis Bensheimer, whose company had contract work at the National Stockyards in 1986, we now have access to photos of the Armour Meat Packing Plant from 1986, almost exactly 27 years ago in late June. Things were much…
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Armour Meat Packing Plant Smokestack Deterioration
Update: Demolished by implosion in April 2016. There’s been some clear deterioration of the top of the southern smokestack at the Armour Meat Packing Plant. Compare this photo with this one, from several years ago. I guess it’s only a matter of time when the crumbling bricks accelerate in their dilapidation.
Armour Meat Packing Plant, Fall 2012
Update: Demolished in the spring and summer of 2016. Boy, the new road that cuts dangerously close to the old Armour Meat Packing Plant makes it a lot easier to shoot pictures of it. Even just last winter, the old road had not been replaced yet. I’m not sure, but it looks like there’s been…
Armour Meat Packing Plant’s End Coming Soon
Armour Meat Packing Plant, June 23, 2012. Update: Finally demolished in the spring and summer of 2016. The roads shown in the maps were mostly built as shown. A couple of years ago, the new Mississippi River Bridge website published the following satellite image of the path of the Illinois approaches to the new bridge….
Shots Around St. Louis by Jeff Phillips
I gave my friend in from China a tour around the city and parts of Illinois, and these are some of the shots he took. Above, Armour Meat Packing Plant, and below a corner store in North City. Update: The plant was demolished in the spring and summer of 2016. Below, I think this house…
Armour Meat Packing and the Future
Update: Demolished by implosion in April 2016. Driving around the old National Stockyards, it’s shocking to see how much has changed. There are new roads crisscrossing the area, while other roads are now closed. The new Mississippi River Bridge’s connector is passing right through the area, forever changing the topography, and probably land prices. Near…
Snakes
Update: Demolished in the summer of 2016.
Black Hole
Update: Demolished in the summer of 2016.
Sunnyside Up #2
Update: Demolished in the summer of 2016. Here is the second installment of my finding a sunnyside-up egg on the ground. See the first one here.
Three Year Anniversary of Saint Louis Patina: Favorite Photos
All this week, Saint Louis Patina is looking back over the last three years, revisiting the highlights of dozens of expeditions and thousands of photographs. 1) Highway 40, Closed to Traffic 2) Abandoned Diner, Goodfield, Illinois. Update: Demolished on March 9, 2011. 3) Doric Temple, Paestum, Italy 4) Lafayette Square Rowhouses 5) Armour Meatpacking Plant,…