North Broadway never ceases to fascinate me. As usual, I refer to it as a street, and also an area. For example, the above and following two photos are on or around Holly Avenue. The image of east of Broadway, if you have one, is usually one of warehouses, factories, or sadly, abandonment. It is…
Tag: Far North Riverfront
Horses, Far North Riverfront
The Mary Meachum Freedom Crossing celebration a couple of weeks ago included some horses, which waited patiently on the banks of the Mississippi.
Grain Elevators and Railroad Tracks
The riverfront in St. Louis is still very much an active and bustling industrial area. Grain trucks rumble by, and trains cross the area on bridges and tracks. Corn kernals line the gutters, as the cargo of trucks spills on its way to the grain elevator.
Merchants’ Bridge
Update: The bridge is being replaced with new trusses and renovated piers. See the bridge two-thirds of the way through reconstruction, and see the new bridge complete. The Merchants’ Bridge emerges from the undergrowth on the Far North Riverfront. It is a very old bridge, built only slightly more than a decade after the much…
The Manhole
The past is the present again.
Chain of Rocks Bridge Abstractions
Update: See earlier photographs of the Chain of Rocks Bridge from 2009, 2010 and 2015. Also, see pictures of the two water intake towers below the bridge here from 2010.
Mississippi River, South of the Chain of Rocks
Update: See newer pictures of the Chain of Rocks Bridge here. Since the construction of the Chain of Rocks Canal, the stretch of Mississippi River between the entrances of that canal is the longest portion of the navigable channel without barge or large boat traffic. It is sublimely beautiful, and worth seeing in person on a…
North Riverfront, Revisited Again
The North Riverfront remains a fascinating, historic place. But I often find myself stymied by closed streets (though not as bad as on the South Riverfront), and superblocks that formed over the years. Also, sometimes street names change, as well. But I was lucky to discover that there was once a giant stockyards on the…