Ferguson, Early May 2019

Passing into Ferguson on the isolated road from Jennings, I found myself at these low slung apartments. I thought they were abandoned at first, but their tenants’ cars are parked on the other side. I went around town for a little while, and found some of the railroad suburb’s larger houses, with broad open yards…

The History of West Florissant Avenue

My colleague and former North County resident, Toby Weiss, wrote up this stellar summary of the history of West Florissant Avenue. She’s been photographing this street for years (I had the opportunity to join her on some of her earlier sojourns), and the time seems right for this magnum opus. You don’t have to agree…