Update: The new Mississippi River Bridge is complete, the Stockyards have been cleared for redevelopment that has still been slow to develop, and many of the houses shown below have been demolished. I can’t fully express how dramatically the National Stockyards have changed since the first time I visited over four years ago. Onramps sprout…
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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….
Hunter Meat Packing Plant, Demolished at Last
I’ve watched the slow death of the Hunter Meat Packing Plant for close to four years now, and it’s finally coming down into a pile of rubble, replaced at least for the time-being with a tanker truck lot. I never liked Hunter as much as Armour, but it still had its charms, from the paper-like…
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.
National Stockyards’ Pre-Columbian History
It turns out there was a major Mississippian culture city under the National Stockyards around one thousand years ago. Read the article here before it expires at the Post-Dispatch website.