Nestled under the crushing embrace of I-70 to the north, and plotted out over relatively hilly terrain, this corner of North St. Louis doesn’t get a lot of visitors. The house above looks like it could be out of the Brady Bunch, if it weren’t boarded up. Perhaps what is most interesting about this board-up…
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Vanished North Side and County Institutions
Update: Shop ‘N Save was purchased by local supermarket chain Schnuck’s in 2018, and many of its stores were closed or rebranded. Famous St. Louis institutions are what make the city unique. Sadly, many of those institutions are fading, one by one. Rinderer’s Drugs, long an institution in North City and North County, recently announced…
Natural Bridge Avenue
Update: Revised October 2018 with revised photographs, texts and links to relevant posts. On the heels of my pleasant trip down Page Blvd last weekend, I decided to check out Natural Bridge Ave, a possible route for the northern extension of Metrolink. Sadly, while there was more life along Natural Bridge, much of the historic…