Sara Lou’s is not doing well. We’re still holding out hope that an investor can come in and save the building, but that needs to happen soon. No, the current state of the building is not due to the tornado on May 16, 2026.
Tag: The Greater Ville
End of Autumn 2025 Odds and Ends
Here are some leftover photos from the last six months. Above is a Falstaff sign in Benton Park. Above, looking down a street in what I think is Kingsway East towards the Chase Park Plaza, but I can’t be sure. Above is the Missouri Athletic Club, which I snapped while sitting at the light at…
Warwick Avenue
Warwick Avenue is a short little street in between Euclid and North Kingshighway just north of MLK, and just south of Cupples School. But it’s an interesting street of houses built right after World War II, with nice bungalows that you typically see in St. Louis Hills.
4700-4800 Block of Cote Brilliante Avenue
I’ve revisited the 4700-4800 block of Cote Brilliante numerous times over the years, most recently, I think back in October of 2024. It’s overgrown, as can be seen below. But there are still plenty of houses that are in great shape, as can be seen above. I find it interesting that there are so many…
After the Tornado: The Greater Ville, Revisited
The Greater Ville was hit hard, so badly, and much worse than I conveyed three weeks ago. The northern part of the neighborhood was largely intact, with a little bit of abandonment, and now almost every house has been damaged, and many completely destroyed. Below is Marcus Street, on the west side of Western Lutheran…
After the Tornado: Around the Ville and Greater Ville
Fountain Park, which has been in the news a bunch already, was crowded with disaster relief efforts so I continued on, not wanting to get in the way. I headed up North Taylor Avenue, taking a quick look at the Lewis Place neighborhood before heading into The Ville. I’ve looked at the building above before,…
After the Tornado: Photographing Destruction
I grappled with whether I should take or post any photographs of the tornado damage that struck St. Louis on May 16, 2025, which a reader noted will now be indelibly linked with the anniversary of the founding of this website on the same day. Is it ethical to photograph destruction, and in particular people’s…
4500-4600 Block of Ashland Avenue, Revisited
The blocks are long in the Greater Ville, and the 4500-4600 blocks of Ashland Avenue are in between Cora and North Taylor avenues. I stopped by last year briefly in July of 2023, but looked at the two halves , 4500 and 4600, back in January of 2019. Very little has changed, and there is…
Cote Brilliante Avenue and Environs, Revisited, The Greater Ville
Again thwarted by a one-way on Cote Brilliante (I looked at the Cupples School on it in the past) in the Kingshway East neighborhood, I took Kingshighway south to Aldine Avenue, which I’ve looked extensively over the years and how it was eventually demolished due to rampant land speculation by the Roberts Brothers and others….
Western Lutheran Cemetery Desecration
There’s been a terrible new development at the Western Lutheran Cemetery in The Greater Ville. Sometime in the last year or so, the neighbors of the cemetery have turned the eastern portion into a junkyard, full of abandoned, broken down vehicles and other rubbish. And yes, I can confirm where the property lines are, and…