My grandfather owned this building on Morgan Ford.
Presenting a collection of St. Louis bricks, sidewalk markers, and the Fleur-de-lis as architectural detail on and in city buildings, brick collecting, urban exploration, and my life by Christian Herman. Reporting from Tower Grove South in St. Louis, MO
10/28/15
Limestone Pavers - Going, going, gone
This is how the roads in TG Park looked before asphalt. They were made of limestone pavers.
I like to imagine how horse hooves sounded clopping over the stone.
Some gutters remain but most of them were covered.
I like to imagine how horse hooves sounded clopping over the stone.
Some gutters remain but most of them were covered.
10/9/15
Vitrolite A Go Go
Tim, The Vitrolite Man, was hired to remove the burgundy vitrolite from the former Hesselberg Pharmacy on Hartford and S Grand.
It's a sad day.
It's a sad day.
9/9/15
Feathers
I'm doing a documentary on a wee Golden and her interest in Greek Mythology.
You can expect a documentary by someone else since that's what happens to my ideas.
Thanks for your supportive emails over the years on the subject :)
You can expect a documentary by someone else since that's what happens to my ideas.
Thanks for your supportive emails over the years on the subject :)
8/30/15
7/29/15
Hot Time Summer in the City
Having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave.
Morgan Ford and Juniata St in Tower Grove South.
The bricks of Three Monkeys and a sunset over 7-11. Welcome to our corners.
6/15/15
Saying Goodbye to The Kingshighway Street Viaduct
Why is the parapet open on my left side to traffic? There was a bus stop on both sides at the top of the viaduct. Employees of the former Ravarino & Freschi Pasta (R & F Pasta on Kingshighway and Shaw - NE corner) used this bus stop.
View from one former bus stop looking across Kingshighway at the northbound stop.
At the bus stop looking south.
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