This is Henry, he's the local scrapper that's been in my neighborhood for over a decade.
I really enjoy Henry. He's helped me with some alley/garage moving stuff in and out in the past, He liberated a DVD I wanted from a player I was handing to him by taking the whole machine apart for me.
I had been to dinner with my neighbor Gary and walking back home I spotted Henry outside of 7-11.
I had watched Storied Streets last week (and so should you) and wanted to tell Henry's story so I was happy to encounter him.
He and his wife live in a rent to own house about 3/4 miles south of me. They raised 7 children. Henry told me, It seemed like every time I touched my zipper she was pregnant!!!
He didn't make eye contact with me while telling me that.
He's 60. He was showing me lottery tickets that people toss into the dumpster without realizing they've won.
He's collected quite a bit of money with them.
He told me he really feels 'for the foreigners' who come here and don't understand the tickets. Once he verified a winning ticket for a woman who didn't speak English via gesturing.
People assume Henry is homeless. He's not.
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
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Ingenious
How to solve the downspout snatch when your home is on the corner of two alleys.
This tiny house has an angled brick back right on the alley.
Check out its polished red and white fence made from Lucite salvage. In TGS.
This tiny house has an angled brick back right on the alley.
Check out its polished red and white fence made from Lucite salvage. In TGS.
8/15/21
8/8/21
Door hinge. 1904
Brass hinge from 1904 on the Gothic entry doors of the New Hope Church on MFG and Tholozan. The exterior doors to our McPherson house vestibule had hinges three times this size.
8/6/21
On the Street Where I Live - St Louis Brick
"I have often walked down this street before
But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before
All at once am I several stories high
Knowing I'm on the street where you live"
The best brick on the block nest to our pink brick.
8/2/21
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