St. Louis Brick

5/13/12

Movie Star

Downtown STL. From the 80s when I dragged a wardrobe into the photo booth and created black and white movie stills.

Thinking of you

Atop the former Famous Barr parking garage where I took you for a roof top picnic circa 1982. Jon Laedke.

5/7/12

Coral Courts Motel Route 66

Mid 80s. I wasn't a guest but I did ride my bike in unobserved to take these photos.

Cherokee Street and California (NW corner) circa mid 80s during a time when I rode my bike around the city at night doing photos. The sidewalk remains. In the lower left hand side is a painted silver fire alarm box on a pole. These were originally painted yellow and all were removed in St. Louis due to the amount of false alarms called.

5/6/12

Up on The Roof

The Super Moon Party at Sarah Jane's Deco Fortress. Evening highlight was a discussion with Dave about purple martins, indigo buntings, how he found the Star Hopper, and also seeing Gus. Birthday Taurus sisters:

Some of the gathered are from Sarah's band. Friend Sarah Jane and The Blue Notes and The Deco Fortress on FB.

The guest star appears:

Sarah and Gus with Dave's Star Hopper.

5/4/12

Greetings from somewhere outside of Custer, SD

Email from Daryl who climbs and provides rock tours in SD: So this is Lorettas house, the greenhouse, the view of our front yard "mountain", and the big room. Paul and Loretta built this place out of 2x6 scraps from the local saw mill. They brought them in by the pickup truckload for free, and conned all the local climbers into nailing them together with kegs an kegs of nails. It was an 18 year epic build that was just barely finished when Loretta was killed. Pretty wild to live in a place with a cool history and a lot of sweat equity from many many of our friends. Our summer season is starting and it will be 24/7 go time for the next few months with the climbing school, but all and all its a pretty good life around here. Different then St Louis for sure. For one, its a lot colder, and tons less people. Its still all about what you want and the choices you make in life. We had a good friend leave town last fall and Cheryl and I talked about leaving. Sounded all exciting and such to uproot and move on, but neither one of us had any idea where we would go or what we would do...so I don't expect us to leave here any time soon. I'd never have guessed this would be where we would have landed, but here we are in south da fucking 'coda. All photos by Daryl and/or Cheryl.