"The last St. Louis streetcar route in operation was the 15 Hodiamont line which ceased service on May 21, 1966." - Wikipediastlgasm wrote:It's as if someone pushed pause in about 1970.
^This. 100% This. I would like nothing better than to see mid and high rises running all the way down lindel and olive with a streetcar system and street level life.framer wrote:I see the entire central corridor filling-in over the next few decades. We will essentially have a continuous high-density district stretching from Downtown all the way to Clayton.
Can anybody find a high resolution version of the other picture above? It would be awesome to use that as the "presentation picture" of St. Louis to be used on Wiki and other such sites.stlgasm wrote:It's a shame that so many people have the wrong impression of our skyline because they base their assumptions on the typical postcard view, which in many cases depict the city as dated, underwhelming, short and small.
Reminds me of Houston from the 60s:wabash wrote:Clayton "Skyline" 1968:
Yeah, I think you and I touched on this in whatever thread we were talking about that Verizon commercial where the chick flies over in the helicopter. Although not as popular, downtown St. Louis's skyline arguably looks best actually looking at it from the south (facing north), as from that view you can see the full expanse of the downtown area's impressive collection of skyscrapers. Even if it means you have to sacrifice a head-on view of the arch.stlgasm wrote:It's a shame that so many people have the wrong impression of our skyline because they base their assumptions on the typical postcard view, which in many cases depict the city as dated, underwhelming, short and small. The fact is, outside of Chicago and perhaps Detroit, St. Louis has by far the largest collection of pre-war high-rises outside of the CBD in the entire Midwest. There are no high-rise districts in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, much less Kansas City, Columbus or Indianapolis that come even close to the scale of Midtown, CWE, Skinker or Clayton. Even DeBaliviere Place as seen from Forest Park Parkway comprises one of the most urban cityscapes in the Midwest. Minneapolis- a much younger city than St. Louis- has plenty of new towers, but hardly any from the pre-war era outside of downtown. As a whole, St. Louis' central corridor is quite expansive. I think it's misunderstood and overlooked because we don't have any supertall skyscrapers. Even downtown, the size and density isn't visible from skyline shots because our building stock is short and squatty. Look at Downtown West-- it's a big, dense section of the city but almost completely hidden from view.
Looking at aerial shots like this, it's easy to see St. Louis' early ascent and then its abrupt free-fall. Very few tall buildings in the skyline (particularly east of Kingshighway) were built after the middle of the 20th century (except for a mini-boom of boxy buildings in the '80s). It's as if someone pushed pause in about 1970. You can imagine how new towers would've filled in the gaps had St. Louis continued to grow. I'd bet Forest Park would be surrounded by highrises, and the Central West End would be filled with tall, sleek modern towers. What could've been... Oh well, what we have now is still more impressive than 90% of cities in this country, and out-of-towners are the first ones to notice it.
That's actually due to the layout of the NextSTL forum, which limits the width of the posts to 800 px wide. Any pictures posted that are larger than that will be cut off. It's a minor complaint in the scheme of things, but it's the one thing I don't like about this site; it's far more difficult to post pics here than on other sites that either don't restrict the thread's display area, dynamically stretch (where the one post is allowed to exceed the limit to accommodate the photo, but the other posts in the thread remain 800px-wide), or offer an option in the forum code to resize the image to fit the thread template.shadrach wrote:(The hosting service cut off the right side with downtown and the arch. Good lord, can any recommend a good image hosting site? A couple years ago it was so easy, now it's a pain.)
This has been addressed... Large images are no longer cut off. They're resized, and if you click on them, they'll be superimposed over the forum page in a larger format. Thanks for the feedback.rbb wrote:That's actually due to the layout of the NextSTL forum, which limits the width of the posts to 800 px wide. Any pictures posted that are larger than that will be cut off. It's a minor complaint in the scheme of things, but it's the one thing I don't like about this site; it's far more difficult to post pics here than on other sites that either don't restrict the thread's display area, dynamically stretch (where the one post is allowed to exceed the limit to accommodate the photo, but the other posts in the thread remain 800px-wide), or offer an option in the forum code to resize the image to fit the thread template.shadrach wrote:(The hosting service cut off the right side with downtown and the arch. Good lord, can any recommend a good image hosting site? A couple years ago it was so easy, now it's a pain.)
-RBB
!!!innov8ion wrote:This has been addressed... Large images are no longer cut off. They're resized, and if you click on them, they'll be superimposed over the forum page in a larger format. Thanks for the feedback.rbb wrote:That's actually due to the layout of the NextSTL forum, which limits the width of the posts to 800 px wide. Any pictures posted that are larger than that will be cut off. It's a minor complaint in the scheme of things, but it's the one thing I don't like about this site; it's far more difficult to post pics here than on other sites that either don't restrict the thread's display area, dynamically stretch (where the one post is allowed to exceed the limit to accommodate the photo, but the other posts in the thread remain 800px-wide), or offer an option in the forum code to resize the image to fit the thread template.shadrach wrote:(The hosting service cut off the right side with downtown and the arch. Good lord, can any recommend a good image hosting site? A couple years ago it was so easy, now it's a pain.)
-RBB
We're here to serve and make this a better place to share with one another, thanks! Now back to your regularly scheduled broadcast...rbb wrote:Seriously, that's awesome. Thanks so much! Now I just need to replace my broken camera so I can get to posting some STL pics...
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I would like someone to try o photo of downtown or the arch from a kite camera like these.framer wrote:I love this new photo thing. I've always felt that this forum could use more pics; hopefully this will encourage more people to post them.
gary kreie wrote:I would like someone to try o photo of downtown or the arch from a kite camera like these.framer wrote:I love this new photo thing. I've always felt that this forum could use more pics; hopefully this will encourage more people to post them.
See tower picture.
http://flic.kr/y/t8TWGk
Or like this.
Flirting with the Angel by Pierre Lesage, on Flickr
