Not sure where to put this, but the latest world update for Microsoft Flight Sim includes St. Louis. The gateway arch now looks truly stainless steel instead of grey. St. Louis makes an appearance at the 1:18 mark.
^You're not wrong there. And I haven't forgotten that, even if I do like my newfound ability to access that view occasionally. (I really, desperately want Biondi's name off that street.)
^"The bones of a big city" is an interesting way to put it. We were a big city once. Postwar Consumption or Suburbanosis, sometimes called Robert Moses disease, hollowed us out so all that's left is skin and bones. Maybe we can recover. Maybe. (I live in hope.) Anyway, great pictures!
^ Thanks! Hearing it called "Robert Moses disease" is a first for me. Sticks well. I couldn't help but notice that nearby urban areas of similar size (KC, Indy, Memphis, etc.) had somewhat similar areas of destruction by the disease. However, they lost much more of their "old city" than STL since our 19th/early 20th century city was just much larger. There are only small pockets left of their old cities. In Memphis, they're barely pockets. Of course, they're the most attractive parts of town. (well, at least in the eyes of an architectural designer!)
^ Thanks! Hearing it called "Robert Moses disease" is a first for me. Sticks well.
I'm just fussing around with my peculiar sense of humor. Moses was hardly the only vector spreading the malady, but his influence was pretty impressive, thanks in part to his larger than life canvas. And his participation in championing the idea of "urban renewal" by way of the highway and the wrecking ball was particularly egregious.
I honestly don't know Indianapolis or Memphis especially well. Memphis seems attractive from what I've seen, but I've been around Memphis more than I've been in it. I should really explore it better. I've rather enjoyed my visits to Kansas City. It's certainly a newer and more western town, but pleasant enough in spite of that. Some of the areas in and around Westport and the Plaza are quite lovely.
That said, I do think our late nineteenth century and early twentieth century neighborhoods are generally our loveliest. Even my own rather simple arts and crafts home solicits fairly positive comments from out of town friends. Everyone always seems surprised by the stained glass, and often by the brick as well. We're spoiled, I think.
i still cry a little every time I think about that. It was one of two things I could see out my bedroom window as a kid. (The other being the dome on the asylum.)
i still cry a little every time I think about that. It was one of two things I could see out my bedroom window as a kid. (The other being the dome on the asylum.)
^No, but I walked past it a lot. My parents sent me to St. John's down the street. Played ball at Oak Hill with friends a few times. You from the neighborhood?
^Yes, for a time back in the mid/late 70's. I got lost in that Famous riding the escalators as a kid...didn't know how to get back down. I think my dad said that St. John's used to have a bowling alley inside. He said he set pins in there as a kid.
