What is also missing is the free connection between downtown and what would become the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. That row of buildings at left is right across the street from what was then the mostly-cleared site. People working, shopping and eating in those buildings had great views of the new Memorial site. Could we ever rebuild that western edge to be so urban? Not without removing the interstate highway first.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Vintage Old Cathedral View
What is also missing is the free connection between downtown and what would become the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. That row of buildings at left is right across the street from what was then the mostly-cleared site. People working, shopping and eating in those buildings had great views of the new Memorial site. Could we ever rebuild that western edge to be so urban? Not without removing the interstate highway first.
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Let 'er rip, I say!
They threw that column into the Mississippi.
Many neighborhoods have been separated and destroyed by 70,40 and 44. Efforts should be on neighborhoods, not a tourist hangout.
Downtown is a neighborhood, and the Arch grounds one of its neighborhood parks. Or so say residents.
Bellon's Market has a nice column like that out front...
I am loving that blue sky. Was that shot taken with "Kodachrome" film? I don't think I have ever seen a St. Louis sky so blue.
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