St. Louis (Then and Now) by David A. Lossos

By David A. Lossos

As we strategy the 241st anniversary of the payment at the banks of the amazing Mississippi that got here to be the city of St. Louis, it's acceptable to appear again at this nice urban. we've got necessary few actual reminders of the times of Laclede and Chouteau. It wasn't until eventually the mid�19th century that we often recorded through pictures the advance (and destruction) of the attractions that make St. Louis specified. it's via those photos that we have got the really good potential to appear again and examine our urban in the course of the eyes of our predecessors: to determine the issues that have been right here many years in the past and nonetheless glance an identical; to determine issues that now not exist, and to work out what we've got changed them with; to work out what we've got preserved, and what we now have discarded; and to determine the current through the pictures of the earlier. there isn't any option to surround all of the adjustments that this urban has noticeable in a single booklet. The perspectives during this booklet will supply the reader a consultant collection of the extra recognizable points of interest within the St. Louis metropolitan sector. The cause is to incorporate lots of the significant areas and issues that everybody identifies with St. Louis. but in addition integrated are extra vague pictures that express scenes with which a lot of our ancestors may additionally determine. there'll regularly be growth, yet that that is misplaced is worthy remembering. So chill out, chill out, and take a walk down the streets of St. Louis as our ancestors knew them.

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