From the St. Louis Globe Democrat collection, a shot taken from Union Station, at 18th and Market, looking northeast, around 1955.
This would have been the far eastern section of Mill Creek Valley.
No singular building in this picture looks like it could have been just that architectural gem to inspire people to fight for its salvation. Yet taken together, it's an important piece of the urban panorama. We need to make sure that whatever is to replace these "plain ol'" urban buildings is as built-t0-last as they were--and as plainly attractive and human scale.
Too often, they're lost because they fail to inspire. Their context of importance is lost over time.
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If that picture did not include the billboard for Stan Musial and Biggie's, I would not have even recognized it as being St. Louis
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