![]() Look no further than the work they have done along South Kingshighway just north of Chippewa. They are doing amazing work in our city, by the way. Luckily, it was purchased by Garcia Properties, who intend to rehab it and return it to mixed use. I went to the Pizza A – Go – Go restaurant when I first moved here. We are now left with a less than desirable White Castle, KFC and Walgreens…all with surface parking lots and low density drive throughs a la the suburbs all across America.īack to the Grandview Arcade building: I know it’s important, I know it’s beautiful, I know it’s in a tough section of the neighborhood. These were destroyed not long after the photo below was taken for the suburban ideals of the time: drive through fast food. There was also a set of beautiful buildings on the northwest corner of Grand and Gravois. Read Vanishing STL for an excellent entry on the saga of this building. 3708 South Grand BoulevardĪ new building was erected here, urban in form, arguably useful for the neighborhood, but so much deco architecture and sense of place lost. This 1920s art deco beauty was sent to the landfill for the lust for modernization. It was once a teeming shopping area when a Sears (one of two in St. I used to go to a Greek diner just south of here in the mid-1990s. This section of South Grand, just south of Gravois has evolved over the years and has been part of my real life and online reading for years. I’ve written about this a couple times, back in 20. I am speaking of the Grandview Arcade, or Melba Theater building at South Grand and Miami Street in the Gravois Park Neighborhood. Louis, and reading about development on NextSTL and CitySceneSTL. I knew of this building from research on lost cinemas of St. I had someone reach out to me who was interested in a building at 3600 South Grand. It’s essential reading for the open minded. Louis from a white person’s perspective, to balance the historic narrative on that part of town. Just read Tales of a Talking Dog for a lesser told history of the emptying out of North St. Sometimes the stories of the less represented are the most fascinating and the perspectives I crave. ![]() The more I read, the more I know how incomplete historical documents are without these stories. ![]() The lost perspectives of people with alternate recollections of history are sometimes the most enlightening. I’m a story junkie and couldn’t agree more. The following stuck with me: “More people are looking to tell the stories of underrepresented communities, document and protect vernacular architecture, preserve sites of the recent past, and promote the protection of intangible heritage.” ![]()
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