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Message 264 |
Date received:
2/12/2006 |
Time: 3:34 am |
Email
ae_austin@msn.com
Name
Angie Austin
City
Aurora, Colorado
Comments:
I was googling for East St. Louis information when I came accross your site. The pictures are intriguing! Do you know where I can find a picture of Lafayette elementary school in Alorton Illinois? It was demolished due to asbestos. Thanks in advance for your help.
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Message 263 |
Date received:
2/3/2006 |
Time: 8:18 pm |
Email
jvlesinski@hotmail.com
Name
Joe Lesinski
City
Saint Louis
Comments:
Rob, you have succeeded in compiling a tremendous wealth of information regarding the architectural history of our great city. Thank you for the considerable amount of time, effort and monetary commitment required to create such a website. It is truly magnificent.
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Message 262 |
Date received:
2/3/2006 |
Time: 1:54 pm |
Email
jbetz78@gmail.com
Name
Jon Betz
City
Arnold Missouri
Comments:
Thanks for photographing Gaslight Square and sharing with me. I look forward in seeing progress in the project.
Thanks
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Message 261 |
Date received:
1/31/2006 |
Time: 12:19 am |
Name
Carol
City
MO
Comments:
I am so impressed that you continue to maintain and upgrade this wonderful site. For me, born in St. Louis and raise nearby, it evokes memories, sadness at the decay, yet hope when I see areas being renovated. Thank you for this tribute to St. Louis
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Message 260 |
Date received:
1/29/2006 |
Time: 11:10 pm |
Name
Rob
City
STL
Comments:
Thanks so much for the updates!! We all appreciate the hard work that you put into this site.
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Message 259 |
Date received:
1/29/2006 |
Time: 3:21 pm |
Email
checkered_demon@comcast.net
Name
checkered demon
City
The Left Coast
Comments:
I just finished your improved tour of downtown. Great job,which I am sure took a lot of time & effort. The pictures of downtown brought back a lot of memories of my childhood.Growing up in St Louis area in the 50's was a great experience which I will always remember. Checking out the Famous Barr window displays at Christmas time was a cold but wonderful time. Keep up the great work. I'll be back.
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Message 258 |
Date received:
1/28/2006 |
Time: 2:04 am |
Email
trumbojr@aol.com
Name
john trumbo
City
boise idaho
Comments:
love your site...lived in the city during the 70's...didn't think it could crumble any more...guess I was wrong...keep up the good work
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Message 257 |
Date received:
1/17/2006 |
Time: 11:05 pm |
Email
agiuli@yahoo.com
Name
AG
City
Raleigh, NC
Comments:
Thank you so much for all the hard work and time maintaining the site. I am researching my family from St. Louis and find it all very interesting.
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Message 256 |
Date received:
1/15/2006 |
Time: 11:54 pm |
Email
tpearney@mizzou.edu
Name
Patrick Earney
City
Columbia, Missouri
Comments:
I love the site! I check often for new updates. An amazing effort for someone who doesn't even live here!
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Message 255 |
Date received:
1/13/2006 |
Time: 4:07 pm |
Email
ddeschen@artsci.wustl.edu
Name
Dennis Des Chene
City
Saint Louis
Comments:
Beautiful site. Very informative for a newcomer.
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Message 254 |
Date received:
1/9/2006 |
Time: 10:55 pm |
Name
The Wise Urban Planner
City
St. Louis, baby
Comments:
It's all about location, baby. Syndicate Trust? Now that's what I call REAL E-S-T-A-T-E.
Oh, hush. Italian marble vs. terra-cotta? Ha. Not like it's the difference between a Ferrari and a Chrysler or anything. My new plan calls for this: split-level ranch housing, some pretty little fountains and parking.
LOTS of parking. You know that saying...
"if you build it, they will come"??
Your trustworthy St. Louis politicians are banking on it.
Just watch.
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Message 253 |
Date received:
1/9/2006 |
Time: 4:08 pm |
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Message 252 |
Date received:
1/9/2006 |
Time: 6:24 am |
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Message 251 |
Date received:
1/9/2006 |
Time: 1:30 am |
Name
The Wise Urban Planner
City
St. Louis, baby
Comments:
Oh I know! Let's tear down City Hall and replace it with a parking garage. How perfect. Next, we can demolish the Civil Courts AND the Thomas Eagleton. Sound nice? I knew you'd agree. Tax payer dollars? Heh. What's a measly 20 mill when it's backed by TIF anyways? Hahahahah. Oh, dear.
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Message 250 |
Date received:
1/8/2006 |
Time: 7:42 pm |
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Message 249 |
Date received:
1/7/2006 |
Time: 4:07 pm |
Name
couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the directions were printed on the heel
Comments:
Memories do a lot in terms of preservation. Try getting your hands dirty (like the author of this website) if you want to preserve some memory for your grandkids. Kudos to Mr. Powers for getting the word out. Shame to the denziens who are content to stand on the sidelines appreciating something as pitiful as a "memory".
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Message 248 |
Date received:
1/7/2006 |
Time: 4:01 pm |
Name
gleeful, at best
Comments:
Just a note of thanks to everyone in Saint Louis for destroying our heritage. A city making a comeback? Who are you kiddin'?
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Message 247 |
Date received:
1/6/2006 |
Time: 7:03 pm |
Email
you know it
Name
painglass
City
Milwaukee, WI
Comments:
Your site continues to improve day by day, I swear! Your beautiful pictures bring the city to life and make me long to visit. Awesome website my friend! :)
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Message 246 |
Date received:
1/6/2006 |
Time: 6:48 pm |
Name
Old Midtowners
City
San Francisco, CA
Comments:
Having visited St. Louis last summer and seeing the destruction there's really little for myself and my family but to throw our hands in the air and ask, "What's wrong with you people???" Destroying fabric like St. Aloysius' Church will be a stain on the hands of that City for generations to follow. When will STL ever, ever learn????????????
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Message 245 |
Date received:
1/2/2006 |
Time: 8:22 am |
Email
dice37@msn.com
Name
Kenneth Elliott
City
Saint Louis
Comments:
This site is awesome and full of knowledge I wanted to know about my hometown.
From the City Hospital, where I was born, to Arcade building.
I just wanted to say thank you for keeping the great history of the great city alive. This is truly a wonderful site, thats full of wonderful memories.
Thank you,
Ken Elliott
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Message 244 |
Date received:
12/28/2005 |
Time: 6:23 am |
Email
aestiva@gmail.com
Name
Chris Kuennen
City
SanAntonio
Comments:
I was born in Ferguson/Florisant in 1970. My whole family is from St. Louis. I love your website! My grand father who is nearly 90, takes me on tours of all the old downtown areas where he grew up, so I have seen many of the places you discuss. God Bless St. Louis, it is one of America's forgotten gems.
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Message 243 |
Date received:
12/25/2005 |
Time: 1:50 pm |
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Message 242 |
Date received:
12/23/2005 |
Time: 5:58 pm |
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Message 241 |
Date received:
12/16/2005 |
Time: 5:27 pm |
Email
alanputz@hotmail.com
Name
Alan Putz
City
Wilton Manors, Florida
Comments:
My Dad was born in St. Louis and I grew up in Chicago. I have been looking to move back to the midwest and St. Louis is on my short list. The tour of the north side is truly breathtaking. Even in parts of Europe that have been through two wars have been preserved better than this major American city.
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Message 240 |
Date received:
12/11/2005 |
Time: 0:36 am |
Email
purris@hotmail.com
Name
Purris Williams
City
Boston
Comments:
Growing up in Missouri in the 70's, I could not understand why so many great old buildings were abandoned and left to rot. I guess that hasn't changed. I'm still fascinated by old cities and thoroughly enjoyed this site.
Here is an East Coast link that you may want to add.
artinruins.com
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Message 239 |
Date received:
12/10/2005 |
Time: 0:32 am |
Name
old Midtowners
City
San Francisco, CA
Comments:
The developers trite attitude is enough to make people vomit.
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Message 238 |
Date received:
12/7/2005 |
Time: 5:36 pm |
Email
cindari@sbcglobal.net
Name
Melissa
City
St. Louis (Florissant)
Comments:
As a person born and raised in St. Louis, you have really given me a new found respect for the buildings I have always admired when visiting downtown and pass by while travelling the highway. Thanks for rekindling my interest in my wonderful City!!
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Message 237 |
Date received:
12/1/2005 |
Time: 10:33 am |
Email
brownlj03@yahoo.com
Name
Laura Brown
City
St. Louis
Comments:
Great site! As a native St. Louisan, it breaks my heart every time an old building is torn down (especially the churches).
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Message 236 |
Date received:
11/30/2005 |
Time: 3:31 pm |
Name
H. Jürgenliemk
City
Germany
Comments:
People of my greater family lived in Saint Louis since the sixties of the eighteen century. It is very sad to see, that the old houses must gone. Why? Modern architects are not the best in the history of the USA! Money and make money is not all in the world. We ned more romantic, creativity and human nature, when we build modern houses in old cities. Or - we restore and reconstruct (like in Germany since the WW II) the beautiful historic buildings.
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Message 235 |
Date received:
11/19/2005 |
Time: 11:41 am |
Email
kamelion2000@yahoo.com
Name
Norah
City
currently Rolla, formerly O'Fallon
Comments:
I am a huge fan of architecture, for me, the older the better. This is the first time I have stumbled upon your website, and will mark it as a "favorites" immediately. It breaks my heart to see wonderful old masterpieces destroyed to make way for "progress". I'm sure the art world would not set to blaze a beautiful Flemish tapestry from the 14th century just because it had some moth holes and burn marks. So why do people think it is ok to destroy a building that has workmanship in it that cannot be duplicated in the old way? I will never understand.
Anyway, your site is wonderful. I do, however, have a question: I am trying to locate an online group of people such as myself who love old architecture and can't see it, touch it, or talk about it enough. Would you know of one I should check out? Please respond to my e-mail address.
Thanks again!
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Message 234 |
Date received:
11/13/2005 |
Time: 10:35 pm |
Email
hwb1516b@swbell.net
Name
howard burkemper
City
st. charles, mo
Comments:
every time i visit i am impressed by the obvious love of st. louis that your work shows. i appreciate the updates. if i can suggest a few topics for study: the cemeteries, especially bellefontaine and calvary; the velodrome on north kingshighway; the libraries.
thanks for all you do to present the grandeur of my hometown to web surfers everywhere.
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Message 233 |
Date received:
11/13/2005 |
Time: 12:33 am |
Email
dayoung007@hotmail.com
Name
D. A. Young
City
Creve Coeur
Comments:
When the trolleys still ran in St. Louis, and they stopped in 1966, there were still an incredible amount of old buildings around. There's a couple of books about the St. Louis trolleys at several of the bookstores around town-Streets and Streetcars of St. Louis is one and it shows hundreds of buildings in the streets the trolleys are going through.
d. young
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Message 232 |
Date received:
11/12/2005 |
Time: 5:12 am |
Name
old Midtown-ers
City
San Francisco, CA
Comments:
So sad to see Busch go. Rightly said... you just can't find the words. Moronic travesty. Best playing field and good architecture. What more can you ask?
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Message 231 |
Date received:
11/11/2005 |
Time: 9:49 pm |
Email
nash@realtor.com
Name
Keith Nash, REALTOR(R)
City
St Charles / Ofallon / St Peters, MO
Comments:
Love the web site. Keep up the research. Let's make STL the best it can be.
KeithNash.com
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Message 230 |
Date received:
11/7/2005 |
Time: 3:39 pm |
Email
Dustin.L.Brown@umsl.edu
Name
Dustin Brown
City
St Louis, Mo
Comments:
I am a very frequent visitor to your site who has researched a great history over the neighborhood of Carondelet. I was thinking about the demoltion of Busch Stadium. I often imagine thinking about the first time in the new Busch stadium. I imagine that the same typical thoughts will come to mind. "This is nice, but it has no presence" The same things come to mind when I visit a new suburban type house. They are always very nice and clean, but they don't have any history to them, no tradition, no stories within their walls. I guess what I am saying is that, history lives within our old buildings. It is a shame to see it all in a pile of rubble. Keep up the good work!
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Message 229 |
Date received:
11/4/2005 |
Time: 3:22 am |
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Message 228 |
Date received:
10/27/2005 |
Time: 8:36 pm |
Email
sandyj@charter.net
Name
Sandy Jacobs
City
Glen Carbon, Il 62034
Comments:
Really ejoyed visiting your site. Lived at North 16th Street-moved to Illinois following father's work. I was in third grade, I'm now 53 years old. We attended church at St. Liborius. It's been nice looking at the pictures I've forgotten about which come to life, and also so sad to see the deterioration of vibrant communities and industries. Thank you for your efforts in this work.
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Message 227 |
Date received:
10/27/2005 |
Time: 8:31 pm |
Email
sandyj@charter.net
Name
Sandy Jacobs
City
Glen Carbon, Il 62034
Comments:
Really ejoyed visiting your site. Grew up on North 16th Street-moved to Illinois following father's work to A.O. Smith in Granite City. I was in third grade, I'm not 53 years old. We attended church at St. Liborius. It's been nice looking at the pictures I've forgotten about which come to life, and also so sad to see the deterioration of vibrant communities and industries. Thank you for your efforts in this work.
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Message 226 |
Date received:
10/21/2005 |
Time: 10:38 am |
Name
Allan
City
Chicago, IL
Comments:
weird my message didn't get through the other day, but great site you have! i never thought St. Louis had so many hidden architectual gems that were built, till now(and think its equal to Chicago + Detroit in terms of quality). keep up the hard work with your site!
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Message 225 |
Date received:
1// |
Time: :0 am |
Email
sbeck3988@yahoo.com
Name
steve beckett
City
Kansas City
Comments:
A GREAT SITE!
I grew up at 25th and Dodier. in the St. Louis Park area. I went to Irving Elementary and graduated from Central High in 1979. Looking at the pictures in the St. Louis Park and Hyde Park area really brought back memories. Most of them fond. I was using Google Earth and found the link to this site t
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Message 224 |
Date received:
10/13/2005 |
Time: 8:27 pm |
Email
commisionerbob@yahoo.com
Name
Markus
City
St. Louis
Comments:
Cool. Very imformative, and very helpful. You need to stop by again soon, get some pictures of the current Busch Stadium, if not I'll be glad to send some. As you might know already we're getting a new ballpark, a sham "retro" park that looks like every other new park that's been built in the last 6 years. Busch Stadium is unique, it was the first Bottle Cap design and the longest lasting stadium of its kind. It needs to be enshrined at this site.
Also, you are soo right about our riverfront. If you've seen it recently we only have one exercsion boat now. I remember when we used to have a Minesweeper downtown, the uhh...USS Inaugeral, that was nice until it was knocked off its moorings during the great flood 12 years ago. Now its sunk and floating half above the water level in a pile of junk down river.
GREAT SITE!
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Message 223 |
Date received:
9/28/2005 |
Time: 1:22 am |
Name
Christopher P
City
Saint Louis
Comments:
The following tells the story pretty much in its entirety as to why McRee Town had to go (in the photographers own words no less). And they weren't mouthing off in response to what was happening to their neighborhood. It's the inherent nature of their mouthing off that lead to McRee Town's demise. We don't need this type of garbage(behavior) in our city and we certainly didn't need a convenient drug stop and go. Sometimes starting over is all you can do...
"At the same time, two other guys who had noticed me earlier appeared around this corner. Apartment Boy exhorted them to "Get 'im!" in relation to me. They threw a few rocks in my direction as their buddy egged them on; fortunately I was far enough away that the projectiles were landing before they got to me. I calmly but quickly retreated to the car."
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Message 222 |
Date received:
9/21/2005 |
Time: 12:12 am |
Email
wallstreetbettencourt@yahoo.com
Name
Jim
City
worldwide
Comments:
Having been around the block a few times I can tell you that St. Louis is not unique. This is happening all over the US and in the UK. While it is very sad to see these once grand buildings being lost forever only to be replaced (if at all) by nondescript substandard poorly designed development with a 27.5 year life span, we have only ourselves to blame. We are the one's who left the inner city to migrate to the culturely bankrupt suburban housing developments. Who stayed behind?, the poor, the elderly, and criminal element. Not much of a tax base is it? So old neighborhoods die, buildings decay, churches close, and all get razed. The only way this is goning to stop is to get the middle class back into the city. And the only way that will happen is if government does a 180 degree turn in fiscal policy by creating tax incentives for business and homestead tax programs for people to repopulate these historic areas and hence save our heritage.
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Message 221 |
Date received:
9/18/2005 |
Time: 8:31 pm |
Email
crakaazz@yahoo.com
Name
c b
City
st. louis
Comments:
man those are some real pictures of st louis ,thats pretty sad. when i was young i thought st louis was the entire world . i live in norflk now a smaller area and yeh probibly with more new industry but there doing alot of cleaning up here . to bad st louis cant do the same. here in norfolk people are moving back into the city , alot of new construction and renovations . but every time i go back home i seams like everyone is still moving out. whith the exception of some lofts in the down town area and some renovations on the south side. i take alot of pride in the cardinals and the brewery. just wish thw rest of the place would become somthing to talk about. how about some pictures of whats still good in st louis .
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Message 220 |
Date received:
9/16/2005 |
Time: 10:33 pm |
Email
jameschristopherus@yahoo.com
Name
Chris
City
Washington, DC
Comments:
Amazing website. I grew up in StL suburbs and didn't catch on to what an architecturally amazing place the city is until only a few years before I left. THe northside photo tour in particular is heartbreaking. I used to have to go there regularly for my work, and it gave me the creeps. Not because of the people who live there, but because of the feeling of decay everywhere. You see these mansions in ruins, and realize that the forces that caused this are truly horrible. Unfortunately, they are all still quite potent in American life. We used to host visitors from E. Europe, and would drive them through the northside in order to eliminate their misconceptions about the USA.
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Message 219 |
Date received:
8/29/2005 |
Time: 4:53 pm |
Email
mkoutten@earthlink.net
Name
Mary
City
Santa Fe, NM
Comments:
Hello,
Your webite is great!
I grew up in st. Louis, and my Dad, who is 82,
absolutely loves your website.
He knows about all the old buildings and neighborhoods.
I think he looks at your site about once every day!
We drove downtown in June to see the destruction,
and we drove out to Northland to witness that wrecking ball.
He used to work for Famous-Barr, so it was fascinating to see that shopping center demolished.
We are anxiously awaiting the fate of the Railway exchange building now that the May Co. has sold out to Macy's!
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Message 218 |
Date received:
8/27/2005 |
Time: 0:25 am |
Email
earthspirits@bendbroadband.com
Name
Michele Frisella
City
Bend, Oregon
Comments:
Thank you for your interest in preserving the beautiful architecture of my hometown. I have lived in Oregon for the past 25 years where wood dominates! While Portland has wonderful older neighborhoods of Craftsman era architecture that is for the most part respected, Bend is a booming destination resort town where the old mill bungalows are being razed and replaced with pitiful replicas. While the natural landscape is stunning (the Cascade volcanos), the mediocre architecture takes its toll. I sometime think the people who come here for the scenic beauty are either here because they cannot create their own aesthetics or simply can't take any more beauty. I have been craving quality architecture and have been getting to know my hometown again and enjoying the buildings and homes that I have long forgotten. I am considering buying an historic home there, simply because there's not much here to choose from. By the way, I appreciate your Northland story. I worked at Famous Barr in high school, and saw President Kennedy in the Northland parking lot when he was running for office when I was in first grade (1960). Historic Preservation is Patriotic. Thank you for your hard work. Michele Frisella
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Message 217 |
Date received:
8/25/2005 |
Time: 10:19 pm |
Email
choyifan@yahoo.com
Name
Scott Stricklin
City
Concord,CA
Comments:
I stumbled across this web site and I think that it is great.Thanks for all of the pictures and the history tha goes with them.I was born in St Louis and I grew up in East St Louis in the 50's&60's.Looking at these pictures,it is sad for me to see how all of those once beautiful homes and E.StL neighborhoods have deteroriated.My old homestead on 66th street is now under the I255.That was a great neighborhood to grow up in.Holten State park was at the end of the block and I spent many a summer day running there.
I hope that you will continue to add more pictures of E.StL. I would love to see what the neighborhoods around 69th and State look like. Keep up the great work.I'll bookmark ya and be back again.
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Message 216 |
Date received:
8/25/2005 |
Time: 6:36 pm |
Email
jfloydh@siue.edu
Name
Jane Floyd-Hendey
City
St. Louis
Comments:
I live in a loft on Washington Avenue and this is a wonderful site!!! The loft district is a very cool place to live. Wonderful restaurants, clubs,new shops opening everyday, also new galleries. We have renovated historical homes for many years so it was just a natural to move into a loft. I am amazed every morning, on my way to work, when I look up at these grand old buildings. I can't imagine living in suburbia. There are still a number of changes that need to be made in the downtown area. Mike, I hope you continue to work on this site to include Lucus Park. This park is in terrible disrepair. It is painful to look at the orginal pictures of that park. I hope your website will bring attention to this need. Thanks again for all of your research. It is great that so many people, from so many parts of the world, have found you and appreciate the work you have done for Downtown of St.Louis. I hope the Mayor of St. Louis checks out your site!!!!!
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Message 215 |
Date received:
8/25/2005 |
Time: 6:03 pm |
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Message 214 |
Date received:
8/25/2005 |
Time: 2:52 pm |
Email
tombstone216@hotmail.com
Name
Ryan Taylor
City
kansas city
Comments:
wow i've lived in st.louis all of my life up until last year and i can't believe i've never seen a lot of these places before. very nice website i added it to my favorites folder. keep up the good work.
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Message 213 |
Date received:
8/19/2005 |
Time: 2:01 pm |
Email
freed2dance752004@yahoo.com
Name
carrie
City
saint louis
Comments:
I am a native Saint Louisan with a passion for historic neighborhoods and old buildings much like yourself. I recently have been actively researching and photographing many of these areas myself and found your website extremely beneficial to my needs and interests. I have been taking photos with both a digital and regular film camera and have some updates on some of the buildings as far as photos currently and research on some in the works, so to speak. I would like to correspond with you on some matters if you could spare the time. Please contact me at my email listed above. I could even perhaps mail you some updated info/photographs to post if you would like....I work at 555 Washington Ave as well and could tell you some updates as they surface on the lofts...anyway thanks again for this...one of my favorite sites!!
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Message 212 |
Date received:
8/16/2005 |
Time: 11:46 pm |
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Message 211 |
Date received:
8/16/2005 |
Time: 6:44 pm |
Email
herderich@hotmail.com
Name
Jeremiah Herderich
City
Denver, Colorado
Comments:
Man, what a great site!!! I didn't know that there were others out there who have an affinity for older declining neighborhoods, who love to visit them yet feel a little guilty about how everyone has turned their back on them. Great job and hopefully you will either expand your website or create new ones on other cities (Philadelphia, Detroit, etc.) that were once great and have also fallen into decline. I think the decline of these neighborhoods is the tip of the iceberg in what is really going wrong with this country, the eroding values and work ethic, the throw-away society we have become. Your site sheds light on this and should serve as a wake-up call to everyone, before we wind up with the same fate as the once-powerul Roman Empire. Keep up the great work!!!
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Message 210 |
Date received:
7/31/2005 |
Time: 3:23 pm |
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Message 209 |
Date received:
7/31/2005 |
Time: 7:52 am |
Email
jhammond69@juno.com
Name
jim hammond
City
west city stlouis ( Cabanne)
Comments:
Jim from the Cabbanee here-they really fixing up the old hoses and building new ones off Hamilton and Cates steets
i'm so happy:)
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Message 208 |
Date received:
7/29/2005 |
Time: 8:40 pm |
Email
zamea59@netscape.net
Name
Cyndi
City
Joliet, IL
Comments:
I just viewed your site. It is great. I lived in St. Louis When I was in the 4th and 5th grade and attended Immaculate Conception school. Thanks for the memories
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Message 207 |
Date received:
7/29/2005 |
Time: 4:08 am |
Email
lay_to_the_c_likewoah@hotmail.com
Name
Lacy Barcheck
City
St. Charles, MO
Comments:
This site is really interesting and touching. My grandparents owned a rather large home off compton in the 60s and it has deteriorated just like the ones in your pictures. They used to make comments about it when I was little and I didnt think anything of it but now I really understand. I bet it just aches the older generations to see beautiful and architecturally stunning places they visited as a child in the 1920s and 30s and such literally in pieces.
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Message 206 |
Date received:
7/26/2005 |
Time: 12:34 am |
Email
Mcrails45@Yahoo.com
Name
Mike McEnaney
City
Islandia,Long Island,NewYork
Comments:
Rob: Excellent site! I enjoyed taking the "tours" you offer-especially those of the neglected North side and East St.Louis. This city has suffered for too long from white flight and general neglect. What you are doing is keeping the memories and architecture of the city alive as well as reminding us what St.Louis is like and what it can become if more older buildings and neighborhoods get renovated and saved.If more people cared like you,I feel things would be different in many cities today. MIKE
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Message 205 |
Date received:
7/25/2005 |
Time: 5:02 pm |
Email
elbries@gmail.com
Name
Erika Kamholz Briesacher
City
"St. Louis", originally "Milwaukee"
Comments:
Fantastic website; I moved to St. Louis (actually Edwardsville on the Illinois side, but who's counting) from Milwaukee (okay, actually Slinger, but again. . . ) and I'm really glad to see somebody bringing awareness to architectural history issues in urban areas. Being "from" Milwaukee, the issues that plague historic buildings from the modernist-urban era are evident all the time. Keep up the great work!
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Message 204 |
Date received:
7/24/2005 |
Time: 7:44 am |
Email
mark_ww354@mail.com
Name
Mark Watson
City
Tampa
Comments:
Congratulations on the new layout. Keep it up to date as a celebrity :)
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Message 203 |
Date received:
7/23/2005 |
Time: 12:47 am |
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Message 202 |
Date received:
7/17/2005 |
Time: 2:00 pm |
Email
alex_mm453@mail.com
Name
Alex Mayers
City
San Diego
Comments:
Where are the updates? i cant seem to find them. But anyway, nice job.
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Message 201 |
Date received:
7/16/2005 |
Time: 5:06 pm |
Email
james194r@yahoo.com
Name
James Beckett
City
Miami
Comments:
really good one, but i would stick more with updating and fresh data. this will help a lot to play.
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Message 200 |
Date received:
7/15/2005 |
Time: 0:52 am |
Email
medicineman@hotmail.om
Name
Tony The Medicine Man
City
New York
Comments:
I live in St. Love for eight years. Truly the Gateway City. Thank you for your site.
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Message 199 |
Date received:
7/14/2005 |
Time: 1:57 pm |
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Message 198 |
Date received:
7/12/2005 |
Time: 12:04 am |
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Message 197 |
Date received:
7/4/2005 |
Time: 4:13 am |
Email
earthlink.com
Name
Bill Outten
City
St. Louis
Comments:
I think your web page is marvelous. I look at it two times a day or more and read every word. I am quite sure it has had quite an effect on the city fathers, for example they have appointed a 'commission' to try to do something about the riverfront! MORE POWER TO YOU
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Message 196 |
Date received:
7/1/2005 |
Time: 12:20 am |
Email
matthew.brown@ncmail.net
Name
Matthew Brown
City
Raleigh, NC
Comments:
Taking your Northside Tour, I am wondering what great civilization built these gorgeous masterpieces of stone, carved wood and terra cotta. They were beautiful, strongly built, densely packed, and in walking distance to work and shopping. These buildings clearly weren’t built by the people who have let them fall into ruin and are clearing them away. They weren’t built by the people who live in the suburbs in houses made of plastic and beaverboard and aluminum. Who was it then? It must have been a highly refined culture. I know how the people in the dark ages felt when they encountered the ruins of the Roman Empire.
Thank you so much for taking these pictures. Without your work, posterity may never know that a beautiful civilization once flourished on this continent.
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Message 195 |
Date received:
6/29/2005 |
Time: 12:03 am |
Email
wood_aj@lycos.com
Name
A J Wood
City
Tucson, AZ
Comments:
The Northland gutting piece (Toby Weiss) brought back memories.
I had a chance to go to Toby's website too. I wasn't allowed to right click on any of his Northland images so I dragged each of them to my desktop. Now, having
a chance open them up into an image viewer, I found them to be very Hi-Rez. The image of the movie theatre lobby was very zoomable. I was able to catch
the edge of a Coming Soon poster which had Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer at the visible top.
After Googling there names, I found that the last film to run there was probably in 1996 because the movie they played together in was:
The Island of Dr. Moreau.
Post some more!
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Message 194 |
Date received:
6/29/2005 |
Time: 0:44 am |
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Message 193 |
Date received:
6/28/2005 |
Time: 6:40 am |
Email
mugu@yahoo.com
Name
mugu maga
City
lagos
Comments:
thanks for this site.
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Message 192 |
Date received:
6/25/2005 |
Time: 6:00 pm |
Email
jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
Name
John Thornton
City
Springfield MO
Comments:
WOW! I lived in St. Louis for many years when I was growing up. It's the first place I ever drove a car. Went to school in Hazelwood and attended St. Martin de Porres. I'm glad to see the church made the cut. Seeing all these wonderful images really makes me homesick. I'm not a native of St. Louis, I just spent enough of my formative years there to consider the place one of my homes. Great site. I have spent hours here and still haven't seen everything. Thanks for showing me so much of what St. Louis unique and places like Springfield just a boring everywhere and nowhere kind of town.
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Message 191 |
Date received:
6/21/2005 |
Time: 3:04 am |
Email
Pianoman5691@sbcglobal.net
Name
Travis Morgan
City
Harvester Missouri
Comments:
I love how this website shows the true St. Louis. St. Louis was and could be a great city once again, but until some of the boring suburbanites, such as myself realize that the reason the city they left because of how "bad" it was is only getting worse because of the fact that they moved out. The city is so much more beatiful than the boring vinyl siding ranches of suburbia.
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Message 190 |
Date received:
6/14/2005 |
Time: 10:13 pm |
Email
podjah@yahoo.com
Name
Tim
City
OFallon Illinois
Comments:
Just wanted to tell you that I enjoyed the site. I have spent many hours looking through it all and have learned many new things. Thanks.
Tim
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Message 189 |
Date received:
6/12/2005 |
Time: 4:24 pm |
Email
vince@vincesstlouis.com
Name
Vince
City
St. Louis
Comments:
Just wanted to say that fro creating this site, it has inspired me to create my own.
http://vincesstlouis.com
Hope you don't mind, I have your site on my links page.
Thanks again
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Message 188 |
Date received:
6/10/2005 |
Time: 3:40 pm |
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