2010 ColDay Series:

 

Part 1: Cincinnati, Columbus, & New York City

Part 2: Indianapolis, Detroit, & Cincinnati

Part 3: Bloomington, Indiana

Part 4: Smoky Chicago

Part 5: A New York Minute

Part 6: Cincinnati

Part 7: The Lake Erie Cities

Part 8: Toronto

Part 9: Hamilton

Part 10: The NFC East

Part 11: Louisville

Part 12: St. Louis

 

 

St. Louis, Missouri

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And you all have a Happy New Year from Chicago!

 

Looks like Baltimore on the Mississippi.

that's brick!

I'm guessing the first bunch are from the north side. The other ones certainly redeem them.

Amazing photos. Looks almost like early spring out there. What kind of camera was used for the shots, if you don't mind me asking?

Thanks for a very nice photo collection from St. Louis. I'd have to place St. Louis second among larger U.S. cities in urban decay behind Detroit. Quite a contrast between today and the 1880's when city leaders boldly predicted St. Louis would eventually become the largest metropolis in the United States. Although the city's decline was due to many factors, St. Louis was at the forefront of the failed Federally-funded urban renewal policies during the mid-20th century. Where the iconic arch now stand there was once a dense mid-19th century Riverfront warehouse district of multi-story brick commercial buildings. City planning policies encouraged dis-investment and prompted mass population flight to the suburbs. St. Charles, MO is doing quite well these days thanks to those misguided policies. A preservationist friend of mine who previously lived in St. Louis stated that, for many years, the primary industry in historic North St. Louis was demolition contracting and the export of countless pallets of salvaged bricks. From the photos, after decades of horrific losses, it seems that finally there is some stability returning to older parts of St. Louis.

Amazing photos. Looks almost like early spring out there. What kind of camera was used for the shots, if you don't mind me asking?

 

Canon Rebel XT.

Wonderful photo set. The contrasts are pretty striking, and overall the city appears clean.

 

I'm surprised by the absence of grafitti, even in the blighted area shown in the first photos. In most urban areas, every surface that could be reached would have been tagged multiple times and heavily vandalized.

 

 

Apparently CDM and I should have had a UO happy hour, St. Louis style.  WHY ARE YOU FOLLOWING ME?  STOP FOLLOWING ME!!!!! :)

Been to http://www.builtstlouis.net? Well worth a visit...

That's old news.

Apparently CDM and I should have had a UO happy hour, St. Louis style.  WHY ARE YOU FOLLOWING ME?  STOP FOLLOWING ME!!!!! :)

 

You know he's a stalker.

great set.  i need to get to st. louis.  you should've picked me up.  which reminds me...you never called on your way back through Indy.  jerk.  you said you would but you didn't.  you're on thin ice mister. 

*Yawn* at you two bitches.

*Yawn* at you two bitches.

 

yawn at me again and i'll give you something to fill that open mouth.  bitch. 

*Yawn* at you two bitches.

 

yawn at me again and i'll give you something to fill that open mouth.  bitch. 

 

A gyro?

 

Disturbing.

The brickiest brick place around.  Wow.

 

I really, really dig the pedestrian scaled street lights in this shot:

http://www.urbanohio.com/UOThreads/2010/StLouis/10STL10.jpg

 

And I love the dense mansiony stuff near the end.

The brickiest brick place around. Wow.

And I love the dense mansiony stuff near the end.

 

Pssst, have you effer been to Zinzinnati? A city of brick structures if there ever was one.

^Columbus too.  They have brick alleys, sidewalks, garages, fences, and even brick yellow lines in the middle of the street!