St. Louis (Then and Now)

As we strategy the 241st anniversary of the settlement on the banks of the mighty Mississippi that got here to be the metropolis of St. Louis, it’s applicable to look again at this nice metropolis. We have now valuable few bodily reminders of the times of Laclede and Chouteau. It wasn’t till the mid�nineteenth century that we frequently recorded by way of pictures the event (and destruction) of the sights that make St. Louis distinctive. It’s by way of these photographs that we’ve got the marvelous functionality to look again and think about our metropolis by way of the eyes of our predecessors: To see the issues that had been right here many years in the past and nonetheless look the identical; to see issues that now not exist, and to see what we’ve got changed them with; to see what we’ve got preserved, and what we’ve got discarded; and to see the current by way of the photographs of the previous. There is no such thing as a solution to embody all of the adjustments that this metropolis has seen in a single e book. The views on this e book will give the reader a consultant collection of the extra recognizable sights within the St. Louis metropolitan space. The intent is to incorporate a lot of the main locations and issues that everybody identifies with St. Louis. But in addition included are extra obscure photographs that present scenes with which a lot of our ancestors would additionally determine. There’ll all the time be progress, however that which is misplaced is value remembering. So sit again, chill out, and take a stroll down the streets of St. Louis as our ancestors knew them.