In the near distance to your left, you can see St. Louis, shaped by glaciers and a great sea in an earlier age, sweeps northward. Louis Cardinals) mark the city’s southern skyline, while a newly sculpted park space covering what remains of the first two natural limestone terraces that front the Mississippi at St. It’s known locally as the Poplar Street Bridge.ĭirectly behind you, skyscrapers and the ruddy face of Busch Stadium (home to baseball’s St. The first orthotropic bridge in the United States, engineered by Sverdrup & Parcel, sweeps away immediately to your right with an almost constant flow of heavy traffic. Louis in relation to its modern counterpart and the wider Mississippi Valley. The lay of the land makes it just possible to stand at the southeastern edge of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park (the Arch Park) near Poplar Street and be able to visualize ancient downtown St.
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Downtown's vibrant African American community was the source and subject of such folk-blues classics as "Frankie and Johnny" and "Stagger Lee," not to mention W.C. One of the city's Garment District shoe factories was the workplace of a young Tennessee Williams, referenced in his first Broadway play, The Glass Menagerie. But a fascinating history waits just beneath the surface in the heart of the city, like the labyrinth of natural limestone caves where Anheuser-Busch got its start. Louis By Maureen Kavanaugh Full Pages.Ī reputation as the town of shoes, booze and blues persists in St. Read Or Download Hidden History of Downtown St.
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