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Originally Posted by photoLith
I didnt know St. Louis was an Olympic host city, strange...
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I'm not sure if you made it to the Central West End when you were in St. Louis, but that neighborhood and the area just to the west and all the way across to the west of Forest Park was developed in concert and speculation with the local economic bump of the 1904 worlds fair, and reflects some of the trendy "apartment lyfe" and mansion architecture popular at the time that stands in sort of stark opposition to the rowhouses, mansards, and 2 story flats in other areas of the city - and shows the break that St. Louis made from having a little bit of New Orleans in it's DNA as a hardcore, working class, dirty river city, to looking more modern like the apartment blocks of Chicago. As the city sprawled out onto the prairie and sent out rails [a little late, but did so]. Whew. Runon sentence.