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Coming soon to 7597 S Lindbergh: Harbor Freight Tools

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:02:42 +0000

The site of 7597 S Lindbergh has a bit of an up-and-down recent history. It’s been vacant since Home Town Buffet closed in 2015, but it’s getting a new tenant soon: Harbor Freight Tools. What’s being built at Lindbergh and

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What happened to Tipton Appliances

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:54:48 +0000

Variously known as Tipton Electric Company, Tipton Appliances, Tipton Centers Inc., and Tipton Supercenters, Tipton was a St. Louis-based retail store specializing in home appliances and electronics. It had aspirations of going national the way Best Buy and Circuit City

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Cusanelli’s, St. Louis

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:03:12 +0000

A very old white building stood for decades, and allegedly centuries, near the intersection of Lemay Ferry road and Bayless in the inner ring St Louis suburb of Lemay. The historic building, most recently home to Cusanelli’s, was demolished in

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Berlinger Dairy, St Louis

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 13:03:03 +0000

Balthazar Berlinger, an immigrant from Switzerland, kept cows in his back yard where he lived on the 3400 block of Indiana Avenue in south St. Louis. In 1888, he started selling milk over a counter in his living room–fifty years

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Red Bird Lanes, St. Louis

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:03:57 +0000

Red Bird Lanes was a popular hangout for all ages for a total of 37 and 1/2 years. Multiple generations have fond memories of bowling there, learning to bowl there, or just hanging out. It stood at 7339 Gravois Avenue,

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Mark Twain cinema, Sunset Hills

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 13:03:37 +0000

A sleek, modernist building with sharp angles stands on Lindbergh Boulevard, one door south of Gravois Road, with a prominent glass front and distinctive limestone walls. It stares down a Ford dealer across the street, flanked by an office building

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Is St Louis known for flooding?

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 13:03:58 +0000

St Louis is nicknamed The River City. The reason for that is very simple. It sits approximately at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, the two biggest rivers in North America. But besides those, other, much lesser known

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Why East St Louis is so poor

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 13:03:00 +0000

East St. Louis is a legendary American city, for all the wrong reasons. Those three words conjure up thoughts of extreme poverty, extreme crime, and danger, sometimes perceived, and sometimes very real. It wasn’t always that way, to hear some

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Where is Route 66 in St. Louis?

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 13:03:04 +0000

Where is Route 66 in St. Louis? Two Missouri highways, 366 and 100, claim to be the old Route 66. Why? Because it changed over the years. Both have legitimate claims to Route 66 heritage, so let’s talk about the

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Fighter Jets on Chouteau Avenue, St Louis

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 14:03:32 +0000

At the intersection of Chouteau and Cardinal avenues, near downtown St. Louis, there is a curious sight. Sitting outside the Bissell Auto and Body Company is a Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star. And if you look behind it, you can see

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