downtown St. Louis on the morning of November 28, 1939, provoking coughs and cries from weary St. Louisans. By 9 a.m., downtown streetlamps were burning, yet struggling to cut through the heavy soot that smothered the heart of the city. It was, as the reported that evening, the ninth time in four weeks that pillows magazine wrote: “St. Louis has long been a sooty city. It is probably the smokiest municipality in the country-worse even than Pittsburgh.” Ouch.
What was Black Tuesday in St. Louis?
Nov 29, 2022
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