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David A. Lossos
Dave Lossos is a webmaster of many genealogy and local history websites, including Genealogy in St. Louis. A retired engineer and St. Louis native, he has published reference titles on early St. Louis places of worship and 19th century city directories.
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St. Louis - David A. Lossos
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INTRODUCTION
The first reaction I typically heard was, that’s been done,
by those I approached with the idea of a Then and Now
book about St. Louis. And that was certainly true. Not only had it been done, but done well. But I was confident that there was so much to St. Louis’s history that a dozen books on the subject would still never tell the whole story. Also, I wanted to inject a personal element into this book’s photos. For example, the view that the young newspaper boy on the opposite page would have been gazing at today is that which appears below.
As with most books of this type my initial concern was that I personally would be able to find enough interesting images of old St. Louis. Turns out that they were so plentiful that I didn’t even need to dip into a number of repositories that at first I thought I’d not be able to do without. I also planned to use a select group of my personal collection of vintage St. Louis postcards. Once again, there are many contained within, but not as many as I had planned to use.
Once I had decided on the Then
photos, I was left with the challenge of capturing the Now
images. That led to a number of adventures, such as climbing over barbed wire, trying to raise a window in a fourth floor warehouse that hadn’t been opened for years, and traipsing across the roof of a high-rise building on a blustery day. Additional trips to the same locations were commonplace due to an unruly sun that refused to shine the way I wanted, and unexpected crowds that would have detracted from the scene I was trying to portray (turns out St. Louis has a tendency to put up a tent and sell brats and beer at the drop of a hat).
Republican William Howard Taft was President Roosevelt’s chosen successor in the 1908 U.S. Presidential race. This scene shows the large enthusiastic crowd that gathered at the intersection of Twelfth and Delmar during a campaign stop in St. Louis.
Chapter 1
DOWNTOWN
Similar to the scene on the cover (but even before the Admiral), about all that’s left from this riverfront scene around the turn of the last century is the MacArthur Bridge (closed), the train tracks (buried), and the cobblestones on the levee (still able to twist an ankle). Oh, and the Mississippi River, of course.
The sign above greeted travelers going west across the Municipal Free Bridge into St. Louis. This photo was taken in 1917, the year the bridge first opened. The