Forward, Into The Past
The prevailing economy in 1914 caused many tight purse strings around Lafayette Square. For the winter holiday season, someone decided to take the frugal approach. He or she procured a Christmas goose from the apparent bounty of Lafayette Park.
Continue reading “1914: The Tough Old Birds Of Lafayette Park”I reckon that many of you are aware of the Compton and Dry panoramic map of St. Louis from 1875. It provides minute detail of the entire city at that time, even rivaling what Google Maps provides. There’s been a good deal of conjecture about how Camile Dry and his team managed to accomplish this, but if done with observation balloons, it went completely unremarked upon by the press, which seems odd.
