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Growing Up in Old North St. Louis

Author : Patrick J. Kleaver
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986241854
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up in Old North St. Louis written by Patrick J. Kleaver and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join life-time St. Louisan Patrick J. Kleaver in this UPDATED AND EXPANDED version of his book GROWING UP IN OLD NORTH ST. LOUIS. He reminisces about the good and the bad in the first nineteen years of his life when he lived in that historic St. Louis neighborhood from its heyday in the mid-1950s to its decline in the 1970s. From a detailed description of his house to the neighborhood shopping district originally known as the "Great White Way" (with stops at various neighbors and churches along the way), you'll feel like you're entering his life and walking with him on a personally guided tour! In this SECOND EDITION, he includes MORE anecdotes, a MORE detailed history of Old North St. Louis and its historic Catholic churches, MORE photographs (including rarely seen historic ones of streetscapes and church interiors), a MORE DETAILED quick side trip to two other neighborhoods bordering his, and UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION about the status of the various people and buildings mentioned. DEAR READERS: Please BEWARE of websites claiming to offer an electronic version of this book. The "hard copy" (i.e., printed) paperback version is the ONLY authorized format in which this book is offered by the author and sole copyright holder. ANY ELECTRONIC VERSION IS A PIRATED COPY FOR WHICH THE AUTHOR RECEIVES NO ROYALTIES. Please buy your copy ONLY from www.amazon.com (or for libraries and schools, only from recognized institutional distributors).

Historic North St. Louis

Author : Albert Montesi
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738523194
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Historic North St. Louis written by Albert Montesi and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early 19th century, the Mississippi River valley north of St. Louis attracted many settlers eager to farm its fertile land. Proximity to the river and downtown markets helped the area grow. Immigrants arrived from Germany and other European countries, and after the Civil War, blacks migrated from the South. Today, the Hyde Park, Bissell-College Hill, and Old North St. Louis neighborhoods are home to diverse communities with a rich and shared history. The neighborhoods are dotted with St. Louis landmarks such as Bissell Mansion, the world-famous Water Towers, Crown Candy, and hundreds of other architectural gems that have withstood the years. This visual history preserves the area's vibrant past and points to a bright future.

Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar

Author : Ron A. Austin
Publisher : Nilsen Prize for a First Novel
ISBN 13 : 9781732039919
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar written by Ron A. Austin and published by Nilsen Prize for a First Novel. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Austin's semi-autobiographical, linked story collection follows the misadventures of Avery Colt as he struggles to survive in North St. Louis alongside his family. Learning the best way to slaughter a goat, rebuilding his family's corner market, and reckoning the weight of a revolver are a few of the challenges Avery faces. As he matures through each page, Avery takes control of his circumstances and attempts dangerous feats of alchemy. By confronting his own fears and limitations, he seeks to transform cruelty into compassion, rind into fruit, despair into hope. Charged with urgency and emotion, Austin's prose faithfully renders a community determined to overcome crisis with strength, dark humor, and plenty of heart" --

Growing Up St. Louis

Author : Jim Merkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681062549
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up St. Louis written by Jim Merkel and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter when or where we grow up, the stories, people, and places that populate our memories leave an indelible mark on the manuscript that becomes our life story. A day at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904, meatless meals and hard times during the Great Depression, or knowing Mark McGwire's precise homerun count that summer of 1998 become galvanized in our own timelines, while other details fade into the background. In Growing Up St. Louis, hear the stories that stuck with more than 110 native St. Louisans over the last century told by the very people who lived through them. Ranging from joyous to humdrum, and even to grim, these childhood memories offer a glimpse of life in still frame, from the start of the twentieth century to the present day. A woman speaks lovingly of the elephant ears she bought in University City in the 1950s while a future local sportscaster falls in love with sports as he and his dad watch the 1968 World Series. With new and old photographs to accompany the essays, join veteran author Jim Merkel on a journey through ten decades of coming of age in St. Louis. Whether they spark nostalgia or empathy, they'll surely provoke commentary about how deeply our tender years impact us for the rest of our lives.

Memory's Shadow

Author : Gail Benick
Publisher : Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
ISBN 13 : 9781771337816
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Memory's Shadow written by Gail Benick and published by Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Set in the tumultuous 1970s when women, African Americans, and the gay and lesbian community fought for equality while a "New Right" mobilized in defense of political conservatism and traditional family values, Memory's Shadow is the story of a family that survived the Holocaust and their ongoing engagement with that legacy long after World War II has ended. The novella deals with memory and mourning through the lens of the adult sisters in the Berk family. Hetty the oldest, a real estate agent, is fearful of the urban black population moving into her "safe" Jewish suburb. Toni, the second sister, an unmarried intellectual and feminist, is determined to raise a child on her own. Linda Sue, the youngest and most compassionate of the three, is a teacher driven by the need to solve the mystery of her family's survival in the Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation. Memory's Shadow is a tale of family loyalty, friendship, and resilience in the face of an unimaginable recurrence of tragedy."--

The Broken Heart of America

Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541646061
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Broken Heart of America written by Walter Johnson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.

Founding St. Louis

Author : J. Frederick Fausz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614233829
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Founding St. Louis written by J. Frederick Fausz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The animal wealth of the western "wilderness" provided by talented "savages" encouraged French-Americans from Illinois, Canada and Louisiana to found a cosmopolitan center of international commerce that was a model of multicultural harmony. Historian J. Frederick Fausz offers a fresh interpretation of Saint Louis from 1764 to 1804, explaining how Pierre Lacl de, the early Chouteaus, Saint Ange de Bellerive and the Osage Indians established a "gateway" to an enlightened, alternative frontier of peace and prosperity before Lewis and Clark were even born. Historians, genealogists and general readers will appreciate the well-researched perspectives in this engaging story about a novel French West long ignored in American History.

60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: St. Louis

Author : Steve Henry
Publisher : Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN 13 : 0897328841
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: St. Louis written by Steve Henry and published by Menasha Ridge Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mention St. Louis and most people think of the famous arch. Residents and visitors-in-the-know appreciate the many outdoor recreational opportunities the Gateway to the West has to offer. With new hikes and updated text and maps, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: St. Louis points hikers to the best outdoor trails and rambles within easy reach of the city. Whether walking in the footsteps of Louis and Clark, exploring amazing rock formation in the Pickle Springs Natural Area, or trekking along a portion of the longest rails-to-trails paths in the U.S., hikers are sure to be amazed at the diversity of outdoor experiences awaiting them. The included hikes are located in Missouri as well as its neighbor, Illinois.

Mapping Decline

Author : Colin Gordon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812291506
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Mapping Decline written by Colin Gordon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form." Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy—and often sheer folly—of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history. Mapping Decline is the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps—rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records—illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.

Inner-City Poverty in the United States

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309042798
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Inner-City Poverty in the United States written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the continuing growth of concentrated poverty in central cities of the United States and examines what is known about its causes and effects. With careful analyses of policy implications and alternative solutions to the problem, it presents: A statistical picture of people who live in areas of concentrated poverty. An analysis of 80 persistently poor inner-city neighborhoods over a 10-year period. Study results on the effects of growing up in a "bad" neighborhood. An evaluation of how the suburbanization of jobs has affected opportunities for inner-city blacks. A detailed examination of federal policies and programs on poverty. Inner-City Poverty in the United States will be a valuable tool for policymakers, program administrators, researchers studying urban poverty issues, faculty, and students.

Spirits of St. Louis II

Author : Robbi Courtaway
Publisher : Virginia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781891442186
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Spirits of St. Louis II written by Robbi Courtaway and published by Virginia Publishing. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From downtown St. Louis to rural Missouri, conjures another batch of spine-tingling stories.

Deadly Gangsta 1

Author : F. Blount
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933635323
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Deadly Gangsta 1 written by F. Blount and published by . This book was released on 2018-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Abandoned in the Heartland

Author : Jennifer Hamer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520950178
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Abandoned in the Heartland written by Jennifer Hamer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary America. Nowhere is this more evident than in East St. Louis, Illinois. Once a thriving manufacturing and transportation center, East St. Louis is now known for its unemployment, crime, and collapsing infrastructure. Abandoned in the Heartland takes us into the lives of East St. Louis’s predominantly African American residents to find out what has happened since industry abandoned the city, and jobs, quality schools, and city services disappeared, leaving people isolated and imperiled. Jennifer Hamer introduces men who search for meaning and opportunity in dead-end jobs, women who often take on caretaking responsibilities until well into old age, and parents who have the impossible task of protecting their children in this dangerous, and literally toxic, environment. Illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs showing how the city has changed over time, this book, full of stories of courage and fortitude, offers a powerful vision of the transformed circumstances of life in one American suburb.

Every Shade of a Rose

Author : Herr Prinz Siegfried
Publisher : Siegreich
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Shade of a Rose written by Herr Prinz Siegfried and published by Siegreich. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took me a lifetime to realize that the closest person to me was one of the enemies against which I daily prayed. My mother was my world – a woman who though deeply broken on the inside yet bore the burden of being a huge beacon of light to the mysterious world around her; but then you know what they say about the ones that burn themselves to illuminate others. Piling medical bills forced mother into prostitution and drugs that eventually took her life. Life hit me hard, and death knew me by name. I would not give up. I am a woman and so in me lies the strength that can move mountains. But each time I fought back, life dealt me a blow more devastating than the last. I have lost it all, but I cannot surrender, not now, not until someone pays for my hurt. With grief, strong mental health issues, a strong lust for vengeance, playing my strings from dark corners, how do I find the will to keep living? How does a woman find the strength to journey through life with a billion arrows buried deep in her back? Every shade of a Rose is an unforgettable story of a young woman, Tessie, struggling to pull the weight of abandonment, grief, and assault through life. It follows her through various stages of her life as she channels the vileness from within into the power of survival, finds her way, and finds an oasis of love in a dessert of hate.

How to Be Alone

Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374707642
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book How to Be Alone written by Jonathan Franzen and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in How to be Alone, along with the personal essays and the dead-on reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of The Corrections. Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father's stuggle with Alzheimer's disease (which has already been reprinted around the world) and a rueful account of Franzen's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author. As a collection, these essays record what Franzen calls "a movement away from an angry and frightened isolation toward an acceptance--even a celebration--of being a reader and a writer." At the same time they show the wry distrust of the claims of technology and psychology, the love-hate relationship with consumerism, and the subversive belief in the tragic shape of the individual life that help make Franzen one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics.

Housing Conditions in St. Louis

Author : Civic League of Saint Louis. Housing Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Housing Conditions in St. Louis written by Civic League of Saint Louis. Housing Committee and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gateway Arch

Author : W. Arthur Mehrhoff
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879725686
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Gateway Arch written by W. Arthur Mehrhoff and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muses on the many dimensions of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in downtown St. Louis. Five essays, some of them published previously, consider the relation of the edifice to classical arches, to the westward expansion it celebrates, to the city it occupies, and to the present and future conception of the US. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $20.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR