[PDF] The Sidewalks Of St Louis eBook

Author : George Lipsitz
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 21,41 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :

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In twenty-seven vignettes, Lipsitz explores the lives of oddballs and outcasts, immigrants and artists, those whose stories are often left out of traditional history books, but whose labor and imagination made St. Louis the city it is today.

Author : William B. Magnan
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Saint Louis (Mo.)
ISBN : 9780963144867

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With a historical narrative and comprehensive index of street names as well as a thorough appendix of state governors, city mayors and city schools, the Magnans show how the famous, infamous and unknown have left their marks on the city with a street sign.

Author : Jessica Whitfield
Publisher : 2real4tv Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2021-06-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781737422501

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Dashon started off on the porch and ended up right in the middle of the streets of St. Louis. Him and his squad must learn the rules of survival while maintaining a love life in the midst of all the drama. Reading their story gives you a better understanding about how and why we lose so many young black men to the senseless gun violence and penitentiaries.

Author : Joseph Heathcott
Publisher : Missouri Historical Society Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Manners and customs
ISBN : 9781883982836

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"The St. Louis Street Department in 1900-1930 took thousands of photos to document municipal challenges and improvements, inadvertently capturing detailed scenes of everyday life. The images reveal the national trend among cities to use the camera as a documentary tool, and they showcase the city of St. Louis at the turn of the century"--

Author : Andrew Hurley
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Saint Louis (Mo.)
ISBN : 9781883982157

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In these pages, geographers, archaeologists, and historians come together to consider the enduring ties between a city's diverse residents and the physical environment on which their well-being depends.

Author : Scott Phillips
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1617754617

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“St. Louis gets a turn to show its dark side . . . [A] spirited, black-hearted collection” including a story from New York Times–bestselling author John Lutz (Kirkus Reviews). A vibrant Midwest metropolis, St. Louis has a rich, multicultural history of art and literature—both high and low. That duality is embraced here in an anthology that spans the reaches of noir, from violent criminality to bad luck and bad attitudes. St. Louis Noir includes stories by bestselling authors John Lutz and Scott Phillips, a poetic interlude featuring Poet Laureate Michael Castro, and more tales from Calvin Wilson, LaVelle Wilkins-Chinn, Paul D. Marks, Colleen J. McElroy, Jason Makansi, S.L. Coney, Laura Benedict, Jedidiah Ayres, Umar Lee, Chris Barsanti, and L.J. Smith. “The stories here are uniformly strong. Regular readers of the Noir series know what to expect: tightly written, tightly plotted, mostly character-driven stories of murder and mayhem, death and despair, shadow and shock.” —Booklist “Thirteen tales of grim homicidal happenings (plus one poetic interlude) set in the streets of the St. Louis area.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Author : Jennifer Hamer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520950178

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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.