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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis.
Gee, wonder what's the common thread there?  |
st. louis is the endcap to the ohio valley with a great lakes cough. i can take a photo in st louis and fool someone into thinking its louisville (think 1880s solid brick townhouse with a stoop with a tiny bermuda-grass yard and a southern magnolia in it) or a block of great lakesy frame two-flats and a aerial over a plain with an extant steel mill belching smoke in 2021.
of a different river i can also take a photo in the st. louis county bungalow belt that looks like inner-city memphis. theres some blocks built like bywater but the brick always gives it up.
i view st. louis as a proto-western city (and missouri a proto-western state with its weird contradictions of north/south/outlaw mythos) with everything thrown into the cake without a mixer. it was the prism the laser focused through on its way to vaporize a million buffalo.