Following the late evening announcement on Monday November 24, 2014 of the grand jury’s decision to not indict former officer Darren Wilson, we saw destruction far worse than we had in August. After the QT was torched on the night of Sunday August 10th I began the process of photographing every building along W. Florissant starting at the railroad tracks in Jennings to Pershall Rd next to I-270. I recently returned to photograph the recent damage, allowing me to show you before & after photos.
We’ll start on the south end and work our way north.
Ferguson:
9163 W. Florissant, just north of McDonald’s, in August. Click image to view map.November 28thThe building was very deepSide-facing storefronts nowHealSTL was located in the last spaceAnd nowSam’s Meat Market 9241 W Florissant on August 11thAugust 16thNovember 28thPublic Storage office at 9291 W. Florissant in AugustNovember 28th
Dellwood:
Hunan Chop Suey at 9806 W. Florissant on August 18thNovember 28thTitle Max at 9814 W Florissant in AugustNovember 28thThe Fashion R Boutique at 9844 W. Florissant in AugustNovember 28thO’Reily Auto Parts on August 19thNovember 28thThe AutoZone at 10am on August 11th, the morning after the QT was burned. Windows were broken here.More than a week later, on August 19th, the broken windows are boarded.The same AutoZone on Friday November 28thPrime Beauty Supply at 1475 Chambers at W. Florissant in AugustOn November 20th they had boarded their windowsA week laterAutoBuyCredit at 10250 W. Florissant in AugustTheir car lot in AugustA total of 16 cars were destroyed in NovemberI don’t seem to have a good before of the Conoco station at 10280 W. Florissant, just north of the car lot.
Much more damage in Dellwood. I doubt all will be rebuilt. The adjacent residential housing is nice, but it may not stay that way if the commercial district doesn’t come back.
A few asshats, who likely didn’t care either way about the Grand Jury Investigation, decided to wreck their community. Now the whole community has to live with the fallout, sad.
One good thing that came of this was the elimination of the Title Loan. Those places are appalling dump heaps which make credit cards look like a brilliant way to finance things.
That’s exactly what I thought when I saw the title loan. I don’t think the people of the community burned those places. I believe that outside instigators did, The peop;e of Ferguson have always pretty much gotten along with each other.There has always been a problem with the police force. Like anywhere else Ferguson has very good police, but one or two bad ones, can ruin it for the others.
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A few asshats, who likely didn’t care either way about the Grand Jury Investigation, decided to wreck their community. Now the whole community has to live with the fallout, sad.
One good thing that came of this was the elimination of the Title Loan. Those places are appalling dump heaps which make credit cards look like a brilliant way to finance things.
That’s exactly what I thought when I saw the title loan. I don’t think the people of the community burned those places. I believe that outside instigators did, The peop;e of Ferguson have always pretty much gotten along with each other.There has always been a problem with the police force. Like anywhere else Ferguson has very good police, but one or two bad ones, can ruin it for the others.
There is a before picture of the Conoco here: http://en.phorio.com/conoco_service_station,_dellwood,_united_states