Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day so, like the previous 11, I’m taking at look at his namesake road in St. Louis. Unlike some previous years, very little appears to have changed since last year.
I started downtown, drove out to the Wellston Loop at the city limits, and drove back.
The corners of MLK & 14th are getting new curb cuts — was needed.Imo’s new headquartersThis modest structure being rehabbed was once a boarding house, in 1891 Henry Miller founded what is today the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). Once finished it’ll be a museum will open to honor him. Click image for more information.Chronicle Coffee closed “temporarily for renovations and restructuring on 10/13/2014.”, it still appears closed.The phone number is no longer in service.The SW corner of MLK & Taylor, 4500 MLK, was being razed. Was Taylor & Easton Drug. Click for map.Same corner in January 2007, was built in 1905.In 2015 bike lanes were added to part of MLK. Click image for information from Great Rivers GreenwayLast year I didn’t think this building would make it to 2016Lots of buildings have been razed to provide parking lots for churches.Another building I didn’t think would survive is still here is one of my favorites. Located just East of Goodfellow.
With the exception of the IBEW museum, this year was very depressing.
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There is an article on MLK in St. Louis in the Guardian today.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/18/cleaning-up-the-streets-that-bear-the-name-of-his-hero-martin-luther-king