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[theinevitable]

I feel like I have a disease where all I want to do is read about how awesome St Louis used to be, and feel sad about it. I'm reading a book about the history of the city leading up to the Civil War and it is pretty depressing.

I just figured out that once I drove past the site where the house from Meet Me In St Louis was, before it was demolished. It is weird how almost every house in the city seems to be from that era (around the 1904 World's Fair). The population then was 575k, now it is 320k.

Also: looking at the map of where the streetcar lines used to be. God damnit.

[littlefallsmets]

I've always wanted to end a story with a character magically raising the Red Line back out of the earth of Los Angeles, whole and true again, like Moses parting the Red Sea. But BETTER.

Sort of a Prospero's last spell thing.

[pmcd9]

That will be the best day for you ever.

[littlefallsmets]

You would absolutely have to quit around sunset, you know.

Just RIDE OFF into that shit!

[wombat]

I feel like I have a disease where all I want to do is read about how awesome St Louis used to be, and feel sad about it.

Does St Louis have all those blogs like NYC does, where people are keeping track of the awesome things that are being destroyed right now?

[AugustWest]

I just figured out that once I drove past the site where the house from Meet Me In St Louis was, before it was demolished.

Isn't that pretty close to you, like just off of Grand somewhere?

[pmcd9]

Does St Louis have all those blogs like NYC does, where people are keeping track of the awesome things that are being destroyed right now?

I thought that was just Houston's disease.

[Nabubrush]

Related, maybe - when my wife and I were first dating, we met in Seattle for a weekend. She came by train. The train station at that time looked all old and stately from the outside and straight out of the seventies inside - avocado with tar-stained ceiling tiles and shit. But they were restoring it, and in one place they had this big section of plexiglas in the ceiling so you could see all the crazy ornate tin ceiling panels that they'd just hidden with the shitty drop ceiling. It was kind of nice that they hadn't torn it all out back then.

[pmcd9]

Related, maybe - when my wife and I were first dating, we met in Seattle for a weekend. She came by train. The train station at that time looked all old and stately from the outside and straight out of the seventies inside - avocado with tar-stained ceiling tiles and shit. But they were restoring it, and in one place they had this big section of plexiglas in the ceiling so you could see all the crazy ornate tin ceiling panels that they'd just hidden with the shitty drop ceiling. It was kind of nice that they hadn't torn it all out back then.

That's a different, related disease.

[theinevitable]

Isn't that pretty close to you, like just off of Grand somewhere?

Nope, it is over by Kingshighway, north of Forest Park.

Also, looking at Wikipedia again, this is the house the original short stories were written about. Not, like, the house that is in the movie.

Yes, St Louis does have those blogs. It is pretty sad. Entire blocks being stolen by brick thieves, etc. This land developer owns a huge portion of the north half of the city and his plan is to demolish everything, but he isn't getting the tax breaks he wants right now.

[Nabubrush]

Yes, St Louis does have those blogs. It is pretty sad. Entire blocks being stolen by brick thieves, etc. This land developer owns a huge portion of the north half of the city and his plan is to demolish everything, but he isn't getting the tax breaks he wants right now.

My wife's going on a road trip through Nevada with a friend and we were checking out lists of ghost towns (old mining towns) and they say a lot of them are completely gone due to brick thieves.

[jay-ell]

Eat sushi for the first time!

I liked it!

Also, I discovered that my embarrassingly bad chopstick skills are still not enough to make me buckle and ask for a fork.

[wombat]

Congratuations!

Also, you know it is OK to eat sushi with your fingers?

Not that a civilized person shouldn't have decent chopstick abilities. But it's not sushi that you really need it for.

[littlefallsmets]

Yeah, it is totally acceptable as fingerfood in Japan, I have read this too.

[CortJstr]

Eat sushi for the first time!

I liked it!

Also, I discovered that my embarrassingly bad chopstick skills are still not enough to make me buckle and ask for a fork.

Mmm, unagi. And octopus. And a lot of things, actually.