SIgns of decay in south St. Louis

Looking to downtown St. Louis and the Edward A. Doisy Research Center, off Grand Avenue.

Shotgun Houses on Hickory Street and the SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital

The Purple Mountain Diner

South Broadway, in St. Louis

Apartments in disrepair in south central St. Louis

(Click on each photograph to see a larger picture on a separate picture page.)

I was in St. Louis a week ago for a family visit. I did not get a chance to explore the city like I normally do.

Still, I was inspired to dig up some of my pictures that I took between 2105 and late mid-2017. They show the city as it is.

The areas include the neighborhood surrounding the SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital, the Fox Park Neighborhood, and South Broadway, near the Annheuser-Busch factory. It remains one of the most interesting cities I know to explore block by block.