{"id":19,"date":"2007-04-04T12:26:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T20:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/?p=19"},"modified":"2007-04-04T13:29:44","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T21:29:44","slug":"more-about-fry-street-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/more-about-fry-street-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"more about fry street, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

I am grinding my teeth as I write this. It looks as though the Tomato is out<\/a> on Fry Street. I’ve passed an hour or two there over the years, when lunch was a slice of pizza and a small draft (well, when I was younger than I am now). We never called it The Flying Tomato that I recall; it was always just The Tomato. I’m not ready for this; I still\u00a0miss the Green Derby that was, at the corner of Avenue A and Mulberry. The English Department used to gather there on Friday afternoons for beer and free food. The Derby has been gone at least fifteen years, it seems to me,\u00a0and Jim’s Diner almost that long.<\/p>\n

Jim’s went the way that many establishments have gone on Fry Street–somebody got tired of keeping it going. What’s happening now is that a predatory developer is working in the area to drive out small business establishments. In going after The Tomato, United Equities is going after one of the anchors of the street as it\u00a0has been.<\/p>\n

Apropos of things as they used to be, Dale Cannon has sent me a link to some pages about St. Louis neighborhood history<\/a>. Looks like fun! At the end of a nostalgic ramble through the neighborhood of his childhood, Dale philosophizes:<\/p>\n

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Progress changes all things, I guess. To travel through that neighborhood now, one has a hard time even visualizing an ethnically diverse neighborhood where stores thrived, let alone a rural area. On the northwest corner of nineteenth and Salisbury, across from Hyde Park, Paul Antle once ran a pharmacy–which today is a vacant lot. A Dairy Queen now stands where once I saw the movies Return of the Fly and the Alligator People at the Tower Theater. Further north, fully half of many of the blocks–maybe more–are vacant lots. In the City–in the County–farms are replaced by homes–homes are levelled–hotels and parking lots and garages rise where homes once stood–what is built deteriorates–the winds of change blow various directions–and we are generally powerless to stop them–we are just observers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Check out Dale’s page<\/a>. I don’t know whether he is still maintaining it, but it looks to have been fun and interesting and topical just a\u00a0little while ago. The vignettes are rich and good to read. You’ll find them under Dale Cannon’s St. Louis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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