I am married to a St Louis girl. My father in law grew up on Kingshighway on the south side and would sit outside the Catholic church to greet Stan Musial as he came out.
There is a lot of crime and suffering in parts of the city, but it is a lovely place with a lot of history and culture.
Cool. Stan was joined in baseball heaven by another old Cardinal this week, Bob Gibson.
My husband was raised near Chouteau and Kingshighway, about a mile from where the McCloskeys had their standoff with the BLM mob. I was raised close to Anheuser Busch brewery. They still kept the Clydesdales in the city then and they would regularly exercise them on our street. On my first job out of high school, on special occasions we would go to Stan Musial and Biggies restaurant for lunch. St Louis was a fine place back then. I still have relatives that live in the city near the Hill, but for the last ten years we don’t go there unless we are armed.