There are a lot more parking lots there. Homes, rentals, and businesses wound up vacant all over the city as the population cratered and the old auto money vanished. I was doing some Earth-googling for a particular business address there a few years ago, and found this one storey structure with almost nothing else standing on the block.
A little more only research turned up info that the bar owner had bought his surrounding and demolished them for parking, and probably for security as well. Not a bad longer term investment either.
The area down by the museum was given a major facelift between the time I went there in high school and the late 1990s or early 2000s.
I saw the same scenes of block after block of shredded and overgrown abandoned buildings strewn all over the west, south and east quadrant of Jackson MS, St Louis, Chicago.
Wastelands. Dangerous wastelands.