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The building in the 7200 block of Manchester Road that once housed the comic book shop, The Fantasy Shop, and a nails salon is being redeveloped by Gateway Title Company, which will occupy the building, according to a source familiar with the location. The title company also owns the building.
Richmond Heights City Manager Amy Hamilton said an insurance company wrongly denied the city’s claim, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Also, a Maplewood butcher, and brewer received national attention.
Those are two questions that I would like to know the answers to but don’t. All I can say for sure is that sometime between 1893 and 1909 those street names were swapped. Seven years ago I made a post about the Sutton/Marshall family connection. You would do well to take another look at it because I don’t want to repost everything and the information is relevant, sort of, to this post. So go ahead and take a look at The Sutton/Marshall Family Connection. We’ll wait here.
Maplewood resident and MRH School Board member, Nikylan Knapper, has announced she is running for mayor of Maplewood. The election is in April, 2021. She supplied the following announcement.
William Lyman Thomas needs no introduction to regular readers of this site. If you are not one of those, here is a link to a post that has links to the 27 other posts I have made regarding Mr. Thomas and family. 27 posts about the Sutton/Thomas families.
If you are familiar with ginkgo trees you know that the leaves all turn a brilliant yellow in the fall. Then the tree drops them…(in what seems like) all at once. Every year about this time my wife and I, and I’m sure others, try to keep an eye on the landmark ginkgo tree at 7380 Flora. The yellow carpet created by the falling leaves is worth the walk to see as well.
In the early 1970’s I lived for a while in the Delmar Loop area. I had a very cheap ten speed bike that I had purchased used from a friend. I didn’t need a lot of money to live on in those days. Somehow I had managed to accumulate the staggering sum of $325 in my savings account. It seemed perfectly reasonable to take $125 of it and buy my first fairly good bicycle.
Let’s pick up where I left off yesterday which was in about the middle of the demolition process of the Barron Mansion.
Saint Louis Closet Co. is once again serving as a drop-off site for the Marine Corps Toys for Tots’ program, according to a press release.
The Italianate mansion that Henry Barron, the dentist, had built for his wife and family (I suppose) in 1868 was built to last. And last it did for 134 years until it was taken down. It was located at the SE corner of Clayton Road and McKnight in Richmond Heights. So what does this have to do with Maplewood history, you’re thinkin’? Keep reading.
Perhaps the title of this post should be Where was the Maplewood Laundry and Why Would Anyone Care? In just a couple of minutes you’ll be able to answer both of those questions. Though I don’t know the exact years, the Maplewood Laundry prospered more than 100 years before today’s Maplewood Wash House.
A bike shop and a Chinese restaurant in our area made it onto the RFT annual ‘best of’ list, and the St. Louis American has honored the MRH superintendent.
Lately there has been a surge of interest in how our lives have changed during some of the forced home quarantine and now some of us being able to return to work. I have been seeing a lot of separation anxiety cases, but many of the journals and pod casts that I subscribe to are challenging us to re-examine a day in the life of your pet.