Walk and talk events with Maplewood mayor scheduled
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Do you have questions or ideas you would like to share with the Mayor? Join Mayor Nikylan Knapper for a Walk and Talk. Two of the events are planned for each ward: from the city of Maplewood.
Maplewood History: An Image from the Mid-1930s of Manchester at Laclede Station Road
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Don’t you love images like this one? It is a stretch of Manchester that is familiar to all of us who live in or near Maplewood. Recognizable but almost completely different from the way it looks today.
Chase opens Richmond Heights branch: press release
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Chase bank has announced it has opened its doors in Richmond Heights, the first branch in the area. The branch offers personal services and welcomes customers in casual meeting spaces, emphasizing a more consultative approach.
Maplewood History: On Edward “Ned” Rannells
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If you are a follower of this space you will already know that my last three posts have been about Woodside, Maplewood’s oldest home and the Rannells family that built it and occupied it for 70+ years. If you don’t know this you can find out by examining the following links.
Maplewood History: The Historic Papers of Woodside 1838-1914
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One of the many interesting things that have happened out of the effort to save Woodside involved the Rannells family papers. This collection is a wide variety of legal papers, household and farm receipts, cancelled checks and documents of many different kinds.
In the news: masks in schools, Maplewood restaurant week, restaurant reviews,
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In the local media recently: a past Olympian helps out at Maplewood pool, reviews of new restaurants, more.
Locomotive to steam through Maplewood August 30, leaving downtown STL at 8 am
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The Union Pacific Big Boy locomotive #4014, is set to leave downtown Saint Louis, heading west, on Monday, August 30.
Maplewood History: Edward “Ned” Rannells of Woodside
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Long summer days and beautiful weather (to a heatophile) conspire to keep me away from my computer until the last hour or two before I turn in. As I mentioned in my last post, I have accumulated a large amount of information on one of our earliest pioneer families, the Rannells. It is my intention to post as much of this material as I can. For this reason I thought it worthwhile to refresh my readers’ memories by posting these pages from my latest book Maplewood History, Volume Two.
Maplewood History: Woodside and the Rannells Family
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Longtime followers of this space may remember that for about 17 years I and many others were involved in several schemes that were designed to keep Woodside, Maplewood’s oldest home, standing. Due to the efforts of many, Woodside has not only survived but has been beautifully restored by her new owners.
Maplewood History: Let Them Eat Art #1
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It has been 15 years since the first Let Them Eat Art event in 2006. Sometime before that I recall standing in front of one of the most famous paintings in America, Grant Wood’s American Gothic, and thinking that if the old white farmhouse in the painting was Woodside it would be completely restored and tour buses would be pulling up in front of it. Such is the power of art.
Another new apartment building, and more in the news
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The Post-Dispatch reports that the Sunnen Station Apartment complex is adding a second building. Also, Maplewood guitarist John Horton has filled a vacancy with Son Volt.
Hunan Wok in Brentwood closes: report
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Brentwood resident Barry Williams has reported that the Hunan Wok restaurant at S. Brentwood Boulevard and Litzsinger Road closed permanently on Sunday, July 4. “Sad news” for patrons he says.
Maplewood History: The Amazing Lillian Weber Herold Collection – A Follow Up
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OK. Now where were we? When I ended Part Three, we left Lillian and her husband, Edmund, standing in the doorway of their store on the NW corner of Big Bend and Flora. The year was 1914. Perhaps we should back up a little further. I’ll refresh your memory with the blockbuster photograph that appeared in Part One.