Doug Houser

Retired autoworker. Maplewood resident since 1975. Advocate of the Arts and Historic Preservation.

Don’t Miss the Federal Art Project Exhibition at SLAM

But the show is lacking one of Maplewood's best. There is a wonderful exhibition of drawings and prints at the St. Louis Art Museum. It...

Maplewood History: Ultra Rare Images of a Missing Bank Building Are Found!

In 2014, on this website, I created four posts about the Bank of Maplewood. The Bank first occupied a building on the northeast corner...

Maplewood History: A Pre-Big Bang Explosion? Yep.

https://40southnews.com/maplewood-history-another-explosion-this-one-in-1910/

Maplewood History: The Big Bang!

It has been almost exactly 119 years since this Big Bang in Maplewood. It's been almost exactly 10 years since I first ran this...

Maplewood History: The Maplewood Mill and Stair Company – 3 Parts

Hard to believe that it's been ten years since I ran these three posts. It is definitely time to run them again. I will...

Maplewood History: Paul Christman – A Maplewood Legend with a Super Bowl Connection

This Sunday, many of us will be watching one of the most popular games in the history of sports...the Super Bowl! If you had tuned...

Maplewood History: The Legacy of the Dancing Schwartzmans

Since this is from an earlier post, different businesses occupy the building today. According to the St. Louis County historian, Esley Hamilton, (now retired) this...

Maplewood History: The Big Bend Quarry

As the land we occupy today was gradually converted from farmland to urban property, it was necessary to have many quarries to provide crushed...

Maplewood History: Warring Furniture Company

The Warring Furniture company must have been very successful for a long period of time. After all, they occupied one of the very few...

Maplewood History: Minstrel Shows – Part Four

Maplewood History: More Ultra Rare Images from the Varilek Collection!!

More unbelievably rare images of early Maplewood come to light! Laura Varilek, a Sutton family descendant, sent more images by email a few days ago. ...

Maplewood History: Minstrel Shows – Part Three

To better understand this post, you should have read Parts One and Two first. If you haven't, you can link to them here. Part One Part...

Maplewood History: Minstrel Shows – Part Two

To better understand this post, you should have read Part One first. If you haven't, you can here. From the program titled, Maplewood Minstrels, Twelfth...

Maplewood History: Minstrel Shows – Part One

Now and then I am asked questions along the lines of, “Has Maplewood always been the very friendly, progressive community that it is today?” ...

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