Doug Houser

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

First Class Christmas Trees – Available This Year with a Maplewood Connection!

Getting our tree this year could not have been easier for my wife and I. All we had to do was go across the...

Maplewood History: 7401 Hazel – The Building with a Turret – Part One

If Maplewood, Missouri had a town square it would be Sutton Loop Park. It occupies the site of an early streetcar turnaround that was...

Maplewood History: Stan Masters Exhibition in Kirkwood!

The name Stan Masters should ring some bells with followers of this space. Mr. Masters was a world class watercolorist from Maplewood. His life...

Maplewood History: The World’s Largest Air Wheel’s Maplewood Visit

Goodyear’s World’s Largest Air Wheel must have been the answer to many a teenage boy’s dream. It certainly would have been to mine. If...

Maplewood History: The Ghosts of Halloweens Past

Now and then, when the stars are in alignment, I’ll manage to do something timely, such as create a post containing links to all...

Maplewood History: My Own Family Story – Part Five – The Reunions

As most of the followers of this space are aware, I began posting about my own family history earlier this year before our 40...

Maplewood History: The Astounding Story of Maplewood’s Own – Cupples Products Corporation

I finally got around to having another look at three books by and about the Cupples Products Corporation. They were given to me by...

Maplewood History: Mammy’s Crazy Quilt, Mary Rannells Left Us A Treasure

Hi Folks, Editor Miner and I are still stumbling in the dark as per getting this site up and running again. We know that a...

Maplewood History: Katz Drug Store and the Ghost Sign

Just a few days back, I got a tip from our Community Development director, Laura Miller, that a ghost sign had been partially revealed...

Maplewood History: Saving Woodside – Maplewood’s Oldest Home

These beautiful summer days are just not allowing me any time inside on the computer so let's try this. Summer Reruns Saving Woodside Woodside was recently sold. ...

Maplewood History: My Own Family Story – The Lindbergh Letter

Or My Baby, He Wrote Me A Letter (apologies to the Box Tops). All right. Maybe you’ve been thinking, he’s carrying this a bit too far...

Maplewood History: My Own Family Story – My Mother – Dolores Jane Jackson Houser

My mother was 27 years old when she married my father in 1948. He was 22. They both were intelligent, sensitive, articulate, kind, caring,...

Maplewood History: My Own Family Story – Part Two

Ora Marguerite Layman and Lowell Hobart Jackson, my maternal grandparents If you missed the first post of my historic family photos you can find it...

Maplewood History: My Own Family Story – The Jacksons – Part One

I began putting historic photographs and documents concerning Maplewood online around 2010. ‘Til now the focus has been on families that once lived in...

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