56 Houses Left

Posted in 1, Abandoned, Eminent domain, Photography, St. Louis, Suburban Decay, Suburbia, Urban Decay | 3 Comments

3 Responses

1. on February 22, 2012 at 2:49 pm | Reply Brenda Thomas Schnettler

   Becky did a great job with this! And it made me cry to relive the loss of my childhood home, church, & school.

   
   
   • on February 22, 2012 at 4:11 pm | Reply Desy

     Yes she did! It was really moving.

     
     
2. on October 21, 2024 at 12:48 pm | Reply Dan Hoffmann

   10/21/24

   A front page article in today’s PD brought me to this site. I grew up in Bridgeton in two homes. The first on Mandeville Lane off Gist Road and the second on Drakeston Court in Carrollton Estates. Both homes were destroyed by the airport expansion. I attended St. Lawrence and later Bonfils, before Hazelwood West Jr. High in the early 1970’s. Many of the family names in your blog ring a bell as do the street names, and of course Carrollton Pool, Freebourne Park, Teschlers, Ben Franklin, Holy Cow, etc.. My father had a prominent realty company in Bridgetown during the late 60s and early 70s, Hoffmann Realty. His blue and white yard signs adorned enough yards that my sibs and I were teased on the school bus ride. We moved away in 1975 and I return yearly to walk the adondoned streets to our old address on Drakeston and look for the sweet gum tree we planted in that yard.
   The Becky Light video mentioned above actually featured our first home on Mandeville. It seems Becky occupied the same home some years after we had moved. I wondered if the video still exists, somewhere.
   Enjoyed your site and look forward to your book.

   Dan Hoffmann