St. Louis was a lively town in the '60s. This old photograph (at the left) shows traffic congestion on Fourth street. The first two buildings on the right are ticket offices advertising through cars to Vandalia and the Chicago-Cairo short route. A "Museum" is six houses down and has big signs floating from its roof and upper porch. Note the tree on the corner of Chestnut street at the extreme left of the picture; the wagon, the buggy and the coach on the right; and the early horse car lurching along on uneven tracks. Above: the same place today.
Fourth and Chestnut streets about 1870, showing the traffic congestion which existed then.
Carl Conrad's "Wine Stube". Second and Market St. "1860". Mr. Conrad brought the formula for pasteurizing beer from Buweis Germany. Named it 'Budweiser'.
2nd and Market Streets. Carl Conrad's Wine Stube. From 100 years ago (1860).
Chouteau Ave. looking east from 15th St.
Even back in 1866 they were eternally fixing the streets, like this scene at Fifteenth and Chouteau. Thirty years later the city boasted 350 miles of "fully improved" streets, the best "sprinkled" thoroughfares in the country. Today the city has 997 miles of paved streets.
