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This is an early evening shot from a place we call "Delmar Loop" - it is located in University City, Missouri. It is a college area (well, yeah, University City) and has about 6 or more blocks of restaurants and entertainment venues. Most recently there has been the addition of an actual hotel - the Moonrise Hotel, which has "luxury boutique lodging accommodations on Delmar in The Loop near downtown St Louis Missouri." If you had seen this area, this particular block, ten or fifteen years ago, you would see the difference is like night and day. This transformation cannot be attributed to our St. Louis politicians, but to a man named Joe Edwards. He is the owner and proprietor of Blueberry Hill and other fine establishments in the Loop, including the Pin-Up Bowl that is on the left in this image, and the Pageant Theatre - you can see that at the end of the block there. He also started the St. Louis Walk of Fame, which is a series of stars embedded in the sidewalk on the Loop, showcasing the local celebrity such as Kevin Kline, Dizzy Dean and Maya Angelou.

This area is in sharp contrast to our Downtown St. Louis area, which has buildings in plain view of all tourists like I posted yesterday. Sure, they have the Cardinals Baseball team, the Blues Hockey team, the Rams football team all playing downtown, but we still get a bad name because of sights like yesterday's image.

I took this Saturday night, shortly after sunset, unfortunately the blue hour has passed. I had a hard time deciding to post this nocturnal image or the one with the golden sunset light. When flipping between them I decided this one had more "pop" and I can post the other in the workshop for everyone to see. I will also post a shot of the "Pin-Up Bowl" so you can get a look at the neon art on that one, too.

Let me know if you think I should have posted the sunset shot here, or if you think this one is better.

Thanks for looking!