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The area gets its name from a streetcar turnaround, or "loop", formerly located in the area. [2]Delmar Boulevard was originally known as Morgan Street. According to Norbury L. Wayman in his circa 1980 series History of St. Louis Neighborhoods, [3] the name Delmar was coined when two early landowners living on opposite sides of the road, one from Delaware and one from Maryland, combined the ...
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Since opening, the restaurant has expanded into the adjacent spaces on the east and the west, and it now occupies an entire block of Delmar Boulevard. Outside the restaurant is the St. Louis Walk of Fame, the work of Joe Edwards. The Walk lines the sidewalks on both sides of Delmar, and is made up of bronze stars and informative biographical ...
Westport is located on Westport Plaza Drive with easy connections to Page Avenue near the I-270 and Page Avenue interchange in Maryland Heights. Metro operates bus routes in the Westport Plaza area. [11] Future plans to extend the MetroLink lightrail west from Clayton include a station at Westport. [12]
Its location and development were chosen in part because of the affluent surrounding areas, for example Ladue, Frontenac, Town & Country, Kirkwood. Saks Fifth Avenue, which had a store in Central West End St. Louis since the early 1950s, relocated its St. Louis store to the Plaza Frontenac location in 1973. [11]
Recently, The Grove became the first area in St. Louis to install an overhanging neon sign to mark the entry of the business district. The Grove entry marker was a two year, $60,000 project funded and facilitated by several neighborhood entities including Forest Park South Business Association, The Grove CID, Tarlton Corporation, and Washington ...
In 1989, the St. Clair Auto Mall began construction on 23 acres on U.S. Highway 50, with the final structure built in 2004. That area was undermined and subject to mine subsidence.
St. Louis-style pizza: A type of pizza made with Provel cheese, sweet tomato sauce, and a very thin crust. [11] It is often square-cut. [12] St. Louis-style pizza is served at many local restaurants and chains such as Imo's Pizza. St. Paul sandwich: A type of sandwich served at American Chinese takeout restaurants in St. Louis.