Reunited with St. Louis ad community coevals, as we gathered around our friend/colleague Evan Willnow, whoโs had some bad breaks lately with his health. Great to see everyoneโand I just love going to St. Louis. Thereโs just so much for a Dad to bore kids about (I was alone in the car, luckily)โฆ the amazing mid-century style of Saarinenโs Arch and how it plays peekaboo as you approachโitโs there itโs gone itโs there itโs gone itโs thereโฆ then thereโs the Eads Bridge, an engineering marvel worth your time to Google; that humorously stupidly huge Amoco sign grandfathered in at Skinker by Forest Park; and even on the interstate drive there and back thereโs just so much, including the Greenup Charleston sign which I take as personal encouragement from someone whoโs nicknamed me: โCโmon, Charleston, green up whydoncha!โ; the phrase โFoot High Piesโ which has been an alluring promise since we moved there and started making this drive regularly: a foot high!; the Cahokia Mound or Mounds (is there just this one?), a Native American site that we stopped by once and stood with cold spring wind in our faces, just like today, and looked back down at I-70 the way those people (you can kind of see them up there) are doing; and our old house, painted a fresher color but pretty much the sameโI was worried about that driveway cement wall falling in the 90s but there it is. There it is. #webstergroves #oldhaunts #stlouisarch #stlouis #eerosaarinen #memorylane (at Old Herald Brewery & Distillery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbT9rQIsdpj/?utm_medium=tumblr
