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South Side Shadows: A Walk Through St. Louis Past
A Neighborhood Story Told in Brick and Neon South St. Louis has long been a mosaic of working-class streets and storefronts where family-run businesses, corner bakeries, and movie houses stitched together daily life. Many of these places still stand—some serving new generations, others quietly retired behind faded signage and terrazzo entryways. This page highlights four
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- Welcome to RetroHWY!

- American Photographs by Walker Evans (Museum of Modern Art)

- The Abandoned Security State Bank of Mounds, Illinois

- The Great American Retro Road Trip by Rolando Pujol

- Lesterville, Missouri General Store, More Than a Dot on the Map

- Route 66: The Mother Road by Michael Wallis

- Route 66’s Soulsby Shell Station: Still Standing in Mount Olive, IL

- Honk for Service, by Lou Ellen McGinley

- Neon Ghost on the Forgotten 66 – Nite Spot Café, Fairmont City, IL

- Finding Vivian Maier, a film by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel

