The View From The Ninth Floor (2000/2009)

Here are some views of Washington Avenue and surrounding area in downtown St. Louis from around the turn of the century.
Huh.
I'm just now noticing that the term 'turn of the century' doesn't mean what it used to and that its use here is even further confused by my application of that same distressing filter which I just cannot seem to get enough of.
It, furthermore, doesn't much help that everything I'm shooting here is, in fact, about a hundred years old.

















I suppose I could tell you the story of the ninth floor but it's not really all that interesting and I've already taken up enough of your valuable time.

Excuse me, won't you?