St. Louis 4th Ward is one of the city's roughest (a cop once stopped a friend and I there + asked "what are you doing here?" like we were crazy to even walk around). It also has some of the city's most distinctive architecture, so I always like going back. Like a beautiful brick water tower, and this looming white doric column, which stands at the center of a breakneck, European-style turn-around ("tourne-à-gauche" to the French) -- as far as I know, the only in St. Louis. Right of way there is a joke, and it's all you can do to navigate the little plaza without crashing into the column...like a little taste of Berlin or Paris right in the Midwest! It's an adventure.
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Surprisingly, it's not the only ridiculous European-roundy-bout in the STL...there's another at the next water tower in the 4th ward (a brick thing), and there's also a huge one just a little east of fairgrounds park (I think it's on Natural Bridge, but I'm not sure...my StL street names are escaping). But, like everything involving cars in North St Louis, they are all terrifying and without laws!
Anyway, I thought you would be interested in this: http://www.builtstlouis.net/watertowers/watertowers1.html
i want to ride my bike around this with you and adrienne, as we did the rond point des champs elysees!
thanks biz! you're right, i forgot that water tower right around the corner from the column is also a tourne à gauche of death. let's hope they never knock these priceless monuments down like everything else on BuiltSTL.
e - we should ride our bikes over there, but we would have to do it quickly. or pack some gats
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