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Lower level left by the
red pickup truck, the first window was Eddie's Barber
Shop 40s, 50s, and 60s. The next window was
Hazel's beauty shop in the 1940s.
I roller skated upstairs in the early 1940s.
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names of the other occupants I remember.
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Building Information:
(ca1928)
Built 1925, Fireproof construction.
All floors are concrete, roof concrete, brick curtain walls,
interior walls are metal lath and plaster. There is a garage for 15 cars in basement.
The address of the Lindy Hall on 2nd floor is 6310
Dr. MLK (Easton).
The building is about 130 foot wide on Dr. MLK Drive, by 100 feet deep on Evergreen
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Lindy Hall Building
In
1927, on the corner of Evergreen and Easton Avenues, in
Wellston, St. Louis County, a multi story, multi purpose
building was erected. The lowest level had parking for over
fifteen cars, the ground floor had retail shops, and the second
floor was the home of the "New Lindy Ballroom".
Gone is Western Auto, Central Hardware, Velvet Freeze, Piggly
Wiggly, Muehlings, Busy Bee, Kresges and Jupiter Stores and most
of the other stores we knew in the 30s,40s, 50s, and 60s, but the
Lindy Hall building still stands. Home of the New Lindy Ballroom
on the second floor and later a roller rink. Downstairs the
largest tenant was Western Auto. It also was home for a barber,
a beauty shop, a "surplus" store and a payment location for
Union Electric and Laclede Gas.
Well, the old building still stands at 6300 Dr. MLK Dr. (aka
Easton Avenue). We knew it as Evergreen and Easton. My Barber
Shop was the door in front of the red truck, my Wellston High
School was the building to the left. I went to skating parties
upstairs, paid utility bills on the right, had my haircuts at
Eddie's Barber Shop and bought bicycle
repair parts at Western Auto. ca1940s.
Thanks for the memories.. I hope the old building can be
saved. Would be a great loft or perhaps a library, top
vinyl records, used books, and arts and crafts building.
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