I was waiting for the Lackede name to pop up! My father worked in their accounting/bookkeeping shop while taking classes to make it as a CPA. We used to have a number of their bricks around the house. Later we moved out to Overland where our house backed on to what i think was a creek feeding into the Des Peres and doubling as a storm drainage channel as runoff from our streets in the neighborhood were fed into it. I think it was channelized with concrete in the 1980s.
This bridge may pre-date 1925! Laclede Fire Brick (later Laclede Christy) was at this location from the 1860's and had as many as 10 bridges on its property to traverse the River Des Peres, railroad tracks, and streets that ran through their property. Also, this bridge connected to Sulphur Avenue that ran south of the River Des Peres to Wilson Avenue near Hampton Avenue. It also gave access to the Laclede Christy headquarters' building that was built in early 1950's on Hampton (this building after Laclede Christy ceased operations in the late 1950's became the Metropolitan Sewer District headquarters'
I was waiting for the Lackede name to pop up! My father worked in their accounting/bookkeeping shop while taking classes to make it as a CPA. We used to have a number of their bricks around the house. Later we moved out to Overland where our house backed on to what i think was a creek feeding into the Des Peres and doubling as a storm drainage channel as runoff from our streets in the neighborhood were fed into it. I think it was channelized with concrete in the 1980s.
I was on Manchester today turning at Sulphur. I looked over and said “Hey, there’s the bridge I read about!” Thanks for the history lesson.
This bridge may pre-date 1925! Laclede Fire Brick (later Laclede Christy) was at this location from the 1860's and had as many as 10 bridges on its property to traverse the River Des Peres, railroad tracks, and streets that ran through their property. Also, this bridge connected to Sulphur Avenue that ran south of the River Des Peres to Wilson Avenue near Hampton Avenue. It also gave access to the Laclede Christy headquarters' building that was built in early 1950's on Hampton (this building after Laclede Christy ceased operations in the late 1950's became the Metropolitan Sewer District headquarters'