The City Museum is full of architectural artifacts from the time when we were a more important city. The building that houses the museum was, for its time, a huge shoe factory and warehouse, an industry which we once dominated. There used to be a slogan that St. Louis was first in shoes, first in brews and last in the American League - before shoe manufacturing went offshore, Anheuser-Busch was taken over by a Belgian-Brazilian conglomerate and the Browns baseball team moved to Baltimore.
This week, old columns and building ornaments glow in the spare light of LED icicles and snowflakes. It feels eerie.
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