Photos courtesy of Dan Landiss
Dan Landiss, a resident of the 5000-5100 block of Westminister Place, recently sent photos from 2016's Easter celebration on the street. Shown in the photograph above are Theodore Johnson and his parents, Jessica Pittman and Ben Johnson.
There are approximately 60 children who reside on those two blocks. Those that would stop the fun to pose for a group photo are captured above. 2014's Easter celebration was featured in a post here; at that time there were 53 children on the street.
These blocks represent what seems to be increasingly apparent, that more young families are choosing to live in the Central West End and in other parts of the City of St. Louis as well.
More photos of the March 26 event are shown above and below, including Twinkies re-imagined.
While I am on the subject, I want to give a "Shrout-out" to Debra and Tom Shrout, 25-year residents of Westminster Place who are moving to L.A. Tom and Debra could often be seen walking along Euclid on their way to the MetroLink or other neighborhood destinations. Tom, former Executive Director of Citizens for Modern Transit, and Debra, an educator, recently formed Avvantt Partners LLC, which you can learn more about on their website.
For the past 15 years Tom has served on the Central West End Association's Planning & Development Committee championing alternate forms of transportation. "I was asked by Mary Bartley, who was president at the time, to lend a voice for transit, bicycling and pedestrian issues as well as to be the occasional curmudgeon about a project that was too auto-oriented for the CWE," he said. Thank you to the Shrouts for their many contributions to St. Louis and the neighborhood, you will be dearly missed.
And thank you to Dan Landiss for sending the great photographs my way.