Yes, children, we had traffic jams in Cape in The Old Days. I shot this one on Independence looking toward Kingshighway on the same day I shot the demolition of the St. Charles Hotel, April 13, 1967.
It took some headscratching to figure out where it was taken. The key landmarks were the bridge over Cape LaCroix Creek, the Wiethop Truck Sales sign, the highway sign pointing to Hwy 61 and the car dealership way off in the background.
I must have been using my 200mm telephoto lens. That would have accounted for the way everything is compressed and looks closer than it really is.
The only thing that’s still there is Wiethop. Moon Distributing Company and Pollack Hide and Fur, which don’t show at that intersection, are long gone. Harris Motor Company has become Aldi’s. The area off to the right contains Kmart, Schnucks, Walgreen Drugs and some other stores.
And, that traffic-jammed two-lane road has become four lanes with a suicide center turn lane.
Traffic was congested on Spanish Street when Woolworth’s and A&P were there.
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Off in the distance at the left of the road, about where Kingshighway would be, it looks like there may have been an accident. Someone is standing at the left rear corner of what looks like a white Oldsmobile and the left rear quarter of a darker car looks very close.