This is Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis where the St. Louis Browns and later the St. Louis Cardinals played baseball until 1966 when the new Busch Stadium was built.
This is from Penny Postcards
What did your town look like according to Penny Postcards?
Check out your old stomping grounds during the times of the penny postcard.
Click on the state and then on the county name to see old penny picture postcards from that area…pretty neat.
Thanks Hotz
Pretty cool. The downtown postcard of where I live still looks the same just different cars.
If you go to Coryell County Texas (a neighboring county)it shows a portion of a Nazi villiage used to train soldiers at Camp Hood (now Ft. Hood) I’d have thought that would have been classified.
A pretty view of my old hometown square illustrates how times have really changed.
I’ve looked at postcards on eBay a few times to see how things have changed in places where I’ve lived. On this postcard site, one I’ve never seen before shows an aeronautics school and open fields where my neighborhood on old Rt. 66 doesn’t exist yet and the houses here are pretty old now. During WWII the aeronautics school trained over 2,000 British pilots from the Royal Air Force and doesn’t exist anymore except for a few buildings now used as warehouses. I never understood how the British ended up training to be pilots in this part of Oklahoma of all places.
Another one from my area seems peculiar. It’s labeled as a nearby town but shows saguaro cactus and mountains neither of which I’ve ever seen before. Maybe all the flatness here is getting in the way of my view of the mountains.
I wonder if/how they “shopped” that? The colors look a little artificial.
Anyway, cool to see a nice ballpark without sprawling parking lots around it.
Check out Wrigley Field for that.