With the recent removal and dismantlement of the Admiral, the riverfront has lost one of the last (if not particularly healthy) beacons of activity on what was once a bustling wharf.
When I first moved to St. Louis, there were at least three more riverboats on the levee: the
Robert E. Lee, the McDonalds, and the Burger King with its
Inaugural minesweeper.
All those are now gone, and all that remains seems to be the riverboat cruises.
Which is sad, because from the riverfront, you can view many of St. Louis's greatest engineering and civic icons; everything is huge down here, built on a scale befitting a great city. What will the future hold? Honestly, probably not much, but at least you can still witness these grand structures without interruption.
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