Hoosiers and Scrubby Dutch, Second Edition: St. Louiss South Side

by Jim Merkel

Overview

In the South Side, there lived a tactless TV guy who had a way of getting tossed out of everything on camera, from the old VP Fair to Bill Clinton's 1996 local re-election victory party. On the South Side, there dwelt a collector of ancient vacuum cleaners, none of which worked when he demonstrated them before millions of guffawing viewers watching on national television. And on the South Side, a beer baron tried to fight off Prohibition with a high-class, three-sided beer hall. It's all in the second edition of Hoosiers and Scrubby Dutch: St. Louis's South Side. The first edition captured the essence of the South St. Louis, with its tales of women scrubbing steps ever Saturday, the yummy brain sandwich, and a nationally known gospel performer who ran a furniture store in the Cherokee neighborhood. These stories, along with the new ones that fill the second edition, convey what gives a truly unique place its rough but charming personality. The result--Holy Hoosiers!--is an edition that's even better than the first!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151086844
Publisher:	Reedy Press LLC
Publication date:	10/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	228
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

About the Author
Jim Merkel reported for covered the South Side Journal from 2001 to 2009 before writing Hoosiers and Scrubby Dutch: St. Louis’s South Side. Since then, he’s written Beer, Brats, and Baseball: St. Louis Germans and The Making of an Icon: The Dreamers, the Schemers, and the Hard Hats Who Built the Gateway Arch. A true-blue South Side hoosier, he’s lived for twenty-two years with his wife, Lorraine, in the South Side’s Bevo Mill neighborhood.