{"id":2025,"date":"2005-03-06T03:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2010-05-02T07:30:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T12:30:27","slug":"2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/06\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>A Century of Enterprise: St. Louis 1894-1994<\/i> by Rockwell Gray (1994)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B0006F15MG\/qid=1110076614\/sr=1-3\/ref=sr_1_3\/104-5953956-4305568?v=glance&#038;s=books\" target=\"_new\">This book<\/a> represents another picture book I inherited from my aunt, and if the used price on Amazon is any guide, it might have been her biggest eBay score.  But she lacked a certain follow through on the whole online auction thing.  So I&#8217;ve got it now, and I thumbed through it, looking at the historical photos of business in St. Louis and reading the flattering paragraphs accompanying the photos.  The book was, as a matter of fact, underwritten by one of the enterprises whose start is depicted in the book.  Of course that company and all others in St. Louis are praised.  Lavishly.<\/p>\n<p>So the book provides interesting photographs, and some trivia and insights, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The smile was invented in 1948.<\/b>\n<li><b>It&#8217;s a wonder turn of the century families were so large considering how ugly the women were.<\/b>\n<li><b>The years since 1994 have been harsh for St. Louis business<\/b>, since most of the grand corporations lauded in the book&#8211;Edison Brothers, May Company, McDonnell Douglas, Pet, Inc., Sherwood Medical, and so on have been bought out or have otherwise left the area.\n<li><b>Those who have the juice now in the city of St. Louis have always had the juice in St. Louis.<\/b><\/ul>\n<p>Still, an enjoyable experience, once again a short one since it was mostly photos, and something I&#8217;ll share with the more historical members of my family.  And, dear readers, if you offer me what they&#8217;re asking for it on Amazon, I&#8217;ll share it with you, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book represents another picture book I inherited from my aunt, and if the used price on Amazon is any guide, it might have been her biggest eBay score. But she lacked a certain follow through on the whole online auction thing. So I&#8217;ve got it now, and I thumbed through it, looking at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6299,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/6299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}