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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 1h

Coming for the TJ statue in a collage but maybe I'll wait till I start my new job first lol

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 4h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 2h

I have awoken a free man.

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 12h

Wait, my doctor recently moved into cortex too, did all the BJC doctors move down the street?

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 13h

A percy clip from the JeffVanderLou archives...

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 15h

Absolutely amazing documentary I was lucky to see a showing of tonight at the Hi Pointe. Joining Walter Johnson, Gwen Moore (neither of whom are on bluesky) in the film to provide great historical context to Percy's one of a kind social justice action, is @devintoshea.bsky.social

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 17h

mark’s substack is essential stuff - sub and support this work!

Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 17h

In my first post of many about Mill Creek Valley i talk about one of my favorite photograph collections that just so happens to have some of the most crispy views of Mill Creek

archcityhistory.substack.com/p/photograph...

Photographing & Coloring Mill Creek Valley

Part I: The Lemen Streets & Sewers Collection

archcityhistory.substack.com

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks Devin, its getting there. Now that I don't feel muzzled, it'll improve into more than show and tell and pretty pictures.

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 17h

In my first post of many about Mill Creek Valley i talk about one of my favorite photograph collections that just so happens to have some of the most crispy views of Mill Creek

archcityhistory.substack.com/p/photograph...

Photographing & Coloring Mill Creek Valley

Part I: The Lemen Streets & Sewers Collection

archcityhistory.substack.com

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 17h

I called into donnybrook a couple years ago to point out tauby drives a porche not a bus

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 18h

Also his father worked the CDA when it was implementing Team 4, involved in all sorts of bad stuff working for schoemehl, big fan of displacement and handing tifs/abatements out like jelly beans

www.newspapers.com/article/st-l...

Article clipped from St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Clipping found in St. Louis Post-Dispatch published in St. Louis, Missouri on 11/21/1983.

www.newspapers.com

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 18h

Ok the substack is scheduled for 4:30pm today, unless I got the time wrong last night, its possible

It is chalk full of Mill Creek colorizations as well as a number of non-colorized photos that I love showing Mill Creek Valley, in the Lemen Street & Sewers collection.

archcityhistory.substack.com

Arch City History | Mark L. | Substack

A behind-the-scenes look at the art of Arch City History. Click to read Arch City History, by Mark L., a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

archcityhistory.substack.com

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 19h

10 feet off both sides from Jefferson to Grand means that pretty much everything in that photo set likely survived widening. Rare for that to happen on such a big artery. Market shaved something like 20 feet off the south side, destroyed a fair number of mill creek businesses in the process

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 20h

You know it's gonna be a doozy of a letter to the editor when they don't even sign their name

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 22h

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 20h

And if you're a nerd about this stuff and want copies of the city plan commission reports from 19xx to like 1970, let me know. For some reason I still have them drive.google.com/file/d/1SlS_...

1927-1928.pdf

drive.google.com

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 20h

If you're into the whole 'when did the city become so car centric' probably take a look at the late 1920s, also about the time Bartholomew started getting serious with his BS

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 20h

Anyway, doing research on another substack bc Adhd, and come to find out they were very busy in 1927. Not just getting ready to widen Morgan Street (hence that amazing collection of photographs I've been talking about on FB and IG) but also this:

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President Megan E. Green @saintlouispres.bsky.social · 22h

THO Investments—the Armory data center developer—will hold two town halls on the project.

🗓️ October 9
🕠 5:30 PM
📍 Zoom Meeting

🗓️ October 13
🕠 5:30 PM
📍 2319 Chouteau Ave.

Note: These meetings are not affiliated with the Board of Aldermen.

Learn more: stlouis.govocal.com/en/projects/...

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Logan Jaffe @loganjaffe.bsky.social · 1d

@robertloerzel.bsky.social did a fantastic deep dive into Dunning a while back. We went out to the former hospital site and did video interviews with people trying to keep the memory of the place alive.

www.wbez.org/curious-city...

The Story Of Dunning, A 'Tomb For The Living'

In both life and death, the people who ended up at the notorious asylum and poor farm were some of Chicago’s least fortunate residents.

www.wbez.org

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Logan Jaffe @loganjaffe.bsky.social · 1d

On Chicago’s NW side from 1854 to 1970 there was a “civil commitment and forced medical care” institution called Dunning Asylum, later the Chicago State Hospital.

People realized during construction in the 1990s they were building on mass graves of poor and mentally ill people.

There is precedent.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.

Some Democrats share Trump's goal of forcing more homeless people into medical care

President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.

n.pr

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 1d

I told them I didnt want a "Mark's last day is..." email because it would have been like the 10th email in as many months. So many great people have moved on. Its insane.

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Man that shade of green looks horrible. Need to not colora after 9pm

Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Love this one for the folks in the windows

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Mr. Mark Dobalina @archcityhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Was annoyed at the number of Mill Creek photos I still hadn't colored from the Lemen Collection, and there's a lot, probably close to 40 images overall, of which maybe 20 are worth coloring and I've colored 10

Started a new one tonight

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