St. Louis offers a rich history that can’t be beat. It’s easy to get wrapped up in jobs, kids, and life, and forget where you came from. It’s good for the soul to take a look backwards at the history of your city and remember the past. Remembering a different time and appreciating our history is character building. Not all memories are good, but everything is a learning experience and chance to grow. Here are 14 rare photos from St. Louis that will take you straight to the past:

1. Union Station in St Louis 1942.
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2. Original courthouse of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern Division of Missouri in St. Louis.
By U.S. Treasury Department [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
3. The New Grand Central Theater, St Louis in 1913.
CharmaineZoe/flickr
4. Old Cathedral early 1950's St. Louis.
Paul Knittel/flickr
5. Jefferson and Allen Avenue tornado damage May 27, 1896 St. Louis.
By "Photo by Strauss" (http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/wea00256.htm) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
6. Allen Avenue tornado damage May 27, 1896 St. Louis.
By "Photo by Strauss" (http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/wea00256.htm) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
7. A branch office of the St. Louis Times in a coal shed in St. Louis, Missouri.
The U.S. National Archives/flickr

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8. St. Louis Cardinals at Al Lang Field in 1950.
St. Petersburg Museum of History/flickr
9. Lynch's Slave Market, 104 Locust Street in St. Louis in 1852.
By Thomas Martin Easterly (Missouri History Museum) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
10. View of the audience and stage from statue of St. Louis in Forest Park in 1913.
Missouri History Museum/flickr
11. Female Hospital known as the Social Evils Hospital on Old Manchester Road at Arsenal Street. In the early 1870's prostitutes received medical inspections here.
Missouri History Museum/flickr
12. Union Station in 1946 at 1820 Market Street, St. Louis.
Missouri History Museum/flickr
13. General Motors at 3809 Union Boulevard in St. Louis in 1946.
Missouri History Museum/flickr
14. The St. Louis Browns, the original Cardinals in 1889.
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All of these pictures are from different time periods and each equally as intriguing as the previous. Do you remember any of these time periods? Here is some rare footage from the 1960’s in Missouri.

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