TOBY WEISS | Architecture | Photography | Writing

Home

LATEST HAPPENING

Thanks to Thomas Crone for launching a site that celebrates all the talented and vital people that make St. Louis such a unique place for crazy-creative people to live and prosper. He asked me to write about working on the KSHE book…
Here’s what I wrote about “In Concert: KSHE and 40+ Years of Rock in St. Louis”

And Creative Saint Louis also shares some footage shot with me for the Untitled St. Louis Brick Documentary. Thanks to Bill Streeter and Thomas Crone for airing this footage. We wanna see more!
Watch a film excerpt.

Click for updates on the B.E.L.T. fan page.

WHAT’S ON THIS SITE?

Check out the Toby Weiss blogs.

Toby Photos of Building and Rock Stars.

Casual resume of videos, magazines, books, etc.

Toby Weiss’ Musical Endeavors.

Memorial for Northland Shopping Center.

ABOUT

A St. Louis gal filling up her spare time with mid-century modern preservation, architectural photography and writing, blogging, editing books, singing and following most any trail that hints at beauty, possibility and adventure.

B.E.L.T.

Alton MCM: Cherry Hill Apartments

Washington Avenue Alton, Illinois If you know where Fast Eddie’s Bon Air is on East Broadway in Alton, Illinois, simply take a left up Washington Avenue, and about a mile up the road is this lovely, 3-building apartment complex. It’s called Cherry Hill, and there is a good-sized mound to the east that may qualify as a [...] […]

Spring Is Here

Mackenzie & Gravois Affton, MO My favorite indicator that Spring is truly here? When the ‘ole fashion Dairy Queen in Affton opens for delicious business! […]

Song Line

November 1973: HELEN REDDY - Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)

I had the biggest crush on a blonde hair, blue eyed boy in my 2nd grade class, Scott Van Seiver. Proximity is what made these feelings so urgent: he sat next to me alphabetically in class and lived down the street from the lady who babysat me, so I saw him on the walks to and from school. Sometimes he’d join us, and all this togetherness was exhilarating. On […]

October 1973: CHARLIE RICH - The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

My Father was gaga in love with his new wife, Joy, while I was falling deeper into dislike with her one visitation weekend at a time. He thought she was the most beautiful girl in the world, and I thought she was bad news. The walls of their tiny apartment were paper thin, so I had to endure hearing them make sex noises, which was gross and maddening. But e […]