Maryland Plaza IGA over here by Vago park. Was a little more pricey but sooo much easier for the quick gallon of milk. And they had wonderful cuts of meat!

I agree! I miss the grocery. Someone said it could be a place for resale shop?

resale is a good idea....or what about St. Louis Bread Co? YUM :)

Can we get back to the ways that Maryland heights has changed and leave this unkind talk for elsewhere???

Well I do know "Jack" and I am anything but Ignorant which you keep calling me with no idea of my education. You obviously don't understand the observation part of my complaint. I NEVER NEVER said all are one way, and I do NOT think that, rather the opposite, all, or most that are offending in a certain way are in a common group, so WHY is that so? Did you really say "call a spade a spade"? That is a very racist statement you know Oh my hush hush. I'll tell you what I am I am fed up, and what I am not is racist, but I am against a certain culture, one where it is lauded for a person to be loud and ostentatious in order to bring attention unto themselves, one where the more you can impose on the person next to you the more "in" you are. All the money in the world won't help, and why is it my money that should be spent. I'm not spending my money on this, but I will talk about it, that is free. It is NOT wrong for me to speak, and for you to suggest otherwise is un-American.

I have not wiggled, I said what I said, and I reiterated it last time I'm not going to keep saying it. There IS a pattern, there IS a CULTURE, you can refuse it but just go to North County and see what it is like, and then come here and then go further south and west and see how it changes. To refute that is denial. Yes there are those who cross the line, and it is more and more, but it is not a lie to call a spade a spade. (And I mean the shovel). I am NOT the one who decided that was a racial slur. You just didn't like that I caught it. You are right you don't have to be a genius to get it, because that is how it is. It wasn't meant not to be said but there apparently are things I am not allowed to say outright. I'll tell you who wrote the book on who was American and who isn't, the founding fathers, when they put the right of free speech at NO. 1. So to rebuke that is to rebuke the constitution which is WHAT AMERICA IS!

Get a grip it ain't keep them people out of my town, it is Keep those Ars holes who play their damn Rap music at the gas pump when they ARE NOT EVEN OUTSIDE out of my town, keep those people who park in reserved spaces out of my town, and keep those people who can't keep their Butt inside your pants out of my town, or do nothing and enjoy a town full of loud attention monger jerks, because that is what you will have in a few more years, and I'll be gone hopefully before my house is worthless because no one else wants to buy a house in a place with people who make it indecent to live. Good day.

I don't understand why you are still living in Maryland Heights if you are so unhappy here.
Please stop bad mouthing what I think is a very nice place to live. it's people like you who ruin it for the rest of us. Perhaps you need to live somewhere that you have lots of land and NO neighbors!

From the very link you posted.
This, of course, does *not* necessarily render the modern use of
"to call a spade a spade" "politically correct". Rosalie Maggio, in
_The Bias-Free Word-Finder_, writes: "The expression is associated
with a racial slur and is to be avoided",

As the author of this piece, I am very shocked to see some of these comments. Even though these are opinions, what's being written looks more like it is being done so to be provocative and hurtful. When giving my opinions myself, I never try to take jabs at people personally.

Maryland Heights is a diverse community of many races and cultures, and this is a reason WHY I choose to live here. If we all looked alike, talked alike, walked alike, and thought alike, the world would be a very boring place.

I am glad that we are free to express ourselves uniquely with our dress, music, etc.

I don't judge anyone by their musical choices or style of dress---thankfully, most others don't either.

Andrea and Alex, thank you for trying to make this post about positivity. I appreciate it greatly.

I have lived here since 1976 and there have been many, many change!!! There used to be a Kroger where Ace Hardware is now!! Westport was the most amazing place with clothing stores, gift shops and an awesome ice cream/candy store! I miss them. I wish though that Schnucks would expand-tt times that parking lot and store are a complete mob scene. Creve Coeur park rocks, Mckelvey School is great and our proximity to just about everything can't be beat. Maryland heights is a nice place to live and raise a family. I don't know where the round-about on McKelvey is thought - I can't figure it out.

Oh, and everyone has a right to their opinion - even if you don't like it.

Lisa, the round about is on the way to Aquaport on McKelvey. Or at the end of McKelvey Hill through those apartments. :) If you turn East past the Dairy Queen at the little daycare, follow McKelvey up the hill and you will find the round about :)

Danyelle thanks for another great post!
We moved here in 1975. I know that it used to feel like we were living so far from everywhere. Driving to St. Charles felt like a day long excursion! I was in 1st grade, so don't remember a lot of details and have certainly forgotten many things, BUT! there used to be an amazing butcher store at McKelvey & Ameling next to the Drinking Horn. The nicest family owned it and you could just walk in and if you didn't see what you wanted they would do custom cuts for you.

There also used to be a Baskin-Robbins next to McDonald's. My friends and I used to walk down there get hot fudge sundaes, walk over to McDonald's for fries and then sit outside and eat them all together. (miss the days when I could eat all those calories, but that's another post!) There was also a Kroger's grocery store and a Glaser's (Glasen's?) drugstore where Ace Hardware and Gold's Gym are now.
The thing I miss most though is Mr. Donut, my first job and the best Donuts ever (well Tony's Donuts are great too, but I just tried them recently).

Thanks Andrea, I will have to check out the round-about. I can't believe I didn't remember the Baskin Robbins because I worked there - duh!! I agree with Kim, Mr. Donuts was the best. Things have changed a bunch, as they do everywhere. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Hi Lisa! FYI, there's an interactive map to that particular roundabout right here on Patch. You might even like the story it accompanies: http://marylandheights.patch.com/articles/the-british-are-comingto-maryland-heights

Cheerio!
Amanda :)

P.S. My family has been here 9 years and we've noticed a lot of changes, too! I miss the donut shop and little Chinese place behind what's now Walgreens. I really hope we can keep the small town feel despite all the progress. I grew up in Farmington, MO ("City of Tradition and Progress") and it's so huge and unrecognizable to me now. :'(

i guess i an what you call an old timer. i can remember when there were actually houses and a couple of bars across from creve coeur lake. a very nice man who was a bible salesman lived above one of them.