Delmar Loop (University City, MO)
By Eric Crane -- Your Full Service, Discount Fee Realtor®, Greater Metro Phoenix Arizona
(DPR Realty LLC)
Fitz's American Grill & Bottling Works -- Saint Louis, MO Fitz's Root Beer first appeared in St. Louis at a local drive-in restaurant in 1947 and has since become a local tradition. Today, you can visit their restaurant and soda bottling line in the Delmar Loop area of University City -- a suburb of Saint Louis, Missouri.  Many visitors come to sample the gigantic root beer floats.   Fitz's Restaurant & Soda Bottling -- Saint Louis, MO   Antique Neon Sign in the Balcony at Fitz's Restaurant -- Saint Louis, MO   We enjoyed visiting Fitz's and the Delmar Loop -- a ten-block area of quaint shops, restaurants and a renovated movie theater from the 1930s. Here are some photos which display the soda botttling process:   Fitz's Soda Bottling -- Step 1:  Add the Carbonated Water & Syrup and Cap...
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By Barbara Heise, Search for Homes for Sale in St. Louis
(Keller Williams Realty STL)
Chuck Berry Tribute in the Delmar Loop In July 2011, the community of University City, MO, started installation of the Chuck Berry statue in University City in the Delmar Loop. The statue had created some polarization among University City residents.  A petition was initiated to stop the installation of the tribute in the Delmar Loop which has garnered our little town some news coverage.  Among the reasons for angst among some UCity residents was Mr. Berry's personal life and some brushes with the law in the late fifties and early sixties.  This petition angered me and a lot of other UCitians and brought University City national headlines.The petition caused me to look up the time line of our Civil Rights Movement.  Chuck Berry launched his career at the onset of the movement.   Going b...
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