Category: Vantage Point

This week we travel to historic downtown Paducah, Kentucky, where Patrick Stoffel ran in the Mercy Health Iron Mom half marathon on May 11. He is pictured with

This week’s view is of Brice McGeehon standing on the doorstep of his shoe store that was located in a building, now long gone, at 119 W. First

The Appels recently visited their son over Easter Weekend in Colorado Springs, CO.  He is attending the United States Air Force Academy. The family is pictured at The

This week’s view takes us back to Dec. 19, 1903 when the first trolley arrived in O’Fallon from Lebanon.  The MetroLink of its day, the electric streetcar or

This week’s view is a slushy wintry scene, ca. 1930, taken at the corner of State and Lincoln, looking east, in downtown O’Fallon.  On the right in the

Sterling and Gail Dare recently visited China and Japan. They are pictured on the Great Wall of China with their copy of the Weekly. The Dares report that

This week we traveled to the 10,023-foot peak of Haleakala Crater on Maui, Hawaii, with Rich and Carol Lunan of Shiloh to celebrate their wedding anniversary. The Lunans

This week’s view, from the late 1800’s, is of Andrew Molles’ wagon shop that once stood on the south side of East State Street, between Vine and Lincoln

This week’s view is of Willard’s Station (also called Willardsville or Willard) in east O’Fallon, present day Willard Drive and Betty Lane, taken about 1910 or shortly before. 

This week we travel to the Torres del Paine National Park in the Patagonia region of Chile, at the very southern end of South America, with Alex Lloyd

This week’s view is of an advertising mural for Hires Root Beer that was once visible on the side of the business at 129 E. State in O’Fallon. 

Chip Shaffer and several Xi Chi of ESA members went to Camp Hope on Farmington Missouri for their annual Spring Clean Up Day on March 23. While there,

This week’s view shows the construction of the $546,000 O’Fallon water tower off of Behrens Drive, near the Seven Hills Road roundabout, in late October 1987.  Before being

The Weekly recently went on a trip to to the mountains in Colorado. O’Fallon residents Dale Kellermann, Drew Henderson, Keith Wilhelm, Matt Ballance and Mike Novy flew into

This week features a delightful view along South Lincoln Avenue in O’Fallon, dating back to 1910 when it was known as Depot Street. Note the brick sidewalk and, in