American legion fish fry - Soulard

The bad mansard family, who try to be good Catholics, had a nice time at the Soulard American Legion Hall fish fry. The legion put on a nice fish fry. Great fish and excellent green beans. Cheap pitchers of beer. As you can see the kids enjoyed running around on asphalt drinking soda.

I think there is another fish fry in April. The American legion fish fry is a nice alternative to some of the other fish fries in South city which do tend to get very large and crowded.  

We're also going to hit st Mary Magdalen and st agatha for more fish fries this lent 

Winter park

The Olympia hotel in winter park, Colorado.  The picture of my son on a snowboard is a bonus. 

Depressed in Festus

Totally depressing. A cold and dreary day in Festus Missouri taking a deposition.  No green anywhere. Just gray sky, dirty snow and bad brown mansard roof tops. 

Faker!

I found myself on Tamm Avenue taking my second daughter to one of her three basketball games. I found this faker mansard near St. James the greater Catholic school. Today we have bocce ball near St. Ambrose. We'll see what kind of bad mansard I find over there. I wouldn't find nearly as many bad mansards if i weren't driving to sports all weekend 

American family bad mansard

Go ahead. Sing the American family jingle to yourself but change the word insurance to Bad mansard.  This Alpine A-frame mansard sits at Lindbergh and Gravois.  It was certainly part of the Alpine mansard movement of the late 60s which also brought us the infamous "Brannon Avenue triple threat".