Can you make a concrete pie, Billy Boy? Can you make a concrete pie, Charming Billy?
There must be someone named Billy in the crew that built the concrete “pie” in the middle of the Springfield square in 1911.
There also might be someone named Billy who removed the pie from the square in 1947.
The concrete pie was removed to allow through traffic and for metered parking quadrants.
Streetcar tracks surrounded the pie.
Motormen could open the trolley front window and throw a switch to go north on Boonville Avenue, west on College Street, east on St. Louis Street or south on South Avenue.
In the Christmas season, a large Christmas tree or several large Christmas tre…
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