About

About

Welcome to Show-Me Hoops, a collection of the interesting, unique and/or historic field houses, arenas and gymnasiums across the Show-Me state.

You’ll find gyms new and old, interesting to even cookie-cutter, high school to college, active to inactive listed on the site. You may also find the occasional action photo gallery from a game or related story as well as well.

Some facilities will have more detailed features written outlining history or other research. Others may have just a line or two, either because of a lack of information available or because it may not be as noteworthy as some others. Time is, unfortunately, limited and digging up history on some of these is a challenge.

Check out what has already been covered.

A lot of inspiration for this project came from Chicago-based photojournalist Vincent Johnson, who’s wrapping up his documentation journey of Illinois’ gyms after years of work totaling thousands of miles and hours. His collection is being released as a photo book, “Illustrious: The Best High School Basketball Gyms In Illinois,” but some gyms are already available online. Be sure to follow, add your name to the email list, and order when it’s time to support him and this kind of work.

Expect photo-heavy coverage of the more unique gyms across Missouri. As the current sole contributor, they’ll naturally favor the St. Louis area as it’s geographically closer, but I’ll try and expand out into the state as I can.

Also look for action photo coverage of all sports, either on the site directly or linking to an outlet.

You may also catch an article about something other than a gym, such as a natatorium or football stadium. (For example, check out this story of Orchard Farm’s old Luxembourg Field on the Post-Dispatch.)

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