Theresa Manchester Shows Me St. Louis
Before we get started I want to point out that the title of this post didn’t intentionally reference the fact that Missouri is known as the “Show Me State”. I am just that brilliant that even my subconscious is insanely clever. And by brilliant I mean that it only took me three tries to figure out how to spell Missouri. Moving on…
Remember when I shot Theresa Manchester? It was awesome and her and I became friends pretty much instantly, so much so that I actually remembered that she grew up in Saint Louis, so when I was in STL on my Route 66 road trip I reached out to her to see if she knew any models that I could shoot when I was in town. Turns out she could do me one better, she was going to be in town! It was her grandmother’s birthday so she was in town the very weekend I was going to be there. Her plane got in at like 5am and I happened to be staying right by the airport so she showed up at my hotel around 6am, took a quick nap and then we woke up and she took me to her favorite dine for breakfast.
From there we went to the amazing City Museum. It’s this insane building that is pretty much just a massive art project. The whole building is filled with slides and tunnels and things to climb on and there are kids running around everywhere. It’s so amazing. I wish I was a kid growing up there. I climbed on a bunch of stuff but it would have been way more fun when I was 10. We went up to the roof where they had a ferris wheel and a bunch of slides and we took photos of her flashing me all over the place. The ferris wheel operator caught us and started following us around. Eventually they told us that we had to stop but they didn’t even kick us out. They just told us not to get caught. One of her friends who works there told us they catch people having sex in there all the time so I guess taking some boob photos wasn’t so bad. Unfortunately none of the City Museum photos made it into my book and they were all 35mm photos so they aren’t in this digital set but you guys need to see them so I just posted a bunch of them to my Tumblr!
Check out all these 35mm pictures from my trip to the City Museum with Theresa Manchester!
After we left the museum the serious business began. I knew I needed the famous Gateway Arch in my Route 66 book and I knew I needed to shoot a girl in front of it. I didn’t think it would be that hard because you can see that thing from everywhere. All we needed to do was find a roof top or something that had the arch in the background. I asked Theresa if she knew anyone with an apartment with a view of the arch and she wasn’t having that bullshit. It had been a life goal of hers to shoot dirty pics in front of the arch and she wanted to do it right. I had no problem with this. We went down to the park right in front of the arch and did a little mini photo shoot there. Most of the time she had her clothes on but whenever enough tourists were distracted she would pull her tits out and we would shoot. It was pretty funny because it was downtown St. Louis and there were people EVERYWHERE. I actually filmed the whole thing so hopefully some of that will end up in my Route 66 web series whenever that comes out.
After we hit the arch we headed to a giant Vess soda bottle. It’s a pretty iconic Route 66 landmark that you can see from several highways and I really wanted to get a shot of it. I didn’t realize that it was in a sort of shady neighborhood with not much other than warehouses by it and conceivably I could put Theresa in front of it. We pulled into the empty parking lot where it stands and Theresa got naked in the car. Then she would run out and I would take pics really quick and run back. We did this two or three times and every time a ton of people on the highway would honk and yell. After a couple attempts we got the fuck out of there and got some frozen custard and the famous Ted Drewes.
Ted Drewes is another 66 landmark and while we didn’t take any naked photos there we did take a nice one that ended up in my Get Your Kicks book and I got to try some iconic St. Louis food. Culinarily Ted Drewes, BBQ and deep fried ravioli are all St. Louis has and I had BBQ three times in two days there so I figure I mostly covered my bases. I guess the ravioli I will have to get next time…
So yeah, it was a really fun day in St. Louis and I took a lot of cool photos of Theresa. Months ago put all of them up in high resolution on my Girls of Driven By Boredom app as a special App exclusive. You really should sign up for that app so I can afford to eat food and you can get all sorts of awesome content that you can’t get on DBB. High res photos, early photos, extra explicit photos, etc. You need my app!
