03/10/2021
Family plot of Adolph Moll, 1834-1898. “The Grocery King of St. Louis” operated a large grocery store on Franklin Ave. and a corresponding warehouse on 7th street where he stored goods and produced his own liquors (both located on the current site of The Dome at America’s Center). His sale of liquor alongside groceries is what helped drive his success. He can be seen here in his store, where liquor bottles were neatly displayed around support beams. He once drew in crowds by displaying a 2,000+ pound wheel of cheese. The store reminds me of - he was a skilled advertiser, and gave promotional items to local taverns to use for his products, the list pictured shot glass.
His funeral was one of the largest of the time. The Post Dispatch wrote of it, “Bankers, business men, turners, workingmen — in fact people representing every walk of life...Those who mourned were legion.”
@ Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum