In his more than 45 years as a photojournalist, Wiley Price has been in Room 208 of City Hall as many times as any elected official. But on Friday morning, he entered without a camera — for the first time since he was a child accompanying his father, Wiley Price Jr., who worked in the building as an accountant.
“I can feel him looking down on me right now, and he is so proud,” Price said.
While his father — and his mother, Becky Price — looked down, his sons Wiley Price IV and Jaime Price, his partner Darlynn Bosley, and several former St. Louis American colleagues looked up at him with pride…