The name Creve Coeur comes from the French for a broken heart, a name older than any subdivision here, tied to a stretch of bottomland along the Missouri River bluffs that French traders once passed on their way upriver, and the older residential streets near the original town center still carry some of that layout — narrower, older, laid out before the wide curving lots went in around the lake. Pat Gallagher Enterprises works those older streets as readily as the newer ones, clearing driveways that predate most of the subdivisions by decades, houses set closer to the road with less room for a plow to maneuver. Those tighter properties take more passes and more attention to the blade than a wide modern driveway does, backing a truck in rather than sweeping straight through. Snow off the river bluffs tends to arrive heavier and wetter than snow farther inland, the Missouri's moisture adding weight to every storm that crosses it, and that extra weight is part of what this crew plans for on every run through Creve Coeur's older blocks. A cleared driveway on one of those narrow, tree-lined streets looks almost the way it would have decades ago, just with tire tracks instead of wheel ruts.