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| St. Louis |
| Meramec Highlands before 1907 |
| Grand Avenue Bridge |
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| Gateway to the West |
(coincidentally, the VERY
year that RILEY WAS
BORN, YA-A-AY!!!!) just
south of the confluence of
the Missouri and Mississippi
rivers by colonial French
traders Pierre Laclède and
René Auguste Chouteau,
who named the settlement
after King Louis IX of
France.
The city, as well as the
future state of Missouri,
became part of the Spanish
Empire after the French
were defeated in the Seven
Years' War. In 1800, the
land was secretly
transferred back to France,
whose leader, Napoleon
Bonaparte, sold it to the
United States in 1803.
Nicknamed the
"Gateway to the West"
for its role in the westward
expansion of the United
States, the city gave the
moniker in 1965 to the new
Gateway Arch built as part
of the Jefferson National
Expansion Memorial; the
arch has become the iconic
image of St. Louis.
Once the 4th-largest U.
S. city, St. Louis proper
has seen its population
slip to 52nd. At the peak of
the city's influence, St.
Louis hosted the 1904
World's Fair and 1904
Olympic Games, both the
first of their kind held in
the Western Hemisphere.
In the 19th century,
immigration from Italy,
Germany, Bohemia, and
Ireland flooded St. Louis,
coloring the cuisine and
architecture of the city.
Many African-Americans
moved north to the city
during the Great Migration.
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year that RILEY WAS
BORN, YA-A-AY!!!!) just
south of the confluence of
the Missouri and Mississippi
rivers by colonial French
traders Pierre Laclède and
René Auguste Chouteau,
who named the settlement
after King Louis IX of
France.
The city, as well as the
future state of Missouri,
became part of the Spanish
Empire after the French
were defeated in the Seven
Years' War. In 1800, the
land was secretly
transferred back to France,
whose leader, Napoleon
Bonaparte, sold it to the
United States in 1803.
Nicknamed the
"Gateway to the West"
for its role in the westward
expansion of the United
States, the city gave the
moniker in 1965 to the new
Gateway Arch built as part
of the Jefferson National
Expansion Memorial; the
arch has become the iconic
image of St. Louis.
Once the 4th-largest U.
S. city, St. Louis proper
has seen its population
slip to 52nd. At the peak of
the city's influence, St.
Louis hosted the 1904
World's Fair and 1904
Olympic Games, both the
first of their kind held in
the Western Hemisphere.
In the 19th century,
immigration from Italy,
Germany, Bohemia, and
Ireland flooded St. Louis,
coloring the cuisine and
architecture of the city.
Many African-Americans
moved north to the city
during the Great Migration.
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| Forest Park Highlands Amusement Park 1915 |
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| Notch Mountain Trail (Uintas) |
| Sportsman's Park 1955 |
| Missouri Theater, "Showplace of St. Louis," razed late 1950s |
| Sonny Rollins Performs in St. Louis |
| On July 4, 1851 at St. Louis, groundbreaking for the Pacific Railroad Company marked the beginning of the Missouri Pacific, the first railroad west of the Mississippi River |
teenage heart throb while at KWK and on television in the late 1940s and 1950s. [Ed. note: HIM? No WAY! He looks like that sleazy Dark Arts teacher, Gilderoy Lockhart (Kenneth Branagh), in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets!] In 1956 Variety named him the nation’s most popular disc jockey. In 1961, he moved to KSD radio. |
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St. Louis lies at the heart of
Greater St. Louis, a metro
area of nearly 3 million
people in Missouri and
Illinois (the Metro- East).
The region is an academic
and corporate center for the
biomedical sciences and is
home to some of the
country's largest privately
held corporations,
including Enterprise
Rent-A-Car, Graybar,
Scottrade, and Edward
Jones, and is also home to
the likes of Emerson,
Energizer, Anheuser-Busch
InBev (North America),
Boeing Integrated Defense,
Purina, and many more
international enterprises.
Greater St. Louis, a metro
area of nearly 3 million
people in Missouri and
Illinois (the Metro- East).
The region is an academic
and corporate center for the
biomedical sciences and is
home to some of the
country's largest privately
held corporations,
including Enterprise
Rent-A-Car, Graybar,
Scottrade, and Edward
Jones, and is also home to
the likes of Emerson,
Energizer, Anheuser-Busch
InBev (North America),
Boeing Integrated Defense,
Purina, and many more
international enterprises.
| Kirkwood Park |
| Entrance to Forest Park |
