Posted on 03/06/2025 7:21:57 AM PST by AbolishCSEU
Will be arriving in Cape Girardeau this Saturday (3/8). Are there any Rush museums or tours? I see a self guided driving tour. Any Cape Girardeau freeper natives out there? Thanks!
Isn’t Rush buried there?
Yes.
I almost went by there when I went to Eureka Springs a couple years ago.
I lived in Cape for years... nice place.
I don’t know about any tours but if I was there right now I would visit the local White Castle and get a crave crate...lol
Back in the late 60’s Rush (Rusty) was an after school DJ at the local AM station playing top 40 singles. I used to visit the station with a friend who was crazy about radio tech... we were more interested in the transmitter gear than the broadcast staff... there always seemed to be a lot of 45’s scattered all over the floor in the tiny room where the DJ spun the hits. (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida always seemed to be playing..lol)
How sad in 2025 to see AM tower sites being sold to developers. Drop the stick, make more bucks
There is a self-guided tour. Didn’t have time for the entire things as we needed to head home, but we did find the house he grew up in, which was pretty cool. Cape is a fun town. Been there many times and have always had a good time. There’s a bartender there that was a WWF/WWE ring announcer for years. He’s got some great stories.
Rush was a Free Trader and a Libertarian. He brainwashed good people into be globalists. Not thanks, I wouldn’t be interested.
Rush's first home was a wood two-story. They later moved to a brick with a big furnished basement "rumpus room," where he had a posse of buddies all the time. I've heard the tour highlights his house, but wondered which one - or both?
The family law office, now manned by his brother, David, is still active, last I heard. You'll have to got to St. Louis to visit his grave.
Just soak in the feeling of association with him while in his town.
We lived there in the ‘80s and still go back occasionally since one of our sons lives there.
If you want to see the church that Rush was raised in, you can drive by Centenary Methodist Church at 300 N. Ellis.
It is just one block north of Broadway.
The former pastor once told of how Rush saved the church when it almost had to close due to the financial crash of 2008.
“ He brainwashed good people into be globalists.”
When I hear “globalist”, I think of “one world government“. I did not ever hear Rush promote that.
I’m pretty sure we are all imperfect.
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