Posted on 08/18/2019 3:08:23 PM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country
We're on a Mississippi cruise from Minneapolis to New Orleans. Going to write a little synopsis after we get home. Today we spent touring St. Louis and was amazed. What a vibrant, busy, active and accommodating city. So much so I wanted to post this tiny bit. One could come here and spend a week touring in a lot more detail.
I don't have my laptop on much so I might not be able to respond to entries but can read them on my tablet.
I'm not claustrophobic so yes, I did go up in the arch. Wife didn't.
It is a beautiful city. We toured during the Obamination years and the place was beautiful but dead.
Glad to hear it has come back.
Lived ther for a year (1988). St. Louis sucks. Big time, sucks.
I grew up in that area and have always enjoyed it. A great zoo, art museum, and the Missouri Historical Society in Forest Park. The Missouri Botanical Gardens. On the Illinois side near Collinsville is Cahokia Mounds. The Great River Road going north is interesting. On your cruise downstream you’ll pass some relics of the French colonial period: Fort de Chartres and what’s left of Kaskaskia in Illinois, and the town of Ste. Genevieve, about 60 miles south. Of course, those are day trips. Another good day trip is the Daniel Boone Home near Defiance. MO.
In the city itself, avoid certain neighborhoods and you’ll be okay. Another nice thing about it is you don’t have to go very far outside the city and you’re in Trump Country.
If you stop in Cape Girardeau, you might want to try Broussards for cajun food. It’s a block away from where the river boats tie up.
Clark Griswold had an interesting visit to St. Louis when he got to interact with the "natives".
However, West County is great and supports the city through their taxes.
The best thing that could happen would be for the city to fall into the river and have to start all over again. A fresh start with Republicans instead of patronage would help enormously.
Did you see the childhood home of The Unsinkable Molly Brown?
I worked for a miserable company’s branch here in SC of a St. Louis area based organization.
It was during the time of the wun and it was a job with insurance. Borderline sweatshop labor and a lot questionable policies.
Actually, I quit twice. Bunch of cheapskate liars and gyppers. Contracting was better.
I’m turned off on St. Louis because of that crowd.
There are natives, and there are natives. As a non-native, Clark didn’t know which natives to avoid.
Never took a river cruise. I am curious how it goes. And I am happy you enjoyed St Louis. But you obviously missed what a shithole it is
As a child I stood and watched as the final piece was placed in the arch.
There is a time capsule sort of thing that is in the base of the arch. All the local school kids were asked to sign their names on paper slips to be placed into it...mine is there.
We lived in Webster Groves, a suburb, and then in Maplewood, another suburb.
Then later we lived in the Central West End near the Park. It was great there then and safe. I could walk to med school classes behind Barnes Jewish Hosp and go biking in the park.
I remember going to a huge electronics junk warehouse named Gateway Electronics. It was like an acre of second-hand test gear and gizmos. The Ham shop was nearby.
My Dad worked and lived in his later years in Ferguson, out by the airport...it’s a hellhole now.
It pains me that St Louis has become a dangerous place...liberals eventually destroy everything :-/
Actually, that was East St Louis, right across the river. The town that makes inner city Detroit look like a thriving metropolis. Some tough neighborhoods in St Louis, too, but East St Louis is like another planet.
It's "se necesita personal." Duh.
As a child I stood and watched as the final piece was placed in the arch.
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