Saint Louis is in the middle. New York is on one side. San Francisco is on the other side.
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Statue of Italian immigrants in front of St. Ambrose on the Hill:
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"Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!" -Joe Garagiola on growing up on the same street as Yogi Berra on the Hill.
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"Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded." - Yogi Berra about a restaurant on the Hill he worked in as a young man, Ruggeri's.
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From the movie, Meet Me in St. Louis:
Mr. Neely: [about St. Louis] It's a grand old town.
Tootie Smith: It isn't a town, Mr. Neely. It's a city. It's the only city that has a world's fair. My favorite. Wasn't I lucky to be born in my favorite city?
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The apartment building in the background is called Montclair on the Park.
Masters & Johnson Institute was located on the first floor of this building. Masters & Johnson, Sexologists, from the 1950s to the 1990s:
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"I found St. Louisans cold, smug, complacent, intolerant, stupid and provincial," he told the Post-Dispatch, adding, "I hate the place."
-Tennessee Williams.
His family moved to St. Louis from the south when he was young. They lived in a Central West End apartment building now known as The Glass Menagerie Building.
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I lived on this block in my youth:
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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.
- T.S. Eliot, born in St. Louis 1888 (
Thanks Masterwood)
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Said of Al Hirschfeld "There are just two forms of fame on Broadway: seeing your name in lights, and more significantly, to be drawn by Hirschfeld."
Al Hirschfeld, born on Kensington Avenue, St. Louis 1903
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Speaking of Broadway, actor Kevin Kline was born in St. Louis in 1947. The St. Louis version of the Tony Awards are called the Kevin Kline Awards.
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Saint Louis City Hall:
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Old City Hospital turned condo:
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Betty Grable was born on Lafayette Avenue and moved to the Forest Park Hotel in the Central West End in 1920.
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*New* Old North St. Louis:
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Shrine of St. Joseph - site of the midwest's only Vatican approved miracle:
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"The first time I ever saw St. Louis, I could have bought it for six million dollars, and it was the mistake of my life that I did not do it."
- Mark Twain
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Known as Magic Chef Mansion because it was built by owner of Magic Chef Stove Company:
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Actress, Agnes Moorehead grew up in St. Louis. Her father was a Presbytarian minister. (I don't which church)
Westminster Presbytarian Church:
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Speaking of witchy, spooky people, Vincent Price was born into a prominent St. Louis family and grew up near Forest Park.
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"In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom." - William S. Burroughs, born in 1914 into a wealthy St. Louis family.
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This is the third set from my trip to St. Louis last month. I am running out of favored pics, so I tried to make it a little more interesting by adding quotes & triva.
Thanks for looking!