Besides having several different alignments of Route 66 through it, Ted Drewe's ice cream, and the Chain of Rocks Bridge, there are some more reasons to visit the Gateway City.
Of course, there's the 630-foot high Gateway Arch. Tickets to the top are $10, but you'd best get them in advance. I know, I visited and didn't get to go to the top as they were all sold out for the day.
Nearby is the old courthouse where slaves Dred and Harriet Scott argued for their freedom and was just another in the incidents dividing the country before the Civil War.
MUSIC
Besides being one of the birthplaces of the blues, St. Louis has been the residences of Scott Joplin, Ike and Tina Turner, and Chuck Berry, who still performs once a month at the Blueberry Hill restaurant and club.
HISTORIC CEMETERIES
CALVARY-- General William Tecumseh Sherman, Tennessee Williams, Dred Scott.
BELLEFONTAINE-- Gen. William Clark (of Lewis and Clark), Adolphus Busch (Anheiser-Bush), James Eads (inventor and engineer, Mary Marsha Rexford (Red Cross worker and first woman to land on Utah Beach on D-Day) and William Burroughs.
From April 5th Chicago Tribune. Cheryl Wittensauer AP.
Things Other Than the Cardinals. --Cooter
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