Driving video of St. Louis, Missouri starts at Martin Luther King Memorial Bridge on to Broadway passing Old Courthouse on the way to Civil Courts Building on Market Street. Then after a tour of downtown streets we continue to Midtown passing St. Louis University and St Francis Xavier College Church, Scottish Rite Cathedral among other landmarks on the way to Central West End. After driving thru some residential and city areas the drive continues to Gateway Arch and Laclede Landing via Eads Bridge. After leaving the Laclede Landing neighborhood the drive continues to I-70 to exit the city.
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St. Louis is a city located along the historic Route 66 in Missouri on the Mississippi River.
St. Louis population is 318,416. Its area is 66.2 sq. mi. The city is divided into 79 government-designated neighborhoods.
St. Louis houses 3 Professional Sports Teams:
St. Louis Blues - hockey
St. Louis Cardinals - baseball
St. Louis Rams - football
St. Louis was founded in 1774 by Frenchman Pierre Laclede and named the city in honor of King Louis IX.
The fur trade fueled the growth of this Mississippi River town.
Lewis and Clark Expedition started and finished in St. Louis in 1804 and 1806 respectively.
The city’s symbol - the stainless steel Gateway Arch, opened in 1965 as a monument to Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase and St. Louis’ role in the opening of the American West. The official name of the Arch is the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. Gateway Arch is 630 feet tall and 630 feet wide and is the country’s tallest man-made monument.
In 1904, the first Olympiad held in the U.S. took place in St. Louis
The first kindergarten in the United States was started in St. Louis in 1873 by Susan Blow.
The Old Courthouse in St. Louis features the first cast iron dome ever built and used as the model for the dome on the U.S. Capitol.
In 1891, Louis Sullivan designed the Wainwright Building, considered by some to be the world’s first skyscraper. View the beautiful, terra cotta and brick structure at 117 N. Seventh Street in downtown St. Louis.
Scott Joplin, known as the Father of Ragtime introduced his new “ragtime” style to the world for the first time at the 1904 World’s Fair.
In 1927, a group of St. Louis businessmen gave financial backing to the first solo transatlantic flight from New York to Paris. The pilot was Charles Lindbergh and the plane was named “The Spirit of St. Louis.”
In 1928, Jim Howe, a Pharmacist in St. Louis, developed antacid tablets Tums in the basement of his home while treating his wife’s indigestion. Since 1930 a plant originally built by Lewis-Howe in downtown St. Louis has been making the antacid tablets.
St. Louis has more than five well-known nicknames:
Gateway to the West, Gateway City, STL, Mound City, The Lou, River City, Rome of the West, Home of the Blues, and Hustle City.
St. Louis Style Ribs: the region’s style of barbecue ribs may feature a wide range of dry-rubbed meats. Although one thing is consistent - all spare ribs are cut into a perfect rectangle.
7-Up was born in St. Louis: 7 Up was created by Charles Leiper Grigg, who came up with the formula for the drink in 1929 which was originally named “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda. Its name was later shortened to just “7 Up” by 1936.
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