St. Louis
To celebrate the month of love, the St. Louis Wheel at Union Station offers a Date Night Package. This special deal includes two tickets to ride The St. Louis Wheel, two drinks from the Wheel Park’s Anheuser-Busch drink container, which offers draft beer, Cut Water cocktails, soda, or non-alcoholic hot chocolate, and two custom 6 …
Vintage Market Days® in St. Charles, Missouri is a vintage-lovers heaven! This event is held twice-a-year, typically once in the spring and once in the fall. With over 100 vendors attending the Vintage Market Days® event, visitors are sure to find something to add to their home, wardrobe, or vintage art collection. On top of …
In December 1959, Robert Tomarchin, a former trainer at the St. Louis Zoo, kidnapped Mr. Moke, a chimpanzee famous for his ability to say “no” and “mamma.” Mr. Moke had been a star attraction at the zoo after appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show. On the night of December 21, Tomarchin broke into the zoo, …
There was a time in America’s history when our currency was an imprecise, ill-defined medium of exchange. Harking back to prerevolutionary years, colonists freely used French, Spanish, and English coins to conduct commerce. Individual colonies often issued their own money, leading to endless confusion. It was a time when a “buck” was valued as the …
Halloween might be in October, but at Johnnie Brock’s Dungeon Party Warehouse, the spirit of the spooky season is alive all year. Located in the heart of St. Louis at 1900 S Jefferson Ave., this store offers a vast selection of costumes and decor, and visiting it has become a Halloween tradition for locals, delighting …
Fairly uneducated, Pearl Curran, a St. Louis housewife, channeled a 17th-century spirit and achieved literary renown. The spirit, Patience Worth, a New England Pilgrim, became the subject of several Curran books, and a national sensation in the early years of the 20th century. Curran was a prolific writer: In addition to seven books, she produced …
Phelim O’Toole is best known for saving the lives of 12 women in the Southern Hotel Fire of 1877. There were 21 others who perished. O’Toole demonstrated his bravery again at a fire at the St. Louis courthouse. From the courthouse dome, he dangled on a rope while extinguishing the fire through a hole he …
A Federal court jury found Martin J. McNally guilty of air piracy in the hijacking of an American Airlines 727 jetliner. McNally, an ex-Navy mechanic and gas station attendant, demanded $500,000, which was paid then later recovered in an Indiana farm field. Apparently when he jumped from the jet plane in flight over Peru, Indiana, …