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After unloading the car we headed off to St. Louis to see the Arch. We figured that traffic would be heavier coming out of the City, but it seems that a lot of people who live in Illinois (just over the river) work on this side of the river. Traffic was much heavier before & after the picture below. | |||||||||||||||||
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| The Gateway Arch is actually the "Jefferson National Expansion Memorial," named so for President Jefferson's contribution to Westward expansion of the US. So what if there were people already living there and had been for thousands of years! The US is not alone in its bad treatment of native populations. |
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| The Gateway Arch is down that-a-way! | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Strolling along thru the park and off to the left is the Mississippi River. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Then you come out of the trees and there it is! | ||||||||||||||||||
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| The Gateway Arch was begun in 1963 and completed 10/28/65. It was designed by Eero Saarinen who won a competition. It stands 630 feet tall, which makes it the tallest National Monument. The distance from leg to leg is also 630 feet. The foundation goes 60 feet into the ground. The arch was built to withstand an earthquake and to sway 18 inches; in a 20 mph wind it will sway 1 inch |
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