Day 15 - St. Louis, Missouri

May 31, 2017

What a great day. After a hot breakfast at the hotel, we walked to the Arch for our Journey to the top tram tour. It is a beautiful day.

The Arch is very easy to find. It is not the Yellow Brick Road, but these work.

These pictures were taken around 10:30 am. If you see the little black dashes at the tip top of the Arch, they are observation windows.

They fit 5 people in each car. It is 4 minute ride to the top and a 3 minute ride back down.

It did not get shorter, it just went faster.

This is my scared look.

Mike leaned on the window ledge and took pictures.

This is the construction site that will be the new entry way to the Arch Museum and Tram. It will go under ground, so it will be easier access. ADA friendly.

We are on the 10th floor of the hotel in the center. Next to the Presidential Suite.

Court house where the first Civil Rights Case was heard.

Ball Field

Federal Building

Rams play here.

Mike wanted to take a helicopter tour and I declined. He did not want to go without me.

So we did not go!

From the top of the Arch.

Mike took some awesome pictures when we got back out of the Arch.

We walked back to the Baseball Stadium and caught a free trolley to the Anheuser-Busch Brewery.

It was a history lesson with free beer.

The Horses are housed in a beautiful building.

Beer in the making.

During Prohibition, Anheuser-Busch survived by creating a number of products to sell. One of the products was solid yeast. They printed a recipe on the back of the package with a warning that if a person followed the recipe, they may end up with a product that would taste like beer and cautioned against it. They sold a lot of yeast. The Elephant was a symbol they put on the package.

The Anheuser children attended school across the street from the Brewery. When the City of St. Louis decided they no longer needed the school, they sold it to the Brewery. It is now the home office. The CEO now works where he went to school.