Posted by MarkB_MI on August 24, 2009 at 17:52:37 from (166.217.120.1):
In Reply to: St. Louis landmark. posted by Bendee on August 24, 2009 at 07:29:32:
I saw it for the first time last year, and when my wife and I went out west a few months later I made a point to drive through St. Louis again. I wouldn't make a special trip to see it, but it's definitely worth checking out if you're in the area. It was erected as a memorial to the "westward expansion". St. Louis, being at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, was a natural starting point for explorers and settlers headed west.
The thing is so shiny that you can't look directly at it in the morning.
The exterior is constructed of large stainless steel plates welded together. I looked at several of the welds and they were nearly flawless. The inside has a fair amount of concrete in it for stability.
The elevator to the top is quite interesting. It consists of several cars, each sitting five or six people. They are in the shape of drums sitting on their sides. As others said, not a ride to take if you're claustrophobic. There is a mechanism that rotates the cars to keep them upright as you go up.
Because the arch's cross-section is triangular, you can look almost straight down as you look out the windows.
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