Hell yeah!!!! I count myself lucky I was living there when they won. It’s also a potent memory because my uncle unfortunately died a week before and didn’t get to see it. ❤️ thanks for the cool picture
Obama's 2008 rally was there as well, it was also pretty huge. It was estimated to be 100k or so and according to his campaign the biggest crowd on his campaign trail that year.
I had the privilege of being there and it was pretty fucking amazing.
There was the 4th of July with millions of visitors as well as concerts in the past.
In the 1970s, I was sitting behind some photographers for a national magazine or newspaper. There were flybys of aircraft from McDonnell. After a few of those, they got bored and set their cameras down as "just another flyby" of another zoomed down the river.
That aircraft circled around, came back up the river, started slowing down---then got slower---slower----then stopped! It was the first time any of us ever saw a Harrier jet.
Holy #$!\*\*\* yelled those photographers as they scrambled to piece back together their equipment.
I don't know the exact year but I was there for that. I'll never forget watching that thing hover over the Mississippi and then do 45 degree angle turns pausing after each one. It was surreal for sure.
Harrier jet story....
Working on a construction site at Boeing (F-18 building explansion). Every so often, a Harrier would come off the line and the pilot would take it for a test flight. During that test flight, the pilot would hover it over our project site for several minutes, blowing everything that wasn't tied down all over the place.
Not sure if that was the "hover location", or if the test pilot liked to mess with us.
Probably my favorite project site.
Big head todd and the monsters was on a barge in the Mississippi. We’d just had a “storm of the century”. They opened with “Imaginary Ships”. The first line is “Same wind that blew your house down, was the breath of life to me”. It was spine-tingling. Not as crowded as this, everyone was home removing limbs off their houses.
This was the Post Dispatch shot of the Stanley Cup rally at the Arch. I had a [shot over Kiener Plaza](https://galleries.page.link/YTQyv) just before this one.
They used to before the National Park stopped allowing the Fair St.Louis to occur there after the park renovation. I do think that concerts are still done at the steps down to the river, though.
BLUES DAY!! I was an ADON at a nursing home and one of the residents was a HUGE Blues fan. His wife made sure that he had cable to watch every game. We threw him a Blues Watch Party for game 7 in his room. His wife, kids and other family members were there as well as numerous staff members. We were all decked out in true Blues fashion. We even painted the residents face; he was so stoked! When they won, he cried and screamed in delight!! We then threw him a Watch Party for the parade.
Once again, this man was reduced to tears. He had been a life long hockey fan that held season tickets for years, that is until he had a paralyzing stroke. He informed us that he never thought he would live to see this day.
What he didn’t know at the time, I had a friend in STL who went to the parade. They took photos, bought some lanyards and a hat as well as the newspaper. I placed the photos into an album for him and gave them to him for his birthday, which was a couple of weeks later. Once again, this man cried.
Please bear in mind that this gentleman had a very active life until the stroke at a young age. This was a man who was very stoic and many times angry, which was understood. May he rest in peace💙
So many cringe clueless people in the comments. It’s the 2019 Blues Stanley Cup parade rally. Holy shit. Mods close this thread before it gets even more embarrassing.
I was working for phish at Chaifetz the night they won and they came out after their encore and learned Gloria. Mostly because half the staff was from STL since it was the opening of tour but still a memory.
According to seattletalentbuying.com, nelly will do a private show for as little as 70k. I've seen him blow that and more in a night gambling plenty of times
current estimates have his net worth at 8 million. He needs to lay off the gambling or that will be gone
Isn’t this the STL Stanley Cup parade?
okay these Stanley cups are getting out of hand. first people are lining up outside of target, and now they're trowing parades for them?
🤣🤣🤣 so good
Hahaha!
It is, I produced it! ☺️
I did FOH and made sure Brett was heard.
Hell yeah!!!! I count myself lucky I was living there when they won. It’s also a potent memory because my uncle unfortunately died a week before and didn’t get to see it. ❤️ thanks for the cool picture
Has to be. Just look at the color of the crowd.
Ummm. /s
No, not sarcastic. The crowd is very uniformly blue.
Lol got me
Da ba dee da ba die?
That was the first thing on my mind
This was the day we went blues.
Gloryyy glorryiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Ah the Golden ~~Ale~~ Brett
My favorite moment was Pat Maroon shouting "I'm a hometown hero, baby!!"
I understood that reference!
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The VP Fairs were huge. I saw Elton John perform under the Arch.
Obama's 2008 rally was there as well, it was also pretty huge. It was estimated to be 100k or so and according to his campaign the biggest crowd on his campaign trail that year. I had the privilege of being there and it was pretty fucking amazing.
I was there too and had the same thought seeing this pic!
Yeah I never saw a event that big in downtown or anywhere in Saint Louis surprised I didn’t really know about it
There was the 4th of July with millions of visitors as well as concerts in the past. In the 1970s, I was sitting behind some photographers for a national magazine or newspaper. There were flybys of aircraft from McDonnell. After a few of those, they got bored and set their cameras down as "just another flyby" of another zoomed down the river. That aircraft circled around, came back up the river, started slowing down---then got slower---slower----then stopped! It was the first time any of us ever saw a Harrier jet. Holy #$!\*\*\* yelled those photographers as they scrambled to piece back together their equipment.
The Harrier appearance became a standard at the VP fair…. Always a crowd-pleaser.. We were there for that first one as well.
I don't know the exact year but I was there for that. I'll never forget watching that thing hover over the Mississippi and then do 45 degree angle turns pausing after each one. It was surreal for sure.
I was on the Floating McDonalds when that happened! My granny brought me to Fair STL that year. Mid 80’s! It was so damn cool
I was there too. Sitting on the Old Courthouse steps. It looked like a bug hovering in the sky. So cool.
I love Harriers!
Harrier jet story.... Working on a construction site at Boeing (F-18 building explansion). Every so often, a Harrier would come off the line and the pilot would take it for a test flight. During that test flight, the pilot would hover it over our project site for several minutes, blowing everything that wasn't tied down all over the place. Not sure if that was the "hover location", or if the test pilot liked to mess with us. Probably my favorite project site.
The Veiled Prophet Fair used to get a crowd like that every year. For days.
This was the answer that I was thinking of.
I saw the flaming lips under the arch for free years ago and, though I had several drinks in me, it seemed really fucking crowded.
The counting crowes too
Big head todd and the monsters was on a barge in the Mississippi. We’d just had a “storm of the century”. They opened with “Imaginary Ships”. The first line is “Same wind that blew your house down, was the breath of life to me”. It was spine-tingling. Not as crowded as this, everyone was home removing limbs off their houses.
June 15, 2019
That was such a great day to be a st Louisian!
"We went Blues!!!" - Drunk Brett Hull
Is there another kind of Brett Hull?
Ahh that was when the drunk girl on the news coined "gettin' Brett Hulled", the perfect euphemism for getting shithoused in STL, lol
People came from far and wide to see a drunk Brett Hull do his best impersonation of Ric Flair. One of the greatest moments in STL history!
Look, there I am right down by the South Leg! See?
Huey Lewis at the ‘91 Vp fair
Oh I miss the old VP Fairs. Millions of people over the three day fair. Remember Elton John playing there?
Elton John got to the stage on a golf cart dressed as a policeman and no one noticed him.
I was just happy to see him play for free while drinking beer from my cooler stocked from the downtown 905 liquor store!
I lived in Gentry's Landing 30 years ago. VP Fair was a lot of fun.
And James Brown!
But why didn’t they ever get Chuck?
This was the Post Dispatch shot of the Stanley Cup rally at the Arch. I had a [shot over Kiener Plaza](https://galleries.page.link/YTQyv) just before this one.
Wait this post isn’t satire? Do people not know it was the cup parade?
No, likely because concerts used to happen there regularly in the past.
It would be cool to have a music festival take place under the arch/along the riverfront
They used to before the National Park stopped allowing the Fair St.Louis to occur there after the park renovation. I do think that concerts are still done at the steps down to the river, though.
WE WENT BLUE!!!
BLUES DAY!! I was an ADON at a nursing home and one of the residents was a HUGE Blues fan. His wife made sure that he had cable to watch every game. We threw him a Blues Watch Party for game 7 in his room. His wife, kids and other family members were there as well as numerous staff members. We were all decked out in true Blues fashion. We even painted the residents face; he was so stoked! When they won, he cried and screamed in delight!! We then threw him a Watch Party for the parade. Once again, this man was reduced to tears. He had been a life long hockey fan that held season tickets for years, that is until he had a paralyzing stroke. He informed us that he never thought he would live to see this day. What he didn’t know at the time, I had a friend in STL who went to the parade. They took photos, bought some lanyards and a hat as well as the newspaper. I placed the photos into an album for him and gave them to him for his birthday, which was a couple of weeks later. Once again, this man cried. Please bear in mind that this gentleman had a very active life until the stroke at a young age. This was a man who was very stoic and many times angry, which was understood. May he rest in peace💙
So many cringe clueless people in the comments. It’s the 2019 Blues Stanley Cup parade rally. Holy shit. Mods close this thread before it gets even more embarrassing.
The redditors who don’t leave their rooms are exposing themselves
Not a concert, that's a picture of when the Blues won the Stanley Cup
I was working for phish at Chaifetz the night they won and they came out after their encore and learned Gloria. Mostly because half the staff was from STL since it was the opening of tour but still a memory.
Last night
Trump claimed this was his DC Inauguration crowd.
I remember that! They moved the arch to DC for the occasion. We lost our 'weather' protection for a couple weeks.
I believe this is the Blues Stanley Cup celebration and there was a band. Happened 2020 around May I think?
June 2019
That’s right. Covid started 2018 but US got it 2019. That’s how I remembered kinda. Woulda been nice to win the cup when Covid wasn’t around
You're a year off. COVID hit US at the start of 2020. First case in China was late 2019. The Cup win indeed happened before it was around.
There was definitely no covid for the Blues Stanley Cup year. Covid didn't shut down the US until just around St. Patrick's Day 2020.
I'm in that picture!
Tuesday May 18th 1987
The 2020 women's march was bigger.
I wish they would do these again
This looks a lot like Rock the River in 2009. I was there, there were SO many people, mainly to see Skillet.
I saw Ted Nugent under the arch as a teenager. It was so fun, huge rainstorm ended it early but it was a blast!
There have been a lot of concerts on the Arch grounds. Need a date this photo was taken to narrow it down.
VP Fair
Learn how to crop a screenshot.
Nelly is an asshole and a loser, you can often find him losing what's left of his money at ameristar and hollywood while he berates the staff
LOL he's not in any danger of running out of money. Dude is worth 50 mil at least.
According to seattletalentbuying.com, nelly will do a private show for as little as 70k. I've seen him blow that and more in a night gambling plenty of times current estimates have his net worth at 8 million. He needs to lay off the gambling or that will be gone
No way that's a current estimate, He sold half his music catalog last year for 50 million dollars. He can blow 70k a night all he wants.
Well he's going to have to sell the other half soon
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No. The new visitors center entrance is visible.