Heading east to the Saint Louis Arch



Saint Louis Arch
April 17, 2009
Back on the road! We first stopped in Ozark, MO and filled up with gas at five cents less tank price at the Walmart making it $1.76. What is the gas price in your area? About one hundred miles west of Saint Louis, MO we stopped at a rest area for breakfast and soaked up a few moments of sunshine. The blossoms are out on the trees; we are following spring east!

The Saint Louis Arch, Gateway Arch, is part of the Jefferson Expansion National Memorial. The stainless steel arch is the brainwork of Eero Saarinen, a Finnish-American architect whose design won the national competition of 1947, when he conceived the arch to celebrate the soaring mind of Jefferson the only architect-President. As a monument to Jefferson if fails; to make it a true monument to Jefferson we suggest a dramatic statue of Jefferson rather than the little bronze statue under the arch.

The Arch is pretty dramatic. “The lines can be drawn mathematically, the in the end the Arch as a poetic conquest of space….. It was a structural declaration of independence, which like Jefferson’s was much revised before attaining classic eloquence.”

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