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4 unusual facts about Gateway Arch


Billy Connolly's Route 66

The second episode started where the first one finished—in St. Louis, with Connolly climbing the Gateway Arch.

Embassy of the United States, Oslo

The Embassy Chancery on Henrik Ibsens gate was designed by Finnish–American architect Eero Saarinen, who also designed the American Embassy in London and the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis, Missouri.

James P. Hunter

He had been engaged to Candice Clark, whom he proposed to at the top of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.

St. Louis Building Arts Foundation

In the original plans for the Gateway Arch, there was an idea to include an architecture museum on the Illinois side of the river.


Catenary

The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, United States is sometimes said to be an (inverted) catenary, but this is incorrect.

Gooey butter cake

Haas baking sells a widely distributed, square and packaged version in a box that depicts a colorful, if anachronistic scene of aviator Charles Lindbergh's plane the Spirit of St. Louis flying past downtown St. Louis, the Gateway Arch and the modern cityscape in clouds.

The Cryonic Woman

As the ship is piloted on a round-the-world joyride, the building is dragged behind it, smashing into a number of landmarks, including the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Great Wall of China (which allows the Mongols to invade).


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Edmund Happold

In 1959 Happold moved to work with Fred Severud (a civil engineer whose work included the structural design of Madison Square Garden and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, and engineer for Eero Saarinen who died June 1990 in Miami Florida) in New York, before returning to London to work with Ove Arup and Partners in 1961.

Oberstaufenbach

In Weilerbach, the house’s builder had acquired bits of the former Schellenberger Hof, among other things the stones from the gateway arch, when that estate was torn down.