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| Revisit beautiful downtown St. Louis at your leisure with this colorful documentary of historic Market Street, the first and oldest street in St. Louis. This 1-hour DVD includes images of and references to over 25 major landmarks bordering and viewed from Market Street and an overview of St. Louis’ dramatic history. |
I’m Maureen Kavanaugh, your guide to the rich, dramatic history of St. Louis reflected in the city’s architecture, skyline and public art.
St. Louis is baseball and bratwurst, toasted ravioli and the blues. It’s home to the oldest steel-frame skyscraper in the world and the tallest man-made monument in the United States.
The Revolutionary War on the western front ended in St. Louis where Charles Lindbergh’s dreams of transatlantic flight took wings. Sam Clemens set type here before apprenticing himself to a steamboat captain and going to work on the river. He also found a pen name by which he would become famous throughout the world.
St. Louis was the setting for Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” and Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer.”
But hundreds of years before the cultured French/Creole village of Saint Louis grew into the commercial lion of the Mississippi River Valley this great riverside prairie formed the western fringe of the largest tribal capitol in North America.
Whether you are in St. Louis for the week or just an afternoon I invite you to walk or ride the city streets with me and experience first-hand the visionary spirit which has made St. Louis, the Gateway to the West.
