Today’s front page of the day comes from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which led with the Gateway Arch’s 50th anniversary. Via Newseum:
Earlier this month, Post-Dispatch’s Editor Gilbert Bailon wrote about the newspaper’s own coverage of the Arch as it went from idea to monument.
Through the years in between, the Post-Dispatch chronicled the twisting, complicated tale of events that led to the glistening monument on the Mississippi River. The newspaper earned a Pulitzer Prize for exposing vote fraud in the St. Louis referendum in 1935 that adopted the critical first financing for the project, a $7.5 million bond issue. The voting results stood and the story continued, all through lawsuits and battles from City Hall to the nation’s Capitol.
St. Louis Public Radio has an interactive looking at the monument’s history. St. Louis Magazine has a list of 50 things you probably didn’t know about the Arch, including the different ways people propose at the top of the Arch. (I can tell you with authority about the first way.) And Riverfront Times has some gravity-defying images from construction.
