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St Louis Gateway Arch Aerial and Bird’s Eye View

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! The Arch is known as the “Gateway to the West”. Designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel, it stands 630 feet (192 m) tall, and is 630 feet (192 m) wide at its base. It [...]

23Jun2008 | Virtual Bird's Eye | 0 comments | Continued
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Cedar Fair’s Worlds of Fun Theme Park Aerial and Bird’s Eye Views

Worlds of Fun opened on May 26, 1973, at a cost of 25 million dollars. It was situated at the northern edge of a vast industrial complex developed by Hunt in the bluffs above the Missouri River in Clay County, Missouri. Immediately south of the park is Hunt’s SubTropolis underground business complex.
At the time, [...]

8May2008 | Virtual Bird's Eye | 0 comments | Continued
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St. Louis Cardinals - Busch Stadium Aerial View

In the mid-1950s, several years after he persuaded the board of directors of Anheuser-Busch to purchase the St. Louis Cardinals, August A. Busch Jr. decided that if the team was to prosper and attract the fans necessary to support a major league franchise, it would have to move to a new stadium.
Mr. Busch took [...]

15Apr2008 | Virtual Bird's Eye | 0 comments | Continued
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Kansas City Royals - Kauffman Stadium Aerial View

Location: I-70 & Blue Ridge Cutoff - Site Map
Seating capacity: 40,793
Originally known as Royals Stadium, the facility was officially renamed in honor of Ewing M. Kauffman in a ceremony on July 2, 1993.
It is notable in that it had unique architecture in an era where building multisport “cookie-cutter” stadiums was commonplace. Many consider Kauffman [...]

9Apr2008 | Virtual Bird's Eye | 0 comments | Continued