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Gibson described that championship season, in his own words, as part of KSDK's 40th anniversary celebration in 1987.

Vintage KSDK: 55 years ago this week, St. Louis prepares to open new Busch Memorial Stadium The $24 million, state-of-the-art facility would come to be called simply Busch Stadium. And in April, 55 years ago, it was in the last very phases of construction. Author: Kay Quinn Updated: 7:37 PM CDT April 1, 2021 ST. LOUIS — April Fool’s Day, 1966, began with high winds that damaged a St. Louis building site and broke plate glass windows at the offices of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat newspaper. But the biggest news of the time was the completion of the brand-ne...

Fields, grounds, parks and stadia By JohnW53 on Feb 17, 2021, 4:59am CST + Since 1927, the Cubs have played their home games at Wrigley Field. But from when it opened in 1914, through 1926, the same facility was called a park: Weeghman, then Cub. By my count, the 30 current Major League teams have welcomed visitors to venues that bore 164 different names -- nearly 4.5 per team. That includes the same venue used by different teams, which has happened 9 times, including a pair of sites that once were the home of 3 MLB clubs. A list of those venues is at the end of the post. ........

A group of researchers wanted to access the truth of what people value and remember most about St. Louis, without assuming publicly acknowledged symbols of the city — like the World’s Fair Pavilion, or the historic district, or even the city’s famous Gateway Arch — mean anything to them. So they began by letting residents decide what’s on the map. “In my design studies, I think about what you would call the vernacular architecture — vernacular space,” says Allison Nkwocha, a graduate researcher with the public art-focused Monument Lab. “Monuments are often so grand and speci...