Historic Tales of St. Louis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zeman, Mark.

Series:

Forgotten Tales

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tales--Missouri--Saint Louis.

Tales.

Saint Louis (Mo.)--History--Anecdotes.

Saint Louis (Mo.).

Missouri--Saint Louis.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Arcadia Publishing Inc., 2023.

Summary:

The Tales That Made St. Louis St. Louis may be known as the Gateway to the West, but its history holds many stories buried through time that show a different side. Discover which Hollywood leading man and heartthrob originated the custom of leaving a chocolate on a hotel pillow. Learn which high school was named after a senator who was nearly beaten to death on the senate floor. Puzzle over the lavish dinner party held in a sewer, and be amazed to find a masterpiece hidden in the ceiling of a U-Haul building. Author and historian Mark Zeman unveils the forgotten history of St. Louis.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Army Secretly Sprays St. Louis in Chemical Weapons Program

Automobiles and Roads

The Battle of Camp Jackson: Suppressing a Confederate Seizure of the Union Arsenal

The Birth of the Suburb: Village to Metropolis

Bloody Island: Submarine Telegraph Cables and a Presidential Duel

Brewers and Their Caves

The British Crown Jewels and the First Police Department to Use Fingerprints

The Brown Shoe Company

Cary Grant Starts a Trend: Chocolates on a Hotel Pillow

Chinatown: Hop Alley and a President's Grandfather

Choking on Progress: The Worst Air Pollution in the Nation

Cholera Outbreak of 1849 Kills 10 Percent of Population

Civil War Contraband Hospitals and Black Healthcare

Civil War Ironclads of James Eads

Coffee Was King

Congressman Beaten on Senate Floor and the First Black High School West of the Mississippi

Daniel Boone's Real Home

Denying the Vote

Double-Wide Alley: Remnant of a Clay Mine Railway

The Dred and Harriet Scott Case: The Old Courthouse

Education in St. Louis

Electric Park at Creve Coeur Park

The Elephant That Walked across the Eads Bridge

Eliza Hoole Is Not Buried Here

The Exorcist House

Fairground Park and the 1949 Swimming Pool Race Riot

The Farmers Market Older than the U.S. Constitution

First Black Church in St. Louis

First Cocktail Party in the World and the Largest Collection of Mosaics

First Drive-Up Window

First Olympics in the USA

Forest Park's Aviation Field and Lindbergh's Airmail Route

Forest Park Highlands and the St. Louis Carousel

From Balloon Age to Space Age

From Horses to Streetcars

Fur, Hides and the Extermination of the Buffalo

The Garment District: Washington Avenue Second Only to New York

Gaslight Square: See Barbra Streisand for Two Bucks.

German Spy Uses Germ Warfare to Kill Mules during World War I

The Girl in the Shadow Box: A Tale of Unrequited Love

The Great Cyclone of 1896

The Great Fire of 1849

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery: So You Want to Be in Pictures

Home and Castle

Hooverville: Slums on the Arch Grounds

How Piggly Wiggly Shaped Shopping

Josephine Baker: The Opera House Built over Her Childhood Slum

Lavish Dinner Party inside the Mill Creek Sewer

Masterpiece Hidden in U-Haul's Ceiling

Miracle Authenticated by the Vatican

The Mississippi: Giving Birth to Everything

Motordrome/Murderdrome at Priester's Park

Mounds of Native Americans

Nation's First Lynching: Francis McIntosh

Neither Snow nor Rain

New Madrid Fault and the Day the Mississippi River Ran Backward

1904 World's Fair and the Pygmy Displayed at the New York Bronx Zoo

1904 World's Fair Flight Cage: The Beginning of the St. Louis Zoo

1907 Balloon Race, Grandfather of the Great Forest Park Balloon Race

Nude Art That Ruffled Feathers

Old Newsboys Day: Dealing with Poverty

Pneumatic Mail Tube System

Prohibition Ends by Redefining Alcohol

Race Riots of East St. Louis, 1917

Reinterment of the Dead

The Revolutionary War Battle in St. Louis

Revolutionary War Sunken British Naval Artillery

Reynard the Fox

The Ruins at Tower Grove Park

Saving the Vineyards of France from Extinction

The Search for Planet Vulcan

Seeds from Space: A Tree Growing in the Botanical Garden

Social Evil Hospital: First U.S. City to Legalize Prostitution

Soldiers Memorial Statues and World War II Stolen Art Retrieval

Spanish Flu of 1918: German Spies, Aspirin and Phonograph Records

Spiritualism: The Big Con

St. Louis Eruv

Three of the Nation's Remaining Seven Standpipe Water Towers

Toasted Ravioli.

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: Identity Discovered

Trains, Union Station and the Whispering Arch

Twelfth-Century English Chapel Dismantled and Shipped Here

Underground Cold War Bunker: The St. Louis Civil Defense Control Center

U.S. Army Retaliatory Execution of POWs

The Way Out of Darkness: The First School to Teach Braille

Whiskey Milking Scandal

World's First Skyscraper: The Wainwright Building

World's Largest Ammo Plant and World War II

Bibliography

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Zeman, Mark Historic Tales of St. Louis

ISBN:

9781439676899

OCLC:

1369673889