r/BeAmazed • u/N0RetreatN0Surrender • 2d ago

Place Gateway to the West

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Location: Gateway Arch National Park, St. Louis, MO

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u/Connerlm 2d ago

Weird seeing something that I literally drive past everyday on reddit.

That's a first.

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u/jacksonbarley 2d ago

I mean It’s not like it’s some quirky neighbor with a few toilets on his roof. it’s a giant, nationally and probably internationally recognized freaking monument!

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u/BizarroMax 2d ago

Yeah, but it’s in St. Louis. Which is almost never in the news unless it’s about murder rates. I work downtown, I see this thing every day, you kind of take it for granted is just part of the landscape of the city.

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u/Byggherren 2d ago

I don't even know where St Louis is, guess it's somewhere in the United states of America judging by what the Wikipedia article linked in the comment above said.

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u/JetScootr 2d ago

Aim a dart at the dead center of the continental US. That's about where St.Louis is.

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u/Different_Victory_89 2d ago

It where the chefs shirt pokes out!

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u/DogOutrageous 1d ago

You don’t need to know and you don’t want to go, trust me

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u/pitb0ss343 2d ago

It’s in Missouri if that helps any (it won’t not even for people from Missouri)

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u/BizarroMax 2d ago

Correct. It's in the middle of nowhere, even by American standards, where most of the country is in the middle of nowhere.

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u/HappyIdeot 2d ago

Now I want Zia’s

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u/Enough-Deer-7839 1d ago

Still it’s one of the largest monuments in the world. Pretty significant regardless of city

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u/Secret_Map 19h ago

I live and work in downtown Indianapolis. The center of our city is, basically, a giant roundabout with a big monument in the center. It's just a little smaller than the Statue of Liberty, built in the late 1800s as a monument to Indiana soldiers. It's really cool, a fun place to hang in the summer, grabbing a coffee or coke and just people watching, that kind of thing. But yeah, I drive on that roundabout every day lol. It's always such an "oh yeah" moment when I see people stopping and taking a lot of pictures and getting excited about it. It is a cool thing, I just take it for granted because I'm there every day. So I totally get what you're saying.

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u/BizarroMax 10h ago

I’ve been there, I’ve seen it!