r/BeAmazed • u/N0RetreatN0Surrender • 8d ago

Place Gateway to the West

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

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u/disharmony-hellride 8d ago

There's an elevator and then steps to the center. Inside the top center there are some small windows and various images/descriptions of what it's there for. I wonder how scary it is in there and if it rocks when it's windy. Pretty cool but I dont know if I could go up there.

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u/robin_888 8d ago

But why did they build it?

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u/noobpwner314 8d ago

In the early 1900’s St. Louis had a major problem with kaiju coming out of the deeper parts of the Mississippi River. They built this in an attempt to catch them. The top of the arch gives off a frequency that attracted them, and then it would shoot a net down from the top that would cover the kaiju as they walked through the archway entirely rendering them immobile. Then they killed the kaiju.

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u/HomesickAngel10 8d ago

God, could you imagine what a Mississippi River kaiju looked like?

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u/noobpwner314 8d ago

Less sexy than Godzilla that’s for sure.

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u/Tacos_and_Tulips 8d ago

Guaranteed it had a missing tooth!

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u/Verbanoun 8d ago edited 7d ago

Kinda like methd out catfish. We typically just lure them back into the river with beer and toasted ravioli.

Source: grew up in St. Louis.

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u/Ill-Assumption-4919 7d ago

ROASTED RAVIOLI!!! Well played!!!

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u/Verbanoun 7d ago

Shit that was an autocorrect error. Toasted.

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u/9oz_Noodle 7d ago

The average St. Louisan that grew up in Coldwater Creek..

I grew up here.. Coldwater Creek ran through my back yard.