Catenary curve arch, 630 feet high, and 630 feet wide at the base.That's 192 meters in the civilized world. :) Probably the "inspiration" for the McDonald's sign.
I visited it in July of 1974.
Fire at the Gateway Arch
- (Nightowl)
- (21)
- July 17, 2003, 01:42:42 PM EDT
Re: Fire at the Gateway Arch
- (deSitter)
- (1)
- July 17, 2003, 01:44:35 PM EDT
Re: Fire at the Gateway Arch
- (Nightowl)
- July 17, 2003, 01:50:13 PM EDT
Re: Fire at the Gateway Arch--update
- (Nightowl)
- (1)
- July 17, 2003, 02:03:53 PM EDT
Whew!___One more new infirmity we don't need: fallen arches.
-NT
- (Ashton)
- July 17, 2003, 07:04:20 PM EDT
Re: Fire at the Gateway Arch
- (pwhysall)
- (14)
- July 18, 2003, 01:27:19 AM EDT
Re: Fire at the Gateway Arch
- (deSitter)
- (5)
- July 18, 2003, 02:41:55 AM EDT
Most kind, thx.
-NT
- (pwhysall)
- July 18, 2003, 03:21:32 AM EDT
OT:Designed by [a|two] Finn[s], Eliel [or|and] Eero Saarinen
- (CRConrad)
- July 18, 2003, 07:50:13 AM EDT
Re: Fire at the Gateway Arch
- (rcareaga)
- (2)
- July 18, 2003, 09:49:41 AM EDT
Now now.. that was yesterday
- (Ashton)
- (1)
- July 18, 2003, 03:26:26 PM EDT
Re: Now now.. that was yesterday
- (deSitter)
- July 18, 2003, 03:33:44 PM EDT
It has funky elevators
- (SpiceWare)
- (5)
- July 18, 2003, 09:47:35 AM EDT
..yet we still can't produce, distribute an edible Tomato
-NT
- (Ashton)
- (4)
- July 18, 2003, 03:28:52 PM EDT
Dunno about you, but...
- (admin)
- July 18, 2003, 03:35:21 PM EDT
when you are tooling about the countryside
- (boxley)
- (2)
- July 18, 2003, 04:09:26 PM EDT
Oh yes - sorta-better can be found.
- (Ashton)
- (1)
- July 18, 2003, 08:55:36 PM EDT
Well here in Florida tomato capital of the east coast
- (boxley)
- July 18, 2003, 09:26:51 PM EDT
Another picture.
- (a6l6e6x)
- July 18, 2003, 01:04:08 PM EDT
Re: Fire at the Gateway Arch
- (Nightowl)
- July 18, 2003, 01:24:58 PM EDT
Re: Fire at the Gateway Arch
- (Ric Locke)
- (1)
- July 19, 2003, 08:08:42 PM EDT
Hola Warlocke!
-NT
- (deSitter)
- July 19, 2003, 09:06:54 PM EDT