We walked past the World's Largest Pencil (a No. Old cement mixer chutes were welded, end-to-end, into slides one stretches from the third floor down to the lobby, where thousands of fabric scraps are nailed to the ceiling to make you feel like you're under the sea. The colossal door of a former bank vault was hauled in, and now leads into a hall of mirrors. Thousands of abandoned soda bottles and safety deposit boxes were glued together into walls. warehouse, out of discarded pieces of St. But Bob's heart was with the young and spry, and for them he designed a mazework of fake caves, tunnels, dizzying perches, and a Human Hamster Wheel.īob began building City Museum in 1996 inside an abandoned International Shoe Co. Sure, the sedate can marvel at one-of-a-kind wonders such as Elvis Presley's travel trailer and the World's Largest Underpants. City Museum, with its deceptively bland name, was built primarily as the world's largest, craziest play-pit. "Just looking," however, is not really what Bob wanted of visitors. "You can spend forever just looking at stuff in here." Watson Scott, our chaperone and a long-time friend of the late Bob Cassilly, the guiding genius behind City Museum. It's in the heart of one of America's largest cities. Even with an experienced guide you can't possibly see it all, or remember all you've seen, in one visit.Īnd unlike House on the Rock - the only other place that matches it for scale and chaos - City Museum isn't out in the middle of nowhere. Its staff wears big "No Maps" buttons, and they mean it. Vast and purposely vague, City Museum is a labyrinthine funhouse of simulated caves, numberless cubbyholes, repurposed industrial debris, and floor chutes that plummet who-knows-where, including one that slides you down all ten stories of the building. …and a bunch of guys standing around a giant nasty sinkhole, which is basically a cave that collapsed.Dangling school bus and salvaged jet. Images Courtesy of the Missouri Historical Society: Cliff Cave Picnic Party at Entrance Cliff Cave Uhrig's Cave Beer Garden Missouri at the World’s Fair: An Official Catalogue Cox, James Missouri World’s Fair Commission 1904. Louis Simpson, George Gaylord Natural History Vol. Bones in the Brewery: A Paleontologist's Rendezvous with History and Prehistory in St. The Geologic Column of Missouri Missouri Department of Natural Resources Volume 2, Issue 2 Winter 2008. Louis Beer History: Underground Beginnings Lisa Grimm Serious Eats February 2012. What was “Lemp’s Cave” really like? Naffziger, Chris St. Past meets present in hidden world under St. The Cherokee Cave & Museum of Natural History Chatillon- DeMenil Mansion Retrieved April 2018. Dwight University of Missouri February 1, 2008. Missouri Caves in History and Legend Weaver, H. Louis Rother, Charlotte Rother, Hubert Virginia Publishing October 1996. I’m deeply thankful for their wonderful insight and generosity of time. Louis, Andrew Wanko, a public historian at the Missouri Historical Society, and Jeff Crews, a geologist at the Missouri Geological Survey.
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Louis? DOWNLOAD NOW Credit: For this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Donnie Keck, a resident of St. Carved by Mother Nature, this majestic limestone wonderland has provided shelter to Native Americans and Civil War soldiers, helped the brewing industry prosper, and allowed more than one local to escape and have a good time. Buried deep within the earth, it’s so secret even residents of the Gateway City have no idea it exists. There’s a hidden world running rampant under the streets of St.
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