Well at least one person survived City Museum without incident. She even put her experience to words.
http://www.examiner.com/north-american- ... m-st-louis
http://www.examiner.com/north-american- ... m-st-louis
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Yes. The assault was in the caves.downtown2007 wrote:So the assaults and drug activity happened inside the City Museum?lukethedrifter wrote:Prior to posting that I asked my neighbor who is employed there. Car break-ins, tagging, drugs, obscenities, mob assaults, etc by both young men and women.
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Scott Maverowitz, Business and Travel writer for ABC, wrote a nice piece about the City Museum published a couple of days ago. It mentions Bob Cassilly's passing, but only briefly since it was a travel piece.
It was distributed by AP pretty much around the world. Just doing a quick search showed it on web sites in Australia, New Zealand, and Egypt, as well as in the US -- Huffington Post, ABC, and Newsday sites and more.
Here is the link to the one in the New Zealand Herald:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/a ... d=10758726
It was distributed by AP pretty much around the world. Just doing a quick search showed it on web sites in Australia, New Zealand, and Egypt, as well as in the US -- Huffington Post, ABC, and Newsday sites and more.
Here is the link to the one in the New Zealand Herald:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/a ... d=10758726
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Interesting side note to the feud between Giovanna Cassilly and David Jump. If the RFT is correct, Ciy Musum netted $8.2 million in profits in 18 months. Good to know it's in great financial shape! . It seems that Bob Cassily routinely reinvested those profits back into CM and Cementland, but I wonder whether the Cassilly estate might have other ideas...
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyr ... awsuit.php
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyr ... awsuit.php
How old was Bob? His wife looks young...
What's the timeline for Cementland? I drive by there somewhat regularly and see equipment on site but never any progress.
What's the timeline for Cementland? I drive by there somewhat regularly and see equipment on site but never any progress.
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^Bob was 61 when he died. Giovanna was twenty-some years younger.
City Museum, 'the world's largest playground,' makes list of 50 coolest places in the world
https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/cit ... the-latest
https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/cit ... the-latest
The P-D had an article about upcoming developments at a few institutions, and including some new installations coming to the City Museum: Expansion, exhibitions and an elephant baby among 2020 highlights at cultural institutions
City Museum, which in 2019 was sold to Oklahoma City-based Premier Parks LLC, has a busy year ahead: In June, the downtown west attraction unveils a 6,000-square-foot maze hidden on the fourth floor, which can be accessed using a secret staircase. The rooftop party series for grown-ups, City Nights, returns in May and runs through mid-August. And in October, City Museum adds a miniature golf course in partnership with Elmhurst Art Museum of New York and the digital art publication Colossal.
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The 4 city nights events in August were very popular, like 2000 people at the finalerbeedee wrote: ↑Jan 04, 2020The P-D had an article about upcoming developments at a few institutions, and including some new installations coming to the City Museum: Expansion, exhibitions and an elephant baby among 2020 highlights at cultural institutions
City Museum, which in 2019 was sold to Oklahoma City-based Premier Parks LLC, has a busy year ahead: In June, the downtown west attraction unveils a 6,000-square-foot maze hidden on the fourth floor, which can be accessed using a secret staircase. The rooftop party series for grown-ups, City Nights, returns in May and runs through mid-August. And in October, City Museum adds a miniature golf course in partnership with Elmhurst Art Museum of New York and the digital art publication Colossal.
The guy from STL From Above posted a video today that said there is an apparent grassroots effort to put a soccer field on the roof of City Museum.
Anyone else heard this? Would be pretty cool I think.
Anyone else heard this? Would be pretty cool I think.
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How would that actually work? Specifically, how do you prevent a soccer ball from flying off the roof into the middle of traffic several stories below and causing a massive accident? Would it be like those rooftop basketball courts with chain link fencing completely enclosing the space (including above you)? Something like this?sc4mayor wrote: ↑Sep 07, 2020The guy from STL From Above posted a video today that said there is an apparent grassroots effort to put a soccer field on the roof of City Museum.
Anyone else heard this? Would be pretty cool I think.
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To keep it inline with CM's funky brand image I vote that they use a giant soccer ball
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Or like the rooftop tennis courts at the Missouri Athletic Club. Is that thing in use?dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑Sep 08, 2020Probably netting like this rooftop field in Miami...
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I could see making it something like this, but with bumper cars and gently nerfed cranes.
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They should just make it turf, use super cool colors, maybe hang some crazy lights from the cage so you can play at night, make it multi-purpose, and then its still very city-museumy.
Another free idea, just move human foosball up there and have 4 courts for tournaments.
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Here is a partial zip code map of only season tickets holders for CM. People don’t realize this but 70% of their visitors are from outside the region and many specifically come just for it.
Also- Since last January they’ve had people from 6,000 out of 41,500 zip codes come thru the doors
Also- Since last January they’ve had people from 6,000 out of 41,500 zip codes come thru the doors
^ Very cool, thanks for sharing.
When I covered the Central and Western Kansas territories for my company I often had customers tell me about their trips to the City Museum, the Zoo, the Magic House, and all of our other great attractions, especially the children’s ones. Prior to Covid several were planning trips around the aquarium opening since it’s the closest big one to them.
When I covered the Central and Western Kansas territories for my company I often had customers tell me about their trips to the City Museum, the Zoo, the Magic House, and all of our other great attractions, especially the children’s ones. Prior to Covid several were planning trips around the aquarium opening since it’s the closest big one to them.
"PGAV Destinations works on master plan for City Museum"
https://blooloop.com/museum/news/pgav-d ... v_ZJ6np7Rc
https://blooloop.com/museum/news/pgav-d ... v_ZJ6np7Rc
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The Emmy-award nominated documentary all about how our very own 10 story fantasy behemoth, City Museum, St Louis, MO came to be, has been uploaded to youtube for free! Such a fantastically done feature about Bob Cassilly's life work but also telling a story of how artistic opportunity was afforded on such a grand, massive scale!