the nickname given to the st. louis arch is the gateway arch.
the nickname given to the st. louis arch is the gateway arch.
this question is based on the st. louis arch video. what is the nickname given to the st. louis arch?
the gateway arch
vincent was also spotted mid-air by deryl stone, a chief ranger for the national park service. stone reported seeing vincent grab his parachute after landing and run to a nearby car, which quickly drove away. however, authorities were able to detain two men on the ground who had been videotaping the jump. stone said 37-year-old ronald carroll and 27-year-old robert weinzetl, both st. louis residents, were found with a wireless communication headset and a video camera, as well as a still camera with a telephoto lens. the two were also charged with two misdemeanors: disorderly conduct and commercial photography in a national park. vincent later turned himself in and initially pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. however, he eventually accepted a guilty plea deal in which he testified against carroll and weinzetl, revealing that the two consented to recording the jump during a meeting of all three on the day before his stunt occurred. federal magistrate judge david d. noce ruled on january 28, 1993, that carroll had been involved in a conspiracy and was guilty of both misdemeanor charges; the charges against weinzetl had been dropped by federal attorneys. in his decision, noce stated, "there are places in our country where the sufficiently skilled can savor the exhilaration and personal satisfaction of accomplishing courageous and intrepid acts, of reaching dreamed-of heights and for coursing dangerous adventures," but added that other places are designed for "the exhilaration of mere observation and for the appreciation of the imaginings and the works of others. the st. louis arch and the grounds of the jefferson national expansion memorial are in the latter category."
gateway arch
most outstanding is his documentation of the construction of the st. louis arch for "pictures", which became art witman's longest and most noted assignment. he visited the construction site frequently from 1963 to 1967 recording of every stage of progress. with assistant renyold ferguson, he crawled along the catwalks with the construction workers up to 190m above the ground. he was the only news photographer on permanent assignment at the construction, with complete access. he primarily worked with slide film, but also used the only panox camera in st. louis to create panoramic photographs covering 140 degrees. his head for heights is clear; in an image showing ferguson lying prone to cautiously photograph from the edge of the apex of the completed arch, witman is standing on the stainless steel surface to take his photograph of his companion. equally vertiginous was the photograph the pair made from an eyrie where, perched on a plank at the peak of the nave of st louis cathedral, they encompassed a ‘god’s-eye view’ of the whole congregation attending the funeral mass for a local cardinal.
arthur witman