History UsefulNotes / StLouis

* Ellie Kemper--perhaps best known as Erin from ''Series/TheOffice'' and now starring as the title character in ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt''--was born in Kansas City but moved to St. Louis as a child. Fun fact: she went to the same high school as Jon Hamm had, and he taught her eighth grade acting class.

* ''[[Literature/Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter]]''

* [[Literature/Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter]]

* The St. Louis Rams ([[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL]]; they moved to town a few years after the Cardinals left)

St. Louis sits just south of the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, which helped it grow into a huge city and made it a big deal back when riverboats were considered a speedy form of transportation, but the city has been gradually declining in importance (and population) for quite a while now. It's lost population in every census since 1950 and is no longer even the largest city in Missouri, though some of those people just moved to the suburbs and the metropolitan area still has a larger population than UsefulNotes/KansasCity's. The suburbs across the river in Illinois go by the description "Metro East" for obvious reasons.

* Ellie Kemper--perhaps best known as Erin from ''Series/TheOffice'' and now starring as the title character in ''Series/UnbreakableKimmieSchmidt''--was born in Kansas City but moved to St. Louis as a child. Fun fact: she went to the same high school as Jon Hamm had, and he taught her eighth grade acting class.

* Beau Willimon: Creator of ''Film/TheIdesOfMarch'' and the [[TransAtlanticEquivalent American adaptation]] of ''Series/{{House of Cards|US}}''. Also a veteran of Jon Hamm's 8th-grade drama class.
* John Goodman

* Ellie Kemper--perhaps best known as Erin from ''Series/TheOffice''--was born in Kansas City but moved to St. Louis as a child. Fun fact: she went to the same high school as Jon Hamm had, and he taught her eighth grade acting class.

These days almost nobody says "Saint Louie" unless they're joking.

* ''Series/{{Defiance}}'' is set in the city formerly known as St. Louis -- the Gateway Arch survives while much of the city ended up buried underground.

* The St. Louis Rams ([[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball Football]]; they moved to town a few years after the Cardinals left)

* The City appears in ''[[Film/NationalLampoonsVacation National Lampoon's Vacation]]''

* TheJohnLarraqueteShow
* The City appears in National Lampoons Vacation

'''In fiction'''

St. Louis is known for the Gateway Arch and... well, actually, that's pretty much what it's known for. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition (more widely known as the "St. Louis World's Fair") was held there in 1904 (though the arch itself wasn't built until 1963). Also headquarters of one of the world's largest brewing conglomerations, before they were bought by ''another'' of the world's largest brewing conglomerations, though St. Louis is still the North American headquarters.

St. Louis is known for the Gateway Arch and... well, actually, that's pretty much what it's known for. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition (more widely known as the "St. Louis World's Fair") was held there a little over a century ago. Also headquarters of one of the world's largest brewing conglomerations, before they were bought by ''another'' of the world's largest brewing conglomerations. (St. Louis is still the North American headquarters, though.)

Its nickname is "the Gateway to the West" (''cf'' the Gateway Arch), presumably because a gateway is a place you ''go through'' to get to where you were ''actually interested in going''. Missourians who live more than a couple of dozen miles from the Arch may instead call it "the Exit from the East." Politically, St. Louis is a fairly deep blue stronghold in an otherwise mostly pink-to-red state, a trait it shares with Jackson County (Kansas City) and Boone County (the University of Missouri - Columbia). Speaking of counties ... Missouri has 114 counties, plus the City of St. Louis, which is not in any county. It used to be part of St. Louis County but voted to secede in 1876.

* [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams The St. Louis Cardinals]] (UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}}; used to be home to the football ones also, but they packed up and moved to Arizona)

* [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague St. Louis Blues]] (hockey)

* ''Series/{{Defiance}}'' is set in the city formerly known as St. Louis - the Gateway Arch survives while much of the city ended up buried underground.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SpiralZone'' episode "Island in the Zone" is set in St. Louis.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SpiralZone'' episode is set in St. Louis.

The Gateway Arch has a viewing area at its apex which can be reached by so-called tram cars that ascend either leg of the arch. Each tram consists of a chain of cars with circular cross-sections, which remain horizontal as they travel up and down the changing inclines. Definitely not for the claustrophobic, however, since each car holds five people with no standing room, and the cars look a bit like washing machine drums.