When Disneyland opened in California in the mid-1950s, it was immediately a huge success. And the genius behind Mickey, Donald, and Goofy soon began dreaming of another amusement park.

When Disneyland opened in California in the mid-1950s, it was immediately a huge success. And the genius behind Mickey, Donald, and Goofy soon began dreaming of another amusement park.

He had learned to fly a balloon in Paris...by 1907 he had formed the Aero Club in St. Louis and helped the city host the first international air race in the United States. Two years later, Lambert bought a plane from the Wright Brothers, and Orville Wright himself taught him to fly.

Even as President, success never came easily for Harry Truman. A former failed farmer and businessman, the Missouri native was accustomed to long odds.

The Lemp Mansion is now a restaurant and bed and breakfast...you can spend the night in the same room where Charles Lemp took his life in 1949. Beware, some claim the house is haunted. Still host to the tragic family that once lived there.

Jerome Hanna Dean was a remarkable pitcher. Better known as Dizzy for his colorful style and flamboyant pronouncements, the fireballing righthander won 30 games in 1934 for the famed Gashouse Gang Cardinals.

Almost fifty years ago presidential politics was all the talk then too as a young senator counted on Illinois to provide a springboard to the White House.

It was late in the year for a tornado, but Mother Nature didn't check the calender as a twister roared into the southwestern part of the city in late September, 1927.

Theirs was a long and seldom successful history ...and so it seemed fitting that the Browns played their last game in St. Louis under less than ideal conditions.

In the late summer of 1963, St. Louis was still a city steeped in segregation at schools, lunch counters and swimming pools.