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During a recent visit to St. Louis, I crammed my 6'3" self into a tiny pod to the top of the Arch. On my way into the pod launching area, there were various exhibits about how the Arch was built. One of them featured a transit and photo about "Arch engineers" (yeah, I know) and another was a picture of a surveyor looking through a transit.

Also ran into this cute chick at the launching area and was lucky enough that she joined me on the trip to the top.

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Posted : October 19, 2013 4:19 pm

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Rather late in the afternoon wasn't it?

Those little pods force you to be a LITTLE too close to strangers carrying all sorts of exotic communicable diseases. Definitely not a welcome sight to anyone prone to claustrophobia. And, that little jolt every time it rotates a little bit is disconcerting to some.

As for me, I enjoyed it.

Posted : October 19, 2013 5:46 pm

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I can see she's smiling, but methinks I see fear in her eyes.

Posted : October 19, 2013 6:19 pm

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> I can see she's smiling, but me thinks I see fear in her eyes.

Yea...just a little...But when we got to the top and I got OUT of that capsule, I was ok until the Arch itself started swaying; then that REAL look of fear came into my eyes and I got the hell OUT of there!! :'( :-O

Some idiot up there did not help matters by saying "Oh, I wonder what it would feel like if we had an earthquake right now!" I wanted to put a muzzle on him. :-X

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Posted : October 19, 2013 6:52 pm

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The segments of the arch were set with a Wild T-2 (per the photos) and not with the Wild RDS (a reducing tacheometer) in the plexiglas display.

Posted : October 19, 2013 7:24 pm

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"Some idiot up there did not help matters by saying "Oh, I wonder what it would feel like if we had an earthquake right now!"

That's like the dude sitting alongside you in the plane watching "WORLDS WORST PLANE CRASHES" on You Tube. :-O

Posted : October 20, 2013 7:15 am

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On our recent baseball trip, both my wife and my friend's wife wouldn't come out into the viewing area after they got out of the elevator.

They turned around and went right back to the elevator waiting area.

I got more dizzy looking up from the bottom than down from the top.

Posted : October 21, 2013 9:16 am

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Scared Women!! (Pic)

I have a similar "Making the beeline for the exit" photo...Us women are smart!! 😀
(Or scared!!) o.O

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Posted : October 21, 2013 7:20 pm

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> "Some idiot up there did not help matters by saying "Oh, I wonder what it would feel like if we had an earthquake right now!"
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> That's like the dude sitting alongside you in the plane watching "WORLDS WORST PLANE CRASHES" on You Tube. :-O

Exactly. :-@

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Posted : October 21, 2013 7:27 pm

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Scared Women!! (Pic)

In about 1976 my 2 year-old daughter accompanied me to the top of the arch. Everything was perfectly fine until I put her up so she could look through one of the little windows where you can see straight DOWN. She took off like ol' Taz the Tasmanian Devil in the old cartoons. Spinning, whirling, jumping, looking for anwhere to go that wasn't where she was.

Posted : October 22, 2013 6:45 am