KDHX

88.1 KDHX is a listener-supported, non-profit radio station from St. Louis, Missouri. The above sticker can be had for a mere $1.00 at the station's web store, along with a variety of t-shirts and other logoed items.
Two older KDHX stickers can be seen here.

KFUO AM & FM

KFUO (Keep Forward Upward Onward) is a Religious station licensed to Clayton, Missouri near St. Louis. They went on the air in 1924 and their radio studio is the longest running broadcast facility in the United States.

99.1 KFUO went on the air in 1948 and was the first FM station in St. Louis. In July, 2010, after 62 years as a Classical music station, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod sold KFUO-FM to Gateway Creative Broadcasting who flipped 99.1 to Contemporary Christian KLJY "Joy FM." Some former KFUO-FM staff members are now involved with the new internet home of "Classic 99."

Anheuser-Busch / KMOX

While in St. Louis we took a tour of the Anheuser-Busch brewery.

The tour was very interesting. Anheuser-Busch was formed in 1869 and became the largest brewer in the United States in 1957. Three buildings on its site are listed as National Historic Landmarks. Afterwards we got two free glasses of beer. I chose a Shock Top and a Stella Artois. I had no idea that A-B brewed, imported or distributed so many brands besides Budweiser: Beck's, Michelob, Natural Light, Bass Ale, Rolling Rock and Bacardi Silver among many others.

The best part of the tour might have been seeing the famous Budweiser Clydesdales. There are five "hitches" or teams of horses that travel the country for promotional purposes and one hitch that stays at the brewery in a historic brick stable. To become a Budweiser Clydesdale the horse must have a reddish-brown coat, four white stocking feet and a blaze of white on their face. If not, then it's off to the glue factory they probably stay at Anheuser-Busch-owned Grant's Farm or their breeding facility Warm Springs Ranch.

I knew these horses were massive but you really have no idea until you're right up next to one (I'm 5'11".)

I also saw two beer wagon dalmatians scamper through the stable but they ran off before I could get a picture.

KMOX is a News/Talk station from St. Louis, Missouri. Anheuser-Busch owned the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team from 1953 to 1996. The Cardinals home of Busch Stadium was originally going to be called Budweiser Stadium but was prevented from doing so by Major League Baseball. A-B went ahead and named it Busch Stadium and then slyly introduced a new brew called Busch Bavarian Beer.

KMOX

While walking to our eventual dinner destination one evening, I spotted the home of the legendary KMOX, "The Voice of St. Louis."

1120 AM is a 50,000-watt clear-channel News/Talk station that first broadcast on Christmas Eve 1925. They carried St. Louis Cardinal baseball games from 1954 until 2005 when they lost the rights to KTRS. The 2011 season marks the return of KMOX as the flagship station of the Redbirds.

Gateway Arch / WARH

Today we spent a few hours in and around the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. The Arch stands 630 feet tall (as well as wide) and is the tallest man-made monument in the United States. It was built as a structural expression of westward expansion of the US and was completed in 1965.

To get to the top you have to crawl inside this bizarre little "egg pod."

Here's the view looking west into downtown St. Louis. The Mississippi River and Illinois is directly behind. On the left you can see part of Busch Stadium where U2 had played a few nights before. They were in the process of replacing 110,000 square feet of grass which was removed for the concert. The new sod had to be replaced and in playable condition for the St. Louis Cardinals return from a road trip in one week. Earlier, we watched an excellent and dead-on U2 tribute band at a plaza downtown.


At the north base of the Arch.

"106.5 The Arch" WARH is an Adult Hits station licensed to Granite City, Illinois, just outside St. Louis.

Another Arch-related radio sticker can be seen here.

KSTL

KSTL is a Religious Teaching/Christian station from ST. Louis, Missouri.

WEW

St. Louis Missouri's WEW (We Enlighten the World) carries Brokered Ethnic programming including a mishmash of shows like The Croatian Hour, German Talk Radio, Polka Plus and Voice of West Bosnia. Two hours each weekday morning are devoted to Adult standards and Big Band music.
WEW is the oldest radio station west of the Mississippi River and their website claims that they're the second oldest in the country, having been licensed in April of 1921.

Bulls

Today is the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. People are inevitably injured every year during the event but "only" 15 have died since 1910. Olé!!

In honor of the daredevils idiots who take part in the event, here are three bull stickers:

KTBL was a Classic Country station in Albuquerque, New Mexico from 1996 to 2001. Currently Adult Hits KDRF "Ed FM."

KSD is a Country station from St. Louis, Missouri.

WYBL is a Country station licensed to Ashtabula, Ohio.

Rush Gets Rammed

Conservative blowhard Rush Limbaugh was dropped from the group looking to buy the St. Louis Rams football team. Limbaugh predictably blamed “the left” in this country from preventing his bid to become an NFL owner. The even blowhardier Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have tried to block Rush from buying the team because of his past comments, particularly one about Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb being overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.

103.3 KLOU is an Oldies/Classic Hits station in St. Louis, Missouri. They were the Rams flagship station from 2000 until 2008. Until they lost the rights to Rams games this year to WXOS, KLOU's HD2 station carried "All Rams Radio," a year-round playback of entire past games.



960 AM KZIM (ZIMmer Radio Group--the former owners) is a News/Talk station licensed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri. I find this sticker confusing. KZIM is located in Rush Limbaugh's hometown and carries his program but is saying that Rush is NOT right? Am I missing something here?

Gateway Arch Opens

The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri opened on this day back in 1967. The concrete and steel structure was designed twenty years earlier by two Finnish-Americans, one of whom died before he could see it completed. The Arch is both 630 feet tall and 630 feet feet wide at its base, which makes it the tallest monument in the United States. The core is hollow, allowing visitors to ride a tram to an observation deck where you can see 30 miles on a clear day.
In 1994 I saw the Arch in person albeit from the highway. I was on my way to KPNT's second-ever daylong PointFest where the only bands I remember seeing were Material Issue and the Violent Femmes. I think Lisa Loeb sang her one hit as well but it's all a blur at this point.

KDHX (K Double HeliX Corporation, the name of the non-profit owner) is a listener-supported community station licensed to St. Louis, MO.

Here's an older, Archless sticker. I just now noticed that the 1 in their frequency forms the back of the K in their call letters.