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tonkatoy8888

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1. There are an amazing number of famous people FROM St. Louis

Reply to darkstar (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2026, 04:34 PM

Tuesday

but they all left as soon as humanly possible.

Yogi Berra, John Ham, Fontella Bass, Maya Angelou, Josephine Baker, T Bone Burnett, William Burroughs, Jimmy Connors, Phyllis Diller, Robert Duvall, Charles Eames, Buddy Ebsen, and T.S. Eliot, to name a few.

St. Louis is a place where the people who really "count" are incredibly resistant to change and anything that upsets the status quo.

For instance, we could have been the headquarters of AT&T, but they wouldn't let the then president of Southern Bell join the most exclusive country club because he "wasn't the right type of person."

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