nobody Wrote:
The City Museum, which is a unique attraction for all ages that you should check out when you're in town. They stay open until 1 AM and serve drinks on the weekends.
So we were in St Louis last week for a few days (sorry for the no-call, Nobody, we was booked up solid), and this museum deserved a LOT more press than this. Holy fuck. It's not really a museum, it's an 11-story building full of welded metal and flowing, dimly lit organic concrete grottos. Passageways and bridges and stairs and slides, all welded out of salvaged steel and iron, all barely lit with NO way-finding signage whatsoever... if you're going downhill-ish, you're heading towards the exit... ish. I was in there with an architect friend and neither of us could fathom how this place ever passed any sort of code. We were thrilled it exists, but holy fuck there were SO many ways to get hurt / lost / raped. It was fucking killer. At one point on the roof, we exited a school bus that dangles over the edge of the building and saw a sign for a "10 story slide! --->" So we walked over, climbed down some stairs, and found this:
I snapped this shitty pic with my blackberry 3 seconds before plunging down a spiral metal slide that spun me in tight circles on overlapping metal plates for what felt like a solid 30 seconds. I pulled my knees up to go even faster but I hit them on the steel rebar cage that runs on the top on the slide... and when you get to the bottom, you slide out on a bare metal floor, again in really dim, red light. Shit was nuts. She slid out after me and it took us another 10 minutes to find our way out of the building through the grottos. Tubes and tunnels and crazy shit everywhere, all full of kids - up by your head, down by your feet, little holes that lead to other rooms, and just a few red or green light bulbs back out of sight. The rule seemed to be "if you can squeeze a 6-yr-old kid through it, it goes somewhere."
