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Just 30 minutes from downtown St. Louis in Alton, Illinois’ 750 acre Gordon F. Moore Community Park, our nearly 7,000 yd. 18-Hole Championship layout and 9-Hole Learning Center provide challenges, opportunities, and fun for golfers of all skill levels. No event found!
96. The Alton Museum of History and Art will also host an all-day birthday bash Thursday, with birthday cake, extended hours from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and free admission. They’ve also refreshed their Robert Wadlow display and added new artifacts.
The chair and statue are in a park off College Avenue, Alton. Jessica is the daughter of Julie and Dan Harder of Alton, and Drew is the son of Sheila and Dean Emerick of Bethalto, Illinois. Archive photo by Sam Leone
14. Gladys Campbell Kelly, 99, of Roxana, went to first grade with Robert and says he was taller than the teacher, Mrs. Manley but had emotions like a normal 6-year-old boy. “One day in the classroom he fell and hit his head and he cried,” Kelly recalls. “And Mrs. Manley got on her tip toes and kissed him on the head, and that made it all well.”
54. The Wadlow family filed another libel suit against Time magazine, but that was dismissed. Harold Jr. later told Brannan, the author of “Boy Giant”, that the family knew that they wouldn’t win the suits but wanted an apology, which they got from Time magazine. That helped them cope with pain and hurt feelings.
Tyler Wright was 12 years old and a student at Pattonville Heights Middle School when he set the record for largest male afro in 2015. It was 10 inches high, 9 inches wide, and 5 feet, 10 inches in circumference when it was measured on June 29, 2015.
Jimmy Sewell with the Mascot Agency marketing firm in St. Louis and Strange Donuts owner Jason Bockman achieved this record at Loufest in Forest Park in 2017, when they parked a decommissioned Metro bus on the upper Muny lot and got people to put 29,083 stickers on it.
Despite being bought by Milwaukee-based Marcus Theatres in 2016, St. Louis-bsed Wehrenberg Theatres is still listed as the oldest operated cinema chain. It first opened in 1906 as the Cherokee Theatre by former blacksmith Fred Wehrenberg.
The largest belt buckle is 3.08 meters (10 feet, 1.44 inches) tall and 4.07 meters (13 feet, 4.45 inches) wide, set on May 26, 2017 by Louie Keen, the “Mayor” of Uranus, a tourist attraction about 100 miles west of St. Louis along Interstate 44 in Pulaski County.
On Sept. 27, 2014, 1,132 people gathered at Lyons Memorial Stadium in Kirkwood and patted their heads and rubbed their stomachs for more than a minute. The district called the event “The Great Pat Rub,” and did it to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the school district. (photo by Daniel Pease)