Lambert-St. Louis Int’l Airport

Custard vending machine at STL Airport

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Just in time for summer, vending machines dispensing a frozen custard famous in St. Louis have been installed on the concourses at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.

The machines are filled with custard cups known as concretes – malts or shakes so thick they can be served upside down – from Ted Drewes, a popular family-owned ice-cream shop with two branches in St. Louis.

STL custard machine

The vending machines are stocked with six “concrete” flavors: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, Oreo cookie, Heath Bar and chocolate chip. Each 8 ounce cup is $6 and when a purchase is made “the machine opens the fridge door, and arm with a suction picks up the flavor requested and then drops it into the retrieve area,” said airport spokesman Jeff Lea.

Party this week at Lambert-St. Louis Int’l Airport

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Lambert THANKS

Lambert=St. Louis International Airport is celebrating National Tourism Week with a #LambertThanks event all this week.

Look for giant Chihuly-style balloon chandeliers suspended from the soaring ceilings in the ticketing areas and a full schedule of entertainment including live music in the concourses and visits from the St. Louis Cardinals’ Fredbird and the Looney Tunes characters from Six Flags St. Louis.

But wait – there’s more…. the airlines will joining in the celebration with “festive décor” and suprises, Schlafly Beer Bar & Grill in Concourse C will have daily prize drawings, with a grand prize drawing at the end of the week for a Schlafly Brewery tour for 10 people. St. Louis Brewmaster’s Tap Room, 1876, LaTapenade and Beers of the World will also hold daily prize drawings for Anheuser-Busch sponsored backpacks and duffle bags, and will give away a grand prize Callaway Golf Club Cover.

Sound like fun? Events kick off Monday morning. You’ll find a detailed schedule here.

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Art made from the roof of Lambert-St. Louis Int’l Airport

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Here’s a great – and rare – way to get a work of art made from a piece of an airport.

Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is offering limited edition prints made of reclaimed copper from the airport’s historic Terminal 1 roof.

This one is my favorite:

Lambert roof art

Three St. Louis presses – The Firecracker Press, Pele Prints and Yellow Bear – were commissioned to developed imagery inspired by Lambert and the nostalgia of travel. They used woodcuts, etching, and chine-colle to alter copper tiles set aside during the 2014 replacement of the terminal’s original copper roof, which dated back to 1956.

Artist Amanda Verbeck of Pele Prints used the copper plate to incorporate flight paths onto colorful paper airplanes for “Take Fight.”

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Gina Alvarez of Yellow Bear used the copper to produce clouds connected by aviation navigation paths in “I Remember When.”

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The Firecracker Press used both copper and woodcuts to create the image up top of a couple taking off on vacation at Lambert in “The Honeymoon.”

Want one?

The prints are for sale via the Lambert Airport Art shop on Etsy. 

Aviation exhibit at Lambert-St. Louis Int’l Airport

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Lambert aviation exhibit

What better place to see artifacts from aviation history than in an airport?

Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is hosting a new exhibition in Terminal 1 featuring items on loan from the Greater St. Louis Air and Space Museum.

On displays: pristine aviation instruments, flight attendant and pilot uniforms, posters and other aviation-related memorabilia, much of it highlighting Lambert’s own history.

Look for an old Ozark Airlines sign, samples of boarding passes from carriers past and present and a lot of items from the golden years of TWA, which once had a hub here. There are also items related to the military here, including an ejection seat from a fighter jet.

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Fresh art at Lambert-St. Louis Int’l Airport

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A new exhibition at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport (STL) comes courtesy of the Missouri State Parks and features items from the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.

Covering five themes in five cases, the objects in the exhibit include raw materials of industry, hand-knit clothing, paper art, a hand-carved cane, a stained glass sampler and examples of manufactured goods.

Look for “Missouri Made” in the Lambert Gallery in Terminal 1 at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport through June 30, 2014.

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Fresh art at Lambert-St. Louis Int’l Airport

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Last week, we celebrated the fact that Charles Lindbergh’s 1934 Model D-127 Monocoupe plane was re-installed at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.

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Now there’s another reason to make a special visit to STL Airport:

STL FRISBEE DOG

By Steve Jones

A whimsical exhibition titled “Rat Race,” and featuring the work of fifteen artists associated with the Foundry Art Centre in St. Louis, MO, has opened in the airport’s Meeting Place Gallery, which is in the Terminal 1 baggage claim level, next to the Concourse C exit.

STL RAT RACE

By Laura Lloyd

Lindbergh’s plane back at Lambert-St. Louis Int’l Airport

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You may remember the tornado that hit Lambert-St. Louis International Airport in April, 2011, causing millions of dollars in damage.

The repair bill might have been much more had not Charles Lindbergh’s plane – a 1934 Model D-127 Monocoupe which had hung in Terminal 1 over the C Concourse checkpoint since 1979 – been moved to a storage hangar just a few weeks earlier in preparation for terminal renovations.

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According to the Missouri History Museum, which received the plane in 1940, Lindbergh flew this airplane regularly, but didn’t really love it. And even though he’d had it personalized extensively, he wrote that “it is one of the most difficult planes to handle I have ever flown. The take-off is slow…and the landing tricky…[it] is almost everything an airplane ought not to be.”

During the 30 years the airplane had been suspended from the STL ceiling it gathered a great deal of dust and was subject to a great deal of stress. So while the monocoupe was in storage, the museum gave it a conservation make-over and on Sunday, October 20, 2013 returned the plane to its original spot in the airport.

The nine-hour installation process is documented in this time-lapse video.

Re-hang of the Lindbergh Monocoupe at Lambert International Airport from Missouri History Museum on Vimeo.

At Lambert-St. Louis Int’l Airport: candy & Chuck Berry

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This is Customer Appreciation Week at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport (STL) and there’s a full schedule of fun underway, including live music, giveaways, special appearances in the terminals and “random surprises” for passengers riding the shuttles to and from the airport parking lots.

MONDAY JANUARY 30, 2007-Gooey butter cake prepared by Patricia Etter, of Webster Groves. PHOTO BY KATHERINE BISH

It all looks like a lot of fun, but my favorite events will be taking place on Friday, May 10th, when reps from Explore St. Louis will be on duty handing out one of the city’s signature food items, pre-packaged Gooey Louie cakes and passengers will able to get their pictures taken with (a cardboard cut-out of) St. Louis rock & roll icon Chuck Berry.

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Chuck Berry, courtesy St. Louis Convention and Visitor’s Commission. Photo by Dan Donovan

In addition to daily live music performances, here are few other highlights of the week:

Tuesday, May 7 is Mascot Day. Look for the mascots from the St. Louis Cardinals (Fredbird), the St. Louis Rams (Rampage), the St. Louis Blues (Louie) and Six Flags WB characters Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny.

Wednesday, May 8, is Airlines Day, and carriers will be handing out candy and other giveaways.

Here’s a link to the full schedule of Customer Appreciation Week at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.