My mother who was in her 50s and father who was in his 60’s and afraid of heights. gave me a special birthday dinner at Stouffers Riverfront Inn. Of course the revolving restaurant was the real appeal. My father loved to dance so he and I would get on the dance floor while mother watched us. The only problem was that the outer edge, about 8 inches in depth did not rotate while the seating area did. As many others experienced,,she set her purse on the 8 inch outer ring. Of course she just rotated away, leaving the purse behind. After some embarrassed hunting we were able to track it down. Sadly a while later, when she and my father were dancing it happened again. This time a kind waiter helped us on our hunt. The third time my mother for asked me and the waiter just to hunt for it on the sly, so dad never knew.
My first visit to Saint Louis was for the 82nd Airborne convention in 2008. I was on active duty at the time stationed in Fort Bragg North Carolina. A few solider friends and I made the drive to Saint Louis to party and have fun for a few days. The convention was held at the Melenium Hotel which somehow survived dispute our best efforts of bad behavior. We had a great time and to make a long story short, I ended up meeting my future wife on a riverboat cruise and I have been living in Saint Louis since 2010, we have been married for 14 years.
I got my engagement ring at dinner in the revolving restaurant,Top of the Riverfront, in October 1969. When we planned where to stay on our wedding night there was only one choice for us, Stouffer’s Hotel. We parked our car and checked in to the hotel. The next morning we left to head to New Orleans for our honeymoon. When we picked up our car, the attendant told us we had parked illegally and they were about to get us towed until they noticed the “Just married” sign on the car. They told us they didn’t want to disturb us which was so nice of them. Fast forward to 2008 when our son and wife chose to spend their wedding night at the same place as us though by then it had changed hands. My husband and I drove them there after the wedding and felt we had come full circle. We celebrated 55 years of marriage this past March and hold such fond memories of the hotel.
my husband and I spent our wedding night at what was called Stouffers Hotel. When we got on the elevator I assumed there were other couples there for their wedding night as all the ladies wore a corsage. The date was Valentines Day. February 14,1070
Not sure the year, but we decided to spend that New years Eve, for dinner, drinks, and music (hubby thinks maybe 2005). We had a few and went up to the floor our room was on, but it wasn't there, got on elevator and went another floor thinking maybe on wrong floor, in the end we had to go down to reception desk and say our room disappeared 😉. They were very nice and took us to the floor the room was on and what we didn't know there was accordion doors on the outside of the regular door, so we couldn't see our door with the room number, we laughed so hard and felt ready dumb, but one of the best New Years Eve with dinner and drinks and a very funny memorie
I remember going to the restaurant once as a child and how much fun it was to stand with one foot on the revolving part and the other on the stationary part. So much fun!
For many years the Millennium Hotel ballroom hosted the Cardinals Winter Warmup where fans could interact with Cardinals legends. I was so lucky to go in 2004 and get an autograph from my all-time favorite Cardinal, Edgar Renteria, who just this year was inducted in to the Cardinals Hall of Fame! This picture even hangs on my desk at Gateway Arch Park Foundation. As a staff member, it's so fun to look back on the memories of the Millennium Hotel, and to also to be excited about the future of this site and how important it is to downtown St. Louis. Go Cards!
The 10th annual Archon science fiction convention was held there in July of '87. Our room block was in the tower, and all of the air conditioners on the south side of the tower were down the whole weekend. Most of our Saturday night programming was in ballrooms in the subbasement. A pipe burst and wrecked both the elevators and the escalator. Even when these buildings were still fairly new, they were falling apart because they were so cheaply built.
When I was a kid I always loved driving by the "round hotel" and hearing stories about the rotating restaurant at the top. How good the view was; how good the food was; all of it. Plus the funny stories of setting a purse down on the windowsill only to have misplaced the purse later because the windowsill didn't rotate with the rest of the floor. I desperately wanted to go, and so my parents promised me we could go as a celebration of my graduating jr. high.
Well, graduation came and went and sure enough we managed to find time to go. I think it was a Sunday brunch buffet. We all got dressed up and drove over to the hotel, and I was so excited.
The food was excellent and I had a really good time, but I kept loosing where we were sitting. I'd get up to get food and by the time I'd decided on what I wanted the table would have moved. It was really funny to see a fair few people roaming around with the same dilemma as well.
First of all, I want to express my deep sadness to read that this building is being destroyed. It's been an important part of our skyline for many years and I find it difficult to believe it couldn't have been preserved over the years.
My story is shortly after graduating colleges and marrying in 1972-73?? friends from Chicago came for a visit. To be fancy we decided to go to the top for dinner with a view. At the end we were all feeling very successful and grown up in that we were able to go out for a fancy dinner and spend $125 for the four of us to dine out. Yes--that's the price for four. It was a wonderful experience and I hate to see the building disappear.
The ballroom of the then-Regal Riverfront Hotel served as the Media Center during the Pastoral Visit to St. Louis of Pope St. John Paul II in January 1999. More than 2,500 reporters from around the world were credentialed the attend the Papal Visit, and the hotel and its ballroom served as the reporters' designated living/working location.
When I was young, my family would get dressed up and my Dad would take us to the Millennium (then the Clarion) during the 4th of July celebrations downtown. We thought he was the coolest Dad (he was) and that he must be a pretty important guy to get us dinner and fireworks at the fancy spinning restaurant! I remember the anticipation of guessing where our table would be when the fireworks started and how excited my siblings and I were. Without fail, every year, our table ended up with the best view and we would stand up and cheer with the rest of the diners. These are now cherished memories of my family and childhood.
