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.
