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I have the most vivid memories of going to the Pevely Fountain in the 1950's. It was always a special evening when my father would drive us there to have ice cream & watch the fountain. My favorite design was a basket weave. Considering this was before computer driven water shows, like the one at Bellagio in Las Vegas, there is still nothing like the beauty of the Oevely Fountain.
The water had colored lights playing on it in ever changing patterns. It was gorgeous, as was a similar fountain in Forest Park at the base of the hill leading up to the World's Fair Pavilion. Hundreds of people would gather there on summer nights and, before air conditioning, families would sleep in the park on hot nighs.
My dad and mom took my brother and me too--to get us to watch the playing lights and changing water designs and eat a cone (drip, drip) or a dish, or a dixie cup and fall asleep. I also remember it well. They weren't supposed to but once or twice when I was 10 the Pevely horse-drawn delivery truck driver from their Clayton stables next to the fountain would let me ride with him to make deliveries up in Richmond and give me a piece of ice to suck. After an hour or less he would drop me off at home in Tuscany Park. I was born in 1935.
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I have the most vivid memories of going to the Pevely Fountain in the 1950's. It was always a special evening when my father would drive us there to have ice cream & watch the fountain. My favorite design was a basket weave. Considering this was before computer driven water shows, like the one at Bellagio in Las Vegas, there is still nothing like the beauty of the Oevely Fountain.
ReplyDeleteThe water had colored lights playing on it in ever changing patterns. It was gorgeous, as was a similar fountain in Forest Park at the base of the hill leading up to the World's Fair Pavilion. Hundreds of people would gather there on summer nights and, before air conditioning, families would sleep in the park on hot nighs.
ReplyDeleteMy dad would take us here after dinner on a hot and humid summer night in St. Lou. I remember it like it was yesterday, and I'm 75 years old!
DeleteMy dad and mom took my brother and me too--to get us to watch the playing lights and changing water designs and eat a cone (drip, drip) or a dish, or a dixie cup and fall asleep. I also remember it well. They weren't supposed to but once or twice when I was 10 the Pevely horse-drawn delivery truck driver from their Clayton stables next to the fountain would let me ride with him to make deliveries up in Richmond and give me a piece of ice to suck. After an hour or less he would drop me off at home in Tuscany Park. I was born in 1935.
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