Changing The Light Bulb On Top Of The St. Louis Gateway Arch

by Scott Beale on November 29, 2008 · 4 comments

Here’s a KTVI news story on Chuck Kalert, the guy who has changed the light bulb on the top of the Saint Louis Gateway Arch each year for the last 15 years. The top of the Arch is 630 feet above the ground.

via The J-Walk Blog

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1 KevinEvans November 29, 2008 at 2:07 pm

That is just plain wrong, they need to get a robot to do that!

;-)

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2 loser November 29, 2008 at 4:53 pm

figures he was on a fucking cell phone. jesus!

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3 pewma November 29, 2008 at 7:59 pm

Oh jeeze! whatever! this guy has a great job. have you ever been to the top of the arch? granted, it's no view from the sears tower or anything but for a city of it's size it's really cool.

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4 Les Ismore November 30, 2008 at 10:51 am

Looks like big fun to me! Sign me up!

On the TV coverage: Does Fox go out of their way to find pricks for their anchors? The bulb guy is very nice, trying to say, “I need to put the phone down, can I call you back?”… the response of the anchors is a snigger and “just put the phone down, Chuck”.

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