A collection of my wife's siblings and cousins, gathered some distance from the newly opened Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, 1966.

Posted to VPTP for the theme, "Tall".The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch,[5] it is the world's tallest arch,[4] the tallest man-made monument in the Western Hemisphere,[6] and Missouri's tallest accessible building. Built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States,[5] and officially dedicated to "the American people," the Arch, commonly referred to as "The Gateway to the West" is the centerpiece of Gateway Arch National Park and has become an internationally recognized symbol of St. Louis, as well as a popular tourist destination. (Wikipedia) The designer of the arch was Finnish-American architect, Eero Saarinen, whose entry in design competition was selected in 1948. The arch was not completed until October, 1965.