The St Louis bargain hunt is now in the books, it has come and gone like
the leaves blowing in the wind. Nicole aka Sassy blog her own version
of the trip, she was taking down notes on the way out to the airport, so
anyway here is my take on the trip.
Tuesday arrived in Granite
City to spend three hours on the Chain Of Rocks bridge and then returned
to watch the sunset and the harvest moon rise up. Found a couple
albums at the GC Salvation Army store, Astrid Gilberto's Fly Me To The
Moon and Black and White's 1983 Geffen album. The service was slow at
Hardee's but they gave me a couple of cookies to go with the 2 hot ham
and cheese that I got.
Wedensday spent down at University City
and hung around at Vintage Vinyl and down to Euclid Records and FYE on
Hampton. Had some yummy chicken n noodles at Noodles and Company in
Delmar Blvd. And then went to the airport to pick up SassyPassey and
sat down and talk of old times. First time I have seen her since the
2000 Mingles party.
Thursday, went into a fucking Monsoon storm
back to the Record Exchange to which Sassey bought more cds than I did.
I wouldn't picked anything up but managed to find the first OKane's
CD. For the first time, I went up into the fabled Arch along with her
and took pictures and marveled at the way the new Busch Stadium looked
from the top. I didn't think much of the security that stripped
searched us but had to marveled that I finally got a chance to go up in
the arch. Takes about four minites to get up there and down.
Thankfully my causterphobia didn't act up. Then we walked about four
blocks down to the Hard Rock Cafe, when we could have taken the Metro
and got there sooner. But we did return to the car via the Metro.
Friday,
back to the Chain Of Rocks Bridge and it was windy as hell, cloudy and
cool. We got fucked out of the weather with it being so cloudy and
windy. Then went and got some mexican food in University City again.
And another return to Vintange Vinyl to which I did buy more CDs than
her.
Saturday, we took a drive around St louis and got to see the
arch at night lighting up the skies and we drove across the Eads Bridge
twice. And on Sunday, took her back to the airport and I made one more
trip to the St Louis Galleria, a fancy mall that had a FYE and then it
was back home except for a two hour stop off at Hannibal to take some
pictures and then got home real late.
Cheapest gas was in St Louis at the Quik Trip at 2.06 a gallon.
I didn't eat any pizza down there, seems like it was mexican or Jack In The Box since it was the only close eatery to the hotel.
KSHE
94.7 remains the best radio station down there, they blew my mind with
some Journey from the first album, this is before Steve Perry people.
Also the public radio station played some vintage Ray Price and Willie
Nelson and even reagge to which blew Sassy's mind.
I was a week
too early for The Bottle Rockets show at Blueberry Hill but we did
stumbled across Slotom's, a hole in the wall dive that the Bottle
Rockets sang and you can see on their 24 Hours A Day album.
Anyway,
I spent too much on CDs, went to one too many but that's the fun of the
St Louis Bargain Hunts. And I did find some cool deals in selected
stores, most notably the Okane's and Budgie's first album. Think I'll
be all right, till new release Tuesday.
And it's back to Best Buy again.
