Arts
St. Louis has connections to many of the world’s most distinguished talents and intellects. Though the entire city is pleased to emphasize this illustrious history, nowhere is it more clearly in evidence than on the St. Louis Walk of Fame on the Delmar Loop, a few blocks north of Washington University. Here, plaques embedded in the sidewalks tell much of the tale of the city’s artistic and cultural history. A sample of the honored musicians would have to include such diverse artists as Chuck Berry, Leonard Slatkin, Tina Turner, Ike Turner, Scott Joplin, Miles Davis, Willie Mae Ford Smith, and David Sanborn. Scientists include Marlin and Perkins, Masters & Johnson, and Arthur Holly Compton. The world of literature and journalism is represented by the likes of Maya Angelou, T.S. Eliot, Stanley Elkin, William Gass, A.E. Hotchner, Irma Rombauer, Tennessee Williams, and Joseph Pulitzer. Entertainers include Josephine Baker, dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham, Redd Foxx, John Goodman, Betty Grable, Dick Gregory, Robert Guillaume, Kevin Kline, Agnes Moorhead, and Vincent Price. Broadcasters and sports figures are Yogi Berra, Lou Brock, Hary Caray, Jack Buck, James “Cool Papa” Bell, Jimmy Connors, Bob Costas, Dizzy Dean, Roger Hornsby, Joe Garragiola, Stan Musial, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Ozzie Smith. Significant historical Americans with strong ties to St. Louis include Ulysses S. Grant, Charles Lindbergh, Dred Scott, William Tecumseh Sherman, and William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.