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Is it just me or does the new "Busch Stadium" sign seem a little tacky if not temporary looking? I guess they have to prepare for the day when AB quits paying the bill and we end up with something like Pizza Hut Park.

I agree with you DanO. It is very "plasticky" looking.

It's looks really generic. Like they found a typeface by looking through a yearbook. It just has that high school feel.

Surprised they didn't just throw Arial up there. Everyone else uses that damn font in their signs.

I miss the days when new buildings had the names on them --- cast in stone. Backlit plastic signs look cheap and temporary. Something this big should have permanent signage (well, at least for 30 years until we tear it down for Busch IV.

The sign isn't the worst, but it certainly could be more classic, if that is the look they are going for. They did the old brick layer- a trend most hardline psuedo preservationist people actually prefer these days in new construction, a trend I honestly am indifferent towards, but if you go for the look, round it off. For a sign the retro look would be more of a neon. That would attract the eye a bit more than this. Something like on top of the Brewery. The metal backing is sharp for the style. I put in a sign on the front of my business and I thought about this long and hard. We used aluminum box with plastic backlit cutout plastic letters and neon. A little bit of everything, but it looks more appropriate for the building.

It would have been interesting to see something new in the stadium. Really new. Instead of a rehash. That would be nice in some of the new housing we are building. Something new. It is not the worst that we build retro houses that "blend in" with the neighborhood. If that is what people want, I will take the new resident citizens with a smile. I will take them with a smile if they want to build the Town and Country houses on Delmar. It is a shame that we dog new residents on their housing choices. We even go nuts when we see modern architecture like the one in TGS. I think it is on either Hartford or Juniata around Roger. It is distinct, different. It uses, gasp, plastic siding. But it is what the owner loves and more power to them. We call the tar paper shacks on the Hill quaint and pretty just because it is old and a solid community, so lets keep this in perspective.

Oh well, I just have high hopes, and when public dollars are used we should have even higher demands. It could be worse, we could have gotten a Comiskey.

I agree totally! I went down to the arch the other day and then walked around the new stadium and when I was the new Busch Stadium lettering, I thought it looked terrible. How much money was put into a new ballpark and then you get this cheap a** sign.

This post has some VERY interesting trackbacks.

Im 60 years old and left St. Louis when I was 19
years old. All of my memories were from old
"sportsman Park"-Busch Stadium-Grand Ave. For all
of you who never had the opportunity to attend a game there, you don't know what you missed! The short right field pavilion and the huge black
scoreboard with the flashing red-bird in left field being just a few of those memories. That
was a much better ball park than the recent Busch Stadium. Busch Stadium 1966-2005 was built for baseball and football. The "Cookie-Cutter concept
also built in Cincinnatti, Pittsburg, and Philedelphia have all been tore down and re-placed
with New-Retro-Look Parks. Until turf replaced and
a new look in the 90's added, Busch 1966-2005 was
a below average ball park that luckily had the best fans in baseball. If you know the game at all, you'll soon forget Busch 1966-2005 and be
proud of a "Real Ball Park"