April 6, 1933. Midnight was approaching. A crowd of perhaps 25,000 milled around the Anheuser-Busch brewery on Pestalozzi Street. Inside the lobby of the Bevo packaging plant, August A. “Gussie” Busch Jr., grandson of the brewery’s patriarch, stepped up to a KMOX microphone. “April the seventh is here, and it is a real occasion for …
Get your game face on and your walking shoes… This one may turn out to be a little work but you’re gonna get a return this time…and just in time to be Thankful! Kris and I will be starting at the Gin Mill early, about 11 am to watch some college football (the majority of …