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St Louis Gateway Arch Travel Postcard

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18 pt thickness / 120 lb weight Soft white, soft eggshell texture
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Create your own vacation-worthy postcard! Any view you’ve seen, any monument you’ve fallen in love with, can all be added to your postcard with our personalisation tool.

  • Dimensions: 14.22 cm L x 10.79 cm H; qualified USPS postcard size
  • High quality, full-colour, full-bleed printing on both sides

Paper Type: Signature Matte

Our Signature Matte paper is a customer favorite—smooth to the touch with a soft eggshell texture that elevates any design. Its sturdy 18 pt weight and natural feel make it the ideal choice for timeless, sophisticated events.

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  • Made and Printed in the USA
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St Louis Gateway Arch Travel Postcard

St Louis Gateway Arch Travel Postcard

Rising like a gleaming crescent against the skyline of downtown St. Louis, the Gateway Arch soars 630 feet into the Missouri sky—its stainless‑steel skin catching the changing light of dawn and dusk in a million subtle hues. Designed by Eero Saarinen and completed in 1965 as the centerpiece of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, the Arch commemorates America’s westward expansion and the pioneers who followed the Missouri River into uncharted territory. From below, its perfect inverted‑catenary curve frames the Mississippi River and the rolling bluffs beyond, creating an enduring visual metaphor for both passage and possibility. On sunny afternoons, its reflective surface seems almost liquid, while under stormy clouds, the steel silhouette takes on a solemn, almost reverent air. Inside, a narrow, tubular tram climbs through the Arch’s hollow legs to a pair of observation capsules perched at the apex. The ride—an ingenious blend of tram and ferris‑wheel mechanics—feels intimate and slightly surreal as you inch upward through the Arch’s steel ribs. At the top, small windows offer a panoramic tableau: ribboned highways crisscross the city grid, riverboats crawl along the mirrored current below, and the endless Midwestern plains stretch toward the horizon. Back on the ground, the Museum at the Gateway Arch traces the story of St. Louis’s role in westward migration, weaving artifacts and interactive exhibits into the broader narrative of American exploration. Whether viewed from the riverfront park or from the gentle rises of nearby Laclede’s Landing, the Arch endures as an icon of aspiration—an elegant monument to the spirit of discovery that shaped the nation.

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