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Readers say new bridge should be named for Dred & Harriet Scott

May 19, 2010 Downtown, Transportation 10 Comments

The poll last week asked about the name of the new bridge being built across the Mississippi River.

Q: The new Mississippi River bridge is named “Ronald Wilson Reagan Memorial Bridge” but should named in honor of?

  1. Dred & Harriet Scott 39 [16.05%]
  2. Miles Davis 36 [14.81%]
  3. Other answer… 33 [13.58%]
  4. Ronald Wilson Reagan Memorial Bridge is good. 29 [11.93%]
  5. Pierre Laclede 24 [9.88%]
  6. Ulysses S. Grant 15 [6.17%]
  7. Louis Armstrong 14 [5.76%]
  8. Auguste Chouteau 13 [5.35%]
  9. Josephine Baker 10 [4.12%]
  10. Elijah Lovejoy 8 [3.29%]
  11. Phyllis Diller 7 [2.88%]
  12. Vincent Price 5 [2.06%]
  13. Katherine Dunham 5 [2.06%]
  14. Susan Blow 2 [0.82%]
  15. Agnes Moorehead 2 [0.82%]
  16. Shelley Winters 1 [0.41%]
  17. Irma Rombauer 0 [0%]
  18. Harland Bartholomew 0 [0%]

“Other” placed third, here are those answers along with the date & time received and commentary by me.

  1. John Hinckley, Jr. Friday, May 14th 8:03AM [ouch!]
  2. Mound City Friday, May 14th 3:34AM
  3. Henry Shaw Bridge Friday, May 14th 12:30AM [he has enough stuff with his name on it.]
  4. Nelly Thursday, May 13th 6:16AM
  5. Tru-Link (Truman-Lincoln) Wednesday, May 12th 10:40PM
  6. Ike Turner Wednesday, May 12th 6:36PM
  7. Generic Design Wednesday, May 12th 4:42PM
  8. James E. Slagle Memorial Bridge Wednesday, May 12th 9:25AM [a friend that passed away last year]
  9. Tennessee Williams Tuesday, May 11th 11:42AM
  10. Anyone/thing BUT Reagan. Tuesday, May 11th 10:19AM
  11. Anyone but Reagan Tuesday, May 11th 10:18AM
  12. Ronald Reagan Tuesday, May 11th 6:51AM
  13. T. S. Eliot Bridge Monday, May 10th 8:45PM
  14. Charles Lindbergh Monday, May 10th 12:16PM
  15. Meriwether Bridge Monday, May 10th 10:25AM
  16. George W. Bush Monday, May 10th 7:19AM [I'd go with Reagan before Bush]
  17. Homer G. Phillips Monday, May 10th 6:37AM
  18. I-70 bridge Sunday, May 9th 11:48PM
  19. Don’t name it after a person. Sunday, May 9th 7:21PM [suggestions?]
  20. Luther Ely Smith Sunday, May 9th 6:33PM
  21. Mark Twain Sunday, May 9th 2:53PM
  22. Albert Pujols Bridge Sunday, May 9th 12:54PM
  23. Dave Sinclair Sunday, May 9th 11:48AM
  24. Albert Pujols Sunday, May 9th 10:27AM
  25. John Berry Meachum Sunday, May 9th 10:27AM
  26. Veterans’ Bridge Sunday, May 9th 10:25AM
  27. Mary Meachum (underground railroad) Sunday, May 9th 10:06AM
  28. Dred Scott Sunday, May 9th 8:12AM
  29. nobody, no one Sunday, May 9th 8:09AM
  30. Malcolm X Sunday, May 9th 7:43AM
  31. Stan Musial Sunday, May 9th 7:00AM
  32. Peter E. Parisi Sunday, May 9th 6:40AM
  33. Max Factor Sunday, May 9th 5:58AM

I’m still not sure if the name of the bridge is up for debate or if it is a done deal.

- Steve Patterson

  • RyleyinSTL

    Dred & Harriet Scott sounds good to me. Their struggle against racial injustices and hate is a story we shouldn't forget.

  • mj314

    # Peter E. Parisi Sunday, May 9th 6:40AM … I like that one… hahaha nice!

  • JZ71

    16% is no mandate, nor is it anything near a consensus. A start, yes, but no more of a final answer than Ronald Reagan appears to be . . .

    • Steve K.

      Right.

      Instead of “Most Readers say. . .”, Steve's title here should read “A Plurality of Those Responding to my poll say. . .”

      • http://urbanreviewstl.com/ Steve Patterson

        Poor headline on my part — I just deleted “most” from the start of the headline.

  • Mike

    I think Reagan is a great name for our new bridge. This is probably a bit of a stretch, but perhaps the name will lend itself to the city's effort to promote itself around the country as a nice Midwestern city, centered on traditional family values. Reagan did represent, in many ways, the true spirit of a America.

    • samizdat

      What, by being a war criminal? Oh, and he didn't “save” the Soviet people from a statist economy. The dissidents did. Andrei and Yelena Sakharov were the most prominent amongst thousands who resisted the Soviet state apparatus. Mr. Reagan oversaw the increased destabilisation of Central America through that administration's aid of military and economic assets to some of the most brutal and anti-democratic regimes in modern history. Rape and murder of Catholic nuns Maura Clark, Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel and lay worker Jean Donovan anyone? Left in a shallow grave by the side of the road?Massacres of entire villages by troops trained by our military “advisors” and with our money? Murder of six Jesuit priests and their housekeeper and her child? All of it, blood on Ronald Reagan's hands. This is just a short list of his crimes. Well, our crimes. All in the name of anti-communism. Oh, I forgot. The murder by assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero DURING MASS! Are you too young to know about this, or does your fealty to a particular idealogy blind you to the facts? Putting Ronald Reagan's name on the bridge is a slap in the face to American values and ideals. Reagan was in many ways a fabrication, the perfect storm of marketing and an economic downturn caused by our countries addiction to Saudi oil, and the Iranian hostage incident. Ironically, considering that the Shah Reza Pahlavi was installed by the US and Great Britain in 1953–at the behest of British Petroleum, part of historical record–it's possible that the entirety of the destabilisation of the middle east may not have happened if we had left the Iranian people to their own devices. But, no, the radical elements of Islam used this and others of what they saw as affronts to their religion to radicalise large numbers of the populace. American foreign policy has been a disaster in the that area of the world. And St. Ronnie only made things worse. I could go on, but I may as well be talking to a brick wall.

      • samizdat

        Re: BP/Iran. It was probably no coincidence that about the time that we usurped the will of the Iranian people, the US had ceased producing 100% percent of our own oil and gas. We began importing oil in about 1954-55. Don't like the guy running that country? Overthrow it and install someone, ahem, friendlier to our interests. Yeah, real American values there. FYI, just because American, British and French oil companies discovered and developed the middle eastern oil fields, the oil, and the land above it, still belonged to the nations and peoples of that region. Ya' know, soveriegnty, and all that.

  • Michael

    The John Hinckley Bridge would be PRICELESS. Much love for Dred and Harriet, but I'm disappointed that Phyllis Diller lost. Vincent Price, too.

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