GATEWAY ARCH TURNS 30 YEARS OLD

The view of the St. Louis skyline from the top of the Gateway Arch is clear during the 40th birthday celebration of the 630 foot monument in downtown St. Louis on October 28, 2005. The tallest monument in the United States, designed by Eero Saarinen, took two and a half years to errect and was built for its simplicist design but later became a symbol of the Gateway to the West. (UPI Photo/Bill Greenblatt)