There is something else of note in Compton Hill Reservoir Park besides the water tower, where I went to shoot Sunday's photo. This statue is called Naked Truth and it's a local icon. The three names behind the figure were the editors of the German language St ... Louis Westliche Post in the early 20th Century. The statue was bankrolled by Adolphus Busch, founder of the Anheuser-Busch dynasty. There was a big brouhaha about the statue's nudity. Prudes demanded that it be draped ... The
Budweiser rules this town, as illustrated by these shots at Busch (as in Anheuser-Busch) Stadium during a Cardinals baseball game. Like the sign on the bottom says, Genuine St. Louis Since 1876. Except it's not anymore, not since AB sold out to the Belgian-Brazilian megabrewer Inbev, resulting in hundreds of local layoffs. Budweiser is pretty bland, anyway, IMHO ...
More than 130 krewes and floats march, sing and throw beads to the rowdy hordes lining the streets. The Grand Parade steps off at 11 a.m. in front of Busch Stadium (Broadway and Poplar street; www.mardigrasinc.com) and makes its way toward Anheuser-Busch Hea ...
St. Louisans love beer; it's true — are you really going to try and disagree? And despite recent corporate events that shall not be mentioned owing to the holidays, St. Louisans still take a great deal of pride in Anheuser-Busch. If you've never been on the brewery tour, this winter is the tim ...
More than 200 people took to the riverfront and the Mississippi River itself Saturday morning to help clean the river up. But for many of the volunteers, there was an additional statement to be made ... The vast majority of the group are Anheuser Busch employees ... Late last year, when the brewery was purchased by Belgian Brewer InBev, critics predicted a drop off in charitable giving and community service by A-B ... Brewery officials point to today as evidence that that hasn't happened ...
Anheuser-Busch revealed this week it is launching a marketing blitz that will put more of its trademark humor back in ads for Bud Light ... That word comes as the ad club of St. Louis, Wednesday, gave its silver medal award to the man who helped make those old Bud Light commercials so lighthearted ...
Anheuser-Busch InBev has lost a battle to the "Budweiser" name after an EU court rejected its claim to register the word as a Europe-wide trademark.U.S.-based Anheuser-Busch -- now renamed Anheuser-Busch-InBev after a $52 billion takeover by Belgium's InBev -- and smaller Czech rival Budejovicky Budvar NP haggled for years over the name, once also the name of Czech town famous for its fine beers ...