Rooftop Conquests - How many can YOU claim?

[ShadowBearer]

Does anyone know if the heers roof connects on over to icon?

[Anne]

Isn't Icon over near Walnut? Or on College behind Heers?

[Willard]

Actually Icon is on St Louis Street between the old Three Sisters store (aka the adult day care place) and the old Netters Department store (now part of the Gilloiz complex) It's no where near Heer's.

[ShadowBearer]

Whoops, mean gillioz.

[Anne]

Gillioz is over by Icon on St. Louis street also.

[Underdog]

Whoops, mean gillioz.

The only tall building I can think of that is even remotely close to Heers is Club Drink.

[Willard]

To answer if the Icon connects to the Gillioz by roof, yes, but you have to somehow navigate over the three-story Marx Building.

[ShadowBearer]

Well, that seems like that could be a fun challenge.

[dawgchain]

I will only list the ones that haven't been named already.


All the high schools except Kickapoo (spfd)
Lebanon high school
North town hall (formally a mall now a mostly empty hallway)

Bass pro*
Sunshine lanes (a the time sheram loller lanes)
Wilowbrook foods (main street plant)*
Wal-Mart’s on sunshine+ on I44*
Lowes on Norton*
Lowes south
hospital? On cherry street* and another time…
The E-plex a fairgrounds*
The old grand stand on fairgrounds
Columns IV apartment complex*
Petra rock climbing gym


AND MY PRIDE AND JOY!!!

The St. Louis mall!!!

had one hell of a time getting away on that one...I had bunch of cops, rent-a-cops, and some guys in nice suits chasing me....... still not sure how I lost them.



Most of these were done while I was working as a security guard (I hate rent-a-cops) so may not count

*-these were done on the job, although have gone back sense then and remedied most of them.

[Kit]

The St. Louis mall!!!

had one hell of a time getting away on that one...I had bunch of cops, rent-a-cops, and some guys in nice suits chasing me....... still not sure how I lost them.

good thing they didnt have a dog

[dawgchain]

there were even annoying do-gooders reaching out and trying to stop me...I was sure i was going downtown for the night. All malls have service entrances in them so that workers can get into their shops with out opening the main doors... battlefield mall has some lame ones...but St. Louis had a maze of halls and doors...i found somw stairs that i thought went to the second floor but i hadn't realized I had already made it up that high. as i pushed open the door a loud beeping started and i noticed the magnetic door alarm... so i did the natural thing for any xplorer to do...i went on through...the view was amazing, but i couldn't see my house from there.... or my car for that matter. i wish the clouds weren't so thick that day. Like 5 minutes later (speedy response guys) a door openned up about 75 ft away, so I ducked into the nearest door...setting off another alarm... well make a long story short after about 30 minutes later i make it to the parking lot and start weaving between lines of vehicles in the lot and lost site of them.


There was cameras everywhere so i know they got my face... but i had long red white and blue hair and clean shaven so i doupt they would recognize me anymore.

That was three years ago while visiting my now in-laws, and that night on the news they were talking about having prevented what they believed to be a sniper on the roof. I'm not that good a shot and was empty handed.


oh well, i loved it and wish i woulda had a camera... but i bet they woulda shot at me thinking i was armed.

[Willard]

That's Awsome! Most likely I'd be in a suit if I did it... secondly I'd just let them come after me and then when they found nothing on me I'd just say I wanted to see what was up there, or I was just enjoying the view... what ever would have come to mind first.

[David Keetz]

okie dokie

the tallest building in downtown k.c. (don't know the name and technically you can't be on the very very top because it's a big pinnacle but i was up as far as i could be)

The MFA building (small)
Heers
Messiah Mill
Some Best Western in Nashville
My high school
Pretty much every building downtown from my hometown(not a huge acheivement but still took a little work)
The Mountain Inn in Fayetteville Ar.
My House
My Church
Burger King (berryville)

that's all i can think of right now..hopefully i can make the list longer soon

[Sertile]

I haven't been getting out much lately, so my list has kind of hit a brick wall, but I can tell you my St. Louis story:

I don't make it to STL much, but a couple years ago I went to visit my friend Arch, who took me downtown for a Cardinals game. As a way to kill time beforehand I decided to get the best possible view of the city by climbing the tallest building I could find.

We started with the new high-rise courthouse, and were able to make it pretty close to the top, but not quite. After exploring some empty courtrooms we spied a taller building, and proceeded to work our way up it. At the top we found a large, VERY nice office, complete with floor to ceiling windows and a telescope. Nobody seems to notice us, and we left after we had our fill (and I refilled my water bottle courtesy of their water cooler).

Next stop was the SBC building. We waltzed right by the security guards and, upon reaching the top floor, invaded yet another office in search of a window. This time they didn't take so kindly to our intrusion, and a particularly upset secretary escorted us from the building. She just kept muttering, "I can't believe this is happening... how did they let this happen?" to herself during the elevator ride down. I later took a picture of her chewing out one of the bored security guards.

Finally, we decided to try one more misc. building, which appeared to be slightly taller, in hopes of reaching the roof. This time we were captured en route to the top, but I had a plan. Upon reaching ground floor we allowed our captor to leave the elevator ahead of us, and I immediately started mashing the "door close" button. We eventually made our way to the roof, but after lingering there briefly were horrified to discover ourselves locked in the top floor of the longest stairwell in St. Louis (not counting the arch). We had to walk the entire distance from the roof to the (underground) parking garage before we could make our escape.

Later I got ran over by a truck on my to Busch Stadium.

[ropingk]

I haven't been getting out much lately, so my list has kind of hit a brick wall, but I can tell you my St. Louis story:

I don't make it to STL much, but a couple years ago I went to visit my friend Arch, who took me downtown for a Cardinals game. As a way to kill time beforehand I decided to get the best possible view of the city by climbing the tallest building I could find.

We started with the new high-rise courthouse, and were able to make it pretty close to the top, but not quite. After exploring some empty courtrooms we spied a taller building, and proceeded to work our way up it. At the top we found a large, VERY nice office, complete with floor to ceiling windows and a telescope. Nobody seems to notice us, and we left after we had our fill (and I refilled my water bottle courtesy of their water cooler).

Next stop was the SBC building. We waltzed right by the security guards and, upon reaching the top floor, invaded yet another office in search of a window. This time they didn't take so kindly to our intrusion, and a particularly upset secretary escorted us from the building. She just kept muttering, "I can't believe this is happening... how did they let this happen?" to herself during the elevator ride down. I later took a picture of her chewing out one of the bored security guards.

Finally, we decided to try one more misc. building, which appeared to be slightly taller, in hopes of reaching the roof. This time we were captured en route to the top, but I had a plan. Upon reaching ground floor we allowed our captor to leave the elevator ahead of us, and I immediately started mashing the "door close" button. We eventually made our way to the roof, but after lingering there briefly were horrified to discover ourselves locked in the top floor of the longest stairwell in St. Louis (not counting the arch). We had to walk the entire distance from the roof to the (underground) parking garage before we could make our escape.

Later I got ran over by a truck on my to Busch Stadium.

Man you have to be braver than I am but I would have loved to hear the girl wine all the way down great story