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Look Back: The New Millennium
Date: 12/30/2010 Album ID: 1143378
Photos by St. Louis Post-Dispatch staff photographers
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By the time Y2K struck the Arch on January 1, 2000, the new millennium party was at full blast. Along Washington Avenue’s club row, decked-out young people kissed everyone nearby. Then did it gain. Fears of entire systems shutting down due to computer malfunctions never materialized, and St. Louisans celebrated this once-in-a-lifetime event.
SUNDAY DECEMBER 31, 2000 Catherine Madsen,89, of Affton sits on her husband, Walter's,90, lap to bring in the New Year with a champagne toast during the celebration at the Alexian Brothers Sherbrooke Village in Lemay. Madsen came to visit Walter, who has been a resident at the home for a little over a year. PHOTO BY MOLLY CORSO/PD
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MONDAY 31 DEC 01 - I'm hoping to make next year's (party) too, said Chester C. Brandt as the 97-year-old resident of NHC HealthCare, 2920 Fee Fee Road, in Maryland Heights made his way back to his room after the center's annual party to bring in the new year. At 3 pm, residents tooted horns and enjoyed punch and cookies just in case they didn't stay up until midnight. PHOTO BY ROBERT COHEN/PD
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FRIDAY, DEC. 31, 1999 - Paul Trupiano of St. Peters pours some of the 4,600 glasses of champaign that were served Friday night at the St. Louis Symphony's New Years Eve concert. Trupiano has worked every New Years Eve for 25 years. My wife's watching television, I guess, Trupiano says. She spends New Year Eve alone. He has been a bartender at the symphony for 30 years. He estimated that he would pour 500-600 glasses himself before the night ended. PHOTO BY JERRY NAUNHEIM JR. ( ST. LOUIS: Paul Trupiano of St. Peters pours some of the 4,600 glasses of champagne that were served Friday at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's New Year's Eve concert. )
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(Sat 1/1/00) MasterCard employee Darryl Harris, a network analyst, at work in company's Network Command Center at 11885 Lackland (near Westport Plaza). The job here is keeping the worldwide computer system in good working order. Midnight, local time, is about one and a half hours away when this photo was taken. St. Louis is the world headquarters for MasterCard. PHOTO BY LARRY WILLIAMS
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FRIDAY, DEC. 31, 1999 - Dick Donley of Freeburg, Ill., joins about 400 other people at midnight Saturday to welcome the new millennium at The National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville. The celebration began with a 10:30 p.m. Mass followed by a candlelight procession to the Millennium Spire. Donley was one of the leaders carrying a torch. The Spire is an 85-foot tall stainless steel sculpture by William Severson representing Pope John Paul II's vision of a new Pentecost and his hope for a better world in the third millennium. PHOTO BY JERRY NAUNHEIM JR.
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CD LS January 1 2000- Every new year my gradma would lead us in prayer, explained Joy Riley,21, of East St. Louis, Illinois, who lead the 14 member White Castle work crew in prayer in the kitchen at the beginning of the year 2000. I am happy to see another year, a lot of people don't make it, she said. I've seen a lot in my 21 years, I just feel blessed, she said. LAURIE SKRIVAN
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Friday, 12/ 31/99. Fireworks, framed by the Arch, the Civil Courts and Old Courthouse buildings on the left and Union Station on the right, signaled the start of the St. Louis First Night celebration on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1999. The alcohol-free celebration began with the fireworks at 6PM and included a variety of activities in the downtown area until 1AM New Year's Day. Clear skies and temperatures in the forties rounded out the last day of the century and the millennium. Photo was taken fromthe northwest corner of Jefferson avenue and Market street. Jim Rackwitz photo
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12/31/99 -- Kedace (cq) , age 28, and Vince, age 34, homeless and sleeping on the sidewalk near a hot air vent in down St Louis City , were able to watch the arch fireworks at midnight welcoming in the new millennium. Vince said that he had been homeless for 6 months. PD Photo by Wayne Crosslin
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CD LS January 1 2000-At the stroke of midnight, Valentina Rogers,27, Denneshia Watson,17, of East St. Louis, Illinois, just two of the fourteen member staff working the graveyard shift, grabbed onto one another and their 2000 noisemakers to welcome in the New Year with style. LAURIE SKRIVAN -DOUBLE CHECKING NAMES
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(12/31/99 Friday) Sarcoxie, Mo.-- Candace Turner videotapes the TV as it displays the time line hitting Australia at 7:00 AM local time with her Y2K video camera. She bought the camera and the TV for Y2K events (no payment till 2000). PHOTO BY KEVIN MANNING
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St. Louis 1/1/2000 - Edy Roberts, 22, of Bridgeton, embraces the new millennium shortly after midnight at the Club Velvet on Washington Avenue
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1999. Tom Besselman, left, makes Cindy Tressler his new wife on the riverfront's overlook Saturday morning at 12:01 a.m. to ring in the new millennium. Because of the traffic at midnight, the couple had to run from their bus to the predetermined location in order to make it on time. They decided to have the wedding at the start of the millennium to celebrate a new beginning and a new life, said Tom. The couple will head to Europe next summer for their honeymoon. They didn'texpect so many people, but there was a large crowd present for the fireworks. They got to experience the wedding as an added surprise. Reverend Darrell Faires, far right, performed the ceremony for the couple. Photo by JAMIE RECTOR
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Jan. 1, 2000-Old friends from left Mandy Schmidt, 22, of St. Louis, Ree Winston, 23, of St. Louis, Lisa Knauft, 22 and Steve Streib, 27, both of Fenton celebrate the arrival of 2000 as they hang out of the sun roof of their rented limo while riding down Washington Avenue on their way to continue partying in East St. Louis after the Missouri bars closed Friday night. This is never going to happen again, said Streib. You have to splurge. PHOTO BY ANDREW CUTRARO
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CD LS JANUARY 1 2000- Scott Meyer, a 1990 Parkway West graduate, introduced his girlfriend, Michelle Coarkes, of Denver, Colorado to a White Castle hamburger after a long night at the Soulard Ale House. The couple, both architects in Denver, made a little romance on the south side of the Castle. LAURIE SKRIVAN
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SATURDAY 1 JAN 2000 - Chris Gillette has a peek at his newborn daughter who entered the world at 3:57 a.m. Saturday. Lori Simpson gave birth to the 8 pound, 1 ounce bundle at St. John's Mercy Hospital. She and her fiancee were discussing name options. PHOTO BY ROBERT COHEN/PD
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1/1/00 St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis Mobile Reserve officers started drifting into their station on Manchester as the evening wound down. They all said that the city had been really dead with almost nothing happening for them to deal with. Officer Jim Whyte,33, left, picks through the leftover food that had been spread out for the evening. Officer Joe Crews, 31, center, went over a report from an incident earlier in the day. Officer Matt McDonough,31, right, called home to check up on his family. PHOTO BY J.B. FORBES
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Jan. 1, 2000--Doug Hall vacuums the rug at the downtown nightclub Velvet while cocktail waitress Angie Miller sits after getting off work in the early morning hours of New Year's Day. We're still working and everyone else is home in bed or partying, Hall said about his job. I won't be in millennium mode until we got off. PHOTO BY ANDREW CUTRARO
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1/1/00 St. Louis, Mo. Some party goers didn't want the New Year's Eve night to end, so they kept on into the dawn. These three fraternity brothers from the ATO house at the University of Missouri in Columbia watched the sunrise from the front of the Hampton Inn on Market Street. They are from left: Mark Blanck,21, from Kansas City, Mo., Alec Pinkston,21, from University City, and Clark Affholder,18, from Ballwin. This photo was taken about 6:45 am. The three were waiting for the hotel's continental breakfast to open up at 8. Most of their fraternity brothers were staying at the hotel after partying in downtown St. Louis. PHOTO BY J.B. FORBES
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SATURDAY 1 JAN 2000 - Alice Bloch and her husband Frank K. Flinn brought in the first sunrise of 2000 with a dance on Art Hill at Forest Park early Saturday. Bloch said that she, her husband and other friends came to the park to be part of the whole cycle of change...it's a hopeful thing. About a dozen people came to the spot to welcome the new millennium. PHOTO BY ROBERT COHEN/PD
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Saturday 1 January, 1999 -- Jason Boehme and fiance Kim Schulze (couple at right), both of Crestwood, Mo. wait in the A terminal for their 7:35am flight to a vacation in Los Angeles on New Year's Day morning at Lambert International Airport while the first sunrise of the new millenium dawns behind them. At left is the Barnett family, from l-r, mother Julie Barnett, father Todd Barnett (obscured), daughter Pam Puckitt, 18, and son Allen Barnett, 13. Julie and Pam were enroute to Dallas-Fort Worth while Todd and Allen were there to see them off. POST-DISPATCH PHOTO BY CHRIS LEE
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