BALLPARKVILLAGE.COM CORRESPONDENCE EMAIL 1 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:49:00 -700 (PDT) From: "FRANK GEHRY" <fog@gehrypartners.com> Subject: re: Baseball To: "BILL DEWITT III" <bdewittiii@stlcardinals.com> CC: "EMILY RAUH PULITZER" <erpulitz06@sbcglobal.net> you ask if I'm a fan of the game. Not even close. frankly ive never cared much for base-ball. It's such a silly sport, don't you think? I appreciate its linear nature and lack of time constraints. But I much prefer watching ice hockey. But you touch truth when you say it is about the fans. That is so. When you see them after the games, dispersing to their cars and thence homeward, watch how the little red people exit the stadium and wend their way around the site: That's more interesting to me than any game. I see The Village as an extension of these patterns, a more refined version, where baseball fans can find sustenance in a more sophisticated atmosphere. Baseball is fine for the so-called boys of summer, but what St. Louis needs is something for the men--and women--of fall, winter and spring. EMAIL 2 Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 01:49:27 -500 (CDT) From: "MIKE SHANNON" <moonman@shannonsteak.com> Subject: re: Village To: "DEWITT" <bdewittiii@stlcardinals.com> CC: "MARK LAMPING" <Cards94@aol.com> I'm not fuckin hungry. --- Bill Dewitt <bdewittiii@stlcardinals.com> wrote: > Swallow it like a man. --- Mike Shannon <moonman@shannonsteak.com> wrote: >> You want to talk baseball? I'll go mano y mano with you any day. >> This from a guy who wanted daddy to make an offer on that fat tub david Wells. --- Bill Dewitt <bdewittiii@stlcardinals.com> wrote: >>> She told me it's her "love letter to the city". Think of it in terms of a baseball trade: >>> Do we want to bank on a minor leaguer who may go all Rick Ankiel on us--i.e., the city-- >>> or do we want to line up a blockbuster multiplayer trade? --- Mike Shannon <moonman@shannonsteak.com> wrote: >>>> It's a knuckleball, thrown by a knucklehead, that's what it is. I didn't spend my money >>>> to move my restaruant across the street from an opera house. You said office space, >>>> condos, restaurant and retail. Where's Geery's ESPN Zone? Alls that's left from the >>>> first plan is the goddam Bowling Hall of Fame. Where's the Border's bookstore and >>>> the grocery store? And this Elkin guy, I never heard of. Who did he play for? >>>> I dont get your thinking here, boss. It's a no-brainer: You put a baseball stadium here, >>>> and then you put all that other stuff across the street. EMAIL 3 Date: Mon, 11 2006 12:07:00 -400 (EDT) From: "MAGGIE STEARNS" <magstearns@opera-stl.org> Subject: Re: New home for OTSL To: "PULITZER" <erpulitz06@sbcglobal.net>, "GEHRY" <fog@gehrypartners.com> CC: "MACKAY" <cmackay@opera-stl.org> All, Just a note to let you know: We're leaning toward inaugurating our wonderful new home with a performance of John Adams' "The Death of Klinghoffer". It made a big splash (no pun intended) when it came out--not all of it good, but we think itll be a "hot ticket"! Thanks again for this wonderful opportunity! MS EMAIL 4 Date: Mon 25 Sep 2006 7:18:44 -500 (CDT) From: "LARRY STUBBS" <stubbsls@stubbsmovers.com> Subject: Re: Moving Kiel To: "EMILY RAUH PULITZER" <erpulitz06@sbcglobal.net>, "GEHRY" <fog@gehrypartners.com> Mr. Gehry and Mrs. Pulitzer, Pleasure is all mine. Its perhaps the most beautiful building I have ever seen. It will be a shining beacon for downtown I have to agree I've never seen anything like Kiel's support system. Never in a million years would I have guessed what lay beneath this structure. It's almost like LaBeaume and Klein knew it would someday be moved! Hope you got the pix you needed. Did everything come out OK with Mrs. P's slacks & blouse? That dang accordion lift has been hinky all along. When the time comes to bill please allow me to knock off the dry-cleaning. The move is definitely a go at this end. Should be a breeze. Really, the only tricky part will be that right turn down by the steak house. It's the same as moving a doublewide, but on a larger scale. Hell, while we're at it we may just toss "Twain" on the pile on the way. No extra charge! --- Emily Rauh Pulitzer <erpulitz06@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Mr. Stubbs, thank you again for the wonderful tour. What a treat! I don't believe I've > ever seen anything like the support system under the Opera House. A 20th century treasure. --- Larry Stubs <stubbsls@stubbsmovers.com> wrote: >> Mr. Gehry and Mrs. Pulitzer, >> >> We're on for next week. Please call my sec'y and give her your hat sizes >> (for hard hats which are required). Keep in mind that what you see isn't >> what we're gonna pack up and move. We'll build a support with cables to >> support the ground floor--analagous to a tennis racquet or snowshoe--then >> the jacks will be used to mount I-beams for the move onto the dollies--probably >> 80-90 of those. EMAIL 5 DATE: 09/18/2006 9:17 AM: From: "EDDY BALE" <ebale@wulib.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: Elkin Collection To: "EMILY RAUH PULITZER" <erpulitz06@sbcglobal.net> Mrs. Pulitzer, After speaking with the Head of Special Collections and Chancellor Wrighton, I'm happy to say the University will be delighted to relocate the papers and ephemera of Stanley Elkin and other local literati to a new home downtown. A letter from the Chancellor will be forthcoming via "snail mail". --- Bill Gass <whgass@artsci.wustl.edu> wrote: >> Eddy, >> >> I'm writing at the request of Emily Pulitzer (cc'ed here). >> >> If you'd climb down off your rubber-treaded "special collections" library ladder >> for a moment and consider what you're saying, I think you'd agree that a downtown >> site would be an ideal repository for Stanley's papers. In fact, I'd be honored if my >> own marginalia were to someday repose alongside his! By god, wouldn't that be a >> sight? Interred together for the ages! We might even consider relocating Nemerov >> and Van Duyn--hell, Finkel and Urdang too. Wouldn't that be a hoot! --- Eddy Bale <ebale@wulib.wustl.edu> wrote: >>> Mrs. Pulitzer, >>> >>> Per our phone conversation earlier today (September 7, 2006), with all due >>> respect I don't see the point of moving all that paperwork downtown. >>> >>> Why would we want Cardinals fans getting their greasy hot dog fingerprints >>> all over Stanley's work? EMAIL 6 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:12:18 -700 (PDT) From "FRANK GEHRY" <fog@gehrypartners.com> Subject: Re: Forward: ESPN Zone To: "EMILY RAUH PULITZER" <erpulitz06@sbcglobal.net> An ESPN Zone is for drunks in the gutter. Not for a New St. Louis. Mr. Shannon's "masterpiece" is not architecture. It is mimicry. It is safe, and cloying, and an insult to St. Louis. This project is literally in the shadow of the Arch -- one of the great public sculptures IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Why would anyone want such VULGARITY in such proximity to PERFECTION? --- Emily Rauh Pulitzer <erpulitz06@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > see attached --- Mike Shannon <moonman@shannonsteak.com> wrote: >> I don't know what you see in Ghery's style. How a guy who pushed so hard >> for the masterpiece that is the new Busch can like crap like this I'll never know. >> I guess its like my mother, god rest her soul always said: there's no accounting >> for taste!! >> >> But it's not only asthetics. Did you people ever consider the hitting background? >> Here you got an open stadium and your saying you want to put a MIRROR right >> out in center field?!! >> >> Look, I'm a straight shooter. Bottom line: I spent a couple million fully expecting >> that I would be neighbors with an ESPN Zone. I was told: "red brick" and "classic, >> conservatively Victorian buildings." Whatever the hell that means. Like the look of >> Old St. Louis. You know. Musial. Dizzy Dean. Gibby. A "Ballpark Village" should >> be someplace you can play stickball in, not watch men prancing around in tight >> pants at the Opera. >> >> I will have an opera house between me and my Cardinals. Think about it: A >> goddam opera house. I was promised an ESPN Zone, and I get this? >> >> At least give me a Cabo Wabo Cantina -- something!