The Spirit of St. Louis

1. The specially designed airplane that Charles Lindbergh flew in the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. It is on display in a museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

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An estimated crowd of 200,000 Angelenos greeted Charles Lindbergh as he climbed out of the “Spirit of St. Louis” at a small airfield east of downtown.

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She and her sister were later hired as extras for the 1957 film “The Spirit of St. Louis.”

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It was a small painting of the airplane with which Charles Lindbergh crossed the ocean, the Spirit of St. Louis.

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Despite his later unstinting work for the World Wildlife Federation, as well as winning a Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography "The Spirit of St. Louis," his reputation never fully recovered.

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Stowed away behind glass cabinet doors, the shelves display a number of rare pieces, including first edition, signed copies of volumes such as Charles Lindbergh’s “The Spirit of St. Louis” and Daphne du Maurier’s “Rebecca.”

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