Vincent Price Jr. was an actor, famous for the horror film genre. He was born in St. Louis in 1911, his father the president of the National Candy Company. Price lived at 6320 Forsyth Boulevard, which still stands today just south of Washington University. A Washington University Dean lives there now. Price attended the St. Louis Country Day School. The school moved to Ladue in 1957. The original location is beneath the eastern end of the main runways at Lambert Airport.

The St. Louis airport is named for Albert Bond Lambert, a golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. His father was Jordan W. Lambert, founder of Lambert Pharmaceutical Company which made Listerine. In 1909, Lambert met the Wright Brothers, and purchased his first airplane from them. He took flying lessons from Orville Wright, and in 1911 became the first St. Louis resident to hold a pilot’s license. In 1925, for $68,000, Lambert purchased Kinloch Field of Kinloch, Missouri, a 170-acre (0.