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.

Bob Heil grew up in Marissa and lived in Belleville. He is best known as the inventor of the Heil Talk Box used by rock musicians Peter Frampton, Joe Walsh of the Eagles, Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi, and others. He was a student of famed St. Louis organist Stan Kann, became a theater organ musician, performing on the Fox Theatre’s Wurlitzer when he was 15. Parallel to his commercial and artistic success in live music, was his passion for amateur radio.

Stan Kann (December 9, 1924 – September 29, 2008) grew up in St. Louis and majored in classical organ at Washington University. While there, he persuaded the owners of the Fox Theater, the Aruther Brothers, to refurbish its 4-36 Fox Special Wurlitzer, which had been unused for twenty years, and became the official house organist in 1952. In 1956, Kann installed a Wurlitzer in the famous St. Louis restaurant “Ruggeri’s On The Hill“and played there regularly until 1974.