{"id":7959,"date":"2025-04-01T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/?p=7959"},"modified":"2025-04-01T09:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:46:20","slug":"its-a-savannah-banana-rama-at-st-louis-union-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/its-a-savannah-banana-rama-at-st-louis-union-station\/","title":{"rendered":"IT&#8217;S A SAVANNAH BANANA-RAMA AT ST. LOUIS UNION STATION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/DSC_1257.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/DSC_1257-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/DSC_1257-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/DSC_1257-427x640.jpg 427w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/DSC_1257-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/DSC_1257-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/DSC_1257-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/DSC_1257.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>St. Louis &#8212;<\/strong>&nbsp;St. Louis Union Station is goiing bananas to welcome baseball&#8217;s Savannah Bananas to STL. The quirky and entertaining team is playing at Busch Stadium to sellout crowds as part of its Banana Ball World Tour on Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>St. Louis Wheel Goes Banana Yellow<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The St. Louis Wheel at Union Station will be lighted in yellow to welcome the Savannah Bananas to St. Louis on April 4, 5 &amp; 6. The 200-foor-tall observation wheel offers Bananas fans a 20-mile view of the St. Louis skyline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image3-_7_.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image3-_7_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image3-_7_.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image3-_7_-640x480.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image3-_7_-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image3-_7_-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image3-_7_-600x450.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Banana Freak Shake at Soda Fountain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Soda Fountain retro-style diner is getting in on the Savannah Bananas excitement. To celebrate the team&#8217;s world tour stop in STL, Soda Fountain is serving up a new limited-time Freak Shake called, \u201cWill Play for Bananas.&#8221; The shake will be available April 4, 5 &amp; 6. The banana-flavored shake is served with a banana rim, a Banana Ball-themed sugar cookie, banana Laffy Taffy rope, and baseball gumballs with whipped cream and a cherry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Banana-Freak-Shake-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Banana-Freak-Shake-Logo-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Banana-Freak-Shake-Logo-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Banana-Freak-Shake-Logo-427x640.jpg 427w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Banana-Freak-Shake-Logo-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Banana-Freak-Shake-Logo-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Banana-Freak-Shake-Logo-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Banana-Freak-Shake-Logo.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wear Yellow to the Aquarium<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fans who visit the St. Louis Aquarium at Union Station wearing yellow on April 4, 5 &amp; 6 will swim away with a free Aquarium T-shirt with their paid admission while supplies last. The Aquarium is open extended hours Friday and Saturday until 8 p.m. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Game Day Shuttles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Union Station offers convenient downtown parking for Savannah Bananas fans, served by a free shuttle to the games on April 4 &amp; 5. Shuttles start at 5 p.m. and run until after the end of the game. Riders can hop aboard the shuttles outside the St. Louis Aquarium entrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St. Louis Union Station is located at 201 S. 18th Street, St. Louis, MO 63103. More informatio is available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlouisunionstation.com\">www.stlouisunionstation.com<\/a>. Facebook: @stlunionstation. Instagram: @unionstationstl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis &#8212;&nbsp;St. Louis Union Station is goiing bananas to welcome baseball&#8217;s Savannah Bananas to STL. The quirky and entertaining team is playing at Busch Stadium to sellout crowds as part of its Banana Ball World Tour on Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5.. St. Louis Wheel Goes Banana Yellow The St. Louis Wheel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1,1152,276,7,6],"tags":[17,12,147,19,16,1167,146,289],"class_list":["post-7959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-town","category-blog","category-events","category-family","category-inside","category-outside","tag-around-town-2","tag-blog-2","tag-family","tag-inside-fun","tag-lets-go-outside","tag-savannah-bananas","tag-st-louis","tag-union-station"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/DSC_1257.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JMKA-24n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7963,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions\/7963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}