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Developers Attempt to Put St. Louis Weatherball Back in Action.

By Charlene Prost, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 14--If you wanted weather forecasts in the 1950s or 1960s in downtown St. Louis, all you had to do was look to the neon-lighted weather ball on the roof of the General American Life Insurance Co. building at 1501 Locust Street.

From its perch atop a tower-like structure bearing the lighted, rotating, General American name, the weather ball glowed red for warmer weather, blue for cooler, and green to signify no change. If it flashed, everyone knew to grab umbrellas becaus

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