ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - The City Museum in St. Louis has already put hold quite a few Guinness World Record, from the longest pencil, the world's largest tennis racket and many more.
Now they have quite literally tied up another Guinness World Record, with Shoelace Factory inside the museum having created the world's longest shoelace, stretching 2,729 feet or over half a mile long.
The process to make the shoelace was more complicated than you would think, with the making of the shoelace taking days and the equipment they were using to make the shoelace tracing back to 1890.
"We were using these antique equipment that we have at the Shoelace Factory," said Katy Enrique, Director of Marketing and Sale at the City Museum. "That machine was running for about 24 hours, and we did it during museum operating hours, over about five days."
Enrique says there was a vetting process with Guinness World Records, including the museum needing to show that it was a functioning lace.
"We had to prove to them that it wasn't a long piece of string," said Enrique. "We had to show them the equipment that we were using and we were actually weaving thread. They actually made up a goal for us to achieve and we longed exceeded it using the equipment that we had at the City Museum."
Enrique says when they went to measure the shoelace, they chose the Eads Bridge as the measuring stick, in honor of the bridge celebrating it's 150th anniversary this year.
"We knew that the shoelace had come about a half a mile long and that's about as exactly long as the Eads Bridge is so we put it on the Missouri side and walked it all the way across to the Illinois side," said Enrique.