The Mississippi moves timelessly on its way to the sea; past St. Louis it moves and under the great Eads Bridge that has come to seem almost as timeless as the river, and almost as majestic.
Scene at the foot of Washington avenue in 1903 of high water as it appeared the first Sunday in June. Eads Bridge can be faintly seen in upper left hand corner.
The Eads Bridge Trolley Station was built in 1914 and through its doors have passed a multitude of persons--shoppers from the East Side, workers on the East Side.
This photograph shows two young girls walking up to a construction site on the corner of Sherry Avenue. The neighborhood appears to be residential. In the foreground a mature tree branch hangs into the frame. Beyond the girls and the construction site there is a man clearing a pile of cut wood, a line of bushes and a small house.
Extensive renovation and construction of new headquarters on the ground and lower floors of the Ambassador Building at 7th and Locust Streets are being considered by Roosevelt Federal Savings & Loan Association.
The Kroger Company recently sold these office and warehouse facilities at 1311 South Thirty-ninth st. to the Banner Hardware Company one of the largest distributors of generl merchandise in the Metropolitan St. Louis area.
One of the old-time memorials to Bacchus in St. Louis was the Bardenheier Building at 214 Market street, erected in 1873 by John Bardenheier, whose stocks of wine and liquors occupied three floors and a commodious cellar.