"Early check of Boatmen's Savings Institution depicted a riverboat which is the Boatmen's Bancshares' symbol today." "Twenty-seven years before Eads Bridge was to help open the Gateway to the West, George Knight Budd obtained a charter for Missouri's first private bank, the Boatmen's Saving Institution."
Mercantile Trust Company has become the first bank in the nation to put into general service the IBM 4700, an advanced computer system for bank tellers. Mercantile has been testing the state-of-the-art computer terminal system since mid-May in a joint program with IBM. The system enables tellers to serve customers more quickly and efficiently.
"Two elderly men were critically injured and about 30 people were evacuated from their homes in the San Luis Apartments, 4483 Lindell Blvd., when a two-alarm fire broke out on the 11th floor of the senior citizen's residence Thursday night. The residents - some semi-invalids - were rousted by firefighters from their 10th and 11th floor apartments in the center tower of the 266-unit, E-shaped structure. Bruce Harold, 84, in whose apartment the fire started, suffered from burns and smoke inhalation, and Harry Hoppman, 82, suffered from smoke inhalation, authorities said. Both were in critical condition at Barnes Hospital Thursday night. The First Alarm sounded at 8:10 p.m., and the fire was under control in about 40 minutes. The fire was confined to Harold's apartment, which was extensively damaged, while nearby units recieved only water and smoke damage, authorities said."
Steel is being erected for the superstructure of the first of the two new Jefferson Barracks bridges. This view is looking east across the Mississippi River from near the old bridge in South St. Louis County.
The westbound span (near the camera), the first of two new Jefferson Barracks Bridges, is approaching completion and may be opened this December, the Illinois Department of Transportation reported.
Giant piers jut from the Mississippi River where the roadway will be built for the first span of the new twin Jefferson Barracks bridges south of St. Louis.
Eddie Smith, 7 years, Johnnie Ellison, 5 years, and Christina Smith, 6 years, flinch and cover their ears in reaction to the explosion that demolished the second of three sections of the old Jefferson Barracks Bridge.
Three children--from left, Eddie Smith, 7; Johnnie Ellison, 5; and Christina Smith, 6--flinch at the explosion Wednesday that demolished the second of three sections of the old Jefferson Barracks Bridge.
The first portion of navigation span of the Old Jefferson Barracks Bridge explodes at 6:20 a.m. The new Jefferson Barracks bridge sits in back (arched).
Swinging in a cage from a barge-mounted crane, workman delivers rebars to steelworkers building reinforcement for one of the major piers inside a cofferdam sunk in the river to bedrock. Bargeload of preformed rebars and work-boat can also be seen in the photo.