Pigskin Park-and-Ride Scores at Union Station

St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Vogt, Howard

1959-10-03
1959-10-04

picture

Union Station (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Automobiles
Automobile parking

Saint Louis (Mo.)

1950-1959

A new sign of the times made its appearance in St. Louis Saturday when part of the Union Station train shed was taken over by automobiles. The last four tracks at the east side of the train shed have been roped off as a parking area to accommodate users of special trains during the football season. Some 3000 fans left Union Station Saturday aboard four special trains to the Army-Illinois game at Champaign, Ill. The new covered parking facility, entrance to which is at Eighteenth and Clark streets, the southeast corner of the train shed, is 1000 feet long and accommodates approximately 500 cars. A flat rate of $1.00 is charged for cars left there by patrons leaving and returning on special trains. Roping off of the parking area (no new construction was involved) means that Union Station has lost on one side part of what it gained at the other back in 1929 when 10 new tracks were added at the west side of the train shed. In those days, an average of 650 trains used to station every day. Nowadays, the average is slighty over 100.

Items in the UMSL Digital Library are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. The contents of the UMSL Digital Library are made publicly available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Although the nature of archival and manuscript materials sometimes makes it difficult to determine the copyright status of an item, it is the user's responsibility to use them according to all applicable terms. Please contact the contributing partner for additional information regarding copyright status of a particular digital image, text, data set, or sound or video recording.

GDPS001329.tif

St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis