Old Gravois Road Bridge

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Title: Old Gravois Road Bridge
Creator(s): Saint Louis Globe-Democrat
Date: 1950-02-05
Content Type: picture
Subject(s): Bridges.
Roads.
Bridge Construction.
Elevated highways
Geographic Area: Saint Louis (Mo.)
Time Period: 1950-1959
Description: The area around Gravois and River Des Peres was rather thinly populated even in the era of the "get out and get under" auto. Note the stalled car on south side of the bridge. Cars were built so simply then that nearly everybody who drove was able to make all his own repairs.
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Classification: M112-STLSubject-GeneralBridges-028.tif
Owner: St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis