St. Louis Globe-Democrat Photographs: Saint Louis City and County Photos
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St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
A new $250,000 bridge was recently completed over Gravois Creek by the city of Crestwood to provide access from Grant road to Whitecliff Park. The 90-acre park is now under development by the city with soccer, football, and baseball fields being presently used.
Conducting Poplar Street Bridge hearing is Col. Alfred J. D'Arezzo, head of the Army Engineer District here. Flanking him are John Gurley (left), chief maintenance branch engineer, and Lowell C. Oheim, chief of the construction operations division.
Work on a new bridge over Brentwood Boulevard to link the southbound lanes of the Inner Belt and westbound lanes of U.S. 40 is about 25 percent complete.
Worker cuts rebar with torch as workers began dismantling Brooklyn St. bridge over I-70. Express lanes were closed for this, next week they will reopen.
A million dollars worth of bridge improvements will be completed this year for the St.Louis County Highway Department in the Heman Park area of University City. Above, workers are preparing the northern section of roadbed on the Midland Boulevard Bridge south of Olive Street.
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.
Closed Illinois Route 3 ramp, looking northwest toward St. Louis. A crane swings new type of bearing down to the bridge pier on a section of the closed ramp.
The bridge, which was the scene of many traffic accidents in the past, was reconstructed out of Street Department funds set aside for the purpose, according to James Dowdy, city engineer.
Deteriorated steel-work was discovered on the Twenty-First Street Bridge when workmen began tearing up sidewalks in one of the St. Louis bond issue projects. Foreman George Hickey examines a steel beam, rusted through in places. The eroded steel-work is being replaced.
A jurisdictional dispute between building laborers and painters has held up work on the eight-lane, 2165-foot-long deck of the problem-plagued Poplar Street Bridge for the last five weeks.
This view from the east side of the new bridge shows barricades and sandbags placed at left to prevent cars from going onto an incomplete ramp which leads to a collector roadway.
Inching across the Meramec River on U.S. Highway 66 at Sylvan Beach, two miles west of Lindbergh boulevard in St. Louis County, this 1102-foot bridge is nearing completion. When finished it will carry the eastbound traffic lane of the transcontinental highway. This bridge is part of an improvement project on 129 miles of roads in the state in 41 counties and the City of St. Louis.
A flatbed trailer stacked with construction material waits for the Mississippi River to recede further Friday. This photograph was taken from the Illinois side of the river.
Construction workers unload lumber for a catwalk around the substructure of a span of the new Jefferson Barracks bridge being built over the Mississippi River near Columbia.
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.