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 lunch-hour practice session is held by the Harris Teachers College Mixed Chorus under the direction of Wirt D. Walton. The group will participate in the presentation of the Globe-Democrat's Christmas Choral Pageant next Thursday evening at Kiel Auditorium."
The Bird House—not to be confused with the Bird Cage—was completed during recent years and in it are to be found specimens that have sent scouts to the four corners of the world to collect. One may spend hours in this delightful spot watching the feathered inmates at rest and play.
"KWK's television antenna, twice as tall as the 40-foot 'clover leaf' antenna once used for FM broadcasting, will go up soon on the Globe-Democrat Tower Building at Twelfth and Cole streets. Workmen are shown as they string cable and telephone lines to the top of the 500-foot tower yesterday preparatory to dismantling the FM antenna portion and replacing it with an 80-foot 'bat wing' antenna for TV. The section shown here probably will be lowered today by employees of the Ben Hur Construction Company which put up the tower in 1948."
The Continental Building, 3615 Olive st., now vacant is a monument to Art Deco architecture in St. Louis. It was designed by William B. Ittner, Inc. in 1929.
A man walks east on the bridge during the Riverboat race as a helicopter hovers covering the annual boat race between Mayor Vincent Schoemehl and County Executive Gene McNary.
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.
A new $500,000 bakery will be constructed soon at 4400 South Kingshighway for the J.B. Carr Biscuit Company of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., it was announced yesterday.
Kirkwood police mascot, McGruff, sniffs out business for Old Newsboys Day police department volunteers Tuesday at Geyer Road and Adams Avenue. Selling papers are, from left, Joyce Berry, Jean Webdell (McGruff), Bob Howe and Chief Dan Linza.
Kirkwood Police Dept. [at] S.W. Geyer & Adams. Joyce Barry, Jean Webdell (McGruff) take a bite out of crime. Bob Howe and Kirkwood Chief of Police Dan Linza.
A partnership created by subsidiaries of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. and Transurban Redevelopment Corporation of St. Louis will erect this 20-level office building with a 17-level tower atop a three level base at the center of St. Louis' new riverfront skyline.
The organization provides on the job training for college graduates. Aliah Mubarak, a Coro Foundation fellow, center, with Bob Friedenburg, program director, left, and Don West director of training.
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.
A private, dressed in baseball togs instead of soldier unform, makes a meanful swing in an intra-regiment game, while an interested audience of fellow soldiers participantes mentally