St. Louis Globe-Democrat Photographs: Missouri Towns
Photographs related to Missouri towns can be found here: buildings, clubs, organizations, and the like. People may be found here in the context of larger institutions or as parts of crowds and events, but for photographs of individual Missourians please consult the St. Louis Globle Democrat Photographs - People collection.
St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
Building a jeep from scrap as a vocational education program at Boys Town of Missouri. The Monsanto Fund gave Boys Town $13,000 to buy tools so such programs could be expanded.
Photo of model designed by Pearce and Pearce, Inc., architects and engineers, which is opening with Team Teaching Training Program July 24, a system the new school will emphasize. The air-conditioned, carpeted, 1000-student school has few doors inside, the building-spaces are defined by moveable furniture and equipment - virtually no windows, climate control provided by heat pumps. The cost is $1,300,000. The building is experimental.
National Vendors will occupy this 235,000 square foot plant at 12949 Enterprise Way, Bridgeton MO. The plant was formerly occupied by Lianco Container Corp.
"Eight Missouri legislators were honored Tuesday by The Globe-Democrat for meritorious service during the 75th General Assem bly. Globe Publisher G. Duncan Bauman, right, presents silver plates to Representative Robert Devoy (Dem.), Brookfield, left, and Senator A. Clifford Jones (Rep.), Ladue."
$32 Million Office Building to be Largest in Clayton - Work will begin next spring on Carondelet Avenue in Clayton. The 19-story, 380,000-square-foot building called the 7700 Corporate Tower and is being developed by Nooney Co., a Clayton-based development and real estate management firm. The building will feature an aluminum and tinted-glass skin, with rounded corners on the exterior, will have 20,000 square feet per floor. It will have more floor space than most office buildings in the metropolitan area, Nooney said.
Commercial property that has not been reassessed recently would face the largest increase under the proposed legislation. For instance, the Home Builders say, this building at 7730 Forsyth Blvd. in Clayton would be hit by a 618 percent increase. Taxes would jump from $1,250.11 a year to $9, 690.
An artist's drawing of the Brentwood city hall as it will look upon completion next year, shows the addition in the rear of the building. The improvements include additional parking space and expanded facilities for the public library, ambulance service, police and fire departments, A $375,000 bond proposal for the addition was approved by Brentwood voters in the Nov. 7 general election.
"The advisory committee of the Globe-Democrat 1953 Soil Conservation Districts Award Program includes, from left, seated; Msgr. G. J. Hildner of Villa Ridge; Justin L. Faherty, assistant to the publisher, presiding in the absence of Charles C. Clayton, chairman, and Dean J. H. Longwell of the Missouri College of Agriculture. Standing, from left: Lowell Burns of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce; Joe Grant of Williamsburg; H. J. Jackson and R. S. McClelland of Columbia, Winn Wilkerson, Kearney."
Aerial photograph of downtown Clayton, Missouri. A highway runs from the bottom left of the photo up into the middle ground. Several office buildings protrude from the middle and background, and there's a residential area in the lower righthand corner.
Fire trucks and hoses surround the home of Art Houston at 213 Jenkins St., Centralia, Mo. The house was reportedly gutted. As the fires spread through Centralia Thursday, hundreds fled their homes. Damage was estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and smoke could be seen 15 miles away.
Two photographs placed one above the other of the same place in Clayton, MO 21 years apart. There's significant developmental progress in the city, including many high-rise buildings and homes built on previously unoccupied land.
Image depicts members of the Affton Fire Department testing the new aerial-pumper fire truck. Joe Schmidt engineer and pipeman, mans the ladder nozzle and Vernon Youngman, also an engineer and pipeman, watches the pressure gauges.
The Affton Athletic Association Complex on 10300 Gravois Road. Ice rink is at right with ball fields in background. The association was seeking donations to help pay a $300,000 debt. Most of the debt is the result of improvements made to the association's recreational center. The donations would forestall large increases in fees charged by the association for the various sports offered, officials said.
Ed Zitko (left), find the right size shirt with the help of Marilyn Piatt (right), at a recent meeting of the Affton Concerned Citizens Association, an anti-business group.
Affton firemen Jerry Buehne and Dan Claspill were recently honored by the St. Louis County Fire Chiefs Association for rescuing an accident victim from a 95 ft electrical tower which was charged with 138,000 volts of electricity. Pictured from left to right at the certificate of merit presentation are Chief Robert Watts, president of the Fire Chiefs Association, Captain Jerry Buehne, Chief M. Halm, Dan Claspill, and Chief L. Aubuchon, public relations officer of the association.
Image depicts Gary Gern (left), president of the Affton Historical Society, and Gilbert Hansmann, chairmen of the committee for the Acquisition and Restoration of Oakland, look over the chart to show the progress on the amount of funds donated to the society for the purchase of the historic building. The marking of funds was colored onto the photograph.
Image depicts Affton Historical Society members showing some of the objects to be auctioned at the French basket picnic to be held Saturday, September 10, at Oakland, the historic Benoist home. From left to right standing are Judy Munn, auction chairwoman, and Hilda "Larry" Reindley, in charge of tickets and reservations. Seated are Mrs. Edna Beezley, Oscar Crecelius, honorary chairmen, and Shirley Ayer.
The Affton School District's new elementary school, to be built on the east side of Laclede Station road south of Highway 66, is depicted in this architect's drawing. Pearce and Pearce Inc. are the architects for the 300-pupil building, which is scheduled for completion in the summer of 1968. The Affton Board of Education awarded contracts for construction of the school totaling $449-961, which does not include the kindergarten wing to be added later. Roy Lee Gibson and Associates, 7147 Weill ave., is the general contractor.