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Title: First Barrel of Draft Beer Being Loaded At Griesedieck Brothers Brewery
Date: 1951-10-26, 1951-10-26
Description: Above, rolling out the barrels at the Griesedieck Brothers Brewery, 1920 Shenandoah ave., was resumed yesterday as picket lines were withdrawn by the AFL Teammasters Local 688, which had sought to organize office workers.

Title: Razing Operations of Griesedieck Brothers Brewery
Date: 1959-01-17, 1959-01-18
Description: The Carling Brewing Company of Cleveland bought out Griesedieck Western Brewery Company, makers of Stag, on Nov. 1, 1954. Since then they have closed the St. Louis brewery and consolidated operations at the Belleville plant.

Title: AFL Building Trades Council Picketed Griesedieck Brothers Brewery
Date: 1952-04-15, 1952-04-15
Description: The AFL Building Trades Council picketed the Hyde Park plant of the Griesedieck brewery yesterday.

Title: Demonstration At Griesedieck Brothers Brewery
Date: 1950-03-23, 1950-03-23
Description: There is a right way and wrong way to draw a glass of beer from a tap. This is the correct way-letting the beer bounce off the bottom of the glass instead of allowing it to trickle down the side.

Title: The New Fermentation Building of Griesedieck Brothers Brewery
Date: 1951-07-15, 1951-07-15
Description: The "de-bitterizing" process goes on in Griesedieck Brothers Brewery Company's new fermenting building, as a partial interiorr view shows here.

Title: Griesedieck Brothers Brewery
Date: 1954-03-12, 1954-03-12
Description: $1,000 check for Brewing History and the MO. Historical Society.

Title: Griesedieck Brothers Brewery
Date: 1951, 1951
Description: Griesedieck Brothers Brewery trucks being loaded with bottle beer.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Reaching for the sky
Date: 1959-09-02, 1959-09-04
Description: "Reaching for the Sky: Soaring higher and higher are the six 13-story apartment buildings under construction in the downtown Plaza Redevelopment Project. Steel being hoisted by the crane in this picture will be fitted into upper-floor construction of one of the buildings at Seventeenth and Pine streets. The buildings, which are to be completed simultaneously, according to present construction

Title: Plaza Apartments - Walking in the road
Date: 1957-01-06, 1957-01-06
Description: "In the picture to the right, two women, walking on the west side of Fourteenth south of Olive, are forced to circle around parked cars."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Pre-development living conditions in the Plaza area
Date: 1953-09-20, 1953-09-20
Description: "Housing accommodations in the Plaza area are described by City Plan Commission as "far short of the minimum standards required for health, sanitation and decency." This view of the interior of one one of the buildings shows the general dilapidated condition. Seven modern apartment buildings for 1,350 families will be built if the bond issue passes."

Title: Plaza Apartments - The Plaza Bond Issue Committee
Date: 1953-09-15, 1953-09-15
Description: "The Plaza Bond Issue Committee, whoich is enlisting the aid of 763 employers in an educational program concerning the $1,500,000 redevelopment issue to be voted on Sept. 29, includes, seated from left, Postmaster Bernard F. Dickmann, E. T. Moberg, Armstrong Chinn, Mrs. Edward M. Harrington, Chairman Aloys P. Kaufmann, Frank M. Mayfield, W. H. Semsrott; standing, Preston Estep, Kenneth H. Bitting, David P. Wohl, Clark Hungerford, Chapin S. Newhard, J. H. Wenhoenoer, A. C. Knetzer, W. J. Kennedy, Irving Shapiro and Joseph D. Harnett."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Under construction
Date: 1959-08, 1959-08
Description: Elevated view of the Plaza Apartment buildings under construction. The project would become the first urban renewal project to be completed in St. Louis.

Title: Wall Falls
Date: 1958-02-25, 1958-02-25
Description: A wall of the old Telegraphers' National Bank Building forms a pile of debris after its sudden collapse during wrecking operations at the Broadway and Pine street site yesterday.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Area to be cleared for Plaza development
Date: 1955-04-08, 1955-04-08
Description: "Buildings will be cleared from the area shown in the foreground of this photo as part of the Plaza redevelopment. The Eighteenth Street Garage, at left center, is outside the project area. This view, from the tower of Union Station, looks notheastwardly from the intersection of Eighteenth and Market streets. At extreme left is the edge of Aloe Plaza. All of the buildings in the area to the east, bounded roughly by Eighteenth, Market, Fourteenth and Olive, will be cleared away to make a connecting parkway with Memorial Plaza and a housing development. Demolition work will begin Apr. 19."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Launching Plaza Redevelopment Project
Date: 1958-06-09, 1958-06-10
Description: "Launching Plaza Redevelopment Project, Russell E. Gardner, president of the Urban Redevelopment Corporation, scoops up the forst shovelful of dirt. Lining the treat of the big shovel are (from the left) Daniel Sheehan, a member of the firm's executive board; Preston Estep, treasurer, and Aloys P. Kaufmann, president of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce. At right, Mr. Kaufmann shows Mr. Gardner where to dump the first scoopful. The housing project got underway at Fifteenth and Chestnut streets yesterday."

Title: Plaza Apartments - The project begins
Date: 1958-06-09, 1958-06-10
Description: "Launching Plaza Redevelopment Project, Russell E. Gardner, president of the Urban Redevelopment Corporation, scoops up the forst shovelful of dirt. Lining the treat of the big shovel are (from the left) Daniel Sheehan, a member of the firm's executive board; Preston Estep, treasurer, and Aloys P. Kaufmann, president of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce. At right, Mr. Kaufmann shows Mr. Gardner where to dump the first scoopful. The housing project got underway at Fifteenth and Chestnut streets yesterday."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Filling in the holes
Date: 1958-12-05, 1958-12-05
Description: Caption on back: "Filling in unsightly holes in the Plaza redevelopment area gets underway as the basement of the Reed Hotel, which was demolished when the area was cleared, is buried under dirt excavated at sites of three apartment buildings going up in the area. The site and Fifteenth and Pine streets will ultimately be improved with commercial buildings and a parking lot for Plaza residents. All of the eyesore holes in the Plaza area will be eliminated as quickly as possible."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Excavation inspection
Date: 1959-06-02, 1959-06-02
Description: "Inspecting a barricade around a 30-foot deep excavation for an underground garage in the Plaza Development is Building Commissioner Albert H. Baum (top photo). Lower picture (not present) shows a view of the excavation separated from busy Olive street traffic by flimsy boards."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Test borings
Date: 1958-08-11, 1958-08-12
Description: "Plaza development gets under way at Fifteenth and Pine Streets where test borings are being made prior to construction of a three-story rectory by St. John's Catholic Church and the laying of a sewer line by the Urban Redevelopment Corporation. The block, which extends to Sixteeth and Chestnut streets, has been selected for the first building in the 1090-unit Plaza apartment project. It will be 13 stories with 208 apartments."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Buildings to be demolished for development
Date: 1955-04-17, 1955-04-17
Description: Caption on back: "Sign of the times: The MOVED sign on the Model Hotel and Auditorium Bar means that the building and some 86 others in the area are about to be razed in St. Louis's latest slum-clearance project."

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