Nearly 100 boys from Boys Town of Missouri along with teachers and counselors arrive in Chesterfield after their 160 mile journey from St. James MO. The caravan included eight covered wagons, thirty-five mules and eighty horses and followed portions of the Lewis and Clark trail.
Image shows the president of Sachs Properties Inc. Philip Schreiber riding in one of the Boys Town caravan wagons. Sachs Properties Inc. provided the final round-up site for the caravan in Chesterfield.
"Sodbusters: On old-fashioned plow broke ground Thursday for the $4 million Conway Office Center that will be built at the intersection of U.S. 40 and Olive Street Road. Getting the project started were Richard Brunk, president, Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce; Dee Joyner, executive director, St. Louis County Economic Council; John Rogers of Cheshire Carriage Service, supplier of the horse; and Robert D. Wachter, president of American Capital Corp., the office developer."
"Ground has been broken for the Conway Office Center, a three-story 52,000 square foot luxurious office building to be located at Highway 40 and Olive Street Road in Chesterfield. The offices are designed around a central core of public spaces with a spacious two-story open atrium entry and within walking distance of the Chesterfield Mall."
Photograph of two children sitting on hay bales with pumpkins in front of two large wooden caricatures of Snoopy and Linus van Pelt from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The characters are 8-feet tall, and were on display at Hellwig Farm.
The Roosevelt Federal Savings & Loan Building off U.S. 40 at Olive Boulevard in Chesterfield is a formidable addition to the West St. Louis County skyline. The six-story headquarters building is being constructed at a cost of $7.1 million.
Puppets Show Handicaps - Margaret Israel (left) and Phyllis Gordon maneuver puppets in little play to show how people with handicaps overcome their difficulties.
Terri Altman stands in a room of her burned-out Chesterfield home. A Chesterfield fire captain who just "wanted to make life safe for everyone" was killed while fighting a house fire in the Green rails subdivision of Chesterfield Friday. Capt. Raymond F. Trog Jr., 27, of Fenton, died of carbon monoxide poisoning after he fell through the floor of the burning house and was trapped in he basement, officials said. He was pronounced dead at St. Luke's Hospital West at 4:13am Friday.
Changing the guard: Workers are installing the new prototype signage of Centerre Bank at the Chesterfield Bank, a member of First Union, Bancorporation. It is the first bank of the St. Louis holding company's affiliates to make the change to Centerre. Effective Jan. 4, all First Union banks in the St. Louis area will display the new Centerre signage.
William H. Gantz (right), Principal in the firm of Henderson Gantz Architects of St. Louis, points out features of the executive conference center designed as part of the $24,000,000 Breckenridge Inn and Conference Center to be built in Chesterfield, Missouri.
Officers of the newly-formed Chesterfield Community Association are pictured examining architectural drawings at the site of the group's proposed athletic facility, located a quarter-mile west of Lay Road north of Highway 40 in Gumbo. The facility is expected to offer year-round athletic as well as social activities and facilities for both children and adults. Shown left to right are Joan Schmelig, Gary Schaffer (kneeling), John R. Reuther, George R. Goode, Robert Gerst, Elmer Weinrich (kneeling), Paul W. Kopsky, Raymond Laux and Rev. Carlton Norton (kneeling).