Bill Lill Chairman of St. Louis Veteran's Day Parade, gives a Thanks handshake and a pat on the back to Missouri State Bank president Robert Harris as the bank will be the new home for the display of veterans in the Gallery of Heros at tucker and Olive.
"Discussing banking issues at the annual Centerre Bank correspondents conference are, from left, Murray L. Weidenbaum, Mallinckrodt Distinguished Professor of Economics at Washington University; Clarence C. Barksdale, chairman and chief executive officer of the bank; Lawrence K. Roos, limited partner of the investment firm of Baer, Stearns & Co.; and William Tull, senior executive vice president of the bank."
"Early check of Boatmen's Savings Institution depicted a riverboat which is the Boatmen's Bancshares' symbol today." "Twenty-seven years before Eads Bridge was to help open the Gateway to the West, George Knight Budd obtained a charter for Missouri's first private bank, the Boatmen's Saving Institution."
"On Display: This replica of King Tut's throne is the highlight of a Centerre Bank exhibit tracing the history of the use of gold. The exhibit will be in the lobby of the bank, Broadway and Locust Street, during regular business hours for the next six months. It consists of five large display cases. It was created by the St. Louis Museum of Science and Natural History with matching funds provided by Centerre. Museum staff designer Ralph Wilke holds a monstrance on loan for the exhibit from St. Stanislaus Jesuit Museum while bank representative Patricia Abendschein displays a gold evening purse from the exhibit."
"The main tower entrance to One Centerre Plaza feeds visitors into a 51-foot-high lobby with terrazzo flooring, a wall of Dakota mahogany granite and escalators with anodized bronze handrails. The escalators terminate on the third floor where elevator service begins."
"One Centerre Plaza is an octagonally shaped skyscraper with bronze-tinted, low-reflective glass. Chamfered corners maximize views and allow natural light to penetrate interior spaces."
"Centerre Plaza's striking center court, in the low-rise structure, has a vaulted skylight which provides a view of the tower and brings natural light into the space."
A construction worker is silhouetted against the sky as he works on a pedestrian walkway over Walnut Street. The walkway will link the Stadium West Parking Garage to the new First National bank building.
St. Louis U January 26, 1981-TOPPING OUT OF THE 1st National Bank Building. Clarence C. Barksdale, Chairman of the boars of First National Bank, turns away after christening the I-beam with champagne.
