Automatic toll collector on Eads Bridge, put into operation Friday midnight, is watched by attendant Don Alexander and motorist drops toll payment into the basket-like collector.
Cleaning up on the levee, city workmen cut up a piece of driftwood as they spruce up the area for the bicentennial celebration. Eads Bridge is in the background.
This is one of the questions on the test written by the board of directors of the St. Louis Visitors Center to see how much St. Louisans really know about their city. Pictured above is the Eads Bridge in question.
The Mississippi river (which flows under the pictured Eads Bridge) continues to rise, with a rise of 27 feet expected Thursday morning, 28.2 Friday and 28.8 Saturday.
The smog was so thick Wednesday morning that the entire span of the Eads Bridge, foreground, could not be seen, and Veterans Bridge, in background, is barely visible.
Scaffolding that appears as weather-beaten as the bridge itself was photographed Thursday on Eads bridge which the City of St. Louis threatened to close unless repairs are started within 10 days.
The fifth in Boehl's series of construction work on the bridge, first over the Mississippi south of the Missouri, shows all three spans joined in 1873.