Revised plans to convert all 1,385 Audubon Park apartment units into a smaller number of condominium units were announced Monday night by the Jefferson Savings and Loan Association.
The County Housing Authority's plan to purchase part of the new Audubon Park-Brentwood Forest condominium development for subsidized low-income public housing has encountered opposition from condominium purchasers, city officials and neighborhood residents. A controversial proposal to provide low-income subsidized housing in the moderately expensive Audubon Park-Brentwood Forest complex is being reviewed by County Executive Gene McNary.
Brentwood was known as Maddenville for awhile after this man, Thomas Madden, who started with a small farm and ended by almost literally owning the town. Madden built - though he did not run - many of Brentwood's first shops, quarried stone, built roads and even ran a tavern. He is shown here about 1910 with one of his granddaughters.
The future may bring office buildings into this residential area in Brentwood. City officials are considering rezoning 22 residential properties on the east side of Collier Avenue to open the area to commercial development.
Groceries, tinware, notions - Brentwood residents could get it all at Chris Ruehl's General Merchandise store in the 1890's. Deliveries were made in Ruehl's buckboard seen in the foreground. The store was built at the southeast corner of Brentwood Boulevard and Manchester Road by Thomas Madden, an early businessman.
Car washes -- Norbert Cashaw hoses down a car at the Brentwood Volvo. Cashaw, as his partner (Walter Harris, not pictured) had 23 Volvos on the car lot to wash...but then "It is a good day for it."
Conductor Jerome J. Matejka leads the Glennon Orchestra at Brentwood High Auditorium for a benefit for the Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital For Children Friday and Saturday.
Miss Bonnie Rasmussen, chairperson of Planning and Zoning for Brentwood and Mrs. Berry Lane dialog during Tuesday night meeting - Mayor J. Marvin Shelton stands at left rear.
Map shows location of an industrial park to be developed by The Siteman Organization on 500,000 square feet of property in Brentwood. The industrially zoned property is south of Manchester Road and just west of the proposed Inner Belt Expressway. The development will be known as Brentwood Industrial Park.
Sign of Better Driving Times - New signs along Brentwood boulevard tell motorists that better times are ahead. The City of Brentwood will change electric traffic signals at Pine Avenue. White avenue and Eulalie avenue-Litzinger road to eliminate unnecessary left turn arrows and speed the flow of traffic along the heavily traveled north-south artery.
The future may bring office buildings into this residential area in Brentwood. City officials are considering rezoning 22 residential properties on the east side of Collier Avenue to open the area to commercial development. Properties pictured on the right side of the top photo on the left side of the bottom photo may be rezoned for commercial use.
The multi-purpose room of the new community center at the Brentwood Recreation Complex offers a view of skaters on the enclosed ice rink. The room will have kitchen facilities and will be available for programs, classes, and social functions.
The student council at Brentwood High takes an active part in all functions of school life. Shown above are council members taking part in a discussion prior to a general meeting with the principal and faculty.
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.
Jay Knehans, Joe Paule, and Steve Driskell play trumpets for the Glennon Orchestra Friday night benefit for the Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital for Children.
New Brentwood Bank - Here is the bank's new $1,000,000 structure at Brentwood Boulevard and the Daniel Boone Expressway. It is one of the most modern in the area.
Father Ted Feldbrugge leads the memorial service for the first anniversary of the assassination of Sem. Beningo Aquino. The memorial was held by the St. Louis unit of the movement for a free Philippines and was conducted at the Brentwood community center.
First municipal canine team in the county trained by the St. Louis Police Department is on duty in Brentwood. Patrolman Charles W. Mayer and Smokey, a 14-month old German Shepherd, went into service last week.
