PREPARING FOR EASTER EGG HUNT are members of the Hazelwood Fire Department, who are cooking and coloring 240 dozen eggs for the event, which starts at 2 p. m. Sunday behind the Hazelwood City Hall, 9150 Highway 66. They are Charles Hauck of 617 Holiday Ave., chairman of the hunt; Capt. Joseph McNamara, 7113 Fordshire la.; Wayne Sanders, 803 Bellflower dr.; Bernie McGuire, 7109 McGuire la.; and Chief Joseph Eulentrop, 5 Mary Rose ct. Prizes have been donated by merchants and members of the Hazelwood Board of Trustees.
A decorative arch, put in place for the visiting Elks, as pictured at Anheuser-Busch Brewery in 1899. Image from St. Louis Mercantile Library collections.
Another old building bites the dust as a headache ball batters down the old Battery A Armoy at Grand avenue Rutger street to make way for the new David P. Wohl Health Institute.
Two original captions: "This is the Anheuser-Busch brewery, photographed in 1899, with a decorative arch in place in honor of visiting Elks, who held their national convention in St. Louis in June of that year. Malt house and grain elevators may be seen in the background." "The Anheuser-Busch brewery in 1899. The decorative arch welcomed visiting Elks who held their convention in St. Louis in June of that year. The bank partly visible at right is the Old South Side Trust Company."
It is filled columns of the nation's newspapers for months. This sketch of the Arsenal, by artist of Harper's Weekly, has the Home Guards lounging about the spacious lawn of the reservation. These volunteer troops were called the "black guards" by Southern sympathetizers in St. Louis.
RIVER QUEEN sunk at Saint Louis, Missouri, Dec. 2, 1967. Formerly the CAPE GIRARDEAU and GORDON C. GREENE. Last packet boat built at Howard Shipyards (b. 1923). Looking north.
RIVER QUEEN sunk at Saint Louis, Missouri, Dec. 2, 1967. Formerly the CAPE GIRARDEAU and GORDON C. GREENE. Last packet boat built at Howard Shipyards (b. 1923). Photo by Bob Seals.
OBLIVIOUS OF THE HEIGHT AND DANGERS involved, two men scrub down a section near the top of the Gateway Arch while a third hoses off the soap. Huge scaffolds are being used but workers hopped off while cleaning near the top of the curving structure to give its stainless steel skin its initial scrub-down. A picture-story of Operation Clean-up atop the 630-foot Arch is on Page 108.