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.
"Beechwood chips, sterilized in a cooker, are placed in the Anheuser-Busch Lagering Cellars (above). Here the beer ages, and "krausening," a costly second fermentation, produces Budweiser's natural carbonation and flavor."
"Anheuser-Busch officials completed the purchase of a 160-acre tract of land in the Tampa, Fla., Industrial Park here yesterday. August A. Busch Jr., president, said a new brewery would be built on the site. Taking part in the meeting were (from left) John L. Wilson, Anheuser-Busch executive president; Busch; Ellsworth Simmons, chairman of the board of of Tampa County Commissioners; Henry Toland, vice president of the Exchange National Bank, Tampa, and Louis Swed, president of the Swed Distributing Company, Texas."
"August A. Busch Jr., standing left, presided over yesterday's Anheuser-Busch. Inc., stockholders' meeting, at which time overwhelming approval was voted for the purchase of the Cardinals' baseball club and its vast minor league organization by the brewery. The meeting, said to be the largest ever held at the office on Pestalozzi st., voten in favor of the purchase by 3,488,048 shares as compared (missing) shares against."
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."
"Pickets appeared at the Anheuser-Busch brewery yesterday for the first time since the work stoppage there started Oct. 1. Members of Local 187 of the CIO Beer Bottlers Union are shown before the bottling plant. The company garage and three outside garages housing brewery trucks were also picketed, stopping the delivery of beer."
"August A. Busch Jr., president of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., helped notify pickets at the brewery that a settlement of the company's dispute with the Brewery Workers had been reached at 2:35 a.m. yesterday. From left, Eberhard Anheuser, chairman of the board of the brewery; R. W. Upshaw, vice president; Robert F. Lewis, president of the Joint Local Executive Board of the Brewery Workers, and Busch with his arm thrown around of the smiling workers, Louis Michel, a worker in the fermenting department of the plant."
"Pickets from the Newark, N. J. local of the CIO Brewery Workers Union set up a picket line yesterday at the Anheuser-Busch brewery here, but most workers crossed the line and production was not halted. The union is seeking a contract at the Anheuser-Busch Newark plant."
"Picketing by the CIO Beer Bottlers Union Local 187 was extended yesterday to the entire plant of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., forcing the complete shutdown of production. Pickets shown here are in front of the corn products plant and lager beer cellars near Ninth and Pestalozzi streets. The Anheuser-Busch shutdown was followed by a production stoppage at the Hyde Park Brewwery, where picket lines were set up by the Warehouse and Distribution Workers Local 688 of the AFL Teamsters Union, which threatened to extend the picketing to other breweries."
Original caption: "Seven workmen fell yesterday from the second floor of a building being razed at the Anhueser-Busch Brewery when a beam collapsed under them. All were injured, four seriously. The men plunged through the hole in the background. All seven are Negroes."
"Ken Murray, host of TV's original "Ken Murray Variety Hour" on the CBS network hoists a giant bottle of Budweiser, which sponsored the program in 1951. Budweiser was the first beer brand to sponsor a network television program."
"Cold Brewery - Temperatures near zero yesterday created enough steam to make the Anheuser-Busch brewery at Seventh and Lynch streets look as if it was a raging inferno. It was, however, an exception to that old adage about smoke and fire. There was plenty of the former, but none of the latter."
"This is part of the $150,000,000 in brewery equipment idled by the work stoppage at Anheuser-Busch, Inc. This picture shows the deserted equipment on the sixth floor of the bottling plant."
