Workmen are putting finishing touches on 12th and Gravois bridge. Traffic lane dividing lines are painted on the new Twelfth Street Bridge preparatory to its opening. The bridge will carry Twelfth street and Gravois avenue traffic over the Third Street Inter-Regional Highway.
Boards and girders hang crazily after this one-lane bridge on Old Baumgartner road over Mattese Creek in south St. Louis County was "blown up." Here detectives (at right) examine the spot where they believe the charge was placed.
The overland bridge on Ashby road at Midland boulevard is the focal point of a dispute between County Highway Engineer Fred H. Kiburz and John J. Leslie, Democratic candidate for Kiburz' office.
Inching across the Meramec River on U.S. Highway 66 at Sylvan Beach, two miles west of Lindbergh boulevard in St. Louis County, this 1102-foot bridge is nearing completion. When finished it will carry the eastbound traffic lane of the transcontinental highway. This bridge is part of an improvement project on 129 miles of roads in the state in 41 counties and the City of St. Louis.
The area around Gravois and River Des Peres was rather thinly populated even in the era of the "get out and get under" auto. Note the stalled car on south side of the bridge. Cars were built so simply then that nearly everybody who drove was able to make all his own repairs.
McKinley Bridge across the Mississippi River will be purchased by the Bi-State Development Agency from a railroad company to be controlled by a group of eight lines nw negotiating to acquire the Illinois Terminal Railroad, owner of the 44-year-old span. Illinois Terminal Railroad's ownership of its own span and right-of-way into downtown St. Louis has helped to make it sought by several big railroads.
The unprotected opening running between the center and outer traffic lanes on the McKinley bridge is seen from below, looking up from the Hall street railroad tracks where the men landed in their 80-foot drop. The outer lane, formerly reserved for streetcars, has no guard rails.
The big steel tower on the west approach of the McKinley Bridge was unceremoniously dumped from its perch yesterday. An Illinois Terminal locomotive on the bridge hooked onto steel cables fastened to the 30-foot tower, gave a few tugs and the mass of metal tumbled to the ground.
Deteriorated steel-work was discovered on the Twenty-First Street Bridge when workmen began tearing up sidewalks in one of the St. Louis bond issue projects. Foreman George Hickey examines a steel beam, rusted through in places. The eroded steel-work is being replaced.
Urban T. Kulage, a painter of 5966 Summit ave. was critically injured yesterday when he fell 100 feet from the railroad (lower) deck of the MacArthur Bridge approach in East St. Louis and landed on loose railroad ties on the ground below.
Workmen (top right) watch from MacArthur Bridge as a Coast Guard craft drags the river along the Illinois shore in a search for the body of Bert Garnett, who fell to his death yesterday.
Heavy steel guard rails at the curb line protect curves on the east approach to MacArthur Bridge, where three persons have been killed in less than eight days.