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Title: Floor Renovations at the Muny
Date: 1968-02-26
Description: Concrete work on the front of the stage of the Municipal Opera.

Title: Muny's Orchestra Pit
Date: 1968-02-26
Description: Work on the orchestra pit at the Municipal Opera.

Title: Opening Night for "My Fair Lady"
Date: 1968-06-05
Description: "A silk suit to shirt-sleeve audience of 10,044 on hand for 'My Fair Lady' on opening night of the Municipal Opera's 50th anniversary season."

Title: Full House at the Muny
Date: 1968-08-11
Description: The crowd during a Muny production during the late 1960's.

Title: "Meet Me in St. Louis"
Date: 1960-06-10
Description: "Meeting in St. Louis for the opening of the Muny Opera's 1960 season are first nighters, who saw the world stage premiere of 'Meet Me in St. Louis.' The adaptation of the movie story, set at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, will be presented in 10 more performances nightly through June 19. It stars Peggy King, Virginia Gibson, Mary Wickes and Howard St. John."

Title: New Merrell Laboratory Plant
Date: 1965-07-12
Description: "Merrell Laboratory, Inc. recently moved to this new plant located at 1330 North Roch Hill Road in St. Louis County. The new facility features a 3 1/2-acre landscaped tract and is equipped with complete receiving and shipping facilities. Merrell Laboratory engages in private label cosmetics manufacturing and serves as consultants in this and related fields."

Title: 2 Postmen with 76 Years Total Service Retire
Date: 1961-07-30
Description: "Veteran mail carriers Theodore H. Gerdes (left) and Henry Uppenkamp return to the Gravois Post Office after delivering their last letters."

Title: Disregard for Fragile Packages
Date: 1974-06-17
Description: "Visits to several post offices revealed that packages, even those marked 'fragile,' are still being thrown."

Title: Postmen on Parade
Date: 1960-03-14
Description: "Led by the Letter Carriers Band, approximately 1800 federal employees--1000 of them postmen in full uniform--and their families marched down Market Street to Kiel Auditorium where they attended a mass salary rally in the opera House. The purpose of the rally was to alert the public to their nationwide salary drive. Principal speaker was James C. Stocker, St. Louis regional director of National Association of Letter Carriers."

Title: 1877 Mail Carriers
Date: 1967-03-22
Description: "The group of mail carriers at Station A of the old post office system, taken at 3607 North Broadway in 1887. Gallagher is the fifth man from the left in the group."

Title: Introducing Fast Mail
Date: 1963-03-08
Description: "Inaugurating fast mail service in the downtown area, Assistant Postmaster General Ralph W. Nicholson, places an ABCD label on a mailbox outside City Hall as Mayor Tucker (center) and St. Louis Postmaster Claude I. Bakewell look on."

Title: Post Office Workers Protesting
Date: 1967-03-19
Description: Postal workers protest the dismissal of the 343 Branch.

Title: Busy Packaging
Date: 1967-05-18
Description: Two postal workers work hard managing tens of packages being rolled down a conveyor belt.

Title: ZIP Code Introduced
Date: 1963-07-03
Description: "Regional Postal Director John F. Dee (right) and St. Louis Postmaster Claude I. Bakewell (center) introduce "Mr. Zip" to William E. Cornelius, assistant comptroller of the Union Electric Company. The cartoon figure is on display in post offices throughout the country to call attention to the new ZIP code system introduced this month. The Union Electric Company is one of the larger users of postal service in this area, mailing 30,000 first class pieces a day and accounting for $350,000 in annual postal revenue."

Title: Inspection before Postal Auction
Date: 1960-09-18
Description: "Day before the Post Office auction is inspection day. Catalogues in hand, those who are interested in the items to be auctioned rove the room searching the hamper lots and asking permission to see individual items."

Title: The Rush for One-Cent Stamps
Date: 1969-01-09
Description: "People waiting in lines Monday to buy one-cent stamps at the main post office. New postal rates caused a run-on post offices Monday as St. Louisans had to buy millions of the one-cent stamps to supplement their outdated supply of five-cents."

Title: Post Office Auction
Date: 1960-09-18
Description: "You can attend almost anything if you attend Post Office auctions regularly. Held several times yearly the auctions dispose of undelivered and unclaimed parcel post. Even if you don't buy anything they are a lot of fun."

Title: Reserves Report
Date: 1961-10-17
Description: "Cots are set up for members of the 219th Transportation Company at the St. Louis Ordnance Plant, 4300 Goodfellow Blvd. The unit was called to activate duty for one year, but will remain in St. Louis until later this month. It will then move to Fort Polk, La. In the foreground are (from the left) Specialist 4-C Robert Beneke, Specialist 5-C Gene Kauffmann and Sgt. Billy Swyers. None of the men are required to stay at the plant, but facilities are available for those who have already moved their families."

Title: Activating the Greater St. Louis Defense Telephone System
Date: 1967-06-23
Description: "Throwing the switches to activate the Greater St. Louis Defense Telephone System, left to right are, Charles C. Pervier, of Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.; Brig. Gen. H. F. Schiltz, of Army Material Command; Brig. Gen. E. Donley, of Army Mobility Equipment Command, St. Louis, and Col. B. T. Brown, Communications Chief, Army Material Command, Washington, D. C.

Title: Forming Artillery Shells
Date: 1966-11-07
Description: "The Chevrolet division of General Motors under contract with the government is once more producing 105-millimeter artillery projectiles as they did during World War II... Early in 1966 plans were formulated to reactivate the plant. The 105-millimeter shell had become a principal ammunition of the fighting in Vietnam. In August of 1966 the federal government and General Motors agreed on a $22 million contract to produce 4,500,000 rounds of the 105-millimeter shells. Target date for production was Jan. 1, 1967, but Chevrolet is already operating the plant at about 18 percent capacity." In this image, a block of metal is cut to approximate size for the 105-millimeter projectile, and then heated to 2250 degrees. Then it is placed in a press which starts forming cavity of the shell. After this, it goes through another press, above, which forms it to its approximate shape. During these processes the metal is actually flaming."

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