Image of a machine gun enclosed around several sandbags. One of the many items of WWI memorabilia at the 94th Aero Squadron Restaurant. The building is modeled after Eddie Rickenbacker's farmhouse headquarters in France during the first World War.
Berkeley police will move into their new two-story headquarters at 5850 N. Hanley rd., Friday or the beginning of next week. The $460,000 brick masonry structure was funded out of a bond issue passed in Nov., 1972, and an additional $71,000 from the federal government for a Civil Defense emergency communication's center in the basement.
Berkeley's Bicentennial Dedication of Independence Park and a memorial plaque to the city's war dead took place Sunday in the park. Holding the park's dedication flag, from left, are Mayor Ronald D. Taylor, John Stoffel of Amvets Post 3. Councilman George E. Twellmann and the Rev. Edward J. Filipiak, past national chaplain of Sad Sacks, the honor and fun group associated with Amvets.
Honoring Berkeley's community development achievements during the last year, Governor Christopher S. Bond (left) is shown presenting a Governor's Certificate of Merit to Jack Collins, chairman of the Berkeley Betterment Commission.
Berkeley setting up 1st of 5 centers for youths - The first of five neighborhood youth centers - one for each ward in the City of Berkeley - has been purchased from the Doddlesdale subdivision and moved to Jackson Park in the second ward. Berkeley bought the Doddlesdale home for a bargain price of $350, because the homeowner, Frank Kruger, former mayor of the city, interceded in the sale to benefit Berkeley's youth. The Jackson Park center is scheduled to open in about 30 days, together with another youth center planned for a 4-acre site at 8635 Evans Lane.
Smiles of success are beamed by Berkeley High School Ecology Club members and Berkeley officials at the newly-created recycling center at the Berkeley city garage, 5860 Middleway - open 24 hours a day. From the left are - Councilman Nick Congemi, Mayor Ronald Taylor, Linda Whitmore, Debbie Laburay, Paul Price, Jim Wyre, Mark Williams, Shawn Keller, Mrs. Paul Price Sr. and Rep. William Friese.
Nine-year-old Nicholas Dorsen, his brother Robert, 12, and sister, Wendy, 2, don't appear to be having much fun in their tree house, and it's probably because Berkeley city officials have told their dad the tree house must come down. The Dorsens are shown in their yard at 3810 McKibbon rd.
Flanked on both sides by commercial establishments, the center is the first of its kind in the county and is patterned after the storefront centers operated by the St. Louis city police department.
"It's time to change the image that kids have that a policeman is just a guy with a blue shirt, a shiny badge, and a big gun on his hip. Once we convince them we're on their side, the problem is almost solved." That quotation from one of the Berkeley Police Department's juvenile officers highlights the chief reason why the city has become the first county municipality to establish a police community relations center.
Berkeley's first "homestead" lottery house, 6142 Jackson Ave. in the Kinloch-Park subdivision. It will be occupied next spring by the Michael Scallions family, which will be responsible for bringing it up to city code requirements within six months.
"We will be moving into the house about the same time my wife has her second baby," said Michael Scallions, 24, jubilant winner of the first $1 house lottery staged in St. Louis County.
