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Title: Plaza Apartments - Milles Fountain on Market Street
Date: 1955-04-17, 1955-04-17
Description: Caption on back: "Market is a street of contrasts. The Milles Fountain adjoins Market's "Wild West" area of pawnshops, taverns, cut-rate hotels soon to be demolished.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Pre-development demolition
Date: 1955-04-27, 1955-04-27
Description: "Demolition of Plaza area buildings was well underway yesterday just a week after Mayor Tucker participated in demolition of the first building in the area whil will become a private housing project and a public park. The clearance program involves about eight blocks. The area is shown from teh roof of the EIghteenth Street garage, looking across Seventeenth street to the east. Chestnut street is at left."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Automobile damage from demolition
Date: 1955-06-07, 1955-06-07
Description: "Heavy feeder cables, torn down by cascading masonry and brick, fall on top of automobiles parked along Pine street. Twenty-four cars were damaged."

Title: Park East Apartments - Kitchen
Date: 1955-05-01, 1955-05-01
Description: Built-ins form a partition between dining area and kitchen in the Euclid-Maryland avenues apartment. Drawers are redwood. Cabinet doors on kitchen side are school desk tops, rubbed to natural finish.

Title: Park East Apartments - Exterior
Date: 1955-05-01, 1955-05-01
Description: Park East Apartment at 326 N Euclid Ave was modernized inside and out. Exterior brick walls painted two shades of gray. Brick terraces and iron fence were added.

Title: Park East Apartments - Mantel
Date: 1955-05-01, 1955-05-01
Description: Rough brick wall in a Park East apartment was stripped of its cracked plaster and layers of flowered wallpapers. Wall at right was covered with burlap.

Title: Nearing Completion
Date: 1955-12-11
Description: First National Bank in St. Louis proposed new store and office building at the southeast corner of Sixth and Locust streets is scheduled for completion on or around June 1, 1962.

Title: Gold Service Pins--Mercantile Trust Co.
Date: 1955-03-23, 1955-03-23
Description: Gold service pins for 21 years or more of service are awarded to 325 veteran staff members of the Mercantile Trust Company at a dinner at the Statler Hotel. From left: Sidney Maestre, chairman of the board, watches Hord Hardin, chairman of the executive committee, give a pin to Claude Cour, former head teller who retired last August after 52 years of service.

Title: Kids
Date: 1955-01
Description: Fence down in the 1100 black of Gorgas St.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Bicycle Riders on Hancock
Date: 1955, 1955
Description: "Bicycle riders going east on Hancock Ave. Hancock Ave is the first street north of the parade grounds."

Title: Boards And Girders Hang Crazily
Date: 1955-11-22, 1955-11-22
Description: 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.

Title: Inching Across The Meramec River
Date: 1955-05-17, 1955-05-18
Description: 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.

Title: McKinley Bridge Toll Collector Posts Cardinal Scores
Date: 1955-04, 1955-04
Description: McKinley bridge toll collector Tony Gacki keeps customers posted on Cardinal score.

Title: The Unprotected Opening Of The McKinley Bridge
Date: 1955-06-26, 1955-06-26
Description: 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.

Title: Garment District Building
Date: 1955-05-22, 1955-05-22
Description: Garment District Building, at the southeast corner of Thirteenth street and Washington avenue, figured in a trade last week.

Title: Jefferson Barracks - Mud Hole on Scott
Date: 1955, 1955
Description: A mud hole, attended by children, in the rear of 1100 block of Scott next to Jefferson Barracks.

Title: Aloe Plaza and Union Station, 1955
Date: 1955
Description: Union Station in 1955 seen from Chestnut Street looking across Aloe Plaza. Photograph donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Gerald R. Massie and the Massie family.

Title: An Aerial Taxi Test, An Aerial Taxi Test
Date: 1955-05
Description: AN AERIAL TAXI TEST was declared "terrific" yesterday by A. J. Cervantes (in dark suit), president of Laclede Cab Company. Flying time from the Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport was six minutes; the cab leaving the test landing strip at city parking lot on the river front took four minutes to get to a downtown hotel in the test. Cervantes said the CAA has approved the plan and he will now try to lease a landing strip on the parking lot.

Title: DENISON
Date: 1955-04
Description: The U S, Engineer Dep't Snag-boat DENISON - During April 1955. In operation while demolishing and removing from the river, the old abandoned Lock #7 and it's dam , on the Warrior River, near Eutaw Ala .

Title: Derrick Hercules
Date: 1955-02-08
Description: Showing one of the new upper gates in hoisted position at lock no. 26.

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