The drapes in the "Penthouse" a community room at the Kingsbury Terrace Apartments, 5655 Kingsbury, are full of holes. Looking at the drapes here are L-R: Lorita Fulton, manager, and resident Miss Geneva Brown. The St. Louis housing authority paid for the drapes but they have never been delivered.
Discussing interest rates at the 27th annual correspondent banking conference of Mercantile Trust Co. are Neal J. Farrell, president and chief operating officer of Mercantile; Norman M. Coats, director of the economic research department of Ralston Purina Co.; Robert O. Blomquist, executive vice president of Mercantile, and Eugenene A. Leonard, senior vice president of Mercantile and head of its correspondent banking division.
Mercantile's new Fingertip Banking machine provides much faster service combined with increased privacy and security. The new machines accept the existing Fingertip Banking cards that customers presently use.
"The main tower entrance to One Centerre Plaza feeds visitors into a 51-foot-high lobby with terrazzo flooring, a wall of Dakota mahogany granite and escalators with anodized bronze handrails. The escalators terminate on the third floor where elevator service begins."
"One Centerre Plaza is an octagonally shaped skyscraper with bronze-tinted, low-reflective glass. Chamfered corners maximize views and allow natural light to penetrate interior spaces."
"One Centerre Plaza consists of a 30-story tower and five-story low-rise structure. This combination bank building/office complex is the largest structure of its type in the state of Missouri."
"On Display: This replica of King Tut's throne is the highlight of a Centerre Bank exhibit tracing the history of the use of gold. The exhibit will be in the lobby of the bank, Broadway and Locust Street, during regular business hours for the next six months. It consists of five large display cases. It was created by the St. Louis Museum of Science and Natural History with matching funds provided by Centerre. Museum staff designer Ralph Wilke holds a monstrance on loan for the exhibit from St. Stanislaus Jesuit Museum while bank representative Patricia Abendschein displays a gold evening purse from the exhibit."
"Centerre Plaza's striking center court, in the low-rise structure, has a vaulted skylight which provides a view of the tower and brings natural light into the space."
Mississippi River bluffs, described to Brown as "Elevated and healthy, surrounded by lofty forest trees and (with) a strategic location for the defense the Southern and days later Maj. Stephen Watts Kearney arrived with four companies of the 1st Infantry Regiment.
Work on a new bridge over Brentwood Boulevard to link the southbound lanes of the Inner Belt and westbound lanes of U.S. 40 is about 25 percent complete.
Debris from the collapse of the retaining wall of the Union Boulevard bridge. The Union Boulevard bridge, over railroad tracks between Bircher Boulevard and Brown Avenue, was closed Friday afternoon after a retaining wall forming part of the abutment on the north approach collapsed.
This 85-foot-long pressure vessel built at Alpha Tank and Metals Manufacturing Co., 5001 S. 38th St., is being prepared for a 2,200-mile,over-the-road journey to Parachute Chute, Colo., where it will be used by Union Oil in the oil shale industry.