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Title: Jefferson Barracks Bridge Demolition
Date: 1985-07-11, 1985-07-11
Description: The first portion of navigation span of the Old Jefferson Barracks bridge starts to fall into the river.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Walking in the road
Date: 1957-01-06, 1957-01-06
Description: "In the picture to the right, two women, walking on the west side of Fourteenth south of Olive, are forced to circle around parked cars."

Title: New Location For United Bank & Trust Company
Date: 1958-09-07, 1958-09-07
Description: A for lease sign sits in the window of the building before it was remodeled into the United Bank and Trust Company. The site at 120 N. Broadway on the southeast corner of Broadway and Pine was previously the site of the former Telegrapher National Bank.

Title: Mansion House Apartments Construction
Date: 1964-11-10, 1964-11-10
Description: The construction site of the Mansion House Project.

Title: Neighborhood Gardens Apartments, 1205 N Seventh Street
Date: 1986-04-23, 1986-04-19
Description: Neighborhood Gardens Apartments at 1205 N Seventh Street and Biddle Street.

Title: Peggy Squires (Gateway National Bank Teller)
Date: 1968-06-17
Description: The teller, Miss Peggy Squire, 19, said the note mentioned two other man behind her in the lobby who would shoot her if she sounded the alarm or turned around. The robbers also handed Miss Squires a brown cloth bag with drawstrings that the note instructed her to fill with money.

Title: Patrolman Standing Outiside At The Gateway National Bank Drive-Thru
Date: 1968-06-17
Description: Patrolman stands guard at walk up window of the Gateway Bank, 3412 Union where two holdup men held Peggy Squires, bank teller.

Title: University Heights Apartments - Approaching completion
Date: 1961-10-13, 1961-10-16
Description: "Approaching completion are Maisonette and Garden Apartments being built in the University Heights section of the Mill Creek Valley redevelopment area. Waring School is on the left in this view looking west from Compton avenue at Laclede. The apartments are in the first group, which will house 20 families. A total of 120 living units are included in the entire University Heights project.

Title: Missouri State Bank
Date: 1986-08-20
Description: Bill Lill Chairman of St. Louis Veteran's Day Parade, gives a Thanks handshake and a pat on the back to Missouri State Bank president Robert Harris as the bank will be the new home for the display of veterans in the Gallery of Heros at tucker and Olive.

Title: St. Louis de Ville Motor Hotel
Date: 1963-04-19, 1973-04-23
Description: "Nearing completion on Lindell boulevard at Taylor avenue are two projects. Building in the foreground is the St. Louis de Ville luxury motel hotel, which is being built east of Taylor. Beyond the motel is the new Lindell Terrace Apartments, west of Taylor."

Title: Mercantile Trust Company Bank Plaza
Date: 1960-12-25, 1960-12-25
Description: New drive-in bank building at 13th and Olive streets for possible year end round-up.

Title: South Grand Robbery
Date: 1983-12-23
Description: Bank robbery on S. Grand, December 23, 1983. Detective enter the Chippewa bank on South Grand after being robber Friday.

Title: Boatmen's Bank - Doll Contest Winners Lineup
Date: 1965-12-10, 1965-12-11
Description: "Winners of doll-dressing contest at Boatmen's National Bank and the categories they led are (from the left) Sue Rapp, baby doll; Loraine Schild, infant doll; Laurie Buckles, high-fashion doll in formal attire or costume; Roma Wood, high-fashion doll in casual attire, and Carolyn Keevin, most adorable. The dolls are among 77 entered in the bank's sixteenth annual competition. They will be on display in the lobby through Dec. 23, when they will be distributed to needy children at a Christmas party."

Title: The Final Demoliton Of Twenty-First Street Bridge
Date: 1986-04-19, 1986-04-19
Description: Aalco Wrecking Co. workers use a cutting torch to cut the two top arched beams on the bridge before it collapsed over the rail yards. Two cages of workers hung from cranes as they both torched simultaneously.

Title: Final Demolition Of Twenty-First Street Bridge
Date: 1986-04-19, 1986-04-19
Description: Hanging in a cage from two cranes, workers use cutting torches simultaneously on both ends of the arch span to cut the beams so the bridge can fall.

Title: Final Demolition Of The Twenty-First Street Bridge
Date: 1986-04-19, 1986-04-19
Description: After the two top arched beams are cut, the bridge begins to collapse over the rail yards. The demoliton was done by the Aalco Wrecking Co.

Title: Final Demolition Of The Twenty-First Street Bridge
Date: 1986-04-19, 1986-04-19
Description: The bridge span over the rail yards is successfully cut down after workers cut the two top arched beams to make the span collapse.

Title: Building Demolition
Date: 1984-10-05, 1984-10-05
Description: Demolition of building at Lafayette and Grattan, west of City Hospital. (This image filed under Merchants Bridge.)

Title: Poplar Street Bridge Re-Paving
Date: 1986-07-11, 1986-07-11
Description: Wearing protective gear and ready to sandblast, is Robert Feikert of Pace Construction.

Title: Poplar Street Bridge Re-Paving
Date: 1986-07-11, 1986-07-11
Description: Clem Hess of Nelco Manufacturing, guides a Porta-ShotBlast cleaning machine as it moves across the steel surface of the eastbound lane.

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