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Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Bottler Union Picket
Date: 1951-10-18, 1951-10-18
Description: "Picketing by the CIO Beer Bottlers Union Local 187 was extended yesterday to the entire plant of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., forcing the complete shutdown of production. Pickets shown here are in front of the corn products plant and lager beer cellars near Ninth and Pestalozzi streets. The Anheuser-Busch shutdown was followed by a production stoppage at the Hyde Park Brewwery, where picket lines were

Title: Charles H. Yalem Children's Zoo
Date: 1969-06-13
Description: Photograph of visitors watching animals swim in a pond at the Charles H. Yalem Children's Zoo.

Title: Home for Christmas
Date: 1956-12-23
Description: Home-bound for Christmas, a bustling, noisy crowd jammed the main waiting room of the Union Station here yesterday. Many flocked around the information desk to get last-minute news of trains, some of which were running behind schedule because of the heavy holiday traffic.

Title: Discussing The Holdup At Mercantile Trust Company
Date: 1976-12-07, 1976-12-08
Description: Discussing the holdup Mercantile Trust are, from left, Lt. Lawrence Arkley, St. Louis Department; Robert Neske and Bill Kenkel, security officers at Mercantile; Leigh Doxsee, a bank vice president and Ed Moreland, FBI special agent.

Title: Mercantile Trust Company Dining Room
Date: 1951-08-31, 1951-08-31
Description: Free meals are served to the bank's employees in the spacious dining room on the seventh floor of its Seventh Street Building. Meals include salads, desserts, and plentiful serving of vegetables and meat.

Title: Mr. and Mrs. Cantino with an Officer After the Robbery
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: Mrs. Gloria Cantino and her husband, Armand J. Cantino, shown with an officer, were in the bank on business. One of the bandits used Mrs. Cantino as a shield, but release her when she pleaded that she was a mother. Cantino was slugged but not seriously hurt by officers who mistook him for one of the bandits.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Construction begins
Date: 1958-10-28, 1958-10-29
Description: "Actual construction of the first apartment building in the Plaza project got underway yesterday as this crane began excavating at Fifteenth and Pine streets. Relocation of a sewer line around the site has been substantially completed by the Fruin-Colnon Contracting Company, which will erect six 13-story apartment buildings in the development."

Title: 100 Police Officers Inspect the Scene
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: In Addition to the 100 police who answered the holdup alarm, thousands of spectators were attracted to the scene at the Southwest Bank. The curious came to view the battleground long after the shooting was over.

Title: St. Louis de Ville - Poolside
Date: 1963-07-01, 1963-07-05
Description: "Guests of the St. Louis de Ville Motor Hotel, 4483 Lindell bl., relax at the sunken swimming plaza. The $5,000,000 motor hotel opened for business Monday. The de Ville is owned by Melvin and Harold Dubinsky, St. Louis real estate investors, and Paul Kapelow, a New Orleans investor and construction magnate.

Title: San Luis Apartments Display
Date: 1975-04-04, 1975-05-28
Description: "Sister Donna Loretta Gunn, left, shows a display apartment at San Luis to a prospective tenant, Mrs. Harry E. Coffin. The new kitchen is reflected in the mirror above the couch."

Title: Car Found At Shenandoah and Lemp
Date: 1953-04-26, 1953-04-26
Description: The fourth man sought in the amazing holdup attempt at the Southwest Bank was last seen about noon Friday when he stepped out of the automobile shown at left. The car, bearing a stolen Missouri license, was abandoned on Lemp avenue, near Shenandoah avenue. At right is the escape car driven away from the bank by the fourth man. It was found on a parking lot six blocks away from the bank. From left to right: Captain John Buck, Detective Walter Cliff and Captain Maurice O'Neil, and behind Detective Cliff is Sergeant Emmet Hahn.

Title: Scene of the Wild Gun Battle
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: Scene of the wild gun battle, where police shot it out with a gang of Chicago bandits trapped as they held up the Southwest Bank. Thousands of persons were attracted to the area.

Title: Southwest Bank Employees and Customers
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: Bank employees and customers poured out into the open air, weeping from the effects of tear gas bombs hurled into the building by police, as soon as the shooting was over.

Title: Paving Process On Poplar Street Bridge
Date: 1967-10-25, 1967-10-26
Description: Workmen applying asphaltic binder coat on westbound lane of the Poplar Street Bridge Wednesday. Lane at left still has only epoxy coating and layer of grit.

Title: New Kingshighway Bridge
Date: 1960-09-09, 1960-09-09
Description: New Kingshighway bridge over the Mark Twain highway.

Title: New Loughborough Bridge
Date: 1957-08-29, 1957-08-29
Description: The new Loughborough avenue bridge over the Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks was opened to traffic yesterday.

Title: On The Deck Of The Jefferson Barracks Bridge
Date: 1983-07-20, 1983-07-20
Description: The westbound span (near the camera), the first of two new Jefferson Barracks Bridges, is approaching completion and may be opened this December, the Illinois Department of Transportation reported.

Title: Caged Worker Continues Work On The Jefferson Barracks Bridge
Date: 1981-01-26, 1981-01-26
Description: Swinging in a cage from a barge-mounted crane, workman delivers rebars to steelworkers building reinforcement for one of the major piers inside a cofferdam sunk in the river to bedrock. Bargeload of preformed rebars and work-boat can also be seen in the photo.

Title: Spring Opening
Date: 1984-01-10, 1984-01-10
Description: Motorists will be crossing the new Jefferson Barracks Bridge this spring, says Dale Klohr, Illinois Department of Transportation district engineer in Fairview Heights.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Bridge Piers
Date: 1981-01-26, 1981-01-26
Description: Concrete piers for the westbound span of the new Jefferson Barracks double-span bridges rise below and beside the existing bridge. The old two-lane bridge across the Mississippi River south of St. Louis eventually will be razed.

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