"New Plaza shopping center construction begins at Seventeenth and Pine streets. Was started Thursday as a bulldozer of the R. E. Harder Construction Company, driven by George Kimmel, began excavating."
Seventy-five new apartments have been erected just west of LaClede Town, foreground, and are expected to be ready for occupancy in the late spring or early summer. The apartments are part of Operation Breakthrough and the LaClede Town Corp. is to be the rental agent. Compton avenue is in the foreground and Laclede avenue is at the left in this aerial view.
This group of residents of the California Garden Apartments, 2918 California Av., have collected money from the residents of the apartments to buy a police officer a bullet-proof vest. From left in front row are Abert Boller, Leoma Hatcher, Edna Tartt, Elizabeth Melinik, Myrtle Heinrich, Ruth Augustin, Ann O'Gara and Marie Wilson. In back from left are Arnetta Steel, Mae Stone, Orville Augustin, Ann Allen, Annie Peterson, Olga Stipsits, Ethel Julius and Martha Frost.