"Walter Gruenert and Gladys Rosenow waltz to the strains of the orchestra, left, while everyone joins in the dancing in the streamer-decorated Crusader Room, above. Sister Donna Loretto Gunn dances with Ben Bogdanov, and Estelle Menzel shows of the fan sleeve of her dress while dancing with her brother, W. J. Wagner."
Pictured: Estelle Menzel and W. J. Wagner.
Captioned on back: "Mr. and Mrs. James Connelly (he is blind). The couple was married 54 years ago May 4. Mrs. Connelly is 86 and her groom of 64 years will be 86 in July of this year. The couple are residents of the San Luis Apartments."
"Two elderly men were critically injured and about 30 people were evacuated from their homes in the San Luis Apartments, 4483 Lindell Blvd., when a two-alarm fire broke out on the 11th floor of the senior citizen's residence Thursday night. The residents - some semi-invalids - were rousted by firefighters from their 10th and 11th floor apartments in the center tower of the 266-unit, E-shaped
A flatbed trailer stacked with construction material waits for the Mississippi River to recede further Friday. This photograph was taken from the Illinois side of the river.
The project replaced four bridge structure and relocated Park Avenue to the intersection of Tower Grove and Vandeventer. The five million dollar structure was completed today.
The building's interior has been gutted, and construction crews are busily working to meet the May 10 opening date of what is called St. Louis' first downtown rehabbed loft apartment project.
BIG HOLE…. George Miller of the Northwood Excavating Company moves a caterpiller inside one of the excavation sites near Cole Street between 10th and 11th street. Miller grades a lot near Cole Street between 10th and 11th street.