Reflections on windows of a downtown St. Louis office building -- some recognizeable, some oddly warped -- form a strange mosaic behind the fluttering boldness of Old Glory. (This image filed under Merchants Bridge.)
With the Mike Flynn family of Concord Village in front and Rich Eichhorst of the Alpha Zeta Society in back, they make the final crossing at 4 p.m. before the closing of the MacArthur Bridge by the city.
Six people have been killed and at least five others injured in several plunges from the MacArthur bridge since 1979, according to records. The St. Louis Street Department is conducting a study to determine what it can do to prevent motorists from driving off the dangerous "suicide curves" on the MacArthur Bridge.
The enclosed pictures were taken during August 1981 on the Beardstown Illinois waterfront showing typical river scenes with the usual amount of tugs and other equipment. The B&N RR bridge in its river mode. The stern-wheel river tug is a locally built boat, original builders and name still showing = LOGSDON = built sometime in the 1930s more details could be obtained. These pictures were taken
The enclosed pictures were taken during August 1981 on the Beardstown Illinois waterfront showing typical river scenes with the usual amount of tugs and other equipment. The B&N RR bridge in its river mode. The stern-wheel river tug is a locally built boat, original builders and name still showing = LOGSDON = built sometime in the 1930s more details could be obtained. These pictures were taken
Toasting the opening of the new Beaux Arts Centre are, from left Leon Strauss of Pantheon Corp., lawyer Eugene Golden, the building's owner; and the Rev. Paul C. Reinert, S. J., chancellor of St. Louis University.
Retired executives who have taken an office in the Beck Building in Clayton include, from left, Norfleet Rand, Henry N. McCluney, Edwin Jones, Joseph Ruwitch, James Lee Johnson, and W. Boardman Jones.