One of several buildings under construction in Clayton is the Graybar Building at Maryland and Meramec Avenues. In the right foreground is the Seven Gables Building that houses Chez Louis Restaurant, 26 N. Meramec Ave.
Photograph of a Clayton, MO parking lot with a sign indicating an area for doctor's parking. The parking lot is relatively full, and there's buildings in the background of the photo.
Photograph of Officer Eric Adams at the rape scene in Clayton. The photograph is taken at a parking lot and parking garage where there is a sign indicating doctor's parking.
Fountains and pools at the sunken garden at left provide a restful setting in front of Clayton Tower Building at 7751 Carondelet ave. A shopper pauses for a moment to enjoy the sights and sounds before going on her way. At right is a small waterfall tumbling over lava rocks outside the Mainlander Restaurant at 7700 Bonhomme ave.
The Clayton Post Office, 20 North Bemiston Ave., wil be open to the public from 2 to 5 pm on Sunday, Jan. 14, for the Architects' Sunday tour sponsored by the St. Louis chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The tour is to commemorate the fourth year of A.I.A.'s public service.
The conversions of two more apartment buildings to condominiums were approved Tuesday by the Clayton Board of Aldermen. At left is a three-unit condominium at 6304 S. Rosebury Ave. At right is a two-unit condominium at 6456-56 San Bonita Ave.
Clayton executive plunges to his death - Ross W. Elliott, 54, a General Dynamics Corp. executive, leaped to his death from his 15th floor office window in the Pierre Laclede Center Wednesday, Clayton police reported. His death was ruled an apparent suicide by the St. Louis County Medical Examiner's Office. Investigators and Elliott's family could offer no explanation for the death leap.
Clayton's old municipal library will become city office space when its 75,000 volumes are moved to new headquarters a block away. The building is part of the new City Hall, Forsyth Boulevard and Bonhomme Avenue.
Clayton's new master plan now under study by the board of aldermen contans a proposal for a one-way street system in the future if determined necessary to facilitate traffic flow through the central business district.
Robert Johnson, left, and Marshal edwards of the Clayton Public Works Department put up one of the new metric speed signs that eventually will go up all over Clayton.
To most people, Santa Claus is a jolly man wearing a red suit and riding in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer. But to about 1,000 persons who left their cars parked too long at Clayton parking meters, Santa Claus is a friendly man in a blue uniform riding a motorcycle. And that description of Jolly Old St. Nick has been true for about the last 20 years in Clayton. That is how long the Clayton
The newly formed Non-uniformed Employees Retirement Fund board of directors held its first meeting recently in Clayton City Hall. Left to right are Ernest E. Powers, Alderman John F. Sutherland, Jerome M. Barker, vice chairman; George A. Newton, chairman; Mary Grace Hynes; former Alderman Barrett L. Scallet and Alderman Charles R. Judge. All serve on the board without pay. Newton, Barker, and Scallet serve as citizen representatives. Sutherland and Judge are aldermanic representatives and Powers and Miss Hynes are elected representatives of the non-uniformed Clayton employes.
Sculptor Simon Ybarra's concept of a planning firm's activities is depicted in this imaginative steel and copper welded sculpture, 10-feet high, which was recently erected in front of Harland Bartolomew and Associates' home office building at 165 North Meramec ave. in Clayton. The figures illustrate surveying, data recording, drafting and designing. The sculpture was commissioned in observance
Members of the Clayton Plan Commission who recently submitted a "Six Year Progress Report" to the Board of Aldermen are (from left): William J. Hedley, chairman at the time of the report who resigned recently to seek the office of mayor; Roy W. Jordan, present chairman; Leigh A. Soxsee Jr.; Peter H. Husch, Alderman James C. Laflin, and City Manager Clifford W. O'Key. Charles D, Schwartz, also a member of the Plan Commission, was not present when picture was taken.
Although high-rise buildings appear to dominate the Clayton skyline, there are also attractive small buildings dotted about the city and under construction. Shown here are new eating places which will serve the city's growing "daytime population." They are on Bemiston avenue near Forsyth boulevard.
Ceremonies marking construction of St. Louis County's tallest office building, the Clayton Inn Center, were held Monday. Owner-architect Bernard F. McMahon and the Clayton Inn Corp. are builders of the 24-story structure at 7777 Bonhomme ave., Clayton. The first eight floors will be garage space and there will be one floor for service.