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Title: Washington Ave St. Louis
Date: 1960-12-19
Description: Photograph of Washington Ave decorated for the winter holidays.

Title: Soldiers at Union Station
Date: 1955-12-24
Description: Servicemen make up most of the advance guard of the Christmas holiday travel rush pouring through Union Station yesterday. This picture was taken on the Concourse in front of the arrivals and departure board.

Title: Evans Avenue
Date: 1959-02-10, 1959-02-11
Description: After the 1959 tornado, with walls sliced away, homes in multiple-family dwellings in the 3800 block of Evans Avenue are revealed in cross section. The buildings were badly damaged, their contects largely intact.

Title: St. Louis Zoo Elephant Performance
Date: 1951-05-19
Description: Elephant trainer Floyd Smith and his five performers make a pyramid. They also have new acts with four goats—which lead elephant, Clarabelle, doesn't like.

Title: Stix , Baer & Fuller Department Store
Description: Photograph of the Stix, Baer & Fuller department store in downtown St. Louis.

Title: Mail Automat
Date: 1962-11-14, 1962-11-15
Description: Another bygone activity at Union Station: Railway mail service. A new automatic mail-sack handling system which saves $1,000,000 a year, displaces 175 jobs and speeds up mail distribution from trains at St. Louis' Union Station was dedicated Wednesday. Photo above shows the mail coming down hoppers to be dumped into chutes leading to trains.

Title: Checkerdome Arena
Date: 1971-04-18
Description: Aerial view of the Checkerdome Arena.

Title: Roy Tipton
Description: Mugshot of St. Louis Cuckoo gang leader Roy Tipton.

Title: July 4th, Forest Park
Date: 1980-07-04, 1980-07-05
Description: 4th of July: The general scene on Art Hill in front of the St. Louis Art Museum in Forest Park.

Title: Percy Green
Date: 1979-05-02
Description: Percy Green, caught with a can of spray paint and a stencil in his hands, was charged with property damage in connection with the defacing of buildings at St. Louis University, authorities said Tuesday. Green, 43, of the 4100 block of North Newstead Avenue, leader of a civil rights group called Action, was charged with third-degree property damage in warrants issued Tuesday by the circuit attorney's office. He was released on $500 bond.

Title: Sixth Street
Description: Sixth Street looking north from Olive. Pedestrians in roadway and on sidewalks. Streetcar visible.

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: Girder Setting
Description: Men setting a girder for elevated railway. Below, a locomotive is in the process of switching cars.

Title: Grand Avenue St. Louis
Date: 1935-09-15
Description: St. Louis most famous street intersection: This is Grand Avenue looking north, a busy thoroughfare on which there are many theaters… in camp in world war days frequently established a "Grand amd Olive…" was the central gathering point for all the boys from the home town...

Title: Chain of Rocks Park Fire
Date: 1977-05-31
Description: Photograph of the aftermath of the 1977 fire that destroyed several of the older rides in Chain of Rocks Amusement Park.

Title: Charles Koen
Date: 1968-09-07, 1968-11-20
Description: Battle of Police, Militants Subsides Into Verbal Feud: At Black Liberator's press conference Friday, from left, are Charles Keonm head of the group; Leroy Cooks and Robert Curtis, attorney for the Liberatros.

Title: Gibons in Drydock
Date: 1966-07-10, 1966-07-12
Description: Cardinal trainer Bob Bauman examined the ailing right arm of Red Bird pitching star Bob Gibson Monday at Busch Memorial Stadium. Gibson was scratched from the National League All-Star team Sunday because of a stiff elbow on this throwing arm.

Title: Stix , Baer & Fuller Department Store
Date: 1968-11-30
Description: Huge crowd crossing street at 7th and Washington downtown Friday as the biggest shopping Day of 1968 resulted in stores packed to the doors.

Title: Union Station
Date: 1986-08-19, 1986-08-27
Description: Union Station celebrating its first year back in business.

Title: Charles Binaggio
Date: 1950-04-11, null
Description: The body of Charles Binaggio was taken to Holy Rosary Church at 529 Campell st. in Kansas City for a requiem high mass. A crowd of 600 packed the small church.

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