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Title: Crediting the Men who Built the Arms Plant
Date: 1941-04-25
Description: Blue collar workers that helped build the Small Arms plant pose for a photo.

Title: Celebrating at the Arms Plant
Date: 1943-05
Description: Hundreds gather at an event being held at the Small Arms Plant.

Title: General Brehon Somervell
Date: 1941-09-25
Description: General Brehon Burke Somervell giving a speech at the Small Arms Plant. Hundreds gather to listen.

Title: Report and accounts, Dec. 31, 1933 / Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, L.W. Baldwin and Guy A. Thompson, trustees.
Date: 1934, 1934

Title: "Ammunition Plant to Reopen"
Date: 1966-08-23
Description: "This is part of the St. Louis Army Ammunition Plant at 4800 Goodfellow which is being reopened immediately to produce artillery shells for the war in Vietnam. In this building, the forging building at Goodfellow and Highway 70, casings are shaped for 105-millimeter projectiles."

Title: Miss Betty Pearia
Date: 1943-06-12
Description: "Another chosen on the basis of the 'Three S's'--suitability, safety and style. Miss Betty Pearia, looks charming as well as efficient in tailored slacks. A gaily colored bandanna keeps her curls safe and shiny, and steel-toe safety shoes protect her toes in case she drops a heavy object."

Title: Selma Cawbey
Date: 1943-09-05
Description: "Welder Selma Cawbey at work on one of the many small parts which are made by hand for use on the metal fuselage of the glider."

Title: Checking Dimensions of Steel to be Used for Ammunition
Date: 1966-11-07
Description: million contract to produce 4,500,000 rounds of the 105-millimeter shells. Target date for production was Jan. 1, 1967, but Chevrolet is already operating the plant at about 18 percent capacity. Still red hot, the steel is checked for length and depth of cavity. it is then cooled, again measured and sent to machinery building."

Title: Contruction Beginning for New Ammunition Plant
Date: 1941-06-22
Description: "Steel started going up last week at the huge Small Arms Ammunition Plant at Goodfellow and Bircher Boulevard."

Title: Foundation Laid for Small Arms Plant
Date: 1941
Description: "A .50 caliber building going up during the construction of the Small Arms Plant in St. Louis."

Title: Restaurant Serving Home-Cooked Meals
Date: 1941-10-09
Description: "Tired of the noise and dust of the near-by small arms ammunition plant, the owner of this newly completed bungalow at 4711 Goodfellow Boulevard has moved out and leased the home for a restaurant serving home-cooked meals "family style" to hungry workmen. The "bungalow restaurant" is the latest in novel types of eating places which have sprung up around the ammunition plant to feed the 15,000

Title: Bungalow Grill
Date: 1941-10-09
Description: "Tired of the noise and dust of the near-by small arms ammunition plant, the owner of this newly completed bungalow at 4711 Goodfellow Boulevard has moved out and leased the home for a restaurant serving home-cooked meals "family style" to hungry workmen. The "bungalow restaurant" is the latest in novel types of eating places which have sprung up around the ammunition plant to feed the 15,000

Title: $12,000,000 Ammunition Plant
Date: 1941-02-01
Description: "Work on the new $12,000,000 small arms ammunition plant at Bircher and Goodfellow boulevards is progressing speedily. At present workmen are engaged in erecting a number of frame buildings, including tool sheds, dispensary, an office building and other service buildings before actual construction of the plant is started. The framework of the proposed office building for the contracting companies

Title: "Where Powder Will be Stored"
Date: 1941-08-21
Description: "This is not an army fort or pillbox, but one of the storage magazines erected on the plant site for smokeless powder used in the manufacture of cartridges. The main powder storage area dump will be located on a 3000-acre tract near Valley Park. These magazines on the site are constructed of concrete 3 feet thick."

Title: "Designed to Attract Pedestrians"
Date: 1985-04-26
Description: pedestrian plaza will front the length of the building along Broadway with seating areas and changing displays of flowers. The granite base will totally conceal approximately 1,000 parking spaces on seven levels, four of which will "wrap" around the lobby."

Title: Excavation at Chestnut and Broadway
Date: 1986-01-29
Description: "Heavy earth-moving equipment scours the construction site that will be Metropolitan Square, a $100 million executive office tower that Metropolitan Life Insurance Co."

Title: Metropolitan Life Building Going Up
Date: 1986-04-29
Description: "Construction of the largest high rise to be built in the city is underway. Bound from the blocks 6th street on left, Pine on bottom, Olive-top and Broadway on right. (Looking north)."

Title: Watching Hard Work
Date: 1986-05-15
Description: A pedestrian stops to watch the work being done on the metropolitan buildings at Broadway and Olive.

Title: "Missouri's Tallest Building"
Date: 1985-04-27
Description: "The 41-story Metropolitan Square, which will face Broadway at Olive Street, right, will top One Bell Center, Southwestern Bell Corp.'s headquarters, right background, as Missouri's tallest building. An arcade under a 100-foot tall atrium will connect the development's low-rise section below, with high-rise tower."

Title: Met Life Construction
Date: 1986-08-21
Description: "Tom Flynn (left) and John Kinsella (at right) peer through viewing windows along Broadway into construction area of MetLife building. McCarthy Bros. (contractor) cut holes in the concrete wall so passersby could sneak a peek at progress on the 42-story building."

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