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Title: Home for Christmas
Date: 1956-12-23
Description: Home-bound for Christmas, a bustling, noisy crowd jammed the main waiting room of the Union Station here yesterday. Many flocked around the information desk to get last-minute news of trains, some of which were running behind schedule because of the heavy holiday traffic.

Title: Union Station
Date: 1974-09-26
Description: Photograph of one of the American Freedom Trains at Union Station, its 48th stop of the Preamble Express' 48-state tour.

Title: Storefront and Streetcar Tracks
Description: A man walks towards the camera across streetcar tracks while four other men talk outside a storefront. Freund's Bread box and sign for Peerless Laundry out front of store.

Title: Washington Ave St. Louis
Date: 1935-09-15
Description: Washington avenue, one of the main arteries of travel. This is a view looking west from Broadway.

Title: Forest Park
Date: 1983-09-24
Description: Photograph of visitors sailing toy boats on the lake located within Forest Park.

Title: Fairgrounds Park, St. Louis
Date: 1938-07
Description: Youngsters who had waited for hours in the broiling sun yesterday made a dash for the water as soon as the gates were opened at Fairgrounds Swimming Pool.

Title: Union Station
Date: 1984-06-21, 1984-06-23
Description: Union Station workers sandblasting and painting at night refurbishing the exterior.

Title: Livin' High
Date: 1960-01-17, 1960-01-18
Description: The Hawks' Bob Pettit found himself in select company Sunday when he ran his point total in the NBA past the 10,000 mark. Pettit had 34 points against the Lakers as he joined nine other pro stars in the elite club. Pettit turned the trick in five and one-half years, faster than any of the others.

Title: Boating in Forest Park
Date: 1949-09-04
Description: Boating in Forest Park was as popular before the turn of the century as it is today. The derbied beau brummels of the 90s were considered somewhat daring when they allowed their feminine companions to row the heavy boats.

Title: Bill Veeck and Hank Greenberg
Date: 1948-07-14
Description: Among the interested spectators were Bill Veeck (left), president of the Cleveland Indians, and Hank Greenberg, now an official of the Cleveland club. Greenberg performed in four consecutive All-Star games before the war as a member of the Detroit Tigers.

Title: Skaters at Grand Basin
Description: Maplewood contingent enjoying the city's park skating on the grand basin.

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery
Date: 1934-02-13, 1939-02-14
Description: Photograph of the Anheuser-Busch Brewery located in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Title: Union Station Clock Set to Spring Forward
Date: 1986-04-25, 1986-04-26
Description: All of us have to change our clocks Sunday as Daylight Savings Time makes its return. But heavy is the responsibility of Joe Tolsch who has only one clock to reset.

Title: Mill Creek Valley
Date: 1965-05-21, 1965-05-22
Description: Town house development in Mill Creek Valley has enough applications to fill all of the 279 units. Of the 130 units completed, 120 are occupied, and 10 other families are preparing to move in. The academic group makes up the largest single classification of the town house occupants.

Title: Sledding at Art Hill
Date: 1978-01-29, 1978-01-30
Description: The snow was fun for once, as many sledding enthusaists turned out at Art Hill in Forest Park Sunday for a frolic in the white stuff.

Title: Lindell Hotel St. Louis
Date: 1891, 1965-03-14
Description: This Boehl street scene photo was taken looking west on Washington Avenue at Sixth Street in 1891. The building on the northwest corner at right is the Lindell Hotel, which was rebuilt in 1874 after having been destroyed by fire. Spurred by an offer of $100,000 from Washington Avenue businessmen, who felt a major hotel would encourage commerce on the street, reconstruction was started on the

Title: Old Union Station
Description: Photograph of old Union Station on Twelfth Street, used until 1894 when the present Union Station was built.

Title: Thomas Hayes
Date: 1981-12-12
Description: Mugshot of St. Louis Cuckoo gang member Tommy Hayes. Hayes was identified as the ringleader in the kidnapping of the surgeon Dr. Isaac T. Kelley, Jr.

Title: Union Station
Date: 1985-08-27
Description: Photograph of the lake at Union Station.

Title: Stan Musial and Ted Williams
Date: 1948-07-14
Description: Stan Musial and Ted Williams (right), standout hitters in the National and American Leagues, respectively, got together for a little chit chat before the game. Musial turned out to be senior circuit's hero in a losing cause while the "Splendid Splinter" walked in his only time at bat.

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