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Title: Muny Outdoors
Date: 1968-08-16
Description: Exterior view of the Municipal Opera.

Title: Sunrise Service in Forest Park
Date: 1957-04-22
Description: "More than 10,000 persons fill the Municipal Theater in Forest Park for the Metropolitan Church Federation's annual Easter Sunrise Service. They heard Dr. Franc L. McCluer (right) president of Lindenwood College, preach on the 'unconquerable hope' that Easter brings to mankind. Directing the choir is Helen Louise Graves."

Title: Working on Theater Sets
Date: 1977-06-27
Description: "It takes about 3,500 gallons of paint for the scenery and props for a season's worth of Municipal Opera productions--enough paint to put traffic stripes on about 200 miles of roads... Beneath the 150-foot-long stage is a fully equipped carpentry shop where the daily sounds of hammers, drills and saws accompanies the strains of chorus practice from the two nearby rehearsal stages."

Title: Lost and Found
Date: 1957-09-10
Description: "Mrs. Judy Murphy, of the Muny Opera office staff, displays many items which should have been marked 'forget me not.' Mostly umbrellas, spectacles, glass cases and purses, the items were lost by patrons during the recent opera season. Mrs. Murphy is one of several office workers whom claimants may contact."

Title: New Muny Booms
Date: 1961-05-25
Description: "New steel scenery booms, the first of their kind anywhere, will be put into operation on the Municipal Opera stage during the 1961 season. Installed at a cost of approximately $175,000, the new booms will speed up the theater's scenery changes."

Title: Muny in the Winter Snow
Date: 1953-06-06
Description: The Municipal opera under construction during the winter. Snow is seen covering the stairs, seats, and stage.

Title: New Electrical for Muny Opera
Date: 1968-02-26
Description: "New pit for electric work for the stage. In the background is the stage and seats in front of the orchestra."

Title: Municipal Opera's Statues
Date: 1968-06-02
Description: Architect measuring stone statue in the foyer of the Muny.

Title: New Seat Installations
Date: 1968-02-26
Description: New seats to be installed in the Municipal Opera during remodeling.

Title: Parade Celebrating New Post Office
Date: 1936-09-20
Description: "As St. Louis celebrated the laying of the corner stone of its $4,500,000 Post Office yesterday. Parade of the 2700 postal employes and their equipment as they marched up market street at Twelfth Blvd."

Title: Do-It-Yourself Post Office
Date: 1966-11-18
Description: "Red, white and blue self-service postal units at Crestwood and Northwest Shopping Centers will be dedicated Tuesday. They provide 24-hour-a-day service seven days a week, including stamp, post card, envelope and insurance vending, letter and parcel sales, bill and coin exchangers and free telephone service to the Post Office for information. The government is building 100 of these units at

Title: Girl Mail Carrier Helps Bear Christmas Season Load in County
Date: 1966-12-23
Description: "Christmas greetings with her mail are received by Mrs. S. Whitman Cordes, 5318 Englewood Ave., Lucas-Hunt Village, by Mary Renee Ritchart, new sub-carrier on the Normandy route. Frank, veteran mail carrier of 30 years, looks on."

Title: High-Rise Mail Project
Date: 1967-01-11
Description: "The get-it-yourself idea is building as a pilot project. Designed to provide better service in high-rise, multi-tenanted office buildings, it enables tenants to get their mail two hours before normal delivery time. Postmasters from three states will be looking at the project here this week."

Title: Christmas Mail Rush
Date: 1963-12-12
Description: "Paying off in a big way this year is the Post Office's annual 'Mail Early for Christmas' campaign. The rush is picking up steam at the Main Post Office here with a record number of letters and parcels predicted for this Christmas season."

Title: Tubs of Mail being Sorted
Date: 1955-09-11
Description: Containers filled with items are held in the post office. Two men are seen organizing these items. A sign in the background reads, "Hampers & heavy items not to be displayed from platform on day of sale."

Title: Nagel Post Office
Date: 1956-01-15
Description: Front view of the Charles Nagel Post Office in St. Louis.

Title: Mailman Receiving Mail
Description: A mailman is seen collecting mail from two St. Louisans in bikes. A sign in the background near the public mailbox reads, "Closed. Hand mail to Mailman."

Title: Downtown's Old Post Office on Heart Association Holiday Card
Date: 1985-09-16
Description: "The St. Louis Heart Association's 1985 holiday greeting cards are now available from the association, 4643 Lindell Blvd."

Title: Conveyor Belts Facilitate Mail Operations
Date: 1953-04-01
Description: "Parcel post by conveyor belts will make for more efficient handling of mail, postal and Terminal Railroad Association officials said yesterday. The new $4,000,000 conveyor belt system goes into operation today. At right is a new Terminal building, where 70 railway cars can back in to unload parcel post. An overpass crosses Clark Avenue near Seventeenth Street with conveyor belts taking the parcel post to the Post Office."

Title: Inspecting Bomb Remains
Date: 1971-03-09
Description: "Pic taken at 4200 Forest Park, ROTC building. Det. Gus Palazzolo (bomb and arson squad) and Harold McPherson, alcohol, tobacco and firearms treasury department looking through insulation for clues to the bombing."

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