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Title: Mike Shannon
Date: 1958-06-11, 1981-12-23
Description: Turning professional, Mike Shannon, former football and baseball star for CBC and the Mizzou freshmen, prepares to sign a contract with the Cardinals. Scout Joe Monahan (left) gives the lad a pen. An outfielder, Shannon received a bonus estimated at $40,000 to sign with the Cardinal farm at Omaha. He will be assigned to a lower classification team.

Title: Mike Shannon
Date: 1957-11-08
Description: Top Tiger Club: Mike Shannon, outstanding prep star at St. Louis CBC and now a freshman at Mizzou, will be the starting quaterback today when the Tiger freshmen face the Kansas yearlings. Shannon also started at quaterback when the Tiger Cubs clipped Iowa State, 8-0, in their only other start.

Title: Early Union Station
Description: Photograph of Union Station in its early days. Crowds of passengers stand in the midway, surrounded my excursion opportunities and information desks.

Title: Washington Avenue
Description: Washington and Broadway, looking west.

Title: Checkerdome Arena
Date: 1980-06-20, 1980-06-21
Description: Fans jam Checkerdome to watch fight - The sign on the Checkerdome tells the story Friday night. Hundreds who had hoped to see the fight were turned away.

Title: Words of Tribute for Bob Pettit
Date: 1965-03-21
Description: the conclusion of the playoffs, which begin here against Balitmore Wednesday . The Hawks beat New York 112-103, Sunday night.

Title: In Between Train Stops
Date: 1943-10-17
Description: Soldiers sit on the veranda at Union Station, watching the fountain across the street and cars pass by.

Title: Air and Skyline Views St. Louis
Date: 1934-07-27
Description: The $1000-a-month view from the top of the Continental Life Building penthouse. The view is eastward down Olive street. In the distance can be discerned the Civil Courthouse and other downtown buildings. Ed May's lease for the penthouse was at $12,000 a year.

Title: Union Station
Date: 1973-02-20, 1973-03-18
Description: Photograph of Union Station during the years leading up to its renovation. At this time, Union Station was considered obsolete once the Amtrak appeared in St. Louis.

Title: Women in smart pant suits, businessmen with briefcases, youths with knapsacks, families with babies'
Date: 1974-04-05, 1974-04-15
Description: . Opponents say the plan would "massacre" a viable national transportation system and would have almost no effect on the country's massive national deficit. Supporters say such cutbacks are the only way to get Amtrak out of the taxpayers' pockets. According to a Department of Transportation study, Amtrak is losing $500 million a year. By 1984, $1 billion a year, money that must be paid by the taxpayer.

Title: Let's Get Glassed
Date: 1985-05-16
Description: Workmen install stained-glass windows Wednesday as part of Rouse Co.'s $135 million renovation of Union Station near downtown St. Louis. Union Station was once regarded as among the world's most beautiful railway stations. It has been under restoration since October 1983 and will have space for about 100 retail shops, restaurants and an Omni International hotel. The grand opening of the complex

Title: Union Station
Date: 1985-08-29
Description: The World's Largest Marching Band, above, passes before the reviewing stand. Joe Garagiola was host of the ceremony.

Title: Last Trip to California
Date: 1969-04-17, 1969-04-18
Description: Photograph of the last Norfolk and Western passenger train leaving St. Louis. The city of St. Louis pulls out of Union Station on its last trip to California.

Title: Boyle and Olive
Date: 1959-02-10, 1959-02-11
Description: Towering precariously was the corner of the old Musical Arts Building on the southwest corner of Boyle avenue and Olive street. Much of the third floor was destroyed by the twister, which struck the intersection with its full force.

Title: Cupples Residence
Date: 1969-03-23
Description: Samuel Cupples, who in 1851 established the firm which became the largest woodenware company in the United States, built this home at 3673 Pine in 1890, about which time this photo was taken. The building is now St. Louis University's well known "Chouteau House." Pennsylvania Samuel Cupples came to St. Louis via Pittsburgh where he learned the woodenware business and in 1851 founded Samuel

Title: 4 Locals Picket Harvey Chain
Date: 1962-04-11, 1962-04-12
Description: Picketing Fred Harvey Restaurant in Union Station are representatives of catering unions who are seeking pay increases.

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