A construction worker is silhouetted against the sky as he works on a pedestrian walkway over Walnut Street. The walkway will link the Stadium West Parking Garage to the new First National bank building.
Barge shipments are expected to gain importance here, and nonresidential construction remains strong. Photo at right shows worker on the First National Bank-IBM Building, just north Busch Stadium; it is one of several major downtown buildings under construction or naering the construction stage. Non-residential construction has provided a high level of employment for St. Louis builders and tradesmen.
Like a high-wire artist, this construction worker walking a beamin the sky is protected by a safety net below. The scene is at the construction site of the First National Bank complex downtown, bounded by 7th, 9th, Walnut and Market streets.
"Concrete Progress: Crane operator Robert Lindsey of Winfield, Mo., moves a bucket of concrete to one of the columns being filled at the 22-story Boatmen's Tower project near the Old Courthouse in downtown St. Louis."
The First National Bank in St. Louis will build a $1,500,000 drive-in and walk-in banking facility on 6th street between Market and Walnut streets, bank chairman James P. Hickok announced Friday.
This image captures a robbery in progress at the Mercantile Commerce Trust Company. The image shows a man walking behind the counter of the bank with a bag and what appears to be a gun in one hand, and a wad of cash in the other. Bank employees can be seen in the background with their backs to the man committing the robbery. The Mercantile Commerce Trust Company was established in 1930 and was
Construction began October 12 on the First National Bank Building on IBM Plaza, shown in this architechtural rending, with ground-breaking ceremonies at the two-block site in dowtown St. Louis. The bank buidling and office complex, when completed, will be the venture of Fist National Bank in St. Louis, International Business Machines Cooparation and The Equiptable Life Assurance Society of the
