Second oldest in service among St. Louis high schools, Sumner, now located at Pendelton and Cottage avenues, has sent out nearly 8000 graduates from this building and its former home at Eleventh and Spruce streets.
Charles Binaggio was leader if a Kansas City Democratic faction. He was at a time an underling of the late Boss Tom Pendergast. Later he opposed the once-powerful Pendergast organization. He was a witness before a federal grand jury investigating underworld activities shortly before his death.
The World's Fair Pavillion at Forest Park, circa 1950. Photograph donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Gerald R. Massie and the Massie family.
Original caption: "Seven workmen fell yesterday from the second floor of a building being razed at the Anhueser-Busch Brewery when a beam collapsed under them. All were injured, four seriously. The men plunged through the hole in the background. All seven are Negroes."
"August A. Busch Jr. (left) extends greetings to members of Quarter-Century club of brewery for long service at Hotel Jefferson dinner Sept. 23, 1950. Others from left are: August S. Preusch, chief of staff of guides at brewery; Oscar F. Miller, and Henry Boekelmann. The three men are 50-year employees."
Patrons enjoy themselves at the bar in the National Hall of the Czechoslovak Society of America, circa 1950. The bar was an important source of income for the management and operation of the National Hall. Donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by the Gymnastic Association Sokol.
The body of Charles Binaggio was taken to Holy Rosary Church at 529 Campell st. in Kansas City for a requiem high mass. A crowd of 600 packed the small church.
There is a right way and wrong way to draw a glass of beer from a tap. This is the correct way-letting the beer bounce off the bottom of the glass instead of allowing it to trickle down the side.