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Title: Official Map Chicago Terminal District
Date: 1961, 1961
Description: 1961 map of the railroads serving the Chicago metropolitan area. There is an inset that provides detail on railroad lines and facilities in the downtown core of the city.

Title: Eugene F. Williams and Dr. Frank R. Bradley, Blue Cross Tops $200 Million
Date: 1961-03-27, 1961-03-27
Description: Eugene F. Williams Jr. (left), chairman of the Blue Cross Board, presents a check for $47,227.63 to Dr. Frank R. Bradley, director of Barnes Hospital, in a ceremony Monday which pushed total Blue Cross payments for care of St. Louis members over the $200,000,000 mark.

Title: The Hawks Turn Actors
Date: 1961-07-30
Description: Members of the St. Louis Club listen attentively to director John Kennedy (right) as they prepare for their roles in the Muny Opera's "Wish You Were Here," which opens Monday in Forest Park. The players are (from left) Al Ferrari, Woody Sauldsberry, and Clyde Lovellette.

Title: Admiral First Deck
Date: 1961
Description: p11-3-1-40-13

Title: Fortifications
Date: 1961-08-13
Description: Fortifications thrown up to protect the United States Arsenal at St. Louis, Missouri.

Title: The Arsenal and Its Bearing On The Civil War
Date: 1961-08-13
Description: It is filled columns of the nation's newspapers for months. This sketch of the Arsenal, by artist of Harper's Weekly, has the Home Guards lounging about the spacious lawn of the reservation. These volunteer troops were called the "black guards" by Southern sympathetizers in St. Louis.

Title: Opening New Bank
Date: 1961-05-16
Description: On the North corner of the Mill Creek redevelopement area at Grand and Lindell blvd are city officials and officers of the Mercantile Commerce National Bank, an affiliate of the Mercantile Trust Company at 721 Locust st.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Picnic line
Date: 1961-09-26, 1961-09-26
Description: Picnic on the patio between apartments at Plaza Apartments. Caption: "group eating picnic lunch." Pictured: "Mrs. Roma Barker, Miss Amanda Andersen, Miss Carol Pigg, Miss Nancy Gass, Miss Wilma Anderson, Miss Barbara Lesich, Mrs. Romana Schmiedes."

Title: Plaza Apartments Picnic
Date: 1961-09-26, 1961-09-26
Description: Picnic on the patio between apartments at Plaza Apartments. Caption: "Chow line for haburgers - hot dogs - potatoe salad etc." Pictured: "Mr. and Mrs. Hayden McRoberts, Mrs. Sandi Miller, and others in line."

Title: Plaza Apartments - #10 Plaza Square
Date: 1961-11, 1961-11
Description: "#10 Plaza Square, of Plaza Square Apartments, viewed to west from Plaza area just west of Soldier's Memorial. Chestnut and Market Streets are at left, Pine Street at right."

Title: Plaza Apartments Patio Party
Date: 1961-09-26, 1961-09-27
Description: Corporation, which raised funds to creat the $15,000,000 development." "View of patio-court between #30 and #20 Plaza Square, looking east to #20, with Centenary Methodist Church (Pine St.) at left. Surface parking at either side of patio-court, which features lily pond in center and lattice-covered resting area."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Viewed from southeast
Date: 1961, 1961
Description: "Plaza Square Apartments viewed to southeast from 17th Street (foreground, left to right) where it is intersected by Pine. #30 Plaza Square (right) contains model display apartments with entrance at far right at 17th and Chestnut."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Viewed to northwest
Date: 1961, 1961
Description: "Plaza Square Apartments viewed to northwest from corner of Chestnut Street (left foreground) and 15th Street (right). St. John's Catholic Church is located between #20 Plaza Square and #10 (center foreground).

Title: Plaza Apartments - Couple eating
Date: 1961-09-26, 1961-09-26
Description: Captioned on back: "Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schoenbrun. Mr. Schoenbrun offers an olive to the little woman."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Completed
Date: 1961-01-06, 1961-01-06
Description: "One of the several completed Plaza Square apartment buildings skirting the downtown area of St. Louis. The view is toward the Northeast, showing in the background the Warwick Hotel at the left and the Central Public Library and the Shell office building at the right."

Title: Grand Tower Apartment Groundbreaking
Date: 1961-08-30, 1961-08-31
Description: At Groundbreaking for Grand Towers are (from the left on the bulldozer) Charles Schott, vice president of the G.L. Tarlton Construction Company; Hari Van Hoeffen, architect; Sam Michelson, president of the St. Louis Redevelopment Corporation, and Robert C. Saunders, executive vice president of the corporation's executive committee; C. Earl Giraldin and F. B. Martin, vice president of the corporation.

Title: University Heights Apartments - Approaching completion
Date: 1961-10-13, 1961-10-16
Description: "Approaching completion are Maisonette and Garden Apartments being built in the University Heights section of the Mill Creek Valley redevelopment area. Waring School is on the left in this view looking west from Compton avenue at Laclede. The apartments are in the first group, which will house 20 families. A total of 120 living units are included in the entire University Heights project.

Title: First National Bank New Store Proposal
Date: 1961-01-23
Description: First National Bank in St. Louis proposed new store and office building at the southeast corner of Sixth and Locust streets is scheduled for completion on or around June 1, 1962.

Title: Boatmen's Bank - Routed By Ammonia Fumes
Date: 1961-03-20, 1961-03-21
Description: "Routed by ammonia fumes, occupants of the Boatmen's Bank building crowd the corner at Broadway and Olive street. Some 2500 persons were driven from the 19-story building and its 11-story annex by fumes escaping from a break in a refrigerant pipeline beneath the pavement in the 400 block of Locust street Monday."

Title: Honored For Long Service
Date: 1961-02-08, 1961-02-08
Description: Honored for long service to the Tower Grove Bank are three employees with more than 40 years service. They were among 33 honored at a dinner in the University Club Wednesday night. Bank President Robert J. Gaddy (second from left) congratulates Arthur L. Locatell for 50 years' service as Edward Schroeder (left) and Erwin P. Geimer look on. Both have been with the bank for 42 years.

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