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Title: Gateway Arch
Date: 1965-06-17
Description: Photograph of crane scaffolding running up the side of the Gateway Arch. The cranes are positioned at the top of each leg of the arch,

Title: Gene Tormohlen
Date: 1965
Description: St. Louis Hawks basketball player Gene Tormohlen.

Title: Robert L. Burnes
Date: 1965-09-22
Description: Photograph of Robert (Bob) L. Burns, St. Louis sportswriter., Photo not used by Globe-Democrat.

Title: Kenton R. Cravens
Date: 1965-07-16
Description: Kenton R. Cravens, chairman of the board of the Mercantile Trust Company, has ben elected a member of the board of directors of the Granite Steel Company.

Title: Gateway Arch
Date: 1965-10-19, 1965-10-20
Description: Only one more section remains to be inserted - and that is to take place at the "topping out," now due for Oct. 28 - before the two legs of the Gateway Arch are joined. The next to last section, above, was put into place Tuesday, leaving a space of only two and a half feet between the legs of the 630-foot Arch. The legs appear to be joined in the picture below, taken after the next to last section was inserted, but that's due to the camera angle.

Title: Mike Shannon
Date: 1965-04-11
Description: Photograph of St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Mike Shannon in the batting cage.

Title: Barney Schultz
Date: 1965
Description: Photograph of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Barney Schultz.

Title: Gateway Arch
Date: 1965-07-23
Description: Piece of the Saint Louis Gateway Arch being lifted by crane. Mississippi River and Eads Bridge in background.

Title: Dunbar Elementary School
Date: 1965-09-09
Description: Dunbar Elementary School principal Andrew J. Brown examines books which were sprayed with paint by vandals sometime Tuesday night or early Wednesday. The school's PTA has offered a $25 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the vandalism. The school is located at 1415 North Garrison ave.

Title: Along the Riverfront
Date: 1965-12-31
Description: Highlighting a year of progress in St. Louis were the completion of the Gateway Arch and the exterior of Busch Memorial Stadium. In front of the new stadium, which will be ready for baseball in May, is Stadium Parking Garage East, which opened Thursday. Located at Broadway and Walnut, it is one of the world's largest self-parking garages with spaces for 2800 cars.

Title: Gateway Arch
Date: 1965-12-08, 1965-12-10
Description: OBLIVIOUS OF THE HEIGHT AND DANGERS involved, two men scrub down a section near the top of the Gateway Arch while a third hoses off the soap. Huge scaffolds are being used but workers hopped off while cleaning near the top of the curving structure to give its stainless steel skin its initial scrub-down. A picture-story of Operation Clean-up atop the 630-foot Arch is on Page 108.

Title: Old Boatmen's Bank Building - Fire and Collapse
Date: 1949-10-30, 1965-02-7
Description: "For days after the fire, police maintained special details to keep the curious from the ruins. Then eight days later, the proud structure, once hailed for its graceful architectural lines and fort-like appearance, claimed six more lives when a wall fell on the adjoining St. Louis Seed Company building. Rest of walls were then levelled by dynamite."

Title: City Bank Annouces Open House
Date: 1965-01-23
Description: City Bank, which moved into new quarters at 4981 West Pine recently will hold its official "Open House" for customers, neighbors and friends of the bank Wednesday, Thursday and Friday January 27-29.

Title: Plaza Apartment Sold
Date: 1964-07, 1965-09
Description: "A Plaza Square apartment building was purchased Tuesday by the Bethesda General Hospital for a domiciliary home for persons aged 65 or over. Purchase price for the building at 60 Plaza Square was $2,185,000. Persons living in the home will pay a life residence fee ranging from about $3000 to $12,000 and a monthly charge of $150 to $200 for food, medical, nursing and maid services. Extensive

Title: 25-Year Club Banquet
Date: 1965-04-30
Description: senior vice president and a 42-year veteran. There are 154active members of the bank's25-Year Club and 89 retired members.

Title: Grand Forest Apartments
Date: 1965-09-24, 1965-09-24
Description: Looking east from Grand Tower Apartments

Title: Mercantile Trust Company Office
Date: 1965-10-31, 1965-10-31
Description: Made for the files of the Mercantile Trust Company, this photo of the firm's offices at Eighth and Locust has become a part of St. Louis history. Included in the 1899 picture is one of the city's first horseless carriages, in that era sometimes called "machines of the devil."

Title: Fake Hand Grenade Rests in Teller's Drawer at the Lindell Terrace Co.
Date: 1965-01-07, 1965-01-07
Description: Fake hand granade rests in teller's drawer as Miss Judy Meek re-enacts the attempted holdup which she thwarted at the Lindell Trust Company. Reflections of investigators can be seen in the glass of her outside cage.

Title: Boatmen's Bank - Doll Contest Winners Lineup
Date: 1965-12-10, 1965-12-11
Description: "Winners of doll-dressing contest at Boatmen's National Bank and the categories they led are (from the left) Sue Rapp, baby doll; Loraine Schild, infant doll; Laurie Buckles, high-fashion doll in formal attire or costume; Roma Wood, high-fashion doll in casual attire, and Carolyn Keevin, most adorable. The dolls are among 77 entered in the bank's sixteenth annual competition. They will be on display in the lobby through Dec. 23, when they will be distributed to needy children at a Christmas party."

Title: New Toll-free Chain of Rocks Bridge
Date: 1965-08-19, 1965-08-19
Description: The new toll-free chain of rocks bridge (foreground) will cut deeply into revenues realized by Madison, Ill., from the present span (background), which is only 1800 feet upstream.

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