Hometown boy makes good, and all that jazz: Miles Davis, trumpter extraordinaire, who'll be among the headlines at the St. Louis Jazz Festival August 16 at Kiel Auditorium, hails from Alton, Ill., and learned to play trumpet in and around St. Louis.
Dr. John Whitney, president of the Heritage House Board of Directors and W. Palmer Oliver, a resident, look over the property at 2800 Olive st. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver are among those outside the teaching profession who make Heritage House their home.
Cutting the ribbon at the dedication of the Alpha Garden Apartments, a middle income housing development at Hodiamont and Etzel avenues sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha, one of the oldest negro fraternities in the country, is Rudolph Walker (right center), president of the local Alpha unit, Epsilon Lambda Chapter. Also present were: (from left) Rev. John Doggett of Union Memorial Church; Ronald Williams, and his family; and attorney Morris M. Hatchett, chairman of the board of the Alpha House of St. Louis Inc.
NEW APARTMENTS IN URBAN RENEWAL AREA Alpha Garden Apartments at Hodiamont and Etzel avenues, the first completed residential redevelopment project in the West End Urban Renewal Area, was dedicated Sunday.
Mrs. John Haggerty and Miss Sara Wilkinson, saving tellers, and Edwin S. Jones, president of First National Bank in St. Loui, check time and temperature answering unit in bank lobby.
Photo shows Palace Stables of 1880s at 2938 Olive. Most stables ignored threat of the horseless carriage, which periodicals predicted would cause curvature of the spine.
The steel work of the East St. Louis approaches to the Poplar Street Bridge forms an intricate pattern on the bridge when viewed from the ground level of the concrete supports.
"For Immediate Release: The new Anheuser-Busch office building is expected to be completed by January 15, 1969. Located in the 2800 block of South Ninth street, it will have seven levels, three for parking and four for office space. The following departments will be headquartered in the new building: Industrial Relations, Office Service, Beer Sales, Corporate Planning and Industrial Products