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Title: Phil the Gorilla
Date: 1959-06-02, 1959-06-03
Description: Phil the gorilla, as impressive in death as he was in life, still draws crowds at the St. Louis Zoo, where the mounted figure is on display in the Old Elephant House, next door to the ape house where he lived before his death last December. The massive figure, standing erect in a characteristic pose, holds the fascinated gaze of three young visitors, Karen, 3, and Debra Hartman, 5, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Lyode Hartman, 943 St. Charles st., St. Charles, Mo., and Pam Karrenbrock, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mel Karrenbrock, Wentzville, Mo.

Title: John F. Kennedy
Date: 1960-10-03, 1960-10-04
Description: Launching a 12-speech day which carried him through southern Illinois and on to Springfield, Senator John F. Kennedy campaigned vigorously Monday on the East Side after an overnight stop in St. Louis. At Granite City (above left), he met one of the day's biggest turnouts, an estimated 3000 persons who gathered in the Bellemore Village Shopping Center. Another large crowd was on hand to hear the

Title: Washington Ave St. Louis
Date: 1960-12-19
Description: Photograph of Washington Ave decorated for the winter holidays.

Title: Taxicabs, Taxicabs
Date: 1956-08
Description: Fleet of taxis parked outside the Black and White Cabs company. Eads Bridge in the background.

Title: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Bottler Union Picket
Date: 1951-10-18, 1951-10-18
Description: "Picketing by the CIO Beer Bottlers Union Local 187 was extended yesterday to the entire plant of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., forcing the complete shutdown of production. Pickets shown here are in front of the corn products plant and lager beer cellars near Ninth and Pestalozzi streets. The Anheuser-Busch shutdown was followed by a production stoppage at the Hyde Park Brewwery, where picket lines were

Title: Home for Christmas
Date: 1956-12-23
Description: Home-bound for Christmas, a bustling, noisy crowd jammed the main waiting room of the Union Station here yesterday. Many flocked around the information desk to get last-minute news of trains, some of which were running behind schedule because of the heavy holiday traffic.

Title: A Total of 7500 Safe Deposit Boxes
Date: 1951-09-01
Description: A Total of 7500 Safe Deposit Boxes were hoisted out of the basement of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company yesterday and moved to the Mercantile Commerce Bank & Trust Company, Eighth and Locust streets, where the new Mercantile Trust Company, a merger of the two banks, will open Tuesday.

Title: Mercantile Trust Company Dining Room
Date: 1951-08-31, 1951-08-31
Description: Free meals are served to the bank's employees in the spacious dining room on the seventh floor of its Seventh Street Building. Meals include salads, desserts, and plentiful serving of vegetables and meat.

Title: Mr. and Mrs. Cantino with an Officer After the Robbery
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: Mrs. Gloria Cantino and her husband, Armand J. Cantino, shown with an officer, were in the bank on business. One of the bandits used Mrs. Cantino as a shield, but release her when she pleaded that she was a mother. Cantino was slugged but not seriously hurt by officers who mistook him for one of the bandits.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Construction begins
Date: 1958-10-28, 1958-10-29
Description: "Actual construction of the first apartment building in the Plaza project got underway yesterday as this crane began excavating at Fifteenth and Pine streets. Relocation of a sewer line around the site has been substantially completed by the Fruin-Colnon Contracting Company, which will erect six 13-story apartment buildings in the development."

Title: 100 Police Officers Inspect the Scene
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: In Addition to the 100 police who answered the holdup alarm, thousands of spectators were attracted to the scene at the Southwest Bank. The curious came to view the battleground long after the shooting was over.

Title: Car Found At Shenandoah and Lemp
Date: 1953-04-26, 1953-04-26
Description: The fourth man sought in the amazing holdup attempt at the Southwest Bank was last seen about noon Friday when he stepped out of the automobile shown at left. The car, bearing a stolen Missouri license, was abandoned on Lemp avenue, near Shenandoah avenue. At right is the escape car driven away from the bank by the fourth man. It was found on a parking lot six blocks away from the bank. From left to right: Captain John Buck, Detective Walter Cliff and Captain Maurice O'Neil, and behind Detective Cliff is Sergeant Emmet Hahn.

Title: Scene of the Wild Gun Battle
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: Scene of the wild gun battle, where police shot it out with a gang of Chicago bandits trapped as they held up the Southwest Bank. Thousands of persons were attracted to the area.

Title: Southwest Bank Employees and Customers
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: Bank employees and customers poured out into the open air, weeping from the effects of tear gas bombs hurled into the building by police, as soon as the shooting was over.

Title: New Kingshighway Bridge
Date: 1960-09-09, 1960-09-09
Description: New Kingshighway bridge over the Mark Twain highway.

Title: New Loughborough Bridge
Date: 1957-08-29, 1957-08-29
Description: The new Loughborough avenue bridge over the Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks was opened to traffic yesterday.

Title: First Barrel of Draft Beer Being Loaded At Griesedieck Brothers Brewery
Date: 1951-10-26, 1951-10-26
Description: Above, rolling out the barrels at the Griesedieck Brothers Brewery, 1920 Shenandoah ave., was resumed yesterday as picket lines were withdrawn by the AFL Teammasters Local 688, which had sought to organize office workers.

Title: Griesedieck Brothers Brewery
Date: 1951, 1951
Description: Griesedieck Brothers Brewery trucks being loaded with bottle beer.

Title: Plaza Apartments - Balconies
Date: 1906-06-22, 1960-06-26
Description: "Downtown equivalent of the front porch is available to the Plaza Square residents in the form of balconies. Here Mrs. Roger Fox, 20 Plaza Square, with dog Sheba, shows a visitor the view from her ninth-floor apartment."

Title: Plaza Apartments - Looking east near 18th & Pine
Date: 1960-12-20, 1960-12-20
Description: Plaza Apartments, the first urban renewal project completed in St. Louis, looking east near 18th & Pine.

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