"Golden Eagle" below Eads Bridge St. Louis MO. Picture taken May 17, 1947 before departure for her last trip to Nashville, Tenn. She sank next morning May 18 at Grand Tower Island after striking rock formation and fearing a 6 foot hole in the center seam in the hull. The Pilot Nathan Smith beached her and all passengers & crew were saved. Repeated floods in the summer of 1947 made raising of the
This photograph is of the St. Louis National Stock Yards Special Sale Pavilion. The National Stockyards were located in East St. Louis across the border in Illinois. The photo of this pavilion shows an empty foreground, with fencing on the left and nothing behind it.
"Come and get it! This paper gobbler beckoned East St. Louis' needy to a free Thanksgiving feast Thursday at Cosgrove's Kitchen, run by the St. Vincent De Paul Society."