Photograph of a children's dance recital in the Admiral steamboat. Passengers of the steamboat observe the scene from the ballroom floor and the balcony.
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.
Photograph of the Emerson Zooline Railroad at the St. Louis Zoo. Three children stand off to the right awaiting to get on the miniture train with Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan).
Photograph of a children's dance recital in the Admiral steamboat. Passengers of the steamboat observe the scene from the ballroom floor and the balcony.
This photograph shows two young girls walking up to a construction site on the corner of Sherry Avenue. The neighborhood appears to be residential. In the foreground a mature tree branch hangs into the frame. Beyond the girls and the construction site there is a man clearing a pile of cut wood, a line of bushes and a small house.
A Television Set presented to the Gamble Community Center, Gamble Street at Glasgow Avenue, by the Exchange Club of St. Louis was viewed under audience conditions yesterday by officials of the club and city. Standing from left are: Cabell Gray, treasurer; Fred McNeill, vice president; E. Earl Spencer, president; John A. Turner, superintendent of recreation for the city; Edgar R. Vaughn, district governor of the club; John J. O'Toole Director of Public Welfare for the city, and John B. Skinner, secretary of the club.
$84,000 Negro community Center- This is the way the new $84,000 Gamble Community Center Building for Negros will look when completed about eight months from now. Work on the new structure, which will be at Gamble street and Glasgow avenue, will start in about two weeks. It will contain a gymnasium meeting rooms, recreation quarters and shower and locker rooms. About 30 per cent of the cost will come from P.W.A. funds and the rest from city bond issue money.
Handicraft is popular with little girls and big ones at Selby Settlement and there are many pretty rugs, sweaters and pieces of raffia work to show for the busy, happy hours spent at it.
New "Climber" creates Clamor at the Catholic Women's League Day Care Nursery, 1515 North Market St- a United Fund agency. The League will hold an open house Tuesday to display the expanded and remodeled facilities at the center. Arch-bishop Joseph E. Ritter will bless the center during the program. Expansion of the playground was underwritten by the Variety Club and capital funds for remodeling
They might not all become the first Lady of the land...at the Catholic Women's League's Selby Place House, 1023 Selby place...The magic that's in books appeals to these two little girls (lower photo). The League daily looks after many children while their mothers are employed. The League was organized for war Work in 1917, and after the war, turning to the pursuits of peace, organized the Selby
"School children walking in front of the Glassed in first floor of the Boatman's bank building that takes on the appearance of a greenhouse in downtown St. Louis, pic taken at Broadway and Chestnut streets....."
"Harold Bailey, left, his sister Lorna Bailey and Michael Cotton of the Annie Malone Children's Home attend to honor Ursula Bracy." Bracy was honored for achievements in Public Health
