A near riot resulted yesterday when teenagers flocked to see Frankie Laine, Cab Calloway, Dinah Washington and Cootie Williams at a free show given at Club Riviera, 4460 Delmar bl. The club was damaged in the rush, although there was no vandalism.
7.25x9.75 in photograph of the Security Bank Building at Fourth and Locust. It was designed by the firm of Peabody, Stearns & Furber and constructed in 1892. The Security Bank Building was home to the Noonday Club, a social organization composed of area businessmen.
The meeting record of the Saint Louis Lyceum is a large hand-written book recording the institution's founding constitution, by-laws, and meeting minutes as recorded by various elected secretaries. It documents the organizations membership, lectures, and debated questions from 1838 into the 1840s.
This published constitution and by-laws for the Mechanics' Institute of St. Louis contains the list of officers, the board of managers, and the officers of the board.
The Red-Blue Book series from the Polk-Gould Directory Company combines the long running Red Book and Blue Book series that the Gould Directory Company published until 1916. The Blue Book was a directory for polite society with lists of social clubs and well-to-do citizens while the Red Book was long known as Gould's Commercial Register and maintained information about St. Louis businesses.
Photograph of the St. Louis Club on Lindell just west of Grand Avenue. The St. Louis Club opened in 1900 and served as an important meeting place for the organizers of the 1904 World's Fair. The building was taken over by Saint Louis University in 1992 and converted into an art museum.
Photograph of the Columbia Club on Lindell west of Vandeventer. Writing on the back of the photograph indicates that this building was later home to the Automobile Club. The Columbia Club was a Jewish social institution.