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Anheuser-Busch - Seven Workmen Injured
Title
Anheuser-Busch - Seven Workmen Injured
Date
1950-08-29
Description
Original caption: "Seven workmen fell yesterday from the second floor of a building being razed at the Anhueser-Busch Brewery when a beam collapsed under them. All were injured, four seriously. The men plunged through the hole in the background. All seven are Negroes."
Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Stable to be Razed
Title
Anheuser-Busch Brewery - Stable to be Razed
Date
1958-03-23
Description
"Section of Brewery Stable Being Razed."
Jefferson Barracks - Warehouse to be Demolished
Title
Jefferson Barracks - Warehouse to be Demolished
Date
1964-01-03, 1964-01-03
Description
Image of a warehouse to be torn down from the early 1900s, exact date unspecified.
Plaza Apartments - Fourteen old coins found in salvage
Title
Plaza Apartments - Fourteen old coins found in salvage
Date
1955-07-06, 1955-07-06
Description
"Fourteen old coins in the Plaza area demolition were found by Jay Sirolos, 4622A Pope ave., superintendent of salvage operations for Prock & Ehinger Construction Co. Some of the coins, found in wreckage at 1719 Market st., dated back to 1827."
Plaza Apartments - Mayor Tucker swings the wrecking ball
Title
Plaza Apartments - Mayor Tucker swings the wrecking ball
Date
1955-04-20, 1956-01-02
Description
the ceremony the most important he had participated in since becoming mayor." "Dust an bricks flew when Mayor Tucker manned the controls to swing a 4700-pound metal ball against a two-story building at 1627 Chestnut st., to begin demolition for redevelopment of the Plaza area. This scene was photographed Apr. 19." "Mayor Tucker guides the iron ball from crane to strike the first blow at building at
Plaza Apartments - Debris from demolition
Title
Plaza Apartments - Debris from demolition
Date
1955-07-07, 1955-07-07
Description
Caption on back: "Debris piles up along the 1500 block of Pine street following the collapse of a portion of a building being demolished to make way for the Plaza housing project. No one was hurt, but one woman fell while scampering to safety."
Plaza Apartments - Pre-development demolition
Title
Plaza Apartments - Pre-development demolition
Date
1955-04-27, 1955-04-27
Description
"Demolition of Plaza area buildings was well underway yesterday just a week after Mayor Tucker participated in demolition of the first building in the area whil will become a private housing project and a public park. The clearance program involves about eight blocks. The area is shown from teh roof of the EIghteenth Street garage, looking across Seventeenth street to the east. Chestnut street is at left."
Plaza Apartments - Automobile damage from demolition
Title
Plaza Apartments - Automobile damage from demolition
Date
1955-06-07, 1955-06-07
Description
"Heavy feeder cables, torn down by cascading masonry and brick, fall on top of automobiles parked along Pine street. Twenty-four cars were damaged."
Vacant Buildings - DeTonty Street
Title
Vacant Buildings - DeTonty Street
Date
1967-07-24, 1967-07-26
Description
"Hazard for Playing Children: These vacant buildings in the 4200 block of DeTonty street are of concern to city building officials because they are next to the Mullanphy School playground and are being used by children at play. The two buildings have been partially wrecked by the State Highway Department in preparation for construction of Insterstate 44."
Twenty-Third and Cole Streets - Tenement Collapse
Title
Twenty-Third and Cole Streets - Tenement Collapse
Date
1956-07-24
Description
"A 10-foot section of the wall of this three-story brick tenement at Twenty-third and Cole streets collapsed to the sidewalk yesterday. A witness reported seeing one man run from the building and then return to free a companion from the rubble. Both men then fled before police and firemen arrived. The building was being razed to make way for a new school."
Finney Avenue - Workman Pulled from Rubble
Title
Finney Avenue - Workman Pulled from Rubble
Date
1980-03-11, 1980-03-12
Description
said Banks, 36, of the 1400 block of Euclid Avenue, suffered a deep cut on his head and injuries to both legs. The accident occured about 2:40 p.m."
Vacant Building Collapse - North 19th Street
Title
Vacant Building Collapse - North 19th Street
Date
1966-06-11, 1966-06-10
Description
. at 11:15 a.m. Friday, police reported."
Building Collapse on Biddle Street
Title
Building Collapse on Biddle Street
Date
1964-12-10
Description
"After building collapse on Biddle street, firemen pull down weakened walls."

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