St. Louis in the 1980s: A Photographic Exploration of a City in Transition

#1 Jefferson Barracks Museum was originally the location of a military base, 1988

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#2 Anheuser Busch Brewery, 1986

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#3 Christmas Tree Erected on the Anheuser-Busch Brewery Ground, 1985

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#4 Public Tours of 70-block of Anheuser-Busch, Inc, 1983

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#5 Anheuser Busch-The First Budweiser Clydesdale Hitch, 1983

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#6 Jefferson Barracks Bridge Construction, 1982

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#7 Plaza Apartments – Rates, 1984

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#8 Columbus Square Apartments, 1981

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#9 ABCD Apartments-Site of Robbery, 1981

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#10 Neighborhood Gardens Apartments, 1205 N Seventh Street, 1986

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#11 Donaldson (Court) Apartments Alleyway, 1983

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#12 Donaldson (Court) Apartments Courtyard, 1983

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#13 Parkedge Apartments, 1982

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#14 Columbus Square Apartments Opening, 1981

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#15 Housing Under Construction at Columbus Square, 1981

Downtown housing under construction at Columbus Square near the Cervantes Convention Center, part of the growth that has created 85,000 new jobs in the St. Louis area in the last decade.

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#16 Construction At Columbus Square Apartments, 1984

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#17 The building at 13th and Washington avenue, St. Louis, 1985

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#18 Urban West Apartments – Exterior, front view, 1981

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#19 First National Bank (exterior) Remodel Finishing, 1981

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#20 Centerre Bank – One Centerre Plaza, 1983

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#21 Original Mercantile Trust Company location on the southeast corner of Eighth and Locust streets, St. Louis, Missouri, 1980

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#22 St. Louis police officers around the front entrance of the Lindell Trust Co. bank corner St. Louis Avenue and Grand Ave, 1981

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#23 Bridge Over Brentwood To Connect Innerbelt to U.S. 40, 1982

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#24 A view of the McKinley Bridge, 1985

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#25 Rector Brown, 57, a die caster at Carter, 1981

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#26 Union Station, 1984

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#27 Media and friends gather at the ground breaking and kickoff of the $100 million plus Union Station Redecelopment (sic) project, 1983

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#28 4th of July: The general scene on Art Hill in front of the St. Louis Art Museum in Forest Park, 1980

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#29 Jefferson Barracks Cemetery Chapel, 1985

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#30 Apex Oil Co Building, 1986

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#31 Apex Sketch, 1981

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#32 Tables And Chairs, 1986

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#33 Armory 138th Infantry Missouri National Guard, 1986

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#34 The Lighted Eads Bridge, 1981

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#35 The Budweiser Rocket Car, 1980

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#36 Anheuser-Busch Carpenters Replacing Windows, 1984

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#37 Filming Of Budweiser Beer Commercial, 1985

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#38 Bill Whiteley, An Anheuser-Busch Supervisor, 1981

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#39 A worker inspects the Jonesboro, Arks, rice mill of Busch Agricultural Resources Inc, 1984

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#40 Soccer at the Armory, 1982

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#41 Caged Worker Continues Work On The Jefferson Barracks Bridge, 1981

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#42 Jefferson Barracks Bridge: Bridge-work, 1981

Concrete supports stretch westward toward the Mississippi River as construction continues on the new Jefferson Barracks bridge being built north of Columbia. The bridge will replace the current structure and connect with the Interstate 270 bypass, which will extend to Interstate 55-70 at Collinsville.

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#43 Jefferson Barracks Bridge Piers, 1981

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#44 Jefferson Barracks Bridge Troubles, 1985

A fire on the old Jefferson Barracks Bridge (right) forced the temporary closing of two lanes on the adjacent new bridge Wednesday. The fire broke out when workers' torches ignited railroad ties.

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#45 Jefferson Barracks Bridge Work,1 981

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#46 Plaza Apartments – Exterior side view, 1981

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#47 City Bank has opened its automated banking facility in the remodeled Ettrick Buidling, at Forest Park and Euclid Avenues, 1981

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#48 Executive House Apartments at 4466 W. Pine, St. Louis, 1981

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#49 Versailles Apartments – Sitting room, 1981

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#50 Columbus Square Apartments Construction, 1980

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#51 Columbus Square Apartments Townhouse, 1981

The new construction will be known as Columbus Sq. Framed between the townhouses is St. Joseph's Church on Carr St.

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#52 Lennox Hotel Building, Downtown on Washington Ave, 1986

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#53 Versailles Apartments – Lounge, 1981

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#54 Republic National Bank, 1980

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#55 Centerre Bank – Skyscraper, 1982

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#56 Present Mercantile Trust Company Building, 1980

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#57 Boatmen’s Bank – Designs for Jefferson County Building, 1986

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#58 Future site of Frank’s Pizza Parlor–North Side Bank, 1984

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#59 Two Houses, 1983

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#60 Mississippi River Bluffs, 1982

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#61 A north view of the old Meramec River bridge on the left and the new bridge is on the right, 1985

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#62 Concrete is poured on a form to bridge I-70 at Old Bonhommme, 1986

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#63 A million dollars worth of bridge improvements will be completed this year for the St.Louis County Highway Department in the Heman Park area of University City, 1981

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#64 Bridge construction on Vernon ave., west of Pennsylvania, 1981

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#65 McKinley Bridge officials say the Venice-owned toll bridge has retained some of the new customers it acquired earlier this year when motorists sought to avoid construction areas on the Poplar Street Bridge.

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#66 The retaining wall on the Union Boulevard bridge collapsed Nov. 26, taking a sidewalk and part of the boulevard’s northbound lanes with it, 1983

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#67 Demolition of building at Lafayette and Grattan, west of City Hospital, 1984

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#68 Torching Of A Vacant Residential Building Ahead Of Its Scheduled Renovation, 1981

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#69 Demolition of this building at Tucker Boulevard and Lafayette Street is no helter-skelter affair, 1981

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#70 Reflections on windows of a downtown St. Louis office building, 1981

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#71 This deserted building stands behind Carr School, at the corner of Carr and 15th Streets, just north of downtown, 1986

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#72 Traffic snakes onto Poplar St. bridge ramp at Spruce St. intersection, 1986

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#73 Derelict Building, 1985

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#74 Heavy Traffic On Poplar Street Bridge Toward Prairie State, 1986

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#75 Highway and I-55 Crossing The Poplar Street Bridge, 1986

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#76 Construction Causes One Lane Merge On Poplar Street Bridge, 1983

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#77 St. Louis Place Apartment Project, 1985

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#78 Confusing Signs On The Poplar Street Bridge, 1983

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#79 Site Of Fiery Crash On Poplar Street Bridge, 1983

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#80 New Signs On Poplar Street Bridge, 1984

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#81 Poplar Street Bridge Re-Paving, 1986

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#82 A.G. Edwards & Sons has launched another expansion, its fourth in 12 years, at Jefferson Avenue and Market Street, 1982

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#83 Checkerdome-Black Out, 1981

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#84 Falstaff Brewery Renovation, 1986

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#85 Backside of the old Falstaff brewery which is being converted into 141 apartments called St. Louis Place Apartments, 1986

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#86 Arena-Hot Hockey Blues Playoffs Tickets on Sale, 1986

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#87 Arena-Checkerdome No More, 1983

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#88 St. Louis Arena-Bargains Galore, 1984

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#89 MacArthur Bridge-Parking Lot, 1985

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#90 MacArthur Bridge-Concrete Crumbling, 1986

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#91 MacArthur Bridge-Broken Railing, 1980

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#92 The “Suicide Curve” On The Illinois Side Of The MacArthur Bridge, 1981

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#93 Hole In MacArthur Bridge Railing, 1980

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#94 A shot of the passengers walking down the walkway, 1980

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#95 Ann Rutledge train arriving Amtrak Station, 1982

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#96 Amtrak Station in St. Louis in 1980

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#97 A Morning Walk on Eads Bridge, 1985

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#98 Eads Bridge and Martin Luther King Bridge, 1986

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#99 The old railroad bed on Eads Bridge that may be used for a light rail system, 1985

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#100 Overall view of Union Station as world’s largest marching band, some 5000 strong, marches through, 1985

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#101 Richard H. Amberg Awards, 1984

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#102 Bohemian Savings & Loan Association-Expanding Service, 1985

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#103 Bohemian Savings & Loan Association, 1986

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#104 St. Louis Avenue – Roof Collapse, 1980

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#105 Pickup Crushed – South 8th Street, 1983

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#106 The Beck Building at 7811 Carondelet Ave, 1981

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#107 Buder Building Implosion Downtown, 1984

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#108 Buder Building Implosion Downtown, 1984

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#109 Past President of Market Preservation Soc. Standing Outside Buder Building, 1984

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#110 The Buder Building, 1984

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#111 Board of Election Commissioners Building, 1982

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#112 Cervantes Convention Center Sunday, 1986

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#113 Sign Of The Times, 1980

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#114 Spectators Admiration, 1982

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#115 A sketch of the office building project of the Frates Redevelopment Corp, 1980

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#116 Convention Center and Plaza Cervantes Center Env. 3, 1986.

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#117 Frisco Building, 1983

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#118 Frisco Building Plans, 1983

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#119 Medical Office Center, 1982

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#120 Moving clockwise, is a picture of the Del Monte Building on Delmar Boulevard where Burns plans eventually to relocate, 1986

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#121 House that has been renovated at a cost of $150,000 mistakenly scheduled for demolition, 1980

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#122 Apartments at 3714 Shreve – Penrose Park. (obverse), 1985

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#123 Courtyard of apartment group in the 5700 block of Cabanne Ave., 1985

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#124 Eads Square, new 103-unit housing for elderly in Lafayette Towne, 1985

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#125 12-units apartment building on the corner of Jamieson and Lansdown, 1983

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#126 The Carter Carburetor Plant at 2849 N. Spring Ave, 1981

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#127 Plaza Apartments – Shopping center construction, 1981

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#128 10th and Cass – Vacant Building Collapse, 1980

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#129 Great Car and Cash Giveaway Contest Car Prize, 1984

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#130 Great Car and Cash Giveaway Chevrolet Prize Winner, 1984

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#131 Great Car and Cash Giveaway Car Prize, 1984

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#132 The Mehlville Optimist Club Volunteers Of All Ages, 1980

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#133 Boys Town Caravan on Olive Street, 1984

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#134 The highly coveted parking spaces in the circular drive on the east side of City Hall are stirring controversy, 1984

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#135 Chemical Building Asbestos, 1986

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#136 Chemical Building Asbestos, 1986

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#137 C. F. Knight Drug Company, 1985

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#138 City Hall, St. Louis, 1985

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#139 Knight Drug, 1985

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#140 Central West Plaza Building, 1981

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#141 Cemrel, 1983

Financially strapped St. Louis officials are scrambling for a potential windfall that may be dropped in their lap when the embattled Cemrel think tank goes out of business next month and leaves behind an expensive, century-old office building in South St. Louis.

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#142 City Hall,1980

The usual lines of people linging up to buy city wheel tax stickers at City Hall.

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#143 City Hall in Winter, 1981

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#144 St. Anthony’s Medical Center Marketing Director, 1985

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#145 Modernized Office Building, 1985

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#146 Continental Car Building, 1982

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#147 Dollar Building located downtown, 1985

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#148 Downtown life is reflected in the shimmering panels of the Chromalloy Building, 1980

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#149 The building is scheduled for completion in February 1982.

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#150 Food Process Industry Called Healthy Despite 3 Problems, 1980

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#151 The New Building, 1981

The new building will be the second of six office building and parking garages planned for Convention Plaza, which stretches from Broadway to Tucker Boulevard and from Cole Street to Convention Plaza Boulevard.

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#152 Pot Hole on Market St, 1982

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#153 Soldan High School Football, 1984

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#154 Pedestrians trying to cross Euclid Ave with a van on their tails thats making a left turn from Euclid into Scott, 1982

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#155 Eighteenth Street, 1986

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#156 General view of antique shops in the 19xx block of Cherokee, 1986

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#157 Cherokee St. west from Texas, 1982

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#158 Broadway Street, 1982

The side of a building is exposed after part of it fell into the hole at South Broadway and Fillmore Street Thursday night.

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#159 Construction crews work to fill what was a gaping hole at South Broadway and Fillmore Street, 1982

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#160 Raising the Flag, 1981

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#161 Ammo Carrier for Veterans Day Parade, 1984

Officers from the U.S. Army third battalion, 75th field artillery move an ammo carrier onto Chestnut street in front of the Soldiers Memorial.

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#162 Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, 1983

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#163 Military Vehicles, 1983

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#164 Aerial View of the Gateway One Construction, 1986

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#165 Gateway Tower Building Construction, 1986

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#166 Gateway One Tower Building Location, 1986

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#167 Gateway One Building, 1986

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#168 Construction on the Gateway One Mall, 1986

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#169 Joe Pieri, a Downtown Rotary Club member, took to the corner at 6th and Pine streets, 1981

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#170 Old Newsboys and the Arch, 1981

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#171 St.. Charles Hawkers No. 2, 1981

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#172 St. Charles Hawkers, 1981

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#173 Claywest for Old Newsboys, 1982

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#174 The Amberg Award Ceremonies held at the Navy and Maring Corp. Center at Lambert St. Louis International Airport, 1983

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#175 A memorial service for families that have used Community Hospice Care was held Tuesday at the pond in Tilles Park in Ladue, 1986

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#176 Club Imperial and WGNU, 1985

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#177 Paper Delivery, 1983

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#178 Ferguson Lions Club, 1983

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#179 Big Red Line, 1983

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#180 Prince Hall Shriners of Medinah Temple, 1983

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#181 City Living Art Competition, 1981

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#182 St. Louis Steamers coach, Dave Clements, 1983

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#183 Dania Shrine Club, 1983

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#184 Atrium of Farm Credit Banks Building, 1983

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#185 Workers remodel the lobby inside the terminal at Union Station, 1925

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#186 Parkedge Apartments, 1982

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