St. Louis Globe-Democrat Photographs: Missouri Towns

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: Clayton, MO Summer Fun; Dan Lippincott, 12 years old from Clayton, jumped off the top platforms at Shaw Park Swimming Pool.

: Claywest House Representative; "Dallas Dwiggins represents Claywest House Nursing Home in St. Charles as he also sells Old Newsboys Day papers on First Capital." He's wearing a Seven-Up apron and is approaching a car to sell a paper.

: Clean Up Bridgeton; Image depicts the rear end of a Chevrolet car with four signs of protest regarding Bridgeton Missouri's local government.

: Clearing Ballwin Sidewalks; Image shows Randy Friedmeyer clearing sidewalks in the treetop condo complex in Ballwin MO.

: Closed State License Office; Depicts the State License Office in Bowling Green closed until further notice. This would be due to the alleged theft at the Department of Revenue Fee Office.

: Co-Chairwomen of Raintree Opera; Ann Mackey, left and Elizabeth Herring are co-chairwomen of the committee responsible for raising money to bring "The Beggar's Opera" to Clarksville, MO.

: Collier Avenue, Brentwood MO; The future may bring office buildings into this residential area in Brentwood. City officials are considering rezoning 22 residential properties on the east side of Collier Avenue to open the area to commercial development. Properties pictured on the right side of the top photo on the left side of the bottom photo may be rezoned for commercial use.

: Color World, Cape Girardeau, MO; Photo of building wreckage, with a paint sign that has the text "Cover the Earth" depicting a paint can pouring paint over a globe. This is in front of a store room that is in shambles, and broken cinder blocks and concrete all around it.

: Concordia Seminary Log Cabin; Image depicts the 1839 one room log cabin which was the original Concordia Seminary. There are two blue signs on either side of the door, one in German and the other is in English. The sign reads "first College Building of the Ev-Luth. Missouri Synod built by the Saxon immigrants A.D. 1839. Moved to present site A.D. 1912, shelter erected A.D. 1915." The image was from a postcard.

: Consolidated School, Cape Girardeau, MO; Photo of the outside of Consolidated School in Delta, MO, which is part of Cape Girardeau County

: Construction of a Dam and Lake; "A highlight exhibit at "The Saga of the Meramec." conservation panorama presented by the Globe-Democrat and the Friends of the Land at Gray Summit, Mo., is the actual construction of a dam and lake. Afternoon visitors today and tomorrow will see this bulldozer at wok on the job in the Missouri Botanical (Shaw's) Garden Arboretum."

: Construction of the Graybar Building; One of several buildings under construction in Clayton is the Graybar Building at Maryland and Meramec Avenues. In the right foreground is the Seven Gables Building that houses Chez Louis Restaurant, 26 N. Meramec Ave.

: Contrast of Buildings in Clayton, MO; Although high-rise buildings appear to dominate the Clayton skyline, there are also attractive small buildings dotted about the city and under construction. Shown here are new eating places which will serve the city's growing "daytime population." They are on Bemiston avenue near Forsyth boulevard.

: Contruction Accident; Image shows rescuers trying to save 17-year-old Daniel Koch, a St. peters youth who was killed at a building site after being buried under ten feet of dirt. Koch was working with his father and brother who frantically tried to save him, but to no avail.

: Conway Office Center, Chesterfield, MO; Artist's rendering of new Conway Office Center, 15445 Conway Road, Chesterfield, Missouri now under construction by Henty Construction Company, St. Louis, and scheduled for completion in February, 1986. The Chicago Regional Office of The Abacus Real Estate Finance Group arranged $3,185,000 in financing for the three-story structure.

: Corvonne Logan; "Travel rose to its apparent annual peak as the four-day Thanksgiving weekend wound down to a final crush here Sunday. Although final figures aren't available, bus travel from St. Louis was up as much as 60 percent, train travel nearly 50 percent and air travel about 40 percent compared to a typical day, spokesman estimated. Spokesmen for Amtrak, Greyhound and Lambert St. Louis International Airport said they believe the Thanksgiving weekend, as it usually is, was the busiest travel weekend of the year...Corvonne Logan waits in the Amtrak station downtown for her ride home. She returned from Kansas City."

: Cottage Shower; Image depicts an old shower in the basement of a cottage at Boonville.

: Country Creek-Springwood Damage; Residents of the Country Creek-Springwood subdivision in Ballwin are worried that neither the subdivision developer nor the city will assume responsibility for damage to a concrete drainage system. Heavy rains two weeks ago caused a sudden rush of storm water that tossed the concrete slabs out of position. The city has already told the residents it will not assume responsibility for the damage. From the left are subdivision residents Pam Washington, Mrs. Nancy A. Nellis, MRS. David Washington and Aiden A. Nellis.

: County Court of Clayton, MO; County courts building Clayton, Missouri. People were put in jail and adopted children in this building and under the jurisidiction of the various courts.

: County Courthouse, California MO; Courthouse of Maniteau County, built in 1867

: County Government Center Fence, Clayton, MO; A worker for C Rallo Contracting constructs a fence around the County Government Center in Clayton in preparation for repair work in cracking bricks.

: Crime Scene of Assault in Clayton, MO; Photograph of a parking garage where a 23-year-old St. Louis man was charged with sexually assaulting a Clayton office worker. He has been allowed to continue on probation after pleading guilty to a felony committed while on probation for an earlier crime. Michael M. Meeks was arrested Monday after burglarising and assaulting a woman in her apartment before he attacked the office worker. The office worker was accosted as she left an underground parking garage one block north of the County Government Center. Both victims identified Meeks.

: Crowd For the Saga of the Meramec Pageant; "A part of the crowd of several thousand which was on hand for the first performance of the pageant last night is shown here. The play will be shown through Sunday Night. "Curtain time" is 7 p.m. central standard time (8 p.m. St. Louis time). The saga is a joint presentation of the Globe-Democrat and the Friends of the Land."

: Crowd at Clayton Real Estate Auction; Everyone could not fit inside the living room for the auction of the house at 136 Linden (Clayton) some found it easier to peer through the window and front door on porch. Rather than try to fit into the living room, some at the real-estate auction choose to peer through the window and front door on the porch.

: Crowd of the Globe-Democrat Legislative Awards Banquet; "A portion of the crowd which attended The Globe-Democrat legislative awards banquet at the Ramada Inn, Jefferson City." The crowd is facing toward the right side of the photo, focused on something out of frame.

: Crowded Benches at State Training School; Image depicts several boys crowded on benches at the State Training School for Boys in Boonville. The school was built for 350 but inmates were near 600.

: Crystal City Photographer; "Crystal City photographer Leon G. Ray gets his Old Newsboys Edition from Lion Club member Elmer Meister at Truman Blvd. and Highway 61-67." The newspaper is being exchanged between the two; the recipient in his car, and the seller outside of it.

: Danbury Subdivision Ducks; Mrs. Bert C. Elam feeds the ducks in the Danbury Subdivision in Ballwin.

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