As St. Louis’ first trained pilot, aviation pioneer Albert Bond Lambert was part of a group that established the Kinloch flying field in northwest St. Louis County. He later became the owner, and sold it to the city on Feb. 8, 1928. The purchase was the beginning of today's Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, named in his honor.
2/5/2010
Album ID: 938445
Photos by Post-Dispatch staff photographers
Look Back: Snowstorm of 1982
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The nearly 14 inches of snow that fell the night of January 30, 1982, was the third-heaviest snowfall ever recorded in St. Louis, beaten only by 20.4 inches on March 30-31, 1890, and 15.5 inches on Feb. 20, 1912. Hundreds of motorists abandoned vehicles on highways and streets. Buses and heavy trucks got stuck in traffic lanes.
1/30/2010
Album ID: 933973
Photos by Post-Dispatch staff photographers
Look Back: Pope visits St. Louis
25 photos
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Pope John Paul II, leader of the world’s Roman Catholics, arrived in St. Louis on Jan. 26, 1999, for a whirlwind 31-hour visit. The 78-year-old Polish pontiff managed to take part in a frenetic youth rally in the Savvis (Scottrade) Center, celebrate Mass with 104,000 people in the dome and adjoining halls, took part in an ecumenical service at the New Cathedral and persuade a governor to spare a condemned man.
1/25/2010
Album ID: 931078
Photos by Post-Dispatch staff photographers
Look Back: The Cold War
19 photos
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The early years the Cold War were long and nerve-wracking, and Americans were sure the Soviet nuclear threat would have arrive by airplane. At schools and businesses, students and workers dutifully practiced by gathering in hallways and crouching upon floors, covering their heads with their hands.
1/15/2010
Album ID: 925762
Photos by Post-Dispatch staff photographers
Look Back: Purina fire, 1962
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On Jan. 10, 1962, a grain-dust explosion in Ralston’s mill shattered the mill, at Seventh and Gratiot streets, and started a fire that raced through the Checkerboard Square complex, killing two Ralston employees. Temperatures were bitterly cold, right around zero.
1/8/2010
Album ID: 921866
Photos by St. Louis Post-Dispatach staff photographers
Looks Back: St. Louis’ Hoovervilles
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During the Great Depression, more than 5,000 homeless settled on a stretch of the Mississippi River in downtown St. Louis, living in shacks of crate wood, scraps of sheet metal and canvas.
12/31/2009
Album ID: 918017
Photos by Post-Dispatch staff photographers
Look Back: St. Louis at the Millennium
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As we close out the decade we take a look back at the 2000s. We start with a look at our coverage of how St. Louis rolled in the century.
12/29/2009
Album ID: 900767
10 pages that defined our decade
10 photos
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A look at the front page news that defined our lives during the aughts.
12/23/2009
Album ID: 914596
Look Back: Christmas Past
25 photos
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When baby boomers were youngsters, downtown St. Louis was a Christmas wonderland. The three main department stores competed against each other with bright busy displays in their streetside windows.
12/22/2009
Album ID: 911028
Photos by Post-Dispatch staff photographers
Look Back: Homer G. Phillips Hospital
23 photos
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Opening in 1937, he Homer G. Hospital Hospital for Colored was a towering symbol of pride for St. Louis’ black community, but by the 1970’s there were stirrings at City Hall to close Homer G. and consolidate care at City Hospital, where most of the patients also were black. Each time, black political leaders would block the idea. But hospital costs kept rising.
