“Holy Joe” Folk was a reform-minded lawyer who became St. Louis’ city circuit attorney in 1900, later convicting party boss Edward Butler who helped elect him. Folk also served as Missouri’s governor from 1905-1909.
3/11/2010
Album ID: 960589
Photos by Post-Dispatch archives
Look Back: The Admiral's Heyday
39 photos
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Prior to its days as the home of the President Casino, the Admiral Riverboat was a St. Louis fixture from 1940 through the '70's.
3/10/2010
Album ID: 876707
Photos by St. Louis Post-Dispatach staff photographers
Look Back: Emerson sit-down strike
21 photos
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Emerson Electric workers voted to abolish their “house union” in 1937, and their new union held at “sit-down” strike for 53 days at the motor plant at 2018 Washington.
3/4/2010
Album ID: 956222
Photos by Post-Dispatch staff photographers
Look Back: St. Louis desegration
19 photos
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Parents of five black public school students went to court on Feb. 17, 1972, alleging that their schools were inferior to those in white neighborhoods. Thus begat Liddell v. Board of Education
2/17/2010
Album ID: 946103
Photos by Post-Dispatch staff photographers
Look Back: Busch Sr. suicide, 1934
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In pain from heart disease and gout, August A. Busch Sr. took his life on Feb. 13, 1934. He had been president of Anheuser-Busch Inc. since 1913, managing the company’s survival through the anti-German bias of World War I and Prohibition. Thousands of mourners, from senators to brewers, lined up outside the mansion to view the bronze casket, blanketed with lilies of the valley. Busch had directed that he be buried in Sunset Burial Park, within sight of Grant’s Farm.
2/12/2010
Album ID: 942681
Photos by Post-Dispatch archives
Look back: Lambert Flying Field, 1923
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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: 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
21 photos
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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
35 photos
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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.
