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A Look Back: the Gateway Arch
Date: 10/23/2009
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Kenneth Kolkmeier, project manager for Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. (PDM), directs the setting of one of the first triangular arch pieces onto a flatcar that will take it to the work site. PDM won the contract to fabricate the stainless-steel wedges and build the arch. Kolkmeier, then 31, had grown up in St. Charles. The photograph ran with a feature story on May 5, 1963. The first steel wedge was installed on Feb. 12, 1963. (Post-Dispatch)
Caption: Kenneth Kolkmeier, project manager for Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. (PDM), directs the setting of one of the first triangular arch pieces onto a flatcar that will take it to the work site. PDM won the contract to fabricate the stainless-steel wedges and build the arch. Kolkmeier, then 31, had grown up in St. Charles. The photograph ran with a feature story on May 5, 1963. The first steel wedge was installed on Feb. 12, 1963. (Post-Dispatch) Album ID: 872146 Photo ID: 26350270
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