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Look Back: Streetcar Strike, 1900

Date: 5/6/2010

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A heavy box sits across a streetcar junction at 18th Street and Geyer Avenue, south of downtown (current location of the Interstates 44-55 interchange). The view is looking south on 18th. The buildings in the center are of the George W. Heil Meat Market, 1800 Geyer, and the Rakop & Reher grocery at 1804 Geyer. Note the effigies of strikebreakers hung on overhead power lines. The Transit Co. brought many strikebreakers in from rural areas, and most of the businesses in the working-class neighborhoods refused to serve them. (Missouri History Museum)

Caption: A heavy box sits across a streetcar junction at 18th Street and Geyer Avenue, south of downtown (current location of the Interstates 44-55 interchange). The view is looking south on 18th. The buildings in the center are of the George W. Heil Meat Market, 1800 Geyer, and the Rakop & Reher grocery at 1804 Geyer. Note the effigies of strikebreakers hung on overhead power lines. The Transit Co. brought many strikebreakers in from rural areas, and most of the businesses in the working-class neighborhoods refused to serve them. (Missouri History Museum) Album ID: 999086 Photo ID: 29368275

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