Caption: E.R. Kinsey, president of the St. Louis Board of Public Service, fills a copper "time capsule" on Nov. 11, 1932, to be sealed in the cornerstone of the planned new Municipal Auditorium and Community Center, at Market and 14th streets. In 1923, city voters adopted an $87 million bond issue that included $5 million to build a civic auditorium. Lawsuits by property owners delayed the work until July 1932. The Board of Public Service, the city's main construction-contracting agency, had awarded the job to Boaz-Kiel Construction Co., owned in part by Henry W. Kiel, who had been mayor when voters adopted the bond issue nine years before. The building was dedicated with a parade and ceremony on April 14, 1934, led by then-Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann. The city renamed it in Kiel's honor in 1943, five months after his death. In this photo, Kinsey is adding to the box a copy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from Nov. 9, 1932, one day after Democratic challenger Franklin D. Roosevelt won a landslide victory to unseat President Herbert Hoover, a Republican. (Post-Dispatch)
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