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Look back: Lambert Flying Field, 1923

Date: 2/5/2010 Album ID: 938445

Photos by Post-Dispatch staff photographers

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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.

A headache ball smashes into a grain elevator on the northwest edge of the airport on Sept. 13, 1941. The reference to coal is an advertisement. Pilots had complained about the elevator as a hazard. (Post-Dispatch)

Workers pour concrete for the dome of the first section of the new airport terminal on June 17, 1954. (Jack January/Post-Dispatch)

An open-air view of the first completed section of roof for the new terminal, photographed on July 17, 1954. When enclosed, the section would house the terminal restaurant. The terminal that was dedicated on March 10, 1956, had three arched sections. The fourth was added later. (Post-Dispatch)

The completed three-dome terminal, shortly before the dedication ceremony. (Post-Dispatch)

U.S. Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas speaks during the dedication of the new terminal at Lambert on March 10, 1956. At the time, the Navy still had an air unit at Lambert.

Airplane watchers on the observation deck above the center concourse of the new terminal in July 1956. As the airlines began flying jets, the airport shortened the observation deck to protect people from jet exhaust, then finally closed it altogether (Post-Dispatch)

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