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Gaslight Square (also known as Greenwich Corners) [1] was an entertainment district in St. Louis, Missouri active in the 1950s and 60s, covering an area of about three blocks at the intersection of Olive and Boyle, near the eastern part of the current Central West End and close to the current Grand Center Arts District.
The Laclede Gas Building is a 31-story, 122 m (400 ft) skyscraper located at 720 Olive Street in Downtown St. Louis, Missouri. It was designed by the Emery Roth & Sons architecture firm, and was built between 1967 and 1969 for the Laclede Gas Company , which had outgrown its 10-story building at 1017 Olive Street. [ 4 ]
The Ville is a historic African-American neighborhood with many African-American businesses located in North St. Louis, Missouri, U.S..This neighborhood is a forty-two-square-block bounded by St. Louis Avenue on the north, Martin Luther King Drive on the south, Sarah on the east and Taylor on the west. [3]
Petro Mart hired Hegwood in January to work as an overnight clerk. He claims that his dreads, which hang halfway down his neck, only became a problem 4½ months into the job, reports the St. Louis ...
Laclede Gas Light Co was chartered in Missouri on March 2, 1857, named for Pierre Laclède, the founder of the city of St. Louis. [1] In 1905, North American Company , a public utilities conglomerate, acquired St. Louis United Railways, the consolidated streetcar company in St. Louis, which operated as St. Louis Transit Company.
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The history of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1905 to 1980 saw declines in population and economic basis, particularly after World War II.Although St. Louis made civic improvements in the 1920s and enacted pollution controls in the 1930s, suburban growth accelerated and the city population fell dramatically from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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