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Children working on a butterfly garden at the Natural Bridge Branch. (Photo by Dave Moore)
Special Collections Department Information
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Table of Contents to Selected Feature Articles in the St. Louisan Magazine
Volume 4 (1972) - Volume 9 (1977) 
(Some Issues Missing)

The issues listed on this page are available in the Special Collections Department of St. Louis County Library. Only articles pertaining to St. Louis history are listed. 

Vol. 4, No. 1, Jan. 1972

  • "Old Home Restoration"
  • "A Perfectionist: Vince Bommarito" [local restaurateur]
  • "Trail Riders Roam 30 Suburban Miles" [horseback trails]
  • "Entertainment Resurgence" [local night spots]
Vol. 4, No. 2, Feb. 1972
  • "Memorable 1971 Awards" [St. Louisan awards given to local celebrities or businesses]
  • "John G. Roach: An Independent Alderman"
  • "Webster Groves Renaissance"
  • "Pink Salmon Frolic at Grand and Lindell" [salmon project at SLU]
Vol. 4, No. 3, Mar. 1972
  • "Rapid Transit: A Pipe Dream or a Possibility?"
  • "LaFayette Square vs. Shell Oil Company"
  • "'To Be or Not to Be?' No Longer a Question For Many Restless St. Louis Women" [work and women]
  • "Live Theatre in St. Louis"

Vol. 4, No. 4, Apr. 1972

  • "The Man and the Mountain" [Dr. Jim Morrisey, surgeon at Barnes Hospital, climbs Dhaulagiri in the Himalayas]
  • "Our Daily Bread: St. Louis' Answer to Nashville" [local music group]
  • "Conversation with a Black Capitalist" [Jim Hurt, owner of Vanguard Volkswagen]
  • "The Last Good Men's Bar- with Restaurant" [Busch's Grove]
  • "St. Louis and the Bicycle Boom"
  • "Flexible Opportunities" [work and women, continued from vol. 4, No. 3, Mar. 1972] "Clayton Road Signalization" [putting traffic lights along Clayton Road]

Vol. 4, No. 5, May 1972

  • "Chesterfield"
  • "Carillon Art Walk" [art show at Forsyth and Brentwood]
  • "The Many Worlds of Jim Holton, Jr." [local banker and insurance man]
  • "Camping at Our Doorstep- in Illinois" 
  • "New Art Form Brings New Look to Downtown St. Louis" [painting murals on sides of buildings]

Vol. 4, No. 6, June 1972

  • "The Meramec Dam"
  • "The Saving of an Art Treasure" [stained glass at Oak Grove Mausoleum]
  • "Portrait of a Man: A. J. Cervantes" [former mayor of St. Louis]
  • "Vandeventer Overpass" [on Highway 64/40]
  • "Dilemma of the Highway Department" [road repairs in St. Louis]
  • "St. Louis Goldmine of Groceries for Foreign Cookery"
  • "A New Attack on Strokes" [Dr Kenneth R. Smith, Jr. of SLU and strokes]
  • "Golden Years" [St. Louis' senior citizens]
  • "Stuart Liederman: Outspoken Ecologist" [at Washington University]

Vol. 4, No. 7, July 1972

  • "Density Development" ["cluster housing" in St. Louis]
  • "Memories of a Garden Goer" [Shaw's (AKA Missouri Botanical) Garden]
  • "St. Louisans Pitch In" [war on litter]
  • "Joe Teasdale, Political Paradox" [candidate for Missouri governor]
  • "Greatest Summer of Golf" [local golf tournaments]
  • "The Little Galleries" [local art galleries]
  • "Richard A. Gephardt" [local politician]

Vol. 4, No. 8, Aug. 1972

  • "Crime: Everybody's Problem" [crime in St. Louis]
  • "The Changing McDonnell Planetarium"
  • "Hockey Summer School for Kids"
  • "KDNA, a Unique Radio Station"
  • "Year-round School" [in the Francis Howell School District]
  • "The New Rich and Charlie's" [St. Louis restaurant]
  • "Hobbies and Crafts" [in St. Louis and in general]
 Vol. 4, No. 9, Sept. 1972 
  • "W. Philip Cotton" [Executive Director of Heritage St. Louis]
  • "The Best Bet, Hire a Vet" [St. Louis area veterans looking for work]
  • "Moonlight Mobilization" [Annual Moonlight Ramble bicycle ride]
  • "Community Group Homes" [in St. Louis City and County]
  • "Career Education" [Regional Industrial Development Corporation and vo-tech training]
  • "Bill Bidwell" [part-owner of the Football Cardinals]
  • "Rehabilitating Heart Attack Victims" [local Heart Association's Work Evaluation Unit]
 Vol. 4, No. 10, Oct. 1972 
  • "The Horse is Here to Stay. . . Again" [local horse racing]
  • "Bill Fields" [local television talk show host]
  • "Ronald Arnatt" [associate professor of music at UMSL; choirmaster and organist at Christ Church Cathedral]
  • "St. Louis Zoo Gift Shop"
  • "Children's Birthday Party Plans" [at the Zoo, Eugene Field House, etc.]
  • "Washington U's Campus"
 Vol. 4, No. 12, Dec. 1972 
  • "St. Louis: Ski City U. S. A."
  • "Focus on the Far East" [Stix, Baer, & Fuller turns its downtown store into an Oriental bazaar]
  • "Steel Traps" [steel trapping in Missouri]
  • "A Christmas Gourmet Feast" [St. Louis style]
  • "University City's Alternative School"
 Vol. 5, No. 1, Jan. 1973
  • "St. Louis, Sing it!" [promoting St. Louis]
  • "O'Toole House Equals Love" [group home for girls]
  • "University City"
  • "St. Louis Art Museum"
 Vol. 5, No. 2, Feb. 1973
  • "St. Louis' Historic Homes"
  • "Roy Longstreet, A Man of Two Worlds" [local business personality]
  • "The Media Center" [of the St. Louis Public Schools]
  • "Progress Report: Unemployed Veterans" [a follow-up on the article on Vietnam veterans from the Sept. 1972 issue]
 Vol. 5, No. 3, Mar. 1973
  • "St. Louis Children: How Do We Grow Them?"
  • "A Better Way Than Boonville: Operation Breakout" [troubled youth]
  • "Hospitals: Birth to Death Computerized" [at Deaconess (AKA Forest Park) Hospital]
  • "Arthur Loomstein" [the man behind the Chromalloy Plaza in Clayton]
  • "How to, Why to, Where to Recycle Just About Anything" [in St. Louis]

Vol. 5, No. 4, Apr. 1973 

  • "Paul Berra, King of the Hill" [of St. Louis' Hill neighborhood]
  • "Sherlock Holmes is Alive and Well Here in St. Louis!" [The Baker Street Irregulars Club in St. Louis]
  • "Crisis in Housing" [in the St. Louis area]
  • "St. Louis Runaways" [Youth Emergency Shelter (YES) in St. Louis County]
  • "Soccer in St. Louis"
  • "The Literacy Council" [of Greater St. Louis]
 Vol. 5, No. 5, May 1973 
  • "Rodney Winfield" [local artist]
  • "Where to Go and What to Do with Your Children" [in the St. Louis area]
  • "The Psychic Research Center" [run by Beverly Jaegers in Richmond Heights]
  • "The Young Audiences Program" [music programs for kids]
  • "Summer at McConnel's Beach" [on the Meramec River]
  • "A New Season for Six Flags"
  • "St. Louis Runaways, Part 2" [Youth Emergency Shelter (YES) in St. Louis County]
 Vol. 5, No. 6, June 1973
  • "Bicycling with the AYH" [local American Youth Hostel cycling]
  • "Don Breckinridge, Profile" [president of local hotel chain]
  • "The Mississippi River Tricentennial"
  • "A Little Patch of Sanity Downtown" [small parks downtown]
  • "Choonk: Darts in St. Louis"
  • "Channel 9: A Mind Behind Your Idiot Box" [local PBS station]
  • "Ernst Krohn, Profile" [local musicologist]

Vol. 5, No. 7, July 1973

  • "Feeding a Family by Rolling a Ball" [Professional bowler Norm Meyers of St. Louis]
  • "Can a Ladies' Room Really Make a Difference?" [women in City Hall]
  • "Where Will Mayor Poelker Lead St. Louis?"
  • "Who Really Elected John Bass?"
  • "A Step Back in Time: Fellenz Antique Store" [William Fellenz' store on N. Euclid]
 Vol. 5, No. 8, August 1973
  • "Trailing the James Gang" [Jesse James and his gang]
  • "Pat Taylor: Care, Craft and Metal" [St. Louis artist]
  • "Getting Away from It All" [float trips in Missouri]
  • "Bringing It All With You" [float trips in Missouri, cont.]
  • "Cable TV: The Undelivered Promise" [the cable TV issue in St. Louis; providers, etc.]
 Vol. 5, No. 10, Oct. 1973
  • "Hands Tailor-made for Their Work" [St. Louis tailors]
  • "Grocers with Loving Hands" [corner grocers in St. Louis]
  • "Hands that Work with Wood" [John Rausch, St. Louis cabinetmaker]
  • "The House that Tom Built at KMOX" [Tom Battista of KMOX TV]
  • "The News the Dailies Didn't Cover" [Local papers shut down during Teamsters' strike]
 Vol. 5, No. 11, Nov. 1973
  • "When Your Toaster Breaks, Go Underground" [local "Mr. Fix-its]
  • "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" [women and work; National Organization of Women (NOW) and St. Louis]
  • "Running an Image up the Corporation Flagpole" [Overlock Howe & Company: St. Louis marketing and design company]
  • "Monkey Trial Relived in St. Louis" [controversy over Biblical interpretation at Concordia Seminary]
  • "Trading Stamps Stuck in Sticky Situation" [the demise of trading stamp companies in the St. Louis market]

Vol. 5, No. 12, Dec. 1973

  • "120 Great Gifts from Foreign Lands (That You can Buy Right Here in Town) [lists local gift shops (with addresses)]
  • "A Fine Wine Produced by a Dairy?" [Lucian Dressel and the Mount Pleasant Winery in Hermann, Missouri]
  • "A King James Version of Life" [the Amish in Central Illinois]

Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan. 1974

  • "What This City Needs is Some Good $1 Houses"
  • "96 Reasons You Should Consider a Move Back into the City"
  • "The Home Improvement Frauds"
  • "Lurching with Your Daughter at the Storefront Dancing Schools"
  • "Amtrak: The Forgotten Alternative"
  • "The New Big Engine that Might" [traveling from St. Louis to Chicago by train]
 Vol. 6, No. 3, Mar. 1974 
  • "Mark Twain Updated" [a trip down the Mississippi River]
  • "The Enduring World of Anheuser Busch" [photo article]
 Vol. 6, No. 4, Apr. 1974 
  • "A Swinger's Guide to St. Louis" [St. Louis tennis]
  • "Behind the Gates" [St. Louis' private streets]
  • "Hull House-ing Poverty" [the settlement house]
  • "Wilderness Lodge" [near Lesterville, Missouri]

Vol. 6, No. 5, May 1974

  • "The Urban Homesteaders" [rehabbing in Lafayette Square]
  • "Lafayette Square: Urban Elegance Restored"
  • "St. Louis Cycling" [promotes the establishment of bikeways and describes 10 good places to cycle in the St. Louis area]
 Vol. 6, No. 7, July 1974 
  • "Asylum from Asylums" [innovative program by St. Louis' Missouri Institute of Psychiatry]

Vol. 6, No. 8, Aug. 1974

  • "St. Louisan Condominium Guide" [includes name, location, # of units, # of bedrooms, monthly maintenance fee, amenities]
  • "And This is for You, Herbie!" [Harry Gibbs, AKA Texas Bruce, host of KSD-TVs "Wrangler's Club from 1950-1963]
  • "Forest Park, St. Louis' 'Magnificent Breathing Space'"

Vol. 6, No. 9, Sept. 1974 

  • "Saint Louis Goes Green" [growing popularity of plants]
  • "The Citizens Council in St. Louis"
  • "The Big Kiss-off of 1944" [St. Louis Browns vs. St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series]
  • "Coffee by the Bean" [Dave Charleville of St. Louis coffee fame]
  • "Castle Oak" [West St. Louis County recreational center]
  • "Ethnic is Alive and Well on the Hill" [St. Louis' Hill neighborhood]

Vol. 6, No. 10, Oct. 1974

  • "Contemporary Ideas for St. Louis Interiors" [includes list of stores, w/addresses, specializing in contemporary furniture]
  • "Robert Hyland, Jr., the Man Behind the 'Voice of St. Louis'" [late of KMOX radio]
  • "Hollywood Never Died at the Neighborhood Show" [small neighborhood movie theaters in St. Louis]

Vol. 6, No. 12, Dec. 1974

  • "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" [Who really wrote the most famous Christmas poem of all?]
  • "The Unlikeliest Cinderella" [Teddy Nadler, the winningest contestant of the 1950s game shows]

Vol. 7, No. 1, Jan. 1975

  • "Cityscape" [St. Louis area legislators]
  • "Country Music, Uptown and Down" [in the St. Louis area]
  • "St. Louis Block Partnership" [bridging the gap between urban blacks and suburban whites]
  • "Julius Hunter, St. Louis' Outspoken TV Newsman"

Vol. 7, No. 2, Feb. 1975 

  • "Cityscape" [Ex-governor Warren E. Hearnes and others]
  • "Alton, Illinois: River Town in Touch with Its History"
  • "Charles Ashman: Chronicle of a Super-salesman" [local radio personality]
  • "Bob Cassilly, Young Sculptor" [St. Louis sculptor]
  • "On the Ashram Circuit in Arnold, MO" [meditation retreat]
  • "Stalking the Wild Roast Beef Sandwich" [at St. Louis restaurants, includes addresses]
  • "Big Cat Country" [at the St. Louis Zoo]

Vol. 7, No. 4, Apr. 1975

  • "Cityscape" [St. Louis Board of Alderman and other political commentary]
  • "Lucky Lindy, The McDaniel Who Survived" [St. Louis Cardinal Baseball player]
  • "Mississippi Treasure Hunters" [finding buried treasure in the Mississippi River near the Eads Bridge]

Vol. 7, No. 5, May 1975

  • "Cityscape" [St. Louis political scene]
  • "Prostitution in St. Louis"
  • "Annette Mintz, Contexpert" [woman who enters and wins lots of contests]
  • "Where's Everybody Moving?" [the expanding St. Louis suburbs]

Vol. 7, No. 6, June 1975

  • "Cityscape" [John Danforth and other items of political interest]
  • "North St. Louis' Hyde Park"
  • "The Twain Cousin" [Cyril Clemens, distant cousin of Mark Twain]
  • "La Crème de la Cream" [St. Louis ice cream shops; includes pictures of the interior of Crown Candy and Velvet Freeze]

Vol. 7, No. 7, July 1975

  • "TV Watch" [Patrick Emory and other TV issues]
  • "Cityscape" [local political scene]
  • "Ten Who Made It on Their Own" [ten local politicians]" Peaches. .. Where to Pick Them and How to Eat Them" [local orchards with addresses and phone numbers]

Vol. 7, No. 8, Aug. 1975

  • "In Search of South St. Louis"

Vol. 7, No. 9, Sept. 1975

  • "Will the Football Cardinals Finally Find the Elusive Pot of Gold in 1976?"
  • "Soaring with the Hawks" [St. Louis Soaring Association]
  • "Portrait of Union Station"
  • "Vibrations of a Literary Misanthrope" [Washington University Poet Howard Nemerov]

Vol. 7, No. 10, Oct. 1975

  • "Carney" [St. Louis radio personality Jack Carney]
  • "Cracking the Sports Establishment" [in St. Louis]
  • "St. Louis History, Feminist Department"
  • "Midnight Snacking" [where to go to eat late in St. Louis]

Vol. 7, No. 11, Nov. 1975

  • "The Big Downtown Heist of 1975" [restoration of the Wainwright Building]

Vol. 7, No. 12, Dec. 1975

  • "Ms Smith Goes to Law School" [Women lawyers and law firms in St. Louis]
  • "Georg Semkov Interview" [Conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra]
  • "The Bowl Game that Started It All" [University of Missouri vs. University of Texas in Mexico City]

Vol. 8, No. 1, Jan. 1976

  • "The Very Last of the Marvelous Beer Barons" [August A. Busch. Jr.]
  • "Bon Marché" [a guide to bargain hunting in St. Louis]
  • "Salooning" [a guide to St. Louis bars and discos]

Vol. 8, No. 2, Feb. 1976

  • "Is St. Louis Ready for the Turk?" [Derek "Turk" Sanderson, St. Louis Blues Hockey player]
  • "Vegetable Power" [ethnic restaurants in St. Louis serving vegetarian dishes]
  • "The 2:30 Man" [Ernest Trova, St. Louis artist]

Vol. 8, No. 3, Mar. 1976

  • "Lift Up Your Representational, Heroic-sized, $250,000 Head, Tom Dooley" [public art in St. Louis]
  • "Holy Cow! It's Harry Caray" [local baseball announcer]
  • "The Indecent Pleasures of a Bibliomaniac" [book collecting; lists local used book dealers]

Vol. 8, No. 4, Apr. 1976

  • "St. Louis Chefs"

Vol. 8, No. 5, May 1976

  • "Forbidden Pleasures of My Youth" [local celebrities talk about their mothers]
  • "Glen Echo" [75 years of Glen Echo Country Club]

Vol. 8, No. 6, June 1976

  • "Weighing Imponderables" [St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorials]

Vol. 8, No. 7, July 1976

  • "A Kids' Guide to Summer St. Louis"
  • "Down by the Neighborhood Tavern" [St. Louis Neighborhood taverns]
  • "Hrabosky!" [St. Louis Cardinal baseball player]
  • "Fences of Iron, Curtains of Lace" [Lafayette Square neighborhood]
  • "Small Towns Around St. Louis"

Vol. 8, No. 8, Aug. 1976

  • "Ted Simmons Profiled" [St. Louis Cardinal Baseball player]
  • "The Best Damn Story about David Merrick in 20 Years" [David Merrick, native St. Louisan, theater producer in New York]
  • "Preservation" [St. Joseph's Church and the convention center]

Vol. 8, No. 11, Nov. 1976 

  • "As Writers See St. Louis"
  • "Midnight Snacking (Revisited)" [eating out late in St. Louis]

Vol. 8, No. 12, Dec. 1976

  • "Citizen Fender" [Harry Fender, local radio and TV personality]

Vol. 9, No. 1, Jan. 1977

  • "The Great Calculating Machine of Powell Hall" [Peter Pastreich of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra]

Vol. 9, No. 2, Feb. 1977

  • "Would You Buy a Used Suit from this Man?" [local newscasters Patrick Emory, Julius Hunter, Steve Schiff and Gene Tuck]
  • "Hi, I'm Jim Conway! I want to Be Your Mayor"
  • "The 20 Most Powerful People in Town"

Vol. 9, No. 3, Mar. 1977

  • "If You've Got It, Flaunt It" [local businessmen and their TV ads]
  • "Miss Edwina Under Glass" [Edwina Williams, mother of author Tennessee Williams]
 Vol. 9, No. 4, Apr. 1977
  • "At Random: The Gaslight Square Syndrome"

Vol. 9, No. 5, May, 1977

  • "The Last Hero" [photo article on Charles Lindbergh]
  • "St. Louis Fantasies" [how to make St. Louis a better place to live]
  • "My Favorite Things" [26 favorite places around St. Louis]

Vol. 9, No. 6, June 1977

  • "High School" [local celebrities tell about their high school days; includes photos]
  • "How Channel 4 Lost Its Anchor" [Patrick Emory, local newscaster]

Vol. 9, No. 7, July 1977

  • "The Bars Were Empty (Almost) in Jefferson City" [Missouri legislature]
  • "My Favorite Things, Part 2" [continued from Vol. 9, No. 5, May 1977]
  • "A Special Guide to Summer in St. Louis"
  • "Ragtime, St. Louis"

 

Modified: 29 August 2008

 
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