Where I pick random buildings in St Louis and do some digging. An extension of the 2711 Gravois thread. Lucky you all, the first one I picked is good.
3760 Osceola
http://tinyurl.com/heaffas
Once home to Emil Mateker's grocery.
Matekers is still in business in Concord Village.
They moved from the Osceola location according to a 1963 P-D article
There are many home developments located in the St. Louis area in t)he price range of our De Lor Park Plaza, Pool To Be Opened The 16,000-square-foot De Lor Park Shopping Plaza, an integral part of the $5,000,000 De Lor Park apartment complex at Spring and Delor avenues is to be opened officially at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The development's swimming facilities are to be opened next Friday. They consist of an Olympic size swimming pool, a smaller wading pool for children and a large bath house. An adjacent children's play area was opened earlier this year, to- gether with a community recreation hall on the lower level of the closest apartment structure. An AG Thriftway store operated by Emil J. and Charles R. Mateker, veteran south St. Louis grocers, will prevue with a kaffee klatch for neighborhood residents at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Designed by the architectural firm of Schwarz and Van Hoefen and built by H. B. Deal Contracting Company, the center is part of the first community unit plan in St. Louis. The plan allowed the builders to cluster their apartment structures about courtyards and green belts. A landscaped pedestrian mall leads from the first group of 84 apartments directly to the shopping complex, with no streets to cross. Because of this, the architects specified the same "shadow wall" concrete masonry treatment for the rear elevation of the shopping center buildings as the front. Emil Mateker is abandoning his AG store at 3760 Osceola avenue, where he has been in business for nearly 40 years. His son Charles, who has worked for him nine years, will join him as a partner. The old store is four blocks north of the new one. The new 6600-square-foot market will have triple-tiered dairy, produce and frozen food counters, and a 36-foot meat service counter. Mateker said that, in an attempt to bring back a "friendly butcher-customer relationship," an automatic number system is being installed. Customers will take a number, which will be called over a 20-speaker public address system. The store has a terrazzo floor. This will be the third AG Thriftway store in the metropolitan area and one of 700 AG units in Missouri and Illinois. Other tenants in the complex are a Philco Laundercenter, De Lor Plaza Barber Shop, and Mr. Gene's Coiffures, a beauty salon. A self-service drug store is being planned now, and the remaining 4000 square feet is expected to be under lease shortly. The building walks are protected by a wide overhang, over which is a painted metal fascia. Store fronts are in plate glass with tubular aluminum settings. Each store has its own heating and air conditioning plant. Parking in front of the stores will accommodate about 100 automobiles. Landscaping along the pedestrian mall includes flowering crab apple and some coniferous trees. The City of St. Louis will undertake curb plantings there in the fall.
Now I need to find that pool and whatever building it is with a terrazo floor.
3760 Osceola
http://tinyurl.com/heaffas
Once home to Emil Mateker's grocery.
Matekers is still in business in Concord Village.
They moved from the Osceola location according to a 1963 P-D article
There are many home developments located in the St. Louis area in t)he price range of our De Lor Park Plaza, Pool To Be Opened The 16,000-square-foot De Lor Park Shopping Plaza, an integral part of the $5,000,000 De Lor Park apartment complex at Spring and Delor avenues is to be opened officially at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The development's swimming facilities are to be opened next Friday. They consist of an Olympic size swimming pool, a smaller wading pool for children and a large bath house. An adjacent children's play area was opened earlier this year, to- gether with a community recreation hall on the lower level of the closest apartment structure. An AG Thriftway store operated by Emil J. and Charles R. Mateker, veteran south St. Louis grocers, will prevue with a kaffee klatch for neighborhood residents at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Designed by the architectural firm of Schwarz and Van Hoefen and built by H. B. Deal Contracting Company, the center is part of the first community unit plan in St. Louis. The plan allowed the builders to cluster their apartment structures about courtyards and green belts. A landscaped pedestrian mall leads from the first group of 84 apartments directly to the shopping complex, with no streets to cross. Because of this, the architects specified the same "shadow wall" concrete masonry treatment for the rear elevation of the shopping center buildings as the front. Emil Mateker is abandoning his AG store at 3760 Osceola avenue, where he has been in business for nearly 40 years. His son Charles, who has worked for him nine years, will join him as a partner. The old store is four blocks north of the new one. The new 6600-square-foot market will have triple-tiered dairy, produce and frozen food counters, and a 36-foot meat service counter. Mateker said that, in an attempt to bring back a "friendly butcher-customer relationship," an automatic number system is being installed. Customers will take a number, which will be called over a 20-speaker public address system. The store has a terrazzo floor. This will be the third AG Thriftway store in the metropolitan area and one of 700 AG units in Missouri and Illinois. Other tenants in the complex are a Philco Laundercenter, De Lor Plaza Barber Shop, and Mr. Gene's Coiffures, a beauty salon. A self-service drug store is being planned now, and the remaining 4000 square feet is expected to be under lease shortly. The building walks are protected by a wide overhang, over which is a painted metal fascia. Store fronts are in plate glass with tubular aluminum settings. Each store has its own heating and air conditioning plant. Parking in front of the stores will accommodate about 100 automobiles. Landscaping along the pedestrian mall includes flowering crab apple and some coniferous trees. The City of St. Louis will undertake curb plantings there in the fall.
Now I need to find that pool and whatever building it is with a terrazo floor.