LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
A couple of months back, LOOKING BACK concerned itself with the Arnold Boosters, a softball team whose photo was published in a calendar issued by the Arnold Historical Society.
Other than the names of the players, the notes that accompanied the photo were sparse. Luckily, however, one of the Boosters has come forward to fill in the blanks.
“I’m the only surviving member of the team,” said Louis Arnold, 84, of Imperial. “All of them are gone. Most of their wives are gone, too.”
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
There was a time when Hillsboro was the peach of Jefferson County.
The county seat is still a fine place, full of friendly folks, but in the 1960s and early 1970s, people came from far and
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
LOOKING BACK, which normally tells the story behind vintage photos, changes its format slightly this week, with a new photograph of an old newspaper.
Rachel Fisher of Festus dropped by Leader World Headquarters last week with a find – a 10-page section from
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church in Crystal City is celebrating its 90th anniversary this month.
The church was founded in 1923, when a group of African-Americans formed a Baptist church. Another group across town was building First Baptist Church, so the new group
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
Remember when service stations also repaired automobiles? It seems like a long time ago, but many residents of Arnold remember Arnold Auto Repair.
It’s not likely that anyone remembers the business’s beginnings, as it opened in 1914 as a blacksmith shop, where Joe Gangloff
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
Parents today think that public schools are ending classes earlier than they used to. Their ancestors, though, remember than in rural areas, school sometimes let out in early April to allow the children to work on family farms.
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
With the recent move of Oak Bridge Community Church from south St. Louis County to Arnold, now is a good time to take a glimpse at what came before in the church’s new neighborhood.
While the Arnold Historical
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
The recent LOOKING BACK that dealt with the former White Oak School in Hoene Springs caught the sharp eye of Catherine Nelson of Arnold.
Nelson, who attended White Oak, took exception to a note that the school closed by 1936, absorbed into
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
Recycling efforts are nothing new. The environmental movement has its roots at least in the late 1960s and early 1970s (although scrap drives held during World War II could be considered a precursor).
This Jefferson College file photo, taken in February
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers are invited to submit their historic Jefferson County photos for online publication.
With March Madness under way (and the requisite office pools that accompany that annual tournament), now might be a good time to revisit a time when another championship run took a city by storm.
The year was 1926, and long before anyone
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos.
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos. Readers
LOOKING BACK is a Leader online feature that highlights historic photos.
