St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 78

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH HOME AND GARDEN SECTION SUNDAY, OCTOBER JO, I960, SECTION PAGES 1 4F REPAIRING BUILDING DECORATING REAL ESTATE HOME PLANNING LANDSCAPING ywonwwnwM JWfjum m.w-,. -jj -j -tin nn 1 1 i i i 1 i -1 ittj s. b.i 4 NEWEST STORE IN THE KATZ DRUG CO. CHAIN HERE, AT HIGHWAY 66 AND SOUTH ELM, SCHEDULED FOR OPENING THIS WEEK.

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The store, distinctive in design J-- "'i The store, distinctive in design rw1 rxw I City architects-engineers, and p. 1 i1 'y. City architects-engineers, and i formal opening of its eighth St. Louis area store next Thursday. and unlike the other Katz stores of this area in appearance, has been designed by Kivett and Myers and McCallum, Kansas erected by the I.

E. Millstone Construction Co. of St. Louis. The store is at the northeast corner of Highway 66 and Elm avenue, in the southern edge of Webster Groves, a point that will make it accessible to a vast area of south and southwest St.

Louis county communities, as well as to Webster Groves and much of South St. Louis. The store has 35,000 square feet of floor space. Parking area has been paved with asphalt on three sides of the building to provide for the handling of 400 cars at a time, with entrance and exit from Highway 66, Elm avenue and Old Watson road. The building is a combination of contemporary and conventional design.

The front of the building rises a story and a half high. Directing Campaign Mrs. J. C. Onions (left), director, East Central District, Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri, and Mrs.

Thomas A. Gardner leader in a project which has enlisted the co-operation of garden club member and junior gardeners in an area crusade against litterbugs, photographed at a meeting of junior clubbers when the campaign was launched last spring. Mrs. Gardner is junior gardening director for the district. 400 Garden Club Women Meet Here Tomorrow wTr a K.tniiMti.

jf titi'-' irtiwiifci tii im mm r-n -r-mwrii nw ff -it- iiiiiim iihiiiii ij .1 Air-View of Town Country Mall, Where Stores Are to Be Opened This Week Matters of public Interest are held last September, in finure nrominentlv in the aeen- tion with which was made a with walls of glass and enameled In this view of Town Country Mall, Page at Woodson, Overland, the figures indicate (I) food market; (2) J. C. Penney Co. store; (3) S. S.

Kresge Co store; (4) the mall, a 40-foot-wide, 350-foot-lonq air-conditioned hallway on which the stores face from either side; (51 building (not yet complete) for warehouse sales; (6) Farmer's market building, under construction The forward side of the building (to the right of the mall on the Page boulevard side) houses the drug store, Libson's, two shoe stores, a men's apparel shop, Anatel's, and others, and is to have a restaurant later at the west end (upper right corner). The parking lot is designed to handle more than 2000 autos at a time. i da tomorrow, when some 400 study of water pollution hazards Sleel panels Denina an exposed delegates meet at Hotel Chase in in the St. Louis area. structural steel frame.

The roof the annual business meeting of The elm survey is part of a structure- of thin-shell concrete, East Central District, Federated oono, tha tn a fnes of inverted pyramids Garden Clubs of Missouri. gene effort lnhe area t0 that the supporting Projects on which many of the curb the sPread of elm disease, columns like umbrellas turned 205 area garden clubs worked Clubs in the district have wrong side out by a March wind, during the past year include such worked with some 90 junior gar- These roof segments extend far public service activities as anti- den clubs in the past year. A V01 wall line to create litter campaigns, conservation seminar was held last February exi.ra Wlde on all sides, education, and elm tree surveys to help junior etoud leaders plan Tlle tips tnese Pyram'1s dip f. to a point above the center line I in St. Louis and St.

Louis county, programs and projects. Boys and In the crusade against litter- girls who participate, often bugs, clubs have distributed stick- through Scout troops, pursue a ers, posters and seals, have par- balanced program that covers ticipated in clean-up drives and various phases of gardening, have obtained editorial and Civic Mrs. J. C. Onions, 8337 Ardslcy support.

avenue, Normandy, is district A conservation workshop was director. Town Country Mall, Regional Shopping Center, tQ Be Opened Stores are being rushed to completion in the Town Country Mall, the White Development 40-store regional shopping center at Page and Woodson road, Overland, so major tenants may take advantage of pre-holiday trade in their opening days. Scheduled to be opened for business next Thursday are the J. C. Penney with 52,000 square feet of space; food market, with more than 30,000 square feet of space; S.

S. Kresge with 22,000 square feet of space; Deering's Rexall Drugs, with 8000 square feet of space; merchants have been chosen for of the main aisle along the front of the store, and from these tips hang chandeliers, huge milk-white globes at the bottom of long, slender conduits. These are so placed that they will light both interior and exterior areas. These lights and tall mercury-vapor lamps or. the parking grounds will make the store visible at night for a great distance along Highway 66, both east and west of the store.

At the rear, the upper half-story of this front section of the building is a clerestory. To the rear of this, a more extensive Decorator Opens Expanded Display Facilities Jack Brandt, decorator and dealer in traditional and contemporary furniture, formally opened last week, expanded display facilities and office at 616 North McKnight i i- road (at UelmarJ. Additions just completed bring total area under roof to more than i 40,000 square feet on three floors. An elevator has been installed. The company has ini-the service of office, tiated, in conjunction with establishment of more operating space, hotel and motel designing.

'-r-C 1 Continued on Page 3, CoL 4 if. Burt's Shoes (an Edison Brothers operation) with 5000 square feet of space; a Libson Shop with 4000 square feet of space; Kiefer's Jewelers and Opticians with 3400 square feet of space; Aronson's Men's Shop, H. Kline's (women's wear), Klick's International Shoes and Anatel's (women's wear), all with 3000 square feet each; Knodel's pastries with 1500 square feet of space, and Tumbarello's (barber) with 1000 square feet of space. Chief innovation at Town Country is that all the stores in the main building of the center front on a 40-foot-widc, air-conditioned mall. This mall is a contemporary redesigning of what was called (in establishments built more than a quarter of a century ago) an arcade.

One of the most famous and successful arcade buildings is a multi-story structure of stores and offices in Cleveland, 0., where balcony after balcony ranges around the open central well of the building for several stories up. St. Louis has a modification of this in the Arcade building downtown. The new Town Country mall differs from this older form primarily in that it is only one story high, is air-conditioned, and permits the use of some 7W 'A Daffodils 'Naturalized' CARROLLTON NEIGHBORHOOD SHOPPING CENTER WHERE II STORES ARE READY-FOR FORMAL OPENING NEXT WEDNESDAY MORNING. A "naturalized" planting of daffodils is more effective when the bulbs are simply tossed by the handful into the desired area and each bulb planted where it happens to fall.

A bulb planter can be used to good advantage. Carrollton i Realty Board Elects Officers They perform all the functions of larger, older style machines. Jensen's Pastry Shops, will operate a self-service outlet Gangloff Pioneer in Jefferson lOTores in the new market. i Suburban Pharmacy, present- rOr Next Tedf '1: It. ly at 11210 Natural Bridge road, Opening 71 1 leased 5000 square feet for Continued on Page 4, Col.

5. Raymond Gangloff has been one of the pioneers in subdivision sidewalk-stall tvpe stores that the mall with the idea of providing merchandise of recognized quality in price ranges suitable for the average man's pocket-book. John J. Postal, vice president of the company, has worked closely with White and with the merchants in preparing the center. W.

E. Largent is to manage the new Penney store, sixth in the Penney chain in Greater St. Louis. The store Is to have two floors, one opening onto the mall and onto the parking lot at the south side of the center, and another at basement level. Immediately across a stairwell from Penney's basement level there Is to be a community auditorium, provided by the center for use by varied groups in the community who wish to meet there.

A nursery also is to be operated by the center for the benefit of mothers who haven't baby-sitters available while they shop. Hot-Baked Goods. The A. P. food market is to have a delicatessen section with barbacue and kosher foods (first for the chain in St.

Louis, although successfully in operation in A. P. Milwaukee stores). Air -curtain, rear -loading refrigeration units also are to be used, as in some other stores here, and a new hot-baked goods department is being installed. Richard Joiner is to manage the new Kresge store.

He comes to St. Louis from an Illinois store, has been with the company since 1937. He lives In Florissant. The Kresge store designer, A. E.

Schoerger, collaborated with Weinel in creating the interior of the store. This is essentially a self-service junior department store, with seven checkout lanes (five on the mall and two at the entrance that leads to the south parking lot). There is nearly a half mile of counters. This store has wide, sliding glass doors opening onto the mall. The Dcering Rexall Drug Store Is one of mfny dm stores in which the Rexall Realty Corporation, a subsidiary of the Rexall Drug Company, has helped individual druggists to establish business In larae shopping centers, Charles Decring, proprietor, said.

Rexall's trained personnel also aided in layout of the store, in obtaining the most upto-data fixtures and equipment, and In settin? up a smooth and efficient opera' 'on, Deering said. Fountain of Perfume. The new Libson store, twenty, first in the local Libson chain, "promises to be one of our est volume stores," said H. Lieberman, president of Ui Continued on Page 4, Col. 1 development of land in Jefferson open directly onto the mall seem.

President He does )no wiuiout doors, in some Gangloff, however, began the The Real Estate Board of Metropolitan St. Louis elected John R. Greene as president for 19G1 last Wednesday, with ballots being cast at both its city and county offices. Leo Krell was elected first vice-president; William Brown second vice-president. Members named to the board of directors are George Doering, Fred Freiner, Carl Gusosky, Charles Horn, Paul Kummer, James Manion, Tom O'Toole, Dan Sheehan Tom Shaw.

Shaw is to complete an unex i i if promotion of Green Valley Acres, a mile south of Highway 141 and east of Highway 21, about 12 years ago. This is an unusually large tract for the nature of the area, more than 200 acres. One of the factors that has held back city-like or suburban-type development of Jefferson instances. Other stores have full glass fronts that consist largely of sliding glass doors in aluminum that permit more than average opening to this central walkway. At the axis of the mall there is to be a fountain and planting.

Toward one end there is to be a central, sidewalk-type snack and short-order cafe with um- Kmlli lUAA Eleven new stores in the first phase of the Carrollton Shopping Plaza construction program are to open their doors for a four-day grand opening next Wednesday, it was reported Friday by Fischer and Frichtel, designers and builders of the center. The structures are on 7.5 acres of a 25-acre commercial tract at the entrance to the 1800-home Carrollton community, on Natural Bridge road one and one-half miles west of Lindbergh boulevard. The Carrollton development covers 550 acres. The shopping center is the only one between St. Ann and St.

Charles, Olive Street road and Highway HO in Florissant. Largest tenant in the shopping complex is an IGA food pired one-year term, Greene takes office in accord- county through the years, while A "double-nose" daffodil bulb contains a miniature flower in each of the two sections of the bulb. Both sections increase in she during the spring and at the end of the season have separated into two bulbs. For Spring Color, Plant Lois of Bulbs uili a-ai aiirw luii i vrn i uui' i areas of St. Louis county (par- it all is under roof).

Toward ance with agreements under which members of the former ing rapidly, is the fact that the the, end is be used rectangular space to terrain is rugced, in some areas ma(8 for bazaar selling. quite rocky This doesn't for quick and easy procedures such as speculative operators city and county boards are to alternate In the position of president for five years from the date of merger of the two boards. He formerly was member of the county board. Installation is to take place early in January. Bar-X Moves prefer.

Usually, in rugged ter sun unaer construction ana not ready for opening until about the first of next year are two other innovations of the center, a "farmer's market" and a warehouse sales building. In addition, selling of carload ship- rain, lot si7es must be larger, and the problems of water connections of individual supplies, together with the problems of The Bar-X Ranch, land mark gCwer lines and sewage disposal mcnts, with cars on open track at the south edge of the center, are a bit more troublesome. store, occupying 10,000 square edging will spread until it makes feet of space. The Carrollton a broad band Then, for best jga Foodliner is owned and results, some of the bulbs should WjH be operated in partnership be lifted and replanted in an- by John G. Luetkenhaus and Ed- other sPt- ward F.

Haake, both of St. Snowdrops spread rapidly, too, Charles, so that small clumps will, in The new market first in the time, form a white drift of midwest to use a new style of bloom. While crocuses don't in- dry produce rack, developed and crease so fast, small colonies do being sold by Hussmann Refrig- tend to grow larger each year- eration Company of St. Louis, provided, of course, they have The new style produce rack is good soil and arc in a nice sun- similar in design to the open nY S0Jt. refrigerated case, and rrplaces The daffodil Is constructed the eld wooden wall rack corn- By ELEANOR B.

MeCLURE Anyone who would like a "never-fail flower garden should plant plenty of bulbs. A good bulb is practically guaranteed to bloom, for each one contains a miniature flower and leaves, plus an ample food supply to ensure rapid growth in the spring. Moreover, many kinds grow and increase so rapidly that they are a practically permanent planting. Little clusters of new bulbs, for example, form around grape hyacinth bulbs. on Lindbergh near Page for the last 12 years has been sold by Mr.

and Mrs. Elmer W. Bereuter to the Pan American Real Estate, Al Jaffe, president. A motel is to be built on the former ranch grounds. Mr.

and Mrs. Bereuter will re-'open another ranch in the St. Louis county area, restricted to the training and selling of horses. John Keeshan was the agent representing both parties in the recent transaction. JOHN R.

GREENE who has been elected president of the Real Estate Board of Metropolitan St. Louis for next year. He formerly was a member of the St. Louis County Real Estate Board, before merger of city and county boards, succeeds a city board man in the presidency in accordance wiih merger agreement. also is planned, There still are stores to be finished in the main building, including a family-style restaurant, where the floor hasn't even been put down yet.

Architecture for the Mall properties has been done by Cay G. Weinel. Construction is bring done by the I. E. Millstone Construction Co.

Thomas J. White, president of the development company, said However, such ground is more appreciated for the natural beauty of the scenery, the fact that development of large lot or tract sizes provides for greater individual privacy, and home owners who build according to their own ideas may use a great deal of creativeness in design and construction. Green Valley Acres borders Continued on Page 3, Col. 1. rather like an onion, with fleshy mon in many markets.

ana tne plants also sell-sow tunic layers wrapped around the Miniature cash registers have generously. As a result, a row been installed. aoDroximatelv cf grape hyacinths plaited as an Continued on Tage 4, Col. J. the size of an adding machine..