context1: The City Museum was launched after he and his second <strong>wife</strong>, Gail Cassilly, bought a complex, which included the International Shoe Building, offices and a 10-story warehouse, for 69 <strong>cents</strong> per square foot. It opened in 1998, helping to spark a renovation boom in downtown St. Louis. The Project for Public Spaces listed the museum among the Great Public Spaces in the World in 2005.
context2: These twelve by fifteen inch pictures cost $1.20 for a dozen, or twelve <strong>cents</strong> for a single picture. These were usually pictures of nude women doing innocent things; nude women that were engaging in actual sexual activity were usually not white, but either black or Indian. With the soldiers being far away from their <strong>wives</strong> and sweethearts, it is far more likely these were used for masturbation, and not just for entertainment.