Although I can't recall her ever saying anything about it, some pictures in my family's album suggest to me that, at some point during her career as an executive secretary, my mother had some association with Union Station when it was either under construction or just opening to the public (possibly both).
In our album, there's a wallet card issued to my then 21-year-old mom that grants her permission to pass "throughout terminal property within limits marked or as shown" that was "good until revoked," and which was signed by the lead construction engineer, whose name appears to be A.G. Barclay. There's also a photo of a distinguished-looking gentleman named Mr. George Clark taken on station grounds on 1/27/39, and a picture taken the same day of a young lady named Dixie Huntsman posing in front of the new station, who I'm presuming was Mr. Clark's secretary. Here's the new station, photographed that day by my mom.
These two photo collages in our album have particularly intrigued me. I've never seen any of the composited images on any online archive before. Many times during the course of this thread, I've thought about posting these collages, but because the images in them are so tiny, I worried that they wouldn't present well. Here they are now anyway.
The top collage as mounted in our family album:
Luckhaus Studio, Los Angeles
The bottom collage:
Luckhaus Studio, Los Angeles
Hope you all enjoy.
-Scott