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Participation grew quickly. Church groups, choirs, police quartets and glee clubs at public and private schools went caroling for donations every Christmas season. They sang in workplaces, department stores, Union Station and hotels, on downtown corners and in neighborhoods. In 1929, less than two months after the stock market crashed, carolers collected $6,246.
In 1933, when unemployment was nearly 25 percent, their take fell to $5,860. But the singing continued with verve. Carolers raised $13,051 for Christmas 1941, three weeks after America entered World War II.
By war s end, the choir of Rosati-Kain High School was almost assured a picture in the newspapers for its annual caroling through City Hall. (Mayors loved the photo op.) The Christmas Carols Association sponsored annual poster contests for schoolchildren. Caroling groups gathered every December at the St. Louis Coliseum, at Jefferson and Washington avenues, and later at the Arena near Forest Park, for big, jolly jam sess