Originally published in The Paper, April 1970. Dates, prices and contacts are historical; current availability is not established.
Have you considered buying a 2-family flat in the area? The rent from one part of it will take care of your payments; and we have the LIST of available flats from $14,000; with good assumable loans and lots of neighborhood spirit behind a move.
Do you want a home? They’re difficult to rent, but some wonderful, spacious, longing houses are here to buy…from two bedrooms to seven…we have the LIST.
Do you have friends looking for houses, for apartments, for flats or a store? Tell them about us, the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council Housing Service (863-9259).
And tell them about our community…centrally located, you can bicycle through Forest Park from Washington U. to St. Louis U., to the Zoo…or the Art Museum on one of the approaching balmy spring days…or to a wonderful new children’s park at Hodiamont and Cabanne…
Fifteen fairly unpolluted minutes to downtown, ten to Clayton, ten to Sears or the Forest Park Goodwill, and seven to the Wellston shopping center. Bus service surrounds us. The DesPeres Branch Library in our midst is expanding, and the programs for recreation and creativity in coordination with Washington U. are progressing toward reality.
Crime?…the roving car and foot patrolmen are highly visible. And now the block watchers are watching…even us…as we walk from the Food Basket to the Craft Shop or the Laundromat, as well as for potential trouble. However, the most important anti-crime ingredient in Skinker-DeBaliviere is that we are neighbors, and that sense of being one is helping to control the problem.
So, sell your friend a house…NOT yours, but one from the LIST! And when you know of, or have, property for rent or sale, please contact us in addition to your other resources. You can begin today by filling in the questions below and mailing us the information. We want to encourage as many people as possible to join our neighborhood, and our programs. We want to fill the empty houses, stores and apartments with new talent and voices for the community.
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House illustration accompanying House Hunting. The Paper, April 1970, page 3. Artist not credited.
Originally published in The Paper, April 1970.
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