Historical February 1991 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Watch for the Kiosk Cops Collage to hit the neighborhood during February. Mary Ann Schickman, librarian at the Kingsbury Kiosk, spent several months tracking the police who work our area and collecting action photos of them.
She then cut out sillouettes to match the photo profiles and pasted them to a 50- by-24-inch posterboard featuring a street scene for a background. Joe Botz (61XX Kingsbury) helped with the sillouettes and Rose Flynn (59XX Pershing) drew the streetscene background.
The collage will be on display during the entire month of February at the SDCC headquarters. Mary Ann is following this work up with a similar collage of local firemen.
Another active artist in the Four Corners area is Bill Christman. Many of you remember his Corn Dog Mysticism display at the 1989 Art Exposed affair. Last year Version II of this work was exhibited in a theater lobby back East (I think it was Boston, but East sounds so frightfully mainstream). Anyhow, a third incarnation of this Magnum Force Opus has surfaced at the Messing Gallery and if we all meet our press deadlines, you’ll be able to see it.
But hurry, as the exhibit closes February 8. Hours are Monday to Friday, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. At this rate, it won’t be long before they’ll have to do a major Corn Dog show at the Art Museum.
I can’t wait, I think.
Another art exhibit that closes February 8 is at Union Station. Eight inmates of St. Roch school will be included in an exhibit of student art that opened January 25. Local Boy Makes Good Dept.: Joe Edwards of Blueberry Hill fame called the other day.
He was happy as a puppy in a meat market, because a local resident was the winner in his Annual Elvis Look Alike Contest.
This was none other than Jared Gallamore of 63XX Waterman. Jared is only 13 years old, by far the youngest winner of this event. Gee, I wonder if Joe will enshrine him in the Walk of Fame? • Transitions Dept.: Bob and Heidi Dowgwillo have finally shipped out.
They were last seen headed toward Patuxent River Naval Aviation Test Center, where he will work on the McDonnell-Douglas Hawk trainer. They’re going to have a positively rotten time out there with all of that sailing, seafood, and sun, so let’s hope Good Ol’ M-D’s fortunes improve so they can haul the Dowgwillos back here. Tom Knoten, 63XX Pershing. has joined the legal auditing and consulting firm of Stuart, Maue, Mitchell & James. Ltd. Annie and Jerome Hamilton have “transferred” from 59XX Pershing to 62XX Washington. Sharon Zackula and Bill Lash have moved into the 61XX block of Washington. Sharon is Susan Gamble’s (59XX Waterman) sister. Both are lawyers and Bill is teaching law at St. Louis University.
We note with profound regret that young Adam Hunter, son of former Times board member Yvonne Hunter and Jerry Hunter (62XX Washington until last summer) died on January 6. Donations in his memory can be made to the Childrens Home Society of Missouri. Ottie’s not on his corner these days. It’s been too cold for me to go out and look him up. He’s also been spending a lot of time in court. Ottie and the U City police caught a three time loser attempting to burgle an innocent burgher. He’s now looking at a life sentence.
The gang that used to hang out on Waterman and DeBaliviere didn’t disappear because the weather got too cold.
They got two years each after they were caught smashing car windows and breaking into some local businesses. Our Superdummy Award goes this month to a guy Ottie helped catch.
This guy’s M.O. was to steal a getaway car, then break into houses by smashing any convenient glass opening with his fist. You can tell this guy wasn’t Chuck Norris, because he was captured driving his stolen car to Regional Hospital to have stitches put in his hand.
I wonder if the video library at Gumbo includes Bruce Lee movies.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, February 1991.
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Archival transcription note: Mary Ann surname printed Schickman; source column retained while canonical author/photo credit elsewhere Shickman.
Original source: SD_Times1991_02.pdf, printed page(s) 5; PDF page(s) 5.
